Comment Re:A better solution (Score 2) 192
Is there oil underneath them? Yes? No worries -- the U.S. will intercede.
Comment Re:DING DONG! (Score 2) 142
Tsk - it's called Myanmar Shave now.
Aye. And I'll raise a Mumbai Sapphire martini to that!
Comment Re:Gotcher back (Score 1) 5
Thanks.
I once got regular mod points. I think if you cross an invisible "Troll" achievement threshold, you get blocked.
Comment Re:Um (Score 1) 392
Yeah, can't figure out how a gender studies major ever gets anything other than the type of job gender studies are supposed to eliminate.
Comment Re:Are you even aware of SystemD works? (Score 0) 385
"With systemd, setup/startup/stop/teardown responsibilities are concentrated with PID1 and it's helpers.
Before, you'd have the same concept spread into a dozen of different systems, each only doing part of that functionnality."
Which is exactly how it should be.
PID1 only needs a small subset of those capabilities to do its job. And because it is PID1, because everything after has to rely on it, it's essential that it be well behaved and stable. Therefore it is essential that it have only the required set of capabilities and absolutely nothing else should be added or linked to it.
Other things can and should be done by other systems, not concatenated together and poured into PID1 where an error can bring the house down.
Before, you'd have the same concept spread into a dozen of different systems, each only doing part of that functionnality."
Which is exactly how it should be.
PID1 only needs a small subset of those capabilities to do its job. And because it is PID1, because everything after has to rely on it, it's essential that it be well behaved and stable. Therefore it is essential that it have only the required set of capabilities and absolutely nothing else should be added or linked to it.
Other things can and should be done by other systems, not concatenated together and poured into PID1 where an error can bring the house down.
Journal Journal: Fr1stPs0t Storm! 5
Comment Re:DING DONG! (Score 0) 142
Burma Shave?
Comment Re:DING DONG! (Score 1) 142
Be Low.
Comment Re:DING DONG! (Score 1) 142
Below
Below...
Comment Re:DING DONG! (Score 1) 142
Below
Comment Re:DING DONG! (Score 1) 142
He's gone where the goblins go,
Comment DING DONG! (Score 5, Funny) 142
The Wicked Witch is dead!
Comment Re:Defending software patents (Score 3, Interesting) 92
Many software patents fail the obviousness test or get by because of ignorant examiners. A disproportionate number of software patents are just doing something that is commonplace in the physical world but only now "with a computer" or "over the internet" as the innovative step. Then comes the standpoint that algorithms aren't patentable while many software patents are only describing an algorithmic process.
The USPTO also has a massive conflict of interest in being dependent on funding from application and maintenance fees. They milk the gravy train of software patents for all it's worth even if it isn't in the public interest to do so as demonstrated by all the NPEs that collect patents for the sole purpose of litigation. It's easiest for the trolls to do this with software patents because it requires little expenditure of effort to come up with something "novel" that will get accepted by an examiner.
Comment Re:Machine intelligence (Score 1) 9
Comment Re:Machine intelligence (Score 1) 9
'Zactly. There are PILES of PHP and Perl snippet that filter quotes, or allow Unicode.
I have tried typing Russian (Cyrillic) and Persian (Arabic-derived) into the site in the past. Ouch.
