So is Slashdot posters going to be consistent in their anti-patent stances or are they going to make excuses about how this is okay because it's going after Apple (like they do when Microsoft gets sued for patent infringement).
Being forced to wear a uniform is just management's way of pointing out just how expendable their IT staff is.
Truth hurts, don't it?
Benjamin Franklin said it best when he said "Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both."
Except Benjamin Franklin never said that.
A frequently-misquoted phrase commonly attributed to Benjamin Franklin. Many misquotations simplify or generalise the sentence somewhat, or add parts not in the original quote, such as "Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both", one of the more common variants.
The original quote is taken from, "A Historical Review of the Constitution and Government of Pennsylvania," first published anonymously in London in 1759. The quote is an excerpt from a letter written in 1755 from the Assembly to the Governor of Pennsylvania.
Benjamin Franklin did publish the edition printed in Philadelphia, and most likely the original, but denied writing any part of it. The quote however may have originated from Franklin, but was excerpted for the book by the author.
Just like in the past, Flash exploits will be something Windows users have to worry about while Linux and Mac users just sit back and shake heads that so many people put up with the problems of an overly large monoculture.
Did you miss the part that this was from a website about investing?
Not to mention that this isn't going to be a random install on random hardware - they'll have hardware built for their exact specs!!!
OH MY GOD!!!! TO THEIR EXACT SPECS?!?!?!?!?
More seriously, if you have to custom build a machine to work with your piece of software, your software is usually a piece of shit.
The plural of anecdote is not data.
He never made any such claim. He was just responding to someone else's anecdote with his own.
but in many cases, specialized native code implementations, where the passed arguments determine the actual native code path taken and the level of optimization/performance.
Has anyone actually proven this in practice? This is proclaimed in the theoretical sense over and over but I've never actually seen anything real to back this up.
Except those will all be easily dismissed as the trumped up charges they are. That will only feed the anti-US feelings by the Al Qaeda supporters.
i suggest wired take it to even the next level, and just go and challenge us to find osama bin laden
not a bad idea, since the combined might of the world's governments can't seem to do the job of neutralizing that symbol
But capturing or killing him won't do anything. He'll just be a martyr and someone else will take his place.
That's important when she's up in Alaska and keeping an eye out on Russia.
No, this isn't sloppy gate keeping. ScuttleMonkey is just a fucking retard.
Yeah, fsn was one of the cooler things that SGI created for IRIX.
Partly - commercial BSD derivatives and the BSD networking stack ending up in Windows 95 put off some developers - who wants to see their work being co-opted by Microsoft and other corporations in closed source products?
Only GNU zealots? The people behind the original BSD, and the modern day ones, were/are perfectly fine with commercial companies using their code in their closed-source products.
I think it would have been a disaster if Microsoft had captured the server market
Why?
"By the time they had diminished from 50 to 8, the other dwarves began to suspect "Hungry." -- a Larson cartoon
