If we all jump at the same time, life will go on as normal. Who can knock up a new Slashdot in a week or two? (And has a lot of spare hosting capacity.)

Do you know any other sites like Slashdot I should consider reading if this goes to the wall? It took a year to find a reasonable Reader substitute. How long to get a reasonable Slashdot substitute?

If they don't like it, the problem is for the marketing department to solve! I seem to remember this with copy-controlled CDs (aka corrupt CDs).

They are not just paying to have something created and then controlling it to make a profit. They are also attempting to distort the whole world to fit their business model. Should we all allow a Sony rootkit to run on our machines just so that they can protect their property and business model? If they were unchecked there would be no internet. Instead there would be some tightly controlled cable-TV like service which does 1% of what the internet does. There would be no innovation, most of what we know now online would not exist. Is that the kind of world you want to live in? That is what they would create if given half a chance. I do not want to live in your world. Given the choice, I would keep the internet and drop the big media industries and all their 'content'. There is plenty of interest in a world without them.

Also there are other business models than theirs -- for example here in South America, musicians make money by playing gigs. The music is copied freely on bootleg CDs and online. But people are accustomed to having live music at all major events (weddings, celebrations), and paying for it -- it would be an embarrassment not to have a band (or two). So musicians earn a living, but there is no mega-corp creaming a fat percentage off the top and trying to pass laws to stop movement of information.

Have you never looked at how this industry works? A musicians 'advance' is nothing of the sort. Rather it is a loan, which the music company aims to spend completely on producing the music and promoting it. The musician sees none of it. When the music starts earning, the musician's profit must pay off all of this loan before he/she sees anything. They are nothing but a bunch of parasites on both musicians and the public. Some musicians work around the edges of the system and avoid the worst of it, though, but it would be no big loss if this all went away completely.

That you support it suggests that you are badly misinformed -- either that or you are actually working for this industry, in which case I am wasting my time replying.

He's the messiah!

I suppose if you're being literal, then I would be stealing by watching a trailer for a movie as well? As I am taking a copy of the images in my memory, and yet I don't own them? Or is stealing only when someone else loses something? I don't think religious texts are any better as a basis for deciding what is fair or not fair in this situation.

When I started campaigning against the record industry's use of corrupted CDs (copy-protected / copy-controlled), I believed I knew what was fair, but when the people on the other side (RIAA/etc) are not in any way interested in fairness, just greed -- then really how can we possibly reach a fair solution? It doesn't exist. They pump the public with advertising to create desire for the product and then push the price as high as it will bear. The collateral damage are the people left with desire but no cash to pay, who are just left to suffer. They don't care about them. But when their dam got a bit leaky, then the whole pump the market thing didn't work so well. So now they corrupt the product and make it into a rootkit, that sounds fair to them, screw everyone else, that's what they do. I don't know how they got anything but what they deserved, and I have zero patience for any complaint from that industry now. If they install a desire in someone through advertising, and the victim resolves that manufactured internal pressure by downloading a file, that just means the old trick doesn't work any more. Their manipulation of people is backfiring. Maybe they need to try something a bit more respectful to be respected in turn. Then maybe things could be different. I'm sure you can find something in the scriptures about "Respect is something you earn".

Maybe it would be better to pay religions to convince the faithful that they will be tortured in Hell for copying things. Religions have a lot more experience with this kind of thing. I mean, WWJD? Would he download that torrent? Really? (Ignoring the incident with the money changer's tables for a moment.)

Just imagine that when you dragged across some text with your virtual finger, it got stuck on the end of it. Then wherever you poke your virtual finger, the text appears. Not so unnatural after all.

Yuck. I am not a desktop enthusiast. I don't have all day to try different extensions to get back what many consider to be basic features. I want a desktop that does its job according to some simple conventions, and otherwise keeps out of my way. A desktop is like a basic utility, not like a luxury item. A phone should (at the very least) work well as a phone -- if it doesn't then it is failing in its purpose. Desktops too. GNOME seem to have forgotten all of this.

I think that is what they want. They have succeeded in driving me away to XFCE, which is actually quite good and does everything I need. To me GNOME is like a solar flare, quite impressive at first, but then fading out as it gets higher and higher from the surface of the sun. They are in a little bubble floating off into space, becoming more and more irrelevant to normal Linux users. Maybe they will meet an alien civilization some day who will understand what they are trying to do.

Sorry I don't have enough bandwidth to even watch the adverts on the front without it stopping and starting all the time. I guess it looks fine on the CEOs desk, though, so that's all that matters.

With a container you still have the kernel-user boundary to cross on each syscall. I guess with OSv you could potentially optimise the whole OS, libc and application down into a single binary. Yes, it's interesting how this is developing -- Docker as well. Having lightweight containers or OSes like this is really taking off. I guess there may also be a bit more guaranteed isolation running it with OSv, less risk of a kernel bug leaving an exploit path, i.e. the isolation is at a different layer.

He must be posting for those people who reckon a thing isn't worth investigating until they've heard a hundred mentions to it. Wayland is just now entering these people's consciousness.

What happens with most people when they have nothing to do is that they turn to distractions. What happens to a few is that they turn to their creative interests (I have enough interests to safely keep me busy until I die). But most people will be slipping into drug dependency or gang warfare or watching soaps 24/7 or gaming. Maybe soaps and gaming are the best we can hope for, actually. Keep them anaesthetised and out of trouble. If you want quality of life, you have to make it yourself. If the requirement and opportunity to work isn't there, then it is easy to stagnate.

Yeah, exactly. I don't remember spending all my time outside as a child. First ZX81, then ZX Spectrum, then Atari ST -- there was plenty to do inside with with pre-86 technology.