That's a nice position. You hold certain ideas, but because the universe is set in such a way that they are completely impracticable, well, you get to hold the high moral ground and suffer, because well, the universe is apparently against you. The well-known "if things were my way I would do everything myself but since they are not, well, I might just as well enjoy it" position, with a pinch of ennobling martyrdom.
I do not think most people want the state to bless anything. But they do want to participate in the same rights that legally married couples have. I simply cannot believe you ignore this.
Do you consider it immoral, too, to take advantage of the results of what you consider immoral? I suppose you refuse to use velcro, drive through the wilderness avoiding all routes, simply refuse all foods marked with the evil FDA mark and so on, right?
But, JavaScript for desktop GUIs? That just gives me an odd feeling inside...
Maybe you have not heard of this new little app... It appears that there are a few people out there who even like it. It's a bit hard to find, because for various reasons it has been renamed way too many times... The last name, IIRC, is Firefox. Google should be able to find it for you.
You don't think virus writers are attempting to break into the Linux cloud?
What Linux cloud?! I don't think you understand what cloud is supposed to mean (which is not much, really: it is mostly marketing-speak...)
I *have* given you an example of a Linux server getting exploited and owned, but I guess you chose to ignore that.
You have given an example of a PHP app which got owned, which is a complete different thing.
If you had set up an ssh server in that box configured so that it accepts root logins with an empty password, then you would have got hacked in about 3 minutes. But, again, this would have absolutely nothing to Linux's exploitability....
But that is most probably due to a badly coded PHP app, which is not exactly an unheard-of thing... Was the system hacked, or only what was write-accessible by the PHP app you are running?
You are running critical trading software in production with a Windows box which gets updates automatically, without your testing the patches before, and set to reboot?
I am by far not a Windows fan (In the last ten yers I must have used Windows for less that 24 hours, in all) but you are doing a few things seriously wrong...
In the name of all that's holy, please do not use the stats at w3schools.com to argue about browser usage. It makes no sense, at the very same page you linked to says.
That's one of the things FOSS excels at. Once the makers of software become uninterested in the software, those that are interested can pick up.
Proprietary software and formats only lead to forced obsolescence and pain.
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That's a nice position. You hold certain ideas, but because the universe is set in such a way that they are completely impracticable, well, you get to hold the high moral ground and suffer, because well, the universe is apparently against you. The well-known "if things were my way I would do everything myself but since they are not, well, I might just as well enjoy it" position, with a pinch of ennobling martyrdom.
I do not think most people want the state to bless anything. But they do want to participate in the same rights that legally married couples have. I simply cannot believe you ignore this.
Well, apparently the majority of the US does not agree with you on the first item,and sees not a big problem with your second issue...
Please. Get out of that 60's movies you're living in, get some money and travel a bit in Germany and in Europe in general.
Do you consider it immoral, too, to take advantage of the results of what you consider immoral? I suppose you refuse to use velcro, drive through the wilderness avoiding all routes, simply refuse all foods marked with the evil FDA mark and so on, right?
Wow. You should really read up a bit on those two economies if you really believe that they are so dependent upon the US having bases there.
Such a display of ignorance!
Lovely way to sum up your values in one sentence.
But, JavaScript for desktop GUIs? That just gives me an odd feeling inside...
Maybe you have not heard of this new little app... It appears that there are a few people out there who even like it. It's a bit hard to find, because for various reasons it has been renamed way too many times... The last name, IIRC, is Firefox. Google should be able to find it for you.
Oh, I do. But repeating truisms does not make them any more interesting or insightful.
You can probably give many more examples...
That does not do much to support the claim that Bush's 8 years and the next 4 will be exactly the same.
I never said it was my only hope. I was responding to the standard slashdot "You think Obama is going to bring about change?"...
Am I the only one who is utterly bored of the correlationisnotcausation tag?
After 8 (eight!) years of Bush, 4 years of Clinton does not sound that bad, really. Can you possibly argue otherwise?
You don't think virus writers are attempting to break into the Linux cloud?
What Linux cloud?! I don't think you understand what cloud is supposed to mean (which is not much, really: it is mostly marketing-speak...)
I *have* given you an example of a Linux server getting exploited and owned, but I guess you chose to ignore that.
You have given an example of a PHP app which got owned, which is a complete different thing.
If you had set up an ssh server in that box configured so that it accepts root logins with an empty password, then you would have got hacked in about 3 minutes. But, again, this would have absolutely nothing to Linux's exploitability....
But that is most probably due to a badly coded PHP app, which is not exactly an unheard-of thing... Was the system hacked, or only what was write-accessible by the PHP app you are running?
You are running critical trading software in production with a Windows box which gets updates automatically, without your testing the patches before, and set to reboot?
I am by far not a Windows fan (In the last ten yers I must have used Windows for less that 24 hours, in all) but you are doing a few things seriously wrong...
You were browsing on your server? Which has Acrobat reader installed? I imagine all this happened while you were root, too?
In what way did the javascript code get executed?
The similarity between http://notebook.zoho.com/ and the usual Google login pages is strong enough to qualify as phishing...
Fedora 9 and 10 click pretty much as much...
And you can probably use butterflies too, bypassing the whole issue... But the point is, this thread is about the official site.
Don't you think that the very point is that this is the *official* site we are talking about?
In the name of all that's holy, please do not use the stats at w3schools.com to argue about browser usage. It makes no sense, at the very same page you linked to says.
I'm getting too old for this :/
That's one of the things FOSS excels at. Once the makers of software become uninterested in the software, those that are interested can pick up. Proprietary software and formats only lead to forced obsolescence and pain.
So, setting up elaborate structures to avoid being convicted of, say, murder, is also acceptable in your eyes?
They do not hate them, but want them to live under their peculiar set of moral rules...