No, you're saying that if some crooks can take advantage of corrupted/captured jurisdictions to get away with murder and some others escape because the prosecution cannot obtain enough evidence for a conviction[*], then the ones that do get convicted due to enough evidence and a proper use of the justice system should subsequently be set free anyway because reasons. Then, no doubt, such a decision should be the basis for letting the next convictions be vacated, because now at least one full-fledged conviction was not enforced fully or at all. Good reasoning all around.

[*] to get an idea about how hard it is to prosecute financial crimes when the will to do it exists, look at how much potential evidence had to be thrown out due to technicalities in Holmes' trial. Getting absolutely ALL the ducks in a row when the opposing council hunts for any slight mistake is not trivial.

Well, for some very VERY small subset of "it." And if you start disabling the broken ancillary services that it grew like some mutant monster - right now, it's best to get rid of stuff like the broken "internal" dhcp client, the ntp service, the resolver service ... add your favorite "you'll get less functionality and you'll like it" piece of systemd-adjacent pseudo-cake.

Besides, it seems dear old Greg is getting forgetful in his advanced years. One might want to take a trip down the memory line to the point that the systemd devs kinda sorta angered the kernel devs by requesting that there should be a change in the kernel parameters passed by the bootloader, as systemd wanted to take over some of those because ... reasons. Is that one of the "did it right" examples then, Greg?

Valuing one's mental health, perhaps? or having a high opportunity cost for the time spent digging through the insane number of pages of exceptions that the application server outputs for anything that goes wrong? ;-)

It seems any Math classes you ever attended were something of a joke. What makes you think CS will be any different? (as a hint, one is far more likely to learn those skills you enumerated in a properly taught Math class; without that as a basis there's little chance a CS class will compensate)

Besides being off-topic and coming across as rather insecure, you are aware that anyone who shorted TSLA in the last week of August is still in the money, right? as currently the stock is ~20% down from September 1st ...

Aaaaand there you have it, ladies and gents. Apres moi the deluge, Millennial version. Not so different from the Boomer version in essence, only in details.

Humans inherently don't have a good perception of the consequences cascade of their actions. There is always something done in good faith that'll eventually have some bad consequences down the road. Mistakes are easy. Scapegoating is easier.

For kicks, someone should come up with a boomer hoodie with something like

Nonsense alert - while energy density is a well-defined, meaningful metric, power density is at best a poorly defined one and at worst a meaningless juxtaposition of words, a.k.a. marketing. It certainly does not make sense to talk about both of them together this way. One of them is a physical metric, the other is ... not. Otoh, if he were talking about power, that would have been a different kettle of fish altogether.

Sorry Rei, but this shows your bullshit detector is out of whack. If it's [something] density then the total amount of volume (or in this case, cells) is irrelevant, since density is [something] per unit volume (or per cell). So the statement is wrong as is, would be "right-er" for power, but then it's not just cells that you have to add, is it? more power requires higher amperage wiring, better cooling, and so on - it's not just about stuffing the car to the gills with batteries.

:-( this post started so well, factual and stuff. Please, next time, try to refrain from repeating something like this last paragraph. If you really have to, make a separate post. There are so many things wrong in this small ending that it'd take a full post to explain - stuff about how stock market works, about sending messages, especially during conference calls, and lastly about irony and seeing emotions in others while being blind to them in oneself. I am aware of your history of posting pro-Musk things on /. but for the sake of efficiency do try to keep informative posts separated from "opinion" posts. It makes for better reading.

A key point here is it was wildly inappropriate for Comey to recommend no prosecution in this case on TV. It is totally not his decision. The prosecutors in the DOJ are the ones who get to decide if prosecution is warranted. The FBI's job was to investigate and generate a report to the DOJ. They do get to make a recommendation regarding prosecution but it is only a recommendation. Comey absolutely should not have announced the recommendation at a press conference before the DOJ has even started reviewing the final FBI report. It reeks of prejudicing the entire case since it places inappropriate pressure on the prosecutor in the DOJ to not prosecute when they may well be inclined to prosecute when they see all the evidence.

Comey s assertion that Clinton and her people had no intent to do harm by mishandling top secret compartmentalized information so they should not be prosecuted is also way over the line. The fact is they did mishandle top secret information, and it is unknowable if that mishandling resulted in the information being accessed by foreign powers or others who were not authorized to see it. You knowingly mishandle classified information in violation of the oath you signed there have to be consequences otherwise why should anyone bother to protect classified information. If Clinton is elected President how can she expect the millions of Federal employees working for her to protect classified information when she knowingly didn't and got away with it.

Thirdly mishandling email is only part of the case against the Clinton. A key reason Clinton may have been using this private server is there may have been email between her, foreign governments and affluent individuals who were donating large sums of money to the Clinton Foundation while she was Secretary of State creating the appearance that she was soliciting bribes in return for favorable decisions from the State department on things like arms deals. Clinton is claiming these are personal emails so she withheld them from the FBI but they may be a trail pointing to public corruption.

It smacks of whitewash to suddenly short circuit these investigations so Clinton will have a clean path to the nomination at the convention which is just a few days away now.

I wish I'd known about these servers. I would play WoW again if it was the 2006 vintage instead of the crap its become. To answer your criticism, if Blizzard wants to keep WoW going forever, roll back to 2006 vintage, and focus entirely on new and interest dungeons and gear. Also put the level cap back to 60 and keep it there. New and interesting PVE dungeons was the only thing that made WoW great. Making the game "easy" for casual players was another tragic mistake.

