Maybe I'm up too late, but this post makes no sense to me whatseoever. It's the usual "major parties both suck" substance-free mantra that gets mod points, followed by some sort of assertion that people who vote for major party candidates believe cops will know how they voted and retaliate (clue: people who believe that vote libertarian. Or well some of them probably vote for extremist parties as well.) There are reaons people vote for major parties. They may not be right or even strategic reasons, but they are not some ridiclous fear of institutional retaliation. Were they, we would not have so many registered independents.

More importantly, it means there is probably something larger than an asteriod to settle on a lot closer to us than Alpha Centauri. Of course we'd need a buttload of reactor power to survive in such an environment.

Well, IIRC it is stated in TFA with the right equipment the range could be extended up to several centimeters or perhaps more. Not sure how accurate that statement is though.

Enough to, say, be pretty disturbing if coupled to a sensor for metabolites in a urinal.

As long as the contents can be linked back to the individual, it just takes NFC communicators next to places where people put their hands to track the individual's actions. The short range gives you a bit more information than just tracing their smartphone -- e.g. if you have an NFC collector tacked to the bottom of a public keypad, you can be pretty sure that person was using that keypad, as opposed to just standing around in the region. Granted given most places can also be covered with a camera and nobody will complain, there are other ways to obtain such information, but this way can be fully automated.

He is completely confident that his underconfidence is a clear indicator that he knows what he's talking about, obviously.

No, there will always be issues where the problem lies within the code of the init system.

Traditonal Init scripts are mostly in bourne shell syntax due to inertia. Shell is a horrible, awful language. Yet people put up with that and there's a reason why they have done so: the flexibility it offered over declarative-style config files was a strong enough advantage to keep traditional init systems in play. It is an exercise in arrogance to pretend you can map current and future needs over to a set of fixed cookie-cutter behaviors. There will always be a need to modify systemd internals to compensate for this broken model.

On the bright side it has enough intertia and is enough of a break from tradition that it will shake things up, and they did need to be shaken up. There will be wrappers around systemd, suites to manage systemd without touching any systemd config files, and eventually out of that chaos something better will emerge,
where we go back to basics but without the cruft we once had.

Yeah, and then someone thought it would be a good idea to tack "Unattended Updates" onto that feature. I think they thought that would get the casual users to update critical packages. But casual users never reboot, they hibernate, so....

No that part won't likely be a problem -- it's easy to override (or even cancel) distro scripts as long as the distro does a good job of keeping the /etc/systemd directory mostly empty and puts the "stock" scripts elsewhere.

The decision to cram the configs into an INI-like format which ends up causing a proliferation of ReallyPoorlyChosenDirectiveNames to work around the cases where an INI file format cannot express heirarchy for one, and the fickle mincing of declarative and procedural contexts where somehow the order of fields with the same name matters, but you can't carry state between them without a third agency and thus variable expansions cannot work where you need them to.

The pollution of logs with gobs of output that is of very little practical use is another thing that chafes me.

Not that there is not plenty of upside to systemd, mind you.

Ok, so we give a password manager device to all the users that cannot be trusted to create strong passwords, or if given a long password will write it down, probably on a sticker attached to said device. Then, they take 4 times as long to log into things since they constantly have to unlock their password manager, and each time they do so open a window to keylogging or sideband attacks on the same password. And they leave their passwords hanging around in cut and paste buffers. Finally they lose their "physically secure device" in a public location and expose it to an offline attack, and possibly also lose their written-down copy of the master password.

Not a fan of those systems.

Do you know the difference between STUPID and simply UNINFORMED? Also the difference between bold and SHOUTING?

Kinda one of the points of smartcards is that you don't know the key inside of them. Thus your access can be revoked physically by depriving you of the card, should it become necessary.

And no, MITM attacks don't affect properly implemented smartcard or even password authentication, as preshared material and/or mutually trusted authorities counteract that.

With regards to TFA, here's an example of how PubkeyAuthentication has some drawbacks and is not a hands-down superior method for authentication over passwords. Letting users leave those lying around wherever they please means the weak passwords they chose on those keys are more likely to be guessed in an offline attack than is a password in an online attack against a rate-limited authenticator.

...opening back doors to my system is kind of the functionality I would expect from installing a package named "owncloud." At least now I know it exists so if I see it in the wild I'll know it's not an *intentional* rootkit.

That is pretty funny.

It's not all there is to it, though. I applied that fix manually and pulseaudio still screws with the subchannels when it starts. It doesn't just set the master, it maxes the speaker channel and mutes the woofer. Pretty annoying. Why can't all the sound utilities just get along?

Not quite necessary. Games on SteamOS providing a better experience than games on PS4 or XBOX1 is all that's needed.

Anyway my PS3 YLODd, which means even if I fix it it's on its last leg, and I have no interest in the PS4, and I actually DO hate on Microsoft, so It'll suck to have to buy the presequel twice but I'm jumping on, personally.