What I think is really cool about GPS is that without Einstein's theory of general relativity, it wouldn't work
Neither would the rest of the universe. Well without the physical rules which the model of general relativity approximates. As for the model itself, the universe (including any GPS equipment) ticks along just fine without the theory. The GPS units would just always be wrong (and so not terribly useful)
Non-violent competition allows that testosterone to be released without the violence.
Also I do think men and women are better suited to different things. I don't think it is true to the degree TV makes it out to be.
I hate to break it to you but TV isn't realistic about much at all. Life doesn't fit into feel good half hour timeslots. Only a fool would model their reality on TV. It also won't teach you to be a good doctor, nurse, detective, CSI. Parenting is no different.
That said I also think that it is severely over played. From an evolutionary POV children are meant to be raised by tribes not mothers.
Yes, I've heard it takes the village to raise the idiot. In all seriousness I think you've oversimplified. From an evolutionary point of view SOMETIMES groups of people coming together (as a tribe) could do better than individuals or smaller family units. However there was always competition within the tribe and there were times when the individual felt that they could further their interests by harming or even killing a child. In any case modelling your actions around what happened from an evolutionary standpoint is a bad idea since murder and rampant violence were a part of that world and they are highly undesirable today.
And the number of things we do each day that have NOTHING to do with life 30k yrs ago are astounding. I argue that the male-female split is minor compared to the foraging-programmer split.
It is very clear to me that you severely underestimate the amount of effort and skill required to properly raise a child. If you don't care about the child (and many don't care about their children regardless of what they say) it's a different story. Some people aren't with children. I'm one of them. I struggle with it every day and am very fortunate that my wife is very intelligent and loves children (and is in fact a primary school teacher). Are there men that will do better? Probably. Are there women that will do worse? Probably. However on the whole women are better equipped. They play child rearing and home making games from infancy. I'm sure that a great deal of that is societal influence but some of it is innate too. Boys and girls just behave differently from a very young age - even before they understand the expectations we place on them.
My 15 month old boy's favour toy at the moment is a shopping trolley. His aunt gave it to him along with a tea set, and out of guilt that these were too 'girly' also bought him some plastic construction trucks. He hates the tea set. Put it in the trolley and he'll throw it out quite vigorously. Same goes for anything that he feels doesn't belong in the trolley. We didn't teach him this behaviour. He doesn't like the tea set or the construction trucks but he loves his toy turtle who lives in that trolley and he is ROUGH with the trolley. Again not taught.
Boys and girls are different. Pretending that they're not, or pushing them too hard in any direction, leads to them becoming confused and miserable. I repeat what I said earlier: you need to respect the differences just as you need to avoid placing barriers in their way based on silly stereotypes. If a man WANTS to be a stay at home dad, fantastic. Pushing him into it. Insisting that he does "his share" when he's not suited is a recipe for disaster.
I can aspire to have anger issues? Be hero and join the military where I can shoot people? Be a local hero and hit and or throw and or catch a ball? Maybe something involving beating up and or shooting badguys.
Even at 6 months, little boys play differently to little girls and have different interests. Boys do tend to be agressive. The trick is to get that aggression out in a non-destructive way, and perhaps even to harness it. This is what sports are for. Many geeks don't recognise this, but are equally prone to aggression in the form of a pissing contest over technical skill or knowledge. Denying that the aggression exists is not useful and is quite destructive.
Also, child rearing isn't a particularly female position beyond infancy. Girls simply got stuck with it because they gave birth so its their responsibility.
Spoken like someone who's never had a child. I love my son, but there are times when no matter what I do I cannot comfort him. It's not for lack of trying. Trying to play that role, and failing, is enough to make you very depressed. I change nappies. I bath my child. I don't shirk my responsibilities. However I am not under the dillusion that I could do as well as his mum raising him, nor do I think that ripping him away from his mother after a few years so we can take turns at furthering our careers is a sane, rational, or workable idea. People who buy into these fantasies often find their lives a mess.
