"twice the continental USA" doesn't say anything beyond lots and lots. Could we have that in standard units, please? Such as american football fields or Rhode Islands. Or leaves per tree.
Luckily this is not a terribly technical question: Company A cloned company S's product. Is this OK?
The short answer is YES IT IS OK.
I disagree. I find it lacking in morals. Go invent your own tooling language, or better yet, agree on a standard. But drop-in clone replacement without so much as a by-your-leave is a douche move.
The whole idea that a jury can decide one way or another on a technical matter is pretty idiotic
Luckily this is not a terribly technical question: Company A cloned company S's product. Is this OK? This is NOT a technical question. Its an ethical, legal, economic and societal question.
And the answer seems to be 'no, it is not fine'. Which is sort of strange, IMHO. But then I'm not an expert on US law or society. I am, however, a expert in this technical field. And had I been on that jury, I would have been as baffled as the next juror.
Or W/soapbubble? Can a soap bubble carry 6W worth of solar cells? Can the sun provide enough energy for such an area. Or, how big a soapbubble are we talking about? Don't soapbubbles burst spontaneously, i.e. they don't carry any weitght?
I used to think of MIT as a world-class technical university. But with these sort of releases, I can no longer be sure.
The world is not a zero sum game. If Australians were rich and sensible they would buy and use more of your products.
I disagree: untill we learn to mine asteroids, it sort of is a zero-sum game. Currently we seem to be quite a lot in the red, and I for one agree with GP and salute Australia's effort of turning the world to a more sustainable pace of consumption. Your profits be damned.
I'm confused. There was a (several?) court order(s) to give up data. The company policy is to comply with such ("Facebook has always been and will be available to address any questions Brazilian authorities may have,").
So why did he refuse to hand it over? I even tried to RTFA. This blazingly obvious (to me) question wasn't answered even there. Why is Facebook disappointed with an employee who neither follow law or company policy?
I'd sort of agree with you. Cisco shouldn't be criticiszed for selling communications equipment to China. The evidence is plain, what better way to lift people from under oppressive regimes than communucations.
But, from TFA:
Cisco built an extensive law-enforcement system for the Chinese government beginning in 1999, called the "Golden Shield" or "Great Firewall."
Cisco built the fucking Great Firewall of China! They deserve everything they can get, and more. And I don't mean profits now.
Maybe a reporter just got him a few drinks, it isn't like he held a press conference.
No, its more like he would have tweeted[1]. You know, like in TFA, second link in TFS. Congrats, AC. You have now proven that you fit in on/. You may now register an account.
[1] Caveat. Of course, that might be a spoof accout, set up by said reporter. How could I tell.
At least in my "C 101" class they said using rand() is good enough. For this class. I didn't know better than srand(time(NULL)) until the course in cryptography. Perhaps this just means my university wasn't "world class":(
Ufnfortunatly most of the programing tools I use for embedded systems are windows only.
Wait wat? Which embedded systems do you target? I've been doing embedded systems for 10+ years now, and the only tool I need Windows for is Excel - to fill in the company travel expenses. Synopsys, Mentor, Xilinx, Altera, TI, ARM - they all run on Linux. Plus all the compilers for the microcontrollers tend to be gcc based anyways. And the small startup companies' embedded system IDEs seem to invariably be built on Eclipse.
Have I just been lucky? Or do we define 'embedded' diferently?
I want to be the first to welcome our poison-injecting robotic overlords.
I do hope whoever wrote the pattern recognition algorithm checked, double checked & triple checked it. And then sent it for code-review, static and dynamic code analyzers and finally open sourced it for the swarm of eyeballs that surely audit the code for free.
Because capitalism. Company X does what you suggest, company Y carries on. Pretty soon company Y has more viewers, just because they are putting out more stuff.
Reminds me about the last stages at the fall of communism. Or the shoe event horizon on Frogstar B.
I've never played scrabble. The only place I've seen scrabble played (if it is the game that looks like a crossword puzzle?) is in Hollywood movies. Somehow it smacks of anglosaxon culture. I'm not frrench, so I am curious: how popular is this game in France?
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"twice the continental USA" doesn't say anything beyond lots and lots.
Could we have that in standard units, please?
Such as american football fields or Rhode Islands. Or leaves per tree.
Proof positive that TFS was pirated! /., I expected better of you.
Luckily this is not a terribly technical question: Company A cloned company S's product. Is this OK?
The short answer is YES IT IS OK.
I disagree. I find it lacking in morals. Go invent your own tooling language, or better yet, agree on a standard. But drop-in clone replacement without so much as a by-your-leave is a douche move.
The whole idea that a jury can decide one way or another on a technical matter is pretty idiotic
Luckily this is not a terribly technical question: Company A cloned company S's product. Is this OK?
This is NOT a technical question. Its an ethical, legal, economic and societal question.
