Linux have binary log files for years, and nobody complained about it.
See /var/log/wtmp http://linux.die.net/man/5/wtm...
And it wasn't "railroaded". Debian had a vote in the TC and Ubuntu choose to use systemd instead of their own. How is that in any way "railroaded"?

Just like systemd service files?

How many times is this lie going to be repeated. Systemd does not put everything "into one application". Systemd consists of many separate applications and daemons, many of them not even link against systemd. The developers of systemd have all of those separate apps and daemons in one code repository, but you can pull each of them out and compile each of them separatly.

Large portion of users? Lets see. Ubuntu, Debian, Redhat, Suse all use systemd. Where is this large portion of users, please?

You can deactivate all animations with 4 clicks. System Settings -> Desktop Effects -> Animation Speed Instant -> Apply
Huge icons? If the icons are too big click on the tool-bar and set Icon Size [x] Small.
"understand how to use it" What? KDE 4 is like the desktop in KDE 1.
""Activity"? Is it a workspace?" Who cares, don't use it, don't worry about it.

The sound waves arises from quantum fluctuations, and those sound waves can propagate through the medium because it is a Bose-Einstein condensate, i.e. it have almost(?) zero resistance to sound waves. So that experiment is acutally measuring quantum fluctuations.

Your comment is funny, because the very article for this thread is about neurological research.

It depends on the situation. What you certainly do not have is unlimited free speech.
Brandenburg v. Ohio "The constitutional guarantees of free speech and free press do not permit a state to forbid or proscribe advocacy of the use of force, or of law violation except where such advocacy is directed to inciting imminent lawless action and is likely to incite or produce such action."
And further, Justice Frank Murphy "There are certain well-defined and limited classes of speech, the prevention and punishment of which have never been thought to raise a Constitutional problem. These include the lewd and obscene, the profane, the libelous and the insulting or “fighting” words – those which by their very utterances inflict injury or tend to incite an immediate breach of the peace."

You need to prove that in a court.

Or maybe English is just not my first language.

Your whole argument is BS. The 1th is not that you have the unlimited power to say whatever you feel like, and that your government cannot make laws restricting you to say whatever you want. The 1th is about political speech and freedom of religion. The 1th does not give you the right to incite hate speech or incite any form of crime or cause any form of harm. Your rights ends when they infringe on other people rights, and the government is elected to ensure the rights of all.

You would be correct if the NSLs would prohibit somebody to excercise political speech or religion. But congress is perfectly in its rights to limit your free speech to protect other citizens rights. Like, you have no 1th right to shout fire in a crowded theater and thus cause a panic and maybe the death of some people. Or you have no 1th right to tell people to kill some other people.

You do realize that the 1th does not trump all the other ammendments of the constitution only because it is the first? That is why your government can arrest you for a crime, for example, and thus restricting your 1th, 2th, etc.

Don't you realize that RedHat is a multi-million company that knows exactly what it needs on its servers?
That maybe, just maybe, RedHat needs systemd, and is funding it because of that?

Maybe because systemd is fucking good? And all the whiners about it are just retards. Seriosly, I did not came acros one legit critique of systemd.

For example with the file, the application could ask for an alternative file location.
Or if the socket can't disconnect, the app can ask the user to connect to the internet again.

A file should be flush()ed so that changed are written out. That can cause I/O errors. If you disconnect your computer from the Internet, that can cause an I/O error on close(). There are sure more valid scenarious, when close() or flush() can cause I/O errors. There are also more subtle ways, like if you write a log message to a file in your dtor. That log message can cause I/O error.

And how do you handle exceptions? For example, if you close a file it's a good idea to flush() changes. flush() can throw I/O exceptions.
Or if you close a socket. Or anything else that handles external resources.

You know that you can do that with the PhantomReference, SoftReference, WeakReference classes?
http://docs.oracle.com/javase/...
clear() Clears this reference object.