Quantity has a quality of its own. Scale matters.

There was a series of robberies here some time back where the robbers stole a powerful car, put a steel cable around the ATM machine and tore it off (the ATM was attached to the floor with thick steel screws) and drive away with the whole machine. At one occasion they were caught on camera. Interestingly in this case the car was Porsche Cayene ;-). They did 13 machines over the course of almost two years and manged to steal 1.7E6 euro. They got caught at #14 by accident. Another video seems to be from Poland where they used a steel cable to tear the ATM apart and take the boxes with cash.

The encryption chip prevents copying of the card. Without the chip the card can be cloned and within minutes multiple copies of the card can be used around the world to withdraw money from the account.

...and a File menu? WTF? How often do you need that?

How do you close all Firefox windows in one action on Windows? Alt+F4 closes just the current window. File->Exit is the only way I know of.

... been there, done that: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I...

Oh I can imagine a plenty of ways that would convince me that the god exists. For example if I met a guy that can bring my dead grandparents to life I'll certainly start considering that God as real. Or if he can undo Fukushima. Or World War II. You know what? I'll settle for "if he can cure stupidity, make politicians to adhere to Constitution and break the two-party system in US" ;-)

If someone wants a distro without systemd bad enough, someone will fork and then develop one.

Let's try s/distro/samba/ :

If someone wants samba without systemd bad enough, someone will fork and then develop one.

Do you really think the a fork of samba can be created and maintained? Do you think that it is a problem to come up with other products that cannot be easily forked?

I too have some experience with SCO UX, HP UX, OSF/1 - when something was broken there, then it was broken. You could not really go and replace a DNS server with something else. Or the vi editor. Or syslog deamon. If it wasn't there you could wait for next release and cough up the money or you were SOL. You also could not take a package for HP-UX and install it on a BSD. Or recompile. What makes linux great is that if you don't like the component X then you can google up a replacement pretty quickly. It may not be so polished and it may need some work to get it working (because the most popular choices get most exposure and thus polish), but it is possible.

But we are now 1 or 2 decades later. We don't only run simple software on our machines. I fear the day when samba, JBoss, KDE, LibreOffice, GIMP, ... start to be dependent on systemd. When that happens it may or may not work for me. If it does, fine. If it does not then fixing the problem myself will be made complex exactly by difference of complexity between a shell script or alternative package installation and a C code. The may be low, but the potential loss is high.

Most people are far too dumb to be enjoy the right to free speech. They could proliferate and exploit the main weakness of democracy: that two idiots have twice as many votes as one intelligent person.

That is - you look not for things that are particularly likely to exist, but for things easy to detect.

So for example rather then trying to find factorization of a 2048-bit RSA modulus (which exists but is hard to find), you try to find 2048-bit prime that is even and bigger than 2 (that does not exists but is ridiculously easy to detect). Totally makes sense. Huh.

Yet another Universal Serial Bus connector. At least it plugs in both ways.