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>Most other "free" web services aren't much better. Most non-free web services are equally happy giving away your data to the government. Apple, MS and all the other companies are …

Russia government is hypocritical. They criticize US government because of Prism, but at the same time they close and censor newspapers, TV channels, and websites. They also murder…

The only safe thing to do would be to compile Firefox or Chromium yourself.

Because I am running GNU/Linux.

>no child that wants to be a graphic designer could ever pirate Photoshop More Gimp users? ;) But on a serious note, I completely agree with you. Perfect, law-following society wil…

It looks weird without tabbing. But if the code was tabbed, then it would take too much space, since they are using huge tabs. That's why I prefer 3-space tabs. Not too small, not …

How are they superior?

I don't think it really improves readability. All the programmers are familiar with && and ||, and using something else will just confuse people. Also, it's not really that hard to…

Advertisement always bends facts to one side or the other. Usually ads put extra emphasis on a positive thing, while omitting the negative. Even more often ads don't use facts -- t…

All the things I tried were either too slow or didn't start at all with open-source drivers. With fglrx everything works. But I hate installing/upgrading them, because they either …

I am an Arch user, but I am thinking of switching to Fedora or Ubuntu again. Arch just takes too much configuration and time, and the dual-head is a pain. It also doesn't support f…

I am mostly an xmonad/Unity user, but why is Enlightenment not on the list?

It doesn't really "shrink" the language. It adds a level of abstraction. But the problem is that it doesn't really implement the abstraction very well. The complexity doesn't go aw…

It would be better if MS has gone with Posix Standard instead of causing everyone trouble and making proprietary non-standard OS. Portability takes a lot of work, which could've be…

It would've been mutually recursive if Lisp (language) stood for something else which referenced Lisp (contest). But it doesn't, so you probably discovered a new type of recursive …

Linux will soon have btrfs, which is as good as (if not better than) ZFS. Also Dtrace & ZFS originally come from Solaries, so they are not FreeBSD projects. The only reason they do…

How stable is btrfs at this point?

I don't use Skype (imo.im works much better, and you don't have to install any programs), so I don't know anything about it, but Chrome seems to work.

All the hardware I purchased in the past several years works with most GNU/Linux distros. There is some minor problems sometimes, but usually they do not force me to purchase hardw…

It is still possible to customize Ubuntu, but you cannot customize Unity itself. It is no longer the goal of canonical. Canonical is trying to make an OS for an average person, who…

>I think it is really cute that she did this for her boyfriend. She didn't have to do this, but she either likes him so much, or likes the product so much, that she wanted to help …

This is good news. Flash is a dying technology, and HTML is the way forward. Hopefully this means they will make a HTML5 version with WebGL of their player.

>Because they broke the web for their users. If you want web to progress forward, then things are going to get broken. WebP is an efficient format, and face-book is doing a good th…

>The code is open source so it can debug the problem itself. But even if it is MIT/BSD/Apache/etc, it makes more sense for the company to send back the patches to be integrated. Ot…

In a sense, GPL is not free. It is free as in "freedom for society," but it is not free in a selfish, individualistic way. It does not give you freedom to not respect other people'…