I'm still waiting for the photo of the fish on the bicycle so that I an get back to my ex about all those presents she claimed weren't useful...

... while the code for Android is GPLv2, the move of various other projects towards GPLv3 is only going to make this sort of problem worse. The 'anti-Tivoisation' clause basically demands that some authorised signing key gets distributed with any GPLv3 code that needs to be signed in order to run, and that the available signing key grants all the rights necessary for that code to function. While it is of course possible for users to completely rebuild the trust hierarchy with their own keys, very few people will be willing to do so. As a result it seems likely that any GPLv3 project will be unable to make effective use of signing as a mechanism for preventing the execution of rogue code, even if the license allows for it in theory.

Sadly, while the poster is clearly trolling with his deliberately lopsided history, the US did put well over 100,000 Japanese Americans into internment camps. These camps, while offering better conditions in most respects, bore far too close a resemblance to concentration camps for anyone with a conscience. look it up is you need to know more.

It's worth noting that Mark Fiore won a Pulitzer for his excellent satirical cartoons last year, and they are only available on-line as Flash animations. He was the first cartoonist to win an editorial cartooning Pulitzer for an entry of entirely online animations.

I've hear it suggested by a number of lawyers that the _specification_ a binary interface of a library is a statement of fact, rather than a creative work. Since copyright does not apply to statements of fact this would suggest that structure definitions and the like would not be subject to copyright, and by extension the is no issue regarding derivative works. Of course you could probably as the same lawyers on a different day (or with a different person paying the bills) and get a different answer, but the concept seems to make sense.

So the real story here is "iOS Safari has got lots better in 4.3 and iOS web apps run just like they used to." Doesn't exactly sound like Apple adding handcuffs to me. Sadly that didn't make a good enough headline for The Register and anyway El Reg loves a conspiracy theory.

The fact is that this is almost certainly just a versioning issue with the UIWebView code. When you launch a Web App in iOS what actually happens is that it a launches a dummy app that just consists of a full screen UIWebView pointed at the web page. Other than when Apple releases new full version (e.g. x.0 release) the UIWebView code has typically trailed the code in Safari by at least one point release. This "bug" quite possibly "won't be fixed" as a bug because it will just come out in the wash. If there is ever an iOS 4.4 I'd expect to see it resolved there, otherwise I'll put money on it being fixed in iOS 5.0 come the summer. Apple aren't going to put up with on-going maintenance of diverging WebKit code bases just to make sure that Objective-C applications stay running even faster than JavaScript than they would with Nitro.

Normally I try to only post astute, informative and insightful (and karma-whoring comments), but in this case all I have to say is:
"Woo-whoo! Excellent!".

Pretty!!! That's one expensive fireworks display that they put on for Christmas!

Seriously though, the GSLV seems to have a pretty poor success rate; this is the third of five operational launches to fail.

It is worth noting that while this judge says that the individual mandate is unconstitutional, two other Federal judges (one in Michigan, and one from a different case in Virginia) have said that it is just fine. This will doubtless go all the way up to the Supreme Court.

Watching the video I'm wondering if this is really a new browser concept or is this is just a set of well-designed widgets neatly placed around the borders of the same of browser technology we've had for years? I don't see anything that could not be done using Firefox plug-ins or Safari extensions. I'm not saying that what they have isn't useful to people who live their lives on the Social Network, I just don't see how this idea warrants backing as a venture-capital funded start-up. How long will it be before there are half a dozen implementations of all their good ideas as plug-ins for the browsers we already use?

Legend has it that before trying the whole "standing on a hill, waving a staff and praying a lot" thing, St. Patrick tried bombing Ireland with frozen rodents laced with Tylenol. Sadly, it was quickly discovered that eating these dead mice cured hangovers and the indigenous population got to them before the snakes did, at which point St. Patrick had to resort to miracles. It is not widely known that until quite recently eating various sorts of dead muridae was a folk cure for headaches in Ireland but for some reason it's not been that effective since St. Paddy died, a little over 1,500 years ago.

One of the flaws in this study is that the models that they chose to compare against the hybrids have different specs and performance levels. For the ones that I've looked at in the past (Toyota Highlander, Lexus RX400h, Lexus GS450h), while they have compared the models that are 'closest', all of these are compared with models that have both lower standard specification and lower performance. Given that after 'brand image' the biggest factors in car pricing are spec and performance it seems a little unfair not to adjust for these.

And never, ever attempt to Reverse Polish unless you have a whole stack in your defense fund!

The TSA knew this was going to happen, which is why they already have procedures for screening monkeys at airports!

I wonder how many of these minutes are spent at work. Consider that 16 billion minutes a day, at US$10 per hour, is just shy of $1 Trillion a year. Has anyone else noticed the correlation between the rise Facebook and the global economic meltdown?