Or something like that. Although online, it's probably more like "don't look a goatse in the..."

Well, you get the picture.

OP wrote (and I quote) "there are rules preventing 18+ games from being sown on TV before 22:30"

Given that your nick translates as "crazy" I didn't expect such a serious reply, but it's possible the humor is an English nuance that doesn't translate well. I'm sorry if English is not your first language.

No, no, no -- you're confusing that rule with the one about adult movies -- you know, "no sowing of seed before 22:30". With the 18+ games, they're just concerned about people downloading them. Or as the Internet Buckaneers call it, "reaping what is sown on TV."

(also, what 18+ games are shown on TV? is that like naked soccer or something?)

Here it is: http://content.dell.com/us/en/enterprise/d/campaigns/xps-linux-laptop.aspx

Heh... that space-related url says "Enterprise D" :-)

This one works, too: http://dell.com/sputnik

Also: http://linux.dell.com/ currently redirects to their non-user-editable Linux Engineering wiki. They really should make it easy to get from there to the page selling the Sputnik laptop. Because yes, hackers often just guess urls for common services instead of bothering with a search engine.

Let's look at the FAQ for the GPL...

Does The GPL Allow NDA?

The code (and output) might both be considered protected speech.

But in both of these cases we're talking about monopolies -- either market-wide or specific to a particular device.

If consumers had the ability to jailbreak their Apple hardware and install whatever they wanted on there, or move any content OFF of there (SCOTUS is chewing on First Sale doctrine @now), then Apple's right to protection under Ammendment numero uno wouldn't give them carte blanche to get up in our business and do the hokey pokey all over our consumer rights.

The Netscape/Microsoft deal is a little more tricky, because unlike with Apple, Microsoft really did have a tremendous monoploy in the market at that time. In essence, Microsoft got to define the firmament, the earth, and everything inbetween. There wasn't any viable way to interact with computer-using consumers without building on top of Windows, and MS had/has complete control of that software. But even if the 1st ammendment does give MS more leeway on how it leverages its OS APIs to give preferential treatment to in-house applications, that wouldn't preclude the courts from recognizing the validity of other entities to reverse-engineer software and hardware for compatibility.

In short, greater freedoms for corporations under the 1st ammendment must be matched by greater freedoms for consumers and competitors under compatibility, reverse-engineering, and data freedom laws. More flexibility is great as long as the benefits are felt by all players in the game.

This is basically the digital equivalent of "show your work" on a math test. If you want to see how well the students are grasping certain concepts, tell them to include an audio track in which they describe what they're doing and *why* -- e.g. "lightening this layer now because I did *blah blah* and messed it up previously".

Anyone who is good enough to fake the screencast convincingly probably doesn't need this class. And if you're really concerned about people using a ringer to do their work, have an in-person exam for each student at the end of the term. You won't need more than 10 min each. Tailor each test to the skills demonstrated in their videos -- that way if someone got a hotshot to tear through the work for them, in person you can easily see if they don't know, say, how to use keyboard shortcuts to invert a selection, etc..

Sorry, was I being too cynical there?

But actually, is someone going to try to patent the shit (read: actual shit) that comes out of the oceans? Because I think that they really might try...

I don't usually hover over each link in a /. summary to inspect it before clicking it. Emails caught in my spam folder? Yeah, probably a good idea. Vetted (well, theoretically) links on /. I usually trust enough to just click-away.

Firefox is working on it right now, but it looks like they're targeting FF18, which is currently scheduled to move to beta on Nov 19th.

I believe that Chrom{e|ium} has some support, but I haven't seen it (might not be configured on default installs).

Editors: Please mark all links to PDFs (and any other content that is not easily digested by browsers)

Intel has some of the best (the best?) fabs in the world, and has chips that use a smaller process than what other companies are pushing out, right? So why can't they make a small, power-efficient chip that can at least meet (if not beat) the offerings from ARM and the licenses?

To put it another way, Wikipedia tells me that ARM Holdings has 2,000 employees and a revenue of about 490 million pounds (in 2011). Intel has 100,000 employees and a 2011 revenue of 54 billion dollars (about 34 billion pounds). How hard is Intel really trying to get a foothold in this market?

Easy question: How many smartphones are shipping right now with an Intel chip in them? Or to make it easier for you, can you name a currently-shipping smartphone that *doesn't* run on an ARM chip, without googling it?

Another metric: Can you think of any form factor of computer (laptop, netbook, desktop, server, game console, smartphone, dumbphone, tv, settop box, etc...) in which x86 marketshare has increased in the last 5 years? (I think apple's ppc -> intel move was 2006, so no dice there :P )

If he doesn't like The Big Bang Theory, CBS tells me that he can see 2.5 Men afterwards, or the Veep Debates after that. ...or does he think that Vice Presidents are all full of lies straight from the pit of hell, too?