This isn't even a valid phrase. Google is a corporation. Corporations are not made out of source code. Google uses open source projects for a lot of things, and has open source projects that they host. That doesn't mean that every line of code in use on their servers or that make up their applications should automatically be up for grabs.
Also, you're a blatant Apple fanboy, so somehow I doubt you apply this same criticism to them. *Nothing* Apple does outside of Webkit is open source anymore. You can't get the source to apple.com any more than you can get the source to google.com. If you actually cared at all about open source, Google is by far the more attractive option. You don't, though, you just like to be contrarian and feign ignorance as some sort of an 'argument.'
So from that statement we can assume that you think that a 10 year, life-ruining prison sentence is an appropriate punishment for teenagers a few years apart in age having sex?
I smell a puritan. If you have daughters, I'll bet they'll be freaks in college.
SO... movies should be written with characters that never drink soda, never go to a Starbucks, never eat anything other than what they harvested out of the back yard.
No, they should be more realistic where every character drives the newest model of the same brand of car, everyone drinks Pepsi or Coke products exclusively, every computer is either a Mac (most likely), or a Dell, and where everyone makes sure that the logo of what they're using/eating/drinking is prominently displayed for everyone to see.
No, no, no. You just don't get it. There is no free market because of the government. If there were no government to distort the free market, we would currently have hundreds of competing carriers with excellent service, speeds, *and* price.
You have claimed that popularity of OS increases the amount of successful attacks. I have demonstrated that popularity of well-designed product has no such effects despite being a more valuable target for attackers.
This means (if you are too thick to notice) that you are wrong.
Except you're comparing an application whose primary 'target' is a trained system administrator, vs operating systems that get stuck on millions of pieces of non-expert-driven consumer hardware, so I'd hardly say that your analogy is a sound one.
And yes, Apache has had vulnerabilities in the past.
I guess an "Apple fanboy" is anyone who thinks spending $35 for yet another Mario game is too much, then
Then don't buy it. Enjoy your 40 "yet another whatever ripoff" phone games and come back and gloat about how much more fun you had when you get bored of them.
You've *seriously* limited your video game credibility by misspelling "Tetris" twice, and then topping it off with "Pack-man". If you aren't a non-native English speaker, I suggest you sit quiet while the grown-ups do the talking.
"I don't feel that this will affect me personally, and everyone who does care about it must be some sort of sad-sack asocial loser with no sense of perspective."
You know, you really do love the name calling. It must lead to some really productive discussions when you come into contact with people who disagree with you IRL. I mean, when you toss a label on someone and summarily dismiss all of their arguments, it really makes it easy to just ignore anything they have to say.
Also, get over the persecution complex. It's utter bullshit.
Actually, the neo-nazi compound near Hayden, ID was purchased, bulldozed, and turned into a park a long, long time ago. Most of the skinheads that lived in the area have moved away.
The union specifically told people to send emails, multiple emails, keep sending them so that they are overloaded.
So I'm guessing that if the union had encouraged them to send regular snail mail to overload their capacity to deal with it, you also think that should be "hacking" somehow?
So the argument is that no iPhone-like smartphones existed before the iPhone, and that everyone just stole Apple's ideas for their own smartphones.
A phone is named that was similar to the iPhone and demoed and released before the iPhone.
Now you dodge and move the goalposts: "well, Apple didn't *copy* their smartphone from someone else" while leaving the implicit, "but everybody else still copied from Apple."
No, it's really not. You just have a case of confirmation bias mixed with a persecution complex.
Go into just about any thread about patent cases -- particularly software patents -- and it's obvious that the overwhelming majority of Slashdot is not happy with companies that use their patent portfolios as weapons.
Up until that point, AFAIK (unless the mainstream media just hasn't reported on the case adequately), the lawsuit from Apple was asking for financial damages, which probably could have turned into an out-of-court settlement if Samsung had offered some sort of concessions.
So poor Apple was *merely* trying to extort some money using our broken patent system, but then mean ol' Samsung actually decided to fight back? This is basically what you're saying?
And now it's Global Warming which is some left-wing conspiracy designed to destroy capitalism and promote socialism. Because that's what climatologists are all about. Trying to replace on economic system with another. They're not really interested in you know, studying climate.
Wow. You're a fucking loon.
This is why we can't have reasonable debate on this subject; too many people believe this idiocy.
Was there anything specific in that mountain of text that you would like to highlight, or is that just some link you pull out whenever you need to "prove" that climate scientists are untrustworthy?
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And this is why this debate will never go anywhere: the two sides aren't debating the same thing.
"Abortion is murder" vs. "It's a woman's right to choose" aren't even part of the same argument.
--Jeremy
Why the heck is it so popular nowadays for many humans to be so anti-human?
It's because of, among other things, certain people's inability to distinguish anti-stupid-things-that-humans-do from anti-human.
--Jeremy
And that's easy to do while you're carrying around your Courier(tm) tablet, right?
--Jeremy
If Google is open source
This isn't even a valid phrase. Google is a corporation. Corporations are not made out of source code. Google uses open source projects for a lot of things, and has open source projects that they host. That doesn't mean that every line of code in use on their servers or that make up their applications should automatically be up for grabs.
