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901.
by rst 14y ago
Microsoft's contract with Nokia isn't fully public, but the Nokia side has talked about "billion-dollar" payments they expect to Nokia from Microsoft if the ecosystem takes off[1]. It's not clear exactly for what --- Nokia is providing
902.
by rst 14y ago
Not correct. AOSP source code has always included full source for android.view. , android.widget. , and so forth. Which are, by the way, Apache-licensed, not GPL. If you'd like to look for yourself, it's here: https://github.com/android
903.
by rst 14y ago
That assumes that Numenta's principals would have been willing to sell. You can't take that for granted.
904.
by rst 14y ago
Well, if the product's manufacturer has licensed the patent, then the "exhaustion doctrine" generally keeps the patent holder from taking a second whack from people who bought it. That's what ordinarily shields end-users of consumer produc
905.
by rst 14y ago
Different vuln; this one has nothing to do with session cookies.
906.
by rst 14y ago
All the more so because current "jruby-on-Android" has performance problems. This hits particularly hard on startup (where a simple app can take several seconds to get past a splash page; see http://ruboto-startup.heroku.com/measurements
907.
by rst 14y ago
Even the Massachusetts data privacy laws (which are more comprehensive than most that apply in the U.S.'s crazy quilt of overlapping jurisdictions) fall short of requiring password encryption. The closest I can find in the summary of requi
908.
by rst 14y ago
That's true, but it's something of a self-inflicted wound. The release of git and hg was a direct response to McVoy yanking BitKeeper away (withdrawing the free-beer licensing terms that had previously allowed gratis use for free/open sourc
909.
Hackfests Saturday to help Sandy relief(crisiscommons.org)
1 points by rst 14y ago|0 comments
910.
by rst 14y ago
Particularly since they bought Motorola in large part to get access to its patent portfolio.
911.
by rst 14y ago
In the Boston area, there's Thoughtbot's apprenticeship program, and they might start running something like that out of SF. (They might have already, but if so, I haven't heard...)
912.
by rst 14y ago
Not applicable here --- the two people in this case were outed by somebody else posting private information more widely than he intended. (By adding them to a public group, which he didn't anticipate would broadcast the news to their fri
913.
by rst 14y ago
It's coupled to the "split personality" of the Windows 8 UI. If you start IE from desktop mode, you get "desktop IE", with desktop UI conventions, and web sites with flash will still work. If you select IE off the browser tile in the form
914.
by rst 14y ago
The main mission (Dragon/ISS) wasn't affected, but a secondary payload (an ORBComm test satellite) was left in the Dragon's insertion orbit, and didn't get the scheduled secondary boost --- apparently because, after the delayed orbital inse
915.
by rst 14y ago
Not yet scheduled. They now have a test rig ("Grasshopper") with one engine, first-stage tanks, and extremely heavy, fixed legs, which they'll presumably be using to check out flight control algorithms for return and landing; it just took
916.
by rst 14y ago
One defense strategy that mitigates some of these threats is requiring all "back-door" access from the public internet to go through a few minimally-configured, easily audited bastion hosts. (As in, packets from outside to port 22 on machi
917.
by rst 14y ago
Some SQL implementations seem to. In Postgres: test=# select (0.3 - 0.2) - 0.1; ?column? ---------- 0.0 (1 row) (Ruby gives me -2.77555756156289e-17)
918.
by rst 14y ago
He can only do that if he has clear legal title to it --- and the issue here is precisely that he's signed a contract which may give the employer first dibs to appropriate it. (Beyond that, things get into murky "consult a lawyer" territory
919.
Rapper's gig at Microsoft Store cut short by police(theverge.com)
6 points by rst 14y ago|0 comments
920.
by rst 14y ago
That argument applies to any revenue stream, not just payments to users --- and, in particular, to the controversial deal with Amazon that is making Ubuntu's revenue streams (more precisely, Canonical's) an issue in the larger community in
921.
by rst 14y ago
It may depend on whether you buy with Linux support in mind (having waited for someone else to do the spadework, and posted the results to Ubuntu Forums or wherever). There are machines where everything really does Just Work, with at most
922.
by rst 14y ago
The board's procedures do give the accused the right "to review all materials considered by the Board in making a decision". The confidentiality rule forbids disclosure of that stuff to those without a "need to know", which would include r
923.
by rst 14y ago
If you spin in place at one rotation per second, it'll upset your equilibrium pretty quick; that's the minimum. That said, Gemini was not a large spacecraft; the two crew were sitting side by side in a space that was about the size of a sm
924.
by rst 14y ago
In technical rollouts, yes. But twitter's ticking people off with a bunch of new policies...
925.
by rst 14y ago
In US courts, you can't ordinarily introduce new evidence on appeal. You can argue that the trial court made errors in applying the law, but if those errors involved excluding evidence, the most you can expect out of that is another trial.
926.
TPP treaty (ACTA all over) provisions leaked.(boingboing.net)
151 points by rst 14y ago|30 comments
927.
by rst 14y ago
A firmware replacement clearly would require a new programming gizmo to be effective. But if they're replacing all the lock circuit boards in a hotel, throwing in a new programmer or two would be a comparatively minor cost. Is it possible t
928.
by rst 14y ago
2011 taxes were due in April, but so long as all the money is in (possibly in estimated tax payments with an extension form), most people and organizations don't need to submit the full paperwork until six months later. Rather famously rig
929.
FTC says Facebook lied [to devs] about app-security program(venturebeat.com)
2 points by rst 14y ago|0 comments
930.
by rst 14y ago
Apollo 8, 10, and 11 had all already used "free return" trajectories, which would have caused the spacecraft to "slingshot around the moon" and return to earth in the case of main engine failure. Mission Control would not have needed a col

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