So, I see this as rationalization.

The fact is, you took a leadership position, and later turned your coat for reasons that perhaps made sense to you. But they don't really make sense to anyone else. So, yes, everyone who supported you then is going to feel burned.

You also made yourself a paid voice that was often hostile to Free Software, all the way back to the SCO issue. Anyone could have told you that was bound to be a losing side and you would be forever tarred with their brush.

So nobody is going to believe you had any reason but cash, whatever rationalization you cook up after the fact. So, the bottom line is that you joined a list of people who we're never going to be able to trust or put the slightest amount of credibility in.

And ultimately it was for nothing. I've consistently tried to take the high road and it's led to a pretty good income, I would hazard a guess better than yours, not just being able to feel good about myself.

Meh, it's easy to find people with skill. With values, OTOH...

You have a point.

I always wondered how something like photo-realistic drawings of pedophilia should be handled. Cartoons have an obvious lack of reality that makes it easy (or easier) to say "it's just a drawing" but what about high-quality rendered images that are almost impossible to differentiate from photographs?

Is the sole justifiable argument against pedophilia photographs that a child was sexually abused creating the photographs, or are their legitimate arguments to be made against them on grounds that sex involving children is inherently immoral?

Is there any science that demonstrates that exposure to this imagery reduces or decreases acting out on pedophilic impulses?

I can't say I find a USB dongle to be really what I would call "production quality" since it uses the same low-end equipment they would sell you at the cell phone store for use with your laptop.

I was thinking more along the lines of a device either purpose-built for this with a LTE modem built-in or some kind of a WIC card like you'd use in a Cisco router. Something you might use in an ATM, security system or in a networking environment like a construction site where wired internet wasn't an option but reliability was a high priority..

By LTE bridge, I mean some device that can take a SIM and that has an Ethernet port for connecting your own wireless router? Something designed to be used in a "production" setting where reliability of the LAN side of connectivity needs to be high.

I've not used a MiFi(TM) or other portable hotspot, but on every iPhone with tethering I've used (up to 5S) the wireless portion of it leaves something to be desired. No wireless signal showing up without toggling tethering on/off a second time, loss of wireless with inactivity and of course the signal range leaves something to be desired due to the limited antenna of a cell phone.

And then there's the general lack of configurability relative to even the dumbest wireless router.

I figure somebody must make something like this for industrial/commercial use.

I won't comment on the inherent limits of relative to data caps, since that will get beat to death here but that's the other side of the coin.

Why remove the vertical scrollbars when a mouse is not connected?

Because 99% of the time, that's also when the big external screen isn't connected. I quite like this feature.

It will be interesting to see reviews from all those people who spend most of their day running Pro Tools, Ableton, Final Cut Pro, etc. Anything which reduces screen real estate for those people will be an undeniable net loss.

In the mean time, you can still listen to this.

(Yes, Mike Oldfield is an Arthur C. Clarke fan in case you hadn't guessed.)

Some providers used to or maybe still do make them available to people with coverage problems. I looked into them a couple of years ago with the idea that I could pick one up and use it at various client locations where i had good internet access but no cellular coverage. Information was kind of scarce, but supposedly they needed GPS signaling (to control power output/frequency based on real cell towers?) and buy-in from your cell provider to manage it. And it also isn't clear if they do or ever will make LTE versions of them.

I know there are a bunch of ways to get voice service via IP only, I know, but a $200 box that did IP and made cell phone(s) work seemed a simpler solution than buying into a VOIP service I could use on my cell phone and dealing with redirecting or porting my cell number.

What are the RF management issues with small/indoor base stations? Is it a huge problem if they proliferated (like wifi pollution)? Or is there some other network issue with the carriers' ability to accept small-scale backhaul via the public Internet? In some ways it almost seems like carriers would benefit, taking weak(er) signals and their utilization off the big towers and network.

Even better would be the carriers working with handset makers to enable internet-based VoIP so cell phones would work in wifi-only environments to eliminate the cell aspect of it. I'm kind of curious how iPads can now answer calls sent to iPhones.

Did they always need more gambling to achieve some baseline satisfaction or have they just gotten habituated to gambling and it merely takes more stimulus for them to achieve the same effect? Have they developed a tolerance through frequent gambling or have they always needed more gambling since they started?

I would think since lots of experiences become less appealing after a while and need to be done in more intense ways to get the same "fun" out of them that pathological gamblers may be reacting in the same way.

Yet maybe some people are ALWAYS that way, no experience is intense enough unless it's done in some extreme way -- your so-called adrenaline junkies. It's not enough to ski down a mountain, you have to heli-ski into some mountainous backcountry in Kazakhstan riding an avalanche the last half of the run. Maybe gambling just isn't enough, they have to play for big stakes on money borrowed from a loanshark or embezzled from their employer.

I kind of curious about the dislike of gambling. I have nothing against gambling morally, but I just can't do it even though some of the games like craps can be fun as games and have odds that are about as favorable as they come in most casinos. Yet I like most other adrenaline activities.

Is there a compile switch for that, or do I need to write a script? UninstallPoettering.sh

But, why can't I just rip out systemd? Oh - because so many service projects/distros are only supporting systemd today that you have to have it around if anything you download in the distro happens to use the API of the non-POSIX POS that is systemd.

systemd core files are not written to disk as files - they are written to the binary log file - you have to extract the data first to run debug.

systemd log files are binary; you can't run grep or other text parsing tools against it for automation - unless you extract the data first.

systemd encourages abandonment of POSIX compliance - which is a key component of the interoperability between various flavors of Unix and Linux (I loved being able to write a shell script on a Unix machine, and copy it over to a Linux machine with little to no modification). Dennis Ritchie must be spinning in his grave right now at this bastardization of his brain child.

The only way to avoid this is to roll your own distro - or support distros that stay clear of it (I was shocked to hear even Slackware was considering support for systemd - given that it has always been as close to SystemV Unix-like that you could get in the Linux world. Thankfully - so far they have not succumbed.)

For people who run desktop machines for their own use - running applications in user space for the most part - systemd may be fine. For those of us running servers, with many man hours of system administrative automation in place - this spells catastrophe in the form of forced obsolescence of our custom code and automation.

As I read in one article - if systemd is allowed to prevail, then we can all kiss the days of an administrator controlling his system his own way goodbye. It will split the work of people who do development - and at some point they will not be able to continue; one case in point: http://alien.slackbook.org/blog/on-lkml-an-open-letter-to-the-linux-world/

From that article:

Last week I asked the SDDM developers to reconsider their decision no longer to support ConsoleKit because Slackware does not have systemd or logind and thus we need to keep using ConsoleKit. The answer could be expected: “answer is no because ConsoleKit is deprecated and is not maintained anymore” and therefore I had to patch it in myself. Of course, the ConsoleKit successor systemd-logind, written by the same team that gave us all the *Kit crap, depends on PAM which we also do not have in Slackware. One of the fellow core developers in Slackware, who is intimately familiar with the KDE developers community, has heard from multiple sources that KDE is moving towards a hard dependency on systemd (probably because they are going to need the functionality of systemd-logind). We all know what that means, folks! It will be the day that I must stop delivering you new KDE package releases for Slackware. That’ll be the day.

So this turn of events might be nice for some script kiddie sitting in his mother's basement....but for the rest of us who have to get work done with and through Linux - this is a royal pain in the arse.