You obviously have no idea ho easy it is to identify people once you have a warrant.

No. Seeing a green light, then ignoring it for a human signal is a much smaller edge-case than a human of any kind directing traffic.

Sort of like the difference between a traffic light that's off and one that's covered in a burlap bag. One means "4-way stop" and the other means "green light". And most people don't know the difference, or even that there is one. So why are you holding the computers to a higher standard than the people?

For people, 95% of the time, they do what the person in front of them did. Even in violation of law.

I fully agree. This is not about good engineering, this is about pushing things on users by force.

I said that to the first person who described the movie to me, "So, just like Short Circuit and D.A.R.Y.L.?" Two "fear the 'alive' robot" movies. Automata recently was almost the same general idea. Seems to be a popular thing. Avengers 2 is the same, other than we aren't supposed to like the AI as we are in Chappie, Short Circuit, DARYL, Automata and others. Avengers 2 is more like iRobot in that sense. The "evil" AI created for good, but turns on us and we have to kill it.

Again that "speed" fallacy. If you need to look into the syslog, then you are debugging a problem. Speed is pretty immaterial. Completeness is critical. But it is no surprise that the systemd-crowd does not understand the purpose of logging. I mean, they even had a major run-in with Linus because they have no clue about the established ways logs are handled. (And no, deviating from them unless there is a real need is not called "progressive", it is called "stupid" and "arrogant".)

+1 Funny!

Hahahahahahaha, just thinking that somebody could actually be this cretinistic made my day. Unfortunately, I guess you are a honor-less paid-for liar, and that is just sad.

Simple: I am not against progress if it has merit. Systemd has none.

Init is still good for many applications (and completely satisfactory for server use). If somebody tries to prevent me from using it or to make that hard, then these people become an enemy. The systemd crowd qualifies.

My wife has driven her can for 3 months with a near-constant "intermittent error" (I've seen it on about 90% of the time, she claims it's on about 10% of the time, given the amount of time I'm in her car, that's statistically possible, but highly unlikely). The self-driving car can drop her off, then drive to the dealer. The self-driving car will be safer because those little things can't be ignored, so mechanical failures should be lower.

Also, self-drivers will have near-constant communications with "home" (near-constant being either real-time, or batch when stopped, or batch when stopped plus real-time for "incidents"), so they can report things with vibration sensors and such.

I had a friend pick me up to go somewhere. As we were driving, I put my hand on the dashboard, paused, and said "I didn't think you had a full-spare in this car." He was confused. I said "You recently changed the right-front tire. But I didn't see a steel-rim on it, so I presume you have the flat in the trunk." His only response was "bullshit." He thought I talked to his parents or something. He didn't think it possible to tell from the passenger seat that something was wrong, then put a hand on the dash and tell which of 4 tires was recently changed. He later told me I was 100% right on all counts. I was seriously interested only why Chevy had their Impala SS spares on full-alloy rims. I'd have guessed that they'd use a steel rim, even if full-sized. I have no idea if it was an extra-cost option to get the allow-rim spare. It's not like they needed a donut to save space in the Impala SS trunk.

The spares are usually balanced poorly (they aren't used that often), or are properly balanced, and fall out of balance over the years in the trunk. So a vibration from the right-front was detectable by a human, even if most wouldn't notice or know what it was if they noticed.

A few vibration sensors in a car, correlated with mechanical failure reports would probably diagnose a large number of problems, long before they happen. And cut repair cost, as problems could be identified early, when small repairs would save a larger bill later.

As for failure modes, I've heard you are more likely to die by trying to avoid a deer than hitting it without slowing. Doing nothing is better than trying to not hit it. A human would never take that action unless they were too drunk/tired to have a slow response time. The best action is drive straight and brake. But humans don't like that either. Human's responses are slow, and usually wrong. A computer-car would be better in almost ever case, but people will focus on that 0.01%, rather than save 30,000 lives a year by moving to self-driving cars. The other thing is that the more self-drivers are out there, the safer it is for everyone.

I think for systemd it is at least 50% "I am being paid to mod this down". The time-patterns of negative moderation with systemd are very suggestive.

Indeed. Good point.

Thanks.

As to server vs. "laptop" distro, I have absolutely no issue with that. I could then put the server distro onto my laptop and be free of systemd. As I do not use all these newfangled window managers anyways (fvwm for 25 years now, has everything I need), I care very little about what "desktop" comes with a distro.

They are very common outside the US. I can't recall ever taking a manned airport tram outside the US. In the US, they don't want the automation. If a driver makes an error, they blame the driver, and hold the company blameless, so you can't sue. Computer-driven trams are safer, but would get more lawsuits in the US. Computer-driven isn't used in the US for liability, not technical issues.

You are directly contradicting the example given, then saying the example is bad. If you want to do that, please re-state it as a new example. If not, your comments are all a non-sequitur.