The GPL makes no requirement to release source to the public. Only to release source to the recipient of the compiled program.

If you have two identical include lines you get two copies of the common file inserted. Wouldn't that be *great*!?

The real beauty is that they can (and usually do) behave differently.

Unless I missed something, the article was talking about trigraphs rather than ternary.

The following is valid C (probably)

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Zoe Quinn got backlash because she is a morally bankrupt scumbag that slept with other people in her industry and journalists that promoted her game

Why does Zoe get called out here, but the people she slept with get ignored? If anyone did anything wrong, they're the ones who breached journalistic integrity.

Keeping a spare is not even hard to do. My battery developed a fault. Anyone who cares that much about their phone and is paying that much for insurance is pretty likely to replace them regularly enough that they have a reasonably capable older model. Not perfect, but seriously - I'm sure he can cope for a day!

Have a spare!

Personally I can bear the cost of not having a phone for a day. Forcing shops to keep dozens of phones in stock on the offchance that someone absolutely needs one the same day seems a highly inefficient way of doing things.

Perhaps instead the submitter should have seen if there was a way to pay the difference in order to get a brand new phone

Unless you're a teenage girl, it's not aimed at you. So it's not really a surprise you didn't enjoy it. It is a surprise you decided to read it in the first place.

They watched the suspects like hawks. Pulled in the crows suspecting murder. They were given the bird. Even the canary didn't sing.

I think it's that they are misleading customers as to whether they can get the refund rather than not giving the refund.

Some metadata perhaps. It's easy to remove if you know where it is but a lot of people really don't have a clue.

I think expectation of piracy is built into GOG's business model, but, there's no reason not to have some ability to track leaked files if only for analysis purposes.

For practical purposes they are. When the DRM can be cracked in seconds, who really cares? Sure, there are valid socio-political to object in principle, but if you want media that you can copy and format shift, DVD is fine.

I predict it will be less than a year before law enforcement decides to shut down all cell phones of people they disagree with (like protesters).

What prevents them from doing this now? They effectively control the exchanges.

It is double blind so we can control for people being nice.

Graphical quality is subjective, so people are going to be influenced by whether they enjoyed it more. Chances are they'd also report better sound effects, and even a more enjoyable journey home.

Of course they can - you do it all the damn time!

No. It doesn't work like that.

The BBC itself is publicly owned, so in that sense, it is public property, but we don't have the right to individual assets any more than a shareholder in Sony can start making copies of Spiderman DVDs.

Also it's paid for by a licence fee rather than taxes. You can call them taxes if you like, but it doesn't go into or come out of central taxation.