Now, there's a period of job seeking followed by a five week period of employment, followed by the current job seeking period on my resume.
Get the interviewer to empathize with you, by noting that we all make mistakes, now and then: "Who'd have guessed those hippies wouldn't pay me $699 for something they could get a better implementation of for free? But hey-hey, honest mistake, right?
"I mean, we expected everybody to settle out of court, just to get us to go away. Imagine my surprise when David explained that IBM has so many lawyers on retainer. Really, who'da thunk it? Honest mistake, right?"
Now, there's a period of job seeking followed by a five week period of employment, followed by the current job seeking period on my resume.
Explain, candidly: "Who knew you couldn't support yourself by bloging and posting comments to Slashdot wouldn't pay? By the way, I have another Slashdot comment coming up soon, stay tuned. Subscribe now and I'll let you read it!:)"
Au contrare! It's onlyExactly Where They're At Weapons of Mass Destruction"
Whoops, I munged the second paragraph. It should be:
Au contrare! It's only by means of magic that you'll ever find the fabled Mysteriously Non-Existent but War-Justifying Nonetheless because, Dear U.N., We Know Exactly Where They're At Weapons of Mass Destruction"
While magic may not play a part in this I would expect that random elements of good and bad luck will.
Au contrare! It's onlyExactly Where They're At Weapons of Mass Destruction"
Other magic items will include: The Magic Flight-Suit of Re-election Ads: with this authentic U.S Navy flight suit, fortunate sons who managed to avoid real wars in Vietnam get to declare wars they instigated to avenge Daddy to be over! The magic lies in glossing over the ensuing casualties during the "peace", which will actually be larger than the casualties during the "war", and in providing macho footage suitable for use in re-election ads!
The Magic Avenging Aide: this highly placed administration aide can be used to cast a spell of revealing on Valerie Pflame, letting every enemy of America know she's and undercover CIA operative, in order to punish her husband, Ambassador Joseph Wilson, for not toeing the administration line and claiming that Iraq had nuclear bomb ingredient "yellowcake" when it did not. The magic is, even thought it's a Federal crime to reveal the identity of an undercover CIA agent, no one will ever be prosecuted!
The Magic Influencing Vice President: this magic item, also known as a "Dick Cheney", can be used to intimidate CIA analysts and other members of the intelligence community into changing their findings to indicate the existence of WMDs they don't actually believe exist. The magic is, this will even work on credulous Labour leaders in Great Britain -- even those who public claim they've found a "Third way"!
Please note that full use of "The Magic Influencing Vice President" artifact requires concurrent use of The Magic Halliburton No-Bid Payoff Spell: this spell allows companies that gave ungodly amounts to your campaign to get even more back in the form of no-bid exclusive contracts to "support" our troops. Actual soldiers in the field will receive benefit form these contracts on a roll of 16 or more on a 20-side die., but Halliburton will always prosper.
And finally, the most potent magic item of all: The Magic Word Patriotism: Use the word to shut up anyone who questions your policies, by accusing them of "giving aid to our enemies". Teh magic is that anything else that you do -- not finding Osama, non-existent WMDs, bad intelligence, skulduggery and payoffs --, can be swept under the rug, by the invoking of the magic word Patriotism. Any dissenter's reputation can be impugned by claiming that they don't have Patriotism. Any law can be passed, by invoking Patriotism.
It's the Bush Administration: suspend your disbelief, because the magic's all around you!
"enable a commander of an [Army] unit to say, 'Hey, my unit needs to train for its upcoming peacekeeping duties in Kumar.'
Oddly enough, "Kumar" is the name given to a thinly fictionalized Saudi Arabia in the favorite escape from dreary Bush-redux reality of U.S. liberals, TV's The West Wing.
So is Robert Gehorsam (to paraphrase Baroness Thatcher's accusation to Neil Kinnock) a "crypto-liberal", or does Saudi Arabia have some "regime change" heading its way?
