If they had just said "Hey we're raising prices" rather than hiding the price increase by removing features and making you pay extra for them, they'd probably have come out ok- a bit of a hit from the higher prices, but not too much. The dishonesty of this is what's killing them.

Which has very significant changes to how external storage, SMS, and several other features are handled that break a significant number of applications. 4.4 was not a minor release.

We found your stoned script writers.

Don't forget the British Charm Unit, asswipe.

ANd when I said C++ would lead to a nicer syntax- I mean C++ 01 without std::thread and autos. Mainly because you could make it a template function instead of special casing for the type of using void pointers.

Because in C and older versions of C++ launching a thread takes significant typing and ugly code,

Bullshit. It takes 1 function call- because if you had a need to do all that repeatedly, you would write the damn call once, turn it into a function, and let it be done. People didn't do it because the tasks weren't parallelizable- they had massive resource contentions on memory object. Contentions that would be non-trivial to solve, and would cause using threads to be a minimal gain or even a loss in efficiency.

Libraries like std::thread don't do anything that people weren't already doing- they just prevent people from going out and writing their own implementations. But any problems that would benefit from them were already being solved with roll your own solutions.

Except in this case you totally would. You'd be signing up to be a hacker. There is no reason to deploy hackers outside of the US- you'd have lower access to infrastructure, making your goal more difficult. Whereas a member of the traditional army makes sense to deploy around the world.

As for undersea cables being cut- if the cables are cut and you can't reach the country you're attacking, the "cyberwar" is over.

And that makes sense for people who will be in a live fire zone and shot at- having no training makes them a liability to those who will have to protect them. It makes no sense for people who will never leave the US and will work by typing on a computer. These people aren't soldiers. They're programmers and IT workers. By adding these restrictions onto them you reduce the pool of talent you can reach by eliminating people for useless reasons.

A better question though is why to put these people in the army at all. They have almost no overlap with the work of the army. It would make better sense to either keep them civilian or create a new division.

I didn't have myself either. It's acually pretty common.

Actually, science "states" (or rather, simply recognizes) that it can't investigate anything that doesn't leave any observable evidence. It's religion that works hard to ensure that their cherished phenomena all stay in that category.

FTFY

Reading their editorials in the first place is kind of like eating their dogfood and washing it down with their kool-aide.

I disagree: God+life is a bigger miracle than life alone.

Which of those categories does UNIX editors fit under?