Perpetuating this fantasy that men and women are equally capable at all things is a hell of a lot more destructive than letting some boy relieve aggression by playing cops and robbers. Most politically correct mindless sheep cannot separate the concept of equality meaning holding each gender in equal regard and giving them equal rights to self determination, from the concept of equality as in everyone can do exactly the same things with equal skill regardless of gender. The first is critical for a healthy society in which women (ie half the population) aren't disenfranchised. The second is a mastabatory fantasy.
Slashdot, what the hell happened to you? You used to be interesting and hot, but you gained 400 lbs and started smoking crack. You've really let yourself go.
Dear ex-slashdot-loving geek. I gained 20lbs tops, and I've always smoked crack. You just sobered up. I don't care if you love me or not, as long as we can boink.
Yeah it has nothing to do with forcing boys to engage in more timid play, impressing upon them that when they grow older they'll be expected to do their share of the child rearing, presenting them with effeminate roll models, balking at allowing them to take risks or play "politically incorrect" games, keeping them away from violence and agression more than any previous generation, or putting them in female clothing for a giggle. Nothing to do with that at all. It's the chemicals!
While googling frantically for pornographic footage of green three breasted alien women, have come across a place called "the pirate bay". Apparently this is an exchange post for all kinds of illicit material, but based on an analysis of the comments, quite inexplicably, it is only frequented by pre-pubescent teenage boys and social misfits who lack a fundamental part of the anatomy: a sense of humour.
Recommend we study these life forms to learn what we can from them. They seem to have formed a lawless society loosely based on an earlier society that advocated rape and pilleage on the high seas . Furthermore they have technology that allows them to store an infinite number of files on a loose connection of inter-0networked machines, but strangely none of these files are complete, which often results in cursing and requests to perform a strange ritual invoked with the words "please seed".
To guard against their natural enemies - a group who have become rich and successful by making entertainment audio and video recordings for a completely different group of pre-pubescent teenagers - they use a new kind of anti-mater which they call "peer guardian".
Mr Spock believes they are "fascinating" and I am hopeful we will soon encounter green alien dancing girls with 3 breasts. I have therefore committed all resources of the Enterprise to cataloging and studing this group.
Really I think its a waste of perfectly good food to not to eat people. Think of how many starving people 1 fat person would feed. It is like recycling food.
Currently modded at +4 Insightful. Do we need further evidence that slashdot moderation is broken and does not in practice self correct. +5 funny, while tasteless, I could accept. But +4 insightful says people here have considered this and really would like to start eating other people. That is of course ridiculous.
What are the odds the company's around to sue if they're wrong in 100 years let alone 1000? I can tell you the odds of the guys who made the claim being around are zero. If you're going to put your faith in this nonsense I have a bridge to sell you.
People here are recommending one of the following FUCKING STUPID approaches:
1) Force your family to switch to Mac or Linux
Just awful. All of a sudden they can't run the software they want to and that they're use to. This is a lot like a doctor who when asked to help a patient with a cold pulls out a gun and shoots the patient. No more life = no more cold. Problem solved. Oh and if you do it with a Mac, the gun has a fancy handle and costs double what a normal gun does. Your family will resent you (One of the stories was about being taken to court over it). This is not a clever solution
2) Refuse to do support
Friends and family resent you because they've done things for you but now that it's your turn to do something for them you've decided you're above it. What's more they KNOW you can help. For some social misfit geeks their willingness to help is one of the few things that endears them to family and lets them see that you're intelligent despite having the social skills of a retarded sloth.
3) Make some dumb arse attempt to lock down their account and walk away
Just fantastic. If they did this to you at work you'd quit because you know it doesn't work well on Windows but you're happy to inflict this kind of crap on your relatives and walk away secure in the knowledge that they won't even know the problems they see are caused by a lack of admin privs.
None of the above answers make sense. So what does?