The Aramaic words "Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin" may be translated literally as, "It has been counted and counted, weighed and divided."
But in an effort to reach out to modern readers, a newer and more accessible translation (which nevertheles retains for metrical reasons the Old English form "belongen") renders it as:
"Pwned, Pwnded, make your time, to us are belongen all your base."
"CNN is reporting that the RIAA has filed 531 'John Doe' lawsuits against defendants in Atlanta; Philadelphia; Orlando, Florida; and Trenton, New Jersey. Of course, once these thugs find out who you are, you can pay them off for the small fee averaging $3,000."
I think that many of the RIAA's tactics are heavy handed and will ultimately be detrimental to the RIAA. I think that the penalties for copyright violation under U.S. law are unduly harsh.
Its use of the DMCA to get subpoenas without judicial review was a threat to liberty.
But the RIAA does represent copyright holders, and 'John Doe' suits against alleged copyright violators are entirely appropriate. It's by means of such law suits, rather than additional legislation calling for mandatory DRM or special police powers for copyright holders, that the RIAA can protect its rights without infringing ours.
So labelling the RIAA "thugs" in this case is entirely inappropriate.
Or would you also label the Free Software Foundation "thugs" if it attempted to enforce the provisions of the GPL against a company using GPL'd source in a released product without also releasing the source code?
I don't think it's fair that it's so hard and expensive to get a Digital Oscar and so few people have one, so since it's Digital I was able to crack one and upload it to Kazaa.
I also put a Torrent here: http://www.rpmfind.net/BitTorrent/severn-SRPMS-dis c1.iso.torrent
a note to our American and our Commonwealth readers:
In the U.S., "MP" is most commonly used as an abbreviation for "Military Police" -- members of the military whose duty include police jurisdiction over their fellow servicemen, or occupied territories.
In Britain and its Commonwealth nations, "MP" is most commonly used an abbreviation for "Member of Parliament" -- elected officials serving in the national legislature, with the reference most often to the British House of Commons, but also applicable to Parliaments of the Commonwealth nations.
Well, if you consider that many medical schools (US and abroad) still have a live dissection....I just don't see how the stuff in this game is much worse or 'distorted'.
Because without medical students training by "live dissection" (vivisection) of animals, they'd be opening up humans without any experience -- resulting in more dead humans.
Believe me, I take no pleasure in the suffering of animals in laboratory testing, and I'm sympathetic to proposals, like Richard Dawkins, to more strictly limit testing of Primates -- both for reasons of consanguinity and to ensure that test results are not distorted by the animals' living conditions.
But as someone with a spiral of metal in my right coronary artery -- a stent which by holding the artery open, keeps my alive -- I'm not about to ask medical student to limit their surgical training to oranges or manikins or thought experiments.
As to distortion in the game, I think few if any medical students ever shoot hamsters out of cannon. But if they did, I'd be inclined to give the scientist or doctor -- someone with several years of training -- the benefit of the doubt.
Plenty of scientific experiments, involving animals or not, are regularly the target of derision by non-scientists: the late Senator William Proxmire made a regular joke of scientist with his "Golden Fleece" awards. The joke, however, was often on Proxmire, as would later turn out he was criticizing real and important research just because he didn't understand the methodologies involved.
The real problem here is that the game lampoons science that neither the game's authors nor the game's users understand well enough to fairly and impartially evaluate. To "bring it home" to Slashdot, it would be as if a game depicted a computer running linux as a slow and unfriendly old VAX/VMS machine with a command prompt reading "$ Hey let's pirate some songs, write a few viruses and h4x0r a bank's network! >"
I suppose it is should be satisfyingly ironic that thanks to modern science and medicine, we all have can sit down at a PC as good as anything an entire country could have afforded in 1960, and reckon that with a life expectancy into the eighties we have the leisure time to play games that spit into the face of the scientists and doctors who got us here.
