Of all the Slashdotters I know, if any of them happened to be in posession of a deadly virus, I would be honestly terrified. The ones that aren't crazy are probably stupid enough to let it free in the wild anyways.
Is Ubuntu a compatability nightmare? Why, yes, it is! It's the only Linux distro I've ever seen crash when trying to load the window manager - which is Gnome. While I admire what they're doing, it has to work.
Bullshit. Give me my own custom linux distro with links, and I'll win by a mile. Unless you need X. Properly configured, Linux can still win, you know. Oh, unless you want all that extra crap like "KDE" or some other newfangled "window manager". Don't know how you configure Linux or Windows, but my guess is you're better at Windows.
I've got one of those, they're really nice - once you get the hang of typing on it. It's awesome for LAN parties though - it's the easiest thing in the world to transport (roll it up and throw it in the bag/stick in your pocket), and you can impress everone by draping it over your monitor.
Free Porn? What are you thinking man? You're stealing from the working-woman here! I mean, out of the words of a porn star: "Everyone thinks being a porn star is easy and glamorous, but it's a lot of hard work!"
What's especially funny is how everyone thinks they are 'good' and those who oppose them are 'evil'. You are 'right' and everyone else is 'wrong'. You either 'win' the argument, or you 'lose'. You're either 'with us' or you're 'against us'.
The real problem with this thinking is how entrenched people become in it, and how utterly infectious it becomes. People love to be told that they are 'good' and that everyone on the other side of an issue is 'evil' or 'bad'. Even though nothing in the world seems to really work like that, people seem to love hearing it. There's something in the human psyche that loves that feeling of 'holding out against evil.'
It seems to me that some people have a strange definition of evil. It seems these people believe that all corporations are inherintly evil, and are out to screw everyone over. Now that Google has gone public, they have become a 'corporation' in the eyes of these people, and so they begin to see it as inherintly evil - but just hiding it. They need to realise that google is not a charity, they are a corporation out to make money. However, unless you're using Yahoo search (yuck) then google IS helping you as well. It seems that, in these people's eyes, making money is evil - they believe that you need to screw over people to make money, which isn't true.
Yes, it seems that either a huge number of the article submittters, or one of the editors really has it out to prove google wrong about "not being evil". Kinda bizzare if you ask me. When google turns evil, we'll know it, because it won't be some little thing like guys cutting salaries.
Don't try to turn this into a partisan issue just becuse you disagree with the poster. I knew the poster was bull as well, and I'm as far left as they come.
You're right. I should qualify it. It is EA's fault. However, who's fault is it that almost all windows installations on the planet are run in Admin accounts? Microsoft's, certaintly. "Joe-sixpack" (as slashdot seems to call him) is not going to make a limited user account on his home system unless his geek friend makes him.
Now, is it really EA's fault for programming for the way Windows is run by default? I can't blame them.
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It's where I post my music, and the artist community there is great, and there's a ton of great music. All for free.
but the rush to destroy them
If it gets in the wild and outside of a controlled lab, all I can say is "Good Luck."
Of all the Slashdotters I know, if any of them happened to be in posession of a deadly virus, I would be honestly terrified. The ones that aren't crazy are probably stupid enough to let it free in the wild anyways.
Wouldn't it really be the other way around? More like
"Huh? Oh, crap! Oops! Hey... Cough, cough, gasp, whease, vomit, hurk, blek."
Unless this really is the Uberflu, it's not gonna infect and show symptoms that quickly.
"Oops."
Because they only have to release the source to those they give a binary to.
At least, that's my understanding of the GPL. Somebody correct me if I'm wrong.
Wait, are you saying this "News for nerds. Stuff that matters." idea is really just a huge facade?
Bullshit.
Who knows, he may yet have a job at the Penagon!
Is Ubuntu a compatability nightmare? Why, yes, it is! It's the only Linux distro I've ever seen crash when trying to load the window manager - which is Gnome. While I admire what they're doing, it has to work.
Bullshit. Give me my own custom linux distro with links, and I'll win by a mile. Unless you need X. Properly configured, Linux can still win, you know. Oh, unless you want all that extra crap like "KDE" or some other newfangled "window manager". Don't know how you configure Linux or Windows, but my guess is you're better at Windows.
Wait a couple years, and you'll hear how mice are havens for super bugs as well.
I've got one of those, they're really nice - once you get the hang of typing on it. It's awesome for LAN parties though - it's the easiest thing in the world to transport (roll it up and throw it in the bag/stick in your pocket), and you can impress everone by draping it over your monitor.
Free Porn? What are you thinking man? You're stealing from the working-woman here! I mean, out of the words of a porn star: "Everyone thinks being a porn star is easy and glamorous, but it's a lot of hard work!"
What can a lone geek do?
Vigilantie justice, my friend. Start to get outraged, get other people outraged, and make the spammers pay.
Of course, that may be illegal, but I can't think of anything within the law to fight back, honestly.
Now, all we need are pills to make you stop calling it your 'dikky'.
How many time has family guy been canceled?
What's especially funny is how everyone thinks they are 'good' and those who oppose them are 'evil'. You are 'right' and everyone else is 'wrong'. You either 'win' the argument, or you 'lose'. You're either 'with us' or you're 'against us'.
The real problem with this thinking is how entrenched people become in it, and how utterly infectious it becomes. People love to be told that they are 'good' and that everyone on the other side of an issue is 'evil' or 'bad'. Even though nothing in the world seems to really work like that, people seem to love hearing it. There's something in the human psyche that loves that feeling of 'holding out against evil.'
It seems to me that some people have a strange definition of evil. It seems these people believe that all corporations are inherintly evil, and are out to screw everyone over. Now that Google has gone public, they have become a 'corporation' in the eyes of these people, and so they begin to see it as inherintly evil - but just hiding it. They need to realise that google is not a charity, they are a corporation out to make money. However, unless you're using Yahoo search (yuck) then google IS helping you as well. It seems that, in these people's eyes, making money is evil - they believe that you need to screw over people to make money, which isn't true.
Yes, it seems that either a huge number of the article submittters, or one of the editors really has it out to prove google wrong about "not being evil". Kinda bizzare if you ask me. When google turns evil, we'll know it, because it won't be some little thing like guys cutting salaries.
Doesn't matter if you label yourself "left" or "right", it's all the same motive in the end.
Don't try to turn this into a partisan issue just becuse you disagree with the poster. I knew the poster was bull as well, and I'm as far left as they come.
I dunno man, if your bollocks are pointy, you may want to see a doctor.
Why are all the intelligent aliens humanoid? Because it's Lucas.
What place do you have calling people 'pathetic nerds' when you're taking the time posting on slashdot?
I may be a nerd, but I take pride in it.
You're right. I should qualify it. It is EA's fault. However, who's fault is it that almost all windows installations on the planet are run in Admin accounts? Microsoft's, certaintly. "Joe-sixpack" (as slashdot seems to call him) is not going to make a limited user account on his home system unless his geek friend makes him.
Now, is it really EA's fault for programming for the way Windows is run by default? I can't blame them.