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Comment Re:Define "Threatened" and "Unwelcome" (Score 1) 765

I see what you did there. The OP said "sexy" and you brought up the one and only, "OMFG is she sexy" Grace Hopper. The classic icon for the normal, typical comp sci students.

Holy, shit. Every time I think I have seen the most moronic post on Slashdot, along comes RyuuzakiTetsuya for the win!

Comment Re:Define "Threatened" and "Unwelcome" (Score 1) 765

You'd be surprised at the percentage of Women you'll find in a Women's college. In the real world, where the school is open to everyone, there is no such thing as a scenario where the majority of STEM students are women. If most of the students in your CompSci classes were women, then you were at a Women's college. Of course, it is much more likey that you are just full of shit (like 99.999% likely.)

That's in 2015. The fact that you make the claim that there was a majority of female STEM students in your class in the 90's is just more proof that you are either delusional or a women who was attending a "women's college."

Comment Re:You Can't Fix It (Score 1) 133

"A mentality of "it will be done when it's right" is almost as foolish as "it will be done on Thursday.""

You only say that due to the limited scope of your vision. You think "it" is "the final product"; I never stated or implied any such thing. Each feature. Each bug fix. Each of these is "it". The bug won't be fixed by Thursday, it will be fixed as quickly as possible while still conforming to security standards and following established process. If that is Thursday, awesome! In fact we hope it will be Wednesday, but if it isn't right until Saturday then it won't be done until Saturday; period.

Comment Re:You Can't Fix It (Score 4, Interesting) 133

An AC, very close to first post, and it is actually spot on!

Unless you can get management to sign on to a mentality of "it will be done when it's right" rather than "it will be done on Thursday" you have no hope of achieving FLOSS levels of success. I'm not saying you shouldn't try your best, merely that you should be aware of your limitations and from whence they come up front.

Comment Re: How about... (Score 1) 255

Sir, that was one of the best posts I have read in a very long time. I have felt the pain of making the transition to systemd, however I also see the overall picture and the wisdom of the approach. In the end I trust the wisdom of the people at the helm and I have no doubt that Linus would have made the news for one of his famous controversial emails if systemd was even half as bad as the anti-systemd asshats try to make it out to be.
Those who complain about it are immediately off base at this point. Don't like Gnome? GREAT! Don't use it! Don't like systemd? Don't complain asshat; use a distribution that suits your twisted needs. If systemd it's really the plague you say it is then Debian, Red Hat, etc will die and your distro will prevail! Then you can laugh at us all! -- Code not reachable error

Comment Re:Something doesn't feel right (Score 1) 338

You don't quite seem to undertsand the concept of Open Source and "free".
Source code for Google Chrome is available free of charge under open source software license agreements at http://code.google.com/chromiu...
Yes, when others build it from source they call it Chromium. Claiming Chrome is nonfree is either an asinine attempt to flame or representative of a pretty poor understanding of the terms you are throwing around.

Comment Re:Something doesn't feel right (Score 1) 338

Google didn't run around to all the servers on the internet gathering all the source code for the versions of Chrome that need this patch. Distributions will simply use the version they have that works and refrain from bumping up the Chrome version until after the linux kernel is at the required revision.

Comment Re:How the fuck does Chrome handle other platforms (Score 1) 338

"So how the flying fuck can Chrome run on these other systems that don't offer this functionality?'

Just because a version of Chrome gets released doesn't mean that all distributions will and must begin using the code immediately. Distributions will simply not deliver newer versions of Chrome until the kernel is bumped up to the level required to support said newer version.

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