Rather than going Microsoft, maybe you should use freemind. I've been using it the last six months on Linux and Windows, and am very pleased with it.
Now I know nothing about Freemind beyond what I saw following the parent post's link, but the when front page of the site asks, "Did FreeMind make you angry?" you really have to wonder.
The Financial Times reports a growing interest in the concept of bulk email fees:
Given that most of our problems with spam involve open relays and off-shore spam hauses, how exactly do they plan to force anyone to pay a fee?
What will happen is that outlaws will continue to send spam as they do now, and only legitimate users will be assessed a fee.
Meanwhile, the impetus behind this comes from (emphasis mine)
corporations that have adopted online marketing [which] are concerned that up to 20 per cent of their e-mails are not getting past spam filters.
News flash to corporations that have adopted online marketing: I consider your email to be to be spam as much as email from anyone using an open relay. It's not that the email contains porn, or 419 come-ons, or a "great opportunity" to do business with eMarketeer -- it's the fact that it's in my inbox, not what it contains, that steals my time and inflames my temper.
So there may be a "growing interest", but it's not on the part of actual end-users. This is purely a fight between unscrupulous, time stealing marketeers without Boards of Directors -- that is, traditional spammers -- and unscrupulous, time stealing marketeers with Boards of Directors -- that is, companies in the Direct Marketing association.
The idea that you're magically morally clean if you're a cheating MBAstard with offices in the "good" part of town doesn't wash anymore.
On the other hand, you have a very shallow learning curve, as almost every Slashdot poster is very familiar with the one-handed "chording" required. And advanced users have even learned how to keep from getting their keyboards sticky in the process.
(Compare this to the demonstrated inability of most of the Slashdot crowd to ever learn how to handle softer, more feminine curves.)
<voice="Triumph the Insult Comic Dog"> Hey, I kid, I kid!
You're all Cassanovas here. Sure you are!.</voice>
How about we put all unfunny people like you on trains and send them off into camps? It's not big deal. Simple solution.
John? John Ashcroft?
Shouldn't you be putting terminally ill medical marijuana users in prison with Tommy Chong or tearing up the Constitution or something, rather than posting to Slashdot?
Unless, and that's the kicker offcourse, the disease first came into existence in this person, by mutating form some other harmless variant or something.
Many human diseases -- influenza, some plagues, and many STDs -- originated in animals, and mutated enough to cross the species barrier.
In the case of STDs, it seems a fair guess that some lonely shepherds, uh, "encouraged" teh crossing by crossing -- or breaking -- a few moral and membranous barriers on their own.
Actually, that graph is from a study of STD transmission among high school students....
And look! This will take you back to your first year CS class (and if you were in CS class, you weren't getting any, either): the researchers have discovered recursion (emphasis mine):
Only persons who carry infection are capable of infecting others, and so
it follows that an individual's risk of acquiring a sexually transmitted disease is conditioned by the STD status of their sex partner. One step back, it follows that a partner's probability of infection is conditioned by their prior partners' STD status. Working a second step backwards, it follows that the same rules apply, as they do to a third and fourth step, and on and on,
But they haven't discovered the base or exit case:
back into the murky, tangled, and largely invisible past of partners' past partners' past partners
for however long the time-ordered chain of past fluid-exchange relationships may be.
It was only 15% of the source code which leaked out, yet it will show MS in the weeks to come just how the Open Source community operates. I forsee [sic] them [open source coders] working over time to provide updates to the numerious [sic] vulnerabilities which will arise due to the leaked code.
(I'm pretty sure the OP means "open source coders" by "them" not "Microsoft's coders". So...)
Fu^H^HScratch that dude.
I code for pay, or I code because I get to use the code as I wish. I'm not coding anything for free for Microsoft to keep as proprietary.
