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Comment Re:Nice Thing: systemctl status shows you log entr (Score 0) 928

I will have to disagree with you on this. You cannot do this with the traditional init process. The only way to grab all that log information and metadata is if you control process 1/init. With the traditional shell script approach, you can't tag all that data and pump it all into logging.

Full process management does provide a lot of really nice features. But they could have implemented all those features with a simpler init process and not integrate it with dbus and everything under the sun, and have better commands than the awful syntax in systemctl and journalctl.

Comment Re:Ridiculous (Score 0) 475

ah...so now we get into that very interesting ground. What is it like to live in a world where your own thoughts, no-not thoughts- desires are illegal. There was a time (and still is in many parts of this world) where it was/is illegal to be homosexual.

People in that world are living with illegal thoughts, even if they never act on them. This applied to Paedophile too, but we've learned to be okay with the former because it's between two adults that (in theory) have some ability to make their own choices where children often do not.

Comment Cell (Score 3, Interesting) 338

I really hate that Sony dropped their cell processors going from the PS3 to the PS4 in favour of an x86 based system. We didn't see a lot of devices using cell and because of that, a lot of cell super-computer clusters were even made using actual PS3s. Even the prior MIPS processers of the earlier PlayStations are used in computer architecture texts books to this day (albeit overly-simplified versions of MIPS's pipling systems).

I really want to see more architecture options, not less. Intel bought Alpha, killed it, screwed up with their own VLIW attempt with the Itaniums (which use EPIC) and I haven't heard anything about Transmeta in years. Today everything is ARM or x86_64 (with MIPS still seen in some embedded systems, mostly home routers). IBM still produces new POWER systems, but they're limited to a specific server niches.

Comment Captive Orcas (Score 1) 152

I wish more people were bothered by the fact that they are doing experiments at all on captive Orcas and Dolphins.

Most captive Orcas aren't in facilities because they've been injured (unlike zoos and aquariums which work on rehabilitation and reintroduction). Orcas are often ripped away from their pods. Many of them get violent and kill trainers (and rightfully so). You can't put something that travels the ocean in a fish tank. Orcas only live to be about 25 in captivity where in the while, they live to be 50 ~ 60.

The documentary Black Fish talks a lot about the problems with captive Orcas. You should never go to Seaworld or other sea parks. Don't give them any money. They are shit shops that destroy these beautiful animals.

Comment Re:So what you're telling me (Score 1) 146

Possibly, or it may be that Google and Apple are trying to mitigate the blow-back. I remember reading a lot of the Yahoo stuff that got declassified showed that they tried hard to oppose the directive they were given; not that it mattered because we found out later that the NSA tapped their fibre backbones anyway.

I have a feeling that Google/Apple want to go down this route because it will mean that they technologically can't comply with certain NSA letters. Of course, government agencies may already have the means to bypass this. We'll find out eventually.

Comment Re:Think of the children (Score 5, Insightful) 354

Yea it's by it's very definition of irony.

"What concerns me about this is companies marketing something expressly to allow people to place themselves beyond the law.

Really? I'm pretty sure the past year of leaks have showed the FBI, the NSA, the CIA and even local law enforcement are constantly operating above the law! If anything, encryptable cellphones allow people to keep their 4th amendment rights!

Comment Re:"could be worse than Heartbleed" (Score 1) 318

I don't think you understand. Even if Apache is using CGI to call out to your safe perl CGI script, it opens up a Bash shell (the default shell) which opens that perl script (unless you're using mod_perl..I think FastCGI might be exempt as well, but I'm not entirely sure).

You could possibly change Apache's default shell to something else like ksh or dash.

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