1) Offer to fix the computer but don't drop everything and go running to fix the damn thing every time they break it. Instead arrange a time 2 weeks down the road to fix it (You can make an exception if something is genuinely urgent so long as it's not genuinely urgent every time you're asked to fix it).
2) Offer to help them avoid the 2 week delay to have their computer fixed by showing them how to avoid viruses etc. All of a sudden there's a very good reason to learn how.
3) If the above doesn't work gradually increase the amount of time to 3 or 4 weeks for each time you have to clean their computer. Don't go overboard but at the same time let them know that you would like to help but that your time is valuable and that you can't just drop things and fix the machine.
4) If they say they can't learn be positive and encouraging. Tell them if they learnt to do the things they want to on the computer they can also learn how to do the things they have to to keep it running. Be patient and show them how. Video tutorials aren't appropriate. Schedule a time as described above and sit down and teach them. It's important to let them know that using a computer is all about continuous learning. Bring about the change positively instead of doing it like a social retard.
5) Don't just fix the computer and walk away. Take the opportunity to spend some time with your relative and hang out. Do something with them after the computer is fixed or arrange something social for another day so that it's not JUST about you fixing the computer.
6) The only technical bit of advice. Encourage them to keep their data somewhere separate to their OS and teach them to back their data up. Hopefully this will make blowing a machine away and starting from scratch less of a problem.
You talk about VMS in past tense, but I use it every day. Along with Windows, and Unix. I code in C and in Java (J2EE, Spring). Eclipse works well for writing both because its syntax highlighting and call hierarchy features cope well with extensions they don't know about (Pro*C, and VMS libraries).
OK, I happily grant that a stuck key is a major issue. But giving her a new MacBook Pro as compensation for the Apple repair department's failure to fix the key is phenomenal customer service any way you slice it.
Why exactly? They weren't able to fix the issue in a prompt manner. If they can't fix they must replace. They must do so in a timely manner. It's called a warranty. It's not phenomenal anything. They should be apologetic for wasting her time.
Let us know what happens next time you have a stuck key on your Dell (or whatever). I'll bet they will not give you a new Adamo.
Funny you should mention Dell. My latest laptop has been tragic. I've had 2 hard drive replacements, 2 screen replacements, a broken hinge, a stuck fan and a couple of other issues I've fixed myself (including a strange memory leak that required a BIOS reset). Their customer service hasn't been great. Repeated missed appointments etc. It's not my first laptop and I don't treat it roughly. So guess which manufacturer I'll be avoiding for my next purchase DESPITE them honouring their warranty. Worse customer service elsewhere doesn't make Apple's stellar (and in fact I have had bad experiences with Apple customer service when looking after a machine at work some years back....oh and their warranty on iPods is awful).
Call me a fanboy if you want, but you might be interested to know that I just bought my first Mac (literally) four days ago. So, either I can't be a fanboy, or you must concede that Apple is doing something right if they've already made a fanboy out of me.
Or perhaps it's a new shiny toy that you're in love with at the moment and you don't have the maturity to keep your sense of perspective.
So at THIS point, despite it all being relatively minor stuff - she was PISSED at Apple and their products and service. She stormed back to the Apple store to complain about the repair not being done properly, and you know what? They "bent some rules" for her, and swapped her for a BRAND NEW Macbook Pro which had more RAM, a better graphics card, faster processor and more drive space than her low-end Macbook that was just out of the 1 year warranty!
Have you ever dealt with a keyboard that sticks on a laptop? What the fuck are you smoking? Calling this a "minor issue" is insane! It's enough to make a computer so frustrating it's UNUSABLE. On top of that they didn't fix it when it was shipped for repair at considerable inconvenience to her, and you call that a minor point too. Lastly you blame her for being a clueless user - yet isn't one of the big selling points of the Apple p latform? That it "just works". A swap of hardware at that point sounded like a reasonable thing, but nothing extraordinary or that required special mention of extremely good customer support.
