And those "backups" are entirely useless to we meager citizens. Which is just the way the government wants it.

This is a government cover-up. This is the government not it's citizens to know what the government is up to.

This government wants to know all about what the citizens are doing, but does not want the citizens to know what the government is doing. It should be the other way around.

> it is good practice not to keep such information hanging

WTF!? Why not? The government certainly keeps information about US citizens "hanging around?"

Why the double standard?

> Hatch, in a speech at the corporate offices of Overstock.com in Salt Lake City, called for raising the cap on H-1B visas. "Our high-skilled worker shortage has become a crisis," said Hatch, who heads the Senate Republican High-Tech Task Force.

http://www.computerworld.com/article/2838619/sen-hatch-calls-high-skilled-worker-shortage-a-crisis.html

I hate to advise that. It is far from an optimal solutions. But, NumbersUSA is about the only organization with any juice at all, that is opposing the visa worker scam.

Again, I have a lot of problems with NumbersUSA. They are very strongly republican, although repubs are just as bad about immigration as dems. Also, they much more concerned with illegal immigration from Mexico, than they are with issues of visa workers.

Still, as I said, they are probably the best organization out there.

You do not need a union for solidarity. Doctors, lawyers, accountants, and other professions have worthwhile organizations, without unions.

Are you kidding? This article is about the advancement of scientific thought. About putting mythology in it's place.

> Over here, we are constantly whining how crappy SystemD is, even though most of people have no idea what they are even talking about

Really? What makes you think so? Please provide evidence that all of the sysadmins who criticize systemd no idea what they are even talking about.

Seems to me some very knowledgeable sysadmins have been some very informed observations. But maybe I'm wrong. Please provide evidence to back up that assertion, and I will gladly eat my words.

- Hide everything in a binary blob

- Embrace monoculture

- Do not play well with others - especially UNIX

- There can only be one and so you must win at any cost

- Replace accepted standards with *your* standard

- Embrace, extend and extinguish because the people responsible for it have a culture which wants that

- Adopt Borg philosophy: resistance is futile, we have already won, why are you arguing?

- Be intensely hubristic: systemd is the best, therefore systemd is superior to all other systems, therefore systemd should to the jobs that other systems do.

This makes no sense to me.

Seems to me that re-boot time = startup time + shutdown time.

But, as I understand it, systemd advocates make a huge fuss about faster startup (which I have not noticed btw), yet the same systemd advocates claim claim that shutdown time is not important.

WTF?

>> unlike older programs where the bugs and failures are known and can generally be worked around

> How exactly is systemd any different in this respect?

As I understand it:

1) If a daemon keeps failing, systemd just keeps restarting it. Admins prefer to be notified so that they can fix the root problem.

2) If there is a problem with /etc/fstab, systemd will not allow the system to boot, and gives no reason for the failure. Admins prefer the system boot, and send a message. That way they have a running system, and can fix the problem.

This is just another tax-break for the super-wealthy. Nothing unusual about that.

These lavish tax breaks are not just for Ballmer, there are many such tax breaks for one percenters.

Repubs, and dems, don't give a crap. They are both owned by corporations. Congress has, something like, a 10% approval rating, and a 90% retention rate.

Throw the bums out, vote 3rd party. It is the only way we will ever have real change.

Police stop you, and take all of your money, because they think you were going to use the money for drugs.

Sounds unbelievable, but it really happening.

Jon Oliver, does an informative, and funny, video about it.

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Civil Forfeiture (HBO)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kEpZWGgJks

John Oliver explains in this video that hilarious and informative:

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Civil Forfeiture (HBO)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kEpZWGgJks