Even worse, anyone who does look at the stolen Microsoft source can't work on any code to which they attach their own copyright -- whether GPL'd or their own propriety license -- that has similar functionality to Microsoft's stolen source, for fear of tainting their project and opening it to claims it uses stolen Microsoft "Intellectual Property".
Open source doesn't operate on stolen code, and open source isn't some great big altruistic charity project designed to rescue any arbitrary buggy proprietary code.
Open source is about working on our own code, and owning our own code. That we license it so that you can use it too doesn't -- Darl McBride's "unconstitutional" claims to the contrary -- make it any less our property; it just means that we have different goals (like attracting talent to work with us, and getting bragging rights, and perhaps tentative tries at ushering in a world much less controlled by scarcity), and are leveraging our ownership to reach those goals.
Microsoft can fix their own code, and godspeed to them.
Yeah, Ok, I was trying to be funny, but I guess I underestimated the truly innovative quality of Microsoft's incompetence.
Bashing MS isn't worth my intellectual integrity
on
Mac v. Microsoft TCO
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· Score: 5, Insightful
The MS website has no figures to refute the claim that 'An Apple technician may cost twice as much, but he comes to see you half as often.'
Yeah, and the article was no figures to support that claim.
"In this coooorner, Anecdote, ladies and gentlemen! And in the opposite coooorner, Another Anecdote! Truly this will be the inconclusive fight of the century! Roarrr! Yeaaaaarrg!"
Sure Microsoft sucks, but it doesn't suck so much that I'm going to sacrifice honestly reasoning from real evidence for the sake of becoming a zealot able to bash Microsoft even in the face of no conclusive evidence one way or the other.
If you're going to do, it, do it right! There's a canonical form, which I'll demonstrate (it should be available at Wikipedia except some troll changed it; I'll fix it tonight):
Sad news... Snoopy, dead at 54
I just heard some sad news on talk radio - Comic strip beagle/World War I flying ace Snoopy was found dead in his doghouse this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon.
When I die, this is how I want to be memorialized.
Slashdot Mirror
Now, there's a period of job seeking followed by a five week period of employment, followed by the current job seeking period on my resume.
Get the interviewer to empathize with you, by noting that we all make mistakes, now and then: "Who'd have guessed those hippies wouldn't pay me $699 for something they could get a better implementation of for free? But hey-hey, honest mistake, right?
"I mean, we expected everybody to settle out of court, just to get us to go away. Imagine my surprise when David explained that IBM has so many lawyers on retainer. Really, who'da thunk it? Honest mistake, right?"
Now, there's a period of job seeking followed by a five week period of employment, followed by the current job seeking period on my resume.
:)"
Explain, candidly: "Who knew you couldn't support yourself by bloging and posting comments to Slashdot wouldn't pay? By the way, I have another Slashdot comment coming up soon, stay tuned. Subscribe now and I'll let you read it!
Now, there's a period of job seeking followed by a five week period of employment, followed by the current job seeking period on my resume.
Shrug sheepishly and say, "My 'acting' career just didn't pan out."
Au contrare! It's onlyExactly Where They're At Weapons of Mass Destruction"
Whoops, I munged the second paragraph. It should be:
Au contrare! It's only by means of magic that you'll ever find the fabled Mysteriously Non-Existent but War-Justifying Nonetheless because, Dear U.N., We Know Exactly Where They're At Weapons of Mass Destruction"
While magic may not play a part in this I would expect that random elements of good and bad luck will.
Au contrare! It's onlyExactly Where They're At Weapons of Mass Destruction"
Other magic items will include: The Magic Flight-Suit of Re-election Ads: with this authentic U.S Navy flight suit, fortunate sons who managed to avoid real wars in Vietnam get to declare wars they instigated to avenge Daddy to be over! The magic lies in glossing over the ensuing casualties during the "peace", which will actually be larger than the casualties during the "war", and in providing macho footage suitable for use in re-election ads!
