Could not care less...
It's been a cesspit of explicit and commercial spam for the last year or so.
I left it before the announcement.

This is proper identity management. Gone wrong. It's still cheaper than fired people retaining access to privileged information.

His firm was going through changes, both in terms of the systems it used and the people it employed. His original manager had been recently laid off and sent to work from home for the rest of his time at the firm and in that period _he had not renewed Mr Diallo's contract_ in the new system.

Sooo, it was not really the machine that fired Mr. Diallo. It was a process, that took the absence of renewal seriously. I am sure we (humans) have done such things in the past. Probably with gov and mil jobs mostly.

I they get caught.
If he respected said policies, he would not be in trouble now.

Soon enough, there will be a market for softwareless, or open tractors...
There is already one company here (Hungary) trying to do something like that, albeit for different reasons.

It's easy.
If you have THC in your system, you are busted. No need to quantify - any amount is prohibited.
It's what we do here with alcohol. It doesn't help much, but it's at least really easy to apply and interpret...

That is so not a real problem. Just tint the windows. Or not.
More fun for me.

nearly cost them $3 million
cost them nearly $3 million

So do these two mean the same thing?
I feel like in the second case they lost the money, in the first they came close but did not.

Topol M is a land based missile. Bulava is submarine based. It never was intended to replace Topol but instead it's supposed to be based on it.

Interplanetary and interstellar void. Pretty cold place. As big as anything.

Even this UClibc would fit.

funny, that was my thought exactly.

Is it only my feeling that Ulrich and some others (Theo, Joerg) have anger management issues?

It's like Ulrich takes arbitrary input about his project as personal insults. Then he gets really worked up over them and blurts some offensive response. That is probably way less offensive than he originally intended but still...

It's such a shame I have so narrow a view of these people. They might be fun drinking buddies. :-D

Fortunately VLC isn't the only option on Linux.
Or anywhere else.

Care to name the book you are referring to as "entirely new crap"?

I have read a few of his books, but none of them were really new. They just told the story of the creative process based on his father's rather unwieldy mound of notes.