Freedom 0: The freedom to run the program for any purpose. Affero: you're not allowed to use code from it in an IMAP server, a networked lift control, etc. Ergo, it's not free software by FSF's own definition.
Affero is nothing like the regular GPL. The latter imposes no real burden other than a bit of disk space and/or bandwidth, the only restriction is that you can't add new restrictions. You are allowed to use GPLed code in any situation, and can only be not allowed to distribute it if some third party (like your company's legal department, a patent office, or the licensor of some other code you want to mix in) would block you. Affero, on the other hand, wants to block even use.
Whether trying to block use via a pure license is even legal is another question (check out for example Daniel Bernstein's rants), but since accepting the license is a requirement for distribution, you can use xor distribute it. Thus, the AGPL is not a free software license.
As Hurd can't run on any semi-modern machine anymore (lacking small details like SATA or USB support), you actually need Linux (/Windows/OSX/Solaris) to host a VM...
Who told you the stock market was a zero sum game? (Hint: It's not).
There is no input other than the Ponzi effect. All possible overall profits come from dividends, which are not related to stock exchange. Ie, you can legitimately benefit from owning a portion of some enterprise, but not from trading it back and forth. And since your trades are less informed than those of the privileged few, it's you who is losing on the average.
HFT is effectively skimming a bit from every trade. And every cent skimmed is a cent stolen from legitimate investors.
Essentially, all they're doing is shuffling money around.
More exactly: they're shuffling money from our accounts to theirs. If your bank has any securities involved with the stock exchange, it is your money that is getting nicked here. A zero-sum game requires that besides a winner there must be a loser.
Pick one that's essentially unused on a personal computer. SysRq, Scroll Lock, Pause/Break?
Somehow, on an OS which has an use for Scroll Lock, I always use Ctrl-S/Ctrl-Q for this purpose anyway.
Same for Ctrl-C.
And SysRq is never used without Ctrl-Alt, and even that only if you mess with your kernel. Having any other key go as a part of that three finger salute would be just as good.
The latest version of LLVM is actually very competitive against the latest GCC except where the GCC code makes use of OpenMP (which LLVM is still busy implementing).
For the values of "competitive" of "around 1 level of optimization slower" on the average (although particular cases vary widely). Granted, gcc tends to compile around that level of optimization slower in return, but for production code, you compile once run many.
And on the high end of optimizations... gcc compiles one piece of code with LTO in 40 minutes on a 256MB raspberry pi, while clang OOMed after several hours on my main box (8MB ram + 8MB ssd swap).
And comparing current clang with ancient gcc... what's the point? Newsflash: modern gcc runs circles around that too.
Debian was briefly already there, but sadly, that got reverted. Let's wait a bit, if this and similar regressions in newest Gnome3 won't get reverted, this will give us some ammunition for raising this issue again.
I'd personally prefer MATE+Compiz, but XFCE is sane enough.
NaCl supports only a tiny subset of NPAPI functionality, it's also not portable beyond i386 and armel.
NPAPI is just as secure (or more often, insecure) as the browser itself. Some sandboxing is in theory good, but NaCl hardly brings anything you can't already do, at a speed and sanity penalty, in javascript.
At the moment I have only two plugins installed: Flash and DNSSEC Validator. Tell me how would you implement the latter without either arbitrary network access or calling out to the OS.
Uhm no, that's merely a flimsy far-fetched excuse. "Because NSA reminded us about something" is not a reason a sane programmer would name that symbol NSAKEY. If you believe that, I have a slightly-used bridge to sell.
The country most similar to US would be UK. It has a total gun ban. Let's compare violent crime rates per 100K people: US 466, UK 2034.
And militia specifically means private citizens rather than the army. The whole point of 2nd amendment is to let citizens be able to defend themselves against crime, including both private criminals and government criminals.
64 bit is no advantage on a device with less than 4 GB of non-upgradeable RAM.
In fact, it's a severe disadvantage: amd64 is faster than i386 because of more than doubling the number of available registers (i386 suffers from serious register pressure) and because of new instructions; yet even with all that it still fares worse at some tasks due to wasting memory cache. Where it's memory rather than CPU what's the bottleneck, enjoy the 30-40% penalty.
ARMv8 does double the number of registers too, but benefits here diminish very quickly: old ARM was already good. And if you control the kernel, you can have a 32 bit ABI that uses new registers, like x32 (don't confuse that with Microsoft's name for i386). I don't think that's really worth it on ARM, though, unless you can recompile everything (like Linux distributions can), or at least have some sort of multiarch.
This move is thus only for marketing rather than technical reasons.
The radio part has no access to any data the phone company can't already get off the wire/air. Everything that the spooks and other criminals are interested in resides in the computer part.
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This isn't very impressive.
What I find more impressive is that they somehow made a laser rifle. I wonder what does it do: shoot a helical beam like those in some games?
Freedom 0: The freedom to run the program for any purpose.
Affero: you're not allowed to use code from it in an IMAP server, a networked lift control, etc. Ergo, it's not free software by FSF's own definition.
Affero is nothing like the regular GPL. The latter imposes no real burden other than a bit of disk space and/or bandwidth, the only restriction is that you can't add new restrictions. You are allowed to use GPLed code in any situation, and can only be not allowed to distribute it if some third party (like your company's legal department, a patent office, or the licensor of some other code you want to mix in) would block you. Affero, on the other hand, wants to block even use.
