Wow, you're just so incredibly full of shit. I just literally sputtered reading this nonsense, and I don't remember sputtering for a long time. So much easier to use? What? You don't know anything about a corporate environment. I work at a top technology company and even there your rank and file worker is clueless. Good luck getting 50k people to each figure out how to use Linux to do their day to day work.
You Linux fanboys are so delusional and out of touch it makes me sad. In terms of the desktop (not the server, where Linux certainly has its place), Linux is suited to a few niche areas in the scientific and engineering worlds, but otherwise it's really silly to see you carrying on like a fool as if it's ready for the mainstream, or ever will be.
Sets up wifi/ethernet stuff (without having to go online for the drivers)
Lol. You just lost whatever credibility you had. Wifi on Windows is almost always easier to get working than in Linux. The linux distros are finally (! - which is sad, it's not like wifi is new) getting better at it, though.
Yeah, right. Like Israel would waltz right into Dubai and wears a bunch of 70's era spy outfits, murders some Hamas guy in an incredibly inept botch job where they are all over the cameras and get busted for using stolen passports of ally countries. All this after knowing that murdering people with cameras all over the place in some clumsy movie caper manner with cameras all over the place will get all their allies pissed off.
It was almost certainly Israel. Just like the Dubai hit, they don't care who they piss off or what happens and they think the world is a spy caper movie. It's kind of sad, it's not like this is going to do jack shit to stop Iran's nuclear program. I'm sure they thought they had quite the fancy pants, probably playing techno music and dancing around the keyboard while coding it ala Swordfish and other of the spy movies they've seen to much of.
Sorry, it has Israel's hands all over it. Just like the Dubai hit, they have bought into their own hype and think they are the Master Spies. I honest to God think they've seem too many spy movies and are buying into the hype around Mossad.
And proceeds to expose her hip and buttocks region in close proximity to your face,
One's penis might become turgid, lending a certain urge to extract it.
What laughable bullshit. Software is not necessary unless you're talking medical, car safety, etc... There is literally no software that you need on your phone to survive.
You're drawing some non-existent parallel between jobs in software and optional, "fun" software.
Like people "need" to download some shitty movie off TPB, or they "need" to download a game.
Utterly ridiculous, and what makes it more ridiculous is in how earnest you are in shoveling that absolute horse shit.
What a fucking entitlement society we have turned into.
Right, but not because (again, from what I can find) the CLR or.NET runtime violated any patents. Microsoft had a Java implementation, that's where the friction was but he's implying MS violated patents in.NET/CLR.
First, oooooh, browsing porn or the hilarious video of the day of some guy flipping over the top of his bike is big, important stuff! We better blather on about destruction and enslavement.
Second, what the fuck are you on about? Are you convinced that bandwidth is free?
Third, I'm not a free market fundamentalist at all. I just remember when we fought to keep the government _out_ of the business of controlling the internet and now jackholes like you are all laughably righteous about a bullshit issue and think the Freedom of Mankind (properly capitalized to convey the drama you imply) is at stake if we don't (!) have the government go in and run the ISPs.
I care about fairness, property laws (tempered by the caveat that society protects your property rights so has some rights to build laws around them), and the principle of least interference.
If there was anything important at stake, I'd give a shit about net neutrality. But there simply isn't, it's just chicken littleism.
The end state of this is considerably worse than what we have now, and in exchange for it we get no benefits. There is no reason for society to allow it.
There's no reason for society to allow you to bloviate on the Internet, either, yet we allow it. And I'm completely serious - what do we, the "Society Hive" you seem to value so highly, gain by allowing half the shit we do?
Because god damn if browsing another silly YouTube video gets a little slow or it takes me 1/5 of a second longer to post some inane bullshit on Facebook! We, society, should control private property over such important issues as this!
Pfft. I'll tell you what, as a part of "society" I'll vote to force them to prioritize emergency data. Other than that, it's unimportant and certainly not worthy of gunpoint coercion.
I'm not a nutty big-L Libertarian who thinks the government should do nothing, but Jesus Christ, I'm also not for needless meddling in cases where the free market _does_ work and where even if it doesn't it's not that important anyway.
You'd think we were all dying in the fucking streets 30 years ago before the Internet proliferated. Some of you people are like a bunch of god damn addicts.
He's full of shit. Microsoft paid Sun because MS had their own Java implementation, not (from anywhere I can find) because Microsoft's CLR infringed any Java technology patents.
Facile BS. Bandwidth is over-allocated, and at some point you need to decide "which packet goes through first, I've got 10 in line". There's no reason not to charge to allow someone to move to the front of the line.
There's no guarantee anything will go up. The simple fact is that no matter how right you think you are, reality contradicts you. The much derided gold-buyers are "right" simply because the numbers say they are right. If you'd mocked someone in 2008 for buying gold, you would have been simply wrong, no matter how much hand-waving you do.
