Did you ever use OS-9 from Microware? (not to be confused with OS 9 from Apple)

Back in the day I ran OS-9 on a Tandy Co-Co and had a fully multi-user, pre-emptive multitasking system* running on a 6809E, 8 bit, sub 2MHz CPU. Later on I worked with a variety of industrial computers running OS-9 on 68K based systems and they worked just fine.

* I will give you that I only ever fired up the graphical desktop all of once just to see if it worked. After that I stayed in the command line.

Yes, I've hurd that before.

In both of the last elections there were a bunch of high profile people who claimed they would leave the US if Obama was (re-)elected. But when push came to shove they stayed in the US.

I'm betting that people like you will be making the same vociferous claims, and like those other people will stay in the country regardless of who wins the election. Lets face it, if you were so dis-enamored with the country that you are going to leave, then basing your decision to stay or go on something that only comes around once every 4 years is basically a crock of shit. If you are going, then you are already gone.

Of course it is, even slashdot doesn't want Beta now!

How do you know that the two "men" weren't really two transgendered women, who haven't yet requested various departments (DMV etc) to change to their gender, so officially are still female?

But those 3 extra words take up space on the newspaper page that could have been used for something else (advertising?). Yeah I know I read this off a web-page, but the editors of said page would have been educated old skool and are happy to cut out superfluous words.

I only get that effect when I shake my head from side to side as I read the sentence.

To me, this usage of revise (to study) is perfectly cromulent. The only problem I have with it is when I use it in this manner around Americans, who basically say "WTF? What are you going to change?"

I hate to burst your bubble, but that is English, and British English at that. Revise is being used in the sense of to study:

Perhaps your knowledge of English, is shall we say .. in need of revision?

Combine this with Googles new automated interview techniques and you can have people being moved automatically from company to company!

Imagine waking up and getting a message saying

Just today I saw this story Vegas woman gets $200 distracted driving ticket for applying lip balm at a red light. Apparently in Vegas the law is pretty vague, but strictly enforced.

So the big question is how would that law treat a car which drives itself? And how will cops make a decision whether behavior of the person in the drivers seat counts as distracted driving or is simply the person taking advantage of an autonomous mode? I can see a lot of people being pulled over and booked when they were not actually driving the car. And even if cops can recognize an autonomous car, how do they know what mode it was driving in?

I said no such thing, and you are deliberately mis-representing my position for your own benefit - as can be seen by your ignoring the anything past the first sentence in my first paragraph. However I will concede that perhaps I should have prepended my statement with "in general".

So why have you ignored my US/Saudi comment? Do you think that the US should be a country of "do as I say and not as I do' in the international realm? Do you salivate at the application of the monroe doctrine? Do you support the takedown of Iran in the 50's?

See, I can make up all sorts of attacks (framed as questions) just like you.

One one hand I agree with her sentiments. But her view needs to expand beyond attacking a couple of people. IMHO the US has a bizarre relationship with the Saudis, who seem to be able to get away with a shitload of things that other countries in the middle east get beat down for. But I cannot explain why the US turns a blind eye to it all, except possibly in the name of oil.

On the other hand, she said all of this on Hannity, and he is not known to be the bastion of logic (or even at times coherent thought). And I say this from first hand listening experience. In addition during the last US federal election Hannity was basically running an "anybody but Hillary" campaign, so I am not surprised by the "Hillary bashing" coming out on that show now.

Disclaimer, I can't vote in US elections. So don't start accusing me of being for or against any political party. I merely observe.

Oh come on .. you are such a debbie downer. Don't you see the fantastic new technology that Dice is deploying to /.??? Duping the story used to take days, if not weeks. Now with the latest auto-dupe code they are pushing the limits and attempting to dupe the story within itself!

Mind blown!!!!!

I agree. Heatbleed is not a counter example, it is simply evidence that the original "Linus's Law" was not complete. A better version of it would be

With the definition of "enough" being dependent on the complexity of the code in question.

You're comparing apples (code) to oranges (break pads). Third party manufactured break pads will be subject to some oversight and regulation, especially as you can't just whip up break pads in your garage. On the other hand you are suggesting that anyone who really wants to can modify and install software without oversight or regulation - and that is not something I'd like to see in safety critical systems.

And if the people writing the code have to get it certified before it can be used, then that puts them on the level of car manufactures right now, and sort of defeats what is being proposed by the EFF, as you will still not really own the code that is in your car.