That's the point, moron. To win a Darwin Award, one must take themselves out of the gene pool BEFORE they procreate. And it is through procreation that species evolve.
You are assuming that they have not already procreated. The majority of procreation seems to occur in the midst of stupid people.
If anything, so called "smart" people who either choose to not procreate or are unable attract the opposite are still alive and yet not contributing anything to the future gene pool.
Neither do you apparently. Given the size of the human population, an early death has little effect on the overall gene pool and who is to say that they have not already contributed to the gene pool?
WikiLeaks leaked private communications between a force for reform in Zimbabwe and western nations. Those communications may have irreparably damaged efforts at reform by giving Mugabe and his thugs material to discredit reformers.
You seriously think that a crazed psychopath like Mugabe needs actual, real facts to discredit his opponents?
In any case, what would you think if a politician in your country was conspiring with foreign governments to block trade with your country in order to gain political power? I think I'd be a bit pissed at them, myself.
Are you completely insane or just someone with a reading comprehension problem? Mugabe could be as crazy as he liked but the leaked documents made him aware of what someone in the government was doing. He was not psychic you fool. Wikileaks has jeopardized the reform movement in that country.
But Lord High Julian never made a mistake and ALLL information needs to be free ALL the time.
When it comes to my government once again fucking about in a country it has no business meddling with, absolutely.
Wow. Just wow. So you are saying that you don't give two shits about another country if they don't have oil or some other readily exploitable resource?
What binds the Russians to the GPL at all, a construct based on US copyright law?
Nothing. That is what Putin finds attractive about it. There is no large organization that would be able to go after them even if they created their own distro and did not release the source. Would the GNU or even the EFF have the resources to take on Russia? I think not.
Then his move might have unintended consequences.;-)
K.L.M.
Are you trying to be funny or are you just that naive? Linux is "free" as in gratis. Putin does not care about the GNU "freedom".
End users gain nothing from the GPL because it is not an EULA. It only applies to people who would modify and redistribute it outside of the organization they work for.
If you read the license literally, the Russian government can modify it all they like as long at it is kept within the Russian government without ever contributing those changes back to the "community".
The best solution is to find the register that is being run by a man. The second best is to find the line with the most men in it.
My wife called me sexist pig the first time I told her that, but then she started paying attention. She's a believer now.
Uh. I think it really depends on the experience of the person at the cash register. In my experience however, experienced female cashiers tend to be a lot faster than any male cashier.
Your post is so full of anti-Apple and pro Java propaganda, it is difficult to know where to start. 1. Closed source is not a problem for the military since they will expect to own the source themselves.
2. Java is a useful language for building backend processes and services but a really shitty language for use on the front end. It is old and creaky.
3. You might not be aware but OS X and the iOS platform allow you to develop the UI and main core code independently. This allows you to design and prototype the UI very quickly without having to even start on your core and you can write most of your code in platform independent C with just a little bit of Objective-C to tie into the interface that you could have designed earlier.
What Apple does is not cheating. Have you noticed how laggy Android gets when you have multiple apps running in the background? Have you noticed that those background apps are doing absolutely nothing but wasting battery life?
Apple provides services/channel/pipelines to handle IPC for apps that are "backgrounded" without having to have the actual apps themselves running. That is smart, not a cheat. Phones are not PCs. They are still basically embedded systems with a limited amount of resources and no access to VM.
Chances are they will enforce it strictly on everyone except Muslims who insist or wearing a kamize and hajib who will be told "of course wear what you want, our culture is subservient to yours"
This is not a troll. It is a commentary on the double standards which exist in the UK and other parts of Europe. They have a double standard for driver's license photos and for airport security for muslim women.
But what does that have to do with a software license or where drivers come from? What most people care about is whether it works or not and how well it works.
My personal freedom is not increased or limited by the source of drivers on linux. I don't even use linux. That is part of freedom. I have freedom to choose.
If people like RMS had their way, I would be living an GNU utopia where I would have GNU freedom instead of real freedom and I would have no freedom of choice either.
If using completely GPL'ed software makes you happy, good for you but don't expect everyone to do the same. Give everyone the right to choose what they want to use.
