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Comment Re:The Only Newsworthy Item (Score 2) 299

by Dynetrekk (#40560673) Attached to: Linux Played a Vital Role In Discovery of Higgs Boson
I've spent a year at CERN and, indeed, they do use windows. For secretaries and administration, mostly. Man, I hate their whole windows admin regime (you've sometimes got to dual boot into Windows to fill out a form). Linux is being used for all sorts of technical purposes - control centre, simulation servers and desktops, low-level control stuff, etc. Windows is only used for powerpoint and "typewriter" kind of work, as I expect is the case elsewhere.

Comment Re:Only a little evil (Score 0, Troll) 305

by Dynetrekk (#40525993) Attached to: Apple Loses Bid For Emergency Ban On HTC Phone Imports
I don't disagree as such; however, I don't see the point in speculating over all sorts of conceivable future scenarios. In my book, the App Store, which requires signing and sandboxing, is a good idea in the same way that signed packages in your average linux package manager is a good idea - as long as there's an option to overriding that by manually downloading a program. If apple kill that option, it's going to hit them hard in the dev community, so I'm not betting on that happening anytime soon. These possible scenarios are certainly not proof of apple's evilness NOW.

Comment Re:Only a little evil (Score 5, Interesting) 305

by Dynetrekk (#40525733) Attached to: Apple Loses Bid For Emergency Ban On HTC Phone Imports

Yeah, well, Microsoft lets you do things with your computer that are UNSAFE, like install software NOT APPROVED by them.

I've got mod points, but I'll rather point out that on my mac I often compile and install software that has never been approved by anyone. Mac OS X is unix, so ./configure; make works rather often. I'm not a "fanboi" but I'm not too impressed by claims not supported by facts, either.

Comment Re:What do they have to bring to the table? (Score 1) 530

by Dynetrekk (#40385831) Attached to: Microsoft To PC and Tablet Makers: You're Not Our Future

If someone wants all their files to have to upload over their ADSL and then download again over the same link, just to be able to access them from across the room (and give some otherwise-unnecessary third party the perk of scanning the data (or at least filename) for keywords to sell to advertisers or law enforcement or whatever), sure, they should be allowed. But if that's "normal" then it's got fail written all over it, because that's usually a stupid, slow, insecure, and generally unpleasant way to do things.

Can you please go to owncloud.org and read up on it? It's truly awesome.

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