it is great to see that "kinder gentler Linus" has gone away and good old "kick 'em in the ass Linus" is back.

Linus' outrageous remarks serve kernel development well

youtube? vimeo?

i don't want to talk about it

basically, been burned so bad by comcast it physically hurts.

you have very little idea what any link is. just because it's from google doesn't mean it's harmless.

strange, just a very few weeks ago systemd was "a bad idea" (http://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/2014/debconf14/webm/QA_with_Linus_Torvalds.webm). i guess the situation has improved, or something.

it isn't "reliance on Google.com" that causes this. google has insinuated itself into very very many http transactions in such a way that the transactions do not complete if google is offline.

the link works for me with xubuntu maverick and firefox 3.6.18

weather caused a 24 hour delay. will try again tomorrow.

i suggest that you read the recent (and not so recent) reports that show greater risk of cancer under cell phone radiation.

that is spelled $#!+

encryption only works if the bad guys don't have the keys

yes, we did

Are the negative effects of the Y2K10 bug worse than those of the Y2K bug ?

it took forever to get it running. and then the mouse was unhappy. i don't know whether i want to remember or forget.