Yes, the article does say something about the 'NSA'.
Title of article:
NSA gunning for Google, wants cop-spotting dropped from Waze app
Subtitle of article:
Not that NSA, the other one
First sentence:
The US National Sheriffs' Association wants Google to block its crowd-sourced traffic app Waze from being able to report the position of police officers, saying the information is putting officer's lives at risk.
Waze has been around for over 6 years. If this were a legitimate concern why can he not point to a single incident of someone doing exactly this rather than merely spreading FUD?
Heads are also heavily protected. Have you never seen the gear SWAT teams, riot police, soldiers, etc. wear? You really think they walk around with their head exposed?
Microsoft acquired a company who develops a forked version of R. R itself is a GNU project and is not owned or controlled by either Microsoft or the company they bought. You're hyperventilating over nothing.
Microsoft acquired a company that provides commercial services for R. It does not own the R project. The R Project is a GNU project and there's no way in hell that the FSF would have sold R to Microsoft.
You hear it here first, R the open source programming language wont run on linux as from the next revision.
Why would the GNU Project stop developing R for Linux because Microsoft bought up some other company that in no way controls or holds copyright to the R source code? In what universe does that make sense?
A bit like skype, linux version doesnt really work much ever since that shit company bought that as well.
It's actually the opposite. The Linux client was much shittier before it was bought by Microsoft. It languished far behind other OSes with respect to bug fixes and new features.
No, I see plenty of non-technical people do it successfully all the time. He has basically invented a scenario I've never seen anyone have trouble with.
I'm not sure that WhatsApp has a leg to stand on as reverse engineering is allowed, and could be opening themselves up to legal action.
Under what statute exactly? Reverse engineering for interoperability is legal but WhatsApp has no legal obligation to make it easy nor to provide service to these reverse engineering clients.
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Argh that came out all mangled. Should be:
No, it doesn't assume integrity. It works on the fact that Comcast pays more.
No, it doesn't assume loyalty. It works on the fact that Comcast has pays more.
It's easy. Comcast is a multi-billion dollar company. They can pay for the public to hear only one side.
Companies like Comcast can rest assured that when their politicians are bought they stay bought!
Yeah, I've noticed that too. 9 times out of 10 the report is stale and no one has marked it as such.
Yes, the article does say something about the 'NSA'.
Title of article:
NSA gunning for Google, wants cop-spotting dropped from Waze app
Subtitle of article:
Not that NSA, the other one
First sentence:
The US National Sheriffs' Association wants Google to block its crowd-sourced traffic app Waze from being able to report the position of police officers, saying the information is putting officer's lives at risk.
NSA = National Sheriffs' Association.
Then you forgot to escape it. < > posts just fine.
Waze has been around for over 6 years. If this were a legitimate concern why can he not point to a single incident of someone doing exactly this rather than merely spreading FUD?
Heads are also heavily protected. Have you never seen the gear SWAT teams, riot police, soldiers, etc. wear? You really think they walk around with their head exposed?
They can sell it, but they can't sell it out from under you.
Who can't sell what out from under me? Sole copyright owners can sell their code at any time out from under anyone. It's their legal right.
And this won't amount to anything either. The company they acquired neither controls the R Project nor holds any copyrights to it.
Microsoft acquired a company who develops a forked version of R. R itself is a GNU project and is not owned or controlled by either Microsoft or the company they bought. You're hyperventilating over nothing.
It is GPL so they really couldn't sell it to anyone anyways.
That's false. Assuming you are the sole copyright holder to all said code you can do with it as you please. See MySQL.
Considering that this company neither owns the R language or holds any copyright over it it seems highly unlikely.
They haven't bought R. R is a GNU Project and still is even after this acquisition of a third party company.
Microsoft acquired a company that provides commercial services for R. It does not own the R project. The R Project is a GNU project and there's no way in hell that the FSF would have sold R to Microsoft.
You hear it here first, R the open source programming language wont run on linux as from the next revision.
Why would the GNU Project stop developing R for Linux because Microsoft bought up some other company that in no way controls or holds copyright to the R source code? In what universe does that make sense?
A bit like skype, linux version doesnt really work much ever since that shit company bought that as well.
It's actually the opposite. The Linux client was much shittier before it was bought by Microsoft. It languished far behind other OSes with respect to bug fixes and new features.
Imagine the article loading in its entirety, so you can start reading it, before there's even a single image tag on the page;
Or I can just imagine having the patience to wait a whopping 5 seconds for the whole page to render?
The download link is an external FTP server. So, no, you aren't supposed to download anything from that site.
Because it doesn't need it.
No, I see plenty of non-technical people do it successfully all the time. He has basically invented a scenario I've never seen anyone have trouble with.
impossible? I and tons of people I work with do it dozens and dozens of times daily. Since when did it become a difficult skill?
With a clickable scroll wheel it takes effort to avoid scrolling when trying to click
Never had such a problem. Maybe you have no fine motor skills?
I'm not sure that WhatsApp has a leg to stand on as reverse engineering is allowed, and could be opening themselves up to legal action.
Under what statute exactly? Reverse engineering for interoperability is legal but WhatsApp has no legal obligation to make it easy nor to provide service to these reverse engineering clients.
No they weren't. This was all in the context of Chromebooks.