A Republican sponsored the bill (i.e., rubberstamped his name to a document written by a lobbyist), but it has no chance of passing without support from members of both sides of the One Party.
How is that different? Regardless of who wrote the bill, this republican senator decided that it was worth legislating.
I thought they were against the government telling us how to live our lives.
Then you've made the fatal error of actually believing something a politician told you. Don't worry, it happens to the best of us, all you can do is learn from your mistakes and try to avoid making the same ones again.
It was sarcasm. The republicans in my state always rally for the government to stay out of our lives while actually making laws that invade our private lives.
I wouldn't be surprised if RedHat did this to not only keep a community based RHEL afloat, but to also have direct access to the users in order to sale them the paid RHEL edition.
I wish continued success of CentOS but I've been burned by RedHat's "you need to pay for continued support to get updates or suffer through our brand new, very unstable (bleeding edge), and free Fedora distribution" tactic. I hope they aren't planning a similar fate for CentOS.
They seem more balanced and go into more depth than the for-profits. Conservatives complain that its state sponsored liberal propaganda and liberals complain that they are becoming too conservative and caving to the right. I take this as a sign that they are doing something right.
They do so much more than news and I don't feel like I'm paying for someone to cut-and-paste AP news feeds like the other guys.
The only way I find out a new version of LibreOffice is available is either by visiting the website and click on download to see the version number or when someone posts something on slashdot.
A biased submitter found a statistic to support their claim that IE is no longer relevant. I agree IE may be losing relevance but the w3school log files only show that people who want to learn how to write a webpage from w3school are likely to use Chrome. I suspect if I looked at the log at Microsoft's developer network I would come to the conclusion of IE being preferred by developers, and if I went to Apple's developer site it would show that Safari being preferred by developers.
The other red flag being that the statistics are presented as percentages with no absolute numbers given. This could be a site serving a very small demographic with very low volume. In fact the site discloses some of these caveats in the "Statistics can be misleading" section of that page.
Rhawn Joeseph is trying to bully NASA into giving him access to the science data without having to wait for the mission scientists to publish their findings. There are procedures in place and Rhawn will just have to wait like everyone else.
Agree. The savings vs cost analysis is why I don't drive a hybrid.
However in my case, if the energy density of batteries were high enough and charging times were low enough in theory I could entertain the possibility of owning an EV. Of course it would probably still fail at the savings vs cost analysis.
$1000 isn't much of a capital investment to make sure my much more expensive solar array is installed correctly.
I have to hire a licensed electrician to upgrade my outdoor load center. This is a requirement since the power company will disconnect my current load center and I need to present the proper paperwork so that the power company can reestablish power to the new load center. I don't see installing a solar cell compatible load center being any different nor costing that much more.
I'm atypical and regularly commute over 350 miles between cities. I'll probably be one of the last people who would be able to take advantage of electric vehicles.
I don't see labor cost as a issue. The more solar panels advance the less skill required to install them. The more popular solar panels become the more installers there are competing for work.
I do see a practical limit to solar energy since it is negatively affected by weather and obstacles.
You confused bounty with revenue. Bounty is an outgoing expense while revenue is incoming wealth.
The Hoover Dam generates revenue by producing electricity. The Empire State Building generates revenue by renting space. Facebook generates revenue by selling ads and they paid a bounty to a person who found an exploit.
Nimbius seems confused since Facebook pays a salary to their development and maintenance staff and supplements their security practice by paying out bounties for any exploits found in the wild. It's not like Facebook just sits back and depends solely on bounties to keep their infrastructure working. He seems upset that paid staff don't get bonuses for fixing their own mistakes. Somehow he mistakenly believes that by paying bounties, Facebook is slighting their staff.
This is a blog entry reporting something that supposedly happened to a friend of an anonymous blog reader. No effort was made by the blog site to follow up with the theater or even the FBI. This is why you should really take what blogs say with a huge dose of salt.
And this "community" persistently rallies against working tegether Legally with CLA, i just dont understand, is it purely a trust thing ?
Not purely a trust thing but pretty close. The problem mentioned in the article is that Canonical's CLA is asymmetric. The author pointed out that their CLA allows Canonical to republish the work originally intended as GPLv3 using a proprietary license. It's not a case of "working together" as much as a case "we like to benefit more from the code than you". Using the author's theory, your submissions to Canonical could be used upstream to make a proprietary version of the software with features not available in the GPL version.
I had a debate with another commenter earlier this month on this subject. He had assumed that GPL software was completely free from risk of proprietary extensions. This CLA is yet another example of how this (in theory) could be done, the other being the copyright holder publishing on a dual license and the GPL version always lags behind or has less features than the community (GPL) version.
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Yes but the republicans make a big show of how it's bad that the government tell us how we live our lives. That was the point of my sarcasm.
How is that different? Regardless of who wrote the bill, this republican senator decided that it was worth legislating.
It was sarcasm. The republicans in my state always rally for the government to stay out of our lives while actually making laws that invade our private lives.
So a republican is legislating good manners? I thought they were against the government telling us how to live our lives.
