As a gross estimate, the odds are 1/4 that he would have predicted both elections successfully. I'd give it a bit longer before deciding that he's got all the answers.

Maybe you shouldn't have done rm -rf /

Don't you read Slashdot? http://linux.slashdot.org/stor...

I personally find I'm much more productive using recent Gnome than any other DE (I'm including OS X and Windows in this). I've never needed to configure something that gnome-tweak-tool didn't have a setting for, and I think I've been through at least two Fedora releases without needing even that. For me, the minimalism is a good thing as it means I'm not tempted to get distracted from what I should be doing by fiddling around with a gazillion options or rearranging widgets.

DIfferent strokes for different folks, I suppose.

You're just showing yourself to be even more of a dumbass.

You have a mother, right? You may even have a sister. How do you think they will feel to hear you referring to women as "bitches" and "cunts"?

Maybe if you ever get close to an actual cunt you'll realise they're rather awesome things and perhaps stop using the word in a derogatory manner.

Also: What we hear when we hear you say "SJW"

Given that Trump bulldozed the irreplaceable Menie dunes Site of Special Scientific Interest to build his golf course, planting a few shrubs would be the least he could do.

"No true Scotsman...."

Not sure how this is modded as offtopic. Seems well on topic to me. Maybe -1 flamebait might have been better.

Well don't use it then, and stop whining. No one's forcing this on you. Use a different distro instead. That's how the free market is supposed to work isn't it?

Systemd is LGPL but it doesn't matter what license it has if it's the copyright holder that's packaging and linking the commercial software alongside it. What Red Hat do with their commercial products is literally their business. It's up to you to choose to buy their stuff or not. All the Free stuff will remain Free - it's not like distros based on the Free RHEL sources such as Scientific Linux will be going away any time soon.

So you think the NSA and Redhat are engaging in a conspiracy with Ubuntu to implement a new init system that somehow has a hidden backdoor? FFS. Don't like it, don't use it. There's no shortage of distros that don't have systemd as the default init. It's all open source under Free licenses. Do what you want with it.

No, but they might want to adjust the thermostat, set the oven timer or enable the burglar alarm.

That is almost exactly the way that voting works in the UK. Anyone can go and observe a count, and verify that the seals on the ballot boxes haven't been tampered with before they are opened.

Much of what you describe is CyanogenMod's Privacy Guard feature.

Privacy Guard is enabled for all apps by default. The first time an app requests a permission, the user is asked to allow/disallow that permission, and can choose whether to have that choice remembered or be asked every time. Disallowed permissions simply present the app with false data. Apps work fine, they just think you have no friends/live in the middle of the Atlantic/never connect to WiFi etc etc.

Consumers can always choose Nexus or Google Play Edition devices if timely updates to the latest Android are wanted.

I'm sorry - do you really have an electoral system where some votes are simply not counted? And people are fine with that?