I wish I could mod you -1 Funny.

If you already have an app on the device, with the right permissions, it would be trivial to look up the mac address from the device and send it out over TCP. But then I'm not an iOS developer, so maybe I'm mistaken.

If you must know, I've tried three others.

1. The cable that came with my Kindle DX.
2. The cable that came with my Logitech Performance Mouse MX. (This one actually can be made to fit, but it requires force and seems like a bad idea to do regularly.)
3. An Amzer Micro USB Retractable Data Cable I bought online.

None works acceptably, and I'm quite sure it's because of Samsung's design decision to recess the port and put a sliding door over it. It protects the port I suppose, but it causes compatibility problems as I've described.

So, are they legally allowed to recess the port in such a fashion that only the official cables can reach the "standard" Micro-USB port, or is that just a mistake on Samsung's part? (It's pretty much my only gripe with the phone FWIW.)

That's true for the product+source, but not for the source alone:

    6.b) Convey the object code in, or embodied in, a physical product
        (including a physical distribution medium), accompanied by a
        written offer, valid for at least three years and valid for as
        long as you offer spare parts or customer support for that product
        model, to give anyone who possesses the object code either (1) a
        copy of the Corresponding Source for all the software in the
        product that is covered by this License, on a durable physical
        medium customarily used for software interchange, for a price no
        more than your reasonable cost of physically performing this
        conveying of source, or (2) access to copy the
        Corresponding Source from a network server at no charge.

I believe that what you mean to say is that the distributor must either include their sources or make a clear offer to their customers to provide them on demand. They needn't provide them to the general public. Simply being willing to ship the sources to their customers for a nominal fee would meet the GPL requirement. If the tablets are running vanilla android (which admittedly, they probably aren't), it would be trivial to make it easier for people to just download the sources from Google.

What is most important here is that the tablet vendors may be making changes to GPL sources and not yet making them available. It is important for us to have control over our devices that they open up, but it would be better still for the community if they stuck with 100% vanilla android instead.

They should have used a nonbreaking hyphen. ‑269.5 C Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to be supported. Still no Unicode support I suppose... Anyone have better ideas?

...you still have your work cut out for you, blade runner.

You are wrong. In both cases you have only probabilistic guarantees of correctness.

I've seen this happen to processes fairly recently. (A couple months ago.) It wouldn't have bothered me, but it meant I couldn't replace the files they were writing to. My workflow at the time was sufficiently inflexible that this basically required me to reboot to continue working when it happened. I stopped using the program that caused the problem, and improved my workflow to be more flexible. I'd hate to run into the problem again though. I'd love to see a patch like the one you pointed to become an integral part of disk I/O in the future.

That's really interesting. Apparently OpenOffice.org + a useful patchset has been the norm for some distributions of Linux for some time, and there are builds for other platforms (Windows included) as well.

http://go-oo.org/discover/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go-oo

"About OpenOffice.org" confirms an ooo-build in Lucid Lynx. I'll switch over in Windows later today I guess. Maybe Go-OO should advertise better?

If it is making a "guess as to the most likely classification", it sounds like there is a measure of confidence. Perhaps the system is capable of presenting questionable cases to human experts.

Even if I pledge to eat my leftovers later, I have to pay more and I'm asked not to return? (I'm assuming. The article doesn't say.)

I guess they can make the rules for their own restaurant, but I'll eat elsewhere. Thanks.

That's disappointing.

Then be more careful about what you say in the future.

Regardless, seeing as you insist on using words like "always" and "all", you're still making life difficult for yourself.

And your new point about genetic and/or environmental reinforcement doesn't seem to have anything to do with the possibility of the existence of altruism unless you intend to deny that we have any responsibility for our actions at all. If I choose to help others at my own expense because of my genes or my background, that doesn't seem to preclude the possibility that my actions are genuinely altruistic.