Comment Re:Gnu Free Documentation Licence (Score 1) 480
Follow-up: Are any Creative Commons (CC) licenses an answer to the GFDL issues illustrated above?
Comment Crowd Funding (Score 1) 480
Do you see crowd funding as a means to economically provide for the development of Free Software and even Free Hardware?
Have any small projects grown to a critical mass where only a few funding rounds bootstrapped them into having a sustainable Libre/Free product?
Comment Re:on this topic. (Score 1) 480
Or even Firefox OS?
Is it even possible to avoid firmware blobs?
Supreme Court Ruling Relaxes Warrant Requirements For Home Searches 500
cold fjord writes with news that the Supreme Court has expanded the ability of police officers to search a home without needing a warrant, quoting the LA Times: "Police officers may enter and search a home without a warrant as long as one occupant consents, even if another resident has previously objected, the Supreme Court ruled Tuesday ... The 6-3 ruling ... gives authorities more leeway to search homes without obtaining a warrant, even when there is no emergency. The majority ... said police need not take the time to get a magistrate's approval before entering a home in such cases. But dissenters ... warned that the decision would erode protections against warrantless home searches."
In this case, one person objected to the search and was arrested followed by the police returning and receiving the consent of the remaining occupant.
Comment Re:Linux (Score 1) 669
Thanks for listing these! If the game doesn't run natively on linux, I'm not interested. (No windows computer, and no time to mess with settings/wine.)
Open Arena works great with pulse audio btw.
Comment Re:FOSS games aren't real games (Score 1) 669
Open Arena is still very much alive... There's always people playing death match, CTF instant gib, CTF all weapons. There are lots of mods like freeze tag and rocket-rail, and defrag (where you learn how to strafe jump and circle jump to beat the puzzle map).
Comment Re:IPv6 has this tiny problem (Score 1) 574
That's why you create your own CNAME to point to your customer's hostname!
(Or you could use a hosts file or pdsh groups of hosts)
German Chancellor Proposes European Communications Network 197
An anonymous reader sends word that German Chancellor Angela Merkel wants to build a European communication network to keep data transmission away from the United States. She plans to discuss the issue with French President Francois Hollande.
"Merkel said in her weekly podcast that she disapproved of companies such as Google and Facebook basing their operations in countries with low levels of data protection while being active in countries such as Germany with high data protection. 'We'll talk with France about how we can maintain a high level of data protection,' Merkel said. 'Above all, we'll talk about European providers that offer security for our citizens, so that one shouldn't have to send emails and other information across the Atlantic. Rather, one could build up a communication network inside Europe.' Hollande's office confirmed that the governments had been discussing the matter and said Paris agreed with Berlin's proposals."
Comment Re:better (Score 4, Insightful) 197
If she organizes it, it'll be with her and two dudes.
Comment Re:gmpg.org? (Score 1) 53
Should all of the <link rel>'s be excluded from the dataset used to build the giant graph?
Comment Re:CC? (Score 1) 53
I would like to compare the rank of this link graph to DNS requests for a "popularity" graph.
Comment How is this different? (Score 2) 376
Audi tested lasers on sharks before BMW:
Comment Re:What we need is not a shell, but sha picker. (Score 1) 96
You need to run sshd under cygwin and use Putty to easily double-click to select a sha sum (enable X11 mode for select=copy and middle-click=paste).
Comment Re:Beta is terrible! (Score 2) 573
And now that I've used Beta side-by-side with Classic (on this thread) having to "Load More Comments" multiple times is a deal breaker.
For logged in users, there should be a way to fetch them all on page load (I'll happily wait!).
Comment Re:Beta is terrible! (Score 2) 573
I can live with UI changes. I've been living with them for decades.
I just want the comments not to suck and not waste usable space with a margin. Once I scroll paste the right side bar, I want the comments to expand to use a maximum width.
Even in Classic view, there is too much whitespace around each comment. Both views could fit more comments in the same space (but we're all used to Classic).
