It's not quite "being evil" but it's getting closer.
Sure, I know it's more about carries being evil, which they are masters of, but I would be more impressed with Google if they demonstrated a little more backbone.
Don't follow the news much do you? I'm sure there's a few people in London and Madrid that might disagree with you. Madrid... "no direct al-Qaeda participation".
it only takes one nutjob with an automatic to make life interesting for a brief period I fear the next couple of months will show an increase in terrorist activities.
Unless your nutjob has a $300 million bank account he is not going to replace Osama bin Laden.
bin Laden never was directly connected to Al Qaeda's field operations, he always was a money man and organizer. The operational head of Al Qaeda has always been al-Zawahiri, who remains at large.
Don't follow the news much do you? I'm sure there's a few people in London and Madrid that might disagree with you.
Madrid... "no direct al-Qaeda participation". London 7/7, yes I overlooked that. Certainly not anything remotely on the scale of 9/11, and nowhere close the frequency Al Qaeda used to be able to mount operations. It does not change my point.
The predator strikes on Al Qaeda commanders began seriously in 2005 just before the London attacks. Seems to me, Al Queda's capabilities were diminished significantly. A great deal of Al Qaeda's command structure was disrupted, including its training program.
While Osama has been hard to track down, lower echolon leaders have been killed left and right. Didn't change a thing.
Are you sure about that? Before getting kicked out of Afghanistan Al Queda pulled a whole string of high profile mass murders, then after, what was there? Bali Night club? Horrible as it was, there was not much else for Osama to gloat over.
Your comment says to me that you know nothing about java and are just parroting the same tired arguments all the rest of the uninformed people parrot.
How do you know he's not informed about Java? I am, and he's right. Especially on Android, Java runs under an interpreter costing at least an order of magnitude in performance versus native, operation per operation. Not as bad if code is heavily library oriented but that is not always the case and it is the corner cases that people notice. Jitting, if it ever arrives for Dalvik speeds up code after a while, but the Jit itself introduces a perceptible lag.
The solution isn't to fine the 'stupid', software requires a warranty that is fit for purpose.
And if that doesn't happen, which it won't, then fining people for operating a computer that becomes part of a botnet is the next best thing. Fines don't even have to be large. Just enough to make people realize that running insecure software or buying a computer with the wrong operating system on it may cause harm to others.
So if someone breaks into your back yard, scoops up the water from your pool, transports it to a freezer then drops the resulting ice on people from rooftops, you are morally responsible for their deaths?
Probably not, but your scenario is ridiculous. In the far more likely case that a child wanders into your yard because you left the gate open and drowns in your pool, chances are you will pay for that the rest of your life.
It does not seem a stretch at all to extend such mandatory responsibility to computers, which may not cause death but are capable of causing a great deal of damage.
Or don't uninstall Windows but make computer owners legally responsible for their computers in the same way they are legally responsible for a swimming pool. The resulting fines would either stop botnets entirely or eliminate the national deficit. In short, a tax on the stupid.
Funny you should say that, because there's a post from Linus Torvalds on kerneltrap.org in which he says that that Linux is Unix. Unfortunately, the entire kerneltrap.org site seems to be down right now, but if it ever comes back up you can find his post here: http://kerneltrap.org/node/11
What Linus actually said in that thread was: "the design of UNIX made a scaffolding for the system".
To be honest, "Linux" just means "Linus's Unix clone". But I prefer my interpretation, don't you think it's clever?
Over time, Linux has evolved from "close enough to run most oldtime Unix programs" to obeying Posix/SUS really pedantically closely. You could say "Linux is not Unix[tm] but it is Posix". And then a lot more of course.
I didn't actually mean "evil and empty" I meant "cynical and empty", and it was not an argument, it was a comment on your mischaracterization of Stallman's position. If you have trouble understanding the difference between copyright used as a force for good and copyright used as a force for evil, I do not believe I can help you, because this misunderstanding must be intentional.
Microsoft took $6-8 billion in losses on xbox 360 before starting to make a modest profit. Bad business by any normal measure, and now the hardware is long in the tooth and the major exclusives have walked out the door. Why do I need to keep restating these simple facts? I feel like I am talking to cultists. Oh wait, I probably am.
Not that I care whether Microsoft decides to continue this idiocy or not, in fact I hope they do, they deserve it.
Which contradicts his very own GPL license, which makes it illegal to distribute software unless you comply with the demand you also distribute the source, and other restrictions.
I am just curious... how does it feel being as evil and empty inside as you are?
There is a bit of a different (I suspect) between a network being down completely for a period of time due to a hack... and one being intermittently available due to a massive increase in demand.
I don't see a difference. In either case, the network failed.
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It's not quite "being evil" but it's getting closer.
Sure, I know it's more about carries being evil, which they are masters of, but I would be more impressed with Google if they demonstrated a little more backbone.
Don't follow the news much do you? I'm sure there's a few people in London and Madrid that might disagree with you. Madrid... "no direct al-Qaeda participation".
London 7/7, yes I overlooked that....
Ah sorry, the London incident also had no direct link to al Queda.
it only takes one nutjob with an automatic to make life interesting for a brief period I fear the next couple of months will show an increase in terrorist activities.
Unless your nutjob has a $300 million bank account he is not going to replace Osama bin Laden.
