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> Because our laws are unjust, you see.

Maybe you should entertain the idea that they are? It wouldn't be the first time. And what if every country had the same long arm attitude of pushing their opinions on foreign companies?

Seems like a false positive, Windows Defender stopped reporting it as infected after definitions update. sha256 of the file in question is f7540af3ad4aa7e6f02c850bfe428d65e481f8b4c00c2927f72b62450f4ec42b .

VirusTotal doesn't show anything. Can you provide url & sha256 of the installer?

- You get foxes that eat them.

- You get dogs that eat them.

- Wolves, hyenas, lions.

- Lions die in winter.

> But I don't have a decent solution to this conundrum.

I have. The German model is wrong for the reasons you allured to. If states can't be trusted to be arbiter of acceptable speech then they shouldn't have that job.

> And remember, the German constitution was written at the pleasure of the allies

That would be an appeal to authority and we all know US made few mistakes in the past so I'm not sure why you'd want to use that fallacy.

> This is largely cultural I'm sure.

Must be. Thinking that the state is always right and bossing people that disagree is historically very German.

One step forward two steps backwards. Why does every large organization on the internet have to be a shithead in 2017. Mozilla - no amount of sanitization will prevent shitty websites sending sensitive data in URLs therefore you don't include this in your product. Even if you obtain consent - because it isn't in your users best interest to have this enabled. I'm extremely disappointed.

> The same way one couldn't deny

Taliban were formed after Soviets pulled out so maybe one could deny that. But why research your history when one could repeat contrarian narratives.

> I hate seeing people post FUD

I hate people accusing others of spreading FUD. What happened to people being simply mistaken? Do you have any proof his or her ill intent?

It's still wrong. Relevant XKCD https://xkcd.com/1200/

Jokes on them then. I'd 100% be on WP and not on Android if that was the case.

> Why insist on trying to sell Visual Studio licenses, instead of maximizing the amount of software written for your platform(s)?

For a while now they haven't been doing that. Community editions are just as good as paid ones and before that Express versions were still comparable if not better than open source IDEs.

Most PCs are doing fine with Windows.

> if more people understand one design than another, then the one that more people understand is the right one.

Something something Henry Ford and faster horses. It's still bad design even if 50%+ε understand save as 'upload to some server' and not the old meaning that predates Windows 95 which is to save it to local storage. You shouldn't be taking liberties whenever you are about to upload any bit of information from your users, instead you should obtain informed consent from all users and not just from better informed ones that can parse the meaning from the cloud icon. The UI is wrong until only a moron in a hurry[1] would be mistaken about what your software is about to perform. Otherwise how are you any better than that other company that starts with a G and ends with oogle.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_moron_in_a_hurry

I see a lot of you recommending Lenovo. Only 2 years and all is forgiven[1]. Y'all should be ashamed of yourselves.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superfish#Lenovo_security_inci...

> kernel dev community .. timewasting

Dude what you listed are trivialities and if you consider the throughput of Rust project the time taken must surely be negligible. I wonder what Theo or Brad think about timewasting on that other paragon of a project you mentioned.

So now it's a 10 year race between Mozilla and Defender Team to implement a feature you'd expect them to have from day one. Amazing.

Before you send any telemetry get informed consent by presenting the user a dialog enumerating everything that you are sending and I'd be fine with opt-out otherwise this is a dark pattern and you are getting on my shit list.

> as a core feature of their ideology while the others do not.

They seem to be exceptional, but if we curtail their speech that means it leaves other, undoubtedly less offensive, speech to be up for negotiation. For instance I'd be pleased to see some of your authoritarianism curtailed if it wasn't for ideals of freedom of speech.

> I've been using Linux Mint for years now as my main desktop.

It's amazing considering he signed himself under article reporting Mint containing malware.[1] Fool me once..

[1] http://www.zdnet.com/article/has-your-linux-mint-desktop-bee...

EDIT:

I dug a few more.

http://www.infoworld.com/article/2703044/does-linux-mint-nee...

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1osyn5/linux_mint_cr...

Just stay away from this train wreck of mismanagement.

> This is simply a matter of the constitution not going far enough

I don't have to hear obscenities on my private property.

There's also freedom of association. It seems weird to me that one would be against authoritarianism when it comes to freedom of speech but be blindly for authoritarianism when it comes to association. I won't and can't judge whether the firing of that googler was justified but shareholders of google should have the right to fire whoever they bloody want.

> Scientific merit should be the only consideration

More likely value to shareholders, in his setting.

> around it being a mental delusion

But those people aren't Fortune 500 material so not pertinent to the discussion. Those people are on the extreme side of the right. It wouldn't be fair if I started to draw conclusions about the left from what you hear people say on /r/latestagecapitalism either.

Freedom of speech is only relevant to government and public spaces, shareholders of google may impose restrictions they deem appropriate.

EDIT: Wtf is wrong with people on HN today? I merely stated the law, it isn't even my opinion. It demonstrably passed Google's legal team, so it's unlikely that I'm wrong.

So everyone who's not using Vi/Emacs is suddenly not tech-savvy. Okay.. What else would you fire if you wanted to edit a simple conf file on a gtk based desktop if not one of those three?

Do you have a source for that 90% and how they got scared?

> the FBI isn't a bunch of complete incompetents

It isn't a bunch of complete competents either, forensic hair analysis kerfuffle shows that much.

Obligatory Feynman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lr8sVailoLw&t=47

I'm not saying that you shouldn't put personality in it, just that intrinsically the product doesn't need it so if you strive to make it great then don't burden your users with noise.

For one thing you are using exclamation point. However your example isn't really pushing personality onto users, some polite playfulness can be welcome. An example of what I had in mind that isn't in itself of poor taste but would still be unwelcome at least to me would be if somebody was pushing their metal subculture into their spreadsheet software for no apparent reason.

The email of the author comes from a domain where one can find this gem on one of subpages:

"Unless its some illegal faggot shit, I will always store your loli pics, anon."[1]

I don't appreciate people putting their personalities (whether I generally appreciate their personality or not) into software. The project you are creating is, or should be, an intellectual endeavor and it serves no technical purpose to push your personality onto users. What's more, it lessens your credibility - if you don't understand not to put your personality into your project then I question what bigger mistakes you are making as well. It's the same reason I wouldn't trust savings to a banker wearing a clown costume, it's not about me hating clowns, they can be a clown in private all they want, just don't make a clown out of your own software.

[1]https://safe.moe/faq