Archive for December 4th, 2007

Bush: Nuke-free Iran still a danger

Iran remains a danger, despite halting a nuclear weapons program four years ago, according to U.S. President George W. Bush. His comments came as Iran said Washington must “pay the price” for “lies” about the program after U.S. intelligence undermined previous claims Iran was working on weapons. “[…] Iran will be dangerous if they have the knowledge necessary to make a nuclear weapon,Bush said.

So let me get this straight. USA wants to monopolize the *knowledge* of how to create something? Is it not enough to monopolize the actual manufacturing? So does USA want the rest of the world to live on trees and eat bananas while US can go to Mars? Give me a break.

And another question: why did the US government made this intelligence report public in the first place? It could have been kept secret like another million ones do. It just makes Bush look like a liar indeed. It’s curious.

Stupid Adobe

Ok, these guys are idiots. The new version of Flash came out and at last, it supports hardware scaling and h.264. So far so good. But when you try to download the Linux version you only get a binary tarball, yum and rpm. No DEB.

Look, I know that you can’t possibly support all the package management solutions out there, but when Ubuntu has over 25% of the Linux mind/market share (source: Google Trends and our common sense), then you ought to deliver a DEB package. Come on. What this tells me is that the Linux version of Flash is a “by the way” effort, a single engineer at a dark room, away from anyone else. An engineer that no one wants to talk to during lunch time either. Poor engineer.

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