Comment Obligatory "Blade Runner" reference... (Score 1) 531
"A new life awaits you in the off-world colonies, the chance to begin again in a golden land of opportunity and adventure..."
Give me four. No, four! Two, two, four!
Comment Here is an idea if you are not picky... (Score 1) 260
Alan Ralsky.
Like I said, if you are not picky.
Comment Name change... (Score 1) 104
John Gotti is now "The Superomniphobic Don".
Submission + - Korea able to Destroy USA Now (washingtontimes.com) 3
boley1 writes: According to Russian, South Korean, and U.S. sources, North Korea has built and now has the ability to deliver a Super EMP bomb that would send the U.S. back to the stone age. This article was written by Peter Vincent Pry.
Peter Vincent Pry is executive director of the Task Force on National and Homeland Security, and served on the Congressional EMP Commission, the House Armed Services Committee, and the CIA.
Peter Vincent Pry is executive director of the Task Force on National and Homeland Security, and served on the Congressional EMP Commission, the House Armed Services Committee, and the CIA.
Submission + - RoBo 3D Printer Sets the Bar for the Future of 3D Printing (3dgeeks.com)
bamfunkified writes: "Theres only two things that stand in the way of everyone having a 3D printer — price, and knowing how to use one. But RoBo 3D has solved both!"
Comment Re:This is true (Score 1) 111
You forgot to indicate how much each contestant wagered... oh wait, Yiu would just make the other two pay for him. Sorry, my bad.
Submission + - 6 Weird Habits Of Successful People (openforum.com)
Esther Schindler writes: "With a title like 6 Weird Habits Of Successful People I bet you're expecting superstitions, like Charles Dickens insisting on sleeping facing north. (Gee, I thought you're supposed to face east?) But this short article really does have some useful advice, such as:
They are quitters. You know the saying “Winners never quit and quitters never win.” Not so much. In fact, that’s wrong. Winners quit a lot. They have a keen eye for what is not working and not supporting the finish line (check rule one again for that). Once they identify the thing sucking energy, money and resources from their business, they cut it out fast.
I liked it. I think you might, too."
Comment Re:i hate dirty fingerprints on my screen (Score 1) 526
Real Job, Real Experience, Real Place, with fire and smoke and occasional explosions. You would recognize the initials. We received a touch screen device. Very cool. Very expensive (money was not a problem). I was trying to get my point across to the operator, so I pointed (OK. I POKED) at the object on the screen.
It was not a good day. No one was killed. No equipment was damaged. I don't even think we really lost any data or too much schedule. But the implications of what could have happened were obvious. It was an often repeated story, that resulted in an un-official but institutional ban on all touch screens in the facility for the next 20 years.
Today I love multitouch, especially on tablets, phones and on my laptops and desktops when used with a horizontal trackpad or mouse with a touch surface.
Not sure I'll ever feel good about touching a vertical screen though.
Comment Ah Americans (Score 1) 526
Ah Americans.
+1
Comment Re:Is it permitted to include anti-copying code? (Score 1) 12
"How does it make sense to claim software is free-as-in-freedom if it's designed with DRM or other anti-piracy measures? "
I think the pro "Tivoization" argument was that just because I'm obligated to share what I have done for free or nominal cost - possibly for educational value, I don't have to make "easy" for you to simply copy and use my work, and not put in your own blood sweat and tears. GPL 3 was intended to clear this up - I do have to make it easy and cheap for you to use my derivative - and legal - if I distribute my work. BTW Linus T. didn't agree with this change according to some articles I read. He was OK with Tivoization so long as he got to see the source code of the derivative.
"Can you even technically pirate GPLed software to begin with?"
Maybe. You aren't required by the GPL (either version) to distribute your derivative work. Only that you don't limit the rights of those you do distribute it to, - if they are outside your organization. Within your organization, for instance, Google or Amazon, you can have custom versions of GPL'd software that are trade secrets and could presumably use DRM to stop the distribution outside of your intended internal use, or to track who let it loose.
So getting a copy of a private version of a GPL'd derivative, intended for private use - could be considered piracy.
Just a thought - not dogmatic about the thought at all.
Comment Re:Is it permitted to include anti-copying code? (Score 1) 12
According to the wikipedia this was a provision added to GPL 3 to overcome a weakness of GPL 2. So if the code was derived from GPL 2 maybe not.
In explaining the changes:
"It also adds a provision that 'strips' DRM of its legal value, so people can break the DRM on GPL software without breaking laws like the DMCA.[27]"
Not agreeing with the developer - just saying he may have some legal ground to stand on. (I don't pretend to be a lawyer or even know when to hire one. )
Comment Sorry - Maybe I should have included and example (Score 1) 1
Lesson 7 - Don't include my billing address, my shipping address, my credit card number and the card's expiration date on the packing slip - but if you do, don't tell me none of your other customers complained. It makes me worry about why I would select the same company those guys use.
Submission + - Seven Lessons from my Three worst online shopping experiences for Developers (technologicalservicescompany.com) 1
boley1 writes: For your consideration: "Tonight I had my third worst online shopping experience. It was a pain but as I considered that it might have been worse, I remembered two more that definitely ranked higher in the negative sense, which prompted me to come up with these seven lessons for Developers that might prove helpful." Can you add others?
Submission + - The Scourge of Error Handling (drdobbs.com)
CowboyRobot writes: "Dobb's has an editorial on the problem of using return values and exceptions to handle errors. "But return values, even in the refined form found in Go, have a drawback that we've become so used to we tend to see past it: Code is cluttered with error-checking routines. Exceptions here provide greater readability: Within a single try block, I can see the various steps clearly, and skip over the various exception remedies in the catch statements. The error-handling clutter is in part moved to the end of the code thread.""
Comment Just a few more Jedi Knights... (Score 2) 453
...and we can call this mission "Outbound Flight".
