No, it appears to be the kind of cookie they're using. Every time I restart my browsers, I see this advertisement again. Clearly, the cookie is only being set for the session. Also, why the fuck is this not stored in the database, instead of in the cookie? It's trivially easy to associate this with the logged-in userid. Now, this is Slashdot, so odds are good that we can attribute this to incompetence rather than malice. But....

... But they also keep showing this to users (like myself) who have taken them up on their own offer to turn advertising off, which is really fucking stupid. As I wrote elsewhere, 'I probably wouldn't have cared about Slashdot Deals anyway, but now I fucking hate it. It's that asshole creep at the bar that won't leave your friend alone.'

Charlie Hebdo's next cover: Bomber Mohammed thrusting a lit stick of dynamite up an altar boy's ass. The slogan DEATH TO JEWS written in wet, splattery paint across the entire thing.

The 5D Mark II is a really nice little camera. It hits the sweet spot in so many ways that I can understand perfectly why you'd be content with it.

I'm a Nikon guy myself, and had much the same attitude about my last camera body. But then I got a D800 and realised that technology had moved on a long way from the D700 or D3. The dynamic range and light sensitivity is now better than the human eye. I can shoot up to about ISO 6400 and, thanks to the 32MP, full-frame CMOS, still get a useful shot. I generally size my photographs down to 6500 pixels on the wide side, just because more than that is usually overkill.

TL;DR: You don't need the newest generation of gear to do what you've always done. You can use the newest generation of gear to take photographs that you wouldn't have taken before.

South Korea's policy was struck down years ago by the Constitutional Court, which ruled that it was unconstitutional and ineffective.

Have you not been paying attention? The 'real names' thing was invented here. Except it was started by the private sector, not government.

Before you claim there's any difference between the two, I will direct you to The Dangers of Surveillance, a paper that first appeared in the Harvard Law Review, and is required reading for anyone who's interested in the legal principles at play here. I too used to think, 'Yeah, but you can walk away from a business, but you can't walk away from government.' The paper makes an excellent point that real name policies, no matter where they originate, are detrimental to human liberty:

In a nutshell, if a corporation has your data, then by hook or by crook, the government can get it too, often voluntarily, often in circumvention of the law.

Thi...

Oh fuck it.

I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume that you meant a 'consistent' API.

How is this unique to systemd? How is systemd a requirement for this to occur? A consistent API for what, exactly? For inter-process communication? For service-to-service communication? For communication of service state change?

Ah, for process management! Because that's never existed before!

Yes, because adding complexity has been the goal of sysadmins from Day One.

Raise the bar! Higher standards! More Bugs! But fuck that! Because we didn't write the bugs! We just made them possible!

To summarise: I find your ideas questionable, at best, and downright wrong, mostly.

Regular Expression Grammars. If Perl6 consisted of nothing else, I'd still love it.

No, that was Perl5. Perl6 is all of that, with Asian twins.

... oh, and regular expression grammars, but hey: Asian twins!

He meant narwhally. Which is still not fish, but closer.

Except that this one doesn't, smarty-pants. The author of the fucking article herself says as much:

And then she goes on for the rest of the fucking article making stupid assumptions about the influence of technology on students, before admitting that the only factor that really matters is good teachers.

Which we have also known for ages, but choose to ignore because having good teachers means paying taxes.

Indeed, the very first thing that jumped out at me is: how did they correlate their findings? Did they compare the correlation between computers and schools with the funding abyss into which most poor schools have fallen into over the last two decades? Did they compare the correlation between the arrival of computers and the start of No Child Left Behind, and its disastrous effect on education outcomes?

Prima facie, attempting to isolate the effect of technology from other recently introduced policies and phenomena seems difficult, to put it lightly.

Wylie, as in Coyote.

I got Ariadne as well, but b***h....

Wait - I'm confused. Have we renamed it ad neaseam yet? Or is it still nauseam?

Bruce

What makes you think we haven't already done that with ad neaseam?

Sincerely,
Bruce Hecklesby
Chairman,
International Time Travelers for Proper Latin Spelling