All of these school massacres seem to happen at schools. Perhaps it's time we banned school. We tried controlling the school, it was a gun free zone after all, but somehow this still happened.

Ban people, ban the environment, ban the social structure, ban technology, ban the weaponry, ban ban ban. Substitute 'ban' with 'control' as you see fit. Guess what? There's basically nothing that will stop scenarios like this from playing out. The best we can hope for and encourage is getting as many people with mental health issues the help they need. I don't pretend this is easy.

Joking aside, how sad is it that it is now newsworthy that someone was able to successfully install an operating system of their choice onto a device that they own?

I weep for the future.

Lots and lots of lobbyists who will get this number reduced before it goes into effect.

Certainly that situation would still be quite profitable for Apple but the desire would be overwhelming to charge for the entire stack: hardware, OS, Applications, media, online storage, the list goes on. The App Store model is very profitable. In fact, Apple is already very well established in this arena for iOS devices. They aren't exactly going out of their way to open up the boot loaders on iPhones and iPads to allow for alternative OS's just to sell more hardware, otherwise they might as well sell them with Android preinstalled. With the App Store showing up in recent Mac OS X versions, one could argue that they are already going down this path for the desktop.

Should Mac OS X ever top the desktop OS market (unlikely as it may be), it is pretty much a given that they would do it. See Microsoft. Historically, I think that Apple has been even more harsh than Microsoft when it has been given the opportunity. To be fair, every corporation loves the chance to pull the ladder up behind them and begin charging rent at every possible turn.

Obviously, they may opt to do it well before then and possibly charging for unlocking to allow for booting into anther OS. As GP noted, for your protection, of course.

Article: Posted by Unknown Lamer on Monday July 23, @03:56PM

Comment: by crazyjj (2598719) on Monday July 23, @03:56PM

How's that astroturfing working out for you?

Yep-
Not a tax: http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2009/09/obama-mandate-is-not-a-tax/
Tax: http://money.cnn.com/2012/06/28/pf/taxes/health_reform_new_taxes/

Meh is right. Lies, damn lies, and statistics. You could say my company uses it. Of the roughly 2200 people that work here, I believe 5 have Yammer accounts.

For all of the terrible dystopian possibilities that Canada could have chose for their future- 1984, A Brave New World, Soylent Green, etc., it's interesting that they have opted for the horrors of Footloose. Kevin Bacon must be spinning in his grave.

Yes, indeed. Ubuntu 12.04 Paralyzed Platypus.

Morons who, in turn, send form letter emails firing all of the other morons. Where's the problem?

Oh, I most certainly agree. If it were up to me, this would have been version 4.6 (5.0 being 4.1 and so forth) and the plugin situation would have been changed to the current status in 4.0, even if it meant a release delay. Mozilla has been trying to get to the point where the version number is irrelevant (ala Chrome) but shot themselves in the foot in basically the only place that it actually matters. Of course, everyone loves version inflation.

I have high hopes for their LTS releases.

We care because there are substantial performance gains in recent Firefox versions and Firefox 10 finally addresses the plugin situation in a reasonable manner. Sure 3.6 will continue to work but you're missing out... but feel free to keep your head in the sand.

I never thought I'd say it but it looks like the new release schedule is finally starting to pay dividends. Now if we could just get Mozilla to play better with the enterprise.

Just what flavor is the kool-aid?