SMBC's new rule for science journalism.

Will Jimmy Wales appeal?

I really can't help but see it as a great thing that the security errors were found. It totally vindicates the open source model as a means for peer review and enhancement, the developers will have learned some extremely valuable lessons, and the publicity will mean more eyes will be trained on the codebase in future.

Now, if the source was proprietary....

The big thing that will save OS X from the same lockdown as iOS is that developers need to use these machines to write the software. What self-respecting developer would ever commit to developing for a platform on a machine they could not install whatever tools they pleased on?

It was always burning, since the world's been turning

It has not been conclusively proven impossible.

Oh please, that article is hardly a credible piece of journalism. It's an op-ed piece masquerading as a news story. It's full of baseless claims, inflammatory language, speculation and rhetoric. If you're trusting a site with articles written like that for your news, you can hardly be trusted to articulate an intelligent position on anything.

The Greens have their problems, but they're not going to run (or ruin) the country any time soon. The Greens are useful as a minor influence on the unilaterally right-wing homogeneity of the two major parties in Australia. Minorities in the Australian Senate would be a lot less trouble when they held the balance of power if the major parties weren't so "us against them" and could work to build real coalitions of consensus around policies and issues.

Unfortunately, I'm not actually sure of their position on internet filtering. They seem to be doing that fence-sitting thing they love to do instead of presenting a clear and obvious policy distinction in keeping with the principles they say they have. What makes it seem sillier is that the issue is a no-brainer! How could you possibly need to take a "wait-and-see" approach to an idea so fundamentally flawed in its conception and implementation?

It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.

This is a really interesting project. Wine is an incredible piece of software and if ARWINSS can increase the amount of collaboration between ReactOS and Wine and bring a driver-compatible NT replacement closer to reality then that's a great thing.

I would, however, hope that ARWINSS doesn't swallow up ReactOS whole because - while ReactOS is a fairly slow moving and cumbersome beast - it still has an extremely worthwhile goal. Even if it takes 5 years for ReactOS to reach functional beta stage, win32 software and obsolete hardware with win32 only drivers is still going to be out there. Why not use it if we can make it work?

That's no coincidence. They intentionally got the tech news sites churning with reports of the R18+ classification to momentarily distract them from the big internet censorship bomb.

Given that computers travel around the sun even faster than dogs, I'd say it's about 200 years old in people years.

Debates about the seriousness of the infection aside, we are indeed in the middle of a flu pandemic, and as this conversation we're having proves, the internet seems to be doing just fine.

I'll secure my castle with DRM and an active hostility towards Abandonware sites.
Nah, bugger it. Why bother?
nme@work:~$ dosbox

And who wants to listen to you making a bunch of phone calls, for that matter?

Sounds like a job for Larry David