The bits in parentheses above are meant to clarify how to handle situations like complaints from someone who prefers being referred to by weird extra pronouns if people don't agree to do that. Or therians. Or "transsexuals". Or any other group that makes demands of the conceptual frameworks of others beyond "no malice".

Calling someone something they don't like, to their face and particularly with malicious intent, might be inappropriate but it is not harassment per se. Doing so after being asked to stop (refusing to stop if there is no malicious intent does not constitute malice) probably is harassment.

A joke that somebody doesn't like, particularly if it's not told *to* them, shouldn't be considered harassment and we should be wary of attempts to ban salty jokes.

Please figure out a way that doesn't make you stinky at work. Just because *you* can't smell you doesn't mean others can't.

Manga guys usually have big eyes too.

And the answer, as it always is when twisted in that libertarian way, is yes. Society has the right to set rules and enforce them. And I, as a part of society, can support such rules. Not as an individual, but as a society.

Perhaps if enough big players configure their nameservers not to resolve any domain names from the new TLDs....

Hopefully it will keep us on X11 for the long-term, where we have network transparency. No proposed replacement without automatic and reliable network transparency for most apps is worth considering. Let Wayland and Mir die.

Why are we considering new TLDs to begin with? We're taking a good, loose system of categorisation and throwing it away because... why exactly?

When people do dumb things, they can be criticised for them. GNOME was never essential, and Linux could happily exist without it. De Icaza had a few good innovations early on, and after that he's been nothing but negative for the Linux community. He's had well-deserved bad press for many years. Now he's finally leaving. Awesome.

So long as whatever new journals come along continue to act as gatekeepers for good science through a rigourous system of peer review, I'll be happy. I would not trust the author of this /. writeup to maintain that system though; the high level of sneer in his every word is worrying.

It's still a dumb patent; a trivial weighting addition doesn't change this. I mean, seriously, that's less complicated than your average photoshop filter, and it's an obvious "innovation" that any engineer would think up if they were to be asked to implement file expiration on Google's platforms.

I think a libertarian/"constitutionalist" (quotes intentional) bobble head doll would be even more hilarious.

It'd be a hoot if the toy were more expensive than the actual drones.

If they're targeting low-end smartphones, either there's a range of super amazing phones I'm completely unaware of, or the decision to release for Nexus 4 as well is a bit odd.