So what? The shameless company is sticking to the license. How is this wrong? I don't get this. The sources are still available and actively developed. The shameless company might employ some of those developers (it does) and contribute back to the community (it does).
I am a programmer who's employed to work on public domain software. My software is regularly used by academia and in commercial products. That people find it so useful is a good thing for me. That people can use my software to make money is a good thing, for me, for them, and for our users.
You ideologues are the same as ever, a bunch of fools.
I've looked at and modified the software in question. It bins the records in space and in time. The bins are 1/100 degree (0.6 nm, ~1.1 km, ~0.7 mi) on a side and one week in duration. The app's UI is a browser control. The binned data is submitted to a web server and the browser control renders the response. I don't believe the "fudge factor" has anything to do with stalking, but is about not throwing too many data points at that server. I have looked at the actual data in sqlite. My observations agree completely with the GP.
Oh? so you're gonna drop the table on your phone? Way to hack the server, the one that isn't even collecting the data. Putting that record in the database will do squat.
I've looked at the table from my iphone. Its primary key is the tuple {MCC, MNC, LAC, CI}, which, if you google for you will find, is the "Cell Global Identity (CGI) identifier". The table has one entry per CGI. Each record has a timestamp, coordinates, and error estimates. The timestamp is not the time at which the cell was last encountered. The table has large chunks (weeks) of time missing. This is especially true when I am not traveling. There are many records from around my home and work, but most do not have recent timestamps. Apparently, new records are added as the phone encounters new cells. This does not appear to be a continuous process as there are gaps in space between clusters in cell-rich areas I have travelled through. Also, there are records from places over 100 km from where I've been.
From this data, you can get a rough estimate of when and where I have been. But the more often I visit an area and/or the longer I am there, the less precise in time the estimate becomes. Combine this with data points that can be 100 km off, and the position becomes untenable that this is a log of your whereabouts.
Apparently, Android logs the last 50 cells encountered *AND* sends this log to Google.
Not at all accurate. Nothing requires changes to BSD licensed code to be also BSD licensed. Moreover, you, as the licensee, have no ability to close the original. Also, your use of Apple as an example fails to support your claim, see http://www.opensource.apple.com/.
It is not possible for anyone other than the original authors to change the license on the original source code, and even they can't change it for those who have already licensed it under the current terms. However, the BSD license does not required that changes to source code be licensed under the same conditions as the original source code.
I know it isn't fashionable around here, but did you even see the effing slideshow? It was mostly about old IBM tech from the 1950's. So unless the advertising was for RAMAC's, which you can't just buy anymore, I'm not seeing it.
Do not ever use this phrase, you just completely invalidated what you had just said. By using this phrase, you are saying that you were "just saying" what you had just said and that, therefore, what you had just said was just words, i.e. gibberish.
/rant
Democracy is a messy, tiresome, boring, downright infuriating system where one is constantly tormented by the most aggravating invention known to man: other people's opinions.
The knee-jerk name-calling on either side of every issue, when it's echoed, magnified and given focus by mass media, is specifically designed to subvert the kind of processes that sustain democracy.
LOL and too true.
What are you channelling Churchill here? This is great stuff.
My kingdom for a mod point.
Indeed, if I had a kingdom to trade, or a mod point...
Neanderthals existed for at least one hundred thousand years. During that time, the stone tools and other relics of their culture, as sophisticated as it may have been, changed very little. Modern Homo Sapiens has been around much less time than that and its (our) tools and other relics of culture have changed considerably over time. Draw from it what you will, but there was definitely something different about Neanderthal. Moderns' culture evolved much more rapidly and possessed much more symbolism. Whether it was intelligence, communication ability, climate, or whatnot is debatable and far more interesting.
My problem with this proposed action (and I think most people's) is not about doing anything "against" Apple; it's the collateral damage to the innocent people seeking tech support from the store. I don't like everything that Apple does and I don't mind in the slightest that the FSF is trying to get Apple to change some of its policies, but this is just wrong-headed. It will make people not listen to the FSF in the same way people don't listen to PETA. It may get Apple's attention but in a way that guarantees that they aren't going to listen. It's pointless and counter-productive. It's dumb and it makes the FSF look dumb and I don't like that at all.
Principles of Physical Cosmology by P. J. E. Peebles
Full of theory and implications with excellent explanations and problems worked out. This isn't going to have the latest and greatest but it solidly presents the basics of modern cosmology. The big bang, Einstein De Sitter solutions of General Relativity, universal expansion, the cosmic background radiation, the distribution of galaxies, baryon creation, etc. My math is no better than Diff. Eq. and Lin. Alg. and I found nothing in this book that was over my head.
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So what? The shameless company is sticking to the license. How is this wrong? I don't get this. The sources are still available and actively developed. The shameless company might employ some of those developers (it does) and contribute back to the community (it does).
I am a programmer who's employed to work on public domain software. My software is regularly used by academia and in commercial products. That people find it so useful is a good thing for me. That people can use my software to make money is a good thing, for me, for them, and for our users.
You ideologues are the same as ever, a bunch of fools.
... enough to compute the circumference of the Milky Way galaxy to an error less than the size of a proton
Why bother carrying out the computation to such precision when the error in your measurement of the radius (or diameter) would be so much bigger.
I've looked at and modified the software in question. It bins the records in space and in time. The bins are 1/100 degree (0.6 nm, ~1.1 km, ~0.7 mi) on a side and one week in duration. The app's UI is a browser control. The binned data is submitted to a web server and the browser control renders the response. I don't believe the "fudge factor" has anything to do with stalking, but is about not throwing too many data points at that server. I have looked at the actual data in sqlite. My observations agree completely with the GP.