The Magic Avenging Aide: this highly placed administration aide can be used to cast a spell of revealing on Valerie Pflame, letting every enemy of America know she's and undercover CIA operative, in order to punish her husband, Ambassador Joseph Wilson, for not toeing the administration line and claiming that Iraq had nuclear bomb ingredient "yellowcake" when it did not. The magic is, even thought it's a Federal crime to reveal the identity of an undercover CIA agent, no one will ever be prosecuted!
The Magic Influencing Vice President: this magic item, also known as a "Dick Cheney", can be used to intimidate CIA analysts and other members of the intelligence community into changing their findings to indicate the existence of WMDs they don't actually believe exist. The magic is, this will even work on credulous Labour leaders in Great Britain -- even those who public claim they've found a "Third way"!
Please note that full use of "The Magic Influencing Vice President" artifact requires concurrent use of The Magic Halliburton No-Bid Payoff Spell: this spell allows companies that gave ungodly amounts to your campaign to get even more back in the form of no-bid exclusive contracts to "support" our troops. Actual soldiers in the field will receive benefit form these contracts on a roll of 16 or more on a 20-side die., but Halliburton will always prosper.
And finally, the most potent magic item of all: The Magic Word Patriotism: Use the word to shut up anyone who questions your policies, by accusing them of "giving aid to our enemies". Teh magic is that anything else that you do -- not finding Osama, non-existent WMDs, bad intelligence, skulduggery and payoffs --, can be swept under the rug, by the invoking of the magic word Patriotism. Any dissenter's reputation can be impugned by claiming that they don't have Patriotism. Any law can be passed, by invoking Patriotism.
It's the Bush Administration: suspend your disbelief, because the magic's all around you!
"enable a commander of an [Army] unit to say, 'Hey, my unit needs to train for its upcoming peacekeeping duties in Kumar.'
Oddly enough, "Kumar" is the name given to a thinly fictionalized Saudi Arabia in the favorite escape from dreary Bush-redux reality of U.S. liberals, TV's The West Wing.
So is Robert Gehorsam (to paraphrase Baroness Thatcher's accusation to Neil Kinnock) a "crypto-liberal", or does Saudi Arabia have some "regime change" heading its way?
Is the gpl a text that says "if you change a word of this text you shall be excommunciated from the religion of Free Software, Stallman prophet ?"
DDOS the heretic!
Cast him into the flames of Redmond!
nice. how does it go?
"Counted, counted, and you're time is up?"
The Aramaic words "Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin" may be translated literally as, "It has been counted and counted, weighed and divided."
But in an effort to reach out to modern readers, a newer and more accessible translation (which nevertheles retains for metrical reasons the Old English form "belongen") renders it as:
"Pwned, Pwnded, make your time, to us are belongen all your base."
Imagine if a company trademarked
print "hello world";
and started charging for its use...
Look, if you're going to give SCO ideas, at least charge them $699.
"CNN is reporting that the RIAA has filed 531 'John Doe' lawsuits against defendants in Atlanta; Philadelphia; Orlando, Florida; and Trenton, New Jersey. Of course, once these thugs find out who you are, you can pay them off for the small fee averaging $3,000."
I think that many of the RIAA's tactics are heavy handed and will ultimately be detrimental to the RIAA. I think that the penalties for copyright violation under U.S. law are unduly harsh.
Its use of the DMCA to get subpoenas without judicial review was a threat to liberty.
But the RIAA does represent copyright holders, and 'John Doe' suits against alleged copyright violators are entirely appropriate. It's by means of such law suits, rather than additional legislation calling for mandatory DRM or special police powers for copyright holders, that the RIAA can protect its rights without infringing ours.
So labelling the RIAA "thugs" in this case is entirely inappropriate.
Or would you also label the Free Software Foundation "thugs" if it attempted to enforce the provisions of the GPL against a company using GPL'd source in a released product without also releasing the source code?
