Why "enterprises" can't customize open source software is a bit of a mystery to me. Interns really are cheap these days (esp. by $$$ enterprise $$$ standards). Seriously enterprise customers want a browser specifically tailored to their needs for absolutely nothing. It's funny.

Auto updates can be turned off both at compile time option and as an installed option. It's never been easier to bring in a custom patch set and build software and yet they're still bitch'n. They don't even have to pay a fucking license fee but act as if they're paying customers. They act like they dished out thousands of dollars for support like they do for their Oracle database software or Microsoft servers. They'll pay MS and Oracle per processor/core for less customization but when it comes to Mozilla they expect $0.00 to get them everything.

Enterprise babies need to grow up and L2.

Whoa. Whoa down there! Whoa! Stop the press! Hold the anchovies! Stay the execution! Circle the wagons!

Stop.
In.
The.
Name!

I have on good authority (any forum thread anywhere--reliable source) that to be a Linux user you have to be a super nerd from hell. All Linux users by definition are better than power users. Linux is so hard to use that seasoned Windows techs have problems using it. There's no way in hell grandmothers, kids, and Windows techs can even get that far!

Linux is so hard that Ron Jeremy is jealous. What exactly do you mean by "not all linux users are power users"?

Hysterics and hyperbole do not serve us well.

You must be new here. What have you done with 30651? Is he ok? What are your demands?

Samsung needs to make round tablets!

That would be awesome! I could finally pay Tron in real life!

Whom do I cheer for now?

You don't have to cheer at all. You can simply resort to booing, which is just as fun and you get to throw things!

Absolutely the most powerful. I don't know what they're waiting for. They should just go ahead and hold the world ransom.

ONE HUNDRED. BILLION. DOLLARS!!

sounds about right.

I'll take stainless steel and cast iron over teflon any day for my cooking needs. I mow my lawn without gas or electricity. I think that puppets in '80s movies feel more real than the most advanced computer animated crap of today. I'll be damned if I purchase music that isn't on a CD. DVDs are just fine for movies (I migrated from tape for good reason but blue ray simply isn't worth the hoopla). I still don't give a flying fuck about 3D... in fact I prefer movies that are not be in 3D. I look for yard sales in senior communities because I know that that those 50-year-old cooking utensils are still going to out last that stuff at Walmart.

Yada yada get off my lawn, but I'll be damned if I'll run anything less than the most recent kernel and gcc.

One could argue the same for Git... but it's used in professional environments all the time despite it being "unparliamentary language."

Stop fussing about one definition of the word. You're just like the asshats that want to preserve the purity of the word "hacker."

So by that logic we shouldn't have sex education in JHS either since the students are just going to poke fun at it. At some point students realize that you take the subject matter seriously and either stop being disruptive or are disciplined.

Same with GIMP, just warn the student that they are using the word out of context, that their behavior is inappropriate, and discipline them as needed.

Also, it's very common for students in that age bracket to make light of teacher's names. Does that mean teachers should change their names?

I don't recall there ever being a large contingent of people claiming "theres nothing they can do".

What's the point in bringing up that all software has flaws if not to imply that there's nothing that can be done? What's the point in saying that MS has the biggest market share (and therefore the most targeted) if not to imply that there's nothing that can be done?

Every system ever built has the potential for issues

Every system potentially has flaws but some vendors historically have had more exploits over time than others. Just because every system has flaws doesn't mean that the severity of the flaws can't be mitigated. Some vendors are in fact better at it than others.

Stop throwing your hands in the air as if to say that there's nothing anyone can do.

Example and history lesson: Windows 7 is more secure than XP even though all the while XP was popular everyone said there was nothing MS could do. Well, apparently, they did "nothing" and 7 is just coincidently more secure? Or was it just designed better and tested more? Or is 7 just as insecure as XP? See, you can't say that Microsoft improved security without reneging on the "their's nothing they can do" apologetics.

And it's not just Microsoft (They're just handy at the moment). This same bullshit line of apologetics pops up every time there's a wide spread exploit of a popular product. It's akin to saying that since you can't prevent 100% of fatal car accidents, seat belts are pointless.

What do you mean? Flash runs the same everywhere. Flash for Windows: Runs like crap. Flash for Mac: Runs like crap. Flash Linux: Runs like crap.

Even though Flash is total crap, it works just fine to demonstrate that binaries can be made compatible across distribution lines. The fact that it's crap doesn't change the fact that it's compatible crap. If Adobe can make a binary which is compatible across distributions, it can't be that hard can it?