I live in NC, citation please?

This is more of an issue now than it was even then. Buying a pre-made PC is just buying a bunch of trial offers, which you then have to remove. Or more appropriately, reinstall the OS cleanly.

Unless you build your own hardware and install from scratch or buy OS X or Linux, you're going to get a bunch of trial-ware spam.

Worse than the first posts here on /. ... the full article is about 2 sentences longer than the summary!. Its literally 2 poorly formed paragraphs. Thats it.

Do you pay for a subscription to slashdot?

I'm just curious as to if you expect people to spend their own time and money providing a website you use but they don't get any avenue to make a return on their investment and time.

If you pay, great. Good for you.

If not, then shut the fuck up you worthless leach, no one gives a shit what you say. :)

I'm better you don't pay for a subscription ... Do you?

Over a 200 year period, 100% of the humans on the planet die ... of course, more are born to replace them so the population actually grows ... making that number that looked super duper scary ... pretty much normal.

So ... 40% in and of itself doesn't mean anything to me if Bees only live 2-3 years anyway.

How many new colonies were formed and how was the total population effected in the end.

The title and summary give no indication that something is wrong, only the indication that someone wants a sensationalist headline.

Facts please ... you know, news for nerds.

You're not a parent are you?

Its fairly easy to love your children and punish them at the same time, it is in fact a requirement of loving your children properly. Without the punishment, there is a good chance they'll do something that is very bad for them.

I love my child unconditionally and punish him regularly.

Just because you don't understand something, doesn't instantly make it wrong or devoid of logic. It just means you don't understand it, full stop.

Ugm, there most certainly is an argument. Those people fighting aren't doing it BECAUSE of religion. They just do it in the NAME of religion. Entirely different.

They could all be the same religion, be it muslim, atheist or christian, and they'd still be fighting.

It has a whole hell of a lot to do with who has what resources, and nothing to do with actual religion. Religion is just the excuse used to justify their actions, which is why the people doing these killing have completely nut job interpretations of the religion they're part of.

If you think that this stuff happens BECAUSE of religion then you have absolutely no understanding of how humans work. You're doing the old correlation == causation bug.

If your computer experience involves apply patches as part of normal operations, you've completely and utterly failed to understand that computers are there to relieve work from you, not make you work harder.

Seriously, not all of us are 15 years old and have nothing better to do than sit around picking with kernel configs. Unlike you, some of us use computers to accomplish things other than bragging about all the crap I've compiled by hand for custom configurations.

My solution? Don't use Xen/QEMU/VirtualBox. They're all pretty shitty when compared to something like VMware. oVirt and OpenStack are monstrous piles of crap. They are free ... yet its way cheaper to pay for over priced VMware and not spend your time picking around with silly weaknesses in the OSS hypervisors since they all copy each other and run essentially the same code in all of them ... hence this exploit. They're ALL based almost ENTIRELY on QEMU, hence all of them being exploitable.

Thats only true for very small fonts which are bordering on illegible, where sometimes they even just include bitmapped variants because you're approaching the point where the vector is not useful since a pixel takes up 20-30% of character. The rules change at this scale.

This is true, but no one is reducing it to drawing lines of fixed width with no other attributes, are they? I mean other than you. Either way, certainly vector graphics are not always the best way to store information about a particular artwork, everyone can agree on that.

The OS I use ... second most popular one at that, allow vectors for icons. SVGs specifically. So ... uhm... try again. Of course it also displays PDFs natively, but you go ahead and tell me all about the lack of Vector support.

Why do people keep acting like this is 'new'.

Radio has been streaming music since before you were born.

No, you could not watch it without the plugin to decrypt it, never have been able to in Firefox, you were watching Netflix with flash if you were using FF before to watch Netflix.

Yes, because it already supports the DRM and has for a long time.

Bullshit argument. You're more than welcome to not use the plugin and not use DRM'd content. At no point do you EVER get the right to tell someone else how they have to make things available to you. You're selfish arrogant ass doesn't get to demand other people do things your we because ... well because otherwise you'll throw a tantrum.

Its not open ... when you start restricting people can do ... but you want your browser to restrict people from using a plugin standard they want to use.

Asshole.

More people want that turned on than want it turned off. You are simply the minority. Deal with it. Maybe even consider the fact that because a lot of people who understand whats going on here don't think its pure evil that MAYBE, just fucking MAYBE you're an ignorant douche with the problem, not every one else.

No, it doesn't, on either point. Just because you don't like something doesn't mean you get any right to tell me how I do something. You don't like the color blue, so in order for my artwork to be open and interoperable ... it can't have the color blue in it ...

Thats your argument here. You don't like it ... so screw the fact that we're talking about a PUBLISHED STANDARD FOR INTEROPERABILITY ... its not ... because you said so ...

Neither does currency, but you wouldn't be able to use the Internet or even have this conversation without it. You don't have to use DRM or buy artwork with the color blue in it, and very few people give a flying fuck that you don't do it. Actually, outside of this website I can safely assume no one gives a fuck what you do. Someone else's hard work is theirs to do with what they want. It is NOT a public resource. It is NOT a right. Unless you intend to argue that everything you do on the Internet is a public resource, including any banking done by you directly or indirectly ... in which case, give me your bank account and CC numbers and lets get straight the point of the public resource that was formally known as your bank account.

Then you're just a moron. This isn't the first time its been mentioned here and on many other tech websites and of course, Google News. So at this point, if you are completely blind sided by this ... well, again, you're the problem.

So lets recap ... you don't like DRM ... so everyone who has anything to do with it is being restrictive and preventing you from doing what YOU want to do ... but its okay for you to prevent them from doing what they want to do (i.e. use DRM) ...

I suggest a dictionary and a quick check of the word:

HYPOCRITE

You fail to understand what scientists know versus what they speculate about.

Making the assumption that they are even somewhat accurate about the big bang (unlikely), the math used to get there breaks down and doesn't work as the size approaches infinitely small. Everything is just speculation from unimaginative scientists who think they know what happened 14 billion years ago at some random spot that they can't even point their finger in the general direction of.

That does not mean that space was not infinitely large while at the same time infinitely small, its all a matter of perspective. Outside looking in, its infinitely small, inside looking out its infinitely large.

Note: We can't get an accurate police report 20 minutes after the event with 20 eye witnesses, but many are dead set that we KNOW what happened during the big bang. When you think about things like this, use your head and think about the police report.

I knew some asshole would try to use some bullshit like Aaron Schwartz to try and act like theres a double standard.

The reason you're hearing about this on slashdot ... IS BECAUSE THEY ARE IN FEDERAL COURT.

Seriously, its in the fucking summary, don't even need to get to the full article.

Dear Microsoft,

In case you haven't noticed, no one likes either the Firefox (or Chrome) model for updates. People who don't know any better put up with it, but no one likes it.

WTF part of your tiny little brain makes you think people want continual changes to what they are used to because YOU deem it to be better.

My job does not revolve around learning new Windows crap every couple of months, and if you try to make it that way, I'll use something else.

My screw driver doesn't change every 2 months, thats not a bad thing, get the clue you idiots, just because you're entire life revolves around making a new version of windows to justify your existence doesn't mean my life does too and trying to make it so it does means I'm going to find an alternative.