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  1. Re:Interesting timing... on Apple: Developer Site Targeted In Security Attack, Still Down · · Score: 1

    It means that there is no pattern of "Yesterday Ubuntu, today Apple".

  2. Re:Interesting timing... on Apple: Developer Site Targeted In Security Attack, Still Down · · Score: 2

    Except the Apple breach was on Thursday.

  3. Re:Open source it. on BitTorrent Sync Beta Released · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why would you trust a company who makes backroom deals with the MPAA and adds tons of adware in their software?

  4. Eh on Sound Engineer and Entrepreneur Amar Bose Dead At 83 · · Score: 5, Funny

    No highs. No lows. It's Bose.

  5. Re:Why is this news? on Container Ship Breaks In Two, Sinks · · Score: 2

    Apparently there were no Bitcoin or Raspberry Pi stories to post.

  6. Re:without the leaks on The Pope Criminalizes Leaks · · Score: 3, Insightful

    There's a huge difference between protecting the identity and privacy of a child and willfully lying and hiding information about your priests diddling said children. Oh and when those abused children who did speak out later in life they were repeatedly called liars by the church hierarchy until being forced to admit otherwise.

  7. Re:Catch 22 on Android Co-Founder: Fragmentation "an Overblown Issue" · · Score: 1

    *Its* manufacturer, obviously.

  8. Re:Catch 22 on Android Co-Founder: Fragmentation "an Overblown Issue" · · Score: 1

    Hurr hurr. Do you have an actual argument to dispute my statement? Can you name an Android phone that has had 4 years of updates, including updates even after it was discontinued, from it's manufacturer to match what the 3GS has gotten? Just so you know that would mean it's gotten updates from Android 1.6 (released 3 months after the 3GS) all the way 4.2.2 (released 1 month prior to the 6.1.3). I won't hold my breath, though.

  9. Re:Master Key, anybody? on Android Co-Founder: Fragmentation "an Overblown Issue" · · Score: 1

    No, I didn't forget it.

  10. Re:Master Key, anybody? on Android Co-Founder: Fragmentation "an Overblown Issue" · · Score: 1

    Since this is to do with source signature verification which only the Google App store uses

    Of which is the default store on the vast majority of Android devices and for most users is the only place they get their apps from.

  11. Re:Catch 22 on Android Co-Founder: Fragmentation "an Overblown Issue" · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yeah, Apple continued to give it OS updates even after it was discontinued. That's pretty much the opposite of "forced obsolecense". I had the T-Mobile Galaxy S that shipped with 2.1 that was supposedly going to get the Android 2.2 update from Samsung "just around the corner" and yet that didn't materialize for over a year after I bought it. And then it never officially got Android 2.3 since Samsung had long since moved on to the SII.

  12. Re:Catch 22 on Android Co-Founder: Fragmentation "an Overblown Issue" · · Score: 2

    How exactly did Apple choose the latter? The four-year-old iPhone 3GS has gotten all updates from iOS 3 up through iOS 6.1.3. It is only until 7 that it will no longer receive them. Many Android phones haven't seen updates beyond what shipped with the device.

  13. Re:This is why... on Lead Developer of Yum Killed In Hit-and-run · · Score: 1

    The point was not that cyclists do not run stop signs; it is that pretty much everyone runs stop signs.

    Yes, at substantially lower rates than bikers do.

  14. Re:Very short history of yum on Lead Developer of Yum Killed In Hit-and-run · · Score: 1

    If the driver never notices that they even hit the person that seems like a perfectly valid accident. And it's easily likely that larger vehicles like a van or truck could hit a biker that is in the vehicle's blind spot and the driver not notice.

  15. The technologies that immediately jump out as useful to me are HTML5, XCODE, and AJAX.

    So the skill to learn this summer are: a 5 year old draft of HTML, a 12 year old IDE and 14 year old web technologies? If you are a web dev and don't know either HTML5 or AJAX at this point you already ARE irrelevant. Learning Xcode at this point puts you about 5 years behind for iOS development (which I assume is your point since learning an IDE in and of itself is not particularly useful).

  16. Re:Unity... on Canonical To Ship Mir Display Server In Ubuntu 13.10 · · Score: 2

    It is the very definition disunity.

    From Merriam-Webster

    Unity: the quality and state of not being multiple: oneness.

    Disunity: lack of unity

  17. Re:No, it's not. on When GPL Becomes Almost-GPL — the CSS, Images and JavaScript Loophole · · Score: 2

    Whether or not it's legal is a different matter, but the spirit of the GPL is clearly the proliferation of open source software.

    And the source code is still being proliferated as GPL. Just not the art assets. So taking your logic, according to you id Software is violating the spirit of the GPL by not GPLing their WAD files for Doom, correct?

  18. Re:No on When GPL Becomes Almost-GPL — the CSS, Images and JavaScript Loophole · · Score: 0, Troll

    THINK OF THE FREETARDS!!!

  19. Yes on When GPL Becomes Almost-GPL — the CSS, Images and JavaScript Loophole · · Score: 3, Insightful

    is it in the spirit of the GPL for a project such as Joomla (whose governing body has the motto 'Open Source Matters') to openly embrace such a practice when they can easily require that all CSS, Images and JavaScript be GPL (or GPL-compatible) for extensions that are listed on the Joomla Extensions Directory?"

    Yes, it is perfectly within the spirit of the GPL to add exemptions to the license terms. Plenty of GPL projects, even those from the GNU project, have exemptions to the GPL terms such as linking in GPLed libraries, etc. Stop being such a freetard.

  20. Re:And off we go! on Android On the Desktop · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Games have next to nothing to do with selling desktops. Even every single Steam combined user barely represents 3-4% of all PC users worldwide.

  21. Re:What could possibly go wrong? on Robotic Kiosk Stores Digital Copies of Physical Keys · · Score: 1

    Yes, they could theoretically do this with physical copies as well, but that it more cumbersome and takes longer (having to go to a dedicated hardware store to do so).

    It's probably far easier to find a WalMart, which can make the key for you, closer to you than a 7-Eleven (of which some states don't have any at all).

  22. Re:What could possibly go wrong? on Robotic Kiosk Stores Digital Copies of Physical Keys · · Score: 2

    Wait, What? Fingerprint?

    So then all that is needed is a warmed up Gummi bear.

  23. Re:why replace once you have the screwdriver? on iFixit Giving Away 1,776 "iPhone Liberation Kits" · · Score: 1

    Only because you're ignoring the time spent for them to obtain it originally. It's not as if your friend just had that screwdriver appear in their hand from thin air.

  24. Re:Poor review on Book Review: Puppet 3 Beginner's Guide · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Giving a summary of the table of contents isn't a review.

    Yeah even by elementary school book review standards this would be pretty poor. This person apparently thought that "book review" means "synopsis".

  25. Re:why replace once you have the screwdriver? on iFixit Giving Away 1,776 "iPhone Liberation Kits" · · Score: 1

    Pentalobe screwdrivers is as hard to find as typing "pentalobe screwdriver" into
    Amazon's search box. Then you pay a couple of bucks.