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  1. Re:Backwards compatibility on Ask Slashdot: What Would a Constructed Language Have To Be To Replace English? · · Score: 1

    "It would have to be backwards compatible with English. Then you could say that everyone who speaks English is also speaking your constructed language."

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  2. Re:Pretty much. on How Ubiquiti Networks Is Creatively Violating the GPL · · Score: 1
    Ubiquiti, and others. GPL2:

    You may not copy, modify, sublicense, or distribute the Program except as expressly provided under this License. Any attempt otherwise to copy, modify, sublicense or distribute the Program is void, and will automatically terminate your rights under this License.

    Note that if anyone with copyright over the kernel wins such a suit, the rights to use the kernel are lost for all time ("terminated"). And, there's no way to get those rights to use the kernel back. (Well, maybe they could negotiate with every individual copyright holder...)

    Those who don't honor the requirements are playing with fire, and risking their entire business. That includes large firms like Samsung, who makes a habit of not releasing Linux (Android) kernel source for a considerable time after releasing new phones.

    Someday, someone with a copyright interest in the kernel is going to sue a Samsung, and get a billion dollar negotiated settlement because their business couldn't exist without a valid license to the kernel.

  3. Re:Interlacing? WTF? on Turning the Arduino Uno Into an Apple ][ · · Score: 4, Informative

    Woz designed a video system which very gracefully solved a few problems. For memory, one could choose from static or dynamic RAM. Static was easy to use, but costly. Dynamic RAM was required to be refreshed (accessed every couple of ms), or stored bits would simply be forgotten. But you could get higher capacity chips at lower cost.

    Woz designed the Apple ][ video system so the order it read data from RAM automatically fulfilled the DRAM refresh requirements. And, the video system reads were interleaved with CPU access, so the CPU never had to wait while video or DRAM refresh was happening, as was common with other designs.

    The claim of an 8:1 interlace isn't really correct. The bitmapped memory layout used an 8:8:1 interleave. The first 8 rows were addressed 0x400 apart, that pattern was then repeated 8 times with an offset of 0x80. Details can be Googled. Part of the reason for that is so DRAM refresh hit every required location often enough.

  4. Re:The main challenges... on Stanford Develops Fast-Charging, Stable Aluminum Battery · · Score: 0

    I've developed a perpetual motion machine. My main challenge is getting it to work without energy input.

  5. Re:Because they have an agenda? on Why Is the Internet Association Rewarding a Pro-NSA Net-Neutrality Opponent? · · Score: 1

    I don't know anything about this "Internet Association"...Just a guess...

    Why guess? There's this cool website called "Google," which lets you look things up. For instance, it can point you to the "Internet Association" website!

    And, their website even has information which indicates they support net neutrality, which makes the question legitimate.

  6. Re:What? on Microsoft Celebrates 40th Anniversary · · Score: 1

    I think Cromemco might have something to say about any claim Apple might make...

    (Assuming we're limiting this to microcomputers. Otherwise, see Tek 4010, among others.)

  7. Re:Surprising on The Most Highly Voted Requests In Windows 10 Feedback Pool · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "I don't mind a subscription model if it is cheap enough and I get upgrades forever."

    And it doesn't cruft up and slow down over time, and a reinstall doesn't require 2 days of reconfiguring everything, and the upgrades don't break things by requiring new apps and drivers, and they don't move all the configuration settings again, and, and, and.

  8. Re:"Policy construct we've been given" on NSA's Former General Council Talks Privacy, Security, and Snowden's 'Betrayal' · · Score: 1

    He realized he was not in a position to personally vet the info. He turned it over to well respected professional journalists.

    You don't know your history very well, either.

  9. Re:"Policy construct we've been given" on NSA's Former General Council Talks Privacy, Security, and Snowden's 'Betrayal' · · Score: 0

    " the Argentinians have never had a presence on the islands"

    Unless you consider that the Spanish had claims earlier than the British (via an agreement with the French, who were there first), that Argentina was previously held by Spain, and that independent Argentine claims date to the early 19th century attempts at settlement.

    "The only tangible facts are that the people who now live on the islands voted overwhelmingly to remain under British sovereignty"

    Are you related to Vladimir Putin? He says the same thing about Ukraine.

  10. Re:"Policy construct we've been given" on NSA's Former General Council Talks Privacy, Security, and Snowden's 'Betrayal' · · Score: 0

    "Is your position based on anti-Imperialism rather than will of the inhabitants of the islands?"

