I plugged his number into my circle-generator and it created a cube.

It's that old problem of letting three wolves and a sheep vote on what to eat for dinner. Majority rules, minority rights.

I couldn't agree more. If everything an attacker needs is in a user account, who cares about getting root access?

What? My dog was installing packages on my computer? No wonder... I didn't think I forgot *that* much about last night to forget where this install of "Poodles Gone Wild" came from.

Apparently, yes. To paraphrase Wikipedia, it means that the attack occurs on the 0th day that the vendor is aware of the problem... which is a significant because it means the vendor has not even had a chance to respond to the vulnerability before it is exploited. Notwithstanding the fact that they could have prevented it, but that's another matter.

You've just walked into an area of the building where you can't get a good wireless connection. I'm sorry, during this temporary drop in Internet access your computer is a brick.

...it's just the beginnings of synergy!

Most of my professors are guilty of this. The only exceptions I've seen so far are math professors who use the chalk, and a programming professor who writes on her thinkpad x-series tablet hooked up to the projector. That's pretty neat, actually.

I have found what you say to be especially true in first-year courses... several of my professors are only here to finish their doctorate and they're just teaching this puny 200-level course because they have to / because it's some spare cash and they don't really know or care as much as they should.

I agree-- users want the program that will be better for them. My parents don't know much about computers and they're using Firefox and Thunderbird all on their own because they tried them out and thought they were better than IE and Outlook. The competition between a FOSS program and a Proprietary program is just the same as it is between Proprietary programs themselves. You've got to compete for users, and perhaps FOSS projects just aren't trying to compete. People will choose the better piece of software (even if their view of "better" is skewed by marketing)... because they care about achieving a certain end, not about the moral virtues of using FOSS. So sure, they'll take Photoshop over GIMP, just as they'll take Microsoft Word over WordPerfect, or Adobe InDesign over QuarkXPress.

What you're talking about is being compelled to produce your laptop and its contents to a court in a civil lawsuit, but what type of lawsuit are we talking about here? Sure, if you're accused of selling company secrets or something, sure they could get at your laptop through discovery, etc. But how does this connect to the op's problem? Are you saying that if the next Great American Novel you wrote was found on your laptop through a court subpoena that the court could grant ownership to the company? Perhaps if the forensics expert shows that it was written on company time?

He read it. I was one of those frustrated players. For quite a while, too, I actually started playing back in Summer 2003. This crap was one of the main reasons why I eventually stopped playing the game. Had CCP bothered to deal with this problem in any meaningful way years ago, perhaps I'd still be forking over $12 / month.

Of course you can charge for it... you put time and work into it and you deserve to get paid for it. You haven't broken the spirit of the GPL or any of that crap. Methinks this dev is simply unhappy that you are making some money off of his work, even though you put some work into it to. I guess this is where we see the divide between open source and free software.

No it isn't. These guys don't even understand what they're talking about... and we'll see if they mean business when the FBI comes a knockin'...

Thank you.

That's what my position is. I use both Linux distros and XP on my machines and I've been pretty happy playing with the Windows 7 RC. If the price is right then I'll buy a copy, otherwise I'll just go back to XP. I'm not paying $300 for a flashy new taskbar!