LOL. Sorry, I took your comment wrongly.
Oh? so you're gonna drop the table on your phone? Way to hack the server, the one that isn't even collecting the data. Putting that record in the database will do squat.
get it running on the collection server
There does not appear to be one.
put some malicious code into these logs
How does that work, Macgyver?
This is not even wrong.
I've looked at the table from my iphone. Its primary key is the tuple {MCC, MNC, LAC, CI}, which, if you google for you will find, is the "Cell Global Identity (CGI) identifier". The table has one entry per CGI. Each record has a timestamp, coordinates, and error estimates. The timestamp is not the time at which the cell was last encountered. The table has large chunks (weeks) of time missing. This is especially true when I am not traveling. There are many records from around my home and work, but most do not have recent timestamps. Apparently, new records are added as the phone encounters new cells. This does not appear to be a continuous process as there are gaps in space between clusters in cell-rich areas I have travelled through. Also, there are records from places over 100 km from where I've been.
From this data, you can get a rough estimate of when and where I have been. But the more often I visit an area and/or the longer I am there, the less precise in time the estimate becomes. Combine this with data points that can be 100 km off, and the position becomes untenable that this is a log of your whereabouts.
Apparently, Android logs the last 50 cells encountered *AND* sends this log to Google.
Not at all accurate. Nothing requires changes to BSD licensed code to be also BSD licensed. Moreover, you, as the licensee, have no ability to close the original. Also, your use of Apple as an example fails to support your claim, see http://www.opensource.apple.com/.
Could this be China's final solution to its population crisis?
It is not possible for anyone other than the original authors to change the license on the original source code, and even they can't change it for those who have already licensed it under the current terms. However, the BSD license does not required that changes to source code be licensed under the same conditions as the original source code.
... does that mean God's trying to kill us?
What to you mean "trying"? Last I checked life was still a terminal affair and has been one for a long time.
Dear Adobe Marketing, enough with the trolling.
Please stop. It's incredibly transparent. It just makes you look stupid.
Bring it or be gone. Ship it or shut up.
Exactly, "in-memory analytics" sounds like more marketing BS, just another way to sell some unneeded software or service.
obviously just an advertising focused slideshow
I know it isn't fashionable around here, but did you even see the effing slideshow? It was mostly about old IBM tech from the 1950's. So unless the advertising was for RAMAC's, which you can't just buy anymore, I'm not seeing it.
Just saying.
Do not ever use this phrase, you just completely invalidated what you had just said. By using this phrase, you are saying that you were "just saying" what you had just said and that, therefore, what you had just said was just words, i.e. gibberish.
/rant
Democracy is a messy, tiresome, boring, downright infuriating system where one is constantly tormented by the most aggravating invention known to man: other people's opinions.
The knee-jerk name-calling on either side of every issue, when it's echoed, magnified and given focus by mass media, is specifically designed to subvert the kind of processes that sustain democracy.
LOL and too true. What are you channelling Churchill here? This is great stuff.
My kingdom for a mod point.
Indeed, if I had a kingdom to trade, or a mod point...
if Apple were to license the ppc architecture from IBM ...
You do know that Apple was part of the AIM alliance that created the ppc. I don't believe they need to license it from IBM.
Makes me glad he once said, "If nominated I will not run. If elected I will not serve." *shiver*
How said that? That is paraphrasing William Tecumseh Sherman.
If drafted, I will not run; if nominated, I will not accept; if elected, I will not serve.
Er... yes. Special classes of people do have special rights and responsibilities.
We empower agents of the public trust more than the common man.
Wrong. You are confusing the office with the officeholder.
Neanderthals existed for at least one hundred thousand years. During that time, the stone tools and other relics of their culture, as sophisticated as it may have been, changed very little. Modern Homo Sapiens has been around much less time than that and its (our) tools and other relics of culture have changed considerably over time. Draw from it what you will, but there was definitely something different about Neanderthal. Moderns' culture evolved much more rapidly and possessed much more symbolism. Whether it was intelligence, communication ability, climate, or whatnot is debatable and far more interesting.
I'm 41 and I hear that plain as day! I'd be surprised if its more than 15 kHz.
My problem with this proposed action (and I think most people's) is not about doing anything "against" Apple; it's the collateral damage to the innocent people seeking tech support from the store. I don't like everything that Apple does and I don't mind in the slightest that the FSF is trying to get Apple to change some of its policies, but this is just wrong-headed. It will make people not listen to the FSF in the same way people don't listen to PETA.
It may get Apple's attention but in a way that guarantees that they aren't going to listen. It's pointless and counter-productive. It's dumb and it makes the FSF look dumb and I don't like that at all.
If you're an organization designed to affect change and shake-up the status quo, and everybody hates you, you're also not doing your job.
It does not matter if it doesn't alleviate a shortage in general, it alleviates it for you.
Principles of Physical Cosmology by P. J. E. Peebles
Full of theory and implications with excellent explanations and problems worked out. This isn't going to have the latest and greatest but it solidly presents the basics of modern cosmology. The big bang, Einstein De Sitter solutions of General Relativity, universal expansion, the cosmic background radiation, the distribution of galaxies, baryon creation, etc.
My math is no better than Diff. Eq. and Lin. Alg. and I found nothing in this book that was over my head.