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Two Open Source Ideologies That Are Just Wrong(ianskerrett.wordpress.com)
9 points by jancona 15y ago|0 comments
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by jancona 15y ago
So you're arguing that obesity, neck pain, loneliness, divorce, stress, and insomnia cause long commutes? Or that some factor causes both? What might that be? I'm suspicious of this sort of research for lots of reasons, but concerns about t
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Twitpic changes its terms of service(ianvisits.co.uk)
1 points by jancona 15y ago|0 comments
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Google Loses Copyright Appeal Over Internet Links to Belgian Newspapers(bloomberg.com)
2 points by jancona 15y ago|0 comments
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by jancona 15y ago
Any reason you didn't just increase the permgen size on your JVM? It's hardly just a Groovy issue.
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by jancona 15y ago
Copyright law prohibits distribution of derived works. The LGPL is a license which gives permission to distribute software if certain conditions are met. In this case the license is from the many authors of Webkit and it permits Apple to d
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Oracle Donates Hudson Project to Eclipse(eweek.com)
4 points by jancona 15y ago|0 comments
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Steve Wozniak: Paul Allen Is A Patent Troll(businessinsider.com)
3 points by jancona 15y ago|1 comments
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The Tree of Life(zo.utexas.edu)
2 points by jancona 16y ago|0 comments
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by jancona 16y ago
Also unreadable on an Android phone.
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AdBlock Freedom - block billboards, TV and magazine ads in real time(chromeadblock.com)
9 points by jancona 16y ago|4 comments
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by jancona 16y ago
AFAIK, no one is claiming that plagiarism is a crime. It's just unethical, and those who do it should be called out.
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by jancona 16y ago
Lack of attribution is precisely what TFA is complaining about. Plagiarism is claiming others' work as your own, not necessarily copying. So lack of attribution is really what defines it.
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Bodhi, A minimal, enlightened, Linux (bodhilinux.com)
73 points by jancona 16y ago|56 comments
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Anthrax Redux: Did the Feds Nab the Wrong Guy?(wired.com)
2 points by jancona 16y ago|0 comments
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by jancona 16y ago
According to the NYT at the time, the deal was valued at about $34B: http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F10B16FC3E5D...
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Sledgehammer-operated Keyboard(taylorhokanson.com)
4 points by jancona 16y ago|1 comments
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by jancona 16y ago
Unfortunately, if the VC has decided to not to participate in any future financing, the failure of the company may be a best case scenario for him. Think about it from his point of view--two of the worst things you can do as a VC are: - Thr
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The JRR Tolkien Estate Can Go Fuck Itself(giro.org)
58 points by jancona 16y ago|31 comments
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by jancona 16y ago
Just last week, I had some root-owned hidden directories in my home directory. So I did: sudo chown -R me:mygroup .* Fortunately, I caught it before it made it out of /home, so only some user directories were affected, and the cleanup was r
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by jancona 16y ago
Ideally, you wouldn't have to trust them, you would be able to contract with them. Or rather, if you owned the data, they would have to contract with you to use it. I agree that given the current environment, it would require regulatory cha
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by jancona 16y ago
Of course, someone could watch my house now and see when I turn on my lights. Better yet, they could see me stumble in when the bars close at 2 am. The issue isn't that private information is being made public, it's that the cost of gatheri
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Web thinkers are not confused by shiny new things « Jon Udell(blog.jonudell.net)
9 points by jancona 16y ago|6 comments
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by jancona 16y ago
I believe even the AT&T phones with Unknown Sources disabled allow sideloading with ADB. Not that that's a good option for most users.
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XML: Contrary to popular belief, it doesn't always kill babies(thurn.ca)
41 points by jancona 16y ago|58 comments
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by jancona 16y ago
Of course Android allows competing app stores--indeed Amazon's is one. So both developers and users have a choice on Android that's not available on iOS.
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by jancona 16y ago
There's no need to root most Android phones to install any software you want. Just go to Settings/Applications and check "Unknown sources Allow installation of non-Market applications" AT&T (and perhaps other carriers) disable that opti
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by jancona 16y ago
You can modify GPL code and keep it to yourself. What you can't do is modify it and distribute the resultant binary without also releasing the modified source.
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by jancona 16y ago
Given how long it takes to load each message in their mailing list archive, I'd say java.net has issues.
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by jancona 16y ago
FWIW, here's the Oracle rep saying that Github wasn't an issue: http://java.net/projects/hudson/lists/dev/archive/2011-02/me...

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