Seriously, the only reason I use Android is so that I don't have to put up with the crap that iOS users put up with. If I wanted iOS, I'd get a bloody iPad.
I'm seriously considering moving some of my websites to.xxx and not having porn on them (anybody want to register laughingsto.xxx?). Are there any restrictions to registering whatever you want on.xxx?
Oh, and for the record, RFC 3675 anticipated this whole mess.
Requiring distribution of certificates endangers the end user populace because the certificates are no longer unique.
Oh, FFS, you're conflating authorization and authentication, it's bordering on slanderous libel. GPLv3 does not require that you distribute cryptographic keys. How many times does this need to be said? All it requires is that end-users have some way to install modified versions of the software, crypto or not.
Also, please learn the difference between "certificates" and "private keys".
Most end users have zero interest in compiling let alone modifying code.
So what? Most end users have zero interest in modifying Wikipedia, too.
GPLv3...which prevents Apple from using the software commercially.
I thought we killed that old canard back in 1999. There's nothing in GPLv3 that's substantially more anti-"commercial" than in GPLv2. Actually, GPLv3 is a lot better in a lot of ways. For example, if you screw up and violate its terms, GPLv3 isn't terminated permanently, unlike GPLv2.
by not asserting claims explicitly, it could be presumed that one waived any future claims.
I think the only thing you could presume is that the person agreed for their contribution to be licensed under the same terms as the project as a whole uses. (In this case, GPLv2). From what I understand, copyright can neither be abandoned nor transferred without some explicit act.
2.) 9.99999... - 0.99999... = 9// the infinite decimal expansion is still a number and there's no reason we can't subtract it.
Really? What algorithm did you use to get that? The algorithm they teach in school involves starting at the rightmost non-zero decimal place of both terms, but neither 9.999... nor 0.999... have rightmost non-zero decimal places.
Your multiplication step in #1 has a simiiar problem.
How can you lay this at the feet of the graphics card manufacturers?
Simple: For at least 5 years, none of the major graphics card manufacturers gave us enough information to create drivers, so not only did drivers not get built, but a volunteer community of developers create those drivers never got built. The developers who did work on them basically worked for Intel, and now they work for Intel and AMD.
We've been stalled for half a decade. What do you expect?
I propose the following criteria for determining whether a non-human group should have "rights":
Can its adults show up to work on time, and file its income taxes?
Would we be justified in trying, convicting, and punishing its adults if they broke criminal law?
Would we be justified in holding its adults liable for damages under tort law if they damaged people's property?
With rights come responsibilities. If you advocate human-like rights for non-humans, but can't imagine answering "yes" to the above questions, then you are advocating a system where entire classes of "people" have legal rights but no legal responsibilities. No thanks.
<quote>Personally I think they made a mistake in that regard, and should have outright prohibited a mix of tabs and spaces for indentation within a single file</quote>
<p>I think that's the case if you use "python -tt".</p>
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Sounds like a business method patent to me.
Do you have a better idea, aside from "do nothing"?
Who knows if the Turkish demonstrators represent the majority or whether its just a small section of the population?
So tyranny is fine, as long as the majority supports it.
You, sir, are an asshole.
Seriously, the only reason I use Android is so that I don't have to put up with the crap that iOS users put up with. If I wanted iOS, I'd get a bloody iPad.
Lynx runs on Windows.
...nor should they be. Get over it.
That might not be realistic, but Google could easily stop providing autocomplete in Italy.
The problem with food is that it isn't so much what you're eating, but how many calories you're eating, and whether you have any vitamin deficiencies.
OSX is a *great* operating system.
No, it's a reasonably good GUI. The OS is buggy.
I'm seriously considering moving some of my websites to .xxx and not having porn on them (anybody want to register laughingsto.xxx?). Are there any restrictions to registering whatever you want on .xxx?
Oh, and for the record, RFC 3675 anticipated this whole mess.
Requiring distribution of certificates endangers the end user populace because the certificates are no longer unique.
Oh, FFS, you're conflating authorization and authentication, it's bordering on slanderous libel. GPLv3 does not require that you distribute cryptographic keys. How many times does this need to be said? All it requires is that end-users have some way to install modified versions of the software, crypto or not.
Also, please learn the difference between "certificates" and "private keys".
Most end users have zero interest in compiling let alone modifying code.
So what? Most end users have zero interest in modifying Wikipedia, too.
GPLv3...which prevents Apple from using the software commercially.
I thought we killed that old canard back in 1999. There's nothing in GPLv3 that's substantially more anti-"commercial" than in GPLv2. Actually, GPLv3 is a lot better in a lot of ways. For example, if you screw up and violate its terms, GPLv3 isn't terminated permanently, unlike GPLv2.
Oh, neat. I'd never seen that exception before.
(but a requirement is that users are not scared with warnings about part of the content being unencrypted).
Those warnings are there for a reason.
by not asserting claims explicitly, it could be presumed that one waived any future claims.
I think the only thing you could presume is that the person agreed for their contribution to be licensed under the same terms as the project as a whole uses. (In this case, GPLv2). From what I understand, copyright can neither be abandoned nor transferred without some explicit act.
That exemption is legally dubious. Linus unilaterally added it one day, even though he's not the sole copyright holder.
s/would/have/
The only realistic way of beating malware is white-listing
No, you just have to design an operating system where beating malware is actually a design goal, rather than an afterthought.
This is especially jarring when these folks move out to a mainstream forum like Slashdot...
Very subtle. Nice work!
Is it so hard to tweak the Internet to make spam impossible?
Fixed that for you.
2.) 9.99999... - 0.99999... = 9 // the infinite decimal expansion is still a number and there's no reason we can't subtract it.
Really? What algorithm did you use to get that? The algorithm they teach in school involves starting at the rightmost non-zero decimal place of both terms, but neither 9.999... nor 0.999... have rightmost non-zero decimal places.
Your multiplication step in #1 has a simiiar problem.
See also Mathematical fallacy - Infinite series on Wikipedia.
Well, no. In ALL cases where f(x) exists, the limit of n as n approaches x is ALWAYS f(x). It is the same thing.
Only if f(x) is continuous.
How can you lay this at the feet of the graphics card manufacturers?
Simple: For at least 5 years, none of the major graphics card manufacturers gave us enough information to create drivers, so not only did drivers not get built, but a volunteer community of developers create those drivers never got built. The developers who did work on them basically worked for Intel, and now they work for Intel and AMD.
We've been stalled for half a decade. What do you expect?
I propose the following criteria for determining whether a non-human group should have "rights":
With rights come responsibilities. If you advocate human-like rights for non-humans, but can't imagine answering "yes" to the above questions, then you are advocating a system where entire classes of "people" have legal rights but no legal responsibilities. No thanks.
<quote>Personally I think they made a mistake in that regard, and should have outright prohibited a mix of tabs and spaces for indentation within a single file</quote>
<p>I think that's the case if you use "python -tt".</p>