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Comment Re:No. (Score 3, Insightful) 765

I have watched a few Poettering videos and he comes off as a massively arrogant douche bag (but I am a fan of Linus and RMS so *shrug*).

How do you feel about Theo? I think there must be some deep psychological understanding you can come to based on people's reactions to Linus, RMS, Theo, and Poettering, but I have no idea what.

All four of them are massively arrogant, though three have earned it and deserve some respect, but only one is a douche bag.

Comment Re:I read this and immediately thought (Score 2) 145

"What the fuck did I just read?"

Having only cringed at the previews and not actually seen CSI: Cyber, I can only say that what you just read is the the first /. Summary that perfectly described my initial reaction to, and feelings about, something I'm never going to watch. "Perfectly focus-grouped cast," indeed.

Comment Re:weird numbers on certs (Score 1) 94

Agreed, but rather than M$ systems, I was thinking other Unix systems, and not necessarily Internet facing. I've worked several places, admittedly a while ago, that still rely on big-iron systems running Solaris, HP-UX, etc... That kind of hardware can have advantages over a lot of hardware usually used to run Linux (VMs or bare-metal), but you also pay for it.

Comment Re:The idea was a good one, the execution poor (Score 1) 201

Does the iTunes Terms of Service, to which users presumably agreed, specify that Apple may add (or remove) things to (from) your device that you did not request and/or w/o your specific consent? If so, then your analogy holds (at least technically) else it doesn't.

I suspect that people got bent out of shape because either Apple wasn't really allowed to do this sort of thing, or people didn't realize Apple actually was allowed to.

Comment Re:The idea was a good one, the execution poor (Score 1) 201

Honestly, I'm still baffled so many people were upset about getting a few album from a popular, well respected, rock band, simply because it found its way directly onto people's devices. It's not as if it woke you up at 3am and started playing it!

Image, instead, that Apple broke into people's houses and left a physical copy of the U2 album on dining room table. How do you think you / everyone would feel about that? While you might argue that digitally pushing the album out isn't really the same thing, it kind of is. Apple entered (violated) people's personal space w/o permission.

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