[1] This actually provides a fairly simple loophole if you're willing to wait three years: take some GPL code, modify it, and give it to a third party. They then sit on it for three years and then sell it as a binary-only product. They pass on your (now expired) offer, and no one has the right to demand the source code from you.
They can't. If they can't fulfill the requirements of the GPL (offer to provide source for 3 years), then they can't legally distribute the code.
Oops, totally forgot about that. You're right, the hash of the IP of every poster must be recorded, but only until the comment is vetted by the moderators. Suppose the mods go through all the comments once a day, then the hash of the not-banned users will only be stored for 24 hours at max.
It's not a great scheme, admittedly, but at least it's better than status quo.
Getting back to the great-GP: " "We're sorry your honour, but we do not require contributors to register under their real name, and we do not record IP addresses of all visitors. We only record a cryptographic hash of the IP address of people who have been banned.".
It doesn't solve the problem, but at least it minimizes it. Only people who have been banned will lose their anonymity. Assume, for example, that only 1% of visitors are banned, then the problem is now two orders of magnitude smaller.
You're perfectly correct. When I said "out there" I meant "residing in various servers in each of the the 50 state governments". Since brevity is the soul of wit I was forced to keep it ambiguous.
The Green Party and the Libertarian Party have almost the identical stance on abortion, same sex marriage, drug legalization, military spending, and foreign policy. They are more similar than you think.
The experiment was a success. The outcome a failure.
There are two proposed approaches for fusion power generation: tokamak and ICF. ITER tests the tokamak approach and the National Ignition Facility tests the ICF approach. Thanks to the NIF we now know exactly what ICF is and isn't capable of. I'd call that an excellent return on investment.
Give a man a mask and he will show his true face. -Oscar Wilde
The question is not "why do some people act like fucktards online?". Deep down, fucktards is exactly what those people are. They just hide it better in real life.
Anytime you have a headphone jack I can just play the play and record it on a second computer.
Anytime you have a DVI/HDMI jack I can just play the video and re-encode it on a second computer.
A little too rich for my blood. Someone come up with a DIY version and put it on kickstarter. As long as you have put an Arduino in there it'll sell like hotcakes.
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[1] This actually provides a fairly simple loophole if you're willing to wait three years: take some GPL code, modify it, and give it to a third party. They then sit on it for three years and then sell it as a binary-only product. They pass on your (now expired) offer, and no one has the right to demand the source code from you.
They can't. If they can't fulfill the requirements of the GPL (offer to provide source for 3 years), then they can't legally distribute the code.
Oops, totally forgot about that. You're right, the hash of the IP of every poster must be recorded, but only until the comment is vetted by the moderators. Suppose the mods go through all the comments once a day, then the hash of the not-banned users will only be stored for 24 hours at max.
It's not a great scheme, admittedly, but at least it's better than status quo.
Getting back to the great-GP: " "We're sorry your honour, but we do not require contributors to register under their real name, and we do not record IP addresses of all visitors. We only record a cryptographic hash of the IP address of people who have been banned.".
It doesn't solve the problem, but at least it minimizes it. Only people who have been banned will lose their anonymity. Assume, for example, that only 1% of visitors are banned, then the problem is now two orders of magnitude smaller.
You're perfectly correct. When I said "out there" I meant "residing in various servers in each of the the 50 state governments". Since brevity is the soul of wit I was forced to keep it ambiguous.
Too late. I already patented the hypercube.
All dots, lines, squares, and cubes are lower dimensional derivatives of my hypercube design and thus require a license from me.
This is hugely relevant when I transmute myself into a tentacle monster.
Fake eyes on autotomic* tentacles will give me the tactical advantage I need to evade the police and finally get laid.
*Brownie points for anyone who knows this word off the top of their head.
If only there was some sort of database out there with all the registered voter's information...
If only the "Feds" had access to such a database...
I, as a person with a not so keen sense of smell, can tell you which apartments have pot in them if you walk by at the right time of day.
You don't have to hide it. On the internet no one knows you're a dog.
A survey by IDC and Appcelerator found 78% of Android developers were 'very interested' in programming for Android smartphones
Wait, what?
(FF to 6:09)
Next time, pause the video, right click on it, and select "Copy video URL at current time".
If you're using a FOSS flash player and it doesn't have that feature then just manually add "#t=XXXs" at the end of the URL.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MMkiq8Kxis#t=365s
You clearly don't know what "per capita" means.
AOL is still around, somehow, though I have no fucking clue how.
Lies! I haven't received any free coasters from them for years now.
I believe GP was being sarcastic. I believe he was referencing the fact that terrorists are usually technically inclined.
text analytics, social network/media analysis, web personalization, computational advertising, and online experiments & testing
What the fuck does any of these even mean?
If you scrap facebook to send out targeted spam, then just say so.
That completely ignores the payroll tax (among others), which amounts to as much as the income tax itself .
Another bald-faced lie from Romney. What a surprise.
Not "months", just 24 working days.
The Green Party and the Libertarian Party have almost the identical stance on abortion, same sex marriage, drug legalization, military spending, and foreign policy. They are more similar than you think.
So you see no Americans are in harm's way, it's just flying robots killing Libyans. You know, peace.
Don't you worry, the planet will survive just fine; it's the humans that won't.
Apparently birds could figure this one out on their own, yet you can't.
The experiment was a success. The outcome a failure.
There are two proposed approaches for fusion power generation: tokamak and ICF. ITER tests the tokamak approach and the National Ignition Facility tests the ICF approach. Thanks to the NIF we now know exactly what ICF is and isn't capable of. I'd call that an excellent return on investment.
Give a man a mask and he will show his true face. -Oscar Wilde
The question is not "why do some people act like fucktards online?". Deep down, fucktards is exactly what those people are. They just hide it better in real life.
The humans delved too greedily and too deep. You know what they awoke in the darkness of Khazad-dum... shadow and flame.
Even then it still won't work.
Anytime you have a headphone jack I can just play the play and record it on a second computer.
Anytime you have a DVI/HDMI jack I can just play the video and re-encode it on a second computer.
Unit cost: $38,000
A little too rich for my blood. Someone come up with a DIY version and put it on kickstarter. As long as you have put an Arduino in there it'll sell like hotcakes.