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  1. Re:"Permissive" license on Remix This Game — a Free Software Experiment · · Score: 0

    So the GPL is infectious whereas BSD isn't? Tell me, can I take your BSD code and change the license to GPL, Apache, etc? No? Well then why are you trying to infect me with your BSD license?

  2. Re:"Permissive" license on Remix This Game — a Free Software Experiment · · Score: 3, Informative

    I hate being told that if I make a modification to the code, I have to not only contribute it back

    You don't, only if you republish the code in binary form.

    maintain the updates and the original code for x amount of years.

    Complete lie.

    I'll maintain it (and provide access myself) for as long as I wish.

    Good on you, that's exactly what you can do with both GPL and BSD.

  3. Re:Yes, and... on Droid X Self-Destructs If You Try To Mod · · Score: 1

    It can be undone using jtag where as 'blowing a fuse' destroys the hardware.

  4. Re:Motorolas jackassery, see Milestone on Droid X Self-Destructs If You Try To Mod · · Score: 1

    Motorola has always been like this. Even the attitude of exploiting open source and giving nothing back isn't new to them.

  5. Re:Yes, and... on Droid X Self-Destructs If You Try To Mod · · Score: 1

    An eFuse is a, well, a *fuse*, dumbass; it *blows* when it's told to, and -- like all fuses -- it cannot then be reset.

    Not in this case. I actually read the forum post and it doesn't blow anything. Theres a chip that prevents the boot process from continuing if it doesn't get a certain signature. It's simply DRM under a name new.

    It doesn't make your phone explode or ruin your phone apart from bricking it.

  6. Re:He's right on SugarCRM 6 Released, But Is It Open Source? · · Score: 1
  7. Re:He's right on SugarCRM 6 Released, But Is It Open Source? · · Score: 1

    This isn't wikipedia, do you own research. You can start by not being lazy and looking at the main OSI site.

  8. Re:He's right on SugarCRM 6 Released, But Is It Open Source? · · Score: 0, Troll

    The OSI hold a trade mark on the term open source so yes, they do get a monopoly on it and its use.

  9. Re:Power Play by Consumers Union on Apple Censors Consumer Report iPhone4 Discussions · · Score: 1

    Fan boys such as yourself are really predictable that it's boring. Bad news about your favorite product comes out and the first thing you do is invent some story to cover for a company that doesn't give a shit about you.

    The iPhone 4 has a hardware error, it's not some conspiracy theory and your bullshit isn't going to change that fact, so you have two choices. Either accept that even Apple's products can have faults and be a better person for it; or you can continue your fantasy where nobody but other circle jerking mac fanboys take you seriously.

  10. Re:Where does the value come from? on Bitcoin Releases Version 0.3 · · Score: 1

    So, I will give you US$1.00 for all 21 million bitcoins.

    Ok, so you do that and they start over again with a different hash number to begin with $1 richer.

    1) You've proved it works by exchanging money for it
    2) Since you own all the currency your currency is now worthless as every moves to a different set of hashes.
    3) You just lost $1

  11. Re:yep, sketch city- tried to connect to IRC on Bitcoin Releases Version 0.3 · · Score: 1

    So you downloaded the program but completely ignored the part which said it connects to an IRC network to get a peer list?

  12. Re:Let them eat laptops! on OLPC's XO-1.75 Laptop To Have a Multitouch Screen · · Score: 1

    Getting good teachers is completely different from more then 80% of the teachers failing in their own subjects.

  13. Re:Let them eat laptops! on OLPC's XO-1.75 Laptop To Have a Multitouch Screen · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It's easy to say that when your only experience is of a western education. Why don't you come to a third world country and see for yourself. The teachers don't know the subjects they're teaching, they can't get good teachers because no one wants to live there, the students books are all different in the class room because they are all donations.

    Spending money of computers as reading devices IS the right decision here. It allows everyone to share the same material, it allows media to be played so kids can learn new languages even if the teacher doesn't know himself.

  14. Re:Let them eat laptops! on OLPC's XO-1.75 Laptop To Have a Multitouch Screen · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I live in Thailand and there are plenty of kids here who could use these things. Upcountry get a lot of donated books for example in learning english, that's great except they're all different books so learning in the classroom is extremely difficult. Also no one wants to teach there because it's in the middle of no where.

