Have you got a solution that doesn't involve regulation?

Nothing has fallen apart. The WSJ article was pure spin. The world is still warming.

You're thinking spherical cow.

This is the spherical chicken reference.

Translation: I'm a whiny little bitch boy who doesn't want to face up to what we're all doing to the planet, so I'll use words like "Nazi" and "anti-business", because I lack honor, adult coping skills and jeezus christ basic intellectual capacity,.

Look, you fucking moron, do you think that the universe gives one flying fuck about your fucking ideology? Do you think AGW hinges on whether it feeds into your notion of ccapitalism, you fucking halfwitted toad excrement?

Thanks for that. It goes to show that if it's about climate change and it's in the WSJ, you'd be better served using it as shitpaper.

Once again, the psuedo-skeptics will play a clever etymological and semantics game to try to make it sound as if science is saying one thing, when it's actually saying something else. It's so typical of the pseudo-skeptic movement to simultaneously declare climatologists morally bankrupt communists out to destroy poor whttle oil companies while they take every word uttered by climatologists out of context to try to declare that climatology now rejects AGW.

I learned a long time ago that it's just a lot bloody easier to have a Windows Server machine (physical or virtual) hanging around that you can quickly promote to a DC if the need arises. It can be a slight pain in a WAN like we have because updating FSMO roles and other AD objects can take some time, but really, at the end of the day, using your other DCs as your "backup" is a lot easier than rebuilding from backup.

While I still religiously back up AD on a nightly basis, I haven't actually rebuilt a DC from such a backup in nearly a decade, and it's more a kind of religious obligation than because I believe I'll ever use the backup. A new Server install and DCPROMO is faster, more reliable and far less error prone than taking a day or two old backup of an AD DC.

Ya, I've seen this kind of troll before..

Most of his argument is that the UI is different. It's like saying that if you don't have a Gnome/KDE/Unity UI, you're not running Linux..

As a sysadmin, when I'm in a shell on Android, I see Linux. When I'm in a shell on a Mac, I see a Unix. When I open a cmd.exe window on Windows, I see Windows.

I was having some fun with some of my older Android phones a couple weeks ago. I put Dropbear Server II on. I had 4 shells open to 4 phones. I was remounting filesystems, moving files, using wget to collect stuff from my server, installpkg packages (with pm), chmod'ing files, and rebooting as I saw fit. It's just another *nix, and by his own admission a barely modified Linux kernel...

If it looks like a bear, and acts like a bear, and everything else says it's a bear, it must be a spherical chicken in a vacuum.

Indeed. It's literally the 1950s and early 1960s all over again. There was a day and an age when the 45 single was the backbone of the music industry, and it looks like download services have returned it to that era.

    You're expecting too much.

    Android is just another embedded *nix. I'm happy that it's Linux. You shouldn't expect it to have a whole bunch of scripting languages, and unnecessary servers.

    With all that said, it is a functional embedded system, where you *do* have the ability. to extend it do to all kinds of neat things.

    They provided hooks to just about everything in Java. I'm not terribly delighted with that decision, but it's what they went with.

    For most purposes, play is their package manager. For the majority of users, they'll never open a terminal. I do 99% of my phone stuff through the happy little touchscreen. That's the nice interface provided.

    If you really want the CLI package manager, you'll find pm, which does just about everything you'd expect from a package manager.

    You can get Apache, Perl, and pretty much whatever else you want on there. Is it going to be like developing for an x86 server or desktop? Not really. It's a different platform.

    If you're going to be developing for distribution, and not just for yourself, I'd recommend about the Android way to do it.. If you're doing it yourself, grab a copy of Perl for Android, and enjoy.

    If you're going to complain, well, that's up to you. At least research it a little.

    I don't know why anyone would have that problem.. At the end of the Great War, I shipped back plenty of barbed wire and landmines. More than enough to border my property. It was very useful during the Great Depression.

    There have been a few stray animals that have caused problem, but no damned kids on the lawn.

    Them youngins don't know how to protect their lawns.

    I'll go back to watching those funny kids, Larry, Moe, and Curly. Great fun they are.

That's been discussed a lot on here in the past.

One in particular that I remember was about a laptop locking cable that you could unlock with a pen in just a few seconds.

If a criminal wants a laptop, and sees 3 sitting around. No one is at them, and he has a few moments of no one looking. One is on a desk with the easily defeated cable. One is on another desk, tied down with a piece of string. The third was just put into a laptop bag, and is on the floor by a chair.

He won't go for the one with the cable. Even if he was prepared and knew exactly how to do it, it is still an obstacle. Even the one in the string requires a little extra time to untie or cut. The one in the bag on the floor is easiest, as he can just pick it up and keep walking.

The only variation on this would be the perceived value. If the one in the bag looked like an antique, he'd disregard it in favor of one that he can sell. If it's the one with the cable, and may get someone's attention by picking the lock, he may just move on to somewhere else.

The same applies to homes. All things equal except for security, the insecure house is the easy target and will get broken into. If the insecure house is a dilapidated hovel, but there is a nicer house that's an easy enough target, he'll go for the nicer one or pick a different neighborhood with better targets.

That's some serious pressure. Do you make coal into diamonds in your spare time? :)