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Comment Re:Which open-source license? (Score 3, Informative) 253

AGPL 3

Probably the most important implication of AGPL is that it requires you to provide a way for your users to download the sources of the application. In fact Opa facilitates that by automatically enriching the server (in release mode) to serve the source code of the application at a special /_internal_/src_code URL.

But this is not the end of the story. We believe in free software (hence the AGPL license) but we also understand that it may not be very suitable for commercial users of Opa. Such users will be able to obtain a private license (paid). This will allow them to keep their sources closed if they wish to do so and will provide us with funds to further develop and improve Opa — win-win situation :). If you are interested in more details about obtaining such a license, do not hesitate to contact sales@mlstate.com, where we will try to answer all your questions (including pricing).

http://blog.opalang.org/2011/08/opa-license-contributions.html

Comment Re:breach (Score 2) 33

(3) The requirement for governments to terminate contracts with any businesses involved in breaches more than n number of times (actually, I'd prefer no public-private partnerships on IT work whatever, but simply requiring competent contractors would go a great way toward this).

Just make it n=0 and I agree with you.

n=0 might just mean they are unable to notice breaches.

After all that happened lately to Sony they might learn from it and soon be the ones with the most secure network... Maybe not.

Comment Re:Okay, so if Facebook's biggest competitor (Score 2) 89

Then they would had released the thing finished, not in an early beta. Especially so if they still are thinking of adding major features to get users to move from Facebook.

I've used google+ and it doesn't feel like a beta at all. Everything just worked as expected, the UI is great. And its the only out of the box working group video chat for Linux I know of. Plus some extra gimmicks like watching YouTube "together." It is correct that there isn't much you can do on google+ but does it need more "major features"? I've got no idea what they plan to do but what features could it need? Maybe some gardening game? Think of twitter, featurewise its near to nothing and still people spend hours on this site.

Google Talk was supposed to be replace existing IM networks.. That didn't really work out. The software was extremely limited. I don't know how it is now, but why should I or anyone else care.

To me - and luckily some of my friends - Google Talk is the best IM for *mobiles* out there. And so at least I do care.

Comment Re:Rating search results (Score 1) 167

I'm more interested in a -1 rating. It sucks when my search results are filled with useless crap, copies of the same question without an answer, malware sites, etc. I'd love to rate those down.

I would like a -1 as well. The number of +1 is not as meaningful as the ratio of negative/positive votes. They should have just reused the known thumbs used on youtube. For complains about useless crap there are other channels though:

For maleware and spam pages there is google's spam reporting page and if you're using chrome there is a plugin by google that adds a "report as spam" shortcut to any search result. As the plugin is trivial I am positive something similar exists for other brothers.

Also there is the feedback link on every search page and the option to hide domains that bug you most (see here).

AI

Submission + - Speech recognition comes to chrome (i-programmer.info)

mikejuk writes: The latest beta of Chrome features speech recognition — yes you can talk to a web page. It sounds like a silly idea but consider how many users opt for voice commands with a mobile phone.

Comment Re:"May be" "Possibly" "Calm down" "Sleep" (Score 5, Informative) 280

Crack In Fukushima Structure May Be Leaking Radiation

I skimmed TFA and it seems the "may" was introduced by /. editors and not the evil "mainstream media". There is a leak and it is radioactive water that it is leaking. No maybe. Actually they already planned how to fix it , tried to do so and failed at it.

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