If someone is setting up policies to make devices incompatible, they lose. End of story. Devices should be open, hacker-friendly, and free to lie. It's lies that form the foundation of virtualisation. It's lies that let us run OSs in VMs without permission. People who have a strong sense of policy do more to hold the platform back than advance it. More often than not, this is because of someone having the mistaken idea that information can be owned.
Ok. Fine. So what is your account number? Publish your account numbers, your SIN, Credit Card numbers with expiry dates, your real name, address and phone numbers. No? But information wants to be free right? If you expect to get paid to work in IT then you should treat the security of other peoples information like you would want your bank to treat your private information.
The ironic thing is that that very people who chant "information is not property" would be the first in line to sue their bank if there was a security breach caused by an employee with a "hacked" phone that was lost and could not be remotely wiped.
If you have so little regard for the rights and privacy of others then do you do not deserve a well paying job. If you cannot handle being responsible with your position in student government, how can anyone trust you with a "real" job in the future?
If one of your end users jailbreaks their company supplied iPhone, fire them. If the company paid for the phone and pays for the phone service then it is the property of the company, not the end user.
If you officially allow employee iPhones to be used on the company exchange, ensure that it supports full device encryption before you enrol it on the network (iPhone 3GS or newer). Then periodically perform random audits of those phones to check to see if they are jailbroken. If they are, perform a remote wipe immediately to brick the device, remove the phone from exchange and discipline the user. Make sure that you include jailbreaking or any other circumvention of security policies in your policy documents as forbidden activities and have each employee sign it before allowing their device on the network.
The real question is how much do you trust your employee because they are always the potential weakest link.
A non-jailbroken iPhone 3GS or iPhone 4 is about as secure as a blackberry if you use exchange in your organization and perform a remote wipe when the phone is either lost or the employee leave the organization.
Those "cheap ass manufacturers" are only serving their customer base which would be "cheap ass" consumers. Stop being so damn cheap and you will eliminate the market for "cheap ass" solutions.
Dude, if they had actually released the source code to their client, someone would have already ported it to Linux (heck, I would do it nobody else stepped up). Netflix uses open source tools in the course of doing business. That is very different than actually releasing their product as open source.
You also did not get it. Who is the "somebody"? It requires someone to be interested in the concept enough to put the effort in creating a port. Having open source software as a starting point means that you don't have to reverse engineer a black box but there is still effort involved.
*Woosh* It still takes someone to sit down and write the software. Open sourcing your source code will not make a linux version appear, especially if it is written for a platform with rich multimedia frameworks like OS X. Even if the software "reinvented the wheel" to be as portable as possible, very few applications are ported by just changing a few compile switches.
Your reading it backwards... if it was open source, then almost lightning fast there'd be a linux client.
Yes, of course because open source software writes itself and linux would be automatically the first target platform on any open source platform. I'm being facetious deliberately so people might get the point that open source is just a philosophy on how to develop software in a collaborative manner and that open source is not limited to either linux or even the GPL license. Regardless of how you choose to develop software, the same amount of effort is required. The platform can influence how much effort is required.
The iPhone is made by the Foxconn division of Hon Hai Precision Industry Company Ltd, in Shenzen, China. Apple is just the design and sales firm. That's not a reliable source for secure DoD communications.
There are still some non-China cell phone manufacturing facilities. DoD needs to look hard at sourcing.
Right, because American citizens never, ever are criminals or terrorists? Didn't the 9/11 terrorists live in the US for a long time?
This doesn't make it secure. This doesn't make it secure.
That's not what he said. If the code is open, then it can still be insecure. But, if the code is proprietary, then it is ALWAYS insecure.
What utter nonsense. How secure code is depends on the quality of the code and whether it has been analyzed by tools and/or other people to uncover flaws. You do not have to have outsiders looking at the code. Code review by peers can improve code quality by finding mistakes the original author may have missed.
Outsiders do not have some magical quality in finding bugs in code.
The timescales were invented by proponents of evolution long before any dating methods were developed. Those dating methods were conveniently calibrated to support those previously made up timescales.
