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Comment Wasn't there a revote? (Score 1) 279

A few mails down the line, I saw someone (Ian Jackson, I think), call for a vote to depose Bdale as the TC chairman, and another vote with more options. The mail thread went on and on...
Can anyone summarize what happened then? Is Shuttleworth premature in this decision?

Comment Re:Its lawsuits not regulation, leads to kit aircr (Score 1) 473

Quoting from that Wikipedia article:

GARA is a statute of repose generally shielding most manufacturers of aircraft (carrying fewer than 20 passengers), and aircraft parts, from liability for most accidents (including injury or fatality accidents) involving their products that are 18 years old or older (at the time of the accident) , even if manufacturer negligence was a cause.

(Emphasis mine.)

Comment Re:Duh? (Score 1) 148

I misspoke, I am not studying GCC for a course, the course is GCC: CS 715 at IIT Bombay - Design and and Implementation of GNU Compiler Generation Framework taught by Prof. Uday Khedkar.
The course plan includes studying the various passes (analysis, optimizations, etc.) that GCC makes, adding/modifying passes, and implementing a machine description for GCC. The languages analyzed are C and C++, with initial activity on x86 systems and then on spim, the MIPS simulator.

Comment Re:no (Score 1) 123

Hogwash. If those "other uses" were profitable, they would already be doing it. Slave owners, just like any other businessmen, don't decide in advance to accept a certain level of income, and then constrain their activities to not exceed it. They try to maximize income. There are costs to acquiring, feeding, housing, and supervising slave labor. If you take away some of the profit, then fewer activities will meet the threshold, and there will be less slavery.

Those "other uses" are profitable, but not as much as the current use. They will be got around to when the current use isn't all that profitable.

Comment Re:When upgrades break code (Score 1) 432

Isn't this what they do? In Ubuntu and Arch Linux, Python 3.x is python3, Python 2.x is python2 (with binaries for minor python versions as well: python2.7 and python3.3 are both binaries available on my system). Usually, (as per Python's recommendations), python is symlinked to python2, but on Arch, it points to python3.

Comment Re:First Shot (Score 1) 380

Hitman: Blood Money had Agent 47 infiltrating the White House and assassinating the Vice President. But then, nearly all of the targets in the HItman games are villainous in character. You could try to the guards of the White House (I assume they are soldiers), but it's tougher in this mission to come out alive doing so.

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