Oh geez, Safari? Not that I want to stick up for Dice-dot but come on! I might use Links to browse on occasion myself but at least I understand that when I do I am so far from the norm that I get what I get and I shouldn't expect webmasters to cater to me!

Next will be a horde of angry Arachne users!

My understanding (feel free to enlightenme if wrong) is that most distros still offer other init systems, they just aren't requiring package maintainers to suppor them. Thus.. things you want to use might become dependent on Systemd.

Also (as far as I know) Gnome is the only thing already doing this with KDE likely to follow soon.

I'm guessing (more speculative) that Systemd dependency is only likely to be an issue with big "desktopy" projects like this.

I hope that you are not running Gnome or KDE on your router!

So... what's the problem? Just use a different init!

Also... what kind of router are we talking about? Is this a PC being used as a router? Or is it a device which was actually meant to be a router. If the latter what distro does it run? Do router distros like openwrt, ddwrt, etc... actually use the same init systems as desktops? I always assumed they just ran a few simple scripts.

That being said.. although I've been a long-time Linux user I am using M0n0wall myself. It's a BSD based router distro, much like Pfsense which others have recommended but a bit lighter. I only chose it b/c it (and pfsense) supported the device I wanted to convert to a router and I didn't see anyone mention any of the Linux ones for it online.

My only complaint is that I haven't been able to get a VPN server running on it. I'm not sure this is M0n0wall's fault as this has been a problem for me on a number of other installations I have attempted. I suspect my cable company of blocking it.

But, anyway.. not a single device in MY home seems to care if it's packets are being routed through Linux, BSD or whatever! How about a Syllable router for the win?!?!

>>I'm upset the Republican party corrupted the legislative process during his tenure since that mindset is ringing around the world. Promoting good laws to smash upon the rocks of a blockaded congress seems pointless.

We didn't see him making such bold statements when he at least had the senate to back him up.

>>The advantage I see is reminding the voter that the Republican party is not supporting the little guy or even the middle-class. It also shows the democrat party understanding the social problems of the average voter and looking for a solution.

Hah, yah, sure. That's one angle to look at it. If those things are real why wasn't it happening when there were more Democrats in congress? Rather than "reminding" I would use the word "convincing". Better yet maybe "selling" or even "scamming". If there was any sincerity to this it would have been coming out a long time before now!

It's hard to believe.

But, it's also hard to believe that their legal advisors were that incompetent too!

Compare that to the list of politicians that should be locked up or maybe even just shot... (probably all of them)

Obama is starting to sound more like his old campaign-trail self than the president we have come to know. I think it's probably easy for him to make promises now as he can just blame the Republican congress when they don't actually happen.

There was a period in the 0s when PC processors were good for cooking eggs. You had to be careful with the AMD ones though, they had a tendency to burn the egg quickly.

I am a C# programmer by day. It's been my job for something like 5 or 6 years now. For me, the greatest feature of moving to a different platform would be...

NOT HAVING DATASETS!!

The things are a horible crutch! All of our software is Datasets everyhwhere, our programming department has standardized on them as the go-to tool for everything to the point of discouraging any other solution as "making it harder by not using what everyone else is used to."

The problem is Datasets are really nice objects.. for... representing a database. But why would you want to represent a database? With most development you probably already have a database!

Don't get me wrong, I love relational databases. They are great at the data storage level but they should remain there. You shouldn't still be thinking about tables, rows, collumns and joins all the way up to the UI layer. Leave the database stuff for the queries you write within your model code. Write your models to provide an API that reperesents what you are trying to do, not the storage enigine behind everything!

Instead of objects that pretend to be databases (what's the point?) instead write objects that represent widgets, employees, orders and sales or whatever else is apropriate. They should have methods and properties that represent what you are trying to do like product.price and employee.fire() not dsProducts.Rows.Find(productid)["price"] and dsEmployees.Rows.Find(employeeid)["status"] = SomeProject.SomeNamespace.StaticsClass.EmployeeStatus.Terminated; .NET, at least as it is normally used sucks, it encourages bad code. Run away while you can!

Sure, if you fly over both the Atlantic and the Pacific, there you are!

Ok, that's better than just touching the door but why the hell would you bother if you can just knee the handicap button?

Again... using it is not like a parking space. It does not make it unavailable for the next person. Nobody is going to wet their wheelchair because you pushed the button.

I do my best to lower that percentage by using it to post anonymous trolls.

These are portable devices.

Is an audiophile, ever searching for the best sound possible going to find it in a pocket sized device? Maybe I'm just too far behind the times but I would expect them to use a desktop computer with quiet fans and a super expensive soundcard hooked to a modular stereo system for that.

As for portable devices... well.. carrying one device is better than carrying two. You aren't going to hear the difference while traveling anyway, background noise will see to that.

Ok, I get it that this is an improvement over what they could do before but it doesn't sound ready for human use to me. What happens after "months" are up? Does it then cause the tissue damage that the old implants caused sooner? Does this mean the spinal cord is even further damaged, preventing the surgery being repeated? Or can they then just go in and replace it with a new implant and everything is like it was the first time?

Since human trials were mentioned I would expect the article to answer these kinds of questions!

No, those two things are nothing the same. Hitting the door button does not make the door button unavailable to the next person who actually needs it. Filling up a parking space does.

I hit those buttons (with my knee or elbow) all the time. I especially like to do that when entering/exiting a public restroom. Do you have any idea how many people use the toilet and don't wash their hands? The first thing they touch after wiping their ass is that door handle!

That's how we knew that 3d printing is finally growing up...

back when it got it's first wood.