> Professional sysadmin here. The only bitching I've seen has been from deranged Slashdot hobbyists.

Really? You should work harder on your trolling then because you are completely unconvincing.

> That is exactly what systemd does, without all the hacks of the script.

That "hack" is simply a program. If it looks like a "hack" then that's simply the complexity required for the task. If that complexity is unnecessary, then the end user can create something simpler and it will all be a simple matter.

If the task is complex, you aren't making it any simpler by hiding it in a black box. Hiding the details only makes things look deceptively tidy. It doesn't actually make them tidy.

What the f*ck does an init replacement have to do with plugging in USB devices? What psychotic nut thinks they should and why? What was wrong with how it was working before all of this nonsense started?

I really don't see where the emergency is?

I shouldn't be forced to suggest improvements on systemd. I shouldn't be forced to deal with it at all. It's a wannabe core system service. IT needs to prove itself first.

The champions of mindless change are the ones that need to prove their point. They have perverted the normal rules of rhetoric when they demand that it's the conservative voices that need to justify themselves.

It's those that demand change that need to justify themselves. This is basic, standard change control doctrine. So it's not surprising that you see an alleged rift between those that manage other people's expensive systems and "everyone else".

Although I am skeptical of the notion that "laptop users" even care.

As a desktop user, I am certainly not clamouring for an init replacement.

It's about the single least of my worries.

> because a governmnet monopoly is the best kind.

It's pretty much the only alternative, if the other kind of monopoly isn't giving you what you want.

> of extensive testing, trials, heck, even labeling. But after 20 years of GMO products, and absolutely no significantly measurable negative ecological/human impacts,

Actually, we are currently in the middle of a population crisis with our bees. So just blissfully assuming that there have been no consequences is probably just wishful thinking on your part.

We're engaging in rapid development on a production server with no backup what-so-ever.

...or better yet: "The Africanized Swan".

The fantasy convention is not an attack on the University. Nor is the fantasy convention trying to abuse the reputation of the University for it's own gain.

There's a real trademark dilution problem right here that doesn't exist with something like Ogre-Con.

I would say that probably everyone has been discouraged from getting into or staying in CS or Engineering. This is especially true of Engineering which will chew you up and spit you out if you aren't ready for it.

The idea that people are discouraged from something isn't just about "the man keeping the brother down". It's also about how the brother reacts to that and whether he breaks or carries on.

I think that everyone is taught that "curiosity is bad and math is hard". It's a pretty universal anti-intellectual aspect of American culture. If there are victims here, it's not just the girls but everyone.

CS is not a glamorized profession. Medicine, Law and Sales are.

The "brogrammer" is just a bogus media narrative. It's just an extension of the "Revenge of the Nerds" mythos. Guess where journalism and communications majors fit into that story.

This is an intentional distortion caused by trying to conflate a small number of West Coast startups with the industry in general. Must of the industry is actually much more stuffy than that.

So it's really the SJWs causing trouble here by trying to scare women away from a career path that they might otherwise consider.

Nope. It's all the mothers with the Disney princess nonsense and the cheerleading (instead of sports). Then you graduate to teen magazines and then after that Cosmo.

Even the "Damsel in Destress" nonsense from the SJW bloggers contributes to the problem.

Never mind the parents and Madison avenue and Hollywood. It's all the evil computer geeks fault.

Nerds just make an easy target for people that always valued socializing more than academic or career preparation.

If you really are a woman and a leader, then you can probably deal with men and a man's world on it's own terms. You don't whine and bitch that it's unfair. You just take care of business and men respect that because that's how they work.

If anything you suffer from caustic female social politics more than "misogyny" from the guys.

However, you may be a statistical outlier.

Such a fact is neither good or evil. It simply is.

> If they've done nothing wrong, they have nothing to worry about.

Are you kidding? The whole point of this is that you can have ALL of your stuff taken without the slightest hint you've done anything wrong. That's the whole point of this "due process" thing. It ensures that there is actually a reason to mess with you.

They can take your stuff and never give it back and they don't even have to try to prosecute you or anything.

You just lose your stuff and have to deal with all of the nice fallout of that.

Chances are, it will be a COMPUTER that spits out an audit request to trigger all nonsense.

Think automated DMCA takedown.

BTW, your attitude is how the really heinous stuff can happen. All of this bogus "it can't happen to me" or "it can only happen to the bad people" enables things like the purges of Stalin and Hitler's various atrocities. (our own japanese internment camps too btw)