If you're gonna be cute and link to a big ass file... you could at least attempt to hide the fact that it is a friggin' ISO...
For you, I should have linked to a sense of humor. Because my post was a joke!
in Hex or Binary?
s c1.iso.torrent
I don't think it's fair that it's so hard and expensive to get a Digital Oscar and so few people have one, so since it's Digital I was able to crack one and upload it to Kazaa.
I also put a Torrent here: http://www.rpmfind.net/BitTorrent/severn-SRPMS-di
I dont understand, MPs? Police?
a note to our American and our Commonwealth readers:
In the U.S., "MP" is most commonly used as an abbreviation for "Military Police" -- members of the military whose duty include police jurisdiction over their fellow servicemen, or occupied territories.
In Britain and its Commonwealth nations, "MP" is most commonly used an abbreviation for "Member of Parliament" -- elected officials serving in the national legislature, with the reference most often to the British House of Commons, but also applicable to Parliaments of the Commonwealth nations.
Well, if you consider that many medical schools (US and abroad) still have a live dissection....I just don't see how the stuff in this game is much worse or 'distorted'.
Because without medical students training by "live dissection" (vivisection) of animals, they'd be opening up humans without any experience -- resulting in more dead humans.
Believe me, I take no pleasure in the suffering of animals in laboratory testing, and I'm sympathetic to proposals, like Richard Dawkins, to more strictly limit testing of Primates -- both for reasons of consanguinity and to ensure that test results are not distorted by the animals' living conditions.
But as someone with a spiral of metal in my right coronary artery -- a stent which by holding the artery open, keeps my alive -- I'm not about to ask medical student to limit their surgical training to oranges or manikins or thought experiments.
As to distortion in the game, I think few if any medical students ever shoot hamsters out of cannon. But if they did, I'd be inclined to give the scientist or doctor -- someone with several years of training -- the benefit of the doubt.
Plenty of scientific experiments, involving animals or not, are regularly the target of derision by non-scientists: the late Senator William Proxmire made a regular joke of scientist with his "Golden Fleece" awards. The joke, however, was often on Proxmire, as would later turn out he was criticizing real and important research just because he didn't understand the methodologies involved.
The real problem here is that the game lampoons science that neither the game's authors nor the game's users understand well enough to fairly and impartially evaluate. To "bring it home" to Slashdot, it would be as if a game depicted a computer running linux as a slow and unfriendly old VAX/VMS machine with a command prompt reading
"$ Hey let's pirate some songs, write a few viruses and h4x0r a bank's network! >"
I suppose it is should be satisfyingly ironic that thanks to modern science and medicine, we all have can sit down at a PC as good as anything an entire country could have afforded in 1960, and reckon that with a life expectancy into the eighties we have the leisure time to play games that spit into the face of the scientists and doctors who got us here.
Rather than going Microsoft, maybe you should use freemind. I've been using it the last six months on Linux and Windows, and am very pleased with it.
Now I know nothing about Freemind beyond what I saw following the parent post's link, but the when front page of the site asks, "Did FreeMind make you angry?" you really have to wonder.
Given that most of our problems with spam involve open relays and off-shore spam hauses, how exactly do they plan to force anyone to pay a fee?
What will happen is that outlaws will continue to send spam as they do now, and only legitimate users will be assessed a fee.
Meanwhile, the impetus behind this comes from (emphasis mine) News flash to corporations that have adopted online marketing: I consider your email to be to be spam as much as email from anyone using an open relay. It's not that the email contains porn, or 419 come-ons, or a "great opportunity" to do business with eMarketeer -- it's the fact that it's in my inbox, not what it contains, that steals my time and inflames my temper.
So there may be a "growing interest", but it's not on the part of actual end-users. This is purely a fight between unscrupulous, time stealing marketeers without Boards of Directors -- that is, traditional spammers -- and unscrupulous, time stealing marketeers with Boards of Directors -- that is, companies in the Direct Marketing association.