What's wrong with allowing the airlines set the policy on their own planes?
I wouldn't be surprised if RedHat did this to not only keep a community based RHEL afloat, but to also have direct access to the users in order to sale them the paid RHEL edition.
I wish continued success of CentOS but I've been burned by RedHat's "you need to pay for continued support to get updates or suffer through our brand new, very unstable (bleeding edge), and free Fedora distribution" tactic. I hope they aren't planning a similar fate for CentOS.
More accurate:
We really messed up by ditching the RedHat free edition and creating the bleeding edge Fedora distribution expecting it to satisfy everyone's needs.
We need to support the efforts of CentOS to keep the spirit of RedHat free edition alive.
Finally the US banking system is catching up to the rest of the world.
Don't worry it was quite obvious you didn't know your subject matter.
It's that time of year again! Wozniak needs to remain visible and he delivers his usual controversial quotes to internet to feed the link baits.
Beta sucks btw.
They seem more balanced and go into more depth than the for-profits. Conservatives complain that its state sponsored liberal propaganda and liberals complain that they are becoming too conservative and caving to the right. I take this as a sign that they are doing something right.
They do so much more than news and I don't feel like I'm paying for someone to cut-and-paste AP news feeds like the other guys.
The only way I find out a new version of LibreOffice is available is either by visiting the website and click on download to see the version number or when someone posts something on slashdot.
A biased submitter found a statistic to support their claim that IE is no longer relevant. I agree IE may be losing relevance but the w3school log files only show that people who want to learn how to write a webpage from w3school are likely to use Chrome. I suspect if I looked at the log at Microsoft's developer network I would come to the conclusion of IE being preferred by developers, and if I went to Apple's developer site it would show that Safari being preferred by developers.
The other red flag being that the statistics are presented as percentages with no absolute numbers given. This could be a site serving a very small demographic with very low volume. In fact the site discloses some of these caveats in the "Statistics can be misleading" section of that page.
I think the entertainment value is in the journey not the destination or in this case outcome. Seriously nothing of real value was lost.
Rhawn Joeseph is trying to bully NASA into giving him access to the science data without having to wait for the mission scientists to publish their findings. There are procedures in place and Rhawn will just have to wait like everyone else.
Agree. The savings vs cost analysis is why I don't drive a hybrid.
However in my case, if the energy density of batteries were high enough and charging times were low enough in theory I could entertain the possibility of owning an EV. Of course it would probably still fail at the savings vs cost analysis.
It will be easier to hitch a ride on one those flying pigs which would exist if such a intra-city mass transit system magically appeared in my region.
$1000 isn't much of a capital investment to make sure my much more expensive solar array is installed correctly.
I have to hire a licensed electrician to upgrade my outdoor load center. This is a requirement since the power company will disconnect my current load center and I need to present the proper paperwork so that the power company can reestablish power to the new load center. I don't see installing a solar cell compatible load center being any different nor costing that much more.
I'm atypical and regularly commute over 350 miles between cities. I'll probably be one of the last people who would be able to take advantage of electric vehicles.
I don't see labor cost as a issue. The more solar panels advance the less skill required to install them. The more popular solar panels become the more installers there are competing for work.
I do see a practical limit to solar energy since it is negatively affected by weather and obstacles.
You confused bounty with revenue. Bounty is an outgoing expense while revenue is incoming wealth.
The Hoover Dam generates revenue by producing electricity. The Empire State Building generates revenue by renting space. Facebook generates revenue by selling ads and they paid a bounty to a person who found an exploit.
Nimbius seems confused since Facebook pays a salary to their development and maintenance staff and supplements their security practice by paying out bounties for any exploits found in the wild. It's not like Facebook just sits back and depends solely on bounties to keep their infrastructure working. He seems upset that paid staff don't get bonuses for fixing their own mistakes. Somehow he mistakenly believes that by paying bounties, Facebook is slighting their staff.
I agree he has a lot to learn.
It used to be 0o303 (0xC3) letter in the alphabet I used (EBCDIC). Now get off my lawn!
Mmmmm... Bugles.
This is a blog entry reporting something that supposedly happened to a friend of an anonymous blog reader. No effort was made by the blog site to follow up with the theater or even the FBI. This is why you should really take what blogs say with a huge dose of salt.
Not purely a trust thing but pretty close. The problem mentioned in the article is that Canonical's CLA is asymmetric. The author pointed out that their CLA allows Canonical to republish the work originally intended as GPLv3 using a proprietary license. It's not a case of "working together" as much as a case "we like to benefit more from the code than you". Using the author's theory, your submissions to Canonical could be used upstream to make a proprietary version of the software with features not available in the GPL version.
I had a debate with another commenter earlier this month on this subject. He had assumed that GPL software was completely free from risk of proprietary extensions. This CLA is yet another example of how this (in theory) could be done, the other being the copyright holder publishing on a dual license and the GPL version always lags behind or has less features than the community (GPL) version.
and moved into research parks like Triangle Research Park (North Carolina, NC) and Cummins Research Park (Huntsville, AL).
That was suppose to say thunderbolt display.