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  1. Re:Hells yeah on MySQL to Get Injection of Google Code · · Score: 1

    To be fair, that depends on whether you're following section 3a or 3b (let's ignore 3c for the moment) of the GPL (and let's, for the sake of argument, assume version 2 of the GPL to save me from actually having to look at the MySQL website to find out which version they use). If you choose 3a, then you must accompany the binary with the source code at the time of distribution. If you choose 3b, then you must "accompany it [the binary] with a written offer, valid for at least three years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code" (emphasis mine).

    Of course, this is just my interpretation, IANAL, YMMV, ABCDEF, XKCD, WTF.

  2. Re:John Companies on Decent Co-Location or Virtual Server Hosting? · · Score: 1

    How about if you were a prison governor?

  3. Re:Emergency Calls? on France to Allow Cell Phone Jamming · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I'm just guessing here, but maybe they could have an on-site picocell or something which the phones will associate with, and then control which calls the cell lets through? Just a thought.

  4. Languages on Sharp Mebius Subnotebook Review · · Score: 4, Funny

    This Japanese Import is available translated into English from Dynamism

    I never realised that "Dynamism" was a language...

  5. Re:You are not using a finished service on How Good is Gmail's Spam Filter? · · Score: 1

    Also, I guess it's possible that every so often during the beta Google will drop the threshold on their spam filter temporarily to get people to manually train their filters. There's no substitute for human-based sorting.

  6. Re:Jeez.......IE isn't that bad on Ars Technica Interviews Scott Collins · · Score: 1

    Sorry, are you new here?

  7. Re:Average Users on CNN Notices that WiFi is Insecure · · Score: 1

    True, when there weren't many users, the average was quite tech-savvy. However, the cost of the technology was generally quite high, and it's only mainstream adoption which drives down the cost of these things.

    Mass-manufacture really does mean cheaper toys.

    I whole-heartedly agree with the opinion that security can (and should) be made easy by these things, but that's going to take collaboration amongst manufacturers (implementing something alternative to / better than WEP).

  8. Re:Gentoo or Pebble? on Lite Linux Distros for a Digital Picture Frame? · · Score: 1

    I second the Gentoo suggestion: it's remarkably adaptable. I run it on a P120 laptop with 24MB ram and not much HDD by NFS-mounting /usr/portage whenever necessary and distcc-ing the compiles to whatever else is switched on in the house at the time.

    My thoughts for the picture-frame: absolutely compactflash and an IDE adapter; make it as read-only as possible so as not to wear-out the CF card (although they're not too expensive anyway).

    Make a custom Gentoo install inside a chroot on a more powerful computer, and get it to cross-compile everything for you rpicture frame. Then just copy your new setup to the CF card, put it into the picture-frame, and you're good-to-go.

    And yes, an EPIA seems like overkill...

    Are you using a TFT? What sort, how much, and where from?

  9. Re:The grand grand grand grand grand son on Around the World in a Solar Plane · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Given that TNG is set around 2380, wouldn't that be great great great great great great great great great great grand-father? :)

  10. Ermmm... on China's Space Launch Near; Malaysia Wants One, Too · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... between October 15th and October 17th

    That would be October 16th, then...

  11. Re:How about .museum on ICANN Gives VeriSign 36 Hours to Pull Sitefinder · · Score: 2, Insightful

    No, it's a valid and allowed use of this. Basically, the International Council of Museums negotiated with ICANN the ability to do this, and then to only allow "proper" museums to have .museum domains. This is an example of why there is the capability to have wildcards, it's a productive use of the system IMO. See this page for more info.