Comment Re:If you wanted us to believe your Op-Ed... (Score 1) 547
Heheheh. Cute. Where did you find that at Bloodguard?
Heheheh. Cute. Where did you find that at Bloodguard?
You cannot ever prove that the NSA (or whichever agency) does not snoop
Erm, the reason the NSA is an issue is because it is part of the one of the very few governments on the planet that did NOT snoop on your internet traffic as a matter of course.
In other words, if you are from a non-Western country, it is guaranteed that your packets are being snooped and your traffic analyzed at all times. Even many Western nations do not explicitly guarantee that your packets are not snooped.
Ultimately, nobody should have EVER trusted that their communications were not being snooped regardless of where they are from. People have an unyielding need to snoop on others. Governments are uniquely placed to do such things, but you can bet your ass that private entities are doing what they can to snoop on your packets (and anything else you do!) as surely as governments are.
That, and there are the corruptable binary logs, the solution to which in the bug report is to "just delete them" and the bug has been closed as won't fix. Sorry, but if this is the resposne to journal corruption rather than finding out WHY the journals get corrupted and fixing the fuckign problem, then i do not want that in control of my logfiles.
Log files are unimportant to the people who are writing and advocating for SystemD.
Logs files are criminally important to those who have to report to regulatory agencies and otherwise important to those who manage systems for others (businesses and governments). None of those agencies will accept missing, incomplete, or corrupted log files during an investigation.
The people writing this software need to get serious or get out. Logs are of vital importance.
It seems like I am surrounded by inexperienced children who have no adults to discipline them.
And you come to EXACTLY the wrong conclusion. Here is how it should really go.
Article: Someone is fixing VTs and making them more secure and reliable.
Comments: Fuck yeah! VTs worked but they certainly needed improvement.
Article: SystemD is integrating VTs.
Comments: What the fuck?! I can understand someone wanting to fix VTs but why in God's name are they integrating it into SystemD? It already has 69 fucking subsystems, all of which come crashing down if there is an error in even one. Why would I want my VTs to be integrated into that mess?
You: People are complaining about someone fixing VTs.
Me: You are a fucking troll.
...understand that this has been an important feature that has been needed for a long time in any init system...
Odd. I thought the VTs were an output mechanism for the kernel along with serial ports. VTs are not just a console for when a GUI is not available.
Regardless of any of that, what do VTs have to do with an init system and why are they required to be part of an init system? I see no need for the two to even be slightly related other than an init system using a VT as an output device to let the user know what it is doing. That certainly does not require that the VT code be part of the init system.
God. What is up with some of the people here? Are they (you!) being purposefully ignorant or what?
Again, though, this has nothing to do with the idea of putting kernel VT code in userspace. There are valid arguments against this idea, but I've not read of any on slashdot yet. Just knee-jerk teeth knashing, and, sadly, more inappropriate ad hominom attacks.
NOBODY is arguing about whether or not VTs should be in kernel space or user space. Well, perhaps there is some discussion somewhere about it.
No, the question is whether or not the VTs should be part of SystemD.
If it were not for Metro and IOS 7 and Gnome 3, I would say SystemD was just an advanced form of trolling the technically literate people... but this stuff is for real and it is serious. It just boggles the mind. Has half of the world just gone off the deep end? WTF?
Huh? It still does not have Emacs.
From a (now) outsider looking in, this whole systemd fiasco looks a lot like Linux finally being dragged into the 21st century through the sheer willpower of one man...
If binary log files and inflexible failure modes are 21st century, I want no part of it. I would rather have simple text log files and the ability to recover from failure when things do not go quite like they should have. Do I want better tools that can interoperate simply and easily? You bet. Is SystemD (now with consoles!) that solution? No.
And then there is the Real World where people fill up their tank, reset their trip meter, and divide the distance traveled since the last time they filled up by the number of liters/gallons inserted into the fuel tank.
Random numbers here: 300 kilometers traveled using 30 liters of fuel gives you 1 liter to travel 10km.
What is easiest? Liters per kilometer or kilometers per liter? Liter per kilometers is easier.
This is not based on whether or not distance or cost is more important.
Of course, this is all ignoring the fact that US is a democracy. You don't need a revolution to change the people in charge, you simply need to express support for someone else, and anonymously at that. So if the rulers approve of bullshit like this, and still get re-elected, then don't blame the Government, blame the citizens.
Shut up. You are blind and ignorant. Hopefully, you are merely naive.
