triffidhunter

Wait, I thought that private companies can censor whoever they want? Presumably that means they can also charge people whatever they want, and if you don't like it, build your own ISP.

What if the trade war was already going on, and we just refused to fight it? I think that only benefited a few people. The Walton family, for example.

If other countries are propping up their industries, and we fail to respond, that's a disadvantage. There are also national security concerns. It's not all of one or the other, but there may be a balance and that's worth exploring further, I think.

There are plenty of good reasons to make a /boot. Encrypted laptops for example.

The Fedora changes are bikeshedding. They start with wanting to change something, and then find a justification. Why not just put all the executables files in /Program Files/?

All this to save a few bytes in $PATH, to avoid problems with systemd, and to avoid fixing udev.

I'm sure you're right. Shouldn't Paypal just be able to give a yes or no answer to the question of if any donations came from California, without turning over all the records to Sony? If the jurisdiction is really what is at stake here.

But... I am no lawyer, so there must be issues I don't understand here.

> I was with you until here. T'so is quoted as writing that btrfs has a lot of the same design ideas of ReiserFS,

When I was using reiserfs years ago, it ate all my data (/home unraveled). I like the features, and it was nice and fast for the time but I've held a grudge against it for years as a result. Looking at dumps of the on disk data structures showed massive corruption.

At work, we used it for a long time in a project where tail-packing is a huge win (many many small files). Never had any problems there.

So, it doesn't really suck I just had a bad experience.

It's easy to identify with wrongly convicted people. It happens, and it's widely reported, but it's rare. Many people are so horrified by the thought of going to prison for something they didn't do that they forget how unusual it is.

Because he was a programmer, contributing to Linux, people on /. and elsewhere wanted him to not be guilty. They identified with him on some level. As the evidence started to mount against him, it made people look for crazy ways in which he could not be guilty.

I agree with you, he's a psychopath. This new story is just further confirmation that he's lost touch with reality. All you have to do is go back and read his postings to linux-kernel to realize he's also a huge dick.

Oh, and reiserfs sucks.

The more systems there are, the more likely this kind of thing is.

That's ok, arxiv.com is smarter than everyone.

https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=site:arxiv.com&hl=...