Making excuses for your pet company doesn't do it any favours. The service just keeps degrading if you let them get away with it. Blaming the user is asinine.
Haven't RTFA yet but I bet they are using patch notes as their source of vulnerabilities.
So the headline should have been "Firefox most transparent browser when it comes to vulnerabilities".
I'm no FF fanboi. I think they've gone off the rails in a lot of ways - especially by forcing users to accept changes that many changes they don't like such as AWFULBAR. However one thing they do right is they're transparent about bugs and vulnerabilities (at least once they're able to reproduce them). The whole article is a fucking troll.
This is actually a good example of why Microsoft (and others) may dislike the GPL - how precisely do you determine that it is not a GPL violation?
You could say that about any software, not just GPL and not just FOSS. Sure it's easier to pass off publicly available source as someone else's code because it's much easier to get hold of, but that doesn't mean it can't be done with leaked or stolen code.
This isn't a "reason" for any company not to like open source. "Lame excuse" would be a better discription.
So when your wallet is stolen, identity thieves got a credit card number, a license and all your passwords. They just have to guess which one is right?
If the threat were 7m asteriods, no one would be monitoring. We'd certainly not be talking about the possibility of mass extinction. Yes some people might die, just as some people die every day. The reason to monitor near earth asteroids is the big ones that can kill off most of the life on our planet in a very short period.
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selective quoting is...about...being happy
What are my options? New computer?
Clearly if it hasn't got a white button and it crashes, it is beyond repair and you will have to buy a new one.
What I think is really cool about GPS is that without Einstein's theory of general relativity, it wouldn't work
Neither would the rest of the universe. Well without the physical rules which the model of general relativity approximates. As for the model itself, the universe (including any GPS equipment) ticks along just fine without the theory. The GPS units would just always be wrong (and so not terribly useful)
Competition != aggression... for the most part.
Non-violent competition allows that testosterone to be released without the violence.
Also I do think men and women are better suited to different things. I don't think it is true to the degree TV makes it out to be.
I hate to break it to you but TV isn't realistic about much at all. Life doesn't fit into feel good half hour timeslots. Only a fool would model their reality on TV. It also won't teach you to be a good doctor, nurse, detective, CSI. Parenting is no different.
That said I also think that it is severely over played. From an evolutionary POV children are meant to be raised by tribes not mothers.
Yes, I've heard it takes the village to raise the idiot. In all seriousness I think you've oversimplified. From an evolutionary point of view SOMETIMES groups of people coming together (as a tribe) could do better than individuals or smaller family units. However there was always competition within the tribe and there were times when the individual felt that they could further their interests by harming or even killing a child. In any case modelling your actions around what happened from an evolutionary standpoint is a bad idea since murder and rampant violence were a part of that world and they are highly undesirable today.
And the number of things we do each day that have NOTHING to do with life 30k yrs ago are astounding. I argue that the male-female split is minor compared to the foraging-programmer split.
It is very clear to me that you severely underestimate the amount of effort and skill required to properly raise a child. If you don't care about the child (and many don't care about their children regardless of what they say) it's a different story. Some people aren't with children. I'm one of them. I struggle with it every day and am very fortunate that my wife is very intelligent and loves children (and is in fact a primary school teacher). Are there men that will do better? Probably. Are there women that will do worse? Probably. However on the whole women are better equipped. They play child rearing and home making games from infancy. I'm sure that a great deal of that is societal influence but some of it is innate too. Boys and girls just behave differently from a very young age - even before they understand the expectations we place on them.
My 15 month old boy's favour toy at the moment is a shopping trolley. His aunt gave it to him along with a tea set, and out of guilt that these were too 'girly' also bought him some plastic construction trucks. He hates the tea set. Put it in the trolley and he'll throw it out quite vigorously. Same goes for anything that he feels doesn't belong in the trolley. We didn't teach him this behaviour. He doesn't like the tea set or the construction trucks but he loves his toy turtle who lives in that trolley and he is ROUGH with the trolley. Again not taught.
