In the U.S., morality is praised over quick wit [citation needed]
Actually, does Zuckerburg care whether he's praised or not? He can always stuff a few million $$$ in his ears to drown out the sound of the angry, wheezing nerd-mob.
Their goal isn't to help, and they don't care about your respect, or mine. Let's be clear that they're doing it for the lulz, and short of tracking them all down and kicking them in their tiny shrivelled nutsacks, the only way to get them to stop is to throw a shiny ball in the other direction.
Seriously? Ubuntu versions are essentially abandoned even before they're released. "LTS" just means "Long Term Shagged" - anyone who does support legacy versions isn't going to be the smartest monkey in the barrel. From experience, it's a waste of time to file bugs against anything except early betas of the next version.
By the way, I love Ubuntu, and think it's by far the best distro for "human beings", but we should be honest about it.
Urgh, thanks for the warning. The first thing I did after installing Netbook Remix 10.04 on an 10.1" EEE PC was to strip the Netbook crud off of it. I was minded to give Unity a try, but more out of masochism than any real hope that Canonical had produced a UI that actually made sense on a modern netbook.
To be honest, this constant swapping and changing of UIs and development focus smacks rather of desperation from Canonical. It's good to try new things, but it doesn't seem like they really have any clear roadmap, just a "Shit, that didn't work, let's run the other way" reaction.
You do realize that words are just sounds, or squiggles on a page or screen, right? The instant that it was obvious that the Krauts were whipped, the Russkis changed from enemies-of-our-enemies to just plain old enemies. The Cold War kicked off before WWII even ended.
This is a signal that if WinCE 7 (or whatever) doesn't sell well, they're going to go after Android and iPhone handsets with patent claims. Switch to WinCE 7, or something bad might happen to your platform.
Uh, yes, my super-cheap-ass no-name LCD has Automatic Volume Levelling. It's hardly rocket science.
The other thing is: who the fsck listens to adverts anyway? I've been reflexively muting them for as long as TVs have had remotes (HEY YOU KIDS, etc). Now that I'm DVR'd up, I don't even have to do that, since I'm just going to skip straight from content-to-content anyway.
So yay to Congress for finally legislating a solution to a problem that we've already solved ourselves.
Come on, you've been here long enough to know that you need to troll a little to get published. Next time try adding something about the Steve Jobs Reality Distortion Field making iOS scale to Infinity CPUs.
It's groaning under the weight of bureaucracy and petty empire builders. Since it's already run like a bad business, just can it and put all space exploitation and exploration out as commercial tenders. 25% on signing, 25% on launch, 50% on successful completion. Offer $3 billion to put a man on Mars and bring him safely home, and watch it just happen.
Are you a Goddamn fucking retard? Seriously? You need it spelled out? OK, I'll type this r-e-a-l-l-y s-l-o-w-l-y to make it easier for you: whatever covenants Red Hat has made, when - not if, when - they get acquired by Oracle #2, those promises won't be worth the paper that they aren't written on, and the same patents that were "protecting" the "GNU/Linux environment" will become the ideal tools with which to attack it.
Are you labouring under the bizarre misapprehension that it can't happen to Red Hat? It can, and eventually, it will, either when they're so successful that they become an attractive target, or so weak that it's a no-brainer to snap them up. The only questions are: who will buy them, and how many patents will still be active at the time of the purchase.
Funny, I was just thinking that if Greenpeace are against Facebook, that means Facebook can't be all bad.
Then I remembered that we're not in Bushville Kiddy Matinee Land, and that it could easily be all-bad vs all-bad. Best result is that they attack facebook's data centre with clockwork chainsaws, and it falls on them and crushes them into Soylent Green.
and they've contracted out to their friends and relatives, but as it turns out, none of us have the first fucking clue how to hire anyone who actually knows what they're doing. Oopsie!
You know, it's really hard to feel good about ripping off developers if people like you insist on bringing "facts" into the discussion. Total dick move, dude.
Technically, it's a DPA breach for ISPs to provide user information to a 3rd party *without* a court order (or the explicit permission of the user in question).
ORLY?
Data Protection Act 1998 29 Crime and taxation
(1)Personal data processed for any of the following purposes-- (a)the prevention or detection of crime, [...]
are exempt from the first data protection principle
Copyrights Designs and Patents Act 1988, section 107 1, (e)
107 Criminal liability for making or dealing with infringing articles, (1)A person commits an offence who, without the licence of the copyright owner-- [...] (e)distributes otherwise than in the course of a business to such an extent as to affect prejudicially the owner of the copyright an article which is, and which he knows or has reason to believe is, an infringing copy of a copyright work.
Your belief about what the statutes say does not alter what the statutes say. The court orders are being used to compel disclosure, but there's nothing in the DPA that would prevent disclosure without them, for this purpose.
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Actually, does Zuckerburg care whether he's praised or not? He can always stuff a few million $$$ in his ears to drown out the sound of the angry, wheezing nerd-mob.
