Presumably, out of the 677,775 tweets, 677,774 were about Hillary Clinton, and the rest about Obama.
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Twitter breaks bad news to 677,775 twits: You were duped by Russia
Remember those holy tech wars we used to have? Heh, good times
Re: "Religion gave way to pragmatism"?
Although I have used OSX, I'm far from an expert on its inner workings.
But regarding things like plist, at least you can delete them individually. Far preferable to the registry, I'd thought?
Even if launchd is comparable to systemd (I don't know), I'd say that having some monolithic thing like that that is owned by and maintained by a large corporation like Apple, whose existence depends on it working correctly, is not comparable to having systemd in Linux. I just don't like large monolithic and hard to grasp systems in the FOSS world. They tend to ossify and eventually need to be completely replaced.
They sure don't adhere to the original Unix idea.
Have an upvote for your thorough response!
Re: "something that isn't backed by anything of value can have value?"
Crytocurrency can be legitimized. In fact, it could be the replacement for plastic and paper sooner or later. It is very likely a good solution in the long term.
Something that requires you to burn large amounts of good energy just to pop out an electronic token at the end can't possibly be a good solution in the long term. It sounds more like the beginning of the end to me.
Luckily we have Intel fanboys that hate anyone saying AMDs are not bad.
And Apple haters that hate anyone paying good money for iThings or Macs. Even when an Android phone hits $1000.
And the habitual MS defender, for whom no amount of privacy invasion is enough, and no amount of Windows telling them what to do, and when, will annoy them. They don't care when the previously bundled applications are dumbed down and/or removed and turned into rent-ware either. Bricking is but a minor annoyance.
And the Linux hater, for whom a command line represents witchcraft that needs to be stamped out forever.
F-35 'incomparable' to Harrier jump jet, top test pilot tells El Reg
F-35 'incomparable' to Harrier jump jet, top test pilot tells El Reg
The price is pretty incomparable too.
And when will it be delivered? My guess is that it will be delivered soon after the carrier must be scrapped.
Nice toy, until you look at the price tag.
If anyone wanted to cripple us, right now would be a good time to sink the carrier.
P.S: Please try not to use double quoting in the Joey from Friends way...
.UK overseer Nominet abandons its own charitable foundation – and why this matters
I'm surprised it took this long!
I expected a grab on all the valuable Internet stuff, payed for by others in money, sweat and tears. Human nature. We need to let drift any institutions that get too big and full of themselves. Just get rid of them.
Same principle as not paying AGAIN to that puppy eyes wikipedia megalomaniac. Get rid of 'em.
Riding on the back of others' hard work.
Destroying the city to save the robocar
You GNOME it: Windows and Apple devs get a compelling reason to turn to Linux
Re: "there are much more suitable options for that"
I remember that well!
Pragmatism vs purity.
I might still have my Minix somewhere. Nice learning tool. It predated Linux, I believe. (I used Minix on an 8086 back in ca '87.)
I'd argue that being for a micro kernel architecture is being knowledgeable, but being against other more pragmatic solutions as a consequence of that is less so.
Thanks for the link to that nostalgic look back at a flame war! Linus was just as undiplomatic then as now, so no news there!
Re: So, 2018 will be the year of the Linux desktop because of Gnome?
Most of the time it involves copy-paste, as opposed to typing.
The only typing would be to input your password for "sudo".
I find this much faster than following directions on what menus to open in Windows (version dependent, not to mention language dependent).
Granted, I know the shell well enough to be able to identify if the command line is legit. This is where trusted sources of advice comes in. (Not that different from when using Windows. Don't do whatever someone on YouTube says will be great.)
Re: lack of good tools for GUI development
Seems Linux was good enough for Google to use internally for all its development.
And OSX, a Unix derivative, was good enough for Apple for development and end user products.
Guess real programmers can use tools that aren't babysitting them all the time. (Too much babysitting only gets in the way anyway.)
Feds may have to explain knowledge of security holes – if draft law comes into play
Intel’s Meltdown fix freaked out some Broadwells, Haswells
It gets worse: Microsoft’s Spectre-fixer wrecks some AMD PCs
Re: athlon
"Though if you choose to defer security updates for 30 days getting your PC bricked could be the last of your worries."
Paranoia. The vast majority of security issues are related to users running things they shouldn't run. I have yet to see a single virus detected (or stopped at any stage) by MS defender (or whatever it's called) on my machine.
Being bricked is sort of bad. Oh, Windows is saying it wants to update right now, as I type this! It doesn't say for how long it will disable my machine whilst updating. Nor any hint of the purpose of this update, or the extent of it. Typical arrogant MS.
As I was planning to actually use the PC right now, I think I'll just tell Windows Update to eff off.
Re: Meh Meh Meh
Perhaps they didn't know. But do you HONESTLY believe they wouldn't ship anyway if they did know? Such extreme naivety! We are talking multiple billions of losses here if a processor line was completely withdrawn, and the top brass is BUSINESS people -not engineers with pride and integrity! Grasp this: Business people and sales people don't have pride in the products! All they ever worry about is money. OK?
Mystery surrounds fate of secret satellite slung by SpaceX
Meltdown, Spectre bug patch slowdown gets real – and what you can do about it
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't modern X86 (x64) basically RISC architecture nowadays? Deep pipeline, very high frequencies, speculative execution, multiple execution units, and all the other benefits of RISC?
(It's been a few decades, so I may have forgotten a few things.)
I suppose the "reduced" in "RISC" may be somewhat missing, making it harder to verify security...
UK exam chiefs: About the compsci coursework you've been working on. It means diddly-squat
"You know those kids who have got parents who have written code professionally..... they are getting A* for the programming component. Not really a level playing field for those that have normal parents."
Well, at least it makes up a little bit for having abnormal parents.
"Same applies with coursework in some of the other subjects. Kids that have parents that can speak a language, excel in that MFL exam."
Yes, those with parents that can speak no language are really at a disadvantage. (And I'm not even joking now. Sadly.)
US Senators force vote on Ctrl-Z'ing America's net neutrality death
"The controversial repeal of net neutrality rules in America will go to a formal vote in Congress after sufficient lawmakers backed an effort to scrap it."
Rewrite that.
Scrap what? The repeal? Or net neutrality rules?
What is "sufficient lawmakers"? Do you mean "a sufficient number of lawmakers"? (As opposed to sufficiently fat ones, for example.) Also, clarify what "lawmakers" are.