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  1. Re:Allwinner. Nope. on Raspberry Pi's Smaller, Cheaper Rival: NanoPi Neo Plus2 Weighs in at $25 (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Closer to home - the Broadcom code for the Raspberry Pi.

    Do you mean the code that has been open source for 3 years now? I do believe the broadcom blob also executes under the vpu not the cpu. It sets up hardware that calls the kernel/the kernel calls. Not code running under the kernel. Any actual modifications to the kernel must be gpl'd. You can't just pre-compile the parts you don't want to open source and never distribute them. This has been discussed to death at length.

  2. Re:Allwinner. Nope. on Raspberry Pi's Smaller, Cheaper Rival: NanoPi Neo Plus2 Weighs in at $25 (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    They can publish the modifications (and I believe they already do)

    OP claimed they did not need to release the modifications source at all

    but they do not have to release source code of the binary blob that is embedded in the code.

    Not neciscarily according to the guy whos name is on the kernel.
    http://yarchive.net/comp/linux/gpl_modules.html/
    http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Kernel/proprietary-kernel-modules.html/

    A bit like Nvidia has a part open code that is perfectly readable, and a part that contains the binary blob (that is completely unreadable).

    Nvidia releases a driver, not a modified kernel. Said binary blob has to be very careful which parts of hte kernel it twiddles

  3. Re:Allwinner. Nope. on Raspberry Pi's Smaller, Cheaper Rival: NanoPi Neo Plus2 Weighs in at $25 (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Sue for what? There is nothing that says that the modifications are released under GPL.

    Uh, the GPL says that the modifications are released under the GPL.

    As long as the company is willing to provide the original source code without their modifications they are in the clear.

    If they release modified binaries of GPL licensed code they must release the modified source

  4. Re:This will be dismissed on Home Improvement Chains Accused of False Advertising Over Lumber Dimensions (consumerist.com) · · Score: 1

    Those markings already exist. Home depot has em on their website. I used them when buying some 1x12s to make a wooden countertop.

  5. Re:I think you spelled laid off senior execs wrong on Etsy Slashes Almost a Quarter Of Its Staff In Attempt To Refocus (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    I know at least one of the etsy employees was working on the php7 version of the php-gearman interface.

  6. Re: Wasn't a typo on 'COVFEFE Act' Would Make Social Media a Presidential Record (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    That's totally why he deleted it right?

  7. Otto is likely a reference to Nikolaus Otto, inventer of the 'Otto cycle engine' also known as the 4 stroke internal combustion engine in most vehicles today.

  8. Re:Who has money on his resignation / impeachment? on Trump Is Pulling US Out of Paris Climate Deal: Sources (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    The FBI is an executive agency. ALL OF THE FBIs authority flows entirely from the Constitutional powers granted to the president.

    No the president is not above the law but it is in appropriate for any part of the executive branch to be doing anything other than supporting the president. If there is a problem Congress needs to investigate and deal with it.

    Executive branch employees who cannot toe the line should fired, with cause.

    You do know this all hit the supreme court under nixon and they ruled that it is illegal for the president to fire someone investigating him right?

  9. Re:Good while it lasted on Canonical Founder Says Recent Changes In Ubuntu Were Necessary To Prepare the Company For an IPO (zdnet.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    > For server, you're kinda boned. You can go back to debian, which isn't too bad. CentOS with epel is a functional cross, but theres no way you are running bleeding edge with a RHEL distro.

    I gave up trying to get bleeding edge anything on those distros. I just run docker and run my bleeding edge service within docker.

  10. Re:Don't care anymore, switched to Devuan. on Debian 8.8 Released (debian.org) · · Score: 0

    You're running a RC in production?

  11. Re:Slow day in tech, then? on Why Do Airlines Overbook? (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    He has to hope united doesn't take it to court.

  12. Democrats aren't going to persecute themselves genius.

    Did you just call Chaffetz a democrat?

  13. I say for every dollar wasted on this whole Russia BS, two dollars get used for obummer and Hitlery investigation of corruption.

    So considering all the money spent investigating Hillary (Benghazi, email, et. al) We should only need to spend another 2 billion or so by your math investigating trump.

  14. Re:Slow day in tech, then? on Why Do Airlines Overbook? (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Whichever is lower

  15. Re:Slow day in tech, then? on Why Do Airlines Overbook? (bbc.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    And the law actually requires a minimum of $1,350 refund for the seat if forced off.

    Maximum is 4x the cost of seat or 1350

  16. Re:Highly irregular on How Wiretaps Actually Work (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    He can't get in trouble for declassification per se, but he could get in trouble for the content he declassifies. Say he declassifies nuclear secrets thereby committing treason by "adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort". Or in the case of Obama wiretapping if it is in fact false it could very easily land him in court for libel. There most certainly can be legal consequences to declassifying information even for the president.

  17. For vacation visas sure, not for a work visa.

  18. Re:Interesting story on Software Engineer Detained At JFK, Given Test To Prove He's An Engineer (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    He may not legally be in the country but he physically is, if he's an underwear bomber he's at a very busy point in a highly populated area, great place to do his damage. Legal technicalities won't protect people from the pressure or heat wave from his blast assuming hes a terrorist.

  19. Re:Interesting story on Software Engineer Detained At JFK, Given Test To Prove He's An Engineer (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    Tell that to any potnetial bombs he sets off.

  20. Re:Interesting story on Software Engineer Detained At JFK, Given Test To Prove He's An Engineer (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah except he was already in the country at that point.

  21. Re: USA! USA! USA! on Software Engineer Detained At JFK, Given Test To Prove He's An Engineer (mashable.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Like it or not that's what a sane immigration policy looks like.

    Lol no sane immigration policy has border patrol agents administering visas at the border. This shit woulda been done when the visa was issued waaay before he gets to the border.

  22. Re:The ultimate pollinator robot on Can We Pollinate Flowers With Tiny Flying Drones? (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    I was just talking to a beekeper at the social last week who's been keeping bees since before I was born. He laughed at the loss rates people were talking about with colony collapse disorder. The rates beekeepers see has historically always been 2-3x higher than claimed loss rates for ccd. It's varroa destructor killing the bees not pesticides. The loss rate now is the lowest its ever been. Hell even with the flooding his loss this year is historically better than the commercial guys have seen in the past.

  23. Re:Might be easier to fix bees on Can We Pollinate Flowers With Tiny Flying Drones? (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    Never sure whether it was just old age, exhaustion or something parasitic - their wings would seem to be dark brown rather than clear transparent.

    Sounds like deformed wing virus, varroa destructor is a carrier https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deformed_wing_virus

  24. Re:The ultimate pollinator robot on Can We Pollinate Flowers With Tiny Flying Drones? (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    The study is probably out now, was published by a LSU professor using samples from our bee club. None of the peer reviewed public studies show neonics are kiling bee colonies, they have a negative effect on the individuals but not the whole colony.
    So its selled 1:0 I have an infinite advantage over your anonymous club.

  25. Re:The ultimate pollinator robot on Can We Pollinate Flowers With Tiny Flying Drones? (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    The study is probably out now, was published by a LSU professor using samples from our bee club. None of the peer reviewed public studies show neonics are kiling bee colonies, they have a negative effect on the individuals but not the whole colony.