Last time I checked, a maximum of a two-year custodial sentence is not a life sentence.
Just look at cases where an English judge asks a defendant 20-30 times for a key, and each refusal is three more years in the slammer.
Yeah, that didn't happen.
But your unnecessary hyperbole aside, I entirely agree that RIPA is utter rubbish, and I wish it would go die in a fire.
"Please comply with the very permissive licence that we chose to licence our code under" does not amount to a religious argument.
I thought Oracle v. Google said APIs weren't copyrightable. As such, GPL-only APIs make no sense because the API can't be copyrighted to begin with.
You're wrong.
It is fine for someone to go and make a new, compatible implementation of the DMA-BUF API, with the same calling conventions etc., and license it however they wish. That is what the Oracle vs Google judgement said.
It is not okay to link your code into the GPL version of the DMA-BUF API unless your code is also GPL'd. That is something different.
Do any of these people have any actual experience or qualification in the departments they get dumped on?
Sometimes, albeit rarely.
It doesn't really matter what treatments Hunt wants the NHS to pay for; NICE is not under political control, and approves treatments based only on measurements of cost-effectiveness. BTW, this makes NICE extremely unpopular.
There are some things for which just about any amount is overdoing it (e.g. cyanide).
My bag of almonds begs to disagree.
It's not a book, but this book chapter is more-or-less compulsory reading for someone planning to get into HDL programming:
The NASA study mentioned in the summary, which makes very worthwhile reading, recommends using a C-type asteroid rather than an M-type asteroid, explicitly because C-type asteroids explode and burn up very high in the atmosphere. And M-type asteroids of the size discussed hit the Earth multiple times every year anyway.
And when the mission makes a mistake and an asteroid goes plummiting into a major city it will cause trillions of dollars in damage and massive loss of life and potentially create a cloud of dust that will cause an ice age.
Objects bigger than the size they're proposing to catch enter Earth's atmosphere several times every year. I think you've been watching too many movies. Did yo think the LHC was going to make a black hole and destroy the Earth, too?
You want to save electricity? Ban clothes dryers, electric heaters, dishwashers and electric kettles. At least you'd cost less lives than this insanity.
Actually, dishwashers usually use less energy and less water than washing up by hand, if you run them with a full load. And it's quite common in the UK to have electric hobs in the kitchen; boiling water in an electric kettle is always more energy efficient than boiling it in a conventional kettle on an electric hob.
Furthermore, the examples you provide are unambiguously uses of the energy to do something useful. Using huge amounts of power to light a completely deserted stretch of road at 3 am in the morning is unambiguously not useful.
What about OwnCloud?
"And of course, it needs to be free. Because our budget for this plan is of zero euros."
Yep.
Can't see this blowing up in anyones face. (See: the ongoing ordeal and budget overruns of the Munich conversion)
Um, last time I checked (which was a couple of weeks ago) the Munich project was going extremely well.
Well, I live in Surrey, and regularly travel between Woking, Guildford, London, Oxford and Cambridge (I don't have a car). And I literally can't remember the last time a train I wanted to travel on was cancelled, or sufficiently late that I missed a connection or important connection.
Although in fairness I must point out that, despite running on time, First Capital Connect trains from Kings Cross to Cambridge are incredibly shitty and crowded.
Don't forget, folks: the plural of "anecdote" is not "data"!
Confirming that the "environmental concerns" are really concerns over property prices on the part of people rich enough to own country homes in the Chiltern Hills...
You knew the job was dangerous when you took it, Fred. -- Superchicken
