conspiracy much?

systemd actually fucking works, and those fanboys are satisfied users. All we have is a few haters that are simply mad things didn't work the same way they've always worked.

As far as this "UNIX Philosphy", fuck that shit. Go dig your PDP-7 out of your closet if you want to run UNIX. GNU's Not UNIX, not because its just a silly name, its because Stallman hated fucking UNIX, but only adapted partial UNIX compatibility to drag in a larger user base.(EMACS being essentially a LISP machine that runs ontop of UNIX, Stallman liked LISP machines)

for fucks sake, we've had --plain-text options alongside single -o options since day one. Thats un-unix like.

Do you want to know what was also one heaping mess of fail? debian's initscripts, along with fucking apt. Fucking complicated derpish bullshit. I'm not missing initscripts. no sir.

you can. you can re-compile the kernel for low-latency realtime by dicking around with compile time options. you can run jack instead of pulse, and you can have a fairly decent pro-audio production setup.

That said, we are talking about consumer grade setups, and the default of 350hz timer, and pulse works just fine for that.

Doing something that much more hardcore, re-compile the kernel, I do believe debian and ubuntu provide low-latency and realtime kernel along with packaging for related programs, and guides do exist for other distros.

I do believe if you are a highly trained technician, you can be expected to know your tools better than the average consumer who doesn't want to fuck with it. If you're getting paid, its also job security.

oh god, there is no alternative that is running on million installations.(no counting legacy inits) Not even OpenRC.

I support code that actually works, and an init system that isn't an old hobbled together mess of bash scripts.

I'll be damn honest and say pulse does a lot of things you didn't do back then.

If you really want, you can uninstall Unity, and run xfce, LXDE, or something else lightweight which resembles fairly closely the state of GNU/Linux in 1995 when your Pentium 1 was king.

Actually no, I remember those days. GNU/Linux was fucking ugly as dogshit, Windows was buggy and unreliable, and Macs where worthless. Playing an MP3 File choaked 75% of the cpu on one of those early "media" PCs, about 90% for ogg. You could basicly use IRC, or a terminal session and that was it. Web browsing while listening to mp3s was a no-no.

It wasn't until around the late pentium 2, early pentium 3 era, where you could sorta mutli-task like you do today, and listen to mp3s in the fucking background

As far as pulse goes, I like being able to yak on teamspeak on my USB headset, while rocking out to tunes played over my sound card, and being able to adjust per-proccess audio. Works great in pulse. Setting up native 8 channel speaker support is easy as well. No real special hardware. I agree audio is something we need to do well, and as far as consumer audio goes, pulse knocks it out of the park.

No one is making you use pulse, or even Ubuntu. If you want a minimal desktop run something else. you can run bare ALSA on xfce. It works for basic things, but trying to manage 8 speakers with multiple specialty cards(bluetooth and USB headsets,docking stations), is a fucking pain in the ass.

cold war is over broseph. Three points:

1. wide embargos rarely hurt the regime, just the people.
2. We actively trade with worse. We have "most favored nation" status with China as far as trade, and guess where most of your clothes, electronics are made, in terrible conditions mind you. That gasoline in your car most likely comes from Saudi Arabia, and we are openly allies with other Gulf Arab states. There never was an ounce of "human rights" in the embargo, and its fairly obvious to anyone who's taken more than a glancing look.
3. Castro's regime while not great, is in no way the giant carciture its made out to be. If you tally things like deaths, torture, and mass incarceration of political victims, as far as dictatorships go, its really not that bad, once you compare for scale, especially among many US allies. Even among communist regimes it certainly does not rank with the USSR, Khmer Rouge, and Mao's China.

the problem with a CPU-Unique key, is that the same software needs to work with every device. The only crypto on the chip is AES, which is a symetric block cipher. symetric ciphers use a single shared key among recipiants.

to have a unique key on every chip, you'd need asymetric crypto, something perhaps like secureboot or TLS that works with certificate chains, that allows for crypographicly verified by unique certificates that contain keys.

That does not exist on die. They'd have to load that into cache, and then encrypt the rest of memory and decrypt when the bump to cache, which is already decreased by the size of the program in cache.

Again, its possible, but highly unlikely.

there are computers everywhere in the world actually. Even North Korea has them, and North Korea is far more sheltered than Cuba. The only nation that embargos Cuba is the US. There was some article from 10 years ago about them rolling their own gentoo distribution. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

cold day in hell. To be honest, while I would like linux to be accepted. I'm not getting rid of Stallman, because if we start getting rid of people like him, the GNU/Linux community will just become more like the people we joined this community to get away from.

