> Fundamental changes in the structure of most Linux distributions should not be met with such fervent opposition.

Sure it should. At the very least, such sweeping changes should be met with some skepticism based purely on mundane ideas about change control. Why are changes with such a massive impact being considered? What is being done to mitigate risks? How is this going to impact how Linux fits in with other Unixen?

What's broken exactly?

A beheading? Really? You think that's gruesome? There's probably footage from the evening news from the Vietnam era that's more disturbing. If you widen the scope to historical documentation in general, things get even far more disturbing.

The Nazis were proud of what they did. They were also highly organized and highly diligent. They documented their own atrocities.

Stuff they produced makes an execution look positively tame.

Suppressing or hiding from information in a free society is really not a productive or healthy thing. This includes things that will scar you for the rest of your life (and I am not talking about some mere execution video).

> In that light, I also believe video evidence of US military atrocities against innocent civilians should be published as well.

You're funny. You speak of providing more information to help develop a more realistic perspective yet you parrot propaganda that itself is the product of an unrealistic perspective.

War is a nasty business. It is chaos and destruction. It's not surgical demolition. People other than combatants are harmed even when they aren't the intended target.

This is something that people selectively forget when they want to demonize the nation of their choice.

Executing a civilian journalist is an act with the intent of ignoring the Articles of War. Attacking a military barracks, or military headquarters, or a mortar position, or a rocket position, or even an arms factory are not.

Yes. I thought the same as well. Other options would be organizations affiliated with the Iraqi or Kurdish governments. Those are the ones that are in direct opposition to ISIS today.

There's also Assad, but he's not exactly a poster boy for being more civilized.

Skilled trades have the advantage of being hourly positions with overtime pay. This can easily make a job in the skilled trades quite comparable to something one might have gone to college for.

You actually get paid for the time you work instead of everyone expecting you to work more hours for a fixed salary.

According to the article itself, this BD storage farm only gains an edge once you bring power costs into the equation. So everyone's inclinations to go WTF aren't that far off the mark really.

No. If you read the details of the story, it becomes MORE sensational.

A minor was questioned by the police without his parents present.

Actually, based on the writeup it sounds like he could be guilty of nothing more than knowing his rights.

He was questioned by police without his parents. That's not acceptable. He shouldn't be punished for anything that arose from an illegal interrogation. He may have simply refused to cooperate.

It would be simpler easier and faster just to have an older x86 core around to run the Intel binaries. It would be like any number of "emulation" boards that existed for DOS back in the 80s and 90s.

This is insane. You are trying to emulate a faster system with a SLOWER system.

This can only end in pain and anguish.

That's perfectly scientific. Even the alleged refutation you present is a nice example of the scientific method in aggregate. Anyone can dispute results and provide a counter example. They can also provide enough information so that YOU personally can replicate their results.

Also... a few people making claims is not authoritative.

And if a few people in 7 Billion can manage the feat then it is indeed virtually impossible from a numerical standpoint.

That's the problem with a couple of "special effects guys" or even "a couple of real scientists". They may not be expert enough to evaluate certain types of claims. Handing this question off to the "scientific priesthood" would not have helped.

That may be true but it is this particular University that is making the situation painfully obvious today.

> "Correlation" is an oft-misused mathematical term of art.

Tell it to my status professor. I am sure he would get a good chuckle out of you.

Yes. That just doesn't pass the sniff test.

The idea that ANY one would actually PAY for a cam in this day and age is simply beyond belief. You gotta wonder if they are using some creative version of the terms "pay", "commerce" and "commercial use".

The relevant legal definitions may look like nothing we would recognize.

> Incarceration isn't a violent act, and more so, the damage that this guy did is real. It's really not that different from arson.

What a jackass you are.

Equating ARSON with copying and sharing a movie. No one is going to get KILLED by copying a movie. People may very well DIE because of arson.

THIS is why we have to have a public discussion about the correct level of punishment for the digital equivalent of shoplifting. Otherwise, anti-social morons will happily allow the imposition of midieval punishments that belong more in ISIS than a modern democracy.

The nonsense that passes for ethics these days...

Nope. "Bootlegging" has always been a criminal offense. It was even this way before recent lobbying got the relevant bits of the US Code changed.

Back in the day, crackers had really nasty things to say about people that sold pirated works.

Even then, in that context, there was a social convention dictating that selling other people's stuff wasn't cool.