While I hate Javascript as much as the next guy and I love the title, this article is full of errors, misconceptions and spelling mistakes. Not worth your time.

Fair enough. For now it's up to the receiver to decide wether they're going to validate a signature. That goes for S/MIME and PGP both. S/MIME can be easily used on multiple devices, though, since they are simple X.509 certificates. I have the same certificate installed on both my computer and my iPhone. For added security you can even put it on an industry standard smartcard and your OS will pick it up from there automatically (after entering a PIN probably). It's all in there.

I wish people would just let the PGP/GPG dream go. S/MIME is supported by pretty much every serious mail client out there, including mobile ones such as iOS and BlackBerry. The certificates cost next to nothing and most clients automate signing/encrypting decisions. I don't understand why this is not used more broadly. Who doesn't want a cool 'signed' seal next to their email?

I was quite happy with my Q10, but all the social apps (FB, Twitter) are always lagging behind and other apps are nonexistent. Also, my gf's Z10 has some serious issues since upgrading to 10.3.1, one is the fact that the battery only lasts for 8 hours, the other is that it's almost impossible to answer calls (the slider doesn't respond properly). So the QA at BlackBerry is definitely lacking. I know Apple has been getting a lot of shit for the quality of their software lately, but in my experience with my current iPhone 6 (my first iPhone) it's really not that bad. It's a really good phone.

This is a very valid point. I actually think it's typical for every 'hot new language'.. it always seems to take time for a community to mature into an open and polite one (if the toxic mentality doesn't cause the language to implode before that).

..it will be replaced by systemd sooner or later. It's actually one of the long term systemd goals.

Ok so reading the slides they're planning on doing network management (byebye NetworkManager), Local DNS cache (yes please), mDNS responder, LLMNR responder, DNSSEC verification, NTP, sandboxing services and applications, OS/App/Container image formats, stateless systems, atomic node initialisations and updates and more. That is freaking awesome. Not only does it bring Linux distributions closer together.. it also takes the distributions as a whole to a new level. Instead of a kernel + some packages the future will bring us a true (GNU/)Linux/systemd operating system. I can understand this may seem scary to some but personally I really think this is awesome.

Good point. Also once this fork tanks we can all finally agree that systemd is *good enough* if not pretty great.

Why do people keep rehashing this without any arguments? We've deployed many RHEL7 servers and are really enjoying systemd. Unit files are vastly superior to init scripts, not to mention you get cgroups for free.

Actually Red Hat 6 is widely used in business desktops (especially on workstations) and Fedora is an ever-so-popular alternative for Ubuntu. The only thing I dislike about Fedora is that it's often too bleeding edge and that major releases only have a limited support lifetime.

Yes, I believe Slashdot's server is actually a Netbook left by CmdrTaco years ago. Who needs redundant dual-port disks with multiple controller paths, the ability to run more than 32GB RAM (with ECC), redundant power supplies, hot swappable disks, power supplies, fans and even PCI cards, centralized remote management and monitoring, motherboards built with components that actually last at least 3 years under stressful workloads and environments, 4-hour support contracts, certified hardware-software combinations so there is never any worry about compatibility, right?

So, IBM wants to focus more on cloud computing yet sells of the very hardware (System x) on which my company operates their cloud. I wonder if the System x Enterprise (like the X6 line of servers) are also moving to Lenovo, since they're not quite that low-end.

ugh.. how much I love <insert language of choice>. Slashdot is not unlike C++.. who uses HTML in comments anyway?

.. I want to start hacking around with it. But then I remember how much I love and I just don't care anymore.

I'm from the Netherlands and I did not know it aired on a public channel on the same day as in the US. I can't find any information about it either. All I know it airs on a premium channel 5 days after the US release, which is still not bad!