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by bdowling 5y ago
The article that btilly linked to is very good, but I think it over-emphasizes the possibility of interpreting open source licenses as contracts. You have to read pretty far and pay close attention to understand that most open source licens
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by bdowling 5y ago
I was thinking of France, which IIRC had such a mandate.
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by bdowling 5y ago
> If this fix is necessary to that contract The fix can't be necessary because the original report included examples of it working using Intel Fortran and Cray Fortran. So there's an alternative. Also, if the contract specified
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by bdowling 5y ago
The customer could easily be Russia, U.K., China, France, India, Pakistan, or some other country with nuclear weapons. Not North Korea, though, because Cray/HPE probably can't do business with North Korea.
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by bdowling 5y ago
> ...the users of the GPLed binaries have not had their right to see the source satisfied. That's the intent of the GPL (GPL v3 Preamble) but it's not an outcome that a license can guarantee. A copyright license can only be enf
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by bdowling 5y ago
> Ideally the amount would scale with your size/wealth. That would quickly lead to poor individuals and non-profit companies trying to transfer the benefits of their low-cost infractions to others.
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by bdowling 5y ago
Thanks. A statement of the court's order was included in the "press release" link, not the link I originally posted. Link updated. > The Judge, considering the articles 156 I.d.a. and 700 c.p.c., > Orders the defendants
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by bdowling 5y ago
Note that the court ordered the defendants to comply by removing the GPL code from their product, not to comply by publishing their source code. [0] [0] https://www.dynamic.ooo/press/groundbreaking-acknowledgment-... E
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by bdowling 5y ago
It's illegal for a US inventor to file a patent application in a foreign country without either (a) obtaining a foreign filing license first, or (b) applying for a US patent and waiting at least 6 months. [0] The idea there is to give
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by bdowling 5y ago
If it makes you feel any better, these projects derived from decompiling binaries infringe copyrights in the original and can be shut down whenever the owners decide to assert their rights. Your project is at least your own work.
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by bdowling 5y ago
An airplane with four doors instead of eight would weigh less so the plane may fly a little faster. Legroom shouldn't affect the speed.
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by bdowling 5y ago
I'm going to guess that codes don't require two stairwells if there is only one apartment per floor.
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by bdowling 5y ago
> think of all the wasted space and weight having 8 exit doors on a airplane If we could choose to fly on the same plane with 4 doors that would give us more legroom and get us to our destination in less time, I believe a lot of us would
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by bdowling 5y ago
It's about Apple's plan to add content-scanning to phones and reporting to the government if content matches images in the database. The concern is that it will be used by governments to identify political enemies who share memes,
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by bdowling 5y ago
You can easily avoid negative percentages by rephrasing. e.g., "Walmart profits are down 15% because of retail theft." Theft loss makes sense to present in relation to profits because the thieves in these cases resell the goods. T
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by bdowling 5y ago
Exactly. Inventory loss is an expense just like any other of the company (cf. rent, utilities, labor, etc.). For those retailers operating on a thin profit margin, an increase in inventory loss expense affects profits just like an increase
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by bdowling 5y ago
> entire commands being typed in while holding the special key It worked for the Cat because the special keys were just below the space bar and could be held down with the thumb while typing.
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by bdowling 5y ago
> (It also lowered the top tax rate from 50% to 28%, and raised the bottom tax rate from 11% to 15%, so it wasn't a complete win). The Tax Reform Act of 1986 also eliminated a ton of shenanigans that sophisticated taxpayers could pl
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by bdowling 5y ago
It's a bit more complicated than that. Code is assembled into a shared memory buffer. The application spawns a child process that runs the code in the shared memory buffer. The parent process attaches to the child using ptrace to inspe
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by bdowling 5y ago
This is basically correct. A court will generally accept a writing into evidence as long as it is relevant and authenticated by a witness or certification.
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by bdowling 5y ago
> I am fascinated by Forth, but every time I've tried to learn it I haven't really "got it". Try reading Jonesforth, a literate Forth implementation in one x86 assembly file and one Forth file. You can read it top to
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by bdowling 5y ago
See also: - Fast gaming computers that are only used to run benchmarks. - Fancy photography gear that is only used to take pictures of resolution test charts and cats. - Expensive guns that are never taken to the shooting range. - High-end
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by bdowling 5y ago
So, you've published your first game. What's your goal? Is it to make money from this game or do you just want people to play it? Are you going to make a second game? If so, will the goal be any different?
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by bdowling 5y ago
> It's not porn if it's text. One of the first erotic text adventures is literally named "Softporn Adventure". [0][1] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Softporn_Adventure [1] https://w
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by bdowling 5y ago
It doesn't help that outside of computer use, file means a collection of documents (e.g., a case file).
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by bdowling 5y ago
> … company colors. So, enforcing group identity and tribalism, basically. A lot of people do think of that as the point of life. Being a part of a group and living for the benefit of the group over oneself. The religious fervor over enf
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by bdowling 5y ago
Prop 19's targeting inheritance exemptions will have uneven effects. The very wealthy won't be affected at all because, on the advice of their estate planners, they will have transferred their properties into corporate entities lo
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by bdowling 5y ago
> Those moving into the inherited home as their primary residence are not affected. Not true. Only $1m of assessed value is excluded for heirs moving into an inherited property as a primary residence. Inheriting property worth more than
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by bdowling 5y ago
> If California somehow repealed Prop 13... In November 2020, California scaled back on some of the benefits of Prop 13 for families. Prior to Prop 19, properties could pass from parents to children and the property tax basis would not i
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by bdowling 5y ago
It's sold under the name アセトアミノフェン (acetaminophen) in Japan. http://www.survivingnjapan.com/2011/01/how-to-find-tylenol-i...

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