How can you make such sarcastic references indicating that you clearly understand the issue and disapprove of what happened, then proceed to "blame the teacher for not sufficiently explaining the limits of the assignment"?

Personally, I blame witless school officials, over-reaching law enforcement, and a military-industrial complex that has propagandized and brainwashed the populace into believing that even just a fictional description of violence is tantamount to a crime. This is 'thoughtcrime' straight out of Orwell's '1984'.

BTW, your post reminds me of another Orwellian concept, namely "doublethink".

The solution is not to optimize the process. The solution is to scrap the process, and the DMCA along with it.

Ubuntu doesn't use systemd. Yes, I know it might be a stretch these days to call it "Debian based", but at least it still uses Debian packages, and I've even pulled stuff in from Debian repos with no trouble so far. I've uninstalled the cutesy 'Software Center', and I either use apt/aptitude from the command line, or Synaptic, depending on what I'm doing. My Xubuntu setup 'feels' very 'Debian' to me, without the downside of systemd.

Thanks, but I wasn't looking for that anyway. I used to love doing things TO my computer, but I've gotten to the stage where I'd rather concentrate on doing stuff WITH it, and I no longer have much patience for tracking down this kind of problem. Changing to Xubuntu was simpler, and aside from the Windows-like rebooting after updates, it's been pretty good.

I considered doing that so I could install Wheezy, but I didn't really want to jump through hoops to install an older version that would have required me to try backporting for the newer versions of Kicad. And in Wheezy, Suspend functionality didn't even work on my old box, so I wasn't keen to try it on a new one.

I know, I know... But I ran what became Squeeze and Wheezy when they had only spent a few months in Testing, and I only ever had minor issues, so I came to think of Testing as being pretty solid. I guess I got complacent...

I had already long-ago banished Pulse from my system - I've never liked it and always had problems with it. (Not surprising that systemd and pulseaudio are from the same developer). Anyway, I actually got desperate enough to ADD pulseaudio to try to fix the audio. It restored functionality in some programs but not others, and I was unable to sort out the 'default device' problems. (Not that I was too motivated - having broken two critical functions with one update had soured me on Jessie).

And now I'm on Xubuntu, which comes with Pulse installed by default. I don,t love it, but sound works now so I'm inclined not to dick with it.

Yeah, I too have my doubts about a top speed of 120; OTOH, where ya gonna get anywhere near that unless you have a track or a willingness to risk losing your licence? But 0-60 in 3.4 is pretty neck-snapping acceleration. Then again, for $500K I'd rather hear a roar than a whine...

Robert Heinlein defined the difference between a physicist and an engineer as something like this - warning, mild misogyny ahead:

"Put an engineer and a physicist across the room from a beautiful woman, and tell them that if they approach the woman each step must be no larger than half the distance of the previous step. The physicist gives up because he knows he can never reach her, while the engineer starts walking because he knows he can get close enough for all practical purposes".

I once worked for an engineer who previously had a physicist working for him. The physicist couldn't understand why a couple of 6-volt lantern batteries in series wouldn't start his car - after all, they were putting out 12 volts...

Do you mean like Debian Testing, (Jessie), that broke both my sound and my ability to suspend during the last dist-upgrade? Or do you mean like Debian Stable, (Wheezy), which won't work with my wired network hardware so I can't even install it in my new machine without a bunch of CD's and a few prayers? Or perhaps you mean Ubuntu, (I moved to Xubuntu when I got fed up with trying to get Debian working), which prompts me to reboot after updates a couple of times a week like some crappy Windows box?

I don't think I could ever really go back to Windows, (especially given my recent experiences with 8.1 on my GF's new laplet), but recently there have been days when I've toyed with the idea...

That's why we need crowdfunding campaigns in the 'free' world that are directed at collecting money to fight 'everything you see are belong to us' law suits like the one this bit of nonsense is just begging for. And while we're at it maybe we can crowdfund campaigns to convince people to boycott organizations run by shitheads who try to claim ownership of the whole world by raising their hind legs and pissing on everything in sight like dogs that need obedience training.

BTW, the irony of a crowdfunding campaign to convince the crowd to do something is not lost on me.

I suppose this qualifies as News for Nerds, but really, don't we have better things to talk about than the "premium feel" of a gadget? I don't see much in the way of fun so far in the comments, and it's not like this latest bit of shiny is going to have any significant impact on anyone beyond Samsung's shareholders.

TFA seems more like a Slashvertisement than a news piece to me.