Also, you're a blatant Apple fanboy, so somehow I doubt you apply this same criticism to them. *Nothing* Apple does outside of Webkit is open source anymore. You can't get the source to apple.com any more than you can get the source to google.com. If you actually cared at all about open source, Google is by far the more attractive option. You don't, though, you just like to be contrarian and feign ignorance as some sort of an 'argument.'
--Jeremy
So from that statement we can assume that you think that a 10 year, life-ruining prison sentence is an appropriate punishment for teenagers a few years apart in age having sex?
I smell a puritan. If you have daughters, I'll bet they'll be freaks in college.
--Jeremy
SO... movies should be written with characters that never drink soda, never go to a Starbucks, never eat anything other than what they harvested out of the back yard.
No, they should be more realistic where every character drives the newest model of the same brand of car, everyone drinks Pepsi or Coke products exclusively, every computer is either a Mac (most likely), or a Dell, and where everyone makes sure that the logo of what they're using/eating/drinking is prominently displayed for everyone to see.
--Jeremy
No, no, no. You just don't get it. There is no free market because of the government. If there were no government to distort the free market, we would currently have hundreds of competing carriers with excellent service, speeds, *and* price.
--Jeremy
You have claimed that popularity of OS increases the amount of successful attacks. I have demonstrated that popularity of well-designed product has no such effects despite being a more valuable target for attackers.
This means (if you are too thick to notice) that you are wrong.
Except you're comparing an application whose primary 'target' is a trained system administrator, vs operating systems that get stuck on millions of pieces of non-expert-driven consumer hardware, so I'd hardly say that your analogy is a sound one.
And yes, Apache has had vulnerabilities in the past.
--Jeremy
I guess an "Apple fanboy" is anyone who thinks spending $35 for yet another Mario game is too much, then
Then don't buy it. Enjoy your 40 "yet another whatever ripoff" phone games and come back and gloat about how much more fun you had when you get bored of them.
--Jeremy
tetras or pack-man
You've *seriously* limited your video game credibility by misspelling "Tetris" twice, and then topping it off with "Pack-man". If you aren't a non-native English speaker, I suggest you sit quiet while the grown-ups do the talking.
--Jeremy
Translation:
"I don't feel that this will affect me personally, and everyone who does care about it must be some sort of sad-sack asocial loser with no sense of perspective."
--Jeremy
socialist
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
--Jeremy
You know, you really do love the name calling. It must lead to some really productive discussions when you come into contact with people who disagree with you IRL. I mean, when you toss a label on someone and summarily dismiss all of their arguments, it really makes it easy to just ignore anything they have to say.
Also, get over the persecution complex. It's utter bullshit.
--Jeremy
Actually, the neo-nazi compound near Hayden, ID was purchased, bulldozed, and turned into a park a long, long time ago. Most of the skinheads that lived in the area have moved away.
--Jeremy
The union specifically told people to send emails, multiple emails, keep sending them so that they are overloaded.
So I'm guessing that if the union had encouraged them to send regular snail mail to overload their capacity to deal with it, you also think that should be "hacking" somehow?
--Jeremy
I can't imagine caring so much about something so pointless, and with negativity besides.
Says the person calling fans of a Linux-based open source phone OS 'retarded'.
--Jeremy
So the argument is that no iPhone-like smartphones existed before the iPhone, and that everyone just stole Apple's ideas for their own smartphones.
A phone is named that was similar to the iPhone and demoed and released before the iPhone.
Now you dodge and move the goalposts: "well, Apple didn't *copy* their smartphone from someone else" while leaving the implicit, "but everybody else still copied from Apple."
Well played. You'd do well in congress.
--Jeremy
No, it's really not. You just have a case of confirmation bias mixed with a persecution complex.
Go into just about any thread about patent cases -- particularly software patents -- and it's obvious that the overwhelming majority of Slashdot is not happy with companies that use their patent portfolios as weapons.
--Jeremy
Up until that point, AFAIK (unless the mainstream media just hasn't reported on the case adequately), the lawsuit from Apple was asking for financial damages, which probably could have turned into an out-of-court settlement if Samsung had offered some sort of concessions.
So poor Apple was *merely* trying to extort some money using our broken patent system, but then mean ol' Samsung actually decided to fight back? This is basically what you're saying?
--Jeremy
Sony should latch onto this.
They could start suing everyone who produced a video screen in a 16:9 ratio with a thin black bezel and a stand of some sort.
--Jeremy
life, liberty, and property
I seem to remember that 3rd of the big 3 being "and the pursuit of happiness."
The fact that you equate that with "property" really explains a lot about your political opinions.
--Jeremy
And now it's Global Warming which is some left-wing conspiracy designed to destroy capitalism and promote socialism. Because that's what climatologists are all about. Trying to replace on economic system with another. They're not really interested in you know, studying climate.
Wow. You're a fucking loon.
This is why we can't have reasonable debate on this subject; too many people believe this idiocy.
--Jeremy
Was there anything specific in that mountain of text that you would like to highlight, or is that just some link you pull out whenever you need to "prove" that climate scientists are untrustworthy?
--Jeremy
building the highway system that robs people of their freedoms
Do go on. I'd love to hear the details on this.
--Jeremy
I didn't have any problems with it. Maybe you're just a bad player?
--Jeremy