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Comment Re: "The Beating of a Liberal" (Score 2, Insightful) 56

I paid for part of my education by serving in the USMC.

I'm educated. Like many educated people, I'm pretty fucking liberal (by American political standards).

Tax the wealthy at a reasonable level, tax corporations at a reasonable level, pull out of foreign engagements, and actually pay for Americans to be healthy and educated. Increased safety and happiness will likely follow. I don't give a shit what you do in your bedroom, so long as it's consensual - keep your religion out of my politics. Close the loopholes and actually make them pay their share.

You know, that sorta shit...

By the American-right standards, that makes me a 'commie pinko fag'.

I actually don't mind paying taxes. My tax burden is pretty high, but I could easily stand higher rates. (I don't even write off most charitable donations, as my way of doing a bit more. Nor do I keep track and write off all sorts of things that I could easily, and legally, claim as expenses.) I do mind how my taxes are spent.

So, while the OP is a troll, I dare say not all Marines are going to want to harm liberals. If anything, many of us would defend them from the morons who'd inflict harm based on political ideology.

Comment Re:do they pay for an data plan / phone plan + at (Score 1) 231

If the company didn't provide a work phone, in modernity, I'd buy my own cheap device and use it for work. I'd consider it a work-related expense, like appropriate clothing for work and my lunch expenses. I'd budget accordingly and probably try to write it off on my taxes.

I'd do that, rather than give my personal phone number to my employer or before installing employer-related applications on my phone.

Comment Re:Five laptops (Score 2) 301

I had a laptop that drank almost as much beer as I did. (That's a bit of an exaggeration.)

The thing was magical, however. Every time it drank a beer, it only killed the keyboard. I replaced the keyboard in it so many times (it went through four or five) that I had the process down to under 15 minutes to replace it - on a laptop that went together like a 3D puzzle. I have no idea why it only killed the keyboard and nothing else, as it sure consumed a lot of beer.

Comment Re: ..very upset when... (Score 1) 233

I would be very surprised if you could demonstrate the existence of any modifiable software running on the internal processors of the inverters and the AND gates that has not been made freely available under extremely permissive licence.

I'd be surprised if you could demonstrate the same thing for embedded devices not designed to be modified or updated by users -- no matter their complexity.

Comment I was personally very upset when... (Score 2) 233

I was personally very upset when Motorola refused to provide me a software update for a device, designed for both long-term and short-term use!

It was an SN74LS139N Motorola Dual Decoder 2-4 Line Plastic TTL chip.

How dare they deny me software updates for this chip containing two inverters and four AND gates!

I don't give a damn that they designed it for embedded use, I should be able to update the software running on it!

Right?

Comment We have 64 bits virtual. (Score 1) 123

We have 64 bits virtual.

Just don't put processes in intersecting address spaces; we already slide them arounbd with ASLR; adding negaffinity is not that hard a modification.

No TLB intersections, no issues.

Yes, performance will be reduced due to not having any page sharing whatsoever.

Alternate fix: stop using hypervisors.

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