They may be targeting the criminals, but they are affecting honest and innocent people —young people— as well. What's next? Tossing hand grenades at shoplifters?
They are making an unmeasured and indiscriminate use of force.
I find that it looks rather clean, and for some reason I don't see interpost-ad breakage everywhere they're blocked. I hope they did something about the problem of responses to down modded posts
(they looked as if they were responses to other posts above)
I, for one, welcome our new errr.../. layout things overlords.
Well, I don't intend to be a Canonical apologist, but they do make some stuff... Bazaar and Storm (on top of which Launchpad sits) as well as upstart.
As for Launchpad... they have been saying it will be fully open source Real Soon Now(TM) for ages, and who knows if/when they'll release it —after all, they're not legally obliged to do so.
You see here a pair of boxer shorts. u - a pair of boxer shorts. What do you want to wear? [au ?*] u You are now wearing a pair of boxer shorts. You are being constricted! Your penis shrinks! Your voice turns acute! What do you want to take off? [pqru ?*] u You can't, they're cursed. You begin praying to The Lady. "Thou art a cheap bastard, mortal" "Thou should buy thy shorts!" Your are being constricted! You die... Do you want your possessions identified? [ynq] q
Well, yeah, I didn't see the need for the GP to post the supposed "patent troll's" location. The summary already said that they were based in the US, I didn't see the need for this information (even if false) to be posted, it seemed to me that my (joke) post was implicit in the original posting, so I wrote that silly message calling down teh Internetz hate machine as a way of mocking the act of posting personal information of someone whose actions are scorned in an online community, especially after seeing the reaction to the story of Megan Meier. That said, I must admit that I would have enjoyed seeing some exploding vans.
But perhaps I misunderstood the original posting, and s/he was just trying to further demonstrate that the company was US-based...
Well, I don't know what causes this (I don't know much about the kernel... upgrading hoses module-loading configuration?), but in Ubuntu you have to reinstall the 'binary blob' nVidia driver when you install an upgrade to the kernel, easy stuff with Synaptic, otherwise it breaks (failed to load the kernel module, it says). Perhaps you had to do that too with the driver for your wireless card in Suse?
I think you missed the GP's point. He didn't ever say anything about the superiority of one language over another (you're making the absolutely ungrounded assumption that the toll they're using is somehow necessary, or better, than other tool that they will have available) he just said that a language is molded by the experiences of its speakers, and that it molds its (new?) speakers as well.
To put this in the language-is-a-tool perspective, it means that they made their tool to be useful to them along the way, and maybe it is worth to know what was useful to them. Just like different hammers are useful for different nails (why are hammers analogies so popular on/.?). Maybe knowing what their nails were would be useful, or at least interesting, who knows?
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They may be targeting the criminals, but they are affecting honest and innocent people —young people— as well. What's next? Tossing hand grenades at shoplifters?
They are making an unmeasured and indiscriminate use of force.
I often get emails offering a solution for your problem, perhaps I could get you hooked.
Come on! It doesn't look so bad!
I find that it looks rather clean, and for some reason I don't see interpost-ad breakage everywhere they're blocked. I hope they did something about the problem of responses to down modded posts (they looked as if they were responses to other posts above)
I, for one, welcome our new errr... /. layout things overlords.
What a most insightful comment! Someone mod this guy up!
What, you mean this isn't apri's fools?
Well, I don't intend to be a Canonical apologist, but they do make some stuff... Bazaar and Storm (on top of which Launchpad sits) as well as upstart.
As for Launchpad... they have been saying it will be fully open source Real Soon Now(TM) for ages, and who knows if/when they'll release it —after all, they're not legally obliged to do so.
Damn you Slashdot! Why didn't you give me modpoints this day :(
**Shakes fist at cloud
Is that the game where you kill BSDs?
Python compiles to bytecode, which is in turn executed line by line.
Perhaps BeOS, AmigaOS and their clones?
Uhhhh... last time I checked, peruvians already had these.
You see here a pair of boxer shorts.
u - a pair of boxer shorts.
What do you want to wear? [au ?*] u
You are now wearing a pair of boxer shorts.
You are being constricted! Your penis shrinks! Your voice turns acute!
What do you want to take off? [pqru ?*] u
You can't, they're cursed.
You begin praying to The Lady.
"Thou art a cheap bastard, mortal"
"Thou should buy thy shorts!"
Your are being constricted!
You die...
Do you want your possessions identified? [ynq] q
You silly Fizzle Fry, Comic Sans is the vital type face of knowledge!
Wasn't that precisely the parent post's point?
Well, yeah, I didn't see the need for the GP to post the supposed "patent troll's" location. The summary already said that they were based in the US, I didn't see the need for this information (even if false) to be posted, it seemed to me that my (joke) post was implicit in the original posting, so I wrote that silly message calling down teh Internetz hate machine as a way of mocking the act of posting personal information of someone whose actions are scorned in an online community, especially after seeing the reaction to the story of Megan Meier. That said, I must admit that I would have enjoyed seeing some exploding vans.
But perhaps I misunderstood the original posting, and s/he was just trying to further demonstrate that the company was US-based...
Quickly, let's begin harassing them! Anonymous does not forget! Anonymous does not forgive!
Checking on Wikihack, you can only eat rings when you are polymorphed into either a rock mole, a rust monster or xorn.
So, if they DID eat a ring of teleportation as you say, the only remaining question would be, did Microsoft zap them with the wand of polymorph?
I can't believe I just said that...
Well, I don't know what causes this (I don't know much about the kernel... upgrading hoses module-loading configuration?), but in Ubuntu you have to reinstall the 'binary blob' nVidia driver when you install an upgrade to the kernel, easy stuff with Synaptic, otherwise it breaks (failed to load the kernel module, it says). Perhaps you had to do that too with the driver for your wireless card in Suse?
I think you missed the GP's point. He didn't ever say anything about the superiority of one language over another (you're making the absolutely ungrounded assumption that the toll they're using is somehow necessary, or better, than other tool that they will have available) he just said that a language is molded by the experiences of its speakers, and that it molds its (new?) speakers as well.
To put this in the language-is-a-tool perspective, it means that they made their tool to be useful to them along the way, and maybe it is worth to know what was useful to them. Just like different hammers are useful for different nails (why are hammers analogies so popular on /.?). Maybe knowing what their nails were would be useful, or at least interesting, who knows?
Or have I missed your point?
Sire, I believe that the parent poster was referring to this.