For all intents and purposes Apple could have released their code under GPLv3+ and they would have been fine.
Not really. They, like many other companies, were not comfortable with the language about patents in GPL3, and did not want to take on the extra legal risk it involves.
and now there's talk of him helping foreign governments in exchange for asylum.
There's "talk", from the NSA itself. How very reliable.
And the talk is about him helping Germany. You know, one of your closest allies? Maybe not pissing off your allies should have been a little bit higher on the list of priorities, and this might not have been an issue right now?
Yeah, the weakness is fairly clever. We only know it is there, but to exploit it, you need information that only those who designed the algorithm and picked its parameters know. Finding that information from what we know may not be possible, at least nobody has succeeded in doing so.
Probably because APNG has blending for sub-frames while WebP doesn't. For single-frame images, WebP is going to win. I wonder if they will change their minds and add that at some point.
And Chrome supports animated WebP files, which can do the same things as APNG, and more on top, such as lossy animated images. It also compresses better in lossless mode than PNG.
this objection has been pretty thoroughly debunked...
Debunked in the traditional bitcoiner way, yes: Handwaved away, ignored, and claimed to be debunked.
It is probably still far cheaper than the old-fashioned way of doing things
As we see here. Claim it is "far cheaper than the old-fashioned way", ignore that the old-fashioned way is handling many orders of magnitude more transactions, and pretend bitcoin wouldn't need to scale up dramatically to handle the same.
I can just about guarantee that if you knew how genuine fish sauce was made, you wouldn't put it in your mouth.
No, I am not such a little wimp that it would bother me. I know very well that many, many of the foods I eat are made through very disgusting processes.
Does it taste good? Is there any chance of it making me ill? If the answers are yes and no, why should I care about how it is made?
These people are doing work and you think that this is wrong.
Hardly. The vast majority of them just scrape each other's databases and stuff them full of ads. They are pathetic bottom feeders trying to make a quick buck.
Less than the average citizen, but more than someone who isn't contributing at all. Dramatically less than the typical one-percenter (for lack of a better term.)
That's a lot of careful consideration that you just applied to only yourself and not to all those dead people.
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For all intents and purposes Apple could have released their code under GPLv3+ and they would have been fine.
Not really. They, like many other companies, were not comfortable with the language about patents in GPL3, and did not want to take on the extra legal risk it involves.
So yes, let us bask in all that effort that Apple has done for the open source community.
Like... clang?
There are paths provided for expressing concerns, none of which he appears to have taken.
I like how you automatically parrot this talking point, even when the summary itself contradicts it.
I guess you conveniently forgot the part where he asked pretty much everyone else, and they said no?
and now there's talk of him helping foreign governments in exchange for asylum.
There's "talk", from the NSA itself. How very reliable.
And the talk is about him helping Germany. You know, one of your closest allies? Maybe not pissing off your allies should have been a little bit higher on the list of priorities, and this might not have been an issue right now?
He release EVERY FUCKING PIECE of information he had.
Doesn't matter how many times you say it, it's still not going to magically become true. He didn't.
Yeah, the weakness is fairly clever. We only know it is there, but to exploit it, you need information that only those who designed the algorithm and picked its parameters know. Finding that information from what we know may not be possible, at least nobody has succeeded in doing so.
They are not empty.
Do the LAWS of the United States of America recognize the entity by the name of "BITCOIN" ?
No, just like how they don't recognise an entity by the name of "Google". Absurdly, they still claim Google has to follow the law!
Probably because APNG has blending for sub-frames while WebP doesn't. For single-frame images, WebP is going to win. I wonder if they will change their minds and add that at some point.
Note that .webm is just a subset of MKV.
You are confusing it with VP8.
And Chrome supports animated WebP files, which can do the same things as APNG, and more on top, such as lossy animated images. It also compresses better in lossless mode than PNG.
Well, neither is h.265 at the moment, nor is it even supported at all in any browser, so for once VP9 does have the advantage there.
this objection has been pretty thoroughly debunked...
Debunked in the traditional bitcoiner way, yes: Handwaved away, ignored, and claimed to be debunked.
It is probably still far cheaper than the old-fashioned way of doing things
As we see here. Claim it is "far cheaper than the old-fashioned way", ignore that the old-fashioned way is handling many orders of magnitude more transactions, and pretend bitcoin wouldn't need to scale up dramatically to handle the same.
where they end up is ?????
Parking lots, appartently:
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/behind_news/social_affairs/AJ2011110216339
Ok, that wasn't an industrial cobalt-60 source, but still.
Oh man please be the same and we're the only ones who haven't...
Yes, let's accept despicable behaviour to make ourselves look jaded and cool on the internet. That is a great solution to all problems!
That one doesn't have any GPIOs or micocontroller buses. Completely useless for the kinds of things this board is meant for.
I can just about guarantee that if you knew how genuine fish sauce was made, you wouldn't put it in your mouth.
No, I am not such a little wimp that it would bother me. I know very well that many, many of the foods I eat are made through very disgusting processes.
Does it taste good? Is there any chance of it making me ill? If the answers are yes and no, why should I care about how it is made?
You haven't tried puncturing a charged lithium battery, have you?
Of course Slashdot'll never report it, cause they're in Apple's pocket.
The surest sign that a person has gone way, way off the deep end.
These people are doing work and you think that this is wrong.
Hardly. The vast majority of them just scrape each other's databases and stuff them full of ads. They are pathetic bottom feeders trying to make a quick buck.
You just said all the people of one nation deserved to die for not stopping the war.
But for yourself, it apparently matters how hard you tried, even if you didn't succeed. Not for them, though.
Less than the average citizen, but more than someone who isn't contributing at all. Dramatically less than the typical one-percenter (for lack of a better term.)
That's a lot of careful consideration that you just applied to only yourself and not to all those dead people.