    Giving kids a computer with ebooks that have all the same material and/or can speak out english to help them pronounce better would be a huge win. Even cost isn't an issue, the Thai government has already wasted billions on useless thrown away ID cards, this would be a drop in the ocean.

  15. Re:Who cares? on A Flood of Stable Linux Kernels Released · · Score: 1

    It'll never be ready for your desktop. For me, I already use it every day and although there is stuff that pisses me off it meets my needs fine.

  16. Re:Self Justification on A Composer's-Eye View of the Copyright Wars · · Score: 1

    It's not that she writes "clearly and professionally" it's that there is no difference between the writing styles of both the blog author and the emails.

  17. Re:Needs more work on Opera 10.60 Released, With Faster JS, WebM Video Support · · Score: 1

    1 - That's why it awards "bonus points" for supporting extra stuff.

    2 - I don't care what you think. Opera still doesn't support what I need it for and bashing the site I linked won't help it gain any more popularity.

  18. Re:Self Justification on A Composer's-Eye View of the Copyright Wars · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I don't believe Eleanor is even real..

    Most of the teenagers I have met who are into theatre would do the free song before they would do the one for $3.99 unless they had a really good reason.

    No teenagers talk like that. Ever. The guy wrote it himself look at the writing style between his responses and hers, they're practically the same. He made it up.

  19. Re:"I'm just a guy trying to make a living." on A Composer's-Eye View of the Copyright Wars · · Score: 1

    Google doesn't sell information, it sells advertising space, Apps hosting and storage space.

  20. Needs more work on Opera 10.60 Released, With Faster JS, WebM Video Support · · Score: 1

    I haven't looked at the developer edition of opera however I think it still has a lot of catching up to do. I just gave it a run by opening it up and loading www.html5test.com and unfortunately for me I won't be using this to develop on.

    Lack of drag and drop makes it unusable for my development needs.

    As a comparison:

    Chrome 5.0.375.99 gives me 197 with 7 bonus points.
    Chrome 6.0.453.1 dev which I'm currently using gives me 220 with 10 bonus points
    Opera 10.60 gives me 159 with 7 bonus points
    Firefox 3.6.6 gives me 139 with 4 bonus points

    I know some people might see this as irrelevent however those people aren't pioneers that need the latest browsers anyway. If you find a browser that gets an even higher score please let me know!

  21. Re:It's a stunt designed to help Obama kill NASA on NASA Tests Hardware, Software On Armadillo Rocket · · Score: 1

    Automated docking for the fuel depot.

    Hows that working out for you?

  22. Re:Misinformation about Android sales beating Appl on Apple Sues HTC Again Over Patents · · Score: 3, Informative

    In Thailand you can buy an android based WelCom A88 for around $277. That's about a months salary for someone making a really shitty salary here.

    There is definitely a huge amount of variation in android devices from around the world and I bet you've only heard about the ones in the US.

  23. Re:WTF on Google Voice Opens To All · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Allow me to introduce you to the concept of "context". This is a US-based, and US-centric site.

    No it's not dude. Your example of context is a .co.uk. As much as you hate it slashdot is a world-centric site. The company that runs slashdot is US based and has nothing to do with anything.

  24. Re:Not that uncommon on Arrests For Selling Poison-Ware In Spain · · Score: 1

    Hold on a second dude. That's not similar at all. Not fixing a discovered bug in a years old client's software when they've not paid you to do it is simply business. If the client cares about it then they'll hire someone to work on it. You don't go back to a builder years after he's worked on your house and expect him to fix a mistake without payment, just because it's software doesn't mean reality changes.

    If that's what your company does then please hand out the URL. I'll be the first in line to say that over extended features x,y and z are actually bugs that need fixing.

  25. Re:Green?? on Europe To Import Sahara Solar Power Within 5 Years · · Score: 1

    Also, why people always think that is more clever than all the experts that created the proposals to the EU?

    Easy, because most of the EU experts are made up of idiotic bureaucrats.