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Comment Re:Overproduction of elites (Score 1) 75

As a previous poster pointed out, what fields are affected?

Per TFS, this is specifically a study regarding "50 top research universities"

Given the current economic turmoil is it really surprising the students are thinking twice before committing that much money and time to a field that may not exist by the time they are done?

That could be literally any field, though.

Some firms will still employ people who can think, because their leadership can think well enough to know computers can't. They will no doubt reap the rewards of keeping humans in more loops. But in the meantime, a lot of people are going to suffer a whole lot.

Comment Re: Somebody needs to do this (Score 1) 93

So you think this lawsuit, this zombie lawsuit from last century, is the 'shot across the bow' heralding the start of The Year of the Linux Desktop? Really?

There's no start of the year of the linux desktop because that started ages ago and will continue gaining ground gradually until either a new thing comes along or Windows dies in fire and it becomes the de facto choice for people who don't want to buy Macs.

On the other hand, it is quite logical to believe that SCO is being reanimated again for the benefit of Microsoft, because there has never been more interest in replacing Windows with Linux.

Comment Re: Yawn... (Score 1) 93

Wait, are you talking about IBM or SCO?

IBM actually creates things. SCO created a few things, but most of them were weird. Like SCO Open Desktop, which was slightly after CDE, and had no real reason to exist since everyone was going to CDE at the time. Or SCO UUCP, of which I have no real complaint, but why write another one with so few changes? OTOH SCO UNIX was really solid before any other x86 UNIX (or Unixlike) was. You could count on it.

Comment Re:90s Microsoft (Score 1) 45

How long before Microsoft says "Well since we can't do anything good, why not lean fully into our evil past, fuck the users, they clearly don't care to be supported by us in any way."

0. 0 seconds, microseconds, picoseconds, or any other division of time. Because that's how they are operating right now.

Microsoft is actually more evil than they used to be. They used to make software for your hardware, now they tell you to get your hardware for their software. Their OS is the most egregious spyware ever created and has a license to match, allowing Microsoft to both practically and legally lift any data they want from your machine and show it to anyone they want for any reason they deem fit.

Comment Predictable (Score 3, Interesting) 136

Surprise surprise.

The foolish attempt to save the children by taking away everyone's privacy and the children's freedom is thwarted by the children subverting their laws.

If you want to save the children, do not try to save them, instead protect us ALL by changing the algorithms to push people toward truth rather than the shocking.

Comment Re:CLI (Score 0) 231

One of the hardest parts when switching to Linux was learning to use the command line and shellscripts instead of relying on "power tools" for everything.

I long ago lost track of the number of times I've needed to use the command line to fix something on Windows. You weren't doing anything very complicated if you never did.

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