Actually, it's an interesting test on its own. It may have accidentally exposed a bias in editorial choices. In fact, if the journals do put any weight on source of funding of the research, can they claim to be "peer-reviewed"?

It would mean that they only give partial consideration based on the peer reviews and give some of consideration's weight to a source of funding.

Further, a case can be made that any journal that requires that all sources of funding be disclosed and yet does not make this requirement clear to its subscribers (and still maintains that it is a "peer-reviewed" publication) is a journal that is committing fraud. By making disclosure of the sourcing of funding a requirement, it makes it part of a pre-screening for review. So it gives some however-justifiable or however-little weight to a consideration which has nothing to do with peers' view on validity of the research.

The obligatory rebuttal is obviously to question what vulnerabilities are in closed libcs that we're simply not finding? How do you know there aren't more? Sacrificed a chicken this morning?

Just because I know it's going to happen: Everybody, please keep in mind - Canadian police means it's Canada and not US Law that matters.

But I had the same thought as you. Sure, 1.2 petabytes is a huge amount of data, but at ~$200/terabyte, that's 'only' $200k worth of data, and easily reachable by many commercial businesses that are 'data intensive'.

Should a car rental place be liable if one of their customers is using their cars to run drugs? What if they're one of their bigger customers? How about they've been good enough to never return a car 'dirty', IE leaving drugs, money, or evidence of drugs?

But if you just have mobile data, you can do all that now with a typical Android phone without even installing additional software.* Just configure IPSEC to encrypt your SIP communications (you're going to need someplace for them to go, with IPSEC, that's your problem) and then configure the SIP phone to connect to your server, and finally make your calls via SIP. If you want to go WiFi-only, you can disable the cellular antenna for added security (or just buy a device without cell support in the first place, obviously.)

* My SIP settings went missing. They're not where they're supposed to be. Moto G, 5.0.2.

The UI is one of the better things about the game. The absolutely horrible performance is more what I'm talking about. Whether it can or can't be blamed on Java is academic (and thus perfect slashdot-fodder, but anyway) but the game runs like poop. There are numerous clones which don't, but ironically none of them have UI as good as minecraft. Which, I know, is shocking. But it's still true.

You left out the really critical part of your argument, which is that Notch wrote a shitty new engine, and still made billions. It wasn't even a competent job.

Oh no, I did read it already. You seem to have a disability that leads you to assign meaning to things which have none. See, there's also plenty of cases where they can't license the source code. For example, Google won't be finding bugs in Microsoft's code any time soon, unless it's something they've open sourced. Which they've been doing lately. Which suggests that even Microsoft is beginning to get what you still can't comprehend. Disability, indeed.

Unless the number of each of those "billions" is only 2, then that's just about the entire human species.

If 90% of humans were killed in a nuclear exchange (or any other mass death event), we'd still have a population considerably higher than it was 2000 years ago.

If 99% of humanity were killed, we'd still have a population considerably higher than it was 3000 years ago....

To me it says that the next version of their engine is going to have support for this baked right in, so that anyone who uses Source can support it without any extra work. And that will include HL3.

Fascinating, I wonder whether Descent would make me sick or not. I'm one of the people who could play it for hours at stuttering framerates without ill effect.

How is a "government" agency the same thing as a "Corporation"?

Ah yes. The appeal to popularity.

To people who listen to music, it's like pushing Justin Bieber to my device. They're just as relevant, and for the same reasons.

Yeah, just like when your dog leaves you a "gift" on your favorite rug. Why is this a major problem?

It's been a long time since people who have never heard of U2 before wanted to hear U2. A long, long time.

Right, and the point of the person to whom you were replying is that it actually happened, and was possible. Unlike with closed source, where it couldn't have happened at all.

England have about 16.000 miles (kilometers? I don't remember) of coast. The proposed generators will take about 30 miles. There will be plenty of coast left to all marine species. It's not a full perimeter siege, it's just a few barricades here and there.

The USA has thousands of miles of coastline too. Alas, salmon were only interested in a tiny fraction of those thousands, and the dams built on that tiny fraction were a major problem for salmon.

So, what's going to be the problem fish/crustacean/whatever for these installations?