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Comment Lie detectors detect stress (Score 1) 580

and they cannot work, if you do not know, what is stress to the person and what is not. Questions like name, birth place and so on can be used to test "no stress". To test "stresses him", you need something you know its stressing. Illegal downloading is not. A questions about illegal downloading, which prevents you from getting the job will be quite stressing.

Comment Re:Don't over generalize (Score 1) 728

The point why trolls can easily target women, are the reactions. Troll a "gamer gurl" and she will produce video blogs against harressment of girls on the internet. Troll a guy, and he will state, that you're an asshole. And that's it.
Of course, this is a generalization, too. There are many women, who can deal appropriately with this trolls. But there are a few very loud ones, which cry "sexism" for personal (not general) attacks.

Comment Re:Complain to choosers, not creators (Score 1) 993

Jep. And now they have and build features on it. So try to maintain these features with a no-systemd patch. Good luck.
On the other hand, i could imagine to maintain the sysvinit-system. This is not too complicated and a single person may do it, a small team can do it very relaxed.

Comment Re:Complain to choosers, not creators (Score 1) 993

The answer is easy:
forking gnome is hard, especially the parts, which are no longer designed to run without systemd, because if it would be easy to make them independed of systemd, they already were.
Forking a normal init is easy. Its little code and its there and it works and writing initscripts is easy as well.

so using a new init with old DE is easy, using a new DE which depends on a new init is hard to fork.

Comment Re:Systemd (Score 1) 993

you're doing it wrong. There should be no gui for this.
ssh only runs, if you installed it. Then you better know what it is.
avahi should run without the need for knowing it or the option to disable it, if you do not understand it.
Avahi is the apple way, make the things work, without configuration by the user. ssh is the unix way: only use it, if you understand it.
gnome is the windows way. you can configure some things, you can break stuff, it tries to be easy but does something wrong.

Comment Re:Firmware != Drivers (Score 1) 192

the companies have licenses, which prohibit distribution of the fireware, except for some ways they thought of (like download of the official windows driver). So distributing the fireware itself is illegal and you get tools like the bcm-firmware-cutter, which extracts the firmware from the windows driver binaries. This is legal, as long as the user downloads the firmware (so the tool maintainer does not distribute anything from the company).

Comment Urban legend (Score 1) 602

The Phoebus cartel set up in 1924 has been accused of preventing technological advances that would have produced longer-lasting light bulbs.[72] The document Light Bulb Conspiracy[73] claimed that the Phoebus cartel deliberately limited the expected lifetime of a light bulb to 1000 hours. However, 1000 hours was a reasonable optimum life expectancy for most bulbs.[74] A longer lifetime can be obtained only at the expense of efficiency: more electricity is wasted as heat and less light is obtained.[74]

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