No, I work for you're an asshole. Because people trying to feed their families is what goes on in the real world.

Weak minds are the ones that cannot grasp that real people deal with real hardships.

Oh yeah? In this economy, when there's three unemployed for every job opening? You have no fucking idea what's going on in the real world.

It's not really true, though. People are capable of understanding that small things can have large effects. It's really just that people don't want to believe that they're shitting where they eat, because they want to believe that they're intelligent.

Try the Planetfall Mod for Civ IV BTS. If you play it on a fairly modern system with a fully patched game it might not even crash before you finish a moderate-length game.

You don't get to design your own units. But they do get upgrades reminiscent of AC.

One kernel to rule them all: good idea.

One GUI to rule them all: bad idea.

Hence Windows waning, and others gaining. Apple didn't try to use the same GUI on mobile as on the desktop, but they did reuse their kernel because to do otherwise is stupid. It may well have made sense when mobile platforms were so very weak, but now they are very strong.

Hell, successful Linux on mobile isn't even using the traditional userland.

Well, no. It's because the document wasn't actually sensitive. Anyone who actually might want to cripple our infrastructure already knows how to do that, because they have access to satellite imagery like everyone else. Also, not being complete fucking idiots, they know how to read the reports that all corporations are required to file which include information on things like new construction projects, including their function and location.

The truth is that most U.S. cities get their power via just one or two links, and the locations of those links are extremely well-known. If anyone wanted to cripple our infrastructure, they could have done it already.

Now, the fact that our power grids are particularly sensitive to a physical attack, that is a factor of nobody taking security seriously. But then, that's because efficiency is more important, because there are so few actual threats to security. As it turns out, one guy in a pickup truck can cripple a city's ability to function. You don't think that any enemies could muster those kind of resources? Nobody is even trying.

On the other hand, there's lots of good reasons to secure our power infrastructure from domestic criminals. But I'd prefer to reduce the production of those criminals by overhauling the system to reduce or eliminate the poverty industry. It's better to make the world a better place than to make the world a safer place for shitheels to be shitty, which is where focusing on defense gets you. Let's focus on cooperation.

Or we just need to figure out how to maintain a blob of brain tissue for a long period... presumably you'd use a quorum of brains and have them vote on an action before you took it, majority rules to keep that instinctive speed

Microsoft has explicitly stated and restated that the Xbox One kernel is derived from the Xbox 360 kernel, and that is similarly (confirmed to be) based on the Xbox kernel, which was based on Windows 2000 which was confirmed by Microsoft before it was denied repeatedly and claimed to be a "completely custom kernel" which is completely bullshit, which we know from hacker analysis.

Either Microsoft completely lied about the bloodline of the 360 kernel, or what you say is a load of dingo's kidneys.

Freedom and openness (interoperability and transparency) are principles which should be applied everywhere possible, which do automatically make things better than the alternative: protected, proprietary interfaces whose workings you are not permitted to know.

No, people simply must have the bullshit washed out of their heads. They have to be converted away from the mindset that keeping secrets makes a better world. People naturally want to share their ideas with other people, they learn not to by being ridiculed, taken advantage of, or attacked — or by being forced into an economic system based on artificial scarcity and designed to maintain an extremely unequal status quo.

If you had experience with the bastard children of Windows, you wouldn't have to ask that question. They are shit and they lead to fragmentation and duplication of effort.

Open means interoperable and transparent, so no, that's a lie. It meant that to the industry already when the OSI was formed.

I have personally encountered VB6 apps which ran fine on XP but which won't run for love nor money on Windows 7.

Then again, Microsoft is generally bad at backwards compatibility, ironic given that's been their bread and butter. Fuck, Civ 2 won't even run on XP mode in Win7. They can't even make a virtual machine worth a fuck.

Now the rate of recurrence is 12-18 months. You can still use this method, but not as frequently.

Our legal system is designed for selective enforcement. That's why it doesn't require cops to make arrests. If it was designed to be fair, it would require an arrest when the law is violated. That would at least concentrate corruption in the courts.

In specific circumstances, yes. Not all the time. Hence (1) in your citation.

But here's the thing. You have to post anonymously because if you actually do things by the book, other cops will attack you. You're grossly in the minority.