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Comment Re:It's not the knife... (Score 1) 118

So I "think" that is a bad knife (from my experience using it on a big government system) and you thinks is a good knife[citation needed], so what? Is ony your opinion against mine, and I seriously doubt that your opinion carries more weight than mine only because you want so.

Comment Re: Her work (Score 4, Informative) 1262

I'm still fuzzy on what constitutes a "credible" vs. non-credible death threat. Specific details?

Perhaps you were looking for a legal definition of the term?

As Ms Sarkeesian lives in California, State Penal Code Section 422 would apply:

(a) Any person who willfully threatens to commit a crime which will result in death or great bodily injury to another person, with the specific intent that the statement, made verbally, in writing, or by means of an electronic communication device, is to be taken as a threat, even if there is no intent of actually carrying it out, which, on its face and under the circumstances in which it is made, is so unequivocal, unconditional, immediate, and specific as to convey to the person threatened, a gravity of purpose and an immediate prospect of execution of the threat, and thereby causes that person reasonably to be in sustained fear for his or her own safety or for his or her immediate family's safety, shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail not to exceed one year, or by imprisonment in the state prison.

Comment Re:No more "Cloud", please (Score 1) 60

Nothing is stopping people writing desktop applications. Are you just annoyed that people are choosing cloud services out of convenience?

No. My fear is that they end up trying to implement the "cloud" in anything and everything just because it's "cool", no matter the consequences. Just imagine: Windows depending on the cloud to work, Linux too, Eclipse refusing to work unless you have a connection all the time with a cloud, Photoshop or GIMP refusing to save your images in any other place than a cloud, Word or LibreOffice refusing to save your files because you are offline. Everyone embarking on the cloud hype without worrying about what happens when you lost your connection.

Comment Re:I hope it dies down... (Score 2) 60

I know, my patience is running out for this hype. And my fear is that this gets to a point where applications you need to work (or operating systems) begins to stop working without "cloud" services and reliable 24/7 internet connections that simply do not exist everywhere in my country. And I will not even get into the subject of the serious security breach that is trusting critical data to third-party "cloud" servers on which you have no control.

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