You better believe something will be done about software patents, and IP laws in general, when the Chinese start to heavily sue US companies.

I mean, when it's US companies bashing those in other countries, software patents are awesome. When the inverse occurs, they are obviously a hinderance to progress.

And how will you determine if people didn't get hurt without sending someone to check on them?

At impacts likely to trigger the device, it's entirely possible for someone to be hurt and not even realize till the next day or so. This happens with neck and back injuries, not enough to notice until the person stretches or makes a bad movement, and then *extreme pain*

So, better safe than sorry.

Funny you should mention that right when AMD wins a huge order of graphic chips precisely because they have open source drivers.

And anecdotally, I've never had a problem with AMD hardware, generally by the time the proprietary driver loses support, the open source one matches its performance.

Well it's a good design.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Douris_Man_with_wax_tablet.jpg

Ecuador's foreign minister had offered assylum in 2010 but president Rafael Correa later dismised it. It's possible they have succombed to US pressure already, or they could be worried he has something they don't want released.

Should be an interesting turn of events either way. I do hope he finds refuge somewhere, to continue the good fight.

Same here, Mint + Enlightenment is a great combination.

At home, the older laptop that struggles to run Cinnamon (plain Gnome3 is not even an option) is nice and snappy with E17.

At work, it works great on dual or tripple monitors, is super fast even with a bunch of applications and VMs open, and most importantly doesn't slow me down by forcing a workflow I do not want.

I'm running the SVN-fresh version. There's a few bugs sometimes (almost always fixed the next day or so, sometimes within the hour) but by and large it's pretty stable.

https://launchpad.net/~hannes-janetzek/+archive/enlightenment-svn

It's an improvement change in behavior from outright war, yes. But closed sourced drivers are rarely an improvement long term.

Sarkozy is just pandering to the extreme right in an election year.

This law would not be applicable given the French constitution, and in fact would also violate EU law. Any law which limits free expression must have a very specific target, and simply saying "terrorism" or "hate speech" is way too vast.

Child pornography is illegal because it can be easily and precisely defined, but what would define terrorist or hateful speech ? And what is the difference between genuine political speech and hate speech ? It's all very subjective. It would also lead to some interesting consequences, like that Mein Kampf would be legal to sell in print but not viewable on the Internet.

Article (in French)

Oracle is (partly) a Linux company: they sell and support their own distro. After the Sun acquisition, they also own Java, which is used pretty extensively on Linux.

Adobe up until very recently supported Flash on Linux. It may be free, but it was an important part of their business strategy before HTML 5 came along.

Don't corporations already do enough damage on this planet ?

These missions are also technology demonstrators, meant to advance the state of the art. Using the same design several times doesn't provide the same technological advancement as building upon previous work and enhancing it.

If you look at the Mars missions, each subsequent rover design sent was larger and more capable, and sent back much better science.

The plant in question is not extinct, and is part of the current ecosystem in the Siberian tundra.

Had this been an extinct plant, there would be something to worry about.

Horses have been trained not to spook for thousands of years.

Horses not only can be abandoned, but can also be eaten in times of need.

The land drone has been done too, though this has been criticized by animal rights groups.