The idea that you're magically morally clean if you're a cheating MBAstard with offices in the "good" part of town doesn't wash anymore.
The user base keeps going blind.
On the other hand, you have a very shallow learning curve, as almost every Slashdot poster is very familiar with the one-handed "chording" required. And advanced users have even learned how to keep from getting their keyboards sticky in the process.
(Compare this to the demonstrated inability of most of the Slashdot crowd to ever learn how to handle softer, more feminine curves.)
<voice="Triumph the Insult Comic Dog"> Hey, I kid, I kid!
You're all Cassanovas here. Sure you are!.</voice>
How about we put all unfunny people like you on trains and send them off into camps? It's not big deal. Simple solution.
John? John Ashcroft?
Shouldn't you be putting terminally ill medical marijuana users in prison with Tommy Chong or tearing up the Constitution or something, rather than posting to Slashdot?
Unless, and that's the kicker offcourse, the disease first came into existence in this person, by mutating form some other harmless variant or something.
Many human diseases -- influenza, some plagues, and many STDs -- originated in animals, and mutated enough to cross the species barrier.
In the case of STDs, it seems a fair guess that some lonely shepherds, uh, "encouraged" teh crossing by crossing -- or breaking -- a few moral and membranous barriers on their own.
And look! This will take you back to your first year CS class (and if you were in CS class, you weren't getting any, either): the researchers have discovered recursion (emphasis mine):But they haven't discovered the base or exit case:
By the way, does anyone know why the bitmap formap [sic] is writte [soc] upside down?
;)
It's an obscurity that provides extra security against exploits like buffer overflows.
It was only 15% of the source code which leaked out, yet it will show MS in the weeks to come just how the Open Source community operates. I forsee [sic] them [open source coders] working over time to provide updates to the numerious [sic] vulnerabilities which will arise due to the leaked code.
(I'm pretty sure the OP means "open source coders" by "them" not "Microsoft's coders". So...)
Fu^H^HScratch that dude.
I code for pay, or I code because I get to use the code as I wish. I'm not coding anything for free for Microsoft to keep as proprietary.
Even worse, anyone who does look at the stolen Microsoft source can't work on any code to which they attach their own copyright -- whether GPL'd or their own propriety license -- that has similar functionality to Microsoft's stolen source, for fear of tainting their project and opening it to claims it uses stolen Microsoft "Intellectual Property".
Open source doesn't operate on stolen code, and open source isn't some great big altruistic charity project designed to rescue any arbitrary buggy proprietary code.
Open source is about working on our own code, and owning our own code. That we license it so that you can use it too doesn't -- Darl McBride's "unconstitutional" claims to the contrary -- make it any less our property; it just means that we have different goals (like attracting talent to work with us, and getting bragging rights, and perhaps tentative tries at ushering in a world much less controlled by scarcity), and are leveraging our ownership to reach those goals.
Microsoft can fix their own code, and godspeed to them.
Oops... we just gave MS a chance to say keeping the source secret keeps flaws like this secret as well. :)
And you guys moderated this post of mine funny.
Bwah-hahah-ha!
Yeah, Ok, I was trying to be funny, but I guess I underestimated the truly innovative quality of Microsoft's incompetence.
The MS website has no figures to refute the claim that 'An Apple technician may cost twice as much, but he comes to see you half as often.'
Yeah, and the article was no figures to support that claim.
"In this coooorner, Anecdote, ladies and gentlemen! And in the opposite coooorner, Another Anecdote! Truly this will be the inconclusive fight of the century! Roarrr! Yeaaaaarrg!"
Sure Microsoft sucks, but it doesn't suck so much that I'm going to sacrifice honestly reasoning from real evidence for the sake of becoming a zealot able to bash Microsoft even in the face of no conclusive evidence one way or the other.
But, uh, thanks for offering me the chance.
When I die, this is how I want to be memorialized.