Comment: Re:Good guy Google (Score 1) 121
Start the meme! Open sourcing skymap is awesome! Thanks google!
Your meme is bad and you should feel bad.
Start the meme! Open sourcing skymap is awesome! Thanks google!
Your meme is bad and you should feel bad.
How is Cloud different from other software, which can also be killed, unless of course, it is open source. But even with open source, it is more convenient if the company continues to maintain and support it.
If desktop software gets killed you still have your copy to use.
Of course they do. All (new) material is copyrighted. Even this post.
Yup and it belongs to Slashdot now. Read the fine print.
"All of the above, and then some"
It's really hard to rank these. They're all retarded in their own way.
It's like Sophie's Choice except you want them all to die,.
It is a portmanteu of IRaq and AfghanistAN.
That would be Iraqistan.
It is not like this issue is something covered on Fox and MSNBC and CNN.
Ever since 2008, elections aren't won by ignoring the internet, and Obama of all people knows it.
Not to say this is all idle campaign talk. I have high hope that whatever we end up with won't be the end-of-democracy-as-we-know-it bill we have now. It might not even be as bad as the DMCA, and the internet survived that one. But it'll still be bad legislation, because the very principle behind it is trying to solve the wrong problem the wrong way.
As flawed as the DMCA is, it still has some give and take. It has safe harbor clauses that actually helped sites like youtube to operate unhindered. SOPA is completely one sided.
"better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer" - Sir William Blackstone
"better that ten innocent men suffer than one guilty man escape" - Pol Pot
I'd rather let a thousand guilty men go free than chase after them -Chief Wiggum
And why not bitch at Apple for locking down OS X and iPhone's too?
But... WE DO BITCH AT APPLE FOR LOCKING DOWN OS X AND IPHONE TOO.
I do this every day, and twice on weekends.
Posted from my Droid.
Finding the stairs is easy - it's climbing the stairs that defeats most of us!
They make climbable stairs now?
We have a cocaine fountain in the lobby? Why does no one tell me of these things?
Awww......man who told him?
We were so poor we couldn't afford a watchdog. If we heard a noise at night, we'd bark ourselves. -- Crazy Jimmy