Boys and girls are different. Pretending that they're not, or pushing them too hard in any direction, leads to them becoming confused and miserable. I repeat what I said earlier: you need to respect the differences just as you need to avoid placing barriers in their way based on silly stereotypes. If a man WANTS to be a stay at home dad, fantastic. Pushing him into it. Insisting that he does "his share" when he's not suited is a recipe for disaster.
I can aspire to have anger issues? Be hero and join the military where I can shoot people? Be a local hero and hit and or throw and or catch a ball? Maybe something involving beating up and or shooting badguys.
Even at 6 months, little boys play differently to little girls and have different interests. Boys do tend to be agressive. The trick is to get that aggression out in a non-destructive way, and perhaps even to harness it. This is what sports are for. Many geeks don't recognise this, but are equally prone to aggression in the form of a pissing contest over technical skill or knowledge. Denying that the aggression exists is not useful and is quite destructive.
Also, child rearing isn't a particularly female position beyond infancy. Girls simply got stuck with it because they gave birth so its their responsibility.
Spoken like someone who's never had a child. I love my son, but there are times when no matter what I do I cannot comfort him. It's not for lack of trying. Trying to play that role, and failing, is enough to make you very depressed. I change nappies. I bath my child. I don't shirk my responsibilities. However I am not under the dillusion that I could do as well as his mum raising him, nor do I think that ripping him away from his mother after a few years so we can take turns at furthering our careers is a sane, rational, or workable idea. People who buy into these fantasies often find their lives a mess.
Perpetuating this fantasy that men and women are equally capable at all things is a hell of a lot more destructive than letting some boy relieve aggression by playing cops and robbers. Most politically correct mindless sheep cannot separate the concept of equality meaning holding each gender in equal regard and giving them equal rights to self determination, from the concept of equality as in everyone can do exactly the same things with equal skill regardless of gender. The first is critical for a healthy society in which women (ie half the population) aren't disenfranchised. The second is a mastabatory fantasy.
Slashdot, what the hell happened to you? You used to be interesting and hot, but you gained 400 lbs and started smoking crack. You've really let yourself go.
Dear ex-slashdot-loving geek. I gained 20lbs tops, and I've always smoked crack. You just sobered up. I don't care if you love me or not, as long as we can boink.
Yeah it has nothing to do with forcing boys to engage in more timid play, impressing upon them that when they grow older they'll be expected to do their share of the child rearing, presenting them with effeminate roll models, balking at allowing them to take risks or play "politically incorrect" games, keeping them away from violence and agression more than any previous generation, or putting them in female clothing for a giggle. Nothing to do with that at all. It's the chemicals!
GIMME A BREAK.
Stardate 5191.5.
While googling frantically for pornographic footage of green three breasted alien women, have come across a place called "the pirate bay". Apparently this is an exchange post for all kinds of illicit material, but based on an analysis of the comments, quite inexplicably, it is only frequented by pre-pubescent teenage boys and social misfits who lack a fundamental part of the anatomy: a sense of humour.
Recommend we study these life forms to learn what we can from them. They seem to have formed a lawless society loosely based on an earlier society that advocated rape and pilleage on the high seas . Furthermore they have technology that allows them to store an infinite number of files on a loose connection of inter-0networked machines, but strangely none of these files are complete, which often results in cursing and requests to perform a strange ritual invoked with the words "please seed".
To guard against their natural enemies - a group who have become rich and successful by making entertainment audio and video recordings for a completely different group of pre-pubescent teenagers - they use a new kind of anti-mater which they call "peer guardian".
Mr Spock believes they are "fascinating" and I am hopeful we will soon encounter green alien dancing girls with 3 breasts. I have therefore committed all resources of the Enterprise to cataloging and studing this group.
