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The Pentagon will have to live with limits on F-35’s supersonic flights (2020)(defensenews.com)
28 points by curt15 6y ago|76 comments
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by curt15 6y ago
How does the write endurance of phone-grade flash memory compare with that of desktop SSDs?
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by curt15 6y ago
Google has been using OpenJDK since Android 7.
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by curt15 6y ago
>An alternative take, which I'm sure won't be popular, is that now, with an interpretation taken to the extreme, a megаcorporation can basically steal your (let's say a small startup's) platform (in case you refuse to
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by curt15 6y ago
Why was this comment downvoted? Does GNU/Linux not largely reimplement proprietary Unix?
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by curt15 6y ago
>The fact that the Supreme Court decided not to overturn the decision of the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit that APIs are copyrightable means that binding precedent on every court except the Supreme is that they are. Federal Ci
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by curt15 6y ago
GNU/Linux owes its very existence to the practice of reimplementing interfaces that this ruling now codifies.
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by curt15 6y ago
If Android's "Java" is so different, then how does Google benefit? The whole point of reusing an existing language is to jump-start the app ecosystem by allowing developers to make use of their existing experience.
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by curt15 6y ago
Of course fair use is moot if API cannot be copyrighted in the first place. But the court seems to say that this case would be fair use even if API is copyrighted. "We shall assume, but purely for argument’s sake, that the entir
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by curt15 6y ago
The court made no holding on whether APIs can be copyrighted. "We shall assume, but purely for argument’s sake, that the entire Sun Java API falls within the definition of that which can be copy-righted. "
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by curt15 6y ago
>As it currently stands, APIs absolutely fall under copyright laws. This opinion doesn't say so. "We shall assume, but purely for argument’s sake, that the entire Sun Java API falls within the definition of that
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by curt15 6y ago
People seem to frequently forget that GNU was largely a GPL reimplementation of proprietary software.
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by curt15 6y ago
"On the other hand, Google’s copying helped Google makea vast amount of money from its Android platform. And enforcement of the Sun Java API copyright might give Oracle a significant share of these funds. It is important,
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by curt15 6y ago
"The record also showed that Java SE’s copyright holder would benefit from the reimplementation of its interface into a different market....the jury also heard evidence that Sun foresaw a benefit from the broader use of the Java
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by curt15 6y ago
"(e) The fact that computer programs are primarily functional makes it difficult to apply traditional copyright concepts in that technological world." So the opinion effectively preserves the status quo in the software industry wh
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by curt15 6y ago
Would ZFS's Adaptive Replacement Cache be considered for inclusion after IBM's patent expires?
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by curt15 6y ago
"Google is limiting what apps can use the QUERY_ALL_PACKAGES permission that “gives visibility into the inventory of installed apps on a given device.” " Sounds like it already is. Google Play is simply changing its policy on whic
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by curt15 6y ago
This would also seem to be a vulnerability of Canonical's centralised snap store. Would they take down submissions containing content that the CCP objects to?
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by curt15 6y ago
When was the last time the US fought another nation with nuclear weapons?
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by curt15 6y ago
Should Wired simply be required by law to delete the articles?
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by curt15 6y ago
> It is still true that the individual was accused but after being found innocent the information of them being accused isn't particularly relevant to anybody typing their name in a search engine. "Isn't particularly relev
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by curt15 6y ago
I thought the "right to be forgotten" is simply meant to prevent certain websites from appearing in search engine results. Isn't that precisely what robots.txt accomplishes? Does the right to be forgotten also compel website
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by curt15 6y ago
Finite differences is the PDE analogue of Runge-Kutta, and it is certainly used (in CFD for example). However, finite element methods have several advantages: * It can handle PDEs on domains with complicated geometries, while finite differe
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by curt15 6y ago
"The difficulty is that the freedoms that the Free Software Foundation insists on giving software users are freedoms that most software users do not want" How can he presume to know what "most software users" want or don
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by curt15 6y ago
"Android has always allowed people to get apps from multiple app stores. In fact, most Android devices ship with at least two app stores preinstalled, and consumers are able to install additional app stores. " What is the most com
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by curt15 6y ago
"Advanced functionality" such as the ability to take full control of when apps get updated.
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by curt15 6y ago
How many of those issues from your in-laws are due to installing programs from outside Google Play?
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by curt15 6y ago
What about Fedora IoT?
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by curt15 6y ago
>Once they introduced "classically confined" snaps (that is, snaps that have no confinement and exposed the real filesystem hierarchy to them) If there is no confinement, what advantages do "classically confined" snap
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by curt15 6y ago
CUDA is an industry standard, and AMD's lack of support is why NVIDIA enjoys a monopoly in the deep learning community.

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