claim: When convinced he’s right — which is often — he turns his head at the podium to the right and left, gazing above his audience into the near distance…
in fewer words: “Obama’s teleprompters make him look haughty”
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The quote:
Ted Ts’o, a Linux kernel maintainer who joined Google in January 2010, said both Novell and Red Hat ship patches that were rejected by the Linux kernel but no one describes their distributions as Linux forks.
It’s nothing new,” he said. “Novell has a number of patches and SUSE ships with code somebody rejected but no one says Novell forked the Linux code. Red Hat ships SystemTap and no one says Red Hat forked the kernel.”
Ted ought to know that systemtap is not a kernel patch. It has never been a kernel patch. It has never been posted to LKML as if it were a kernel patch. This makes his anecdote a lousy simile to Android, whose kernel does contain controversial patches. Portraying systemtap as if it were “rejected” or had any similarity to a kernel fork gives a completely false impression of the nature and history of the project.
I hope there was further context given at the conference, or else he was misquoted. Otherwise, the conference attendees were mislead, and our project was needlessly slighted.
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A tasty treat? A reminder of fun Halloween nights? In the Queen’s Ontario, no. This here is a crime scene.
Apparently, on statutory holidays such as today, it is unlawful for those few stores who are open to actually sell groceries. Our neighbourhood drug store taped off those portions of the store where food basics like milk & eggs were refrigerated, and sheepishly explained that provincial (?) law forces them to do so. One could still go and buy stuff like the latest pink lipstick, roasted almonds, potato chips, sixteen kinds of soft drinks, chocolate bars, toothpaste. Just not stuff actually good for you.
At another open retail outlet – a little variety store attached to a gas station – no such nonsense was observed. Their few groceries were actually on sale. If they are exempt from that law, the law is stupid. If they just flaunt the law, they are smart and the law is still stupid. I subversively but proudly purchased the above-pictured item, along with some other basic groceries. You know, for the family-feeding that’s in it. And I’ll do it again any other holiday, coppers.
The (provincial ?) government is not just in our bedrooms. It is in our refrigerators. Get out of there, you bastards.
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