If you'd actually read the already existing reply, you'd have noticed I already corrected my phone's autocorrect error before your redundant post.

Good thing I live in Canada. All I would get here from the mounties is a polite chiding.

it's --> its

And yet that distinction couldn't be more significant: only one of those is realizable in our physical universe (and thus it's limits are the also the ultimate limits of any physically realizable objects, be they brains or computational machines).

I would not mind paying for news if I thought it would make a difference and bring back real investigative journalism. But how many people do you think would be willing to do so? Not enough to make a dent in the situation, given how much real difference other scandals such as the NSA spying revelations have failed to make.

I didn't expect my submission to be actually posted, so I didn't bother to write a summary and only sent in a naked link to the story. Thanks to the editor for doing my job. My intention was just to bring attention to this in the expectation that someone else would make a proper submission. And, in a way, it's what happened--this is really timothy's submission.

10-20? Normally, I sympathize with the victims of bullying, as I've on occasion been bullied by the bullies in my school. But when you have as many people bullying you as you claim--well, maybe the problem isn't everyone else, maybe it's you.

Nothing, they're just different. And having written both Windows services and systemd ones, I don't get the impression that systemd somehow reinvents what Windows is doing, unless something as generic as "not using init scripts" is equivalent to reinventing Windows (hint: it's not, and TFA is flamebait).

several of the "counterforce" targets on the list are inconveniently located in or near major population centers

And who is responsible for locating them here? The Russians, of course--and thus civilian casualties would be on them for essentially using human shields.

I dare say I've utilized the moderation system effectively. You claim its rasion d'être is for people like me to be moderated down, and yet it is my post that was moderated to giddy heights, and the request I made in said post was quickly granted by our moderating overlords. What say you to that? Perhaps this is (no longer) the Slashdot you thought it was. Cheers

You mean the one that makes me wait months and months any time I need to see a specialist, unless it's an absolute emergency? An informed consumer of healthcare these days hardly benefits from the knowledge a mere GP can offer, which by definition is rather lacking in specificity (all they really bring to the table are the ability to write prescriptions and issue referrals). Think of it this way: you're likely spend a lot more time on the (hopefully small number of) ailments you suffer from, and the amount of research and knowledge you'd acquire would pale in comparison to what a GP is likely to have much practice with. A healthcare system that creates incredible delays when trying to reach a specialist is shit, no matter how "free" it is.

The difference between Gen. Turgidson's dramatically effective rant and what is being discussed above is that the US would have suffered few or no strikes in retaliation. The paper I quoted makes good technical arguments for that.

It's difficult to see how I could be racist against a nation of slavs when I'm a slav myself. Nice try; play again.

I love Dr. Strangelove, but the quote's hardly apropos. The paper I quoted makes a good argument that US casualties could be low to nil, and, the strike in question--being counterforce--would result in limited Russian civilian casualties.