I used to like Slackware until they lost their minds requiring a full install for what used to be a minimal system.

You couldn't be more wrong. Improving an dauditing code is a noble goal, but OpenBSD haven't done enough in that regard. They were vulnerable to heartbleed just as everyone else, were they not?

SELinux isn't the nicest implementation, but the idea is sound. Take away the legacy concept of an all powerful user. Don't have processes automatically inherit permissions, instead assign them only the permissions they need.

There have not been many SELinux exploits and you generally need local access anyway, with the ability to run executable. If SELinux is in place, that actually becomes a hell of a lot harder.

I'd much rather have a system that protects against unknown future attacks than a system which does nothing to protect against attacks and instead tries to remove them all..leaving little to deal with to contain a compromise.

Instead of spending time playing at semantics you should have tried to understand my point.

Let me paraphrase.

Most comics today have better plot and character development and deal with more mature content than most mainstream movies and books.

There.

Comics is both a genre and a medium. "Superhero" is a subset of the comic genre. There are many comics, such as The Walking Dead and Clone that have all the staples of the genre, without being anything to do with superheroes.

You seem like you would love comics. Many of the stories are very mature and have greater plot and character development than most books or movies.

The universes are amazing...a way to blend sci-fi and fantasy all together in one amazing cohesive universe.

You shouldn't be so dismissive of an entire genre.

That's true for most Marvel characters as well. Short of Spider-man and the X-men, Marvel didn't have anyone popular with everyone. Ironman changed that, and DC can do the same.

Yes it's a game. Not the type of game that 'gamers' play however.

Are you really too daft to get that, or do you just enjoy semantics?

That's only if you count nonsense like candy crush as games. People who play games on their phone don't tend to be called gamers, which refers to console/PC players.

Maybe, just maybe most games appealed to more males, so males were more drawn to them. This is of course a consequence of sexism in early decades discouraging women from taking up programming and making games themselves.

This is all being corrected, naturally, it's just going to take time.

There isn't disdain for women in gaming, it's just that women are the minority in games and tend to play games that the majority looks down upon (The Sims, Candy Crush etc), although even this is changing. There are plenty of girls who play GTAV, Injustice, COD etc and are amazing at them.

Articles like this don't help, they hurt. They spread FUD and misinformation without any facts, only serving to promote a continuation of the idiotic war of the sexes.

A young woman dressing provocative in a dangerous area where rapes are known to occur is stupid, and is partly at fault.

Just like if I wear expensive jewelery and flash it around a neighborhood known to have muggings.

Ideally the victim is never at fault. In reality, when there are multiple choices of what to wear and which neighborhoods to walk for, the victims are not always faultless.

This is nonsense. It certainly used to be true, but it isn't anymore.

Slackware has fallen prey to trying to compete with Ubuntu and ilk. Now you need to have a full install and the community isn't willing to support uou if you have anything less than that.

This used to be fine, but now they have made it so that there are crazy dependencies. You can't install mplayer without installing Samba for example, because mplayer was compiled to be able to play files over SMB shares.

It was important to me to have a clean, well maintained, minimial unix system.

Arch looked perfect, but I don't like the fact that it is a rolling release/bleeding edge. Alpine Linux seemed interesting, but it's really more suited to a firewall type device. The rest of the Linux distros don't really meet my requirements and OpenSolaris is dead, which means I had to look to the BSDs.

I will never run OpenBSD, as I don't think they understand what security is, and do a lot of showboating. They are great OpenSSH maintainers though. FreeBSD is just too big, and s hard to get minimal. There is no advantage in running FreeBSD over NetBSD for me.

Enter NetBSD. It seems absolutely perfect. It has package sets like Slackware and a full install still fit's on a CD. It's under 300MB without a desktop environment. It's stable, and only has major releases about once a year. Security updates are pushed out, it can run linux binaries for software you can't compile, and it has some very interesting security features. Specifically kernel level file monitoring for executable and config files, full disk encryption, and a port of PaX which I think is a superior implementation of ESP when contrasted with W^X.

Of note to me also, is the Linux teams attitude towards security. Linus and Greg K-H have gone on record multiple times stating that security issues do not deserve special treatment and do not need to be fixed sooner than other bugs, since they are "just bugs". That is a dangerous attitude, and leads to things like the 'Wunderbar Emporium' exploit allowing root across many major kernel version releases.

The NetBSD team takes security seriously, and issues security updates as a priority as needed.

For anyone truly looking for a secure, minimal and clean *nix system as a replacement for Slackware, I can't recommend NetBSD enough.

You don't seem to have read any of the modern iterations of the comic.

The robins have *ALWAYS* been a core part of the Batman Mythos.

Since the New 52, Batman had a Robin called Damian who was his biological son, trained to be a killer. The series "Batman and Robin" deals with him trying to establish a relationship with his son who has become Robin and trying to change his ways.

A huge crossover event at the moment involves Batman going against Darkseid to reclaim his sons body back.

An amazing Batman story in the 2005 was "Under the Red Hood", which deals with Jason Todd and is a continuation of "A death in the family".

Robin has almost always been present, in almost all iterations of the character. The only exception are stories set in Batman's early years before he had a Robin, stories where he is not the main character such as the Justice League stories (Robin has the Teen Titans) or stories focused on detective stories, where the story works better without Robin. These are the exception however.

I always run process monitor.

Look, lets make the claim even simpler.

Several years worth of crust in the registry from uninstalled or leftover applications will at most, have a negligible performance impact on querying or enumerating thee registry.

There.

Hi,

You're incorrect.

As I stated, the registry as an optimized database. A few extra records do not affect query time.

I will be happy to met money that my 3 year old install of Windows 7 will not have any speed decrease over a new install on the same hardware.

If the OS slows down, it is because there is something causing it that you can remove. It isn't due to "decay".

Since..let's say Vista, OS decay doesn't happen.

• No need to defrag anymore.
• Leftover registry entries don't slow down anything (the registry is an optimized database. Having a few extra records does not affect query time).
• Having extra disk space used up by unused applications likewise does not affect performance

You know what does affect OS performance? Malware. Silly PC users not installing updates and getting infected, or just infecting themselves because a dancing pig said it was a good idea.

Microsoft doesn't have to fix OS decay. They need to continue to educate their users about security and then make a version of notepad that can understand unix newlines.