I think it means just that, but if you put that in perspective, there are much higher chances (almost sure) for somebody on Earth to be hit by a truck while sleeping in their bed (or add here any other improbable death)
So finally somebody admits to the mistake, till now users and distributions have been accused that they didn't understand that 4.0 (or for that matter 4.1, 4.2, 4.3...). didn't mean "stable".
WPA2 is probably adequate, MAC address filtering would probably stop only very incompetent hackers, it's pretty useless in my understanding (correct me if I'm wrong)
This is at -1 score and is more insightful than the parent that's at +4. The bar is awesome indeed, I don't use Firefox much, but when I use it I like how it works, Chrome has a similar address bar and it works great.
Democracy is not about being wise is about respecting the will of the majority. It's about not imposing stuff, even if you consider it to be better, on the majority. Democratic process doesn't optimize the decision (it doesn't come to the best decision) it (or is supposed to) minimizes the discontent.
I agree completely with your comments, however the "social" part in social network implies that somehow you'll make some info visible to other people, for example making your contacts AKA "friends" visible to other contacts. I doubt people who use Gmail want that. There might be a way to convince them, like making a wall and then allowing people to comment on that, but then again, would Google have the right privacy settings? For example I have about 100 friends on Facebook that I can share stuff, I don't want to share stuff with 1000+ contacts that I have in Gmail.
So it's more complex than that, Google would have to 1. convince people to share stuff 2. have sane privacy settings that differentiate between family, friends and the rest of Gmail contacts.
The second part is not that hard, but now it's probably hard to convince people to put stuff out, Facebook did that mostly by fooling people with their quick sand privacy settings...
That reminds me of people who were commenting here on slashdot about the fact that it doesn't matter that the malware installs without using root access, see, it does matter.
There are no "Linux developers" involved, most of those programs work on other platforms and have nothing special to do with Linux or with "Linux developers" lack of understanding.
OK, but is that something new, didn't we know that eating too much sugar leads to "diseases such as diabetes, obesity, and heart problems"? I think the only addition is the "toxic" scare word. Word that doesn't mean much if the quantity that is toxic is not specified. (didn't RTFA to know), or is the argument that any quantity of sugar is toxic? Which I don't buy.
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So the Pirate Party is the Ron Paul of parties? (at least from the point of view of how is treated by media and politicians)
I think it means just that, but if you put that in perspective, there are much higher chances (almost sure) for somebody on Earth to be hit by a truck while sleeping in their bed (or add here any other improbable death)
There's never "true" communism, like there's never a true Scotsman http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman
Eastern Germany communism was not that successful either, don't blame it on the country size.
the biggest problem is that it tries to replicate a shitty OS, the even if successful is still a failure...
For lack of common sense, of course :)
People use Linux on the desktop for many reasons, I use it because it's a better OS.
So finally somebody admits to the mistake, till now users and distributions have been accused that they didn't understand that 4.0 (or for that matter 4.1, 4.2, 4.3...). didn't mean "stable".
Yes.
You do know that Neanderthals had bigger brains? Hardly a problem for supremacists (not that they needed a rational argument)
WPA2 is probably adequate, MAC address filtering would probably stop only very incompetent hackers, it's pretty useless in my understanding (correct me if I'm wrong)
This is at -1 score and is more insightful than the parent that's at +4. The bar is awesome indeed, I don't use Firefox much, but when I use it I like how it works, Chrome has a similar address bar and it works great.
Python is pretty nice and simple and if you need GUI is not hard to learn PyQt once you know Python.
Now this is a ridiculous description: "infected computers as part of a civil war between different factions of the Linux community."
Democracy is not about being wise is about respecting the will of the majority. It's about not imposing stuff, even if you consider it to be better, on the majority. Democratic process doesn't optimize the decision (it doesn't come to the best decision) it (or is supposed to) minimizes the discontent.
I agree completely with your comments, however the "social" part in social network implies that somehow you'll make some info visible to other people, for example making your contacts AKA "friends" visible to other contacts. I doubt people who use Gmail want that. There might be a way to convince them, like making a wall and then allowing people to comment on that, but then again, would Google have the right privacy settings? For example I have about 100 friends on Facebook that I can share stuff, I don't want to share stuff with 1000+ contacts that I have in Gmail.
So it's more complex than that, Google would have to
1. convince people to share stuff
2. have sane privacy settings that differentiate between family, friends and the rest of Gmail contacts.
The second part is not that hard, but now it's probably hard to convince people to put stuff out, Facebook did that mostly by fooling people with their quick sand privacy settings...
That reminds me of people who were commenting here on slashdot about the fact that it doesn't matter that the malware installs without using root access, see, it does matter.
So you use an incorrect form and you know it and you are proud of that? I'm pretty sure that stupidity is worse than ignorance.
There are no "Linux developers" involved, most of those programs work on other platforms and have nothing special to do with Linux or with "Linux developers" lack of understanding.
You are using of course LTS for your servers, right? Because otherwise it would be stupid... So, is 3 years support not enough for you?
What GNU piece of software does Android use?
I was talking about healthy people, it's like saying that nuts are poison based on the fact that some people have allergies to nuts.
OK, but is that something new, didn't we know that eating too much sugar leads to "diseases such as diabetes, obesity, and heart problems"? I think the only addition is the "toxic" scare word. Word that doesn't mean much if the quantity that is toxic is not specified. (didn't RTFA to know), or is the argument that any quantity of sugar is toxic? Which I don't buy.
the key word is "excess", as I said, even water is poison in excess.
I just posted something similar, even more, water is really toxic without involving drowning: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_intoxication