Comment Re:The Internet: Where Religions Come To Die (Score 1) 1037
(I'm proud to have been one of the people they tried to block.)
Sometimes you can judge people by who their enemies are.
And this confirms why I have you friended.
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(I'm proud to have been one of the people they tried to block.)
Sometimes you can judge people by who their enemies are.
And this confirms why I have you friended.
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Oh look a "if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to worry about"
Show me your tax return.
Tell me where you live.
Tell me the names of your children.
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Patrick Ventrell rejected the allegations as "baseless and unfounded"
Legalese for "true."
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A few years ago I believe the courts determined that these programs where legitimate programs and listing them as spyware or malware was illegal.
No they didn't.
A lot of spammers and malware authors shout about "free speach" but the only court case where a spammer won was where Spamhaus replied to the lawsuit but didn't show up. Which was later overturned.
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If you jailbreak your car, however, and inadvertently change something that impairs reliability, you're compromising the safety of everybody else on the road.
Yeah? So? That's what insurance is for.
Secondly, you don't seem to have remembered that there are over 100 years of DIY automobile engineering (commonly called hotrodding).
Are you German or something?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
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College is about learning theory and how to apply it, it isn't a vocational program.
When you have a $100k bill to pay off that you can't escape through bankruptcy, you'd better have some way to pay it off. When you have a trillion dollar debt problem based upon this (see previous slashdot headlines) you have what they call a "real problem."
What you say is a nice sentiment. It's a sentiment that was only valid 40 years ago, when a summer job every year could pay for tuition at Northeastern.
It is also preposterous to not teach the concepts of security for devices connected to hostile environments (i.e., every network ever), and networking is not a "fad." The only people that thought that the Internet and networking in general for "the great unwashed" were fads were "futurists" like Cliff Stoll who were wildly wrong in 1995.
http://www.newsweek.com/cliffo...
Read that. A 30 year trend is not a fad.
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It's funny how nearly all, to a one, who are mad at you are "anonymous cowards"
If their opinion mattered, they'd have at least an alias to reply to.
Guys, Martian isn't a troll. He's been just saying something that nearly all of us with two brain cells to rub together have been saying about a touch interface on a DESKTOP operating system.
You want to point at the screen so much? Go retrofit a light-pen for your XP laptop.
Morons.
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It's like taking antidepressants. The world just feels too comfortable.'"
Spoken like a person who has never used antidepressants or understands or how they work, or just buys into the nonsensical Scientologist bullshit.
Antidepressants aren't magic happy pills and they aren't some sort of metaphorical rose coloured glasses.
They take the edge off. That's it. They give you the chance to back away from the emotional precipice that you would otherwise jump from. Some are better than others (Paxil sucks for many many people, for example) but properly used, they help people restore their lives from what was a bottomless pit.
Depression is the third leading cause of death. Probably the main cause of preventable death since if you don't kill yourself yourself outright, you tend to not give a shit about "healthy living" and shave 20 years off your lifespan with heart disease and other crap.
This article and summary is crap.
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And the irony of "obamacare" is that it's an invention of the Heritage Foundation.
They're the ones that designed it.
That Obama, implementing the plans of communist sympathizers like the Heritage Foundation.
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>read article
>2/3rds goes to retirees
The baby boomers are retiring?
YOU DON'T SAY!
And you are surprised at this? If you are, you're a moron.
"Social security is going broke!!!#$#!@$@#%11ON#"
No it isn't you stupid fuck, not if the legislature tweaks it A LITTLE BIT. But no, we have teabaggers and corporatists crying about the "47 percent that don't pay taxes" lie.
Hurr.
Fuck all of you.
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Postscript.
I am closer to you these days, btw.
I am in Concord, NH. Hope you are well.
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From elsewhere:
Msg 123719 of 125222 at 10/5/2013 10:40:10 PM by hamjudo2000
In response to msg 119170 by hamjudo2000 view thread
Microsoft OS usage dropped below 50% for Wikipedia users, was Re: Time for Microsoft to panic
Wikimedia just posted more usage statistics. Windows had a 49.93% share in August of 2013. 4 years ago, for the month of September 2009, 88.68% of Wikimedia users used Windows PCs.
In 4 years, Microsoft dropped from stably controlling nearly 90% of the OS market for hosts used to browse the web, to controlling less than half , and dropping steadily. For the last 12 months, Microsoft's market share has been dropping on average more than 1.5% per month
More than a year ago, on August 15, 2012, I wrote:
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Wikimedia gathers statistics any time somebody grabs a wikipedia page with an image, including the logo. (People who use text only browsers, do not significantly contribute to Microsoft revenue.) Three years ago, just shy of 90% of Wikimedia users were using browsers running on PCs running Windows, and the percentage was relatively constant month to month.
iPhone usage hit 1% share in November of 2009. At that point, Windows still had a 88.18% share. Fast forward to last month, Windows had a 69.15% share in July of 2012. They had a 1.3% drop in one month (70.45% share in June 2012). Most, but not all, of that decline is due to mobile usage climbing. All mobile usage combined for July is at a 19.6% share, so Windows isn't just losing market share to mobile devices, it is also losing share on the desktop.
Even if the recent compound increase in market loss is noise in the data, and the market share loss stabilizes at "only" something like 1% per month, it is still a huge shift away from Microsoft's income producers.
http://www.investorvillage.com...
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The Federal government does not regulate the principles of contract law.
You're a fucking moron. For fucking reals.
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I opposed it because marriage is none of the Federal government's f*ing business.
This is where you are wrong and where everyone who keeps parroting this dumb line is conpletely wrong..
Marriage is irrespective of religion. You can have marriages that never come into contact with any religion. Marriages are fucking contracts. Contract law is certainly part of Federal law.
is it okay for the State to tell someone they can't do business with someone they don't like?
All of your english teachers are crying. This sentence right here is what shows the fucking contortions that the anti-gay-marriage idiots have to go through to explain their "logic."
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Before you go accusing me of being a Microsoft shill - I've spent the past 7 years developing software on Linux
Un-fucking-likely.
You've echoed fucking Microsoft talking points - that makes you a shill.
Dumbass.
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Remember to say hello to your bank teller.
