That's a misuse. In the first place, Occam's Razor is comparative. It postulates that out of a spectrum of possible explanations, the simplest is more likely to be correct. So unless you have a more simple explanation for the panoply of evidence in physical reality for life, then the consensus on its purported origins is not denied by Occam's Razor.

(Though in truth I doubt you understand what underlies all that, since you characterize life as 'anti-entropic' which is wholly false because you probably have some half-baked philosophical interpretation of entropy that has nothing to do with the reality of entropy as principle in physics. Here's a hint: entropy != chaos and the opposite of entropy is not "order" or "organization". These are just philosophical conceits that human beings have arbitrarily invented to understand their sensory memories.)

Occam's Razor says hell to the no. Besides which I would wager if some extraterrestrial intelligence wanted to leave something behind it would be more than space gravel.

Yeah that's the downside- having melted the glacier, just so we can see a plant, was a bad idea. (Well, in the deal we were also able to drive to work and heat our houses and stuff. And minor details obviously deserve a little of our consideration.) But obviously these were just side effects from when we let our cryogenic botany crowd bully our fossil fuel industry around. They said "Dig up all the filth from the Carboniferous Era that you can find, and burn it fast. Then we can melt this glacier and defrost these little bitches within our careers." Of course scientists always think that because of their ideology. But they were lucky this time because it melted anyway for them, didn't it?

Honestly, I do not really see the advantage of things like upstart and systemd. They haven't significantly altered the boot time of systems (well written init based system booted fast anyway) and they've just added layers of complexity.

Please respond to the post I wrote, not the one you think I wrote. I didn't espouse upstart or systemd, both of which are far, far more complex than runit or daemontools (the DJB tool on which it's based).

Also, regarding pidfile based locking: open(..., O_EXCL | O_CREAT) is atomic, which is what you need for a lock.

Sure, it's atomic, but it's not fit-to-purpose.

Okay: You can create a file atomically. Now, what good does that do you if you want to clear the lock when the process holding the lock is dead?

If you're using POSIX advisory locking, you don't do anything: Lock is released the moment the process closes its file handles. Reboot? No locks are held on the way back up. kill -9? No locks held. You don't have to deal with stale locks, because they can't ever happen.

Never mind the concoction that could likely be made with video editing software to help take things out of context!

...which behooves you to have your own, unedited footage with which to set the record straight.

I'm all for a surveillance society, so long as it's equal-opportunity. If only the powerful have access to the footage, that's 1984; if everyone has their own (read: under their ownership, to be released or withheld as they see fit barring court order) record of everything that happens whenever they're in a public space -- ideally a non-repudiable, tamper-evident one (something cryptography makes possible), I'd call that a step towards a utopia.

While true, Chinese domestic fighter development has been spinning up for years and it looks like the J-31 and J-20 will enter service this decade.

It sounds like your perspective is stuck a few decades in the past. Maybe you haven't been paying attention, but the Chinese are in space now, regularly and reliably. Analysts are already looking at the Chinese produced Shenyang J-31 as a possible contender with the F-35C for the export market. It may be functionally a generation behind, but I'm sure it will be less expensive and easier to order especially for nations that aren't in the NATO core.

The SysV init scripts have one huge advantage though: I can read/debug/understand them and all I need to know for that is a bit of sh(1) and coreutils.

This sentence being included in your reply implies -- strongly -- that you didn't follow the link and read the scripts behind it.

Hint: run scripts are far, far simpler and easier-to-read than SysV init scripts. (They also exist on-disk -- in a directory matching /service/${servicename} if you're following DJB's conventions -- so filename matching is absolutely supported).

If you gained something by your race conditions, I'd see it. Using big, overcomplex SysV init scripts adds nothing but bugs.

I'm... sorry?

You think SysV init scripts are in any way, shape or form moderately acceptable?!

I have a very simple refutation to that -- the collection of run scripts behind this link.

Go ahead -- have a look. Keep in mind that systems using those mostly one-line scripts all provide not just startup/shutdown/status, but also the ability to auto-restart on failure and lack the propensity for race conditions that pidfile-based locking almost universally used by SysV scripts is so very, very prone to.

Holding up SysV init scripts as a thing that doesn't have to be changed... it beggars belief.

So hey, I'm shoving this camera in your face so ten years from now you can be turned down for a job because you might do today that can be taken out of context. But why all the hate?

Dunno. Personally, I'm all for personal responsibility -- if I do something in public today that'd get me turned down for a job in ten years, that's 100% my own damned fault.

Ubiquitous cameras help keep honest people honest, and help get people who aren't honest caught. If some asshat runs me off the road on my (very, very well-lit) bicycle, I damned well want there to be a record showing (1) their license plate, and (2) me being my usual, exceedingly law-abiding, conscientious self. If someone breaks into my condo? Record. If someone picks a fight, and I need to show that self-defense was justified? Record. If someone was merely an asshat? Well, that's fair game too.

Keep in mind, too, that if everyone is getting the same kind of record built up about them, then small infractions aren't such a big thing. If everyone is a drunk asshat at a party every so often, or does a bit of political baiting, then evidence of that happening doesn't really matter -- as long as it's equal-opportunity public record, then employers &c. will be forced to compromise on hiring people whose indiscretions aren't so bad.

So -- if shoving a camera in your face is something you hate, maybe you should think long and hard about the way you behave in public.

You are recording on private property and people can have an expectation of privacy.

It's more complex than that. Have a "privacy fence", where it takes some effort to see through? Yup, expectation of privacy. Have a chain-link fence which can be seen through from public land? Not in any state I've lived in, no.

He chooses what to post on to the internet. If somebody wearing Glass walks up to you, your property, or your workplace, you have no choice in the matter as to which of your activities gets uploaded to Google.

So what? If you're in a public place, you had no expectation of privacy to start with... and a world where you did, where people are prevented from photography in public by virtue of needing to get permissions from every single person near them, is no world I'd want to live in at all.

This is probably just a matter of valuing things differently; I value a person's right to record things which happen around them in public more than I wish to grant a new right not to be recorded in public places (thereby allowing any single member of the multitude present in a crowd to restrict the entirety of the masses nearby).

While it's true that most if not all of the gun control laws between the Civil War and World War I were part of the 'Jim Crow' system of creating separate systems of "justice" delineated on race, it is, as the AC who responded to you notes, false to say the NRA was a 'civil rights organization' and indeed it had little political function until after the NFA. You overreach into fiction degrades the value of your facts.

DeviantArt already allows pretty much everything except actual intercourse and erect penises (because a limp dick = art but hard dick = evil ... vaginas are fine no matter what *rolls eyes* yay arbitrary moralist bullshit).

There are already communities for disseminating all-the-way smut art, such as Hentai Foundry.

If you want to know what tumblr is really about these days, think of a sexual fetish, then put it into Google with 'tumblr' tacked on, and you'll get whatever you want stream dumped from tons of different sources. When it comes to jacking (pun huhuhu) still images from porn producers, the fetish catagorizing fans on tumblr are second to none. Granted sometimes the "blogs" (haha yeah right) get shut down for infringement, but there's always another dozen that spring up to fill the void.