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Comment Re:"undercutting a private sector unable to keep u (Score 4, Insightful) 160

educate yourself

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R...

then form an opinion

do you honestly believe that if government wasn't there the big guys would fade away? with weak government, the power vacuum is filled even more by plutocrats. they *want* a weak government. without government you think monopolies don't or won't exist? less government means less *regulation*, they gobble up more, you get less choice buddy. and you get less legal recourse from being shafted

what you want, if you follow through on the coherent thought, is less corruption, not a weaker government that is even yet more beholden to money. not possible? study the laws on corruption in the nordic countries, you know, those evil socialist horrors that are actually richer, happier, and more upwardly mobile meritocracies than the usa pretends it is, but is rapidly losing with a shrinking middle class and corrupt congresswhores beholden to the financial powers that less government unleashes even more

good luck kid escaping the bullshit mythology

Comment it's interesting to note a compound's everyday use (Score 2) 75

the fact that someone uneducated will think uneducated things based on noting a compound's everyday use simply means that uneducated people need to educate themselves

in fact, even if we censored such notable common uses as you ask us to, uneducated people will still think stupid, dangerous, and fearful things. so what you ask us to do doesn't even provide the protection you think it does

Comment Re:you can't print 3D books! (Score 1) 98

But as there is no specific national standard for 3D printing architecture, we need to revise and improve such a standard for the future.

and how will that standard be published and disseminated?

2D printers sigh with relief, they are still relevant

Only until they find out how crap Chinese building standards are!

Comment Re:Chrome needs load tabs on demand. (Score 1, Informative) 117

i used to do that

i discovered chrome has a "bookmark all tabs..." option if you right click on any open tab

pick a location for the folder (i have a top level folder full of 9 numbered folders, so it's chronological)

done

so after 20-30 open tabs, i bookmark all, flush all open tabs, and move on with a much saner life

you should as well

Comment Re:Attention all socialists! (Score 1) 83

1. government has a value and its place

2. government can also overstep and involve itself in areas where it is actually detrimental

the simple point is, like most issues, the *balanced* middle position is the correct one, the extremes are loud and dumb

but for calling you out on your stupidity, i am of course now a "statist" in your eyes

you now identify me as your polar opposite, a lover of government (whom i hold in equal contempt as you), because you're so fucking dumb you can't even understand the nuanced middle position even exists. or that it would oppose your propagandized simpleton's extreme. you don't understand nuance in ideology. you don't even fucking understand nuance

subtlety, complexity. nope: it's all hamfisted propaganda slogans and low wattage regurgitation of dimwitted black and white talking points

except complexity, nuance, subtlety, are the only way ideology is of any use to us. simpleminded low iq binary extremes are actually the *problem* on topics like this. a large, loud contingent of pathetic socially retarded "minds" like yours squat on the topic and vomit their shrill stupid nonsense and ruin any actual intelligent discussion

of course, none of this will shut you up. you think it's just baseless insults i'm throwing at you. when of course what i am saying here is about as objective a description of garden variety morons like yourself as you will ever encounter. again, calling you a moron is not a baseless insult. it is an objective description. you are, factually, as derived from a straightforward interpretation of what you have written, the archetypal image of a fucking moron

the loudest voices always haul the largest quantity of stupid shit. you're propelled forward by your own lack of wit, you're immune to actual logic and reason, because you don't even have the mental capacity to grasp the basics of the subject matter you inject your empty skull into

you're agitated to speak up and speak out because it all makes sense to *you*. when it only makes sense to you because you've constructed a duplo block representation of the topic in your head, the only quantity of thought your dim bulb can contain, when actual understanding on the topic requires architectural schematics

the shrill useless noise of fucktard low iq extremists. tragedy of the commons

1. shut the fuck up
2. educate yourself
3. then develop an actual opinion

in truth, i doubt you have the ability to do any of this. you're a socially autistic loser. my response to you will probably propel you forward to speak out more, asocial isolated douchebags like yourself feed off negativity

good luck, twatstain, you'll need it in life

Comment Re:Lennart, do you listen to sysadmins? (Score 1) 551

Yet for machines like home computers it is simply not possible. It is only with the relative advance of hardware that the microkernel can actually get close to a monolithic kernel in terms of performance.

This is not true. The L4 kernel ran Linux as a guest OS with 5% overhead. This was the birth of hypervisors like Xen, which are really just a sort of microkernel. Virtualization is everywhere now, and no one seems to be complaining about overhead. If you can run a virtualized host with so little overhead, native execution is at least as fast as your guest.

It's perhaps too easy to introduce performance problems via a poor choice of decomposition, but that doesn't entail that decomposed systems must necessarily perform poorly.

It is this performance consequence that made Windows NT, originally designed on a microkernel architecture, move towards a hybrid kernel.

Poorly designed systems perform poorly. The NT kernel might have been a nice kernel design from some people's standpoint, but then people thought the Mach kernel was a good microkernel too. Both opinions are incorrect.

There are far more Mac and Windows installations than all Linux distributions combined. These are all microkernel or hybrid-kernel architectures.

There is no such thing as a hybrid. You are either on fire, or you are not. You are either a microkernel, or you are a monolithic kernel. Mac's may use the Mach microkernel, but it's a poor kernel and the BSD subsystem really consists of most of the system calls, which all execute in kernel space. This is a monolithic kernel that has a poorly designed microkernel as its ancestor.

Systemd is all about marketing, and nothing about engineering. It too will fail and be replaced, just like PulseAudio by ALSA.

Except PulseAudio hasn't been replaced, it's still used by most distributions.

Comment Re:Lennart, do you listen to sysadmins? (Score 1) 551

In the end the real debate was HOW to accomplish the modularity, not whether to make the kernel modular or not

Right, so make the kernel modular via isolation which provides fault tolerance in your most critical piece of code, or make it monolithic, ie. everything lives in kernel address space.

There is no reason on earth that an init system would need a specific journal daemon

There is no reason on earth device drivers need to live in kernel space either. Performance arguments are simply false, and this point has been disproven many times over.

Of course arguments and hard data aren't meaningful in these discussions, and monolithic has clearly won in terms of marketshare. Once again, why fight the tid of history instead of being more constructive? You are going to lose.

Comment Re:Beats using bullets (Score 3, Insightful) 206

post scandalous images of the prophet on their forums

anyways, internet technology is a product of the secular institutions of the west. i'm not sure why or how they reconcile the use of modern technology with their medieval abusive "beliefs." of course, they don't, they're violent morons incapable of critical thought

Comment Re:good (Score 1) 55

if someone proves that with their freedoms they abuse others, they have forfeited their right to freedom

if someone robs people, you lock them up, no one is robbed by that person anymore

if someone rapes people, you lock them up, no is raped by that person anymore

if someone DDoSes services, SWATs people, and threatens to kill, you lock them up, that person isn't doing that anymore

it would be nice to help these people, but it's more important to help the rest of us live our lives

unbothered by shitbags with serious transgressive amoral problems

*sadistic* assholes hellbent on deranged ideas of *retribution* have proven to society they do not deserve freedoms

society doesn't have infinite resources

priority job number one: keep asocial douchebags away from abusing society

distant job number two: help them with what limited resources we have, if we even can help them

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