Yes he did. Most of what he said is very quotable in the Anals of stupidly funny crap said by leaders.

Specifically in this case the timeline is as follows:

- Australia joins the US lead attack on IS.
- ASIO steps up the local terror alert.
- IS publishes a video saying Australia will pay for what they are doing.
- Tony Abbott said straight from the G.W.B book of stupid crap: The IS threat has nothing to do with Australia's announcement, "They hate our freedom, our tolerance, our democracy."
- The government runs out and arrests some 63 muslims claiming to have foiled a massive terror plot.
- The courts free 63 muslims the day after saying there's no evidence of wrongdoings.
- Tony Abbott's government announces a reduction on our freedom by means of Patriot Act style laws, presumably he does this to foil the terrorist plots since they can't hate us if we no longer have freedoms right?

I believe it is legal to "borrow" another vendors VIN and identify to the OS as another vendor's product. However it would then be a licence violation to put the USB logo anywhere on the device as using an unlicenced VIN is against spec.

They are. The fakes look like FTDIs, same package, FTDI name, FTDI model numbers, fake serial numbers, and when plugged in will be recognised by the FTDI driver and report FTDI's USB VIN.

This is not a case of second-sourcing. That said FTDI's actions should be legal actions against the supplier. Bricking devices in the hands over end users is at best unethical and at worst criminal.

You know who's fault it isn't?

The person who will be most affected by this action.

A favour that resulted in millions of Pi sales. I could do with a slow favour like that.

For all the endless talks about how slow the RPi is you'd think that the competitors would be outselling them. I guess some people don't care about things like speed.

Same in Australia. We raised our domestic terrorism threat level and the day after an IS video was released threatening Australia.

Then our Prime Minister went full retard and with a serious face quoted .... George W Bush. I nearly died of shame.

Being a fanboi and having a good sense of perspective are two very different things.

All of the examples of the parent show that there is a company which releases patches to solve issues. It shows a sense of a company which has had 1 serious issue which they fixed out of a line of about 60 smartphones they have released in the past 5 years. Quite interestingly some of the bugs had strange edge cases, e.g. installing CM causes issues due to firmware design and this is supposed to be Samsung's problem who have released a fine working product? Really?

No I care about one thing and one thing only, what is the affect on me? I have yet to experience a problem with a Samsung product that wasn't resolved by a patch issued by them. Yet that label makes me some kind of fanboi for calling out the GP who claims they can't code for shit because of {insert barely related bug here}?

You and I are the same, I too reward corporations that do good, I also do so by recommending their products to others and hosing down what appears to be either a grossly missinformed post or an intentional troll.

Still a better love story than the one with OCZ.

Before you go attacking a company on a general sense, take a look at what they make. In the case of Samsung which make... Everything from what I can tell, it's little wonder that the occasional product has an issue. Calling out 5 products out of the several thousand they make is hardly a cause of concern, much like 5 bent iphones isn't either

Thanks but I'll wait. Toshiba's OCZ heritage still make me cringe. A company the size of Apple can provision custom equipment and handles their own warranty issues. I'm under no delusion that my experience going to the same vendor will be comparable.

Based on the comments pre-project butter Android vs iOS articles ... everyone.

A fast responsive system is the number 1 thing that matters to most people. I can excuse graphical missmatches and occasional bugs, but if I click the little Phone icon and I have to wait for it to pop up there will be murder.

This is a good thing. Private companies unrelated to piracy should not have to foot the bill for implementing the hopes and dreams of another company.

One serves web pages.... and acts as a proxy, a cache, a load balancer, an SQL client, has its own authorisation system.... Apache is probably the single biggest and bloated web server currently available on Linux. It definitely does not do one thing, however it gets a tick for doing most things well.

Likewise PostgreSQL has a feature list so incredibly long that is not related to the core of having a simple relational database model that it's own Wikipedia entry could be accused of being bloated. But again it does things well.

The GP is correct. None of these programs follow the Unix Philosophy which is more targeted at tools like grep, sed, and awk.

Ignore me. I wrote this before coffee.

So your complaints have nothing to do with Wayland itself then.

Again all this hate is misdirected. The toolkit level comment is absurd. The compositor is responsible for remote desktop. The developer's comments were only that remote is neither mandated nor impeded at the protocol level and they wouldn't focus on putting it in the reference compositor Weston. I think people fundamentally forget that Wayland is a protocol.

But if you think the recent dramas are in any way special then you should look into the history of things. The past had it's share of dramas, typically with RedHat plowing forward and doing it's own thing. The only thing that is really new as of late is that Debian, a former example of how to make a feature stable and conservative OS is starting to move to systemd. The rest of the stuff doesn't surprise me much.

I think people in generally forget the reason why there are so many different Linux distributions, and people generally forget why there are so many different packages. Take Gnome for example. Gnome is now dependent on logind, which is dependent on systemd causing distributions to switch sysvinit to systemd. However that's not it at all. Gnome is dependent on an API for user management. Why not implement it separately? I saw talks of one project forking logind and decoupling it from systemd, and then everything goes back to normal and Gnome can run on any init system. THAT is how Linux used to be run.

These days it's all threats of forks and then bending over and taking whatever is on offer because it's my favorite distro or some such thing. 20 years ago for end users it was a case of well Debian didn't work... I'll try Slackware. Now we all have collective Stockholm syndrome.

Maybe for you.

Yeah rose coloured glasses and all that. I don't think this conversation will get anywhere when you compare installing CM9 to clicking a button on the Play Store.