Sounds like the GPL... *ducks*

I've used debian/gentoo/ubuntu extensively. I've found I've never gotten into a mess I can't fix eventually with portage. Sometimes that fix takes a long time or requires using the lower level "ebuild" commands to manually patch source but that's why I use Gentoo on certain machines. As long as you remember to install gentoolkit and run your revdep-rebuilds regularly (and perl-updater/python-updater and etc-update....OK I guess that's a few things to remember) you should get a very very stable system. What I like about portage the best over apt is the ability to install any specific version of the software that's in the tree (or in an overlay).

Apt definitely has the advantage over portage in terms of the ppas. Especially nice gem is "apt-add-repository" where I can give my mother a single line of code to paste into a terminal and she can add any ppa I find to her machine. Yes, I know you can do this with "Software Sources" but explaining how to do something through a GUI is a lot harder than "copy and paste *this*".

Utter nonsense. An unsupported, buggy, piece of crap software (albeit open source) that serves the needs of maybe only the developer himself is still more valuable to the community at large than never having this software exist at all. Someone could fork the project. Bug fixes could come eventually. Just releasing software doesn't force everyone to use it.

In reality, your comment should be "If developers can't support their application, then maybe I shouldn't be using their application if I need their support."

I suspect they benefit in two ways.

1. 1. The more google services are available, the more people will have a google account in general. This makes it easier for them to use other google services with ads (like gmail).
2. 2. The more time people spend in the browser (even editing documents) the more likely they will see ads in other tabs/windows. It's been long known Google wants to replace the OS with the browser.

I see what you did there....

This is the reason software shouldn't be allowed to be patented in the first place. It doesn't matter whether you write a linear algebra system or an iPhone fart program, in the end it's all math.

GET is not less secure than POST. Also encrypting anything client side (using javascript) and then sending it in an AJAX call doesn't really make it more secure either since the client will need to know the encryption method and thus will be able to submit encrypted dummy values as well.
For aesthetic purposes you might not want the user to see the variables being passed via the URI but don't kid yourself into thinking that, because the user can't see the variables in their browser, they cannot be arbitrarily modified.

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Pokemon Battle Revolution allows 2 players with NDS and compatible Pokemon games to battle one another. The battles are displayed in 3D on the tv while the players enter their gameplay selections on their individual DS'es.

The difference comes down to control. The labels want control of what songs are played and when. They don't have that control over the mp3's on your hardrive.

Soon as I click to read the comments, the ad on the right is for a web scraping solution.

How dare you imply a car analogy for intellectual property would fall flat on its face...

Except we see increasingly generic software patents being approved all the time.

Except this isn't true in the real world. Patent lawsuits can be filed before any source code is subpoenaed. As long as the end product (read running binary) appears to infringe upon a patent, then the actual underlying algorithms don't mean anything.

Because algorithms themselves are nothing more than math. Trade secrets and copyright on the original source code should be the only protection warranted on original algorithms.

You do know funny mods don't get you karma right? Ubuntu's not a company and Microsoft is hardly a "good" one...

From TFA:

So 0.05% of the internet won't be able to access Yahoo. What % of that actually WANT access to it? In this case, it really is "very little" of value was lost.