The sum of money does seem low, but when an agency like the NSA
comes calling, I have a feeling that it they make you a proposal you
cannot refuse.

(Or you can do what Lavabit did, and just shut it down)

Since the government can harvest what they need via agreements/PRISM/backdoors/secret courts,
what you give Facebook you give the US Intelligence services which in turn are part of the government.

So we are contributing to each. Well I have never had a FB account and never plan to have one
but that is just me. I enjoy my friends in person, more than poking them on a website.

Did you want to start your OSS career contributing to the Linux kernel?
You will have to work a lot, and for a long time to ever get to be the target of Linus's rants.

Or are you saying that all OSS projects are abusive and bad?
Because that just is not the case at all.

Secondly and more importantly, if you were an aspiring chef, and you wanted to apprentice to hone your skills
do you want to do that with a guy who can teach you to sling burgers at mcDonalds, you will learn quick,
and it can be polite. Or do you you want to learn from a master chef, who has his Michelin stars and 30 years
experience? The latter will be harder, requiring sacrifices and be willing to take some shit. But at the end
you will be a much better chef.

This is a typical "I love you, you are perfect, now change".

How long has she been involved in the kernel development progress?
She should have known all that time how Linus gets things done.
He has gotten a bit milder over the years, but mostly he has stayed
the same, he has stayed Linus.

Why does she presume that the entire process for the mailing list need to change because *she* has now
decided she does not like it. That is extremely arrogant. Nobody is forcing her to be part of the mailing
list or to work on the kernel. If she feels strongly about it, and you cannot work with people who have a
different way of communicate than what you prefer, then leave.

I feel icy fear stabbing at me by the use of "professional", what in the world does that really mean.
and lets get together and write a document about how people must behave on the kernel mailing list.

To me, this grandstanding that she is doing, is in order to buy herself more publicity and fame, and
gain points for "standing up" as a woman.

The collaboration on the Linux kernel is between extremely talented developers. Anyone who has spent
serious time working with developers, being a developer, knows that they can be very different from each
and very passionate.

The article is about an industry still using the PDP-11,
I am pretty sure we can still find people who use
Vax as well, and plan on continuing.

So.. Did someone just catch up on the later seasons?

So, they have lost of Blackberries today, they work, they are secure and they are proven secure.
(With BB10 they might have to do all the testing over again)

Apparently somehow Samsung and Android have managed to be approved or at least in the running.
And now iPhones running iOS6 have also been approved.

So now, they will spend millions and more of tax payer money, to create a special store with iOS applications,
presumably a special store with Android applications, while still maintaining all of their Blackberry infrastructure.

This adds many levels of complexity for the infrastructure,and the hiring and training of support personal
for all sorts of devices. Why? What benefit does Pentagon bet from maintaing 3 different platforms
instead of one?

The only reason I see for this clusterf. is that vendors have greaser enough hands, to get into this lucrative
market, again leaving our forces to deal with the implications.

This table should have been in my comment.
Your tax dollars at work here donating 11.740
BILLION USD to the Pakistan military since 2002.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_aid_to_Pakistan#Military_and_economic_aid

So Pakistan is a country that supports terrorism you claim.
Then if for instance Iran was a major contributor to the ruling regime in Pakistan
it would be easy to conclude that Iran is supporting terrorism by supporting Pakistan.

So, since the United States is one of the biggest donor of aid to Pakistan
http://transition.usaid.gov/pk/about/budget.html
And that we have lifted the arms embargo and are presently upgrading their
F16 fighters and selling them more F16 fighters, does that count as
the US supporting terrorism, by supporting Pakistan?

yeah until you try to display a page
I guess Mozilla might actually not crash.
If you want to read it fire up IE5.

heh I know you probably like to read standards
and maybe you like found one point IE5
doesnt do right, but guess what 99%
dont care.
Just like it was with Netscape when they first
messed up the standards. but oh I guess you have
forgotten and forgiven since oh you think they
are kewl, since oh you get to use
even more alpha software, even more broken
browser than ever before, but since you might
look at its crappy code it doesnt matter.