Why is it that the same people who claim that pirating movies isn't stealing claim that copying your data is?

(And in this case, "steal your data" mostly means send your device ID to a server, which has arguable legitimate uses.)

Consider what Samsung has done for LCD technology. There are many other areas where they've innovated similarly. Apple's hardware "innovation" is basically deciding how to arrange the components they buy from the people who are actually doing new science, like Samsung.

Apple does very little R&D compared to many other companies, but outside of a few areas (pharmaceuticals come to mind), private enterprises do very little R&D compared to research institutions. As a scientist, this pisses me off to some degree, but I've learned to live with it.

Lax attitude towards patents? SOFTWARE SHOULD NOT BE PATENTED. Google just happens to be on the right side of that issue.

I happen to believe that marijuana should be legalized, but that doesn't mean I can expect to walk down the street smoking weed without getting stopped for it.

Then why are most people's desktops running Windows?

Though what is interesting is, *for Apple to do this*, must mean that they are scared. Very scared. Can't compete with inferior tech, so let's litigate.

So is Motorola Mobility (aka Google).

I don't like it either, but I don't think it indicates anything besides that corporations are scumbags, which we already knew.

But then the TSA just asks for $400,000 more from the federal budget. No less money goes to the TSA, but $400,000 more goes from taxpayers' pockets to the USO.

If the point is to discourage the TSA from taking the money, why not just make them put it back in the federal budget?

Why doesn't he just create a bill to give $400,000 of taxpayer money to the USO? It's the same thing financially as redirecting this money that currently goes into the general budget to a private organization, but I guess it sounds better the way he puts it?

Then again, $400,000 is not that much money in the first place. He and a couple wealthy friends could almost certainly cover it.

Yeah 6 months late and most businesses have downgraded back to IE 7.

Is Firefox being updated too quickly or too slowly? Firefox 3.6 is still supported, and will be until April 2012, apprently. Besides misinformation, I don't see why a business would downgrade to IE.

Asa even told corporate users that if it wants security fixes for 3.6 and 4.0, that 5.0 was THE security fix.

3.6 is still receiving security updates, and it will until April 2012. There have been several 3.6.x point releases since the 4.0 release. I don't think anyone ever said it wouldn't receive security updates.

No I.T. worker wants to answer 900 calls saying that the corporate add-on for proxy settings broke as FF auto updated etc.

Why in God's name would you do this? What is wrong with setting the system proxy settings? What is wrong with a PAC file?

Did you see the link above that says "Extended Support Releases"? What exactly is wrong with that proposal?

Because Camino is still based on Mozilla 1.9.2, which is the base of Firefox 3.6 and will probably be EOLed along with it. TenFourFox is a port of Firefox 9 to PPC. It should work.

Someone tell me why any enterprise should ever donate Mozilla a single penny of support ever again? Mozilla has aggressively and loudly snubbed enterprise users (after having courted them), has refused to listen to anything other than their politically-driven BS, and have told people to change their way of dealing with upgrades just to accommodate Mozilla.

Mozilla created Extended Support Releases specifically to accommodate enterprise users. In what way did they "refuse to listen"?

You can use TenFourFox, which is synched with official Firefox releases and even contains a PPC JIT. But you might want to get rid of those machines sometime soon...

JavaScript is actually quite easy to debug in IE 9, Firefox with Firebug, or Chrome, all of which contain debugging environments. CoffeeScript is harder to debug because it compiles to JS first. Python is harder to debug than JS because the debugging environment sucks by comparison.

You think the people implementing fast calculations for financial firms, can't and aren't using the knowledge and source code for projects in other areas ?

Correct. Do you think they are? That would almost certainly be in violation of their contracts...

But without rapid release, apparently.