Did he actualy lie? Manualy changing the URL is a daily occurence for many people, thinking that someone found Lynx usage suspicious might have been the first thing he could imagine when questioned.
The effects of the technology are looked at - if the people who use the technology start spending less time bonding with their families and communities, or other "social ills" start to come of the technology, then Amish leaders reject the technology, and those who use it are discouraged from doing so.
You are incorrect on a number of points, firstly, you are correct on the subsidy lock, phones are not cheap [..]
Yes they are, not the overfeatured camera phones of course. Simple phones can be had for less than $100, if you can't get them because idiots falling for free phones then you only have the free market and your fellow consumer to blame.
If you want online banking and want it 100% flaw free expect to recieve a book full of random numbers, learn how to correctly work with one time pad encryption and expect the most primitive user interface you can think of. Maybe you won't even get an interface and have to apply one time pads by hand and telegraph in the result.
You choose to accept the risk, in trade for the benefits. Designing a system with no bugs is expensive and time consuming. You have to test things extensively at every level.
And this in turn means that the software will be as simple as possible, forget GUIs, any kind of convenience features and options that allow you to change the behavior of the software to your liking.
There is a very strong "gimme gimme" theme that runs deep within the anti-GPL community. It says, let me take your code, incorporate into my software and not give you anything for it.
The GNOME client is almost invisible. You press on a torrent link in Epiphany, a dialog pops up, you press "Open", it asks you where to save it. If it would put all torrents in one window it would be perfect at what it does. If you want lots of options and statistics you won't like it though.
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Did he actualy lie? Manualy changing the URL is a daily occurence for many people, thinking that someone found Lynx usage suspicious might have been the first thing he could imagine when questioned.
My browser (Epiphany) even has a toolbar button to get to the parent directory, is it a hacking tool because of that?
Having an immune system good enough to defeat the virus does not have to do anything with luck...
What is commonly known as "Linux" did not start from scratch when compared to the BSDs, only the kernel itself was.
Exactly, he may not even know that it was based on BSD code.
There is no point in natural selection it just happens.
Depends on what you mean by "use". You use an 'iPod' and complain that Ogg Vorbis is a stupid name!?
Just as free... except for the patents.
They have a water tight plan to deal with this problem: lots of hurricane movies with CGI abuse and ill placed humor.
But they still get money when I burn my data (or legal music downloads) to CD...
If you want online banking and want it 100% flaw free expect to recieve a book full of random numbers, learn how to correctly work with one time pad encryption and expect the most primitive user interface you can think of. Maybe you won't even get an interface and have to apply one time pads by hand and telegraph in the result.
There is a very strong "gimme gimme" theme that runs deep within the anti-GPL community. It says, let me take your code, incorporate into my software and not give you anything for it.
The GNOME client is almost invisible. You press on a torrent link in Epiphany, a dialog pops up, you press "Open", it asks you where to save it. If it would put all torrents in one window it would be perfect at what it does. If you want lots of options and statistics you won't like it though.
Mozilla has built in Flash playback now?
Just wait until they hear of this 'oxygen' substance!
Try to unzip it, you might be surprised.
Because I don't want to wade through useless shit beeing returned by the search? There is no collective internet wisdom pageranking my mail (I hope).