I find it quite handy to be able to have source code snippets in the documentation (even when these "snippets" a long enough to be copyrightable and thus subject to the license), or generate documentation from the source code.

And if you'd bothered to read the quote in the parent post, you might've noticed the quote about not using CC-licenses because they're not compatible with the GPL. So pray tell, why the hypocrisy of advising against using a CC license for documentation (based on not being GPL compatible) when the GFDL isn't GPL compatible either?

This is quite ironic, since the GFDL isn't GPL compatible either...

Both of those divisions have something in common though. They're both media divisions. It seems to be some sort of natural law that mediacorporations have to become assholes as soon as they pass a certain size. Most independent labels are awesome. All big record companies, movie conglomerates, large game developers, etc. are pissheads.

You know, much as I begrudge Sony for the removal of Other OS, it would be a gross misrepresentation of reality to call Other OS "one of the most important features" (at least without qualifying it with "for a small minority").

They almost certainly had that info on separate systems. Why else the "Billing address, password questions, and credit card info may also have been taken." disclaimer. If the information had been on the same system they would have been sure. However rather than assume that the information is safe just because it was on a separate server, they're saying that "at the moment we don't know. Please be vigilant until we can give a definite answer".

Still doesn't make any sense though. The PSN store can be closed down without disabling the rest of PSN.

Actually, I've hacked my Wii to load games from a hard drive. Not only do I only load it with games that I actually own. I haven't even loaded it with all the games that I own, because the *fucking* shitty DVD in the Wii has broken. Glad I did that hack so I can at least use the Wii for something sensible... (Though to be fair I hardly touch the Wii these days, since I have a PS3 with tons of great titles).

No, the MAC address is the "unique identification number, of the router" (though there are ways to spoof a MAC address too).

Just posting to revert mistaken moderation :/

- Android ships every dependent binary in the .apk app file. This eliminates the nightmare of having your app crash because some library you use gets updated.
- Debian is all about reusing .so files across applications. This made sense in the '90s when disk space was scarce, but now days, it's just dumb. The reason it takes years to get a packaged library into Debian Stable is that it takes years before we believe you library wont cause other apps to crash.

Shared libraries still makes just as much sense. Packages that include their own copies of libraries (or for that matter are statically built) are a serious seurity issue. It's mostly fine for applications that can be sandboxed, but mostly it's a security nightmare. A library change that causes applications to crash either indicates incorrect assumptions made in the application (possibly due to a poorly documented library), or an ABI-break in the library -- the latter should always trigger a bumped SO-name.

Part of the reason that it takes a long time for Debian to release is the size of the archives, part of it is because in a lot of cases we do quality assurance on behalf of application writers who believe that embedded library copies is the greatest thing since sliced bread.

Soft links can be cross file system. Hard links cannot (I'm pretty certain this applies for Windows too). The easiest solution using mount (at least on linux) is via bind mounts, where subtrees (or indeed a single file, or using rbind, a subtree and its underlying mounts) of a file system can be mounted in other locations.

WTF? I'd certainly be happy to trade $23,540 with you for a cool billion AUD. According to XE: "1,000,000,000.00 AUD = 1,005,998,910.71 USD" According to google: "1 billion Australian dollars = 1.0033 billion U.S. dollars" (This all based on billion being in short scale)