    So, you support Russia taking over the Crimea and Eastern Ukraine?

  11. Re:"Policy construct we've been given" on NSA's Former General Council Talks Privacy, Security, and Snowden's 'Betrayal' · · Score: 2

    You do realize that Snowden only gathered the info, and it's journalists such as Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras who vet and release the information publicly?

    Are you talking about the same Falkland Islands which the British took over from the Spanish who took them from the British who took them from the French? I'm not really seeing any valid claim to "UK sovereign territory," only a claim by force. Argentina has a reasonably legitimate claim based on geography instead of imperialism.

  12. It's a little late for that question. on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With User Resignation From an IT Perspective? · · Score: 1

    Why isn't there already a policy in place which anticipates and addresses your question?

    My experience, personal and seeing others - he packs a box of personal things and goes home, making himself available via phone/personal email for the 2 weeks.

    You absolutely need him there to transition the job? Again, poor planning - what would you have done if he had gotten hit by a bus?

  13. Re:it could have been an accident on Germanwings Plane Crash Was No Accident · · Score: 1

    "essentially due to the retentive heroism of the pilots"

    Or maybe they just, you know, pee before they go.

  14. Re:Or, from another perspective ... on Universal Reportedly Wants Spotify To Scale Back Its Free Streaming · · Score: 4, Informative

    ...and years before that, big labels got in trouble for paying people to stream their songs for free!

  15. Re:Normal women... on A Software Project Full of "Male Anatomy" Jokes Causes Controversy · · Score: 1

    Perhaps the solution is to create an offsetting TWATTS project, to make the whole thing gender neutral.

    (yea, some people simply want to be offended)

  16. Re:It is time to get up one way or the other on Obama: Maybe It's Time For Mandatory Voting In US · · Score: 0

    " I meant what I wrote. Disenfranchisement is a significant operation in this country right now. "

    Oh, then. Bullshit.

  17. Re:It is time to get up one way or the other on Obama: Maybe It's Time For Mandatory Voting In US · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "voter disenfranchisement doesn't help anyone"

    "Voter apathy," you mean. I for one don't want people who would only vote because of a legal requirement to do so. If they won't get out and vote on their own, they're certainly not going to take the time to make an informed decision.

    Then again, that's no doubt exactly why Obama wants it.

  18. Re:Know what's worse? Cleartext. on Researchers Find Same RSA Encryption Key Used 28,000 Times · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I suspect his problem with it is that he confuses it with WEP.

  19. Re:WTF? on Judicial Committee Approves FBI Plan To Expand Hacking Powers · · Score: 1

    This is different because a cop can't search a car in Finland without going to Finland, and placing himself under Finnish jurisdiction.

  20. Re:WTF? on Judicial Committee Approves FBI Plan To Expand Hacking Powers · · Score: 2

    "Our very Constitution says quite explicitly they aren't allowed to issue warrants for "unknown" locations."

    No, it says what it says. And, it says no such thing.

    This is no different than a warrant to search a specific vehicle, independent of the location it might have been driven to. "Place to be searched" doesn't need to mean a physical location, it can mean a specific person or vehicle or computer.

    The intent of the restriction is to ensure specificity, so there are no blanket warrants/searches. Allowing warrants for specific computers whose logical, but not physical, location is known doesn't undermine that.

  21. Re:Welcome to the new America on How Police Fight To Keep Use of Stingrays Secret · · Score: 4, Insightful

    But, the thing is, the cops don't have a license to transmit on the frequencies uses. Yet another case of breaking the law to enforce the law.

  22. Re: Understanding rules looser than style guide ru on Why There Is No Such Thing as 'Proper English' · · Score: 3, Funny

    Its a mute point. Your begging the question, "Y"?

  23. Re:Ron Wyden Edward Snowden on Senator: 'Plenty' of Domestic Surveillance We Still Don't Know About · · Score: 1

    The US Constitution was written to protect individual rights from a tyranny of the majority. The problem is judges who can't read plain English, and will rationalize to give the other branches whatever they want. The Supremes deserve contempt.

  24. Re:Ron Wyden Edward Snowden on Senator: 'Plenty' of Domestic Surveillance We Still Don't Know About · · Score: 2

    War is Peace
    Freedom is Slavery
    Ignorance is Strength

  25. Re:Please stop. Just stop on How To Execute People In the 21st Century · · Score: 1

    But, the murderer is no longer a burden on society.