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This kind of behavior is generally known as arrogance.

Consider Apple. They've never been a successful company in terms of their percentage of the total market, but for the last five years or so they've been consistently, massively profitable.

Massively? You used the word "massively." I don't think you know what it means.

Apple currently has a PE of 65. Their profits are miniscule.

Consider Apple. They've never been a successful company in terms of their percentage of the total market, but for the last five years or so they've been consistently, massively profitable.

Massively? You used the word "massively." I don't think you know what it means.

Apple currently has a PE of 65. Their profits are miniscule.

Ain't also has an apostrophe.

Unfortuniatily, the term has found its way onto Dictionary.com.

Cheers

Read this. You need one.

Wow, thanks for taking the time to define that word for us stupid slashdolters so that we may better understand your pun. I humbly appreciate your kind gesture.

Wow, thanks for taking the time to define that word for us stupid slashdolters so that we may better understand your pun. I humbly appreciate your kind gesture.

Wow, thanks for taking the time to define that word for us stupid slashdolters so that we may better understand your pun. I humbly appreciate your kind gesture.

Wow, thanks for taking the time to define that word for us stupid slashdolters so that we may better understand your pun. I humbly appreciate your kind gesture.

Wow, thanks for taking the time to define that word for us stupid slashdolters so that we may better understand your pun. I humbly appreciate your kind gesture.

Perhaps you should look up those words?

Here's one for you too buddy.

You're right. In that case, see the dictionary definition.

That's the second post of yours I've read this morning in which you spelled the word wrong. Really, there is just no excuse.

...that you can't spell hypocrite and either can't be bothered right-clicking and choosing "Dictionary" or you use a browser that sucks. (-:

obviously you didn't get the sarcasm, I forgot to add the tags for you...

If you knew how to speak/write English, then you would know that "it's" is a contraction for "it is" (see my previous post), so how does "We need it is light" sound like correct grammar to you ?

Not being able to edit posts was part of my point too, clearly the post I was replying to was idiotic...I must say the same to you as well as my response obvious went far above your head. english grammar impaired or just don't believe me?

Learn to read: He wrote "computers ... at airports and train stations" not "the schedule board at South Station".

He used South Station as a real example of bad network security. If it's bad there, there's no reason to think other such places do not have bad security practices. It is a logical extension that other aspects of a station's network could also be vulnerable due to poor security procedures.

Agism is not an attractive quality. While he probably is out to promote his business, give him some credit: most authors looking for coverage would have warned of hackers causing train crashes or some such nonsense.

Finally, it doesn't sound like a federal inditement to me at all; I'm pretty sure he wrote the article on his own, without any federal assistance.

Not sure about you folks but my mind doesn't need any ties.

Beliefs are too slow and difficult to change and are walled cleanly off from the realm of thinking.

I'm not sure where you read this 'dismal record' but as a french[man], I don't know about it

And as for separation from church and state in the US, given that your president swear on the bible, I'd say that it is pretty shallow.

And saying that atheism is a religion is a way religious people have to slander atheist, but atheists have no priest, no prayer, no mythology about the beginning or the end of the universe, no mythology about the 'after-life', something common to nearly all the religion.

• priests: Richard Dawkins and his ilk
• prayer: I've personally heard a number of Atheists pray to a "Holy Shit!"
• creation mythology: "In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded, eventually forming hydrogen, stars, planets, slime, monkeys and philosophers."
• armageddon mythology: "In the end of time, we're all gunna freeze in the dark." Fimbulwinter, anyone?
• afterlife: "There is definitely no afterlife. WYSIWYG."

• Disbelief in or denial of the existence of God or gods.
• The doctrine that there is no God or gods.
• Godlessness; immorality.

This applies whether you personally want to be considered as "religious" or not.

Perhaps you have religion confused with sacerdotalism, which is where all of the priests, ornamentation and other hocus pocus (itself a corruption of hoc est curpos meum, the Catholic forgiveness formula in Latin) comes from. If this is the case, then you can proudly state with a clear conscience that "I am not sacerdotal!"

