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  1. Re:One thing I don't do is troublesome licenses on What Aspects of Open Source Projects Do You Avoid? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You could say "I choose to respect the GPL in situations where I am not prepared or legally able to do the work necessary for compliance."

  2. Re:Attorney fees on Classmates.com Settles Lawsuit Over Phony Friends · · Score: 1

    I think it is a good thing for there to be some incentive for the lawyers to take the case; 10% of the class award is not completely out of control.

    (In this case, Classmates could have avoided the suit by not misleading their customers, I'm not sure why you would feel any sympathy for them)

  3. Attorney fees on Classmates.com Settles Lawsuit Over Phony Friends · · Score: 1

    Not indescribably wacky: the settlement specifies that the court determines the final amount, with an upper limit of $1.3 million.

    Of course, members of the class still barely get enough to make it worth checking it out.

  4. Re:Had my hopes up... on Google Makes Apps Script Available To All · · Score: 1

    There are such toolkits. I'm not familiar with any of them, but search for 'Mechanize' to get you started (there are such named libraries for Perl, Ruby and Python...).

    Jumping off from that search, the first obvious 'full featured' toolkit is this one:

    http://watir.com/

  5. Re:Unnecessary. Suitable licenses already exist. on Mozilla Foundation Begins Redraft Process For MPL · · Score: 1

    Well there Mr. Imaginative, if the Mozilla Foundation is working up a new license that they want to be compatible with the Apache license, do you think there is a possibility that they will update their projects to use this new version of the license?

    I guess it would have been more accurate if I had said "a new version of the MPL will allow them to relicense their existing code simply by updating files", but for the purposes of a Slashdot discussion, "automatically" was fine.

  6. Re:Had my hopes up... on Google Makes Apps Script Available To All · · Score: 1

    There are APIs to retrieve URLs and parse XML. So you should be able to pull content from other sites into Google docs. Output is probably more difficult.

  7. Re:Just BSD everything, kthxbai on Mozilla Foundation Begins Redraft Process For MPL · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The beauty of the current situation around software sales and licensing is that you can factor that requirement into your purchasing decisions, while others are free to offer software with greater limitations.

  8. Re:Unnecessary. Suitable licenses already exist. on Mozilla Foundation Begins Redraft Process For MPL · · Score: 5, Informative

    AC didn't quote this part:

    6.2. Effect of New Versions. This clause guarantees that mozilla.org will never be able to take away rights that you have under the version of the license under which your code or modifications were created.

    Once Covered Code has been published under a particular version of the License, You may always continue to use it under the terms of that version. You may also choose to use such Covered Code under the terms of any subsequent version of the License published by Netscape [The Mozilla Foundation]. No one other than Netscape [The Mozilla Foundation] has the right to modify the terms applicable to Covered Code created under this License.

    It is going to take a pretty fantastic interpretation of that clause to argue that it doesn't allow use of code under later versions of the license.

  9. Re:Unnecessary. Suitable licenses already exist. on Mozilla Foundation Begins Redraft Process For MPL · · Score: 2, Interesting

    A new version of the MPL will automatically relicense their existing code. None of those licenses can do that.

  10. Re:Iceweasle on Mozilla Foundation Begins Redraft Process For MPL · · Score: 1

    Perhaps he uses Debian.

  11. Re:Meh. on PA Laptop Spying Inspires FSF Crowdsourcing Effort · · Score: 1

    You are making an awful big leap when you assume his school is doing anything illegal, so he might not (probably doesn't) have standing to sue them.

    He (or at least, his parents), certainly has standing to raise the issue with the school board. If that doesn't fit with your anger, you are just going to have to live with it.

  12. Re:Another interesting statistic on Toyota Acceleration and Embedded System Bugs · · Score: 1

    I don't think 'suggests' implies that a conclusion has been drawn.

  13. Re:Priorities. on Former Astronauts Call Obama NASA Plans "Catastrophic" · · Score: 1

    I would back off that last bit and say something like "our deficits would be smaller".

  14. Re:Another interesting statistic on Toyota Acceleration and Embedded System Bugs · · Score: 1

    That's page 2 of the article that I pointed out.

  15. Re:Size on Why Are Digital Hearing Aids So Expensive? · · Score: 1

    In an efficient market, the price should trend towards the cost.

    (It is difficult/distasteful to put a dollar value on organic damage and death, so it tends to be complicated to evaluate medical markets)

  16. Re:Another interesting statistic on Toyota Acceleration and Embedded System Bugs · · Score: 5, Informative

    To me it suggests that older drivers are having more difficulty coping with the situation once it arises.

    Forbes says that the guy who got himself plastered all over cable last week was 'afraid' to put the vehicle into neutral, or to turn off the engine:

    http://www.forbes.com/2010/03/12/toyota-autos-hoax-media-opinions-contributors-michael-fumento.html?boxes=financechannelforbes

    (They link the 911 recording:

    http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/the-jim-sikes-911-call-23-minutes-of-unintended-acceleration/

    )

    So apparently being an idiot is also a likely factor in the failing to cope with the incident before it becomes lethal.

    But they key observation is that the higher number of fatalities among older drivers doesn't really point to the source of the problem being driver error (rather, the driver error is in failing to deal with the situation once it arises).

  17. Re:God damn legal system on Toyota Acceleration and Embedded System Bugs · · Score: 1

    Liar.

  18. Re:Another interesting statistic on Toyota Acceleration and Embedded System Bugs · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Be careful to note that the 24 cases discussed there are only the ones that have led to serious incidents.

  19. Re:Meh. on PA Laptop Spying Inspires FSF Crowdsourcing Effort · · Score: 1

    If your concern is truly that the other students don't know about it, going to a school board meeting and asking them to make it a district policy to notify users of monitoring software would accomplish a great deal more than subverting the software on the computers that you make use of.

    I guess the blocking proxy announces itself pretty well though.

  20. Re:Meh. on PA Laptop Spying Inspires FSF Crowdsourcing Effort · · Score: 1

    How are you working around it if you don't know it is there?

  21. Re:Seems odd to be keeping PhP on Digg Says Yes To NoSQL Cassandra DB, Bye To MySQL · · Score: 2, Informative

    Or you could just sporge some jargonistic keywords together in an attempt to advertise your get-rich-slowly scheme.

  22. Re:There is postgreSQL on Digg Says Yes To NoSQL Cassandra DB, Bye To MySQL · · Score: 1

    Imagine if Mysql got worse with every release.

  23. Re:Reddit's reliability has been shitty lately. on Digg Says Yes To NoSQL Cassandra DB, Bye To MySQL · · Score: 1

    They switched to Cassandra yesterday or so. It has been faster and more reliable in my experience.

  24. Re:Facebook, Twitter and now Digg on Digg Says Yes To NoSQL Cassandra DB, Bye To MySQL · · Score: 1

    She didn't call you back, huh?

  25. Re:SDINAL on Licensing an Abandonware Game? · · Score: 1

    Also, anyone who mods it funny.