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Comment Re:Penis jokes aside... (Score 1) 481

I suspect that would be the case. One good war where you lose because your computer controlled weapons system got zero-dayed and the enemy was launching your own missiles at you via TeamViewer while your mouse refused to respond and I suspect your replacement ships would require you to manually program the coordinates and launch the missile by pulling a piece of string from behind a blast screen.

Comment Re:The Harsh Light of Day (Score 2) 186

Yet these same people ignore the parts they don't like (Christians choose to eat pork even though their book tells them not to),

Acts 10 9-16 repeals the unclean animal laws that the Mosaic Law brought in to keep nasty diseases out of the population. Both the prohibition and the repealing are couched in "Orders from God" terms, but are actually based on prevailing understanding of health and hygiene at the time of each event. And which got unfortunately ritualized.

In a primitive civilization, pork and other meats can be severe risks if they don't know how to cook it properly. A lot of early civilizations had pork prohibitions, but as soon as they realized that a long, hot cooking process rendered the meat harmless, they were dropped. Long before the early Roman Empire times, it was common knowledge and only those adhering to the old Mosaic laws kept up the prohibition as tradition.

The repealing was done as a direct instruction from God because that was probably the only way to get the traditionalists to accept the change and was likely initiated as the early Jewish Christians interacted more with the Romans and Greeks and the knowledge that pork and related "unclean" meats were now safe to eat. And that the gentiles who were becoming more and more of the Christian base weren't going to accept archaic traditions.

Comment Re:What happens now? (Score 3, Informative) 148

If he is retried, he can bring into evidence footnote 5 on page 12 of the judgement where the judges advanced the opinion that he was innocent of the accessing without authorization or in excess of authorization charge because there was no password or code barrier and the program accessed a publicly facing interface and retrieved information that AT&T unintentionally published. It reads that even if they found the venue as correct, they would have vacated the guilty verdict because of that.

Comment Re:Short story: See to what Linus responds (Score 5, Insightful) 641

The problem is systemd is a johnny-come-lately and is violating the standard way of doing things, even if the standard way isn't the most optimal. Think of it like a court of law, no court is going to accept a junior lawyer changing terminology that has been in use for centuries just because the lawyer has read a thesaurus. The impact is just too large.

To take it further, apparently all but two parameters (debug and quiet) that systemd recognizes are prefixed by systemd.xxxxxx, so they know how to work within the kernel standard.

The kernel has for a long time had a protocol of parameter naming. Direct kernel parameters are plain, module-specific parameters have mod.xxxx format and that was designed to pass driver-specific parameters in. SystemD, being a child process and not even part of the kernel should respect the existing protocol and ignore any parameters not passed without a leading systemd.

Comment Clichéd but what about the media? (Score 1) 625

I recently had the opportunity to compare modern American comics with Franco-Belgian comics( "Bandes Dessinées"), and one thing that struck me almost from the beginning was the way that the majority of American comics seemed to involve fantasy characters and worlds that had very little whatsoever to do with reality, especially with respect to the physical universe.

I realise this doesn't necessarily mean anything, but it did certainly make me wonder.

Comment Re:If they charge $15,000 for a ten week course... (Score 1) 374

The company might well be registered with them already. Searching for VMWare, Oracle, SAP on their approved schools page returns a number of training companies with registered technical offerings. Not living anywhere near California, I have no idea what training companies there are, so YMMV.

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