make uninstall Also compiling from source should rarely be necessary. Most modern distributions will include a ports like system that will allow you to compile source into a fake root, use the information gathered to build a package, and then install the package with your package manager. This ensures everything is cleaned up properly upon package removal. Of course even building a package for the software is probably unnecessary as it's very likely someone has already done it for you. Linux' package management is vastly superior to both Windows and osx (don't you just drag a folder into the garbage can? Give me a break). You just have to know what you're doing.

The last bastion of desperate statists.

If only they actually were desperate. In actuality, they are fat, self-confident, and virtually unchallenged.

But I don't trust the government, in the form of law enforcement or in any other form, to operate in terms of genuine best interest of the people. It's as simple as that. They are a bunch of cynical, power-drunk hooligans, elected by morons, and with their puppet strings controlled by entrenched unaccountable evil bastards.

Let's hear it for science. If brilliant scientists can defeat some of the excesses of this cancer on the people, I say hip hip hurray. Criminal elements have always been reachable using genuine backbreaking detective work, no matter how clever the criminals. I am not filled with fear to think that the next group of 19 hijackers, or child molesters if you MUST use the boogeyman du jour, will have unbreakable cryptography. I am more worried about the atmosphere that is breeding these deviants and causing them to thrive.

Those who fail to understand history are doomed to repeat it....even if they have to force it down our throats.

Holder doesn't fail to understand it - he and his ilk are back for Round 2. They will persist until the liberty is removed, however many rounds that takes. Then they will move on to the next liberty that still stands. If they can't win at the Federal level, they will get it done at the State level (e.g. California's back door requirements for cell phones).

That's how government works; I guess your point is well-supported by the history after all.

billionaire computer science major Judith Faulkner

What? Who says things like that? Is there even any semantic meaning in context of the issue? </aside>

My understanding, especially from friends still-on-the-inside (of clinical information systems), is that EPIC's main product is a SEP field.

I used to work on what was once hailed as a model clinical information system, but it was killed by beancounter CIO-types, angling for bonuses on unspent budgets, and eventually they were replaced by the clinicians who just wanted something where they felt they could get features and reliability (internal requests for such were almost always turned down by management because of perverse incentives).

Not being qualified to make technical decisions, [as I understand it] the clinicians went for big & popular, as it was felt that at least that stood a good chance of being decent. But more importantly, the internal bureaucrats were always angling for budgets and lawyers while the outside vendor is able to offer relief from all of that for merely a mountain of money. Clinical functionality is somewhere down the list in terms of required features.

Something like Metropolis?

Metropolis was all about the imagery. No matter how good this Tetris movie is or is not, it'll all be about the fifteen minutes before - filling the theatre seats is going to be great fun!

Can you provide citations for this?

Everybody knows that if you grow most of your own food on a 1/4 acre of yard, it's much worse for the environment than if you hire a company to maintain a pristine lawn there and drive down to the Whole Foods in your SUV to buy produce flown in from Chile.

nature is so much worth than farming.

So stop eating farmed food. Or stop being a hypocrite - either would be acceptable.

Obvious downside: fossil fuel use to get water where it is most useful may exacerbate the problem over time.

We know just fine how to build nuclear-powered ocean vessels. Maybe Congress can give the corporate welfare to the MIC to build iceberg haulers instead of battleships.

Since we're on the subject, does anybody know how to calculate the centripetal and gravity effects of a long-range tunnel bored through the earth's crust? I suspect there must be a maximum achievable tunnel length but also maybe the rotation of the Earth could be used for pumping energy, depending on direction.

It might just be easier, though, to warm to environment and have some of Antartica melt again, and re-humidify the atmosphere. People cannot seem to wrap their heads around the ice sheets, but if you told them there was a hole bigger than the United States filled with 500 feet of fresh water that was locked away from the atmosphere - that they could get. Even fewer can understand that the oceans have risen 120m in the past 20,000 years - geologists aren't welcome in the mainstream (pundits won't even accept those graphs in the IPCC reports).

All the water that used to be in the Aral Sea, had to go somewhere. Today it is in the oceans, raising global sea levels by several millimeters.

I can see not reading the article, it is Slashdot, but to jump to comment before even the second paragraph of the summary ... that just leads to embarrassment.

Thank you. Very clear thinking.

eh, the NFL will probably just headbutt the FCC in the bridge of the nose during a 'roid rage and forget about it next week.

I know many Catholics who don't believe in the literal transfiguration of the Eucharist and think the idea is rather grody.

Personally I don't accept any theology as coherent unless it can answer questions about the multiverse. :crickets:

The setup script for Altera's Quartus II IDE uses "/bin/env" to find "sh" on Linux. I mean WTF... env isn't located in /bin on most systems. env isn't even given a standard location by POSIX or LSB, whereas sh is. Granted, they assume some ancient version of RH, but it works fine on Debian.

Since linux has now fucked up the directory structure, /bin/env is the same as /usr/bin/env now. Hey, look on the plus side. It's easier to find executables now.

Now /bin, /usr/bin, /sbin, and /usr/sbin are now all symlinked to one place, and /lib, /lib64, /usr/lib, and /usr/lib64 are all symlinked to one place. At least that's the way it is on arch, and I have no doubt all distros will be going that route.

Ultimately I cannot easily reduce this to an answer here, and probably not to one that will satisfy you.

Why would this be so hard? "Cheap hardware is more important to us than open hardware" would be sufficient.