Any time evidence popped up either here or on the moon which contradicted those timescales, the inconsistency was quickly covered up and the numbers were fudged to make it all fit again.
Is that fantasy world all comfy and safe?
How do you like the fantasy of the earth being 4.5 billion years old? Scientists claim that no evidence of that age exists because there were allegedly several times when the entire crust turned molten. How convenient. So we are all expected to believe in a number that was invented by someone over a century ago just because they are scientists (shamans).
That is pure bullcrap. The time scales increased because our understanding of various geological processes increased, not to mention our understanding of various decay rates. But the age of the Earth being pegged at about 4.5 billion years has been accepted for decades now.
But please, don't let the facts get in the way of your paranoid anti-science rantings.
4.5 billion years is the same number that was coined long before dating techniques were developed.
Scientists claim that the reason why they cannot find any material in the crust anywhere near that age is because they claim that entire crust liquified several times since the formation of the earth. So this number of 4.5 billion years has no physical evidence to back it up yet you take it as gospel truth because a scientist (shaman) says so.
Don't you find all of this a little bit suspicious?
The timescales were invented by proponents of evolution long before any dating methods were developed. Those dating methods were conveniently calibrated to support those previously made up timescales.
Any time evidence popped up either here or on the moon which contradicted those timescales, the inconsistency was quickly covered up and the numbers were fudged to make it all fit again.
Are you really that dense? Mitochondrial Eve demonstrates that we did all come from a single female "mother of us all". You cannot prove a "father of us all" through DNA because of the nature of the male chromosomes but that does not mean that it could have happened. There are two possibilities. 1. Humanity resulted from mating of one single female with multiple males OR 2. Humanity resulted from the mating of one male and an Eve female.
Either way, you cannot get around the fact that some amount of inbreeding would have had to take place.
Breeds of dog are the result of directed inbreeding for a specific purpose.
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That's the point, moron. To win a Darwin Award, one must take themselves out of the gene pool BEFORE they procreate. And it is through procreation that species evolve.
You are assuming that they have not already procreated. The majority of procreation seems to occur in the midst of stupid people.
If anything, so called "smart" people who either choose to not procreate or are unable attract the opposite are still alive and yet not contributing anything to the future gene pool.
You don't know what evolution is, do you?
Neither do you apparently. Given the size of the human population, an early death has little effect on the overall gene pool and who is to say that they have not already contributed to the gene pool?
Poland was our ally and secretly supported us in the Vietnam War (1965-1975)? Wait, what?
Are you trying to be funny? Poland was not an Ally of the US. They were behind the Iron curtain until 1989.
WikiLeaks leaked private communications between a force for reform in Zimbabwe and western nations. Those communications may have irreparably damaged efforts at reform by giving Mugabe and his thugs material to discredit reformers.
You seriously think that a crazed psychopath like Mugabe needs actual, real facts to discredit his opponents?
In any case, what would you think if a politician in your country was conspiring with foreign governments to block trade with your country in order to gain political power? I think I'd be a bit pissed at them, myself.
Are you completely insane or just someone with a reading comprehension problem? Mugabe could be as crazy as he liked but the leaked documents made him aware of what someone in the government was doing. He was not psychic you fool. Wikileaks has jeopardized the reform movement in that country.
But Lord High Julian never made a mistake and ALLL information needs to be free ALL the time.
When it comes to my government once again fucking about in a country it has no business meddling with, absolutely.
Wow. Just wow. So you are saying that you don't give two shits about another country if they don't have oil or some other readily exploitable resource?
What binds the Russians to the GPL at all, a construct based on US copyright law?
Nothing. That is what Putin finds attractive about it. There is no large organization that would be able to go after them even if they created their own distro and did not release the source. Would the GNU or even the EFF have the resources to take on Russia? I think not.
Then his move might have unintended consequences. ;-)
K.L.M.
Are you trying to be funny or are you just that naive? Linux is "free" as in gratis. Putin does not care about the GNU "freedom".
End users gain nothing from the GPL because it is not an EULA. It only applies to people who would modify and redistribute it outside of the organization they work for.
If you read the license literally, the Russian government can modify it all they like as long at it is kept within the Russian government without ever contributing those changes back to the "community".
