jleard

You're employing a logical fallacy (argumentum ad metum).

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_fear

Please save these types of comments for Reddit.

The problem with Apple's position is that they provide no easy method for the user to download applications outside of their delivery channel.

I remember this too. Jeff Atwood made the comment in the stackoverflow blog back in 2008:

"We rely heavily on full-text search on stackoverflow.com, which worked amazingly well for us under SQL Server 2005. Looks like that’s no longer the case for SQL Server 2008, unfortunately."

Here's the entry: http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/11/sql-2008-full-text-sea...

I have always found the discussion of Groklaw posts on Slashdot to be interesting. It's curious that this article has not yet been posted there yet.

Turtles all the way down: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtles_all_the_way_down

Fields arranged by purity: http://xkcd.com/435/

I use a variant of this when running Windows: Ubuntu in VirtualBox is always running.

And that was 1993. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtCW-axRJV8#t=4m40s