More imporant than getting everyone to use Linux, is getting everyone to change how they view the world. Stallman is a smart man, hes actually well spoken, and he digs in and sticks by his ethics, instead of taking a half-assed sleazy way out. He inspires confedence as a voice I can trust to be consistant and ethical, even when no one else is, and doesn't bow to pressure, or sell out core principles.

If we want to be more like everyone else, and start rejecting people for being ugly, and start accepting people who will sell us a bill of goods, and then find someway to fuck us over first possible chance, its not worth the added user base.

Also, Free software survives on community effort. Bringing in a bunch of hipsters, will simply bring in hoardes of people who do not contribute, but make demands, sometimes unreasonable, and might try and cause divisions, making work harder. Again, you'll talk about kicking contributers out, to make room for non-contributors.

OK, now you're trolling, linux has had better driver availability than basicly anyone else for the last 5 years. Your simply repeating problems people had pre-kernel 3, which are virtually unheard of.

I started running Linux because all my drivers just worked, as opposed to running XP at the time, where finding the right drivers was a fucking pain. Also, installing extra drivers on Ubuntu is easy, installing them on windows is hard, and installing them on Macs doesn't happen, at all.

Oh yeah, and all the codecs "just worked" too, I just clicked a box saying I didn't give fuck all about licensing. Now try doing that in windows, or even mac.

Or mabey that Ubuntu was the first desktop that had an App store on the desktop, even before apple. Oh, and it worked.

Or try installing windows on box vs mint/ubuntu/trisquel. Tell me what is easier.

Are your initials ESR?

Is that like notorios NBC news known for posting inciteful hatered responsibile for starting another war?

Its possible, but entirely unlikely. There is going to be a massive performance hit. What they can do is encrypt RAM with the key directly in the CPU, something modern computer support.(See unmerged TRESSOR patches). They can then decrypt the data with hardware instructions(AES-NI), as they move main memory to the cache, either on die, on the motherboard which cannot be easily removed.(not within the timespan for coldboot attacks). harder to break does not mean unbreakable as well. If the operating system is rooted, it migh be very well easy enough to get the key from the CPU(AES is symetric, and no CPUs have HW implementations of asymetric ciphers.). If the key is burned when the CPU is made, it would be an industry-wide key. All it would take is one leak, one time, and everyone can now decrypt memory.

Why yes. I have no idea how Jason Vorhees got into our building, or why he was even intresed in our company, but it took a lot of people to get him out, he knocked out a few servers, and killed a few people.

How do we know someone affilaited with Trend Micro didn't Do what amounted to digital grafiti? No diffrent than some jackass teenager spray painting "Allahu Ackbar" on the bathroom shitter, and then watching dumb fucking cops get scared about terrists.

it only works that way sometimes. Manufactures probably push "smart" TVs because an onboard SoC probably adds an existing $10-20 to a $3000 TV, while opening on massive new revenue channels via mining your data. Also be very careful when the incentive to act unethically is high.

no, but we can guess, because we can take a pretty well educated guess at the computers and computer networks they will be running, because primative forms exist today

No computer part is simply made in a vacuum, from operating systems, to CPUs, to HDs. all components have slowly evolved over time.

It is very much unlikely that any radical leap in technology is going to power the first self driving cars. Its simply putting together what we have today. Its very likely self-driving cars will be mostly technology we are already familiar with, such as back up cameras, bumper sensors, and of course very familiar either ARM or x86 intel chips with your pick of QNX, GNU or Android Linux, or MS Windows. Those are the only four operating systems up to the task, and perhaps FreeBSD out of the blue if someone wants to put a lot of time getting it into shape. The "Self Driving" will all be in software. It will most likely be the same computer that for a dollar more contains wifi and bluetooth, and a penny USB controller for syncing your infotainment on your smart phone.

Of course they could segergate it, but that would cost money, another computer, as opposed to bolting on $10 of hardware. It will be web 2.0 ready to post on your facebook to make your friends jealous, and it will have a name to make you identify with it. Something again, a week of programming by the non-rate in the office while the real hackers did the self-driving part. Its also the part that gets the virus,

Then we have the culture of ethics which ships insecure software. This culture has been noted for over 20 years in history, and what would need to be a complete reversal of culture is not in the works. Very unlikely.

I think "popularity" means "places that won't extradite", and nothing more. A man on the run has few choices.

As for western states, if it wasn't for the NSA and other American three letter agencies actively using TOR, it would get similar treatment in the west.

If you go back about two years in blog.torproject.org they explain at a massive computer confrence, where the dutch police wanted to ban tor, they had the NSA step in and tell them it was "needed" and "you can't do this".

The Russian government has no reason to keep TOR around. The US Government has to keep TOR up and running for its own reasons. They also can't backdoor it, without the backdoor being leaked, or found, letting most other state actors with the same back door.(which is the problem with crypto), and they need people to use it for it to work as intended.