McGruff - Slashdot User

Comment Why is he choosing sides on this at all? (Score 1) 609

by McGruff on Sunday May 29, 2011 @01:26PM (#36280218) Attached to: RMS Cancels Lectures In Israel

I have no idea why RMS is choosing to pick sides in this at all. That has nothing to do with the Free Software movement and a little bit to do with censorship. If someone doesn't want to pay for the trip now, that's their business but RMS is allowing himself to be held hostage. Cancel both trips or find alternative funding.

It's free as in FREEDOM, not free as in do as (the metaphorical I) say. Allowing the Free Software movement to be a pawn in any of this is not in the interests of the movement.

There really seems to be something in the water in that region that makes people crazy. It might not be a bad thing to not send Stallman, regardless. He might play his recorder at them and start an incident.

Overzealous AirTran Boots 9 Passengers Off 1002

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Friday January 02, 2009 @06:40PM from the fear-mongering-works dept.

An anonymous readerwrites "On Friday the wonderfully customer centric AirTran decided to remove a family of 9 US born Muslims after a comment between two family members regarding how close to the Jet engine they had been seated. The wonderful part is that after the FBI cleared the family 2 hours later, AirTran refused to fly the family, and refused to rebook them on their way from Washington to Orlando, Florida. The family purchased additional tickets on US Airways later that day, after AirTran requested that the irate father be escorted from their booking podiums by security. This whole story highlights the pathetic customer service we are getting from the Airlines these days — they actually treat us like criminals first and ask questions later. Just don't get me started on Delta." It's nice to see that stupidity still knows no bounds.

Comment Re:Doesn't work on my Mac (Score 1) 317

by McGruff on Sunday September 24, 2006 @07:10PM (#16178837) Attached to: Vista RC1 Build 5728 Publicly Released

I just upgraded to Parallels Desktop for the Mac Build 1910 http://download.parallels.com/RC/Parallels-Desktop -1910-Mac.dmg and the Windows Tools seem much better behaved and sound is now working much better than under Parallels build 1896. For those that don't like direct links to files you can download Parallels Desktop for the Mac build 1898 at http://www.parallels.com/en/download/desktop/updat e/ and see how the somewhat more offical build does. The unfinished code is running the unfinished code quite well on my Macbook.

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