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by keepper 8y ago
Lignumified metal? :) ( lignum is wood/timber in Latin )
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by keepper 8y ago
With due respect, I think you misunderstand what a straw-man argument is. This is not a different point. This IS post purchase control of hardware. Would you be ok with Tesla disabling cars because you were using illegal drugs in them? Now
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by keepper 8y ago
This scares me. Not so much the action by apple ( they are flexing their muscle), but the reactions here. "Great!", is the jist. It you think an unilateral revoke, and shutdown of a company internal tools, because of an external i
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by keepper 8y ago
RMS is totally NOT okay with this, and has written a extensively on the issue that he sees SaaS similarly to proprietary software[0] [0] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-s...
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by keepper 8y ago
Your first line is quasi legal, and everyone agrees is bad. But no one calls it out. ( because even mighty new york times uses data brokers.. ) The other is literally how all advertising has ever worked! ( yes, cable TV was targeting you )
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by keepper 8y ago
Define data brokering. Only Targeting isn’t brokering. Being naive and opening an app platform that allows users to give some information isn’t brokering. Selling bundles of PII without the users knowledge from quasi legal sources to compa
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by keepper 8y ago
So many people up in arms about Facebook. When the reality is that both cell phone providers and ISP's ACTUALLY sell your data. Both location data and DNS query logs. But sure, let's focus on the "social media boogie man&quot
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by keepper 8y ago
No, it was an outgrowth of infrastructure work being a niche trade, and capacity management by startups ( and mature companies), being a hard task. This point is well known, and pretty much in every cloud providers marketing material.
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by keepper 8y ago
Of course they provide source! Source rpms and tgz are downloadable. Enterprise isn’t gpl, but source is provided. (This could have been easily answered with a google search, as you pointed out)
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by keepper 8y ago
The current biggest threat to Free and Open Source software is cloud computing. Plain and simple.[0] I know this is a blunt and harsh statement to make, but when you sell a service, you have zero native incentives to Open Source the way you
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by keepper 8y ago
Do you get to see AWS's source code for these services? No... That's how it's killing "FOSS". Extend and Extinguish. This is not a new playbook.
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by keepper 8y ago
It couldn't make money... One of the best examples of the semantic web was Daylife[1], and they wound up being "acquired" by two bit players[2] that figured out how to monetize things better.. :-/ [1] https://
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by keepper 8y ago
What I find interesting is all of the comments saying "Well, I was going to use RedisLabs.. but because of this, i'll use AWS/elasticache" Which is just such a weird statement. So instead of supporting the OSS cr
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by keepper 8y ago
What is the "punishment" you refer to? Removing an unfair advantage that is so innate, it's almost invisible to those that benefit it? PS: Not that I should be indulging your vague references... but actually, we do it quite o
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by keepper 8y ago
So lets say you have a really big balancing scale[1].... And there's a chute that's been feeding twice as much sand to one side, for hundreds of years.... What do you do to balance it? a) Distribute sand equally to each side
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by keepper 8y ago
anyone find this a bit funny? "...and can never offer tech support again." I've never heard of a non licensed profession being barred from "practicing" Brar Mom: Hey Brar, can you help me setup my new iP
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by keepper 8y ago
And "somehow", only people that are swatted in the US wind up dead... even though 'gamer culture' is larger in Europe and Asia. ( and in many countries in both, swatting has been attempted ).
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by keepper 8y ago
Evidence? Rules of engagement that don't immediately mean an innocent person winds up dead? Can you honestly not see this?
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by keepper 8y ago
Thanks! Weird I got down voted for my comment..
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by keepper 8y ago
Odd they don't mention the cuban work on this field. "Researchers with Cuba’s Center for Molecular Immunology have developed and approved an immunologic cancer therapy that improves survivability for certain types of cancers in so
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by keepper 8y ago
Uh, yes, they do. See, I'm not sure if you know this... but most people are not Pilots.. ( disclaimer, I'm not only a programmer, but also hold an A&P and avionics license, as well as a few engine ratings ). It is ABSOLUTELY o
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by keepper 9y ago
Or.. they could save a couple of hundred million a year by moving off of GCE/AWS into their own infrastructure... ( they have an insane $500M commit for both of these cloud providers.. higher than the $400M that all of google spent on
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by keepper 9y ago
We haven't really tried "real identities". We've come close. Real identities would require verification, which sites like FB only do after the fact. I fear that a huge repercussion of the election issues is that we will
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by keepper 9y ago
I’ve always gone by this little bit of wisdom... “We see ourselves as who we want to be, others see us as who we are”
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by keepper 9y ago
The area around Shea stadium/Citi field was always an industrial area... Re-zoning hasn't happened. ( Shea Stadium was built in the 60s ) The area around Yankee Stadium has always been a vibrant community. Yankee stadium was built
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by keepper 9y ago
Oh of course, but I'm a big believer in social contracts. What can I say :) - Citrix used to have XCP ( Xen Cloud Platform ), as a way of OSS the core functionality away from the paid functionality. They moved to one build in the possi
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by keepper 9y ago
So the rule is never to reply to a throwaway account. But what a load of entitled crap is this?!! There is a way to do it, you just don't want to figure it out. You want to FORCE them to figure it out for you. BooHoo. Again, this is a
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by keepper 9y ago
What I find interesting is the aversion to paying for what is essential a product mostly used by businesses. I get the non-profit,school dilemma. and ideally, they do something about that. but they aren't closing the source of their sy
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by keepper 9y ago
It works quite well in nyc.. so not sure what you mean by "There's something about America that makes it not work." We have 5.6M average weekday riders, and about as much for the weekends ( Sun and Saturday). That's 1.7
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by keepper 9y ago
...of sweat. :)

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