The trouble is, because the idiot vote in the USA is so large
Bullshit. Be intellectually honest for once in your life. People who don't share your viewpoint aren't idiots, and dismissing them as such simply exposes your own insecurities.
You could say it that way, but it's simplified to the point of meaninglessness.
On the other hand, it's good for inspiring those who don't want to try to achieve because they'll feel like the handouts are coming, so I guess I see why you think it's an intelligent way to articulate the difference.
And leaving it decentralized makes the system much more robust, and fosters an environment where more innovation can happen. I think that's a much bigger (and existing) advantage that trumps your theoretical bigger audience.
All very well and good, and the completely unrelated vulnerability in IE should also be fixed. But that still has nothing to do with the Safari vulnerability. Your deflection skills are weak.
No, it must have been luck. Or handed to him. That's the way it must be, because it must. If I can't denigrate the achievements of the successful, then I may start feeling like a failure. No way will that be allowed on my watch.
Your attitude of dismissing something you don't even have the first inkling of how to accomplish as mere luck floors me. If I wasn't aware that it's just sour grapes because you want to be Slashdot cool for the other anti-MS fudders around here, I'd wonder about your intelligence.
Actually, I suppose it is possible you honestly believe that to be true, but I'd prefer to give you the benefit of the doubt. After all, despite your awkward phrasing and down-with-rich-people horseshit, you don't seem like too much of an idiot.
They built the monopoly in the first place, you know. Saying otherwise is just anti-MS zealotry trying to be unkind to Gates, in spite of the fact that essentially grew the personal computing industry into what it is today based on moxie and business sense.
All a malicious website needs to do is push some sort of malware to the user's desktop, then wait and hope they run it. There is no requirement for IE to do anything, that just happens to be a path to another vulnerability that can increase the danger from this one.
Simply throwing a file on the desktop with a familiar icon and a malicious payload would be enough to get a number of users to click it. Bam, compromised.
You want the right analogy for this situation? It's like walking into an open restaurant, looking for a table where people are getting up to leave, and eating the food off their plate. It's not really harming anybody, but it's still a scummy thing to do.
Java the language and Java the platform are not at all the same thing. OpenJDK refers to an implementation of the platform, which includes the tools, the API, and the VM.
It's mostly written in Java (the language), by the way.
By the by, reading that first link made my brain hurt. When is GNU going to learn that the language of doom ("shackled," "trap," etc.) is a good way to ensure that you preach only to the choir?
You're an asshole because you've somehow missed the fact that the vast majority of people don't have the skills to do as you suggest, and you deride them for it.
Yeah, poor us with our incredibly diverse entertainment option that weren't even envisioned 20 years ago. Shame the people who put all the work into creating and distributing things still want to eat and have somewhere to live, otherwise we'd have a utopia.
That must be some interesting new system of logic, which is probably the same one that comes up with this "right to free entertainment" mindset in the first place.
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I think you're vastly overestimating the number of people who actually care enough and know enough to do this.
Good thing you didn't go for the ones who care, it would be vanishingly small.
Bullshit. Be intellectually honest for once in your life. People who don't share your viewpoint aren't idiots, and dismissing them as such simply exposes your own insecurities.
Oh come off it, Salon's not that bad.
You could say it that way, but it's simplified to the point of meaninglessness.
On the other hand, it's good for inspiring those who don't want to try to achieve because they'll feel like the handouts are coming, so I guess I see why you think it's an intelligent way to articulate the difference.
How dare you point out the logical flaws in the free entertainment arguments. You are obviously anti-freedom.
And leaving it decentralized makes the system much more robust, and fosters an environment where more innovation can happen. I think that's a much bigger (and existing) advantage that trumps your theoretical bigger audience.
I'd have to say Nintendo has the entire open source world beat hands down so far as gaming is concerned.
All very well and good, and the completely unrelated vulnerability in IE should also be fixed. But that still has nothing to do with the Safari vulnerability. Your deflection skills are weak.
No, it must have been luck. Or handed to him. That's the way it must be, because it must. If I can't denigrate the achievements of the successful, then I may start feeling like a failure. No way will that be allowed on my watch.
Your attitude of dismissing something you don't even have the first inkling of how to accomplish as mere luck floors me. If I wasn't aware that it's just sour grapes because you want to be Slashdot cool for the other anti-MS fudders around here, I'd wonder about your intelligence.
Actually, I suppose it is possible you honestly believe that to be true, but I'd prefer to give you the benefit of the doubt. After all, despite your awkward phrasing and down-with-rich-people horseshit, you don't seem like too much of an idiot.
They built the monopoly in the first place, you know. Saying otherwise is just anti-MS zealotry trying to be unkind to Gates, in spite of the fact that essentially grew the personal computing industry into what it is today based on moxie and business sense.
All a malicious website needs to do is push some sort of malware to the user's desktop, then wait and hope they run it. There is no requirement for IE to do anything, that just happens to be a path to another vulnerability that can increase the danger from this one.
Simply throwing a file on the desktop with a familiar icon and a malicious payload would be enough to get a number of users to click it. Bam, compromised.
The actual vulnerability is that Safari downloaded files without the user's permission. Trying to make this a Windows issue smacks of fanboyism.
I'm sorry, have you just started coming to this site, or are you willfully ignorant?
You want the right analogy for this situation? It's like walking into an open restaurant, looking for a table where people are getting up to leave, and eating the food off their plate. It's not really harming anybody, but it's still a scummy thing to do.
Java the language and Java the platform are not at all the same thing. OpenJDK refers to an implementation of the platform, which includes the tools, the API, and the VM.
It's mostly written in Java (the language), by the way.
By the by, reading that first link made my brain hurt. When is GNU going to learn that the language of doom ("shackled," "trap," etc.) is a good way to ensure that you preach only to the choir?
Yeah, and lord knows she deserves that entertainment for free, because... um... I don't know. But she sure deserves it.
Don't mistake vocal complaints on Slashdot with the popularity of an opinion/software feature/anything at all.
It's a terrible mistake, because the people around here are weird. Deliberately so, it seems.
Not that I have an opinion about this particular story myself, just wanted to point that out.
You're an asshole because you've somehow missed the fact that the vast majority of people don't have the skills to do as you suggest, and you deride them for it.
Or you're stupid. Your pick, really.
Violence in response to inconvenience?
And you people wonder why no one takes you seriously.
Yeah, poor us with our incredibly diverse entertainment option that weren't even envisioned 20 years ago. Shame the people who put all the work into creating and distributing things still want to eat and have somewhere to live, otherwise we'd have a utopia.
That must be some interesting new system of logic, which is probably the same one that comes up with this "right to free entertainment" mindset in the first place.
Well, that and it's a superior delivery mechanism on pretty much every front. But the conspiracy factor makes much more sense to me.
I desire to have a magical pony factory in my downstairs bathroom. Doesn't mean it's gonna happen.