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The idea is that open source software, by virtue of allowing anyone and everyone to view the source code, is inherently less buggy than closed source software. Given enough money, people don't care about bugs
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It's listed as simply an "Update for Windows".
I do not consider the installer for another operating system to be an "update". Why are they being deceptive about it? What are they hiding?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: Why are they being deceptive about it? What are they hiding?
Maybe they know something about Windows 7 and 8 that we don't? 
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It should be flagged as ad-ware.
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I guess that explains what the optional DL patch I saw when booting up my travel laptop for the first time in a few months last Friday was.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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They still haven't made one that can be fitted nasaly? 
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A new report at the behest of the Belgian Privacy Commission has accused Facebook of breaching EU laws by continuing to keep a tab on the browsing movements of users through social plugins, regardless of privacy choices or account status. "It's not paranoia if they're really after you."
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Y'know, sooner or later, the Yanks are going to stop bitching about EU interference in Interweb matters, and start wishing that they had the same kind of people looking out for their interests.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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A series of mysterious extra-galactic radio flashes share a characteristic that defies cosmic theories and could, if other explanations fail, mean that they were sent by aliens. Their favourite FM radio station?
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No, our favorite radio station. What if family of Bob is trying to contact? 
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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You do realize that 187.5 divided by 42 = pi?
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It actually doesn't.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Maybe Karel just returned from an astronomic trip into a wormhole or black hole where physics, logic and math get bent? 
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Of course it doesn't - did you miss the smiley???
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Don't be blinded by the truth!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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"the chances of this happening by co-incidence are just 5 in 10,000."
Erm...
On a universal scale, that's an absolute certainty.
What is miraculous is that we've never seen it happen before.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Find opponents from across the globe and engage in real-time code battles. The first rule of fight club is... wait, I didn't say anything
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Well, I do appreciate the invitation, but no match with another programmer could ever equal ... in extreme foolishness ... the Armageddon occurring daily within myself over my own code as the forces of Spenta Mainyu and Angra Mainyu battle it out.
«To kill an error's as good a service, sometimes better than, establishing new truth or fact.» Charles Darwin in "Prospero's Precepts"
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Programming languages shape the way their users think—which helps explain how tech startups work and why they are able to reinvent themselves. "Our neural pathways have become accustomed to your sensory input patterns"
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That's a pretty appalling article. Take cheap, easy shots at PHP, and from that conclude that all dynamically typed languages are equally awful. Then use OCaml as an argument for strong typing.
Totally ignoring the number of weakly typed languages that are minimal and elegant, and the number of strongly-typed languages with horrible design flaws.
I'd expect much better from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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The unique attack method used to disrupt the code-sharing site GitHub over the last week could have been prevented if more websites enabled encryption, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) said Wednesday. It's all a plot by the Certificate companies, I tell you!
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Increased use of security measures would enhance security? They're one day late with this one.
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