Tag: idiots
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Gabrielle-Roy Sign Vandalism
I was driving through the neighbourhood when I saw that the local hoodlums had been busy playing at the schoolyard. Here are some shots of the carnage:
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Power In Numbers
Recently, I read a (now much publicized) interview with Linus Torvalds about the future of Linux. None of his revelations were as revolutionary as his kernel has been, but that didn’t stop scores of “journalists” from filling Linux news with headlines to the effect that “Torvalds Confirms There Will Be No Linux Version 3!”. For…
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Globalization and The Village Idiot
In this era, where culture is as far reaching as economy, the need for a public figure whom nearly everyone can look upon and feel superior to is as crucial now as it ever has been. Thank you Paris Hilton.
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The Myth of Microsoft Benevolence
Microsoft’s recent announcement that they will be releasing a 3-dollar Windows software suite might sound like a charitable gesture, if it weren’t so wrapped in context: In addition to any outstanding antitrust suits, Microsoft has now embarked on new lawsuit frontiers for its marketing of Vista. The 3-dollar version of Windows in question is severely…
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Theo de Raadt defends GPL violation
On April 4, 2007, Linux software driver developer Michael Buesch revealed that other programmers working on the OpenBSD operating system had copied code licensed under GNU Public License v.2 (GPL), incorporated it into their own code, and released the result under the incompatible BSD license without asking permission. In addition to violating the terms of…