Well there *is* this star close by...

otrs is ITIL compliant

Sorry but I had a good look at the demo system, feature list and screenshots.

There is nothing to suggest that OTRS is even remotely close to "ITIL compliant".

Ugggh...

Blu-spec CDs are compatible with existing CD players

It's in the summary. FFS.

Some companies still have factories in the west

Legend make memory chips with fab plants in Australia and South Africa. It's also some of the best memory I've ever used.

...it's about 90% unimplemented. Someone please tag the article 'vaporware'.

Precisely my point. It sounds like a wishlist for a new OS and I don't think it has any business being a news article. Maybe if there were a solid technical roadmap and proof of concept code available for people to work with it would be worth discussing. As it stands it looks like a bunch of cool ideas that someone has leapt into implementing without thinking through.

Or it didn't happen.

Personally, comparing Wikipedia (and Facebook for that matter) as a sample to the other sites I use, they don't stand out in the population as "slow" sites.

They have slowdowns occasionally, but I've found they happen as much as any other site I visit.

Does not mean it is suitable for large-scale development projects.

I direct your attention to Wikipedia and Facebook. PHP is fine for large scale projects.

I noticed your name is gEvil (beta), and I'm here to tell you that Betamax is NOT superior to VHS.

I suspect that it's actually a play on Google's habit of sticking (beta) on everything they do. Google are famously "not evil". The username might be the owner's opinion that Google are becoming evil (ie in a beta release of evil) and that they could have a product name called gEvil (in the same vein as gmail etc).

Clearly, then, the people that wrote the wipe manpage aren't working on an OS trying to establish its market credibility.

And that's their prerogative. I couldn't care less if they wrote a manpage that included ASCII-art pr0n.

People working for Red Hat and Novell are trying to establish the market credibility of Free Unix (or at least their brands of it). If Red Hat wants their manpages to sound professional, they should review and rewrite as necessary. It's (usually) allowed by the license. Same thing for Ubuntu if they want user-friendly manpages

Which is precisely my point. Ubuntu *is* trying to establish Linux's market credibility, and this paranoid delusion is included in the Ubuntu manpage for wipe.

Recovering such data is probably easily done with secret IDE/SCSI commands. My guess is that there are agreements between harddisk manufacturers
                            and government agencies. Well-funded mafia hackers should then be able to find those secret commands too.

Seriously WTF?

Break out the tin-foil hats everyone. Those mafia hackers are on the loose!

People should better think of their computing devices as facilities
                lended by the DHS.

Ah huh. My computer is trying to send me to gitmo. Got it.

Worse is that this tripe is in the wipe manpage. rense.com-style conspiracy theories have no place in an OS trying to establish its market credibility.

There's something I never really thought about?

Did Hitler ever personally kill anyone? (Apart from his military service in WWI, and himself of course).

Or was he just another gutless tyrant who left the mass murder and misery-causing to those under his command?

ROFL! That's the funniest comment I've seen this week.

Cheers!

Indeed - having taken one I'm of the firm opinion that it had no value whatsoever for exactly that reason.

The questions were actually more like statements with the options: Strongly Disagree, Disagree, Agree and Strongly Agree.

Absolutely useless if you ask me.