Left your iPhone 4 in a bar, where Teh Terrorists could find it? Hanging is too good for you.
Their goal isn't to help, and they don't care about your respect, or mine. Let's be clear that they're doing it for the lulz, and short of tracking them all down and kicking them in their tiny shrivelled nutsacks, the only way to get them to stop is to throw a shiny ball in the other direction.
Holy carp, how did I miss that one? I guess it's GAME ON for the patent wars.
Seriously? Ubuntu versions are essentially abandoned even before they're released. "LTS" just means "Long Term Shagged" - anyone who does support legacy versions isn't going to be the smartest monkey in the barrel. From experience, it's a waste of time to file bugs against anything except early betas of the next version.
By the way, I love Ubuntu, and think it's by far the best distro for "human beings", but we should be honest about it.
Urgh, thanks for the warning. The first thing I did after installing Netbook Remix 10.04 on an 10.1" EEE PC was to strip the Netbook crud off of it. I was minded to give Unity a try, but more out of masochism than any real hope that Canonical had produced a UI that actually made sense on a modern netbook.
To be honest, this constant swapping and changing of UIs and development focus smacks rather of desperation from Canonical. It's good to try new things, but it doesn't seem like they really have any clear roadmap, just a "Shit, that didn't work, let's run the other way" reaction.
Remember, in Communist countries like Holland, the history books are written by the State.
You do realize that words are just sounds, or squiggles on a page or screen, right? The instant that it was obvious that the Krauts were whipped, the Russkis changed from enemies-of-our-enemies to just plain old enemies. The Cold War kicked off before WWII even ended.
Counterpoint: You're precious, but shush now. Growns ups are talking.
The last digit of pi is "7". You can take my word for it, or prove me wrong.
This is a signal that if WinCE 7 (or whatever) doesn't sell well, they're going to go after Android and iPhone handsets with patent claims. Switch to WinCE 7, or something bad might happen to your platform.
I think that's pretty much the only question that needs asking.
Do you realise that the link you yourself just posted explicitly and unambiguously confirms the very point that you're trying to refute?
No... no, you probably don't, do you.
Falling. Nobody's dying, they're just... falling.
Uh, yes, my super-cheap-ass no-name LCD has Automatic Volume Levelling. It's hardly rocket science.
The other thing is: who the fsck listens to adverts anyway? I've been reflexively muting them for as long as TVs have had remotes (HEY YOU KIDS, etc). Now that I'm DVR'd up, I don't even have to do that, since I'm just going to skip straight from content-to-content anyway.
So yay to Congress for finally legislating a solution to a problem that we've already solved ourselves.
ORLY? Then Google have very... selective... ethics when it comes to obtaining permission prior to copying content, don't they?
Come on, you've been here long enough to know that you need to troll a little to get published. Next time try adding something about the Steve Jobs Reality Distortion Field making iOS scale to Infinity CPUs.
It's groaning under the weight of bureaucracy and petty empire builders. Since it's already run like a bad business, just can it and put all space exploitation and exploration out as commercial tenders. 25% on signing, 25% on launch, 50% on successful completion. Offer $3 billion to put a man on Mars and bring him safely home, and watch it just happen.
Are you a Goddamn fucking retard? Seriously? You need it spelled out? OK, I'll type this r-e-a-l-l-y s-l-o-w-l-y to make it easier for you: whatever covenants Red Hat has made, when - not if, when - they get acquired by Oracle #2, those promises won't be worth the paper that they aren't written on, and the same patents that were "protecting" the "GNU/Linux environment" will become the ideal tools with which to attack it.
Are you labouring under the bizarre misapprehension that it can't happen to Red Hat? It can, and eventually, it will, either when they're so successful that they become an attractive target, or so weak that it's a no-brainer to snap them up. The only questions are: who will buy them, and how many patents will still be active at the time of the purchase.
Funny, I was just thinking that if Greenpeace are against Facebook, that means Facebook can't be all bad.
Then I remembered that we're not in Bushville Kiddy Matinee Land, and that it could easily be all-bad vs all-bad. Best result is that they attack facebook's data centre with clockwork chainsaws, and it falls on them and crushes them into Soylent Green.
and they've contracted out to their friends and relatives, but as it turns out, none of us have the first fucking clue how to hire anyone who actually knows what they're doing. Oopsie!
Before anyone shrieks "DEFENESTRATIVE PORPOISES OWNLY!!!!!11!!!", please remind me: who now owns all of SUN's patent portfolio?
What's it to be, Red Hat? Are you going to (not) put your patents where your mouth is?
You know, it's really hard to feel good about ripping off developers if people like you insist on bringing "facts" into the discussion. Total dick move, dude.
ORLY?
Your belief about what the statutes say does not alter what the statutes say. The court orders are being used to compel disclosure, but there's nothing in the DPA that would prevent disclosure without them, for this purpose.
Uh... none. What's yours?