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by pksadiq 10y ago
> And it only needs to be simulated convincingly enough and in enough detail to fool your human mind. If we are inside a simulation, there are too many variables that are beyond our control. What are 'we'? are 'we' &#
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> ...(or a ban on tivoization for security purposes)... It is okay for some vendor to lock a hardware by default with GNU GPLv3 software in it. The rule is that it shouldn't be a permanent lock. The user should be allowed to break t
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> Your liberty doesn't include grabbing my hardware and software patents, thanks so very much. Liberty of use is a solved problem - it's the public domain, which MIT and BSD come very close to. If you think carefully on what yo
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by pksadiq 10y ago
> ... to recreate the GPL software under a more liberal (say BSD or MIT) license .... BSD or MIT are more liberal?? The reality is that there is nothing called 'absolute freedom or liberty.' Freedom may be defined as the terms
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> If you don't accept the GPL license, then the code is not open to you. Treat it like you would any other closed source code: don't use it. A user isn't required to accept GNU GPL license terms to simply use it. The user
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> I can offer a proprietary license to the clients for the software in situations they dis-like GPL v3 This is how business works for codes like Qt and Odoo. They didn't choose [AL]GPLv3+ for the software to be free, but (or along w
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> It's actually friction, for electric cars. Regen is pretty effective at recapturing acceleration, so the energy lost in the wheels is the biggest factor. Mass counts much. It's not just about accelerating a still object (car)
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> One thing I would add is: enable all the warnings you can and make them errors: "-Wall -Wextra -Wpedantic -Werror". Note: GCC (and probably other compilers) for Embedded systems don't accept 'void' return type
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If someone care about GTK+-3 and C, I would recommend gnome-recipes[0]. Well written and smaller codebase (It is still in active development, so not yet feature complete). It shall be helpful in learning Object Oriented Design using C progr
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> GPL for non-profit projects, proprietary for enterprises. This is against the GNU GPL license terms. One can't conditionally license some code under GPL. Ie, a software released under GPL can't be restricted for some purpose
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There is also: ip moo
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> "Red Hat has never intentionally inserted a back door in our products, and we have never received a court order to do so," Sure. But that doesn't mean it doesn't contain any backdoors. RedHat (also Fedora, Ubuntu,
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> I seriously think that to get a CS or EE degree (or similar) B.Sci degree, you should be required to take at least one full term length ethics course. That would be a nice idea, but short living. Say for an example, we had "free s
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> [Update (12/14/16): Reuters has specified that the rootkit was implemented as a Linux kernel module. Wow.] Hm.. One more proof to avoid using non-free binary blobs in Linux kernel. Be safe. Use Debian GNU/Linux without n
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I don't know how are they going to make a Java based application to be AGPLv3 compliant. And I don't know if the source code be provided to every voter on request, as voting is the service provided by the machine. Edit: Yeah, ther
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> His license grants some permissions and forbids something else. I just don't feel the word "freedom" fits into what he wants to achieve. What do you think "freedom" is? We are here because we are not free. And
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>There are certainly licenses offering more freedom than GPL v3. It's up to you what 'freedom' really is. For me, I wish my smartband had more features than it does now. I wish my non-smart phone vibrate when the opponent
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> Windows, it took me ages to get a working spacemacs build on it. spacemacs may not be considered as GNU Emacs. spacemacs can often break when any of the dependency package break. Also many people who began life with spacemacs usually s
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Also note that most of us usually eat by hand (though this is changing due to the influence of west). I find any food less tasty when eaten not using hand.
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Is Bluetooth 5 compatible with 4.x? That is, can a Bluetooth 4.x Central connect to 5 Peripheral (or vice versa)? Does anybody know the power usage (idle, advertising, data transferring, etc.) of BT 5 compared to BT 4.x LE? Thanks
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I would recommend that anyone who hires a programmer should test his/her knowledge in C (especially in areas like code that produces undefined or unspecified results), even if the candidate is never going to code in C, ever. If he&#x2F
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> neither is he an anti-Muslim. [citation needed] (considering his involvement in Gujrat riots and Babari Masjid issues.).
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> So when I hear "open source", I don't have to go and read the license and validate that these requirements are true...... This saves me time, headaches and money. Most of us have some vague understanding about Licenses.
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> A large portion of the black untaxed money is untraceable in the form of cash, so getting them into banks and taxed is the first step. A large portion of the black untaxed money is in the form of gold, land, properties, swiss accounts,
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My first phone was Nokia 1100. The first time I used internet was in Nokia 3100 (which I love the most). And what helped me learn programming was Nokia N70 (which I still own). I still remember the (g)olden days of pys60. :)
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> Debian is "raw" and needs more initial setup effort. For some while I have been trying to write some hacky scripts[0] that would help users to configure their Debian systems really easily (consider the script as pre-alpha). [
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> Always do and don't remember any issues. Have you ever tried updating an old Ubuntu (say, 14.04 LTS) with lots of -dev packages installed? I have had this issue several times, which made me force to switch one of my client's
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I would recommend Debian GNU/Linux over Ubuntu for the following reasons: * Stability: I consider Debian testing/unstable more stable than Ubuntu stable (Try updating an ubuntu with lots of package installed). * Privacy: Debian is
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> I think it uses the passcode you set on your phone, not the password of your iCloud account. May be true, but > access to iCloud data including backups requires the user’s Apple ID and password. probably doesn't requires the pa

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