Ballmer Babes
They are now known as the Ballmer Babes.
Seriously what twat would steal this shit?
Posts by southpacificpom
318 publicly visible posts • joined 7 Dec 2012
Girl gang targets Microsoft's Seattle stores for $5,000 theft spree
The latest tech firm to be accused of tax dodging: Microsoft
Google honors computing's first developer Ada Lovelace
John McAfee: Let me go to the USA - or old Blighty
Brit physics student debuts zombie flick shot inside LHC
Iran draws veil over lolcats, launches local YouTube knock-off
Max Headroom style fake celebrity avatar plan seeks Kickfunding
Monday 10th December 2012 06:51 GMT
What what what the!
"promising to create Max-Headroom-style characters from celebrities and personal friends, ready for early next year."
This is is is probably the best news of 2012/13. Why why why did it take ssssso long?
Finally an app-app-application to recreate old M-Ma-Max on your favorite digital de-device just for avereage people like you and... average people like you. Just think of a ggggeneration of digitally st-st-stuttering youngsters - I deserve an Oscar for for for this!
Max
Kim Dotcom shows off new mega service
Stallman: Ubuntu spyware makes it JUST AS BAD as Windows
Sunday 9th December 2012 23:14 GMT 
RMS doesn't care about Ubuntu anyway
Ignoring the issue about spyware, would RMS actually endorse install Ubuntu at Linux install fests?
The simple answer is no he would not. It does not fit in with his "free" criteria therefore his latest call to abandone such distros at install fests is just trumpet blowing.
Sunday 9th December 2012 23:05 GMT
Re: Fragmentation?
"They are compatible except for some minor GUI stuff"
Oh and you forgot to mention they are packaged differently too - RPM and DEB packages do not mix well usually. That's another minus for Linux and continues the onslaught of fragmentation. Compiling from source is about the only true way to get compatibility across distro's but do we want to build from source everytime?
Usually the answer to that is no, unless you're a Slacker maybe.
Saturday 8th December 2012 02:44 GMT 
All as bad as each other
While I agree that spyware in any form isn't good I wonder how many FSF twats out there install their FSF approved distro's and then go on the net and spend hours on Twatter, Facebook and porn sites?
The main difference between "spyware" on Windows/Ubuntu is that you can (at the moment) disable the Amazon shite in Ubuntu whereas I can't think of many ways to disable all the crap that Windows has spying on your sessions.
Even FSF friendly Debian technically has spyware in the form of the popularity-contest package which reports back to base on the packages you install but, to be fair to Debian they do not install it by default, although they do prompt you about it during a net install.
While RMS is correct about lots of things he observes there is just no give about his stance on it. True, he sticks to his guns but also shoots himself in the foot on many occasions. I'm beginning to find many of his "Freedoms" just freedoms on his terms - just like the GPL, true software freedom but only if you do it by these rules. If that's not political...
BTW - love the way the FSF donation page automatically asks for a $100 donation right off the hat!
Biting the hand that feeds IT