Whether trying to block use via a pure license is even legal is another question (check out for example Daniel Bernstein's rants), but since accepting the license is a requirement for distribution, you can use xor distribute it. Thus, the AGPL is not a free software license.
Like, say, statutory rape?
So here's a port for you to run.
HURD ain't done 'til Linux won't run!
As Hurd can't run on any semi-modern machine anymore (lacking small details like SATA or USB support), you actually need Linux (/Windows/OSX/Solaris) to host a VM...
Who told you the stock market was a zero sum game? (Hint: It's not).
There is no input other than the Ponzi effect. All possible overall profits come from dividends, which are not related to stock exchange. Ie, you can legitimately benefit from owning a portion of some enterprise, but not from trading it back and forth. And since your trades are less informed than those of the privileged few, it's you who is losing on the average.
HFT is effectively skimming a bit from every trade. And every cent skimmed is a cent stolen from legitimate investors.
Essentially, all they're doing is shuffling money around.
More exactly: they're shuffling money from our accounts to theirs. If your bank has any securities involved with the stock exchange, it is your money that is getting nicked here. A zero-sum game requires that besides a winner there must be a loser.
Well, consumption of sperm guarantees no pregnancy.
Pick one that's essentially unused on a personal computer. SysRq, Scroll Lock, Pause/Break?
Somehow, on an OS which has an use for Scroll Lock, I always use Ctrl-S/Ctrl-Q for this purpose anyway.
Same for Ctrl-C.
And SysRq is never used without Ctrl-Alt, and even that only if you mess with your kernel. Having any other key go as a part of that three finger salute would be just as good.
The latest version of LLVM is actually very competitive against the latest GCC except where the GCC code makes use of OpenMP (which LLVM is still busy implementing).
For the values of "competitive" of "around 1 level of optimization slower" on the average (although particular cases vary widely). Granted, gcc tends to compile around that level of optimization slower in return, but for production code, you compile once run many.
And on the high end of optimizations... gcc compiles one piece of code with LTO in 40 minutes on a 256MB raspberry pi, while clang OOMed after several hours on my main box (8MB ram + 8MB ssd swap).
And comparing current clang with ancient gcc... what's the point? Newsflash: modern gcc runs circles around that too.
Debian was briefly already there, but sadly, that got reverted. Let's wait a bit, if this and similar regressions in newest Gnome3 won't get reverted, this will give us some ammunition for raising this issue again.
I'd personally prefer MATE+Compiz, but XFCE is sane enough.
Your 12 years old kid should also know not to enter that seedy bar in a dark alley next to his walk from school.
I'd say parents know about ratings -- in fact, they know not only about their existence but also quality. And, especially, relevance.
In other words, they don't give a f...
If your children hasn't seen enough porn already, I pity both you and your offspring, as this means you keep them in a cage.
The middle-click will be used to start selections, and provide text contextual menus
Isn't that what the right button already does?
There is one problem: for historic reasons, most distributions install Gnome by default. This needs to be fixed, badly.
NaCl supports only a tiny subset of NPAPI functionality, it's also not portable beyond i386 and armel.
NPAPI is just as secure (or more often, insecure) as the browser itself. Some sandboxing is in theory good, but NaCl hardly brings anything you can't already do, at a speed and sanity penalty, in javascript.
At the moment I have only two plugins installed: Flash and DNSSEC Validator. Tell me how would you implement the latter without either arbitrary network access or calling out to the OS.
Short of a meteor hitting the building the power will never go out
A small fire in a strategic place... Or perhaps, just some minor failure of something you thought was separated enough.
Considering the consequences of defying the spooks, they had no real choice but to dig that hole or close the company.
Might be quite hard to do if they're sneaky enough. Let's better disable all requests to tracking and ad servers altogether.
Which differs from current only sane state... how?
Uhm no, that's merely a flimsy far-fetched excuse. "Because NSA reminded us about something" is not a reason a sane programmer would name that symbol NSAKEY. If you believe that, I have a slightly-used bridge to sell.
The country most similar to US would be UK. It has a total gun ban. Let's compare violent crime rates per 100K people: US 466, UK 2034.
And militia specifically means private citizens rather than the army. The whole point of 2nd amendment is to let citizens be able to defend themselves against crime, including both private criminals and government criminals.
64 bit is no advantage on a device with less than 4 GB of non-upgradeable RAM.
In fact, it's a severe disadvantage: amd64 is faster than i386 because of more than doubling the number of available registers (i386 suffers from serious register pressure) and because of new instructions; yet even with all that it still fares worse at some tasks due to wasting memory cache. Where it's memory rather than CPU what's the bottleneck, enjoy the 30-40% penalty.
ARMv8 does double the number of registers too, but benefits here diminish very quickly: old ARM was already good. And if you control the kernel, you can have a 32 bit ABI that uses new registers, like x32 (don't confuse that with Microsoft's name for i386). I don't think that's really worth it on ARM, though, unless you can recompile everything (like Linux distributions can), or at least have some sort of multiarch.
This move is thus only for marketing rather than technical reasons.
There's lot of flamage on Debian mailing lists, but next to no profanity.
I delete messages quickly, but in 648 I currently have left, there are 2 fucks and 2 bullshits (not counting a false positive in a GPG signature).
The radio part has no access to any data the phone company can't already get off the wire/air. Everything that the spooks and other criminals are interested in resides in the computer part.
Correction: don't use a cell phone with a proprietary OS. This means iOS and Google's and carriers' builds of Android, but don't necessarily the rest.