discover verb \dis-k-vr\
: to see, find, or become aware of (something) for the first time

Our civilization became aware of the land to be known as America thanks the Norwegians, Columbus (officially) and as it appears, Marco Polo.

The humans that used to live there was not part of the current European centric civilization - au contraire, we dizimate this ancient, previously stablished civilization and took his place.

Believe-me: giving them the "credit" for discovering America is adding Offense to the Injury.

Since I'm not a native American descendant (my grandfathers are all Italian and Spanish - all but a gran-gran-grandfather from Portugal), from my point of view, yep - Columbus, the Norwegians and perhaps Marco Polo are the ones to give the trophy.

We are the prevalent civilization. It's harsh, it's rude, it's politically incorrect, but it's true nevertheless.

You don't read much, do you?

Patentes are paid because it's cheaper to pay them that to not. Once your business grow up enough, you see yourself paying to much that it starts to pay up fighting the patents.

It's just about value, nothing about worth.

Not even these. :-)

Now we can rest assured that our extinction will happen by the continuous burning of fossil fuels, not by the lack of it!

Yes, it is. :-)

The escalade of violence it's something that can happen, yes. Mainly, in no law lands, where there's no authority to settle things down.

What you fails to recognize is that bullying is about opportunity and unaccountability. Bullies do what they do because they can do it unchecked. The system FAILED to prevent the escalade of violence done by bullies.

Some people never learns. You have to force them to behave. Granted, they have rights by them own, so we can't just kill them, lock them, or anything nasty and gross like that.

No. I'm a brazilian already fed up of people that thinks like you playing havoc with our public safety policies. BE ADVISED, THIS VIDEO SHOWS REALLY STRONG CONTENTS (blood and murderer)- WATCH IT UNDER DISCRETION.

And, unfortunately for us, all these killers and bullies already procreated.

(just like me - live with that)

it appears to be a very predatory way of doing business on my eyes.

I remember an article I read on the late 80's or early 90's about how some small companies of that era feared growing too fast and ended up catching the attention of Microsoft, that at that time was buying everything and everybody (prices are pretty lower at that times). Building something cool that Microsoft would need was the fastest way of going out ot business.

The only thing that can (and will) circumvent the school yard bullies from bullying is this.

Self-defence is, always, the best defense.

Oh, the victim overreacted? Educate him/her , punishing him/her for force abuse if it's the case. BUT NEVER punish the self-defense.

How to lower the belief in something that no one's knows it there? :-)

Common people don't know about cryptography and security. All that common people knows is about WHO tells that something is secure or not - if they trust the guy that says that something is secure, then they acts as it is secure.

Google is betting that people thrust Chrome.

Interesting. A very nice and new way to get "pwned" by someone. :-)

"But sir, my car got hacked!!!" :-)

If I get drunk, and my Google car drives me home and overrun a red light or something like that. Who the cops should blame? Who will get the ticket?

Say that to Microsoft and its Metro interface. ;-)

I'm responsible for a bunch of servers now.

One of them has a uptime of 660 days. Other, 120 or about it. My server with the lower uptime has 35 days - it has 37 days of life, by the way.

I'm not slightly interested on the booting speed of these machines - my main concern is the speed of the diagnostic procedures I need to carry on when something goes wrong.

God saves the runlevel 1.

What's not necessarily a bad thing, as History tells us.

That's the problem: it's too damn flexible, it's too damn practical, it's too damn EASY to maintain. How in hell a big enterprise will be able to profit on such environment?

Corporations need hard to maintain, almost impossible to learn systems deployd on their customer's machines in order to keep them under their grasp.

It's what is happening with systemd? I don't know. But I know the past, and this is the path that Microsoft, Oracle et all choose to follow - and this was not by accident.