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Comment Why phone carriers and not power companies? Easy: (Score 2) 107

In Spain, power companies are untouchable - remember the power outage which took the entire electrical network down for almost two days several month ago? Well, no one has been blamed for it.The reason is very clear: When high-rank politicians retire from politics, they are hired as "consultants" by these electricity companies getting big bucks for doing essentially nothing (we call it "revolving doors"). Therefore, politicians are very careful of not bothering their "retirement angels". Approving a law which would force the electricity companies to spend money in safeguards, redundant systems, etc., might put their "golden retirement" in jeopardy.
This happens since the moment the ex-president Felipe González (supposedly "socialist") privatised the main power companies in Spain... and then became part of the Board of one of them.
Telephone operators, on the other hand, are not as involved in politics as power companies are, so they are more "vulnerable" to laws which force them to comply with minimum standards of service as they don't have a way of "retaliate" later.

Comment Re:Could you...? (Score 1) 26

That will depend on Microsoft. The SoC most likely has the dtsi files since it is basically the same a s the DGX spark, but the boards dts files will need to be supplied by the manufacture. Both are required to create the DTB blobs required for boot. I would be very surprised if Microsoft provided them. They will say WSL is enough.

Comment Re:Unconstitutional (Score 1) 164

"Ultimately, whether it is legal in the United States to falsely shout "fire" in a theater depends on the circumstances in which it is done and the consequences of doing it. The act of shouting "fire" when there are no reasonable grounds for believing one exists is not in itself a crime, and nor would it be rendered a crime merely by having been carried out inside a theatre, crowded or otherwise. "

If you were trying to show that it is illegal, you made a poor choice.

Comment Re:Good founders actually meet with workers (Score 1) 91

"Similarly, some of the most famous generals were notorious for not being in their command center, and being found sitting in some foxhole talking to a corporal or sergeant."

Which is why most armies got the butts kicked by the Germans, and why the Germans got trounced by the US.
The more you need to direct the troops with orders, the less flexible they are.

Comment Re:systemd.bsodd (Score 1) 25

It will as soon as with the next rolling upgrade be integrated as "systemd.bsodd". It might break boot, logging, TCP/IP routing and power off, will require all system configs to be encoded in cuneiform, but realistically there's no alternative because the old DRM panic screen is obsolete and beyond maintainability.

Get off my lawn, Poettering!

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