Oh, sure. Are you sure it wasn't the fact that all of the Sun engineers exited for greener pastures, and Oracle left the openness in a ditch? Took all of Schwartz's pile of open goodies and stepped on them like they were cockroaches?

C'mon. Say something real.

Along the way, your RHEL6 will be fine, and it will grow cold, like they all do, as will your skills. I don't particularly care for systemd, but I learned it in a couple of hours, and yeah, it works.

I've been doing Unices for longer than most slashdotters have been alive, a very long time. This isn't much to get outraged over. Many changes meet resistance. I saw this changeover first in Solaris; I knew it was coming. First few times, PITA. Now, I shrug.

Stuff is going to change. This one's for the better, IMHO. I would change other stuff, too, but that's another thread. This one was ripe. If it's too hot in the kitchen, go back to the dining room. Find another dining room. Linux has more darwinism in it than any other OS I've seen. I used think that fact was forboding, but it's not. It's pressured evolution.

Wrong question. The problems that led to systemd weren't built in a day/week/month/year, and neither will be the maturity that it needs to work.

Regardless of how shitty? If you're unaware of bad implementations, I can suggest many places to turn towards to find pretty ugly stuff, no matter the OS. The pain of systemd passes easily. Not rocket science. Pretty consistent.

It's my humble opinion that if systemd stops you cold, you ought to be in another profession. Just surrender your capacity to adapt and move on, hang up your holster and belt, and go into automotive tech or something else where the rules change less frequently.

Using systemd isn't rocket science. It a simple change that cleans up a lot of old code and retirement plan permutations.

Maybe I get marked as troll. Guys that can't think out of an ipconfig box need to embrace their brittleness and just bug out into early BSD or similar. The world's gonna pass you by.

I would agree, and add that we haven't seen the end of this, as HTML5 is changing everything. Chrome development seems to not only be heavy-handed, but sometimes smacks of the old days of Microsoft in terms of compatibility/heterogeneity. Plodding as it might be, I'll take FF, just like I'll wait for Debian to do something. I seem to be rewarded by being a little patient.

The revenue per subscriber is way off, too. Consider a base charge, Spotify, NetFlix, Apple/Microsoft/Google/Amazon TV, SmartHome/Alarms, and all the other value-add/combo services. Revenues 2x that price aren't out of the questions. Say-- $110/mo.

Add in the fact that the citizens, and the local govs have the rights-of-way, easements, and knowledge of the underground infrastructure. High-density installations benefit first, but whole suburbs can be serviced without huge capital outlays.

Not magic at all. I have solar panels and electron wells. Wind energy around my environs is much tougher. The power company here burns coal. The less of their electricity that I use, the less coal that burns.

To your point, however, once a cogent third party says Yucca is safe over that term, the happier I am. The NRC is a self-serving adjudicator of this sort of information, and frankly, I have little reason to trust them.

E85 lacks basic energy, not to mention the hideous cost of manufacturing. Methane recovery is a great idea and there's an abundance of methane (just look at Congress-- they need a dome over the dome).

Ultimately, producing heat for use with transducers just isn't going to work, and doesn't scale. Passive solar scales. Active solar (wind/volcanic) lunar (yeah, waves) are all vastly underdeveloped resources where at least the energy coefficient comes free-- the transducers and business models cost.

Nevada already has its own background radiation levels problem. Part of this is to stick it to Harry Reid.

Just because the NRC says it's ok, there's no third party corroboration that ground water contamination won't be a problem soon, and then for another half-million years. Yes, something needs to be done with the waste, but I'm hoping for a future disposal method that brings the waste to the average background radiation levels tolerable by simple burying.

You admit, ipso facto, Google knows, and the advertiser knows. That they don't serve it on a silver platter is just a detail.

Don't give your permission, how? Decide what conglomeration has access and which doesn't? Geemenie, we can't get people to stop using 123456 as a freaking password. These devices, IMHO, are predatory! Yeah, we'll disable them.

Then the voice recognition and auto-recognition software in the AV system in the living room party will rat out all of the participants. We have to change this opt-out mentality, as if everyone has tacit permission to begin with. Who, when, ever does anyone ever get anything like "serious consequences for failing to comply with such requests" when law enforcement barely knows their shoes from shinola? It's grab first, and don't audit later.

You trust these people, and they are stealing you blind, and will continue to do so until it becomes very difficult for them to continue. Google didn't get rich by hiding people's data. Didn't happen that way. If you work for them, you're part of the problem, IMHO.

Yeah, tie things up in the legislature. How many other blocks do you wanna throw up before it becomes a moral issue for you?

Insurance companies, nationwide. In terms of accident-free miles, only truck drivers are better.

Statistically, cops have far fewer accidents that they caused. Should they be cited? Sure. Will they? Never, as the fraternity of enforcers exempts themselves, and given human behavior, you're not going to easily change that, even with cop-cams. I understand your fears, I doubt that you'll be able to change the behavior of public safety officers. Good luck.

It's disingenuous to assert that Google doesn't know about the data that is collects, sells it (the http_referrer coin collection), and that the advertiser whose link you clicked doesn't know you, perhaps by name (referring to the fact that the IPv4 address space has largely known destinations to the street address and user-characteristics).

Upsetting is that claims of unidentifiable use are in fact, one of the most hilarious lies in computing, as all of this information in a click-thru is so handily re-assembled. There is no privacy here, in the very tiniest. Google's business model is to know--==> you. They don't have this right.

Slashdot knows who I am. My IP is known. They can be linked. One can become somewhat anonymous on the Internet, but only by trying really, really hard to accomplish this, and it's transient at best-- as accumulated information becomes your dossier.

The implications of dossiers are for a different forum, but in this circumstance, this thread, this post, it's my criticism of the pretension within the post, viz: "And with your permission and all of that, you are interacting with the things going on in the room" means that your devices will be forced to respond to its ambient environment, and what you do, even say, maybe your sexual responses, all of these will become exposed, modesty and your intentions to hide these things, vanquished by environmental probes.

Erratic isn't a useful measure. Voluntarily removing your focus from driving, e.g. taking a call, removing your eyes from the road for more than a second every 20sec, there'll be something that could be a viable measure that puts people's eyes back on the road, and not the latest tweet or instagram pic.

I can stop your heart with 2microvolts if it's attached to a 9mm slug.

To keep the oscillator going, a nanoamp is one measure, but voltage pushes that current through the coil to make it move. Voltage, difference in potential, is unlikely to come from ambient sources, so the there's still a little bit of a kick left in the battery, not the surrounding area.