Double down on non-scientific extremist rhetoric to maintain power. The IPCC isn't even being original.

Hell, even the IPCC doesn't *really* believe in Global Warming as a scientific phenomenon, but only as a political tool to go after those "evil" western democracies that "unfairly" use resources.

After all, if the IPCC thought of global warming scientifically, they wouldn't have self-censored their own report to intentionally omit data about greenhouse gas emissions from Asia... http://news.nationalgeographic...

In sort of a mirror image of this story, some U.S. scientist was led on the usual dog & pony tour of Soviet space facilities (a publicly available one at any rate). Of course the tour included a display of huge rockets, advanced sattelites, etc. etc. to trump up the superiority of Soviet science.

Interestingly enough, after the tour the scientist came away convinced that the Soviet Union was hopelessly behind. It had nothing to do with the rockets though. Instead, he noted that when they ate lunch at the cafeteria, the cafeteria workers had to total up their lunches using an abacus. Big propaganda show-pieces are impressive, but it's the little things that show you what's really going on.

"Heh... Have you used *ANY* Linux audio on most Linux distributions? If so, you've used it."

No... really.. I haven't used it.
I have a real soundcard (Xonar) in my main machine that just passes a signal through TOSlink to my receiver. While libpulse is installed as a required dependency, I literally do not have the pulse audio server package installed.

All of my Linux boxes are *highly* customized, no kitchen-sink Ubuntu stuff going on here. I fully admit that I'm not setup to do professional audio editing or anything like that, but sound most certainly works and it doesn't require pulseaudio.

Not that I ever actually read more than half a paragraph of his drivel, but doesn't he always start or end each of his posts with: "I am an infallible omnipotent GOD and nobody could ever possibly disagree with! Please kneel and post your worship of me below."

"Remember how awesome pulseaudio is?"
    Not really. Never used it.

"Well what if we made your ENTIRE SYSTEM that awesome?"
    Are you trying to imply that all the hatred I've heard about pulseaudio was also unjustified?

I've done migrational upgrades to System-d with Arch Linux with zero problems in addition to using it with new installations. It works fine, and I'm still really confused about the jihad-level hatred it seems to engender in some people.

Just look at the loving way in which the residents of "free" public housing maintain their residences out of gratitude to the all-caring government.

Truly, public housing solved poverty to exactly the same degree that free broadband will "solve" the digital divide. I'm sure that the upstanding U.S. citizens who live in public housing will take it upon themselves to learn how to code and contribute Open Source software to the world in complete gratitude for this benevolent entitlement.

System D sucks so hard. Ima going OpenBSD for its X-treme modularity init system and that amazingly customizable kernel with -- reads headline -- aw snap.

Time to go back to Win-XP!

Have you SEEN some of what goes on at campuses of many universities that is officially sanctioned and paid for by the university?

  A few creationists sitting off in a corner and chatting amongst each other is not even in the same universe of "harm" that is inflicted by so-called "Muslim Studies" and other professors at many tax payer funded universities.

One -- and just one -- case in point would be a few privileged white-male professors and privileged white students forming a racist lynch mob to make sure that the students at Rutgers wouldn't hear the words of the first Black Female secretary of state....

http://dailycaller.com/2014/05...

I thought Bennett was busy writing inane and irrelevant "suggestions" about how to treat Ebola (since he's SO MUCH smarter than every doctor & nurse ever) after we intentionally infected him?

Then again, the recovery rate in the U.S. is depressingly high... let's drop him into a random village in Sierra Leone and see how well the local Witch Doctor reacts to his "suggestions".

Sigh... "X IS NETWORK TRANSPARENT!! I MAKE XTERM GO!! TRANSPARENT POWAR!!"

No.. granparent poster is right and you are wrong.

Being able to send stuff over a network pipe != network transparency. Get it through your head.]

Here's an excellent presentation by Daniel Stone, a guy who's forgotten more about X than most of us will ever know, saying the exact same thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Have you tried running Kate locally and accessing files remotely via the sftp:// KIO helper?

We heard you like bugs. So we introduced a bug in your bug-reporting system so you can exploit one bug to exploit other bugs.

Spoken like somebody who really doesn't understand TCP/IP but likes to say NSA for cheap mod points.

I've always been a fan of IIOP. You can use IIOP even if you don't want to re-introduce some of the more hangover inducing parts of the full CORBA stack (java's remote interfaces use IIOP IIRC).

Some people complain that a binary protocol is somehow not "open" but I've seen enough "open" XML uber-nested gibberish in my time to question that assertion...