Mod this sick puppy down.
Someone, probably far less effective, will take his place
You think he gave somebody his credit card?
bin Laden never was directly connected to Al Qaeda's field operations, he always was a money man and organizer. The operational head of Al Qaeda has always been al-Zawahiri, who remains at large.
Don't follow the news much do you? I'm sure there's a few people in London and Madrid that might disagree with you.
Madrid... "no direct al-Qaeda participation". London 7/7, yes I overlooked that. Certainly not anything remotely on the scale of 9/11, and nowhere close the frequency Al Qaeda used to be able to mount operations. It does not change my point.
The predator strikes on Al Qaeda commanders began seriously in 2005 just before the London attacks. Seems to me, Al Queda's capabilities were diminished significantly. A great deal of Al Qaeda's command structure was disrupted, including its training program.
Or maybe... try to gain and hold the moral high ground, what a novel concept.
While Osama has been hard to track down, lower echolon leaders have been killed left and right. Didn't change a thing.
Are you sure about that? Before getting kicked out of Afghanistan Al Queda pulled a whole string of high profile mass murders, then after, what was there? Bali Night club? Horrible as it was, there was not much else for Osama to gloat over.
Your comment says to me that you know nothing about java and are just parroting the same tired arguments all the rest of the uninformed people parrot.
How do you know he's not informed about Java? I am, and he's right. Especially on Android, Java runs under an interpreter costing at least an order of magnitude in performance versus native, operation per operation. Not as bad if code is heavily library oriented but that is not always the case and it is the corner cases that people notice. Jitting, if it ever arrives for Dalvik speeds up code after a while, but the Jit itself introduces a perceptible lag.
No.
May I elaborate on that?
God no.
The solution isn't to fine the 'stupid', software requires a warranty that is fit for purpose.
And if that doesn't happen, which it won't, then fining people for operating a computer that becomes part of a botnet is the next best thing. Fines don't even have to be large. Just enough to make people realize that running insecure software or buying a computer with the wrong operating system on it may cause harm to others.
C'mon, this is Slashdot. You left your garage unlocked, somebody stole your car and ran down some pedestrians.
C'mon you are an idiot, and you obviously don't own a pool.
So if someone breaks into your back yard, scoops up the water from your pool, transports it to a freezer then drops the resulting ice on people from rooftops, you are morally responsible for their deaths?
Probably not, but your scenario is ridiculous. In the far more likely case that a child wanders into your yard because you left the gate open and drowns in your pool, chances are you will pay for that the rest of your life.
It does not seem a stretch at all to extend such mandatory responsibility to computers, which may not cause death but are capable of causing a great deal of damage.
Uninstall Windows.
Or don't uninstall Windows but make computer owners legally responsible for their computers in the same way they are legally responsible for a swimming pool. The resulting fines would either stop botnets entirely or eliminate the national deficit. In short, a tax on the stupid.
And Linux Is Not UniX.
Funny you should say that, because there's a post from Linus Torvalds on kerneltrap.org in which he says that that Linux is Unix. Unfortunately, the entire kerneltrap.org site seems to be down right now, but if it ever comes back up you can find his post here: http://kerneltrap.org/node/11
What Linus actually said in that thread was: "the design of UNIX made a scaffolding for the system".
To be honest, "Linux" just means "Linus's Unix clone". But I prefer my interpretation, don't you think it's clever?
Over time, Linux has evolved from "close enough to run most oldtime Unix programs" to obeying Posix/SUS really pedantically closely. You could say "Linux is not Unix[tm] but it is Posix". And then a lot more of course.
Uninstall Windows.
Novell's demise is mainly a result of Microsoft's obsession with fighting old battles. Meanwhile, allowing itself to be outflanked on multiple fronts.
I don't think we really care who owns Unix, it's just a trademark. And Linux Is Not UniX.
I didn't actually mean "evil and empty" I meant "cynical and empty", and it was not an argument, it was a comment on your mischaracterization of Stallman's position. If you have trouble understanding the difference between copyright used as a force for good and copyright used as a force for evil, I do not believe I can help you, because this misunderstanding must be intentional.
Who the hell modded this up?
Quite probably, someone who detests Sony. No shortage.
Microsoft took $6-8 billion in losses on xbox 360 before starting to make a modest profit. Bad business by any normal measure, and now the hardware is long in the tooth and the major exclusives have walked out the door. Why do I need to keep restating these simple facts? I feel like I am talking to cultists. Oh wait, I probably am.
Not that I care whether Microsoft decides to continue this idiocy or not, in fact I hope they do, they deserve it.
Which contradicts his very own GPL license, which makes it illegal to distribute software unless you comply with the demand you also distribute the source, and other restrictions.
I am just curious... how does it feel being as evil and empty inside as you are?
The fact that my password and credit card number have been pwned sort of screws the PSN in my eyes.
And of course you feel completely safe in Microsoft's hands, the company with a long and glorious history of high profile fiascos like the all-day trading outage on the London Stock Exchange or turning a modern Navy frigate into a floating barge
There is a bit of a different (I suspect) between a network being down completely for a period of time due to a hack... and one being intermittently available due to a massive increase in demand.
I don't see a difference. In either case, the network failed.
I'm tempted to rub this in his face...
So by this, are we supposed to understand that you are impartial and wise?