Comment Easy answers (Score 4, Insightful) 251
The money decides what's illegal.
The money decides what's illegal.
Valve's putting the very source code of its operating system in the hands of everyone who wants it just to see what happens.
Valve took our OS, improved it, and is going to give it back. It's the Open Source way.
However, there are still a bunch of propriety extensions in SteamOS. But at least with Valve's effort non-Steam users will also benefit.
That device is called a "gamepad" and has existed on the PC for years.
Solving problems is like marinating meat. It takes time. If you rush it, you get a quick solution, but not the best. A quick solution might be acceptable for one meal, but not for future meals.
The "Eureka effect" isn't something new.
Why? Because:
1) "cloud", it's usually nothing but a vendor lock in
2) executed by companies with no interested in empowering the community
The people will not get better by these projects. Remember: the government is there to serve the people.
most of their life they post on facebook
Why isn't he entitled to decide when he has lived enough? Why does he need valid medical reasons?
I think you're right, it's a failing of society. Society rather plays for god and decide who lives and who dies.
(I only hope he performed a clean suicide rather than jumping in front of a train, or something)
Maybe not completely correct, but parent is right. A side effect of the Berne convention is that the public domain option is not possible until copyright has expired.
"Do What the Fuck You Want to Public License" comes close to public domain, but it's not completely the same.
Are you talking about Oracle or Apple?
Keller sued EA claiming that the game infringed his right of publicity
It's about the right for publicity, not the right for privacy.
And in the future years it will also include sites critical of the government, large corporations, etc.
But how did he manage to underflow the balance. That would mean he owed $92 quadrillion.
I think this is due to Firebug and some websites. Quite often I have to restart Firefox because it has become sluggish after using Firebug for a while. I haven't taken the time to further investigate the issue.
the official Java API (now owned by Oracle)
Oracle does not own the Java API. They own the Java trademark, and they are the current curators of the API.
Wait. I thought Snowden was a liar. So how could he be a traitor to [USA] public interest?
It seems that more and more mathematicians are using a new, high level language named "research student".