The best solution is to find the register that is being run by a man. The second best is to find the line with the most men in it.
My wife called me sexist pig the first time I told her that, but then she started paying attention. She's a believer now.
Uh. I think it really depends on the experience of the person at the cash register. In my experience however, experienced female cashiers tend to be a lot faster than any male cashier.
Your post is so full of anti-Apple and pro Java propaganda, it is difficult to know where to start.
1. Closed source is not a problem for the military since they will expect to own the source themselves.
2. Java is a useful language for building backend processes and services but a really shitty language for use on the front end. It is old and creaky.
3. You might not be aware but OS X and the iOS platform allow you to develop the UI and main core code independently. This allows you to design and prototype the UI very quickly without having to even start on your core and you can write most of your code in platform independent C with just a little bit of Objective-C to tie into the interface that you could have designed earlier.
What Apple does is not cheating. Have you noticed how laggy Android gets when you have multiple apps running in the background? Have you noticed that those background apps are doing absolutely nothing but wasting battery life?
Apple provides services/channel/pipelines to handle IPC for apps that are "backgrounded" without having to have the actual apps themselves running. That is smart, not a cheat. Phones are not PCs. They are still basically embedded systems with a limited amount of resources and no access to VM.
Chances are they will enforce it strictly on everyone except Muslims who insist or wearing a kamize and hajib who will be told "of course wear what you want, our culture is subservient to yours"
This is not a troll. It is a commentary on the double standards which exist in the UK and other parts of Europe. They have a double standard for driver's license photos and for airport security for muslim women.
It's not software that's free, it's you.
But what does that have to do with a software license or where drivers come from? What most people care about is whether it works or not and how well it works.
My personal freedom is not increased or limited by the source of drivers on linux. I don't even use linux. That is part of freedom. I have freedom to choose.
If people like RMS had their way, I would be living an GNU utopia where I would have GNU freedom instead of real freedom and I would have no freedom of choice either.
If using completely GPL'ed software makes you happy, good for you but don't expect everyone to do the same. Give everyone the right to choose what they want to use.
If someone is setting up policies to make devices incompatible, they lose. End of story. Devices should be open, hacker-friendly, and free to lie. It's lies that form the foundation of virtualisation. It's lies that let us run OSs in VMs without permission. People who have a strong sense of policy do more to hold the platform back than advance it. More often than not, this is because of someone having the mistaken idea that information can be owned.
Ok. Fine. So what is your account number? Publish your account numbers, your SIN, Credit Card numbers with expiry dates, your real name, address and phone numbers. No? But information wants to be free right? If you expect to get paid to work in IT then you should treat the security of other peoples information like you would want your bank to treat your private information.
The ironic thing is that that very people who chant "information is not property" would be the first in line to sue their bank if there was a security breach caused by an employee with a "hacked" phone that was lost and could not be remotely wiped.
If you have so little regard for the rights and privacy of others then do you do not deserve a well paying job. If you cannot handle being responsible with your position in student government, how can anyone trust you with a "real" job in the future?
If one of your end users jailbreaks their company supplied iPhone, fire them. If the company paid for the phone and pays for the phone service then it is the property of the company, not the end user.
If you officially allow employee iPhones to be used on the company exchange, ensure that it supports full device encryption before you enrol it on the network (iPhone 3GS or newer). Then periodically perform random audits of those phones to check to see if they are jailbroken. If they are, perform a remote wipe immediately to brick the device, remove the phone from exchange and discipline the user. Make sure that you include jailbreaking or any other circumvention of security policies in your policy documents as forbidden activities and have each employee sign it before allowing their device on the network.
The real question is how much do you trust your employee because they are always the potential weakest link.
A non-jailbroken iPhone 3GS or iPhone 4 is about as secure as a blackberry if you use exchange in your organization and perform a remote wipe when the phone is either lost or the employee leave the organization.
Those "cheap ass manufacturers" are only serving their customer base which would be "cheap ass" consumers. Stop being so damn cheap and you will eliminate the market for "cheap ass" solutions.
A kernel with less licensing and freedom issues.