Sure, you can make up a hypothetical case where they buy at a 10% markup and sell at a 10% below market, but what's the point of that?
Odds are we could come back in 5 years and the same will be true. I don't actually own any gold but I do find the mocking of a solid approach (if it's used as a part of a diversified portfolio) to fighting inflation to be a bit silly.
Sure, Gold could be in a bubble but it's simply it's as much of a bubble as US currency is going to turn out to be with this ridiculous spending and the emergence of the third world as economic powerhouses.
Riiiight. It's not like gold had value in far more primitive times than we're ever likely to see, amirite? Oh, wait... Gold has always had value. Your point is mostly asinine. Of course in a raw survival scenario gold is worthless. No shit. What's your "point", again? As if the only scenario one would buy gold for is a total collapse of all human society to something approaching pre-civilization humanity.
Which currency? The Euro? Fucking please. Gold is semi-independent of the value of any one currency. It's a solid investment as _part_ of your portfolio, but the problem is it can be manipulated like any other market so it's silly to put all your eggs in one basket, like anything else.
I find your point unintentionally hilarious. Tell me.. had those much derided "Paulists" bought gold during the last presidential how much money would they have made by now? Yeah, more than any investment you're likely to have picked.
I like how you say "fear based environment" in an implied pejorative sense. In reality, fear is a very important survival instinct.
But I agree - you should fear nothing. Run up your credit cards. Urge higher tax rates. Nothing bad will happen, I'm sure. The value of the dollar can't possibly go down.
(Not that I own any gold or I'm running down the street screaming about the impending failure of the US, but a little diversification and fear is a wise thing.)
I love when some guy on SlashDot claims Microsoft is "irrelevant" or is rapidly becoming so. Reminds me of some fat ugly guy talking about how gross Megan Fox is because she has some weird clubbed thumb.
The problem is you have no idea what the real world is like outside of your cloistered technical existence. And I don't mean your existence is cloistered because it's technical, I mean you have a limited technical view of the world.
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Your point is silly. Email just flies all over the network anyway. It's inherently insecure unless you use your own encryption.
Wow, you're just so incredibly full of shit. I just literally sputtered reading this nonsense, and I don't remember sputtering for a long time. So much easier to use? What? You don't know anything about a corporate environment. I work at a top technology company and even there your rank and file worker is clueless. Good luck getting 50k people to each figure out how to use Linux to do their day to day work.
You Linux fanboys are so delusional and out of touch it makes me sad. In terms of the desktop (not the server, where Linux certainly has its place), Linux is suited to a few niche areas in the scientific and engineering worlds, but otherwise it's really silly to see you carrying on like a fool as if it's ready for the mainstream, or ever will be.
Sets up wifi/ethernet stuff (without having to go online for the drivers)
Lol. You just lost whatever credibility you had. Wifi on Windows is almost always easier to get working than in Linux. The linux distros are finally (! - which is sad, it's not like wifi is new) getting better at it, though.
Yeah, I'm sure the patent is over "delivering mail over a GSM modem". How the fuck did this inanity get modded Insightful?
You're joking, right?
Yeah, right. Like Israel would waltz right into Dubai and wears a bunch of 70's era spy outfits, murders some Hamas guy in an incredibly inept botch job where they are all over the cameras and get busted for using stolen passports of ally countries. All this after knowing that murdering people with cameras all over the place in some clumsy movie caper manner with cameras all over the place will get all their allies pissed off.
Oh, wait. That actually did happen.
Hubris. Look that word up.
It was almost certainly Israel. Just like the Dubai hit, they don't care who they piss off or what happens and they think the world is a spy caper movie. It's kind of sad, it's not like this is going to do jack shit to stop Iran's nuclear program. I'm sure they thought they had quite the fancy pants, probably playing techno music and dancing around the keyboard while coding it ala Swordfish and other of the spy movies they've seen to much of.
Sorry, it has Israel's hands all over it. Just like the Dubai hit, they have bought into their own hype and think they are the Master Spies. I honest to God think they've seem too many spy movies and are buying into the hype around Mossad.
And proceeds to expose her hip and buttocks region in close proximity to your face, One's penis might become turgid, lending a certain urge to extract it.
What laughable bullshit. Software is not necessary unless you're talking medical, car safety, etc... There is literally no software that you need on your phone to survive.
You're drawing some non-existent parallel between jobs in software and optional, "fun" software.
Like people "need" to download some shitty movie off TPB, or they "need" to download a game.
Utterly ridiculous, and what makes it more ridiculous is in how earnest you are in shoveling that absolute horse shit.
What a fucking entitlement society we have turned into.
I see nothing in there about the .NET CLR having Java related patent issues. Nothing. That settlement was about Microsoft's Java implementation.