2006 vintage WoW would be right before Burning Crusade came out and BC would be just about the time WoW started to suck and I quit playing. In 2006 there were 64 player raids, no constantly shifting level caps that constantly trashed all your gear, you lived to get to get to level 60 and collect PVE gear.

Every good guild on the server I was on, including my own, blew apart about that time, people wandered off to PvP to get the gear Blizz was handing out like candy to distract from the fact all their hard won level 60 PVE gear was being trashed and running Molten Core and BWL was officially pointless. It had become a waste of time doing PVE raids entirely which was the whole point of WoW.

In those days you only ran dungeons with people on your server, yea it sucked waiting to get groups sometimes but you actually made friends and learned to trust or not trust the people you played with on your server. When they started jumbling together pick up runs from all servers you didn't know and couldn't trust ANYONE you were raiding with. Dungeons just became a whirlwind you ran through as quickly as possible and half the time someone in the group would be a total ass and get away with it.

Of course it might be an intentional backdoor to allow NSA, DHS, FBI, law enforcement to track persons of interest so you can be SURE facebook would be upset that it was made public as would the three letter Federal agencies using it.

The cooler thing would be if you have enough high speed printing capacity that you could manufacture and assemble a 1000 drone swarm in a very short period of time and overwhelm an adversaries defenses without requiring a ship big enough to carry a 1000 completed drones. And then another one, and another one. You would need a tanker full of plastic and a freighter full of batteries, electronics and propellers.

âoeKill decisionâ baby.

I would mostly agree with parent. Soylent is fine execpt the community isnt big enough so the comments are barely there or worth reading, the name is kind of bad and the stories are routinely just old enough to be yesterdays news on Slashdot or Hacker news.

Their Twitter feed, which is where I get my news feeds, also puts these really annoying lame "from the deptâ attempts at humor in the tweets instead of just the title of the story and the link:

Razer Acquires Ouya Software Assets, Ditches Hardware from the kicked-down dept

They will even thorten the title to make room for the utterly stupid âoefrom theâ.

The best solution to replace Slashdot would probably be if Hacker news grafted the classic Slashdot look, commenting and moderation system on to their generally good stories and great community.

There is a high probably no Sunday talk show would have let him speak once they found out what he was going to say. They are all owned by giant media conglomerates you know. They wouldnt risk the wrath of the Federal government. Pretty sure Snowden went to Greenwald because he was one of the few journalists with the balls to do the story. The Guardian was hammered by the UK government for running it.

Remember when the CEO of Qwest defied the NSA plan to tap all data and phones lines after 9/11. The Federal government pulled all their contracts from Qwest, hammered their stock and then put him in prison for a phony securities rap. Qwest was a rare corporate hero among telecoms, long since swallowed up by CenturyLink who are just as bad as all the rest.

Iâ(TM)m not blaming âoebankersâ exactly, Iâ(TM)m blaming people who loan money to people who are may or may not pay it back and when they dont get paid back they go running to their central banks or governments and demand they get made whole at the expense of everyone else. Same thing happened in the U.S. in 2009 with the TARP and assorted other bail outs.

Yea the rating agencies really sucked especially leading up to the crash in 2008, but it doesnâ(TM)t relieve lenders of ultimate responsibility for their actions. If the credit ratings are wrong its the responsibility of the lender to figure this out, no one else.

Lenders collect interest on their loans partially to cover the potential risk they wont get paid back, the higher that risk the higher the interest they collect. If they collect high interest rates on risky mortgages and then when someone defaults on them central banks and governments make them whole it creates massive moral hazard.

If the Greeks were a bad risk prior to 2008, which they probably were, the interest rates they had to pay should have been higher and they would have been dissuaded from borrowing or lenders would have been dissuaded from lending to them. Instead the EU created a perverse system where risky borrowers (all of the PIIGS) got relatively cheap money and a lot of it and were incentivized to take as much of it as they could. The EU and the lenders are 100% to blame for this situation for throwing the money at them.

The PIIGS shouldâ(TM)ve never entered an economic union with Germany in the first place, they had no chance of competing with Germany locked in to the same currency. It was a win win for Germany on all fronts.

You donâ(TM)t actually know what you are talking about do you.

Most of the loans in question here were in fact loaned by German and French bankers to the Greeks prior to the 2008, Deutsche bank was one of the biggest. They could get somewhat higher returns loaning to Greece and they had some security because Greece was in the Eurozone. That security unravelled with the 2008 crash.

The ECB, EU, IMF gave massive loans to Greece in 2010, and most of it immediately went to extricate the German and French banks from their bad greek loans. If the Greeks has defaulted on the original loans then there would have been a massive banking crisis in Germany and France. The 2010 EU bailout was to save their banks more than it was to help the Greeks.

The Greeks just got more debt piled on top of too much debt and its totally destroyed their economy. Recently released IMF studies confirm the Greeks canâ(TM)t sustain their current debt load and it has to be restructed or they have to default. If they stay the current course with austerity and more and more bailout loans they are doomed.

If the Greeks had been smart they would have exited the EU and defaulted on the debt in 2009 and the people who made the bad loans, the German and French bankers, would have paid the price. Instead they got off scot free.

Iceland immediately defaulted in a similar situation, they had some short term pain but they rebounded, while the Greece has gotten nothing but worse and worse under the yoke of a corrupt European and global banking system.

For banking and loans to work there is a simple rule, if you are foolish enough to make a bad loan to someone who probably wonâ(TM)t pay it back, then you pay the price when they default. Instead the people who make the bad loans (i.e. bankers) get to keep their bonuses profits and everyone else gets to pay for their stupidity, greed and corruption.