". If somebody is using GPL code and refuses to issue source, it's cut and dried, guilty."
Wrong.
If you implement a web server, an e-commerce service, or anything involving = GPLv2-based projects but you do not distribute the binaries then you are under NO obligation to release the source code. That requirement only arises if you DISTRIBUTE binaries derived from the = GPLv2-licensed source code.
GPLv3 changes things a bit but that doesn't seem to be the issue here.
Firefox is becoming a real pain in the ass when it comes to certs. I can see displaying a "ZOMG!!! WARNING!!!" when trying to load a low-bit cert, but it fails completely, which makes it unusable for managing more and more enterprise appliances, some of them being brand new. One could go to each and every appliance and LOM module and generate a new high-bit cert but if you've got enough of them in your data center it's a royal pain in the ass to do so.
The solution? Use any browser other than firefox.
"Straight physics," prior art, obviousness, all have never prevented a patent from being issues.
(sigh)
This is the comment I was responding to:
Think of it this way: Imagine the entire planet heated up by 20C, we wouldn't expect to see any permanent ice outside of Antarctica. (The North Pole might get some seasonal ice, but the much warmer oceans would melt it fairly quickly.) Now, with all of the oceans that much warmer, think how much additional water vapor would make it into the atmosphere. When the additional water vapor ends up over the South Pole, it will be cold enough for it to freeze and fall as snow. As the snow accumulates, it compacts into ice and we end up with a LOT more ice at the South Pole.
So: Less ice everywhere but Antarctica due to global warming, but a lot more ice in Antarctica due to global warming.
But the point is, when there was LESS ice, it was because of global warming. Now that there is MORE ice, it's because of global warming, per the original comment I replied to.
Yes. There is less ice in some areas due to global warming and more ice in other areas due to global warming.
OK. Maybe you should tell all the scientist this. Be sure to copy Algore as well.
See, they seem to think that the first thing to go is the polar ice. That's why they keep measuring it. See, a few years ago, a lot of the ice melted, and we were told that it was because of global warming. Now the ice is back and growing, and we are told it's because of global warming.
And that is my entire point. No matter what the symptoms are, it's always a symptom of global warming.
Also, if it's colder in Antarctica and warmer in Hawaii, that's not really a sign of global warming. That's a sign of global nothing because the average temperature remains constant.
But if there's more ice, it's because of global warming.
citation needed.
That would be comment I was responding to:
So much freshwater from melting glaciers that sea level isn't even level anymore, and some people still don't want to believe there might be a climate problem.
The article you linked to didn't say that Tesla drive units fail after a year. It said that the warranty used to be 8 years or 125,000 miles and that they've just extended it. There were a few anecdotes provided, but the article itself admitted that the source was inherently biased. So, basically, car parts wear out and some cars are defective from the factory. True for cars whether they're gasoline, diesel, LPG, electric, etc.
So much freshwater from melting glaciers that sea level isn't even level anymore, and some people still don't want to believe there might be a climate problem.
(I don't mean the people who question how to address the problem - that's still legitimately an open question - or the severity of the problem, I mean the people still in denial that there's a problem at all.)
So if there's less ice, it's because of global warming. But if there's more ice, it's because of global warming.
Just curious, if global warming were not a thing, what would the ice caps be doing?
I'm sorry, you're attacking Musk because car parts wear out eventually? And he's extending the warranty for some of those parts?
If the Soviet Union had managed LEO or the moon, do you think they would have not used it?
This is sort of a confusing sentence. The Soviet Union _did_ manage LEO in just about every way you can "manage" LEO. They also got probes, but not people, to the moon.
Cloud backup is great for a one-man show when all you back up is a handful of files.
If you have more than a few employees and have to back up terabytes of data and have custom applications which require a day or two minimum to install and configure and data in multiple places, and downtime costs you hundreds, thousands, or more per hour, cloud backup services quickly become an epic fail - plus you need to worry about bandwidth caps with crappy ISPs.
Other backup solutions become more important - for low-budget IT a handful of large external hard drives swapped out daily and taken off-site is a workable (if not ideal) solution, but the best solution is still a tape drive - and replace the tapes after a few rotations. Remember when downtime costs you significant money, having full backups with a rapid restore times becomes critical.
Europa is probably a non-starter due to the high radiation, but Callisto gets two orders of magnitude less and Ganymede about three orders of magnitude less than that.
If their method requires 50 people to move a 2.5 ton stone block at
If 10 people tries to roll a 2500 kg block uphill, they would each have to lift 250 kg.
In the spirit of pedantry I feel inclined to point out that what you say would only be the case if the "hill" is a 90 degree cliff.
People will buy anything that's one to a customer.