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Comment Re:Circumcised at age 18? (Score 3, Interesting) 221

Not so far ago, somehow my foreskin slipped off. I couldn't adjust it immediately, and chafing was so bad I was hardly able to walk. This makes me think: those circumcised must be bereft of nearly any feeling in their penises due to callusing.

Those who suffered genital mutilation as newborns don't know the difference, but men in tribes like this that practice circumcision on adults should have known better. Is the religious custom so strong to force them anyway?

Comment Re:Classic Slow News Day article or what? (Score 3) 277

Except that ntp doesn't handle time zones at all. What ntp does is synchronizing clocks to UTC, the operating system then adds a local offset. While distributing whatever changes to tzdata your politicians in their wisdom did this year (or worse, this week) is an interesting problem, it has nothing in common with ntp.

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Linux 4.0 Getting No-Reboot Patching 125

An anonymous reader writes: ZDNet reports that the latest changes to the Linux kernel include the ability to apply patches without requiring a reboot. From the article: "Red Hat and SUSE both started working on their own purely open-source means of giving Linux the ability to keep running even while critical patches were being installed. Red Hat's program was named kpatch, while SUSE' is named kGraft. ... At the Linux Plumbers Conference in October 2014, the two groups got together and started work on a way to patch Linux without rebooting that combines the best of both programs. Essentially, what they ended up doing was putting both kpatch and kGraft in the 4.0 Linux kernel." Note: "Simply having the code in there is just the start. Your Linux distribution will have to support it with patches that can make use of it."

Comment Re:This is (sort of) good news for Americans (Score 1) 215

How come, in Litvinyenko's name, ladoga's post got moderated "troll"? Comrades, didn't you get the memo? The First Secretary is ok with people knowing that. He would use a speeding car or a dose of that invisible "100% natural cardiac event" poison, rather than polonium you can't get without being a state actor. Instead, the message sent means "yes, we did it, and if you fuck with us the same can happen to you".

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