Thats just comcast sucking like usual. My optimum linked devices log into comcast routers (transmitting the optimum SSID next to their own) automatically via the sharing agreement they have.

Every comcast, optimum, and others routers are putting out a pile of SSID's and will authenticate via mac address alone. The vast majority of home and small business users end up using whatever the provider gives them.

If they just got our of school, will be working with nobody with more experience than them, and it's a startup with no existing systems, systemd is a great choice for that sort of sysadmins perspective.

Otherwise it fails to give anything compelling useful that could not be done before. It takes a reasonable amount of effort to move to using it with no gain.

At this point security is a basic requirement of all devs, what piece of code does not need at least some semblance of security?

They want you to install an app. Yet pretty much a picture of the barcode is all that is needed. Considering the poor state of security on phones the rights are far to course grained. The app needs to connect to the DMV for authentication means it has access to data at all times. You quickly have a heavily encrypted app that can can expand it's scope of permissions with clueless users.

They will I assume want you to hand your phone to the cop unlocked. Maybe your smart and setup a secondary login with only the licence and insurances apps more probably you handed a cop access to your entire digital life. Is that enough protection to secure the phone from state overreach?

Expand it out will bouncers be able to validate the licence? In effect that means the state knows when you went to what club.

Will potential employers be able to use it? Now the state knows every place you ever applied for a job.

Will stores be able to use it to cash a check (I know how many people will use this that still use checks)

Are fake ID's really a problem primarily it's for buying booze and we along with a handful of other first world nations has the highest legal drinking age in the first world.

What does the phone app add over the existing ability for police to pull up a photo id via the barcode or just name and address on the in cruiser laptops.

How portable will this be one state must accept another's ID. Will they build in the same protections? If so how will they be required to do so and held accountable for failing to do so?

At this point a simple name and address should be all that is needed to pull up a picture ID.

Kids time is already at such a premium.

Fiber works as well :)

I'm not so sure about the technical merits in the server space, systemd is and will rack up a lot of consulting hours that is good for redhat and others.

Centos picked it up because rhel moved to it, nothing to do with merit only compatibility.

If your starting up a new shop systemd is the path forward because rhel made it that way in the commercial linux space. If your a current shop your moving to it for the same reason. My issue is that is that it is not significantly better. It will generate rhel and others a lot of money and position it better for the desktop/laptop space. Those seems to be the reason commercial linux is moving to it. Ubuntu and the likes it's something new and shiny that is why those distro's exist, support the new stuff compared to the stodgy rhel and the likes.

This argument is similar to the GUI wars on servers, I simply could care less a GUI has no place on a server, if anything it's going to be tunneled down ssh to whatever window manager etc I like to use.

Far better the lack of connection overhead etc means some packets will get through with useful data even with extreme packet loss. Hell it works with total loss of connectivity on the return path (and with properly configured static arp continues to do so). Point being is that some logs is far better than no logs.

Hell we used to build unidirectional ethernet cables for log servers, it's rather hard to leak data to a hacker over an air gap after all.

1 If you don't understand why https is a very poor replacement for syslog over a network that may well be unreliable. I will assume your not really familiar with low level hardware and the failure modes. You do not seem to get the overhead and delay of TCP connections in general and thus why it's a poor choice for logging.

2 Well when your billing T&M there is :), point is reboots should occur so infrequently it does not matter.

3 again no advantage.

4 In your opinion it makes things easier. One text file vs a text file in /etc/sysconfig read in from an init script whats the advantage? Frankly it's just a different templates for the same set of variables in configuration management system, no new functionality is being exposed.

5 So I start SSH and SNMP a few seconds later since the monitoring system is checking them on a regular basis? I'm not seeing any advantage for a server, if your running a service your monitoring a service.

6 Work to setup? Maybe if your just getting started. All this stuff is already been baked into config management systems. systemd just means reworking all that into systemd speak with no great advantage.

7 Outside of service upgrades if I have to restart a service it's broken and needs to be fixed, be that by the vendors or rolling our own if necessary. This is not windows if you have to restart it's broken (mind you I have the same opinion of windows services). So pretty much if you need this your fixing the wrong issue.

8 Systemd fails to give an advantage that is the drawback, something that is new that adds nothing useful in an of itself.

Were just going round and round, systemd fails to do anything new and useful for servers. The pressure to migrate comes from the OS vendors with lots of work and debugging required to get in parity with the current state. So it's effort and time without any improvement for a shop that is already competent and utilizing modern tools. I get that it's got a lot of advantages for laptop/desktops it's just not compelling to server admins. It really should have been an option for rhel7 rather than the default, it's a boon to integration consultants for sure.

1 Logs on the server why? Already have real time logging to a different host.

2 If boot times are an issue you failed to build it correctly.

3 same with init

4 Systemd just keys into existing kernel bits, i'ts not providing anything new.

5 SSH and SNMP idle memory/cpu use is trivial balanced against with starting them up every time. I'll take a long running process vs startup time.

6 Again already in existence, it makes it easier to setup but no added function.

7 Yet again nothing new.

8 Init shell scripts are hard? Been writing them for 25+ years. Systemd probably no harder or easier so it's a moot point.

OK I'll bite I understand the "tradeoffs" and nothing is rather useful for a server. All the activation based bits sound great for a laptop or even a desktop but are useless on a production server. A prod server should not be running piles of things ssh, a config engine (chef,puppet whatever) and the app. If your app is some ugly pile of services on one box fix it. Take a standard web server stack firewall/IDS, LB, Webserver and DB throw in fast and "slow" object storage, nosql and back end services nothing should be running more than a handful of things.

Lets not even get started into activation based vm start-up. VM players have been trying to sell the whole spool up more web servers during high demand and then reuse that capacity for other things bit for a long time now. It looks great in a PR bit from a sales guy

Sure RH went with it for rhel7 they are are pushing a deskop pretty hard. It's not that it's bad for servers it's just not really bringing anything to the table.

No arrow, function or pretty much anything useful keys, seems like a nightmare.

The perfect keyboard has been around for a long time an IBM M13 mine is nearly 20 years old and in perfect working order. While I like the larger keyboard with f13-24 it's a pita to get many OS's to use them. You can also bludgeon an intruder with it and go back to typing.

Yes the swat teams should be restrained or executed but what to do with the kid? Swatting happens because of police abuse, slap the kid on the wrist for filing a false report or whatever. Make police be civil again the war on drugs has turned them into thugs.

By less you mean the ability to follow ikea level pictures only instructions. Hell the new gen include cellphones that call 911 the instant you pull it off the wall without the override "key" so a dispatcher can walk you though it if needed, the cell phones lets them know where to send help to.