Stop anthropomorphizing the kernel or any software for that matter. They hate that.
Software is a thing. It has no rights or freedoms.
Dude, if they had actually released the source code to their client, someone would have already ported it to Linux (heck, I would do it nobody else stepped up). Netflix uses open source tools in the course of doing business. That is very different than actually releasing their product as open source.
You also did not get it. Who is the "somebody"? It requires someone to be interested in the concept enough to put the effort in creating a port. Having open source software as a starting point means that you don't have to reverse engineer a black box but there is still effort involved.
*Woosh*
It still takes someone to sit down and write the software. Open sourcing your source code will not make a linux version appear, especially if it is written for a platform with rich multimedia frameworks like OS X. Even if the software "reinvented the wheel" to be as portable as possible, very few applications are ported by just changing a few compile switches.
Your reading it backwards... if it was open source, then almost lightning fast there'd be a linux client.
Yes, of course because open source software writes itself and linux would be automatically the first target platform on any open source platform. I'm being facetious deliberately so people might get the point that open source is just a philosophy on how to develop software in a collaborative manner and that open source is not limited to either linux or even the GPL license. Regardless of how you choose to develop software, the same amount of effort is required. The platform can influence how much effort is required.
The iPhone is made by the Foxconn division of Hon Hai Precision Industry Company Ltd, in Shenzen, China. Apple is just the design and sales firm. That's not a reliable source for secure DoD communications.
There are still some non-China cell phone manufacturing facilities. DoD needs to look hard at sourcing.
Right, because American citizens never, ever are criminals or terrorists? Didn't the 9/11 terrorists live in the US for a long time?
This doesn't make it secure. This doesn't make it secure.
That's not what he said. If the code is open, then it can still be insecure. But, if the code is proprietary, then it is ALWAYS insecure.
What utter nonsense. How secure code is depends on the quality of the code and whether it has been analyzed by tools and/or other people to uncover flaws. You do not have to have outsiders looking at the code. Code review by peers can improve code quality by finding mistakes the original author may have missed.
Outsiders do not have some magical quality in finding bugs in code.
The timescales were invented by proponents of evolution long before any dating methods were developed. Those dating methods were conveniently calibrated to support those previously made up timescales.
Any time evidence popped up either here or on the moon which contradicted those timescales, the inconsistency was quickly covered up and the numbers were fudged to make it all fit again.
Is that fantasy world all comfy and safe?
How do you like the fantasy of the earth being 4.5 billion years old? Scientists claim that no evidence of that age exists because there were allegedly several times when the entire crust turned molten. How convenient. So we are all expected to believe in a number that was invented by someone over a century ago just because they are scientists (shamans).
That is pure bullcrap. The time scales increased because our understanding of various geological processes increased, not to mention our understanding of various decay rates. But the age of the Earth being pegged at about 4.5 billion years has been accepted for decades now.
But please, don't let the facts get in the way of your paranoid anti-science rantings.
4.5 billion years is the same number that was coined long before dating techniques were developed.
Scientists claim that the reason why they cannot find any material in the crust anywhere near that age is because they claim that entire crust liquified several times since the formation of the earth. So this number of 4.5 billion years has no physical evidence to back it up yet you take it as gospel truth because a scientist (shaman) says so.
Don't you find all of this a little bit suspicious?
The timescales were invented by proponents of evolution long before any dating methods were developed. Those dating methods were conveniently calibrated to support those previously made up timescales.
Any time evidence popped up either here or on the moon which contradicted those timescales, the inconsistency was quickly covered up and the numbers were fudged to make it all fit again.
Um, and?
Why should that be a problem?
Are you really that dense? Mitochondrial Eve demonstrates that we did all come from a single female "mother of us all". You cannot prove a "father of us all" through DNA because of the nature of the male chromosomes but that does not mean that it could have happened. There are two possibilities. 1. Humanity resulted from mating of one single female with multiple males OR 2. Humanity resulted from the mating of one male and an Eve female.
Either way, you cannot get around the fact that some amount of inbreeding would have had to take place.
Breeds of dog are the result of directed inbreeding for a specific purpose.