Really I think its a waste of perfectly good food to not to eat people. Think of how many starving people 1 fat person would feed. It is like recycling food.
Currently modded at +4 Insightful. Do we need further evidence that slashdot moderation is broken and does not in practice self correct. +5 funny, while tasteless, I could accept. But +4 insightful says people here have considered this and really would like to start eating other people. That is of course ridiculous.
What are the odds the company's around to sue if they're wrong in 100 years let alone 1000? I can tell you the odds of the guys who made the claim being around are zero. If you're going to put your faith in this nonsense I have a bridge to sell you.
Last I checked, there is not a war going on in Coshocton, OH
You forgot the war 'gaint 'Terra
and the MPAA is not a sovereign authority (as much as it might like to be).
They're working on it. Stay tuned.
People here are recommending one of the following FUCKING STUPID approaches:
1) Force your family to switch to Mac or Linux
Just awful. All of a sudden they can't run the software they want to and that they're use to. This is a lot like a doctor who when asked to help a patient with a cold pulls out a gun and shoots the patient. No more life = no more cold. Problem solved. Oh and if you do it with a Mac, the gun has a fancy handle and costs double what a normal gun does. Your family will resent you (One of the stories was about being taken to court over it). This is not a clever solution
2) Refuse to do support
Friends and family resent you because they've done things for you but now that it's your turn to do something for them you've decided you're above it. What's more they KNOW you can help. For some social misfit geeks their willingness to help is one of the few things that endears them to family and lets them see that you're intelligent despite having the social skills of a retarded sloth.
3) Make some dumb arse attempt to lock down their account and walk away
Just fantastic. If they did this to you at work you'd quit because you know it doesn't work well on Windows but you're happy to inflict this kind of crap on your relatives and walk away secure in the knowledge that they won't even know the problems they see are caused by a lack of admin privs.
None of the above answers make sense. So what does?
1) Offer to fix the computer but don't drop everything and go running to fix the damn thing every time they break it. Instead arrange a time 2 weeks down the road to fix it (You can make an exception if something is genuinely urgent so long as it's not genuinely urgent every time you're asked to fix it).
2) Offer to help them avoid the 2 week delay to have their computer fixed by showing them how to avoid viruses etc. All of a sudden there's a very good reason to learn how.
3) If the above doesn't work gradually increase the amount of time to 3 or 4 weeks for each time you have to clean their computer. Don't go overboard but at the same time let them know that you would like to help but that your time is valuable and that you can't just drop things and fix the machine.
4) If they say they can't learn be positive and encouraging. Tell them if they learnt to do the things they want to on the computer they can also learn how to do the things they have to to keep it running. Be patient and show them how. Video tutorials aren't appropriate. Schedule a time as described above and sit down and teach them. It's important to let them know that using a computer is all about continuous learning. Bring about the change positively instead of doing it like a social retard.
5) Don't just fix the computer and walk away. Take the opportunity to spend some time with your relative and hang out. Do something with them after the computer is fixed or arrange something social for another day so that it's not JUST about you fixing the computer.
6) The only technical bit of advice. Encourage them to keep their data somewhere separate to their OS and teach them to back their data up. Hopefully this will make blowing a machine away and starting from scratch less of a problem.
Beat that Google Muhahahahahaha
You talk about VMS in past tense, but I use it every day. Along with Windows, and Unix. I code in C and in Java (J2EE, Spring). Eclipse works well for writing both because its syntax highlighting and call hierarchy features cope well with extensions they don't know about (Pro*C, and VMS libraries).
Not all the old systems are dead.
Law is the programming language for the system of society.
Well it's syntax is obscure and imprecise, it's practitioners are mostly B-Ark material, and people write horrible code with it.
OK, I happily grant that a stuck key is a major issue. But giving her a new MacBook Pro as compensation for the Apple repair department's failure to fix the key is phenomenal customer service any way you slice it.
