Offtopic: Can we please automatically delete all posts with links to my clean pc?

Ontopic:
This baffles me on how money is wasted on anti-piracy. This case should have been dismissed at the very beginning. How can you blame someone simply on the basis of ownership? This is like suing an owner of a car for not locking his car, because his car stolen and used in a crime.

What happens if I use WEP encryption? Would I be liable as well? I wish that the media corporations stopped trolling and started creating some business models which actually make sense in this day and age. All others have already moved forward.

Your analogy is broken. In this case, it is more like blaming the bank which was robbed. You blame them not for the fact that is was robbed, but that inadequate security measures (like this) were put in place to protect your money.

Since online transactions seemed to be their business, they should have made sure that it is next to impossible to leak the data. Most lilkely a lot of corners were cut to maximize profits. I have no idea what was exploited to get the data, but I am quite sure that it can be found here

Stupid autocorrect. I obviously meant "would" instead of "Woodstock"

Woodstock "gimp!ing" the image be legal?

Can they patent it? This seems to be pretty much what bats have been doing for centuries

What is a "Nokia"?

Seriously, the stakeholders can only blame themselves for not seeing this coming.

Are you saying that your password is actually not ?
These "change your password every X" system are extremely stupid and create password which are weaker than the original password (e.g. append a 1 every time). So in my example, I always change the password every month, and append the current month + year my base password. This fools the security check but does not introduce any additional security. E.g.

base pass= abcd
Pass in January 2012: abcd012012
Pass in February 2012: abcd022012 ...

Can we please stop with the MMO's already? Im already playing a MMO where I am just another guy (like everyone else). It's called life.

No, its not lame. It is the entire idea behind Open Source Software. If you like something, you contribute to it (in any form). It's easy to simple demand and require things from developers. The hard part is to actually contribute.

Please do not blame the developers that they do not share your world view of what gimp should be. If you want a feature, implement it and share it with the world. This way we all win.

Thank you for posting this.

You get a feature rich, stable, complete application for absolutely free and you still complain about it not being something else. Gimp may have a very steap learning curve and may lack some features of photoshop but it is still a solid package and we should be absolutely greatful that there are people out there who dedicate their time to provide the package to us for free.

I am absolutely sure that most people here, who complain about gimp not being photoshop, do not even have a valid license for photoshop. Additionally, if you think its so much worse, why dont you go ahead and try to make it better, its open source after all. But that would actually require you to do some work.

I am happy that gimp 2.8 finally got released. I continue to use and support it :)

The answer is simple. To many people Linux is still this magical OS, which is for computing experts / geeks / hackers only. Most average joe's dont even know that an alternative OS exists.

Ubuntu for example is the perfect OS for the average joe. I know that most of the hardcore linux community doesnt like Unity (I have changed to KDE because of Unity), but for the average Joe, Ubuntu 12.04 is a fantastic OS. Many people will claim "Compatibility" issues and support issues. The truth is however that most hardware has support out of the box. No drivers installation needed.

Some examples:

1) Printers. All I need is to connect the printer. I never had to download any drivers (which I do need to download for my Canon iP 4500 or Brother DCP-9055CDN).
2) 3G wireless usb sticks. This was a huge surprise. On Windows, I need to install some weird applications to get the internet to work. On Ubuntu? I simply inserted the stick, was asked which Network Operator the sim card belongs to and enter the pin. Im connected to the internet.
3) VPN... On Windows I need to install additional applications, On Ubuntu? Its built in.
4) All other hardware. Most works out of the box. No hunting for drivers online, everything just works (On common hardware).

Of course there is the issue of the people who run non-common hardware, such as TV-cards, special capture cards, etc. where no drivers are provided for linux. But for the common user? Ubuntu is ready, it is just that the common user is unaware...

This seems to be total overkill. If China wants to spy on its users, its a lot easier to do it differently.

Why not simply enforce that all new machines have UEFI and only accept to boot an OS which is signed by the Chinese government? In the kernel they can then introduce whatever spying technology they want.

This is pretty much equivalent to creating their own architecture, since that would also require a specially compiled OS for that architecture.

Or am I missing something?

Simply not true anymore. That might have been the intent, but that does not work.

Movies are available on release dates (DVD, Blueray) on torrent sites. Same goes for most games (which have the crack ready the next day).

This is certainly the future. The only problem I see is that this future is not "now". Dataplans are currently too expensive (limited) for this to make sense.

I do not want to be locked out of all my software once:
  - I go over my monthly cap.
  - I leave the country (and am not willing to pay the roaming costs)
  - My internet connection goes down
  - Go into a rural area

I also experience hickups when travelling in the train. With my 3g i-net (in Switzerland) traveling in the train is really hit and miss. Sometimes I get excellent service and sometimes I get really bad service (and its the same train line!)

So, while I think that the future is certainly somewhere in the web, this future is still a bit off, until we fix our connectivity issues. But it doesnt hurt to have a head start for google I guess

This is really awesome!

I was always a Gnome fan and Ubuntu fan. Have been using Ubuntu since Ubuntu 6.4. When Unity came out, I wanted to give it a fair shot and I did. However things like the total lack of customization and general slowness when opening dash turned me off (gnome-do + docky offer a much faster solution). I also tried gnome-shell for a bit. This is also somewhat limited in the ways you can customize it (e.g. what about 2x2 workspaces?) and general problems with graphic drivers ( I was getting hard freezes 1-3 times a day, which made it impractical)

So couple of months ago I tried KDE 4.7. I Instantly liked how it is very similar to the desktop Im used to, but also offers interesting things like plasma widgets and is very customizable. I would not want to go back to gnome again.

So now I have a choice of distributions to pick. There is the Chakra project, which is totally awesome (I tried it for a while), however, it is not yet ready for prime time (things like installing non-KDE is very cumbersome and requires a lot of time). Kubuntu on the other hand comes with the awesome packaging system from ubuntu which makes installing applications a breeze. Moreover, almost any project out there, has an ubuntu repository (if its not already in the default repositories) making it the default choice if you dont want to start compiling applications for yourself.

When I heard about Canonical dropping Kubuntu, I was worried at first that it might go under. But this development makes a very happy camper and am looking forward at the next releases of Kubuntu!