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811.
by SolarNet 11y ago
The exact problem in this article was the reason opensourceecology was made in the first place.
812.
by SolarNet 11y ago
Regulations like the EPA regulations typically only apply to selling the hardware. If you own and operate it on your own property and never sell it to anyone you have a lot more leeway.
813.
by SolarNet 11y ago
Archives have some pretty broad exceptions to copyright infringement laws. [0] http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html#108
814.
by SolarNet 11y ago
I bet they can eventually build a co-op to pay for connectivity from the Mesh to the CO. Basically a community paid for high bandwidth connection out of the mesh to the internet. Which basically turn the mesh into a last mile network.
815.
by SolarNet 11y ago
It's no different than using reading incorrectly and getting them addicted to that. Anything can become an addiction, gaming isn't any more or less prone to becoming addictive than shopping, playing outside, reading or eating. Man
816.
by SolarNet 11y ago
Nope, trademarks are used to distinguish brands and ensure their authenticity, and that's exactly what is happening here. If people used this to impersonate another company (e.g. to pretend they had gotten their endorsement) then that&
817.
by SolarNet 11y ago
NVIDIA is really pushing though, they are moving up in the Linux developer commit charts [0]. In a few months they might be close enough to parity on the SteamOS (which likely could involve some proprietary code) for it not to matter. [0]
818.
by SolarNet 11y ago
For example PageRank - the core algorithm - is patented [0]. [0] http://www.google.com/patents/US6285999
819.
by SolarNet 12y ago
We got to add that for linux 4.1 someone get on that.
820.
by SolarNet 12y ago
You are confusing mitigation with security. Zeroing out memory after use is mitigation against security flaws like heart bleed. It's not a security feature in it self. Although you are right that the secure process is probably just the
821.
by SolarNet 12y ago
You can also set it up like a small democracy as the company gets larger. Have the coop (that is all the people in it) evaluate different jobs and adjust salaries accordingly (or perhaps pay people based off of the jobs they could fill rath
822.
by SolarNet 12y ago
That's a fair assessment, on the other hand, down this road is corporate dystopias and more powerful multinationals. When corporations have no recourse about their knowledge workers leaving and working for a competitor and giving up th
823.
by SolarNet 12y ago
I would call an error placed by the compiler due to failure to exactly follow standards a problem in the system. We are talking totality of systems here, the compiler that produces the programs is part of the system that uses the program.
824.
by SolarNet 12y ago
I don't see how you got there. Numerical analysis is a whole branch of computer science which regularly deals with slight differences in computation. The usage of a constant (like pi) that is one bit different could cascade into massiv
825.
by SolarNet 12y ago
I think a fair comparison is LLVM for developer tools. Shared IR (graph schema) and optimizers. Pluggable front ends (syntax viewers, editors, etc.) and backends (languages).
826.
by SolarNet 12y ago
Well on the first case there is, the OOM killer is preallocated, the memory deallocation algorithms are preallocated, etc. On the second... not so much. It comes back to the same problem. How do you notify the user without using the memory
827.
by SolarNet 12y ago
Well the brute forcing of it would be mighty suspicious: the number on the back has a 1,000 or 10,000 combinations. So that will be noticed, even if you got the first 12 numbers right on the first try. Also, theoretically , of the remainin
828.
by SolarNet 12y ago
I think your may questions may be best answered by better explaining the role of stripe and where the layers of processing are here. Stripe handles the entirety of the card processing infrastructure, the website (user of their API) can only
829.
by SolarNet 12y ago
It's probably more along the lines of the same data being processed within the same chip. Not actual memory bandwidth. This HPU they are talking about is processing depth information and eye lines (probably quite a bit more often than
830.
by SolarNet 12y ago
Yea, but that doesn't mean you still don't get some additional speed out of hiring more developers, especially when correctly organized, with sane management policies, and good software development practices. The point is that Mic
831.
by SolarNet 12y ago
> Maintaining code is not a trivially parallelizable function. Yes, I know this, thank you. But we are talking about billions of dollars vs. millions of dollars (for Linux / BSD). We are talking multiple orders of magnitude (!) mor
832.
by SolarNet 12y ago
Yes you are of course correct about SELinux! I actually separated Steam into a sand-boxed "steam" user account. But maybe that's because I learned Unix on BSD and never included SELinux or how to use it (and it isn't obv
833.
by SolarNet 12y ago
How is that a reasonable excuse? If they have so much money their operating system should be fixed faster, not slower, than other operating systems.
834.
by SolarNet 12y ago
I'm saying that people can set up this policy themselves. I'm not saying steam should do it, I'm saying anyone can do it for any application they install.
835.
by SolarNet 12y ago
Yes, however linux supports this sort of security right now and has for many many years, and properly used would have prevented these mishaps. More than backing up their data, I blame the users for being incompetent users of computers in
836.
by SolarNet 12y ago
There are, it's called users, and groups, and file permissions. Applications like steam should really be running under a separate user so they can't write to personal files (and maybe just have read permissions). But of course pro
837.
by SolarNet 12y ago
Ever hear of Imposter Syndrome? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impostor_syndrome And for that matter it's inverse: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
838.
by SolarNet 12y ago
I think it's important to point to the best person in the room and say, be more like that guy. He may not be a paragon of scientific values, but at least he's well above the rest. You're basically asking the junior developer
839.
by SolarNet 12y ago
I think the idea is that insects are so far down on the animal scale. For example, they don't really have pain [0]. At some point we have to relate animals to robotics. And insects are so low on the scale of intelligence it might as we
840.
by SolarNet 12y ago
Unless the license agreement for contributing specifically says the author forfeits their copyright, but no open source licenses I know of do this.

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