Why exactly? They weren't able to fix the issue in a prompt manner. If they can't fix they must replace. They must do so in a timely manner. It's called a warranty. It's not phenomenal anything. They should be apologetic for wasting her time.
Let us know what happens next time you have a stuck key on your Dell (or whatever). I'll bet they will not give you a new Adamo.
Funny you should mention Dell. My latest laptop has been tragic. I've had 2 hard drive replacements, 2 screen replacements, a broken hinge, a stuck fan and a couple of other issues I've fixed myself (including a strange memory leak that required a BIOS reset). Their customer service hasn't been great. Repeated missed appointments etc. It's not my first laptop and I don't treat it roughly. So guess which manufacturer I'll be avoiding for my next purchase DESPITE them honouring their warranty. Worse customer service elsewhere doesn't make Apple's stellar (and in fact I have had bad experiences with Apple customer service when looking after a machine at work some years back....oh and their warranty on iPods is awful).
Call me a fanboy if you want, but you might be interested to know that I just bought my first Mac (literally) four days ago. So, either I can't be a fanboy, or you must concede that Apple is doing something right if they've already made a fanboy out of me.
Or perhaps it's a new shiny toy that you're in love with at the moment and you don't have the maturity to keep your sense of perspective.
So at THIS point, despite it all being relatively minor stuff - she was PISSED at Apple and their products and service. She stormed back to the Apple store to complain about the repair not being done properly, and you know what? They "bent some rules" for her, and swapped her for a BRAND NEW Macbook Pro which had more RAM, a better graphics card, faster processor and more drive space than her low-end Macbook that was just out of the 1 year warranty!
Have you ever dealt with a keyboard that sticks on a laptop? What the fuck are you smoking? Calling this a "minor issue" is insane! It's enough to make a computer so frustrating it's UNUSABLE. On top of that they didn't fix it when it was shipped for repair at considerable inconvenience to her, and you call that a minor point too. Lastly you blame her for being a clueless user - yet isn't one of the big selling points of the Apple p latform? That it "just works". A swap of hardware at that point sounded like a reasonable thing, but nothing extraordinary or that required special mention of extremely good customer support.
Making excuses for your pet company doesn't do it any favours. The service just keeps degrading if you let them get away with it. Blaming the user is asinine.
Haven't RTFA yet but I bet they are using patch notes as their source of vulnerabilities.
So the headline should have been "Firefox most transparent browser when it comes to vulnerabilities".
I'm no FF fanboi. I think they've gone off the rails in a lot of ways - especially by forcing users to accept changes that many changes they don't like such as AWFULBAR. However one thing they do right is they're transparent about bugs and vulnerabilities (at least once they're able to reproduce them). The whole article is a fucking troll.
why wonder when you can look it up? http://golang.org/doc/go_spec.html
I prefer this reference ;-)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Considered_harmful
This is actually a good example of why Microsoft (and others) may dislike the GPL - how precisely do you determine that it is not a GPL violation?
You could say that about any software, not just GPL and not just FOSS. Sure it's easier to pass off publicly available source as someone else's code because it's much easier to get hold of, but that doesn't mean it can't be done with leaked or stolen code.
This isn't a "reason" for any company not to like open source. "Lame excuse" would be a better discription.
Keep them on a slip of paper, in your wallet.
So when your wallet is stolen, identity thieves got a credit card number, a license and all your passwords. They just have to guess which one is right?
No thanks.
If the threat were 7m asteriods, no one would be monitoring. We'd certainly not be talking about the possibility of mass extinction. Yes some people might die, just as some people die every day. The reason to monitor near earth asteroids is the big ones that can kill off most of the life on our planet in a very short period.
Ever heard of bloom filters? Sharding? Indexes?
What does World of Warcraft have to do with it?
"Bring me all your pretty girls and best beers or face destruction, puny Earthlings!
Are you MAD, man? If they took you seriously they'd launch all the pretty girls into space! Noooooooo!
Thank you! At least someone gets it!