And the answer seems to be 'no, it is not fine'. Which is sort of strange, IMHO. But then I'm not an expert on US law or society. I am, however, a expert in this technical field. And had I been on that jury, I would have been as baffled as the next juror.
Or W/soapbubble?
Can a soap bubble carry 6W worth of solar cells? Can the sun provide enough energy for such an area. Or, how big a soapbubble are we talking about? Don't soapbubbles burst spontaneously, i.e. they don't carry any weitght?
I used to think of MIT as a world-class technical university. But with these sort of releases, I can no longer be sure.
The world is not a zero sum game. If Australians were rich and sensible they would buy and use more of your products.
I disagree: untill we learn to mine asteroids, it sort of is a zero-sum game. Currently we seem to be quite a lot in the red, and I for one agree with GP and salute Australia's effort of turning the world to a more sustainable pace of consumption.
Your profits be damned.
I'm confused. There was a (several?) court order(s) to give up data. The company policy is to comply with such ("Facebook has always been and will be available to address any questions Brazilian authorities may have,").
So why did he refuse to hand it over? I even tried to RTFA. This blazingly obvious (to me) question wasn't answered even there. Why is Facebook disappointed with an employee who neither follow law or company policy?
Its not normal for people who read /.
So what you are saying is let a guy fuck children, get caught, do a little time, then forget about him.
That is a straw-man.
I am all for forgetting about minor shit like cites for spitting on the ground in front of idiots like you.
"Certain types of loudmouthism should be a capital offense among decent people." (R.A.Heinlein).
Wake me up when we solve the problem of deterministically detecting sarcasm with human intelligence.
I'd sort of agree with you. Cisco shouldn't be criticiszed for selling communications equipment to China. The evidence is plain, what better way to lift people from under oppressive regimes than communucations.
But, from TFA:
Cisco built an extensive law-enforcement system for the Chinese government beginning in 1999, called the "Golden Shield" or "Great Firewall."
Cisco built the fucking Great Firewall of China!
They deserve everything they can get, and more. And I don't mean profits now.
Maybe a reporter just got him a few drinks, it isn't like he held a press conference.
No, its more like he would have tweeted[1]. You know, like in TFA, second link in TFS. /. You may now register an account.
Congrats, AC. You have now proven that you fit in on
[1] Caveat. Of course, that might be a spoof accout, set up by said reporter. How could I tell.
Apple, which has relied on proprietary chargers since introducing the iPhone in 2007.
iPhones don't use USB for charging??
Apple never ceases to amaze me.
I predict we see an article on slashdot in about two months, telling us how many customers ended their contract with said company.
My guess is 2%.
At least in my "C 101" class they said using rand() is good enough. :(
For this class.
I didn't know better than srand(time(NULL)) until the course in cryptography. Perhaps this just means my university wasn't "world class"
that would not let similar flaws to plague the hypervisor ever again
Can we trust people to critique code who can't even manage English grammar?
Yes. Very few program is written in English. C is more common.
And looking at the Qubes OS team https://www.qubes-os.org/team/, I'd bet English isn't the primary language for most of them.
What happened to people actually making things with their hands?
Craftsmanship is still going strong, I think.
Was about to mod parent 'troll', then all of a sudden, in the middle of the post the AC reverts 180 degrees:
Systemd has caused me nothing but problems
So I posted this comment instead.
Ufnfortunatly most of the programing tools I use for embedded systems are windows only.
Wait wat?
Which embedded systems do you target? I've been doing embedded systems for 10+ years now, and the only tool I need Windows for is Excel - to fill in the company travel expenses.
Synopsys, Mentor, Xilinx, Altera, TI, ARM - they all run on Linux. Plus all the compilers for the microcontrollers tend to be gcc based anyways. And the small startup companies' embedded system IDEs seem to invariably be built on Eclipse.
Have I just been lucky? Or do we define 'embedded' diferently?
I want to be the first to welcome our poison-injecting robotic overlords.
I do hope whoever wrote the pattern recognition algorithm checked, double checked & triple checked it.
And then sent it for code-review, static and dynamic code analyzers and finally
open sourced it for the swarm of eyeballs that surely audit the code for free.
Because capitalism.
Company X does what you suggest, company Y carries on. Pretty soon company Y has more viewers, just because they are putting out more stuff.
Reminds me about the last stages at the fall of communism. Or the shoe event horizon on Frogstar B.
Can someone clue me in on the technical background of this?
No. This is not how /. works. Injecting opinion-less facts into the discussion only might make us feel bad during our two-minute daily hate.
No he is not kidding. Are you?
Yesterday was my first time too hearing about Popcorn Time:
https://xkcd.com/1053/
I've never played scrabble. The only place I've seen scrabble played (if it is the game that looks like a crossword puzzle?) is in Hollywood movies. Somehow it smacks of anglosaxon culture.
I'm not frrench, so I am curious: how popular is this game in France?
No no no.
The summary even says: "The new service manager gives the power back to you"