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Why do all these customers need to be on Microsoft's schedule though? Microsoft should release the patches and give each IT team their own ability to assess patches at their own speed.

If some companies want to wait 2 days then let them make their own choice. It seems like a pretty stupid policy that nothing (except extreme cases) should get patched except when it's convenient.

What's going to happen when his parents pass away?

This is a web application version of Photoshop. Nothing more (and it should run on any OS with a modern browser).

Or if I put on my tin foil hat, I think the position of most content websites is that if you are consuming their content, but blocking javascript (and therefore their ads and trackers) then they actually want you to have a bad experience and not come back (they can't make any money off you).

If you can travel backwards in time (or even just stop time) you can be at any spatial location you desire in the entire universe (since you have essentially infinite speed).

Not to mention this is exactly the sort of "pixel perfect" design that we should be discouraging, not encouraging. It doesn't seem like this technique translates well to a flexible design philosophy by letting the browser choose the best way to reflow text around elements (based on the amount of available screen real estate).

I've used one of these devices in my car for the last couple of years and have enjoyed really cheap car insurance as a result (variable based on my driving but usually $30-$35 CAD/month).

It is very true that if you are driving in rush hour traffic you have no choice but to appear to be a bad driver. The irony of this is that the accident happening in rush hour is probably minor, yet when I'm barrelling down the highway at a steady pace I appear to be a great driver whereas an accident would be very costly (fatal perhaps).

Also they normalize your infractions (sharp breaking, sharp acceleration, speeding, etc) by distance driven so long highway driving is even more beneficial (few infractions, long distances) than traffic jams (many infractions, short distances).

Yup this is exactly it. For developers fluent in git, it is a very real part of their development cycle (branching, rebasing, etc). What I've seen of most SVN (and going back to CVS) is that their SCM is more or less just an archiving tool. A place after you've done all your hard work you use it as a fancy rsync tool to back it up. I don't see a lot of SVN users making svn the same part of their workflow the way git devs do. Maybe it's just the developers I work with though.

"If large incumbents didn't have broad software patents to bury start-ups, they would use their market coverage." I'm not sure what you mean by market coverage but if you mean their incumbent product then that's exactly what a startup usually seeks to disrupt (successful or not this is the challenge the startup is taking on anyway).

"If they don't use that, then they can just use their connections to the government to legislate start-ups out of existence." In a way this is exactly what the current patent system accomplishes. Except it's through litigation, not legislation (but it's legislation allowing for the grounds of litigation).

"If they don't use that, they can just buy the property the start-up physically occupies and burn it to the ground." Now you're just being absurd.

"Gigantic, established companies will always have an edge, regardless of patents. Abolishing the system and creating a wild-west scenario is ridiculous." What we have now is a wild-west scenario where submarine patents and overly broad patents allow trolls (and even practicing entities looking to squash competition) can simply litigate at will and the costs of defending overwhelm their competition (unless they're equally large or play the same game with cross licensing patents).

"There is still a reason why every Linux install asks you to explicitly select that you want mp3 codecs insralled." Ubuntu is the only installer I know of that does this...

Some Linux distributions have no problems with multiple versions of parallel dependencies. Gentoo, for example.

How is Qt not a proper GUI toolkit exactly?

ISPs know that the internet is used for drug deals and criminal activities. Should we prosecute them too?

Gun dealers also know their guns can be used to shoot people. Are they culpable in every murder?

And if more people were willing to use NoScript, forcing web designers to not make javascript a mandatory part of their content delivery, we'd all get a much more secure and private internet.

But since those web designers probably monetize their content through the same ad networks we're trying to block it seems like a catch 22.

And going even further, why don't customers punish the stores that give shitty customer by no longer shopping there? Same goes for your ISP, politician, etc... We have short memories.

Bose sells their headphones with a number of attachments. One headphone with a removable connector.

Mailchimp offers Mandrill, which is a basic SMTP service.

I wouldn't refuse to listen her but I'd question her morality if she continues to knowingly put the lives of people in danger just for her pay cheque.

PHP has at least two awesome frameworks. CakePHP, Phalcon, and ZF2 are all very awesome in their own ways.

Google's now got two of their own OS'es (one of which has 85% of the worldwide market on the fastest growing segment of personal computing...) and a leading browser in the desktop space. Whatever caring about an Open Web they had before (when they were at the whims of Microsoft, Apple, other browser makers, etc) is long gone.

Seems statistically unlikely given the hypothesized number of life-supporting planets + our planet's age versus the age of the universe.

Use mkisofs to create an iso from the unzipped contents and use the iso like any other install media.

I got it running under Virtualbox fairly easily. It's not that exciting, just Gnome 3 with a few extra desktop icons. You can choose to login to big picture mode directly from Gdm.

Dungeon Defenders is fairly unplayable on desktop Linux due to this bug: https://bugzilla.icculus.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5831

This bug is easy to reproduce and they even know the issue (lack of physx support on the linux drivers) and even though there's a workaround (Android version doesn't have this issue) the devs still haven't fixed it. They could at the very least stop selling new copies to Linux users on Steam until this is fixed.

> I'm wondering if a doctor would balk at signing a document of liability for {x} resulting from vaccination. If she wouldn't put her career behind her belief, should I believe her?

Suppose a doctor vaccinates 20 kids a week, for 50 weeks of the year (1000 kids per year). Suppose each vaccination has an average of 3 different vaccines (i.e. against 3 different diseases). Suppose the average vaccine has a 1/10k chance of serious complication. So over the course of a year the doctor gives about 3000 vaccines each year with a 1/10k chance of serious complication. Suppose a single serious complication risks their career. This means the average doctor is risking their career over 1 incident just over every 3 years. I personally prefer a family physician with more than 3.3 years of experience.

Meanwhile over those 3 years 9000 cases of disease were eliminated. Sure your kid may mean everything to you (mine sure does) but having a doctor put their career on the line for something that only has a probability of success is silly considering how many times they roll the dice in their career.

For mint, just search for LibreOffice in the package manager and click Install. Maybe enter a password prompt for administrator privileges.

The parent is referring to the ability to disable the messaging, not the ability to disable secure boot.

The only time the messaging is useful is when someone has unintentionally disabled secure boot. In this case they can go enable it again (or bring it to geek squad, etc).

If the user intentionally disabled it, then the it should be possible to suppress any warning messages about it.

If malicious software somehow disabled it, it can probably also make the registry settings tweaks required to hide the messaging so the user won't know anyway.

Thank you. Far too often it's the same story, over and over again. Whether it's ageism, anti-gay or anti-women it's always the same issue and the same discussion that comes up. Everyone laments at the situation and then goes back to hiring young white male developers.

I feel the NSA stories are the same. We get it; they're intercepting as much internet traffic as they can get and trying to break SSL (which they haven't succeeded at it without the help of 3rd parties providing signing keys). It's always the same comments (my personal favourite are the Americans who are mostly outraged at the fact they're being targetted, like the rest of the world's privacy is somehow lesser) and adds nothing to the conversation.

"Yes, the problem: the only way the content owners will stream tonights game to my computer is if it is protected somehow."

No, the problem is that they think they reserve the right to control what your hardware displays.

"What is next, you are not allowed to run a certain program on your devices?"

That's what software licensing decides. I can have perfectly valid executable binaries on my computer but if I don't have a license to use them, then it's technically illegal to ./execute