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  1. Re:uhuh sure on Apple Now Relaying All FaceTime Calls Due To Lost Patent Dispute · · Score: 2

    There will always be a possibility of intercept as long as Apple keeps the source code secre and prevents you from rebuilding and installing the software on the mobile computer. You would have to use free software on hardware controlled by you in order to avoid it.

  2. Re:I never understood the principle. on Syria: a Defining Moment For Chemical Weapons? · · Score: 1, Troll

    Not that the US follows the Geneva Convention either. Depleted Uranium and white phosphorous are somehow excusable violations.

    You're missing the point; the US uses these weapons for good, Syria uses it on their own people.

  3. Re: Mavericks eh? on Inside OS X Mavericks · · Score: 2

    And Linux 3.11, Linux for Workgroups.

  4. Re:CodePlex on Q&A With Outercurve Foundation President Jim Jagielski Tomorrow 12-2pm ET · · Score: 0

    Have you actually looked at what Outercurve and CodePlex is? It has nothing to do with shared source just so you know.

  5. Re:Here we go... on US Forces Ready To Strike Syria If Ordered · · Score: 1

    Yes, it is too bad we were ordained by God to police the world. It would be so much better if there was some sort of organization that could represent the collective will of the nations of the world in situations like this. Maybe we could set up something like that. New York City might be a good place.

    I'm thankful that we actually have a nation that is capable to and that will execute on things like this. The USA doesn't need to get involved. No one will force them to go into Syria and help with the situation.

  6. Re:Meanwhile on Linux 3.11-rc7 Release Celebrates 22 Years of Linux · · Score: 2

    Apple Macs was 32 bit since the start in 1984. The Motorola 68000 only used 24 bits for addressing though.

  7. Re:Whoah whoah on Linux 3.11-rc7 Release Celebrates 22 Years of Linux · · Score: 1

    That might very well be the case. All I can say is that the shortage of new contributors is a recurring topic. I don't know exactly why new people are more interested in contributing to other projects, but I have my theories.

  8. Re:Whoah whoah on Linux 3.11-rc7 Release Celebrates 22 Years of Linux · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Nothing wrong except that it may keep new contributors away. There's no fun in contributing to a project where the boss is an asshole.

  9. Re:Meanwhile on Linux 3.11-rc7 Release Celebrates 22 Years of Linux · · Score: 1

    Meanwhile Windows has gone from Windows 3.11 to 95, 98, __, 2K, XP, 2K3, _______, Windows 7 and finally Windows 8 and each and every time made huge progress!

    Linux? Same old login prompt!

    JK. At least my comment is better than the two first ones.

    I think the picture will be slightly different if you only look at the NT kernel.
    Comparing kernels with kernels and so on.

  10. Re:Whoah whoah on Linux 3.11-rc7 Release Celebrates 22 Years of Linux · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Compared to the way Jobs and Ballmer treat customers I much prefer Linus, even if he is a bit rude sometimes.

  11. Only _girl_friends? on NSA Officers Sometimes Spy On Love Interests · · Score: 2

    I guess there's no one spying on their boyfriends at the NSA then.

  12. Re:Humans on NSA Officers Sometimes Spy On Love Interests · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Actually it's not that unlikely that your girlfriend/boyfriend might be a terrorist if you work for the NSA. Just think of it, the perfect way to infiltrate the system. If anything this should be mandatory procedure for all NSA employees.

  13. Re:I am shocked shocked I tell you on NSA Officers Sometimes Spy On Love Interests · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Wasn't the oversight supposed to prevent this?

  14. Re:isn't there prior art on Google Buys Foxconn Patents For Head-Mounted Tech · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It's a patent. Your point was ...?

  15. Re:Ballmer leaving. on Ballmer To Retire · · Score: 4, Funny

    Is that you Steven Sinofsky?

  16. Re:Free speech on Canadian Hotel Sues Guest For $95K Over Bad Review, Bed Bugs · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Quebec is NOT bilingual.

    A place can't be bilingual. The people living there might be, and will most certainly vary from person to person.

  17. Re: Too Fast on Is the Stable Linux Kernel Moving Too Fast? · · Score: 1

    Are you on RHEL 5 maybe? Then download 2.6.18 from kernel.org and do a diff; it is quite far from 2.6.18. =)

  18. Re:Is Torvalds abusing people again on Is the Stable Linux Kernel Moving Too Fast? · · Score: 1

    If you don't know who he is abusing, then it means it is probably you.

  19. Re:Time for an LTS Option on Is the Stable Linux Kernel Moving Too Fast? · · Score: 2

    2.6.32 (as used in RHEL6, Debian Squeeze, Ubuntu LTS 10.04)

    Given the amount of backported features and hardware support that Red Hat continuously adds to their kernel I highly doubt that it looks anywhere close to 2.6.32 from kernel.org.

  20. Re:Spyware on Google Chrome 29 Is Out: Omnibox Suggestions, Profile Resetting · · Score: 1

    You can't get the same result since Google does not share the source code for Chrome, which means that you don't know what they have changed.

  21. Re:Trust on Google Chrome 29 Is Out: Omnibox Suggestions, Profile Resetting · · Score: 1

    Oh yes, let's just agree first on which date format we should use.

  22. Re:Get the Source Code here .. on Google Chrome 29 Is Out: Omnibox Suggestions, Profile Resetting · · Score: 2

    It is true that Google bases Chrome on Chromium, but the source code for Chrome itself is not available and as a user you don't know exactly what they have added, removed or changed.

  23. Re:DOES IT COME WITH NSA? on Google Chrome 29 Is Out: Omnibox Suggestions, Profile Resetting · · Score: 1

    We don't know since Google keeps the source code secret.

  24. Re:Spyware on Google Chrome 29 Is Out: Omnibox Suggestions, Profile Resetting · · Score: 1

    I guess Chrome isn't much different from any other closed source browser in that regard. Use Chromium if you care about this.

  25. Re:Well what do you know.... on Urban Terror Code Stolen · · Score: 1

    Very few software developers actually sell software. Most software developers are paid to build custom software used by the same company that they are employed by or by some other company under contract.