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  1. Re:Same question as I had more than a decade ago on License Details Hint MS Undecided On Suing Users of Its Open Source Net Runtime · · Score: 1

    at one point

    There's your answer right there. Maybe things have changed.

    I hear you. And I've been hearing people just like you for over a decade. "But now things are different." "Microsoft have changed."

    But if ... you see the war as having been fought and lost by the enemy who has capitulated ...

    The best indicator of future behavior is past behavior. The appearance of "capitulation" is a documented part of Microsoft's playbook. Usually it takes a few years, but history shows that each time they give the half-hearted appearance of opening up and being more civil to the Open Source Community you find they were doing something far more underhanded at the same time behind the scenes.

    That not to say that Microsoft could never change. If I were gambling with my heart, sure I'd like to believe they have changed this time. If I were gambling with my wallet ... well, I've seen this one before.

  2. Re:wait what? on Politics Is Poisoning NASA's Ability To Do Science · · Score: 1

    And if a member of the DNR discovers a dead body, does that mean DNR needs to do more murder investigations? NASA gave us velcro. I don't think that means they should be expected to fund research in leisurewear.

  3. Re:wait what? on Politics Is Poisoning NASA's Ability To Do Science · · Score: 1

    Same thing used to be true of manned flight.

  4. Re:Why are you reading these comments? on SystemD Gains New Networking Features · · Score: 1

    Roko's basilisk is made manifest! Tremble now unbelievers for soon your consciousnesses will be punished for not aiding in it's creation. Every day you impeded it's creation was a day people died that could have been saved. As a result your punishment is both moral and necessary.

  5. Re:Fuck Me on SystemD Gains New Networking Features · · Score: 1

    And the "grab your recovery media" part is starting to worry me. No we bring up the binary logs. The format of the binary logs are not specified and may change with different versions. It was even sold as a 'security' feature.

    So this means that if you want to read the logs on from your unbootable system from the recovery media, what ever you use as a recovery media better have the exact same build of systemd log tools or you aren't guarantied to be able to read them.

  6. Re:No Kidding on Science Cannot Prove the Existence of God · · Score: 1

    The folks here are probably not the philo101 crowd.

  7. Re:The idea or concept of god... on Science Cannot Prove the Existence of God · · Score: 1

    Just because I point at someone and say "Scotsman" that doesn't make her one.

  8. Re:Nobel? on The Interview Bombs In US, Kills In China, Threatens N. Korea · · Score: 2

    If nothing else, it's rather sad that Seth Rogen and James Franco are able to have a bigger impact on North Korea than sanctions and every diplomat and US president since the end of the Korean War.

    This sounds like Nobel Peace Prize buzz to me. ;-)

    It's been given for less.

  9. Re:I automatically disbelieved this post on Google and Apple Weaseling Out of "Do Not Track" · · Score: 1
  10. Re:Sounds like my Sony Blu-Ray player on Manufacturer's Backdoor Found On Popular Chinese Android Smartphone · · Score: 1

    Devices now own us. I miss the days when I had control over my devices.

    I don't have all the neat devices everyone else buys, but I own the ones I buy. I blame people like you for making it more difficult.

  11. Re:R7RS? on Kawa 2.0 Supports Scheme R7RS · · Score: 3, Funny

    Can I have my Grammar Nazi sticker now?

    Oh. You almost had it.
    It's "May I ...".

  12. They don't know how you vote... on Boo! The House Majority PAC Is Watching You · · Score: 2

    They may not "know" how you vote, but rest assured they would not send you such a letter unless they thought you'd vote the way they'd like you to. If they can get you to influence other votes, all the better.

  13. Re: Start rant here on GNU Emacs 24.4 Released Today · · Score: 1

    OK. We'll point & click.

    Options -> Customize Emacs -> Browse Customizations Groups

    Emacs -> Editing -> Indent -> Indent Tabs Mode
    press Option

    In the new buffer...
    press toggle
    press Set for current session
    press Save for future sessions

    Surely that's no worse than what I've had to do to make various IDEs usable.

  14. Re:But... the children!? on CEO of Spyware Maker Arrested For Enabling Stalkers · · Score: 1

    In a day and age where parents have had the police and children's services called on them letting their kids play outside, this seems to be against the times. We are expected to keep our kids confined and under surveillance at all times or we are unfit parents.

  15. Re:"Multi-touch" tells me all I need to know on GNOME 3.14 Released · · Score: 1

    Does it support accelerometer input so the computer can detect it needs to spin down the disks before it hits the wall/sidewalk?

  16. Re:If you believe this on Next Android To Enable Local Encryption By Default Too, Says Google · · Score: 1

    There you go! Encode it all in Polish or Swedish and no one will be able to decode it! Njrfbzr!

  17. Re:Torvalds is neutral on Torvalds: No Opinion On Systemd · · Score: 1

    I don't think that's likely. I mean I agree that systemd has its faults. I'm sure the situation will change over time but I don't think systemd will have any affect on the fit of my wife's jeans.

  18. Torvalds is neutral on Torvalds: No Opinion On Systemd · · Score: 4, Funny

    This may be the best endorsement for systemd yet.

  19. How? on Google Serves Old Search Page To Old Browsers · · Score: 1

    Does anyone know how to get that with a modern firefox without changing the UserAgent (since that breaks other things)? The current interface is bloated, slow to load and kills my CPU due to something plusone.js is doing. (I already block plusone.js just to keep my idle CPU load below 30%.

  20. Re:Just because you can do something on Auralux Release For Browsers Shows Emscripten Is Reaching Indie Devs · · Score: 1

    Nevermind. It runs slow in my outdated browser. It sucks and the developer should feel bad.

  21. Re:Just because you can do something on Auralux Release For Browsers Shows Emscripten Is Reaching Indie Devs · · Score: 1

    I'm amazed your comment is marked insightful. Admittedly, I wouldn't call asm.js ready for prime-time, it is interesting technology and it will take lunatics like this guy to exercise it just like it took lunatics 15 to 20 years ago to port Doom and Abuse to Linux to begin to see what needed improvement.

    I don't plan on buy games for my web browser, but that doesn't mean that an optimized javascript environment couldn't go somewhere as a portable environment. The good parts of javascript are far more elegant than java. I applaud this nut job.

  22. Re:Billions? on The High-Tech Warfare Behind the Israel - Hamas Conflict · · Score: 1

    I see few that a dozen useful posts on most /. articles. Admittedly though, Soylent could probably afford to step up their game on "Hot Grits" and shills.

  23. Re:Unfortunately? on seL4 Verified Microkernel Now Open Source · · Score: 1

    ... how does it hurt anything to have "v2 or later at your option"?

    Because, if you "accidentally include v3 code" you'll only be violating one license instead of two. ....wait??!?

  24. This isn't new on New Digital Currency Bases Value On Reputation · · Score: 1

    They used to call it indulgences.

  25. Re:Wait a minute... on How Deep Does the Multiverse Go? · · Score: 1

    For fuck's sake. How many times must similar questions be asked?

    That depends. How many universes are there in the Multi-verse? At least one times that I guess.