Yes, because by then it was apparent that a frame job was in progress.
That's absurd. Just because Assange supporters think he's being framed doesn't mean he's above the law. If the witnesses are questionable, that's a job for his defense lawyer. If he is innocent, and it's nothing but his word against theirs, that's not enough to convict.
Don't hate Mr. Assange because he has the courage to do what you do not. Be thankful that there is somebody out there who is willing to shine the light into dark castles.
This has nothing to do with the issue of Assange breaking the law by refusing to appear for questioning, and it's melodramatic and goofy, painting him as some courageous knight "willing to shine light into dark castles." Give us a freaking break.
It's also ironic since Assange has been fighting against having his own personal details plastered online. It sounds as if your hero worship of Julian Assange is preventing you from objectively assessing both the accusations and his behavior in response to them.
Clearly, you have some kind of vested interest in this app, but I'm not convinced that being concerned over private information getting sent to a foreign country for unknown purposes is "xenophobic scaremongering."
This is not yellow journalism. It is a legitimate security concern, and calling people "vigilantes" for pointing it out is absurd.
iOS developers don't have direct control over when an update is made public after submitting it to the store; Apple does. This issue only affects the Android version anyway.
Are you seriously suggesting that Slashdot has a pro-Apple, anti-Android bias? Do we visit the same Slashdot?
To ignore the malware problem on Android is to deny a genuine negative aspect of the platform that needs to be talked about, regardless of how you feel about Apple products.
Every time the topic of RMS' eccentricity comes up, people post justifications. "Well, he thinks really hard about what he does!" "Well, I may not agree with him, but I sure am glad he's passionate about what he does!"
No. His eccentricity and paranoia hurts the free software movement and alienates the mainstream.
Geeks don't tend to just get negative for no reason whatsoever.
Dumbest comment I've seen on Slashdot in years? Could be.
Geeks have a "general negative outlook" towards Apple because they think everything should be a nerd playground with dozens of impressive-sounding technical specs. Slashdot thought the original iPod would fail, it thought the iPod mini would fail, and it thought the iPad would fail. When those didn't fail, they adopted their usual cross-armed, grumbling position in the corner of the room, talking spitefully about the "sheeple" happy with their shiny Apple products. They think they're too cool for the room to use such things.
I love how you end your post with an ominous statement about Apple's motives without posting any supporting evidence. How is open sourcing ALAC a profit-driven decision? Competing music players can now adopt ALAC. You're going to have write something a little more persuasive.
By "taking the mouse idea," you're referring to how several Xerox employees worked on the Mac at Apple, right?
And what about other open source releases like launchd, libdispatch, the Clang compiler, ALAC, and more that they weren't required to release as open source but chose to anyway?
They didn't have to; they could have chosen not to use KHTML at all. They willingly contributed to LLVM and Clang, open sourced the Darwin layer of their operating system, open sourced CoreFoundation, open sourced launchd, and open sourced libdispatch.
You already trolled about the iPod being "locked down" and were corrected. Now you're bashing Apple again with more karma whoring comments. I guess Slashdot really has become a haven for this sort of thing in recent years.
The only ecosystem you're locked into is the use of their cables. You don't have to use iTunes, and you don't have to buy from the music store. The arguments against the iPod being a "locked down device" are pretty silly, especially now that this codec is open source.
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Are we going to have anonymous Google supporters pop up every time Google has a public fuck-up?
The app works. It just works poorly. But please, continue to post anonymously and use words like "Mactards."
I was curious how Slashdot would spin this terrible app release. I should have guessed that it was going to be pinned on Apple's testers.
Voice commands on Android sucks compared to this.
That's absurd. Just because Assange supporters think he's being framed doesn't mean he's above the law. If the witnesses are questionable, that's a job for his defense lawyer. If he is innocent, and it's nothing but his word against theirs, that's not enough to convict.
This has nothing to do with the issue of Assange breaking the law by refusing to appear for questioning, and it's melodramatic and goofy, painting him as some courageous knight "willing to shine light into dark castles." Give us a freaking break.
It's also ironic since Assange has been fighting against having his own personal details plastered online. It sounds as if your hero worship of Julian Assange is preventing you from objectively assessing both the accusations and his behavior in response to them.
Clearly, you have some kind of vested interest in this app, but I'm not convinced that being concerned over private information getting sent to a foreign country for unknown purposes is "xenophobic scaremongering."
This is not yellow journalism. It is a legitimate security concern, and calling people "vigilantes" for pointing it out is absurd.
iOS developers don't have direct control over when an update is made public after submitting it to the store; Apple does. This issue only affects the Android version anyway.
No, it didn't.
Again, it's the latest version of the Android app that does this.
Oh, for crying out loud. Apple tracks cell phone tower locations for signal strength. Many smartphones do.
Is this site just a haven for anonymous anti-Apple trolls now or what?
This only occurs in the Android version. Sorry to break your anonymous posting streak.
Are you seriously suggesting that Slashdot has a pro-Apple, anti-Android bias? Do we visit the same Slashdot?
To ignore the malware problem on Android is to deny a genuine negative aspect of the platform that needs to be talked about, regardless of how you feel about Apple products.
The URL-relaying feature only occurs in the Android version.
This report is talking about units shipped, when the Apple figure is units sold to customers.
Why do research firms keep doing this?
You consider that an achievement?
He was mocked by many more hundreds of thousands on Twitter and other sites.
It just paints a picture of RMS, on top of his infamous toe jam eating incident and his various crazy statements over the years.
For crying out loud, the guy doesn't even view webpages. He has a daemon email him a wget version. He is crazy.
What an odd response. We are supposed to respect the consistency of an extremist?
Every time the topic of RMS' eccentricity comes up, people post justifications. "Well, he thinks really hard about what he does!" "Well, I may not agree with him, but I sure am glad he's passionate about what he does!"
No. His eccentricity and paranoia hurts the free software movement and alienates the mainstream.
That's completely absurd. So many geeks are immature, anti-social, man-children who adopt tribalist positions for irrational, emotional reasons.
Dumbest comment I've seen on Slashdot in years? Could be.
Geeks have a "general negative outlook" towards Apple because they think everything should be a nerd playground with dozens of impressive-sounding technical specs. Slashdot thought the original iPod would fail, it thought the iPod mini would fail, and it thought the iPad would fail. When those didn't fail, they adopted their usual cross-armed, grumbling position in the corner of the room, talking spitefully about the "sheeple" happy with their shiny Apple products. They think they're too cool for the room to use such things.
I love how you end your post with an ominous statement about Apple's motives without posting any supporting evidence. How is open sourcing ALAC a profit-driven decision? Competing music players can now adopt ALAC. You're going to have write something a little more persuasive.
The multiple comments like this really illustrate how little many of Slashdot's readers know about the open source licenses they so often advocate.
By "taking the mouse idea," you're referring to how several Xerox employees worked on the Mac at Apple, right?
And what about other open source releases like launchd, libdispatch, the Clang compiler, ALAC, and more that they weren't required to release as open source but chose to anyway?
They didn't have to; they could have chosen not to use KHTML at all. They willingly contributed to LLVM and Clang, open sourced the Darwin layer of their operating system, open sourced CoreFoundation, open sourced launchd, and open sourced libdispatch.
You already trolled about the iPod being "locked down" and were corrected. Now you're bashing Apple again with more karma whoring comments. I guess Slashdot really has become a haven for this sort of thing in recent years.
The only ecosystem you're locked into is the use of their cables. You don't have to use iTunes, and you don't have to buy from the music store. The arguments against the iPod being a "locked down device" are pretty silly, especially now that this codec is open source.
Apple devices don't play FLAC.