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That would be limited to west oakland which has always been extremely politically insular (tied up in racism and racial politics from last century). The east bay at large, especial…

The wife was mentioned because she was called out in the earlier article as a problem. We don't know if she was actually a problem or not. We, and specifically you, don't know enou…

It sounds like you're describing KAL007: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Air_Lines_Flight_007 There's a larger list of airliner shootdowns here, and this is the only incident w…

Correct.

You're hinting that it's not in POSIX, and this is true. There are many standards and cross-platform interfaces defined outside of POSIX. Some explicit and top-down, some organical…

These aren't myths, they're platform guarantees. It just so happens that a few of the most common unixes (Linux, BSD) implement a very good /dev/urandom and the author is suggestin…

It's not important because you should use it in your projects. It's important because other people will use it, sometimes inadvertently.

Let's be fair: Starting out famous is an enormous boon. At the same time it's possible for nobodies to be heard as well, provided their message is well presented.

The subject I'm responding to is "winning the lotto." That's why it's a poor comparison.

It's not an exceptional level of wealth for this region. Not even top 10%.

"Except that we don't see CPUs being astonishingly creative in coming up with reasons why they shouldn't have to follow a clear, unambiguous program instruction." That's the compil…

The bank didn't make the laws and doesn't run OFAC. The government does.

Neither do I, but they almost always mention my employer -- that's what we're talking about.

You may be the odd one out then. I've spent a fair amount of time in lines at the bank and most people are quite chatty.

Really? That reaction strikes me as quite odd. Do you not chit-chat with tellers at your bank in person?

To be fair there's some circular reasoning here. A contract itself is only valid and legal according to the law of a particular nation. Those pieces of paper had no equivalence of …

There's plenty of room for both. Many useful, worthwhile applications won't ever really push a machine to its limits, rather they primarily involve bringing structure and order to …

Can you elaborate? I don't understand this perspective.

There are plenty of ways to kill pid 1. The major concern is simply software error, which is another reason why the current systemd design is poor. But if you'd like a concrete exa…

That is indeed my point. The reason: pid 1 is special on unix. Here's a pretty decent article on the subject: http://ewontfix.com/14/

We already do. I think most people in this discussion aren't realizing that the current sysV init system is an extremely small pid 1 /sbin/init, and most of the logic in external r…

"But there are technical reasons for systemd to run as init: A key feature is to precisely track whether or not a service is running or not" This is not true. Tracking a running se…

Your assertion is strictly false. All features of this new process invocation system could be implemented without making a "new init system." That's my primary point in commenting …

Sure. What I think is unclear that I intend to highlight is that systemd (and yes, upstart) have intentionally and unnecessarily created this technical conflict.

There is no "turtles" issue here. Pid 1 is special - if it dies, the system panics. It is good design to keep pid 1 as simple as possible and put the complex job logic in a sub-pro…