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XP came out at the same time that Redhat 6.2 was out. I wonder how it recognized usb drives?

That's a very optimistic outlook. I hope it works out exactly as you hope.

the driver model has changed pretty significantly in the last 12 years. I think its an interesting project, but other than basic desktop compatibility this just isn't going to be really viable. Basic means...no directx...which means pretty much none of the text and 2d advances from Win7/2K8R2...

Open source only makes bugs shallow if lots of people are using the software and reviewing the code. OpenSSL is a great example of code that lots of people ended up using but not reviewing that had/has many issues.

I'm not saying anything negative about open source...I'm just saying that its more complex than just having code available.

I know this position isn't popular, but I don't think that will help. They are reverse engineering a really complicated system.

Do you think that they have the same kinds of controls that it took MS literally a decade and millions of to dollars develop?...Controls that that were expensive in time and money that then only improved their development to the extent that it has? (far, far from perfect.)

Maybe...and this is a big maybe...there is a enough of a difference between react and windows that normal windows bugs won't be surfaced. I'm curios as to whether they support NX, ASLR, or 64 bit? Even if they don't copy the system bug for bug they may be trivially exploitable just because they don't have the resources to harden it.

I have a feeling that a clone of windows 2000 is going to have some hilari-bad security bugs...

I know.

Queue the "embrace, extend and estinguish" comment...

There is an unreasonable fringe that will never be happy.

As "Amen" is to "Hell Yeah". Well done.

I looked over that "extensive analysis" too, and it's the usual libertarian ridiculousness. He didn't link to anything even remotely non-partisan. Despite his being pro marriage equality he has links to the usual Republican hit pieces on things like women's issues.

And it looks like he has the same weird fixation with progressives that every conservative fscking nutjob has.

I'm so sick of science denial and the kind of counter-narrative "look at me mom, no hands" clever boy bullshit that passes for intelligence on the right.

Hayek. Always with the god damned Hayek.

The regulations on taxi drivers exist for a reason. Uber found a way to skirt some of those regulations for a time. Avoiding that regulation created a revenue stream that they used to operate and grow. It was always in danger of regulators catching up to them.

If you read some of the driver's reports then it becomes hard to really buy their "big taxi" schtick. That being said, they obviously provided something that people want. Taxi companies will have to adjust to this. (In some places like SF they already are.) In the end, I think that Uber will go the way of Napster and the taxi companies will end up adopting their techniques the way that the big record companies did.

I know that this site is going to be overwhelmingly pro-uber, but this guy is also a climate denier?

That was kind of incoherent and rambling. It was poorly written.

There are real reasons to keep an eye on Apple and MS to make sure that they aren't abusing the Open Source community for marketing purposes. They are large companies that, should they see an advantage in doing so, they would not hesitate. This doesn't really help.

That being said...The "Open Source .Net" that they refer to in the article is actually a commerce platform from a third party that says it "takes advantage of open source Asp.net". Is that really so wrong? Asp.net has been open source for several years now. .Net core design meetings are available as streamed video if you want to join in and the license is MIT.

Also, articles that quote Stephen Vaughn-Nichols are like articles that quote FOX or ZeroHedge. I'm just automatically suspicious. Oddly, they quote him on this "open washing" but he doesn't seem to have problems with large companies publicizing the use of OpenStack or partnering with Canonical or any number of PR style things.

You seem really invested in this idea. I think that we are at odds on the idea that mental damage can be insurmountable. I could speculate as to why, but in the end I think we should just call it good.

Cheers.

You're right. He considers his violence against he state an appropriate reaction to this day apparently.

He didn't know that 9/11 was going to be 9/11 though...It's dickish, but it was planned to coincide or anything.

I'm not a linguist but he seems to get a large amount of credit in that area.

And mental trauma from torture or combat that leads to suicide?

That was fantastic. Thank you.

I think it comes from scarcity and changing demographics... there is a very real feel of loss off status and power among the white middle and working class.

You are right about the crazy views on socialism and German politics in general.

Just playing devils advocate, he had renounced violence by the time he joined academia hadn't he? He wasn't Carlos the Jackal. Honestly, I can't remember the whole weathermen story.

This whole episode does make you wonder where the line would be drawn in the future.

I think in Chomsky's case his work in linguistics actually overshadows his political work because he is so foundational.

I wonder how popular Chomsky's radical left views actually are among techies...assuming what I hear about libertarian views being prevalent...its not necessarily a natural fit.

I don't get why this was downvoted. I was polite. I tried to articulate a counter point. Is it just that people really disagree with the hate speech part or that mental trauma can be as serious as physical trauma??

I don't know that the mental machinery is as elastic as you say. Our bodies to indeed adjust to mental stress, in fact parts of the brain that respond to fear and stress will overdevelop in relation to other areas producing aberrant behavior.

There are mental trauma, that has not been caused by physical trauma, that will end up being like the gash you describe never being able to acclimatize to.

I take your point about the use of the word scarring...I was just trying to draw a certain type of similarity into the conversation...it certainly isn't a perfect analogy.

One other thing, though...is it really a surprise that discussing mental or emotional damage would use a physical analogy? We don't culturally have a large body of language for describing things accurately that are "just in your head."

Fine point.

It depends on what you call left. I bet someone that seriously proposed violence against some institutions or industries would get disinvited. Animal rights extremists or eco-terrorist organizations might fit that bill too.

I get where you are coming from but verbal abuse can be incredibly scarring. As someone that experienced both I can assure you of that... And ill grant that you weren't really talking about abusive speech... But hate speech especially from a superior...be it job or school... An authority figure, I could see where that would be just as bad.

That's a good way of putting something I was thinking. And you clearly said "devils advocate"...it may be an unpopular point but its probably close to what the organizers were actually thinking.

I would say that depending on the area and subject there is also a "freedom justice" crowd that can be just as crazy and groupthink-ish.

I also find myself not posting sometimes because of repercussions at a later date....not too often, but you know...

You know, I've actually heard of that as an actual racket in other industries...

That's really interesting that the most prominent voices against him aren't attending...I don't know.

I don't think that you have to imagine done kind of follow on effects...i think the US probably irreversibly stopped being a free society when it became a national security state. So, I guess what I'm saying that it doesn't seem our of character in the US. I would just add that it's actually bidirectional pressure from both the left and the right depending on the subject and the area.

I'll stop rambling... Thanks for the background info, though...

I enjoy your writing but I think I disagree with the successes that you attribute to the blue team. Some of them are right on, but some successes are only that if you say that blue means liberal like Adam Smith was a liberal and not a mercantilist. That's just my take though. Cheers!