There is nothing benign about doing the wrong thing and removing one's freedoms. If anything, the fact that this is there to prevent penalty for what is otherwise a criminal act is exactly the opposite of benign!

Actually it isn't. There's "fiancé", which is the masculine form, indicating a man about to be married and "fiancée", the feminine form for a woman about to be married.

Perhaps, but in this context I thought he was referring to a journalist in which he was collaborating.

If that is the case then "husband" would be an equally despicable word.

The GP was referring to this being defined as "hate speech." Both of you are correct. The GGP's concept of what it means to be "hate speech" is incorrect, and is exactly how laws expand to encompass unrelated things.

Some mass media manipulate graphs to large audiences to alter their opinion. Here's a bunch of good examples: http://foxnewsgraphs.tumblr.com/

One has to look pretty closely to ensure that each graph has a y-axis that starts at 0, a consistent x-axis, that the height of bars and points match the numbers that are presented and other forms of lying with data.

Or parroting information without understanding, like so many students do on their exams that ultimately lead to their graduation and completion of education.

On the heirarchy of knowledge, data becomes information, information becomes knowledge, and knowledge becomes wisdom. In education, we present previously understood information in hopes of developing knowledge. In reality, it's nothing more than data to the student, some of whom will internalize it as desired, but many will not.

You can test this with people. All you have to do is listen to someone describe something a little technical, such as selecting a sorting algorithm, a specific PRNG algorithm, or a statistical model, and then ask them "why?"

I'm very familiar with the disagreement between Linus and Mauro. Mauro messed up. When Linus called him out on it, Mauro claimed that it was the userspace application's fault (!!!). A livid Linus told him to shut up and follow the rules (don't break userspace!). Then this exchange continued a little more. Mauro is an example of a developer who pushes back against the rules even though he's been in the game long enough to know not to. Swearing at Mauro is one thing, I think Linus should have considered ignoring Mauro's contributions as he has demonstrated a clear lack of judgment.

If Linus wouldn't have been very clear with his frustration, how much longer would that exchange have been?

Here's the exchange: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/23/48

Where did Linus say this? If you're going to associate him with it, you should be able to back it up.

Show me where Linus did any of what you're claiming. You've constructed a strawman and slandered him in your comment.

And it would do nothing to serve as a notice to others about the topic.

Linus has been doing this for a very long time during which Linux has grown from his pet project to a major OS, so you seem to be off base about the long-term cost. This same management strategy made Bill Gates the richest man in the world and MS the leader in the business and desktop. Apple is the most valuable company in the world because Jobs employed this approach as well.

Yes, but I bet she doesn't use "naughty" words.

Does it really matter if the result is that the team is better for it?

This is the nature of OSS because you cannot fire your employees. You see, as an employee if I don't like your work, I'll let you go. But as a OSS leader, if you constantly pester me with the way you think things should be, I will develop a lack of empathy and tell you to go eat it. Hopefully, you'll either behave as I need you, or you'll stop pestering me.

Take a look through the mailing list and see how many times someone tells Linus he's wrong because it should be in C++ or Python or some other language. See how many times someone wants to pollute the source with some hack or feature that belongs in user space. Linus cannot fire these people, and his attempts to reason with them only have them continually post to the mailing list. The only response is to ban them, or tell them harshly to go away unless they have something of substance to contribute.

You cannot decode 720p30 and 1080p30 on the CPU on these devices. The performance wasn't there. You need to take advantage of the bundled HW codecs like PowerVR and Nvidia Tegra, which were available but without a consistent API. Google said that fragmentation wasn't an issue, but you'd have to write the app for each handset you wanted to work with, while Apple had several applications capable of doing this.