USPS also scans every mailpiece. Seriously, they do, and have been doing for almost two decades.

They do not have a point. Suppose that the GPS was in civilian control. It still could be used for drones and nuclear warheads. Basically nobody asks these people the most basic question of all: suppose you have your way, what would be acceptable to you? The unfortunate answer is: nothing is ever acceptable to those nutjobs. Really, that's what makes them the nutjobs that they are. As long as you have a satellite-based global positioning system, it's equally available to anyone, everywhere, for whatever purpose. That's the basic premise of the thing. There's no way, technically or otherwise, to regulate its use. What those nutjobs want is a pipe dream.

That's the thing though - you're punishing them for what they say, and I think that's fundamentally wrong here. I basically say that unless libel laws apply, it's nobody's business what those fucktards publicly write on Twitter. It makes them look vile and stupid, but IMHO the buck stops there.

Sure you have the freedom to fire over anything in most circumstances, but that doesn't mean that you should.

Well, what the mob is making up amounts to law, because there are real-life consequences of it.

I don't even think that there are any "people like this" in our society. The remarks, while public and vile, are just that. I don't think it's any larger characterization of those people's character. Sure, neither you or me would ever post anything like that, not even anonymously I'm sure, but I'd be very careful with turning those identified into something much worse than they are. Some people do extremely stupid shit, given (im)proper circumstances - things that perhaps they'd never usually do.

Sure, the state can't, but I'm saying that public opinion shouldn't either, because it amounts to kangaroo courts.

I've heard worse first-hand and frankly said it takes some rationality to separate the wheat form the chaff. It's bad, but internet trolling almost always degenerates downwards, it goes from bad to worse to mind-bogglingly disgusting. It's not about ignoring the trolls, the trolls should be scolded, but arbitrary mob justice isn't the answer.

"what these idiots were doing was trivial or harmless"

I think it takes an adult to realize that those idiots are, in fact, doing trivial and harmless things. It's internet grandstanding. Is that so hard to see? Yeah, the people who posted these comments are dicks, we know that. And that's all there's to it.

I would approach any statements that those guys threatened anyone with anything with due caution. You're interpreting their writing in a particular way, a way that is on its face unwarranted and IMHO childish. Not everything is a threat just because it's worded so. There's no reason to believe there's some big conspiracy out there to rape this pitcher's daughter - to think so is rather juvenile and thoughtless. The people who posted those vile remarks have done a stupid thing, but those are "threats" just as "my dick is the biggest one" locker room talk would be considered grounds to launch a large study into the "obviously" skewed distribution of dick sizes.

There is something seriously wrong with these men, but it doesn't warrant the response it got, I don't think - mainly because the "threats" aren't, and there is no law that makes what they've done illegal. And at this point the mob is just making up the laws as they go.

The real questio is: does it warrant any repercussions? What those fuckers said amounts to juvenile grandstanding and "my cock is bigger than your cock" talk. Yeah, it's hurtful, but this isn't Germany - our legal system's approach to freedom of speech is fundamentally different.

I'm really on the fence when it comes to whether freedom of speech shoudn't win here. I find all of the comments to be unbelieveable: whoever says it has their mouth full of shit, but is unable to follow on any of it. Grandstanding at its worst. She won't get raped by those clowns, those are not credible threats of violence. The comments are vile, but the outrage should stop at being just outrage. On what grounds should we fire these guys etc.? Certainly there is no law that would require it, so who are we to make up laws on the spot? This reeks of witch trials not because of whether there are any real witches out there, but because the response is driven by mass outrage and is entirely arbitrary and whimsical.

Still beats the crap out of gitweb, which is the default "alternative".

GitLab and GitHub are really vastly different at the most basic level: GitLab is a software product. GitHub is a service. You can't install github on your server. I'm very happy that gitorious is gone, though. It always felt clunky and second-rate, for some reason. Qt on GitLab is great news.

Russia is quite like the U.S. when it comes to expanse of the land. There's plenty of superbly beautiful and unspoiled areas in Russia, if that's your thing. If remote work was feasible, he could live in the middle of nowhere just as well as in the middle of a big city. I would not generalize Russia to be a shithole. If you're on the wrong footing with the authorities, you'll fare equally poorly in any "civilized" country.

Frankly said, I'm at this point just tired of people who can't set up their build tools to automate common tasks, and who think that code generation is some disease that has to be valiantly fought, because obviously if you call anything besides the compiler it's too complificated.

Look, you're wasting lots of your time by not using code generators. And I do mean lots and lots. You even publicly and proudly admit to it. In any project of considerable size, you'll be using dozens of tools to produce the final executable, the documentation, etc., so you just make yourself look very silly.

If you're whipping up something quick and dirty in Qt, you don't care about any code generators that Qt internally requires. A four liner .pro file does the job, and Qt Creator sets everything up for you anyway. For more complex projects it's your pick between qmake+make and cmake, but both are fully supported.

Your rant sounds silly.

Given that from 10.9 onwards you have IP over Thunderbolt, I don't think you need Infiniband anymore. You can run XSan over Thunderbolt just fine, with a bunch of macs in a mesh network. All you need is thunderbolt cables, no other hardware needed.