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by slowpoke 14y ago
>The real test is holding the patent up in court. Or threatening enough people to sue them for umpteen fantastillion dollars unless they pay you ransom money^W^W licensing fees. Remind me why we still have this fucked up system?
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by slowpoke 14y ago
>Just for the avoidance of doubt, I realize that this entire situation could be avoided by using tools meant for the job. No, this situation could be avoided if Microsoft would actually correctly implement their own fucking pseudo-s
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by slowpoke 14y ago
That's mostly because those who want to make money don't like to call it "Free Software". Blame the English language for having only a single widespread word for "costless" and "libre".
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by slowpoke 14y ago
>To allow yourself a momentary disconnect. To watch the world out of the window, or the people around you. To take an interest in the weather and season. I'm sorry to sound misanthropic or otherwise cynic, but people on the train are,
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by slowpoke 14y ago
Something being open != you cannot make money with it. This notion is stupid, false and dishonest. Besides, I don't think companies have a "right to make money", anyways. That would lead to government enforced business models and the utter
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by slowpoke 14y ago
Could we (as in, everyone) please stop referring to programs in general as "apps"? It's retarded. An "app" is a specific kind of program for a smartphone. mount isn't such a program. Sorry, this just bugged me.
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by slowpoke 14y ago
>After all, if the error is true the result is invalid. False. A returned error does not necessarily mean the result is invalid. It could also mean something went wrong and you only have a partial result (which can be useful). Or that
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by slowpoke 14y ago
>The number of stopped terror attacks in the West over the last decade is quite large Bull. Fucking. Crap. For example, according to this[1] source, there have been not even 50 terror attacks against America in the last 90 years . An
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by slowpoke 14y ago
Too bad that Free2Play will almost always inevitably lead to Pay4Fun. I've see few games where this wasn't the case (the first few years of GuildWars being an example, I don't know about the current state of affairs). More often than not, i
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by slowpoke 14y ago
Jacob Appelbaum. And a lot of other crypto/privacy advocates and/or civil right activists.
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by slowpoke 14y ago
> Call me crazy, but it seems like when you get to use a free service or website that costs many millions of dollars to develop, giving the company access to your data is a fairly small price to pay. Except I don't use Facebook. I don'
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by slowpoke 14y ago
Keywords are reasonable easy to type (I'm much faster typing plain text without special characters), simple to auto-complete and read very well. For example, they could have used something like "to" instead of "->", eg: "Hello Wor
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by slowpoke 14y ago
How on earth did people travel some ten or twenty years ago I wonder? You know, before cellphones were widespread or even affordable? For fuck's sake, children aren't dumb. Always treating them as if they are results in them not growing int
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by slowpoke 14y ago
Think of it this way: it's a trade-off, like almost all reliable systems have to make. Would you rather have, for example, a server that runs with maximum efficiency but has a high risk of failure and extended downtime or one that is reliab
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by slowpoke 14y ago
I think he argues from the wrong point. Yes, we need to teach math, not calculating. No, the argument is not "because we can do calculating with computers today". Lockhart got it right in his famous lament - the problem is that we face a sy
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by slowpoke 14y ago
I did not know the SU actually turned off all radio transmissions and sent out ships to assist in the recovery of Apollo 13. That is an impressive display of human compassion, even inmidst the Cold War (though the cynic in me assumes there
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by slowpoke 14y ago
Oh please, stop these ridiculous appeals to novelty and hyperboles of things I haven't said. You keep spouting "modern" without any sense whatsoever. The fact that vi(m) and Emacs are both veteran pieces of software does not somehow reduce
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by slowpoke 14y ago
> tailoring a vanilla installation > newbies to start with using vim. Sorry, but what? The very last thing a newbie programmer should be doing is configuring plugins. A newbie programmer doesn't need plugins. They only serve to
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by slowpoke 14y ago
Another problem that GNU/Linux faces is that people are incredibly biased when comparing the two operating systems. Whatever little fault GNU/Linux has is immediately regarded as an absolutely crucial flaw that will forever prevent it from
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by slowpoke 14y ago
> Not having to be tied to the Apple ecosystem. Except that you'll then be tied to the Microsoft ecosystem. It's like changing the contractor for your soul from Satan to Lucifer.
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by slowpoke 14y ago
The biggest problem that GNU/Linux faces on the desktop is that people think GNU/Linux faces big problems on the desktop. (It doesn't.)
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by slowpoke 14y ago
>It's not about copyright, it's about respect for other human beings, respect for the people that create the content you consume. I respect the people that create content I consume. That does neither imply that I am forced to pay for
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by slowpoke 14y ago
>In a world where your beliefs are supported by the courts, a creator's only means to ensure a revenue stream from their creations is to present them only in controlled physical environments free of digitizers. Bullcrap. They'd just h
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by slowpoke 14y ago
You can't fix what's fundamentally broken. It's better to start from scratch.
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by slowpoke 14y ago
>Some people want to be able to have the same kinds of social interactions they have in the real world, but with the convenience of the internet. And that requires forced real names for everyone... why? The whole point of anonymity is
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by slowpoke 14y ago
>for every viewer I know, it's about national competition between incredible athletes That's like asking people in China about how the government treats dissidents, because hey, they watch TV. Surely that will be on TV, yes? And yes,
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by slowpoke 14y ago
For a quick insight see this enumeration: http://www.protestlondon2012.com/10reasons.html The IOC is deeply corrupt, and the olympics have long ceased to be about sports. They are about selling officially branded merchandise from official
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by slowpoke 14y ago
I'm actually wrong on this one, I see. Might be because I don't even really look at the widget itself anymore, I just type it.
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by slowpoke 14y ago
Can't agree more. There are so many reasons to actively boycott the Olympic games, it's plain ridiculous. They should be abolished, as they have nothing to do with sports anymore (did they ever?). It's just one gigantic corporate whorehouse
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by slowpoke 14y ago
See, I would have much less of a problem with this if Google actually told this to everyone. Instead, they silently use you for free labor. That's dishonest. I'm all in for crowdsourcing if you tell me about it and nicely ask me to particip

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