I'm not sure where you read this 'dismal record' but as a french[man], I don't know about it

And as for separation from church and state in the US, given that your president swear on the bible, I'd say that it is pretty shallow.

And saying that atheism is a religion is a way religious people have to slander atheist, but atheists have no priest, no prayer, no mythology about the beginning or the end of the universe, no mythology about the 'after-life', something common to nearly all the religion.

• priests: Richard Dawkins and his ilk
• prayer: I've personally heard a number of Atheists pray to a "Holy Shit!"
• creation mythology: "In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded, eventually forming hydrogen, stars, planets, slime, monkeys and philosophers."
• armageddon mythology: "In the end of time, we're all gunna freeze in the dark." Fimbulwinter, anyone?
• afterlife: "There is definitely no afterlife. WYSIWYG."

• Disbelief in or denial of the existence of God or gods.
• The doctrine that there is no God or gods.
• Godlessness; immorality.

This applies whether you personally want to be considered as "religious" or not.

Perhaps you have religion confused with sacerdotalism, which is where all of the priests, ornamentation and other hocus pocus (itself a corruption of hoc est curpos meum, the Catholic forgiveness formula in Latin) comes from. If this is the case, then you can proudly state with a clear conscience that "I am not sacerdotal!"

evolution is the only theory of biological diversification over time that has significant scientific backing

I'm guessing you meant Astronomy, not Astrology.

I'm guessing you have too much of free time on your hands.*

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I'm guessing you meant Astronomy, not Astrology.

I'm guessing you have too much of free time on your hands.*

(No, I don't have a life,** thanks for asking.)

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(No, I don't have a life,** thanks for asking.)

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I'm guessing you have too much of free time on your hands.*

(No, I don't have a life,** thanks for asking.)

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I'm guessing you have too much of free time on your hands.*

(No, I don't have a life,** thanks for asking.)

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I'm guessing you have too much of free time on your hands.*

(No, I don't have a life,** thanks for asking.)

"Corporeal punishment?" Wow, physical and psychological punishment isn't enough, now you want to punish a person's soul, too?!?!?!

Hello eager student of English!

In the event that English is not your first language, please note that corporeal punishment would in fact be physical or bodily punishment.

Alternatively, if you are one of Slashdot's native speakers of English then congratulations on getting your apostrophes right and on correctly choosing between "to" and "too".

and will make you think seriously about more serious astrology (you'd be surprised how much can be done with under $1000 of equipment!)

I'm guessing you meant Astronomy, not Astrology. These two terms haven't been equivilent in quite a few years. Sorry, pet peeve.

and will make you think seriously about more serious astrology (you'd be surprised how much can be done with under $1000 of equipment!)

I'm guessing you meant Astronomy, not Astrology. These two terms haven't been equivilent in quite a few years. Sorry, pet peeve.

I have no idea what you meant by 'mealy mouthed', nor would most people

For help in understanding unfamiliar vocabulary, I recommend:

AskOxford
or
dictionary.com

It's easy to forget that many Slashdot posters do not have English as a first language and I should probably have used simpler terms. Your vocabulary actually seems quite good.

I claimed that it was as I have yet to be proven otherwise

You claimed what was what?

Your original claim was "Open Source is not a generic term. It is a term invented by the OSI and has a strict definition". You have now conceded, in your mealy mouthed way, that that is untrue but have moved on to splitting hairs over whether it was used as an adjective. I don't plan to wade through every link checking to see whether it was or not because it isn't relevant. The term "open source" was not invented by the OSI.

An apologist is one who argues in defense of something, in this case the person is arguing in defense of Microsoft's shoddy security practices. Not sure why you're bringing monopolistic practices into this.

For the most part, you'll be fine as long as you exercise some clue. Keep up to date on OS and application patches, run a good antivirus program, stay behind a firewall, and don't use insecure software (such as IE/Outlook); ...

By the way - your analogy was terrible.

Glad you liked it. It was intended to be a touch ridiculous, just like the parent's.