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  1. Re:What about OSS license that respects other righ on Qt Upgrades From LGPLv2.1 to LGPLv3 · · Score: 1

    Didn't a group already make such a license.

    I feel it was Cult of the Dead Cow (with peekabooty maybe), or the people behind Freenet or some such, quite a while ago.

    It was around the timeframe of those projects being new, I read about it here as a matter of fact.

  2. Re:A limit is a limit on Google's Driverless Cars Capable of Exceeding Speed Limit · · Score: 1

    They're assholes on the turnpike though, they'll sometimes do the strict enforcing they're permitted to in the 65 zone, and pull over everybody.

  3. Re:Safety vs Law on Google's Driverless Cars Capable of Exceeding Speed Limit · · Score: 2

    Or, according to TFA, it's true.

  4. Re: Already happened to sharks on Fighting Invasive Fish With Forks and Knives · · Score: 2

    One wonders how they figures that one out initially.

  5. Re: I'd love to use https! on Watch a Cat Video, Get Hacked: the Death of Clear-Text · · Score: 1

    But they don't have the password to other sites, of the password is reused (as most are). It limits the compromise to a single site.

  6. Re:I'd love to use https! on Watch a Cat Video, Get Hacked: the Death of Clear-Text · · Score: 1

    It protects from password re-use attacks.

  7. Re:Either assignment agreement or fixed matches on Posting Soccer Goals On Vine Is Illegal, Say England's Premier League · · Score: 1

    You'd need to argue that sports is artistic expression.

  8. Re: Technical People on The Billion-Dollar Website · · Score: 1

    Like preventing me from doing medical work because I don't have training?

    Doctors absolutly want government to meddle in healthcare, it allows them to charge more for things we all could do.

  9. Re: Pinch of salt needed on Posting Soccer Goals On Vine Is Illegal, Say England's Premier League · · Score: 3, Interesting

    They'll have to claim the fix the games to make them interesting, and that it's performance art and not competition perhaps.

  10. Re: Technical People on The Billion-Dollar Website · · Score: 1

    By obama care do you mean private health plans ?

  11. Re:begs FFS on Entire South Korean Space Programme Shuts Down As Sole Astronaut Quits · · Score: 1

    Or maybe it allows the less intelligent to communicate more effectively, leading to richer discourse overall.

    While the more intelligent do not require them to speak effectively.

  12. Re:begs FFS on Entire South Korean Space Programme Shuts Down As Sole Astronaut Quits · · Score: 1

    Except it's exactly what the phrase "begs the question" means.

    Begs the question as you want it used isn't really an English phrase, just a group of words given a new meaning due to a historical mistranslation, while the way everyone else uses it is just the English language using actual definitions of words.

  13. Re:This is going to end so well for them! on T-Mobile To Throttle Customers Who Use Unlimited LTE Data For Torrents/P2P · · Score: 1

    They only allowed unlimited tethering for a very brief time.

    It's still pretty fair though, I think it's allowed for all capped plans, and my unlimited plan (which they are pretty kind about) comes with 3GB free tethering, with extra for a fair price (looks like this is 5GB now).

    Honestly, I've found T-Mobile pretty strait forward with what they include, and it to be generous (compared to others). I get free (slow, but workable for e-mail, yelp, web, and sort-of maps) data worldwide, enough tethering to use in a pinch for most circumstances, with extra available (comporable to other networks price), and and I use data quite high with no issues.

    I have the $70 unlimited plan, the $80 that replaced it has 5GB tether.

    The price bump from 70-80 came with a reduction in fees too, so it was essentially a wash.

  14. I've done it when hotel service what terrible, and I wanted to watch a TV show on a channel they don't have.

    Usually I use Usenet though. When I get LTE it's faster than cable, and I've never had an issue with my regular 9GB of usage (generally legit from Hulu, Netflix, and various podcasts).

  15. Re:As a new T-Mobile customer on T-Mobile To Throttle Customers Who Use Unlimited LTE Data For Torrents/P2P · · Score: 1

    When I'm in my home area, my T-Mobile is often faster than my cable (198xx zip code).

  16. Re:This is going to end so well for them! on T-Mobile To Throttle Customers Who Use Unlimited LTE Data For Torrents/P2P · · Score: 5, Informative

    There is no unlimited tethering, and they aren't throttling capped data.

    They are throttling phone based P2P, and (as I read it) separately, unauthorized tethering.

    WoW distribution, needing to be tethered, would be capped data and not throttled.

    It's people like me that have downloaded movies on the go to watch that would be throttled.

  17. Re:What about Oregon and Washington? on Comcast Drops Spurious Fees When Customer Reveals Recording · · Score: 1

    It's illegal in states that require two party consent, usually falling under eavesdropping laws.

  18. Re:Legal pemission? THEY GIVE IT! on Comcast Drops Spurious Fees When Customer Reveals Recording · · Score: 1

    Is this entirely true?

    If they say "this call may be recorded for quality assurance", I'd think that's their consent to my recording, after all, these recordings are attempts to assure the quality of customer service.

  19. Re:What about Oregon and Washington? on Comcast Drops Spurious Fees When Customer Reveals Recording · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I'm willing to be damaging a companies reputation with an illegal recording is going to get you into trouble, but I've always taken "this call may be recorded for quality assurance purposes" to mean I am allowed to record, to assure quality service.

  20. Re:Politically Correct Science on Geneticists Decry Book On Race and Evolution · · Score: 1

    The correct thing to do would be to test reaction times, because there's going to be people of all eye colors that can do it, and others of all eye colors that can't.

  21. Re:Question on Point-and-Shoot: TrackingPoint's New Linux-Controlled AR-15s · · Score: 1

    I read that a single bomb is more likely to take out a strategic target in modern times than the entire payload of an entire fleet of WW2 bombers was in the 40's.

  22. Re:For gamers? on AMD Prepares To Ship Gaming SSDs · · Score: 1

    Yes, the same brand disposables are at different angles of handle, which is exactly what I said the difference was.

    The only time I've bought lady razors was when traveling and buying disposables, and it was absolutely noticeable the difference between the equivalent male and female versions.

  23. Re:For gamers? on AMD Prepares To Ship Gaming SSDs · · Score: 1
  24. Re:Great on Yahoo To Add PGP Encryption For Email · · Score: 1

    It'll be interesting if cloud e-mail makes things more private in the end.

    I'm curious how this could decrease revenue though, because automated scanning is is where the adds come from, and your key would only be as long as effective as a pass-phrase (I assume cloud stored password protected key, with local javascript to unlock the key, and something stored on the local computer to cache the key so the pass-phrase doesn't need to be used constant).

  25. Re:For gamers? on AMD Prepares To Ship Gaming SSDs · · Score: 4, Informative

    Female razors have the handle at a different angle (one more comfortable for legs and crotches vs faces).

    I learned this when I thought they were the same and god lady ones on sale, definitely not as easy to use on a face as a man's razor.