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I disagree, nothing in the issues text says they are forbidden to use the server. It's not a problem for Google, it's a problem for distributions which don't change the default.

If Google removed the DNS entry they'd have to reconfigure all of their own servers, too. Not very probable.

Oh, Germany learned a lot and the Marshall plan succeeded in saving Europe. Germany is now surrounded by friendly nations and no longer a military threat.

I think Marcus Brigstocke says it best: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsaKgz1v-f8

Germans economic power has been enormous before the introduction of the euro, while countries like Greek had been struggling for a long while. Germany not paying reparations to Greece for WW2 might have played a role there.

But why enter in a trade union in the first place? Right, the oligarchs made Greece do it. However borrowing from the Deutsche Bank and expecting them to be nice and fair about it sounds naive to me.

Many people don't get it, but the EU is mainly about trade. Not so much about democracy or social equality. That being said, there is some redistribution of wealth between countries:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budget_of_the_European_Union#Ne...

Yes, more lazy admins. Lifelong learning anyone? They can't vote because they've been using Debian for free all this time. Oh, the entitlement.

Go ahead fork it.

I'm confident systemd will modernize Linux servers and desktops alike. And if by next year there is something better, systemd will be replaced.

Just take a look at device filessystems. Anyone remember devfsd? Let me cite wikipedia:

"While devfs was a step forward, it had several disadvantages of its own.[2] Since Linux version 2.5 devfs has been succeeded by udev."

I just wanted to note that 60k/yr is not that much money. I think it more like 'slightly upper' middle class.

For example, the average income per person in Germany is at 41k Euro. For the US it is $51,939 per household, already adjusted for inflation.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Household_income_in_the_United_...

Oops: That's not even middle class anymore http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_middle_class ?

We tried to rent an appartment in Cologne. Took us nearly a year. I would never again try to rent from private landlords.

But once we decided it's okay for us to pay provision we got a nice new flat from a company within 2 month. The credit of the provision basically raises the rent for the first few years, but at least we didn't have to deal with landlords anymore. There were too much forms, credit checks and awkward talks.

I like the DHCP attack vector which was mentioned in the RedHat posting. DHCP clients invoke shell scripts.

> Sendmail 9 is the worst, most un-Unixlike piece of software.

So you'd say UUCP support is the reason for sendmail being 'un-Unixlike'? Isn't UUCP, you know, like the historic essence of Unix?

Anyone remember ikeaheights?

Nice blog post.

The internet is an echo chamber.

I'm happy DHHs keynote brought some sense back into the discussion. Fowlers and Becks comments are great, too.

Germany has 80 million, but the US has a low overall population density. Which makes area-wide coverage more expensive I guess.

Yes, but we are doing sooo well in our twenties and thirties, why would we unionize....

I think we idealize our jobs. They're stressful and dangerous. Stress, obesity, back, blood circulation and respiratory problems do kill eventually.

Then there is depression, working alone, never going outside.

But hey, you could always become a consultant: travel much, eat badly, work everywhere, ignore ergonomics...

And one more thing, I wouldn't compare myself to the millions of unemployed, or low-wage workers, but to the upper middle class.

ChatSecure is using XMPP

You could just move to another country and you'd be subject to their law. And that's probably because the idea of nationalism became important in the 18th century.

Sure there are universal human rights, but that's still new and many countries don't honor them: minorities are often denied basic human rights, some countries still have the death penalty, etc.

So what about that Linux client...

I think the calculation usually goes like that:

  * Take a day to come up with "estimates" for the project,
    can't bill that time of course.
  * Sell fantasy gant chart to the customer.
  * Take 10-20% of the projects time away for "project management".
  * Actually develop the software.
  * Fix "bugs" until customer goes silent.

If you want good estimates you need to take estimates and project management more serious and get away from that waterfall methodology.

Ok, now what about the income part? Is it ad-based? Which ad provider? Do you plan to sell licenses, etc?

The argument makes no sense. URLs are not meant to point to the same resource forever. They are not 'permanent'.

And Google won't just start billing his credit card without consent...

I got a root shell on a Firefox OS phone, just started 'adb' and got 'root@android'.

We should call it by it's proper name "Android/FirefoxOS"

I don't think there is an actual maven IDE. You normally use it from the command line, since it's integration into IDEs is serverly (eclipse...) lacking.

Is it true IT wages are stagnating?

Yeah, his response made me laugh out loud for like 30 seconds straight.

How uninformed and naiv can one CEO be? Did he hear about the secret courts at all?

Author probably never led any big project, and never experienced the amount of criticism one gets for doing anything. Furthermore the critics are the real dictators, having done nothing besides using (probably for free) your product they are the know-it-alls. Sure it's good to be humble, but you shouldn't listen to everybody. As for the designers, more often than not it isn't hybris, but miscommunication. Or maybe they're just lacking in public relations.

And then there is this huge community of interface-conservatives, they are against change per se...

Wow, that missed the mark.

I always thought big media invented the harlem shake, because they failed to see Gangnam Style rising for several months.

I've been using computers for over 20 years and believe me, every one of these actions has worked at some point.

Clicking might get the application into another state, or at least get the operating system involved in killing it of. Pressing return might answer hidden input fields (wrong focus, broken modal dialogs). Pressing escape might help exit one of these. Pressing ctrl-alt-del gets the OS involved... etc. etc.

What UI experts ignore, is the fact that a crashed/freezing application is no longer in a well-defined state. Therefore the apps logic no longer applies.

Threads like these show the ongoing decline of hacker news.

I can't follow the "breaking the rules" argument in this thread: They were talking to several people at Apple and were told everything is ok.

Additionally Apples rules are not clear guidelines, everybody is in some kind of validation.

I guess these are kernel security patches. You know why there are no patches for Debian stables? Because, no one bothers anymore to find stuff in 2.6

Ubuntu has lots of releases, so you don't need to sit on a broken piece of technology for ages. Oh and there is no gnome-shell in Debian stable.

Imho using an Ubuntu release is gradually easier than following Debian testing.

And Ubuntu is security hardened. Take a look at this list, Apparmor, stack protection, (more) secure sysctl settings:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Features