You mom uses it to describe you every time I am over there.

/opt/app is not acceptable either. /etc

  $HOME/.config (I'd rather it be called etc to be consistent) is fine but /opt is just bullshit.

two places, no more. having to go hunting for crap is one of the biggest problems with linux.
and it has always been there. Gnome X11 and a lot of others crap in $HOME/ And it's all because the developers are lazy and need to be beaten with a sack of doorknobs.

Dear Occam,

The simplest answer

Is usually right,

And historical behavior

Is a good predictor

of future behavior.

Burma-Shave

Start a club, and the whole world will join.

To install unsigned apps, you have to disable Gatekeeper, with a warning about possible risk.

No, you don't. Just control-click in Finder, and choose "Open". That, unlike the normal double-click launch, bypasses Gatekeeper's prohibition on untrusted apps, instead presenting a security dialog that tells you that the app is untrusted, and asks you if you want to launch it anyway. If you tell it to do so, OS X computes a checksum for the app and adds hat signature to a list of trusted apps, ensuring that you won't be prompted about it in the future.

You might have to be in the "Mac App Store and identified developers" mode—I'm not sure.

Really, this was modded up and mine was modded down? Have you never actually read anything about the history of the eruption? Everyone who was with him at the time was fine, he was the only one who was having trouble, because of his lousy health. Pliny the Younger blamed it on his "weak innards".

Well, I think I lowered its chances of acceptance even more by posting it.

I agree. It's definitely hard to avoid, and it's a huge problem on Windows. Even installing software from "reputable" companies can get you into trouble. A lot of companies make shady deals to promote various products (like the Ask toolbar installing with Java). I installed a new HP printer, and was prompted to install a shit-load of various 3rd party applications, NONE of which were necessary to get the device to print, but does who-knows-what to your system. There was no option I could discern for installing the more "necessary" bits separately (like functionality for controlling higher-level printer functions, such as cleaning the heads), so I just ended up using the default (and completely functional) basic driver available in Windows. I actually have to pull out my printer heads and clean them manually from time to time, though, which is sort of sad.

While it's true users do install a lot of sketchy stuff, it's hard to blame people for everything that can go wrong. In fairness, even when legitimate companies are doing this, it's really hard for the average user to know they need to be wary until they get bitten a few times. Over the years, I've had to become hypersensitive about installing software just to keep my system crapware free. It's sad when you can't even trust the discs you get with new hardware purchases.

Agreed about anecdotes. However, I can say that I have to reboot my Windows 7 PC weekly because of serious degradation in performance. I have installed a fair bit of software (the PATH can no longer be extended) but there's only about three games (Freeciv, Kerbal Space Program, Elite: Dangerous) and no apps, toolbars or junk. The rest of the software on there? MariaDB, Ingres, GRASS, QGIS (OSGEO is basically Cygwin, so I've now three incompatible Cygwin distros on Windows), HOL 4, Active Python, Active Perl, Erlang, Rust, Blender, PoVRay, BMRT - the sort of stuff you'd expect to find on any PC, nothing fancy.

And Netscape. Which is a horrible resource hog and is honestly not usable in its current form. I have abandoned all efforts to get Chrome usable. I'll probably deinstall both and switch to Amaya. Which barely does anything, but it does it tolerably.

You mean to tell me that the US doesn't even trust the other Five Eyes nations' spy agencies to be able to do this?*

*Yes, I know, to get round legal restrictions, it was very normal for the US to spy on the citizens of the other four and to exchange that data for information collected on US citizens by other members of Five Eyes. However, we now know all the agencies DO spy on their own citizens, routinely. So the US can ask GCHQ to wiretap British citizens in Britain, it doesn't need to spy on Britain itself. This behaviour suggests wheels within wheels.

You mean to tell me that the US isn't all caught up in the US-UK "Special Relationship" stuff?**

**Most Americans were unaware there even was one and get horribly confused when the British talk about it.

Linux is indeed better. Not because of Open Source (the code doesn't care) but because it has fewer bugs (about 0.1% of the bugs per kloc), non-intrusive strong security (rated EAL 5+ on conformant hardware, conforms to B2 Orange Book standards), superior multi-processor support, superior memory management and superior networking.

Graphics? Not an OS issue. That's a GUI issue. Never confuse how something gets data with what it then does with it. The GUI is not central to Windows (as demonstrated by console mode startup, but should be obvious to anyone running it as a headless server). The core OS functions are, and always have been, resource management, virtualization, security and stability. (Filesystems are virtual layers on top of physical disks, so are resource management and virtualization.)

Linux is better at the things an OS is meant to do. Windows has an adequate GUI, but the OS is abysmal. Besides sales, the only reason the game industry likes Windows is that it has useful libraries - DirectX (an alternative to the functions the GUI itself provides) and easy access to GPU functions (bypassing the OS altogether, running on bare metal).

The reason Linux doesn't have these? Look in the mirror. The face you see was quite capable of working on GGI, KGI or Linux Framebuffers, of helping in the Berlin project, of submitting patches for SDL or Avagadro, or even hacking Wine to improve support for DirectX, CUDA or other graphical features.

I'm no innocent myself, but I own up to my guilt, I don't blame the OS (which IS innocent).

The US Constitution was founded on the principle that you do, in fact, have inherent rights. "Inalienable" is the phrase used, and it's been described elsewhere as "natural rights". Whether or not a judge or the state protects those rights have no bearing on whether those rights exist for an individual. The most important thing in our society is a general understanding of these principles, because our only real protection is a general societal agreement that these rights need to be protected and defended.

In practice, unfortunately, I agree that it's little consolation to one who's rights are defined them. But I still think it's a distinction worth making. If everyone gives up and says it's hopeless, then the battle is certainly lost. As it is, it's still an ongoing struggle. Human nature being what it is, it's *always* going to be a struggle, and so we can't ever afford to give up the fight.

I'd posit that, as a general rule of thumb, many conservatives tend to distrust the government except for the military and law-enforcement / national security agencies. It was Reagan who quipped that the nine most terrifying words were "I'm from the government and I'm here to help." Many liberals seem to have the opposite view, mostly trusting the government (or supporting a bigger role for the government in many cases, at least) except for military, security, and law enforcement.

Other than that, the big difference is in how much rage is directed at the head-of-state. There's obviously more of a tendency to directly blame the guy in charge if you're of an opposing political ideology. For those of the same ideology, you'll hear stuff about blaming "the government", "the bureaucracy" / agency in question, or the individual announcing the policy - Holder in the case.

In this particular case, I was actually surprised to see the title specifically call this out as the "Obama Administration" rather than using a more politically-neutral term. So, there are always exceptions to any generalization or rules of thumb.

He was also an obese asthmatic and died from the strain of trying to run away from a volcano.

Oh, sexconker, you and your stories - "the study is wrong", "beer kills brain cells".... Now let's go back to that ... building ... thingie ... where our beds and TV ... is.