Comment Re:Undecoded? (Score 1) 287
Unless it's encoded in something other than ASCII. Then things could get complicated...
Comment I guess you could say Sealand is now left... (Score 2, Funny) 218
...rudderless.
Submission + - Torque3D Engine Goes Open-Source (garagegames.com)
DangerOnTheRanger writes: "Torque3D, the game engine behind games such as Blockland and Tribes 2, has gone open-source. The engine itself — in addition to 4 game templates — are all included in a Git repository hosted on Github. Documentation is available in a separate repository. Quite the exciting time in the world of game development!"
Comment Re:This Can't Be Happening!!!!! (Score 1) 206
Someone will have to build and maintain those computer systems. At least until the systems themselves are capable of that job, and by then, you should be very, very afraid...
Submission + - paste.pocoo.org shut down (pocoo.org)
DangerOnTheRanger writes: "Well-known paste site LodgeIt (aka paste.pocoo.org) has shut down. According to the website (the paste submission form has been removed), the pastebin was shut down because "it turns out, running a pastebin is a horrible idea if you don't do entry expiration or spam filtering" and that the site administrators "found that some people were using the pastebin to distribute highly illegal content."
Apparently, none of the pastes are viewable anymore — all paste URLs redirect to a page detailing why the site shut down."
Apparently, none of the pastes are viewable anymore — all paste URLs redirect to a page detailing why the site shut down."
Comment Re:What did we expect? (Score 5, Interesting) 1181
You mean the guy who went around literally whipping peddlers because they were selling stuff in his temple?
Comment Re:Python (Score 1) 525
I 7th Python. I wish I could have started with Python instead of C - I'd have learned so much more (and much more quickly).
Comment It depends, I think (Score 2) 88
On a personal level, your open-source project is successful when it accomplishes everything you set out to do with it. On a non-personal level, widespread usage is probably the best metric.
Comment Aliens! (Score 2) 125
I knew it!
Comment Re:Profit vs. revenue vs. working for free (Score 2) 208
I think you hit the nail on the head. As far as I've seen, it's just part of third group that frowns upon commercialization - why, I don't know. But anyway, the amount of people who hold this view aren't very numerous.
Comment Re:So... (Score 1) 136
Instead of breaking said illogical law, it would be better to tell others about it, so everyone else can see how bad it is. You get a lot more credibility that way.
Comment Re:Google (Score 3, Insightful) 163
Android - at least all the code you get from Google - is under the Apache 2.0 License. That makes Android a fully open-source project, since the Apache License is an OSI-approved license (and quite a permissive one at that). So people can't (or shouldn't) complain about Android not being open-source; they should complain instead about carriers making proprietary extensions.
Quick note: CyanogenMod - an open-source build of Android - comes bundled with its own open-source marketplace application.
Comment If these people care so much about privacy... (Score 5, Insightful) 95
...why in the world are they on Facebook?
Comment Re:SpeakToIt Assistant (Score 1) 233
I see what you did there. Very clever indeed, sir. :)
Comment People exhale CO2, eh? (Score 2) 1367
Gives me an excuse to murder that guy from down the street I'm not exactly fond of. "But he was contributing to global warming, Your Honor!"
