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Comment Re:Hopefully the applicants had a relevent backrou (Score 1) 809

It's no more unreasonable than asking "I want to send a stream of bytes to another computer on the internet, how would I do that?" and expecting an answer describing TCP sockets.

Because both are pretty unreasonable. Why would you expect someone to answer such a vague question by describing TCP instead of describing Ethernet, IP, UDP, FTP, HTTP, scp, etc.?

Comment Re:Personal info? (Score 1) 168

Explain to us why we should not expect these guys or their business partners to profit off our personal information.

Of course I haven't read the article or looked at their web site, but what private information are they collecting? Assuming you have to own the land to be able to establish a no-fly zone, your name and address are already publicly-available information.

Comment Re:Game reviews have always been broken (Score 1) 135

Almost no games get below 40, while any game that doesn't get 80 or more is considerd a failure.

It depends on the scale that the rating uses. In most schools, anything below 60 or 70 is considered a failure; you did more than nothing (which would be a 0), but you didn't get enough correct to even be considered adequate. In game reviews, you could consider 50 to be the starting score that a game gets just for making it to the title screen. A score of 80 might be the minimum needed for a game to be considered successful (i.e. the equivalent of a C in school).

Comment Re:What do you mean, modern? (Score 1) 716

On the other hand, when you update to a new hard drive the system breaks as the UUIDs have changed even though / is still on /dev/sda3 or wherever. Personally, while Linux was fun to learn, I've gotten tired of relearning it regularly.

There's a very good reason for that. You don't want the decision of which partition to mount at / to be based on which disk device responded to probes from the kernel the fastest. As for relearning, the place to change the UUID for the partition that you want mounted at / is /etc/fstab, where it's been for as long as I can remember.

Comment Re: Yes (Score 4, Insightful) 716

3: SystemD is one large code blob with zero internal separation... and it listens on the network with root permissions. It does not even drop perms which virtually every other utility does. Combine this with the fact that this has seen no testing... and this puts every production system on the Internet at risk of a remote root hole. It will be -decades- before SystemD becomes a solid program. Even programs like sendmail went through many bug fixes where security was a big problem... and sendmail has multiple daemons to separate privs, unlike SystemD.

Because of course it's been years since anyone found any security holes in well-tested software like Bash or OpenSSL.

Comment Re:Yes (Score 2) 716

There's a facility already present in the system for doing what they're doing, and they simply ignore it, with consequences for users. And what's more, the facility works really well for what they're doing with it, which they're doing very poorly.

If a software package used an existing, high-quality facility for doing a particular task, someone somewhere would complain about the dependency.

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