Comment Re:Funny... (Score 1) 239
Whereas you can be sure no one at Microsoft or Apple is coding backdoors for a TLA ?
[...] he'll be marked as a terrorist and in the cross hairs of watch-list databases for the next decade.
Don't screw with the cops man, at best it's a College frat gone bad. However technically right you may be this is playing with fire while surrounded by dynamite.
Mmmh
So willing something doesn't automatically make it not evil.
it may be possible to predict human movement patterns and location up to 93 percent of the time.
The remaining 7% are deviant, they're probably onto some terrorist task of some sort and should be Guantanamoed.
Do some people really use markedly inferior software simply because it is open source, even if a better competitor is available at no cost?
The NVIDIA driver has a huge cost: you know the day NVIDIA wants your card to be obsolete and replaced, they'll stop shipping the driver. They did it in the past and will continue to do it because they think it makes them more profitable. Plus, you don't know what's in their driver, no one can make it work with your custom kernel if there's a problem.
Only if your don't value your freedom, the NVIDIA driver has no cost (but then you're better with MacOS or Windows).
For replacing GMail, you can always use POP access to download your mail and keep it locally
And loosing all your precious information, like in which folder it is, is it tagged as read, important, etc. ? No way.
The only way to properly copy/move your GMail box is to use IMAPSync (or something alike, but IMAPSync is the best).
For the truly paranoids, you can even regularly backup all your mail from GMail to another IMAP server (say, your own Cyrus imapd), so you can't be taken by surprise when Google pulls the plug.
You're absolutely right; the man's a criminal, and should be prosecuted as any other thief.
We don't have the same meaning for crime. This guy did somthing wrong, that's for sure. But he didn't kill anybody. Calling what he did a crime is really too far-fetched.
Linus has become too old to spend time tinkering with new hardware.
This restaurant was advertising breakfast any time. So I ordered french toast in the renaissance. - Steven Wright, comedian