Right, but not because (again, from what I can find) the CLR or .NET runtime violated any patents. Microsoft had a Java implementation, that's where the friction was but he's implying MS violated patents in .NET/CLR.
First, oooooh, browsing porn or the hilarious video of the day of some guy flipping over the top of his bike is big, important stuff! We better blather on about destruction and enslavement.
Second, what the fuck are you on about? Are you convinced that bandwidth is free?
Third, I'm not a free market fundamentalist at all. I just remember when we fought to keep the government _out_ of the business of controlling the internet and now jackholes like you are all laughably righteous about a bullshit issue and think the Freedom of Mankind (properly capitalized to convey the drama you imply) is at stake if we don't (!) have the government go in and run the ISPs.
I care about fairness, property laws (tempered by the caveat that society protects your property rights so has some rights to build laws around them), and the principle of least interference.
If there was anything important at stake, I'd give a shit about net neutrality. But there simply isn't, it's just chicken littleism.
The end state of this is considerably worse than what we have now, and in exchange for it we get no benefits. There is no reason for society to allow it.
There's no reason for society to allow you to bloviate on the Internet, either, yet we allow it. And I'm completely serious - what do we, the "Society Hive" you seem to value so highly, gain by allowing half the shit we do?
Because god damn if browsing another silly YouTube video gets a little slow or it takes me 1/5 of a second longer to post some inane bullshit on Facebook! We, society, should control private property over such important issues as this!
Pfft. I'll tell you what, as a part of "society" I'll vote to force them to prioritize emergency data. Other than that, it's unimportant and certainly not worthy of gunpoint coercion.
I'm not a nutty big-L Libertarian who thinks the government should do nothing, but Jesus Christ, I'm also not for needless meddling in cases where the free market _does_ work and where even if it doesn't it's not that important anyway.
You'd think we were all dying in the fucking streets 30 years ago before the Internet proliferated. Some of you people are like a bunch of god damn addicts.
He's full of shit. Microsoft paid Sun because MS had their own Java implementation, not (from anywhere I can find) because Microsoft's CLR infringed any Java technology patents.
What concept, the one you imagine exists but which doesn't?
OK. Are you willing to pay 25%-50% more for your bandwidth when 90% of the time you probably don't use it anyway?
Facile BS. Bandwidth is over-allocated, and at some point you need to decide "which packet goes through first, I've got 10 in line". There's no reason not to charge to allow someone to move to the front of the line.
There's no guarantee anything will go up. The simple fact is that no matter how right you think you are, reality contradicts you. The much derided gold-buyers are "right" simply because the numbers say they are right. If you'd mocked someone in 2008 for buying gold, you would have been simply wrong, no matter how much hand-waving you do.
Sure, you can make up a hypothetical case where they buy at a 10% markup and sell at a 10% below market, but what's the point of that?
Odds are we could come back in 5 years and the same will be true. I don't actually own any gold but I do find the mocking of a solid approach (if it's used as a part of a diversified portfolio) to fighting inflation to be a bit silly.
Sure, Gold could be in a bubble but it's simply it's as much of a bubble as US currency is going to turn out to be with this ridiculous spending and the emergence of the third world as economic powerhouses.
Riiiight. It's not like gold had value in far more primitive times than we're ever likely to see, amirite? Oh, wait... Gold has always had value. Your point is mostly asinine. Of course in a raw survival scenario gold is worthless. No shit. What's your "point", again? As if the only scenario one would buy gold for is a total collapse of all human society to something approaching pre-civilization humanity.
Which currency? The Euro? Fucking please. Gold is semi-independent of the value of any one currency. It's a solid investment as _part_ of your portfolio, but the problem is it can be manipulated like any other market so it's silly to put all your eggs in one basket, like anything else.
I find your point unintentionally hilarious. Tell me.. had those much derided "Paulists" bought gold during the last presidential how much money would they have made by now? Yeah, more than any investment you're likely to have picked.
I like how you say "fear based environment" in an implied pejorative sense. In reality, fear is a very important survival instinct.
But I agree - you should fear nothing. Run up your credit cards. Urge higher tax rates. Nothing bad will happen, I'm sure. The value of the dollar can't possibly go down.
(Not that I own any gold or I'm running down the street screaming about the impending failure of the US, but a little diversification and fear is a wise thing.)
I love when some guy on SlashDot claims Microsoft is "irrelevant" or is rapidly becoming so. Reminds me of some fat ugly guy talking about how gross Megan Fox is because she has some weird clubbed thumb.
The problem is you have no idea what the real world is like outside of your cloistered technical existence. And I don't mean your existence is cloistered because it's technical, I mean you have a limited technical view of the world.
Sure it is, in most cases.
It's doubtful it was illegal. It may or may not have run foul of some licensing contracts, but isn't reverse engineering generally legal?