Nope, there's no easy way to remove Kerberos dependency on time synchronization.

The only thing needing notice is that Kerberos requires closks to be synced within about a second (could be increased to a few minutes of error easily), while NFS reuires a few miliseconds of error at most.

No idea at all.

I'm calling it Red-Hattitis, expecting it to be a kind of mental disorder. But if somebody does really know what's the cause, I'l love to hear.

RFID is still easier than either OCRng tags or silikscreening QR codes. It lasts way more than the clothes, it can be read on both sides, it's faster to read, and it can be read while wrapped. Also, it can be mass produced, easily fixed, and given a meaning only after the fact.

In fact, I didn't think about peer to peer communications, just broadcasting.

That's easy. If the content is commercial, the cryptographic keys must be either sold or published at some time. Otherwise there wouldn't be any money in there.

An interesting aspect of science is that all our models are always wrong. And we are always aware of that.

I do, but you won't be able to go through doors.

The point of fire drills is to test if your evacuation procedures are fast enough. If people somehow get out faster in a real fire, well, good for them.

What takes us to this article proposal... What's the point?

Every program has a very specific pourpose, not general porpouse.

A neural net is still a turing complete computer, by the way.

I do own one...

does it have plastic jams the way we have paper jams? Clogged nozzles? Low "ink" or whatever the consumable is?

Yes, yes, and yes.

Driver problems? Compatibility problems between template any my printer?

Surprinzingly, those are incredibly rare (free software is awesome).

Of course, they only make any economical sense if either you take utility out of just owning one (hobbyst tinkerer) or if you use it to print stuff that isn't mass produced at all.

Perl was once my go-to language for small scripts.

It isn't anymore. Perl is so full of idiosyncrasies that it's easier to learn another couple of languages than to code a couple of scripts on it. Even after it's your go-to language.

And that's the reason you want to target them, so those 30,000 people get the McDonalds ads, and the other dozen gets whatever they'll actualy buy.

What leads back to the in the title.

Had GTAT and Apple succeeded, all of the profits would have been private

Wait. What?!

The part of the profits that would change hands if they succeed is called "interest". All the companies that GTAT owns money to would get some of it.

Just a normal star... with a huge mass in quite a small volume, and that does not emmit light.

There's no reason to assume those things are black holes. That's jumpping to conclusion.

Maybe OS kernels are indeed too small nowadays, and we do need some basic services packaged in an integrated suite.

Or maybe it's due time to POSIX to die, and to divide issues differently between kernel and user space.

Anyway, the ascendence of Systemd is clear evidence that the way we organize our software is currently outdated.