The reason I mentioned vaccines is because of people, including some on here, who continue to trot out this disproved notion.

As the article relates, whatever is happening to cause autism happens long before the kid is born and given a vaccine.

To me it seems just another genetic defect like Down's Syndrome or ALS so what we do as far as vaccines would have no effect since the person is already afflicted.

Last week the BBC had this article on autism which says whatever is causing autism happens long before birth.

From the article:

Patchy changes in the developing brain long before birth may cause symptoms of autism spectrum disorder (ASD), research suggests.

In other words, vaccines have NO relation to who does or does not develop autism.

when people who claim to be conservatives are front and center in efforts to invade people's privacy or their lives in general.

Whether this situation, the banning of books at libraries, abortion or anything other matter involving one's personal freedoms, conservatives seem to go out of their way to be hypocrites when talking about freedom.

I guess it's easier to talk the talk than it is to walk the walk.

Sort of like when businesses decry government regulation or intrusion into their practices then turn around and come to the taxpayer asking for money.

Get paid for their work? What are you, a capitalist? People don't get paid for their work. Witness all the people who laugh about how they're not paying a dime for someone else's work when they can steal it from TPB.

Why should these people get paid for work they do when it's on their own time? Isn't that the whole point of open source, free work, no money?

Or are you saying that people need to get paid for the work they do because that's how things work?

We don't need idiots lying to our faces, telling us how wonderful their piece of bug-riddled software is and how it will revolutionize our time to entry for our core business into the cloud.

We need good, solid software that doesn't require administrative rights to use, isn't part of a package that we have to purchase to get the one item we need and won't die when the moron behind the keyboard drops their cookie crumbs into their keyboard.

Ahh fantasy, you be a heartless bitch who offers so much but gives so little.

by those who were using this quack remedy?

I can almost hear the screams of terror when the news was announced:

"WHAT?! There's REAL medicine in this? Holy shit, that stuff will kill me!"

when streaming is more convenient for almost all users?

I guess it never occurred to the writer there are those of us who don't want to watch a movie which stutters, stops or pauses because of network issues. We want a nice, smooth viewing experience.

Contrary to popular opinion, the latest and greatest is not the be all and end all. If anything, that mindset has contributed to decline in usability of nearly everything tech related and only serves to perpetuate the stereotype that those in IT are completely detached from reality and what the average person wants/needs.

Apparently KISS has been abandoned in favor of, "Ohh, shiny!"

Then prove it. Show one piece of holistic/homeopathic medicine which does the equivalent of real medicine.

So far, not one has been shown to do anything because it's all the placebo effect which has been demonstrated in numerous studies.

As is always said in these situations, find at least one scientifically rigorous study showing any alternative medicine works. Not what some charlatan like Kevin Trudeau says, not Montel Williams in an informercial, a true scientific study using standardized methods to show any effectiveness of alternative medicine.

You, on the other hand, will burn in the Pit.

At least I'll be warm compared to the frozen wasteland your God has created on Earth.

The slashdot community is hilarious sometimes.

Here's the way it works around here:

If I produce software, I want to get paid for it. If someone else produces software, I'll steal it.

When I make a product, no one else can make anything like it. When someone else makes a product like someone else, they're free to rip off the design because you can't copyright or trademark that shit.

If you've never used any variety of Linux before, you will need training.

You can be a whiz at writing scripts and batch files to do things on the Windows side, that does not mean you will magically know how to do things on the Linux side.

Just because I am very capable of writing a presentation for the higher ups or giving a speech does not mean I have the capacity to write a book.

with additional new filming to restore the creative vision as it would have been unhampered by financial or time pressures?

So like George Lucas did with Star Wars?

No, there is not huge difference. As I said a bit further up, it wasn't his to take. It doesn't matter what it was, it wasn't his. Period.

Call it what you will, the software, in whatever form, was Microsoft's. Not his. He had absolutely no right to it any way, shape or form other than to work on it.

The only ignorance is people like you who think they have a right to something from someone else and do whatever they feel like, just because they can.

How about this. You work on a piece of software, I'll take the code in whatever form I feel and give it to a big company who will make billions off it, leaving you with squat.

That would be fine with you, right?

It wasn't his information to give. It doesn't matter if it's raw code, a build, a beta or anything else, the underlying and overriding principle is it wasn't his to do anything with.

Period.

Stop being pedantic. He took something which wasn't his and gave it to someone who shouldn't have had access to it. It doesn't matter if the terms are interchanged or not, the underlying principle is still the same.