If I hadn't posted in this thread, I'd mod you +1 Insightful
But then again, if I hadn't posted, you wouldn't have posted either :)
Circular dependency spotted ;)

Sabayon development was discontinued, after 3 years of "looking interesting but I don't have the time to test it..." (and the death of the lead dev's father...). It looked really cool, tho.

If people are wondering abour the rice thing, go check out http://funroll-loops.info/ (Even though I'm not sure I fully understood the joke behind this website)

Yeah, but then I might not be able to be as elitist and pretentious as with Gentoo :(

After all, in the end they're all the same, so it's a matter of taste : you choose the distro that makes you feel better than your peers. The one you're more comfortable trolling for.

Yeah right.
I love gentoo, I hate the idea of non-rolling-release systems.

However.
It takes ~1h to compile the new xulrunner and firefox on my 2.5ghz dual core laptop.
If the fast release cycle keeps accelerating, soon Firefox X+1 wil be out before I'm d-one compiling Firefox X

Maybe because that's what's left, when you have nothing to add to the debate, but still want to get modded up, and be accepted by your peers.

There, FTFY.

- We talk about the fact that the press sucks and tought lulzsec and anon were at war when they were not.
- We laugh at Sony/Senate/Fox/Whatever 's security, and pity the fool who uses the same password everywhere.
- We discuss the morality, utility and cleverness of an "action" made for the lulz, by people only doing random stuff because they can. And we take this all very seriously, like it's the masterplan of some very serious organization.
- We defend banks and gov's secrets and talk about National Security and Cyberwar, or we compare antisec to Wikileaks and team up behind them like they're the next Ghandi
- We try to find a random, crazy link between this and the bitcoin thing, and go on trolling on whether it has volue or not

Or, if we don't give a crap about all this, we click on the slashdot news we're not interested in, and post a comment about how bad editorials are, and why this is of no interest.

If you find something else in this news's comments, please mod me down.

sorry the correct link was : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_disk_encryption_software

I Usually use LUKS with DM-Crypt, but there are other tools more user-friendly that come with gnome.
Last day I discovered a gnome applet that manages crypted volumes written on the fly as you modify the mounted folder, that scale with the size of the content of the volume. (Dm-crypt has a defined volume size that you cannot outgrow, and the chiffered file used to mount the volume always has the maximum size it can reach --If I want a 15gB crypted volume, I get a 15gB file, no matter how empty the volume is.)

I know avoiding TrueCrypt sounds like tinfoil hat paranoia, but if you need te encrypt your data in the first place, maybe this is healthy paranoia.

Not TrueCrypt.
Nuff said.

also : https://tails.boum.org/support/truecrypt/index.en.html
I'll never say this enough : Don't trust Truecrypt when you have a shitload of similar/better tools that you can actually trust on linux.

I mean just look at this

Yeah, just wait for the next.
-- if you dare.

Ithink this is supposed to be the reason why he will "resign", so we'll have to wait until this one utterly fails.

2+2 = 4 is an "internal" operation. It should obviously not fail.

"I need the GPS to give me a location" is a call to an external component (much like accessing internet, opening a file, user input), and failing in this external component, or lack of response should be handled.

Never trust external input.

You mean.... like what every good programmer should do, to build stable and reliable code ?

Never underestimate the stupidity of fanboys in great number.

Maybe it would be like something that checks if the file you downloaded comes from a trusted platform, maybe do checksums..

Something clever enough to understand the context from which the file comes from, and give it only as much privileges as it deserves/needs.

Something that could understand the risk of a proprietary software, "trusted" or not, in critical parts of the system, and the benefits of an opensource one.
Maybe even, if it's clever enough analyse its traffic and source code, but that's a lot to ask, and it may simply rely on other, more competent and independent, neutral entities to spot backdoors in the code/protocol.

Something like... the user ?

You can't compare a space station (a more or less complex set of tubes and solar panels) and an entire rocket.

The space stations has to deal with a lot less of parts, dangers, energy, movement, calculations, calibrations.. It's still hard as fuck to do on earth, so on orbit, until we have a very advanced space factory, it's just too much to do manually, piece bu piece, with astronauts to do the details.

Yes, il *will* be possible some day, but not before we build an efficient way to construct space rockets in space, and building this will take decades.

Captain Obvious is SO shitting bricks when he reads this.