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by dtf 17y ago
All I know about this incident is that Microsoft dropped some driver code into the kernel and chose to license it as GPL (they could easily have chosen BSD instead). Why have they been "forced to comply with the GPL to avoid being sued for
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by dtf 17y ago
You (and plenty others) need to stop anthropomorphizing Microsoft and painting them as some kind of single sentient entity. The reason they can be unpredictable is because they're so freaking huge. Even the strategy on their own products do
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by dtf 17y ago
That's a really impressive piece of software.
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by dtf 17y ago
Microsoft is the FSF's arch-nemesis. It doesn't matter what they do: it must always be wrong, as it is their very existence that defines the FSF. The hate must survive.
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by dtf 17y ago
Or, for those who aren't stingy with their particles: "hone in on" :-) Some interesting speculation on the origins: http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000378.h...
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by dtf 17y ago
"However, Eady did say that Google has a responsibility to block or take down content if it is notified with a legitimate complaint about libellous material." More fodder for the chillingeffects database? Libel laws have no place on the web
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by dtf 17y ago
I keep coming across sites that have text flush left against the side of the browser window (ie no margin). Is this some new trend? It looks weird.
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by dtf 17y ago
The way they draw wiggly lines around the coast - is that supposed to be geographically correct? Or is it just shorthand for "beware: coast is wiggly"?
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by dtf 17y ago
What are the chances of them inserting V8 into IE? Is that completely unthinkable? They've been doing some crazy things lately...
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by dtf 17y ago
It's can be a good PR tactic though - polarize and conquer. Ask.com tried a similar approach when they rebranded, replete with guerilla marketing campaigns like this and fake graffiti. The problem is that Google's quite hard to hate....
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by dtf 17y ago
Also: 67.5m is supposed to be 26% of Brazil's population, which would make it 260m. The CIA book's 2008 estimate for Brazil's population is only 190m.
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by dtf 17y ago
Seems like it would be nice to apply LLVM -O3 selectively, perhaps with some kind of pragma/directive in your code, and use the mono JIT as usual for the rest. Is this a possibility? I often know where my performance hotspots are, but switc
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by dtf 17y ago
So will WikiLeaks be hosting leaked celebrity sex videos now? Frankly, I've always found their collection of politically themed documents a tad... highbrow. While I do fear privacy controls, there's quite a difference between public interes
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by dtf 17y ago
Yes. Though it would only be legally required for watching a live iPlayer stream. Not quite sure how the dudes in the vans ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NmdUcmLFkw ) detect this though.
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by dtf 17y ago
There should really be a <!--[if !IE 6]> around that div. ;-)
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by dtf 17y ago
I thought aspies didn't do jokes? (I'm joking :-)
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by dtf 17y ago
The Real Hustle did a nice reconstruction of one of the mock auctions you're talking about: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-o1zdm7ANVw
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by dtf 17y ago
There is a doctrine in UK copyright law known as "sweat of the brow". I imagine this is what the NPG's lawyers are referring to when they mention "painstaking effort": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweat_of_the_brow
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by dtf 17y ago
Agreed. I find even a two-way conversation on Skype with blocky, stuttering video is noticeably more productive than a straight phone call. The internet really needs ubiquitous video conferencing. It should be as trivial to set up as a Skyp
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by dtf 17y ago
Those who don't learn twisted are doomed to re-invent it.
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by dtf 17y ago
Leaving aside differences in their user interface design, what's your opinion of Banshee's codebase, performance and stability, versus Exaile (which is written in Python)? I've used neither, but I'm interested in the comparison as they both
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by dtf 17y ago
jEdit's pretty popular with some people.
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by dtf 17y ago
Cfront? I'd completely forgotten about using that. Here's Stroustrup's own history of C++: http://www.research.att.com/~bs/hopl2.pdf
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by dtf 17y ago
OS X is the only system that can run a virtualized IE?
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by dtf 17y ago
The anti-secs will be happy.
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by dtf 17y ago
Too right. The entire build up of that article was essentially to blame not the owner, nor even the accountant, but the wife!
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by dtf 17y ago
Anti-secs want to keep security - in particular, exploits - private. Milw0rm is their nemesis. There's a discernible political bent to their writings and rantings. While we see a general shift on the internet towards the idea that "informat
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by dtf 17y ago
Though he did recently pay out $1,000 for a hole in djbdns: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.network.djbdns/13864 Still, a pretty impressive track record!
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by dtf 17y ago
Ooh... scary biscuits! Al-qaeda could poke him. This is just the Tories trying to sound tech-savvy by noting that his missus hadn't changed her privacy settings. So what? I haven't changed my privacy settings. Was it top-secret or classifie
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by dtf 17y ago
Question for Mac/Windows users: I develop on Linux, but occasionally on Mac or Windows. To be honest I'm pretty happy with a text editor and a few terminals on any platform, but one thing I miss is fast window management. Specifically: * Fo

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