Canuteson · HackerTrans

vor 14 Jahrendiscuss

I'm pretty sure PEP 8 makes a sImilar argument for why privacy of underscore variables isn't strictly enforced in python.

Canuteson

vor 14 Jahrendiscuss

Add to that a licensing fee payable to the treasury for commercial use of tax payer funded research, e.g., prescription drug patents.

Canuteson

vor 14 Jahrendiscuss

You mean people shouldn't be surprised when their livelihood disappears after building a business out of shady marketing techniques?

Canuteson

vor 14 Jahrendiscuss

I came to say the exact same thing.

And they still carry "The Hacker Quarterly".

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/c/2600-magazine

Canuteson

vor 14 Jahrendiscuss

So I guess they should rename it Skipe open source.

Canuteson

vor 14 Jahrendiscuss

I agree. A lot of the points in this review are simply irrelevant. They're talking about support for HDMI and other features not being available in default Debian distributions, the abililty to render Quake 3 (seriously), and other ridiculous comments.

If you're a hacker/tinkerer/kid learning, the default distribution isn't likely all you'll be using anyway. And if you're buying the Raspberry Pi to try to get a cheap gaming system, you've completely missed the point.

Canuteson

vor 14 Jahrendiscuss

Reminds me of the old adage: You don't learn to hack, you hack to learn.

Canuteson

vor 14 Jahrendiscuss

There are so many other problems with email that could be addressed by a new protocol, eg: spam, security.

There are measures to address these issues more broadly with SMTP, but they are not widely adopted, something that could be standardized in a new protocol, ie: encryption by default, message signing to prevent spoofing, encrypted transmission, etc.