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Comment Is it just me? (Score 3, Insightful) 23

Is it just me or is the walmart online shopping experience not very good?

I can't figure out if it's the plane jane design of the walmart website, or the sketchy 3rd party marketplace products, or something else about the experience that I can't quite put my finger on. But whatever it happens to be, shopping on Amazon feels trustworthy whereas shopping on the walmart website feels very low budget.

Comment Re:Sorry Facebook, you lost this (Score 3, Informative) 97

I'll quote the article since you missed it:

"After the teen was rescued from his operation, traffickers kept using her profile to lure in other minors, according to the ruling. In this case the family says the girl’s mother reported what had happened to Facebook and the company never responded."

The court can decide if the reported abuse was sufficient notification, but it does appear that a report of abuse was made.

Comment Re:free speech and stolen documents (Score 1) 325

So you are advocating the ban of anyone who publishes a story about Trump's stolen tax returns, or Melania's private phone conversations, or about wikileaks, or about anything from Snowden, or the Panama Papers, or... I hope you are seeing a pattern.

Additionally, when you don't pay your bill at the repair/pawn shop, the repair/pawn shop becomes owner of the material. These were not stolen documents.

Comment Re:First of all, the internet is big, cheap, and o (Score 1) 325

None of the content published by the newspaper was illegal or false. Even Biden's campaign walked away from those claims. The documents have been tacitly confirmed as real.

This entire fiasco is journalists being banned for publishing true information that puts the social media company's preferred political candidate in a bad light.

If this isn't chilling, nothing will be.

Comment Re:Headline is misleading (Score 1) 325

You know what they do in dictatorships? Take control of the media.

Sort of like disabling accounts that post a link to a national newspaper.

State controlled TV and newspapers that only publish government approved narratives.

s/government/social media overlord/

And there you have what is wrong with the Facebook and Twitter censorship regimes.

The cover up has turned into a much larger fiasco than letting the pro-DNC media bury the story coverage on its own.

Comment This is feature of the APL (Score 4, Informative) 158

The Apache software license allows anyone to take your project and release closed source versions of it.

There is no obligation for the forked project to share their closed source modifications back with you, the copyright holder. This is a feature of the Apache license.

The obvious next question is how do you prevent this from happening?

There is a well known solution. It is called the GPL. If he licensed his project as GPL, he would have the right to obtain the source code distributed by forked projects. He also would have achieved his goal of letting organizations keep private changes in house as long as they don't distribute their modified versions.

More open source developers need to know this and choose carefully.

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