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Comment Re:just because (Score 2) 143

You seem to have not italicized the important portion, even though you cut and pasted it into your post! Here I will do it for you:

If you commercially distribute binaries not accompanied with source code, the GPL says you must provide a written offer to distribute the source code later. When users non-commercially redistribute the binaries they received from you, they must pass along a copy of this written offer. This means that people who did not get the binaries directly from you can still receive copies of the source code, along with the written offer.

I think it is your turn to read the italicized portion until it sinks in.

Comment Stupid question (Score 1) 483

Why not use the gas we euthanize dogs and cats with?

PS: I'm probably against the death penalty but it just seems an easy method to remove this objection to it, and use something that is not going to be hard to supply. And I'm sure some death-penalty supporters are also much more concerned with cat and dogs suffering so this is probably pretty humane.

Comment Re:I've come around to socialism (Score 2) 208

Because it would allow competion, stupid.

Just like your fantasy that somehow the it is ok for every competitor to add a new wire running to every house in the city, and that somehow the cost to them of doing this is zero.

Except it would work. The startup would only have to connect to the shared end of the fiber.

Comment Re:The FCC has no right to dictate terms (Score 2) 208

Yay, finally somebody responding intelligently to this John Galt idiot.

The idea that it is the inability to add new wires, and only due to regulations and not the cost, is what is stopping competion is so obviously blindingly wrong. He is just trying desperately to keep up his fantasy that the invisible hand always works with a ridiculous plea that somehow it is the eeeeevil gvmnt!!!!

Comment Re:In 3, 2, 1... (Score 1) 224

Why not use |= ?

  PORTA |= 1<<4;

I agree the same problem of having to assume gcc will turn it into an sbi instruction, but at least it is a little clearer and more likely this way.

My personal feeling is that there should be a C-like language where every single global keyword not in a namespace is reserved for internal use. Ie max() and min() and sin() and sdi() so on are all reserved for direct implementation by the compiler. Currently the solution is to pretty much implement __foo() as a built-in and then require a header file that adds an inline foo()->__foo() wrapper.

Comment Re:Don't care (Score 1) 688

No you are not allowed to fire them directly, as two posters pointed out above (CA law, not sure about whereever you are). However apparently you *can* harass them until they are forced to resign, which is what happened.

PS: people are also free to boycott/picket your company for doing this.

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