You are either dumb or not thinking.
Did GNOME 1 have haters when it was introduced? How about GNOME 2? What about KDE 1? KDE 2? KDE 3? ALSA?
No. These were all improvements of what came before.
KDE 4? GNOME 3? SystemD? Windows 8? Slashdot BETA?
These were not improvements. These things were/are either grossly unstable, removed functionality, or in the case of SystemD, both. Sure, some things were gained, but compared to what was lost, these were terrible choices.
What was lost when ALSA was introduced? Nothing. Was it perfect at first? No. Was it better than Open Sound System? You bet.
What was lost when GNOME was introduced? Nothing. Was it perfect at first? No. Was it better than TWM? Definitely.
What was lost when SystemD was introduced? Oh my god, I can give you a HUGE list. Parsable log files and flexible failure modes being the ones that irritate me the most but others have compiled more useful lists of what was lost. Was it better than init? In some ways, yes. In other ways, no.
What was lost when Windows 8 was introduced. Well, again, the list is huge but I will just list the obvious for brevity: The start menu. Was it better than Windows 7? Arguably no.
So, you, yes you, are either dumb or playing dumb by claiming that people just hate change. Change is good when it leads to better things. Everyone wants better. The noises you are hearing are about things NOT being better.
They shouldn't. The alternative explainations(sic) as to where that energy is going are far more concerning.
I disagree with your assessment. The most terrifying "natural" thing is the Sun. It is relatively close and unimaginably huge. It has "waves" on its surface that are 17km high and 100,000 km long... and these are just small, regularly occurring ripples. When the Sun gets all uppity, amazingly huge amounts of energy are released. So far, the Earth has been lucky and has not been hit by some of the larger "projectiles" that the Sun shoots out at relativistic velocities. None of this takes into account the potential for even larger bad behavior events like we have seen with other stars such as the variability of the brown dwarfs or stars going nova or supernova.
Why did I write all of that? Because the second most terrifying "natural" thing is the ocean. It is absolutely mind bogglingly huge and it is fluid. A mere drop in comparison to the Sun but the surface area of the ocean is considerably larger than all the land masses combined. It readily absorbs and emits heat. It is everywhere you look. The ocean is large enough to hide Chtulu and Leviathan with plenty of space to spare. The first time I saw the ocean I feared it greatly. I had no idea what large was until I saw it. I was absolutely stunned at the enormity of what I could see and even then, I was seeing just a microscopic portion of it.
When http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2... occurred, I had heard reports of people walking out to look at the sea bed that was revealed. The concept shocked me. I would have been running in terror... it is water. If it pulls back from the shore like that, it WILL be coming back. With a vengeance. Which it did.
The ocean is a huge terrifying thing that moves. Adding heat to it is the scariest thing that could occur on this planet short of the Sun acting differently. The ocean is where we ultimately came from and it is likely where we will eventually die.
In short, I am VERY relieved to hear that the bottom of the ocean is not warming. The eventual release of that energy would be incredibly stunning in its magnitude. The ocean moderates our environment. We are utterly dependent on the "health" of the ocean for our lives, just as surely as we are utterly dependent on the "health" of the sun for our lives.
There's no doubt they're coordinating their attacks on our freedom, but who is driving the campaign and what is their end goal?
I do not know who, but we read about it in Brave New World and 1984. They want power. Absolute, soul crushing, power. The infamous "they" are closer than ever before to getting it... but what then? Absolute power is not enough to satisfy. After a decade or two, what then? There will be incredible death and destruction.
And the cycle will begin again... probably with sticks and stones this time.
Who cares about global warming or vaccine caused autism? The atmosphere is being corrupted and people are dying or being permanently disfigured due to diseases.
I want to breathe fresh air, not air with mercury, coal dust, carbon particles, and various nasty gasses in it. I would rather my children take the risk of being autistic than the certainty of a crippling disease like polio.
Fuck all of the controversy! I want clean air to breathe and a lack of terrible diseases to infect my children.
LOL.
I remember way back in Kindergarten the teacher made fun of the weatherman. His prediction was put on the calendar every day as sunny/raining/etc. The teacher made a red X on every day that the weatherman was wrong. The weatherman was wrong more often than not. There were a LOT of red Xs on the calendar... not that I really understood the calendar that well but red is red.
There has been a LOT of progress made recently. The weather predictions are a lot more accurate nowadays. Almost worrisomely so.
If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
