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Comment Re:Moral of the story... (Score 0) 1746

bigotry of differing opinions.

This sentence is utter nonsense, sorry. One is free to criticize differing opinions. Bigotry has a very specific meaning.

Even filling in the oval on the ballot could come back and haunt you depending on how your ballot is treated and if it can be linked to you (here in Washington State, it's a trivial matter)).

That's why your ballot is anonymous, and if it isn't then you should push to fix that.

I don't know about you, I don't know which groups I might be heading in 6 years, or 60 for that matter... best to just stop voting, donating money or having opinions that someone somewhere might find offensive... unless that too is considered offensive.

It's not like he had no idea what the goals of Prop 8 were. If you show support for an organization and politician who are dedicated to denying people rights on a wholly irrational and arbitrary basis, that just might come back to bite you. So I recommend looking closely at the goals of a group, and the progression of said group. And if you find that it targets a group of people and demans them and attempts to influence government in a way that specifically disadvantages them, yeah you might want to not be associated with it. People don't like that, at all.

Comment Re:Can you explain (Score 2) 140

it does not allow applications to be displayed on a remote desktop and for example VNC has to be used instead.

This isn't necessarily true. It simply does not provide a method for remoting of applications. However, given Wayland's nature it's likely that any remote Wayland solution will be more efficient than VNC and even X forwarding, rather than less.

Comment Re:This could be good news... (Score 1) 241

if they're right then we need Mir for Linux on smart phones.

That was one of the claims that Canonical made with no supporting evidence whatsoever. Ironically, Canonical made that claim, but Jolla shipped Wayland on their handset first - and the library that makes it possible to use Android drivers was developed by one of their engineers for use with Wayland.

Mir may be useful, but Canonical marred its release badly.

Comment Re:This could be good news... (Score 2) 241

I think we need both to compete.

Why? Given they both solve the same problem, but one has wide support and has shipped on devices, what use is the other?

Some of the early limitations proposed in Wayland were frankly, utter shit, and it was only pressure to lift their game that led to them being dropped.

Mir did not appear until way, way late in Wayland's game, and it appeared with a lot of terribly uninformed commentary from Canonical regarding how Wayland worked.

Comment Re: Fork them (Score 1) 194

This is no different than the leftists who screamed bloody murder about the PATRIOT Act because they said Bush could use it as a tool for GOP villainy who've themselves are now tight lipped in the face of ObamaNation corruption and worse.

Always amusing to see ACs spouting off with broad brushes and other batshit insanity. CAUSE EVERYTHING IS ABOUT POLITICS RIGHT!

Comment Re:Wrong, study shows disfavor with science. (Score 2) 482

Unless you've done the research and experimentation yourself, you don't understand the science either, you just choose to believe it.

That's bullshit, frankly. It's possible to understand the science despite not having done the research and experimentation personally. SuperKendall's pretty much 100% full of shit.

This has nothing to do with science and everything to do with people not trusting the government.

No, it has everything to do with people unable to think critically about the messages being directed towards them and choosing to place all blame on the government, right or wrong.

Comment Re:Not DRM, just an old business model (Score 1) 769

No, this is akin to the Lexmark case back in 2005 where they used a chip to detect and reject 3rd party cartridges in an effort to protect their ink-selling business model. Thankfully they lost that case so I imagine that whatever "solution" GMCR comes up with will be handily defeated and the 3rd party pod market will continue unabated.

And when the lawsuits fly, their victim can cite that case and have the suit dismissed.

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