This is definitely a real issue, but it doesn't mention the most important part - the part that all the big mapping companies already know.

If you want people to contribute their data (and time) en masse, you have to give them a high-quality mobile experience.

If Open Street Map were as easy to use as Google Maps is on mobile, people would try it. And then OSM would get their traffic/new road data organically. But until OSS developers start prioritizing the average user's experience, they will simply never get to where they can compete with Google, Waze, Apple, et al.

I can't even get Emacs to suspend and then return to the foreground in WSL Bash/whatever. The terminal program inevitably seems to get confused, and things get borked.

The convenience of apt-get is outweighed by general unpredictability that is even worse than Cygwin.

Honestly, Windows 10 + WSL very nearly got me to buy a Windows laptop as my primary computer, but it just isn't there yet.

The article suggests that the price of the device is around two orders of magnitude lower than the price of the planned devices. But then it turns around and says that they'd need up to two orders of magnitude more devices.

This isn't cost savings. This is just the Internet of Things applied to an existing problem. If it works better, fine, but don't say that the solution is cheaper....

Actually curious: are you intending to imply causation, or is this just correlation? You'll note the parent was actively suggesting a causative effect.

this is pertinent, but doesn't affect copyright law, which in most countries exists regardless of and completely separate from most contractual agreements.

as I mentioned elsewhere, they might have standing to eject you from the stadium over a breach of this contract, but that doesn't mean copyright law is applicable.

It would certainly be a violation of copyright law to repost a broadcast of the game. But taking your own video seems like creating a derivative work, if nothing else.

They would be within their rights to ban the usage of video recording devices inside the stadium, because it is ultimately private property and you've paid to see a performance. They would probably even be within their rights to sue you for breach of contract by making nonuse of recording devices a condition of your ticket price. But failing that, and failing a willingness to sue over it, I don't see how it could fall under copyright law.

I've been using tmux for years now, so my experiential data say no.

THIS. I read through wayyyy too many comments before someone pointed out the obvious. Thank you. I can go to sleep in peace, knowing that at least *someone* on the Internet is *not* wrong.

It looks like local echo can be turned off with a runtime flag. Additionally, my few experiements with it indicate that it somehow is intelligent enough to properly interpret command keystrokes as such.

It's not a fork no matter how you slice it, and it runs over SSH. Mosh will wrap other comms systems as well. Hate to say it, but.... RTFA.

right up front: I know about this only because I work for these guys, but...

there's a whole host of Linear Algebra-related software written for high performance computing environments that is attributable largely to various teams of academics throughout the past 30 or so years. It is my understanding that these libraries get used by most anyone doing high-performance computing.

http://www.netlib.org/lapack/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LAPACK

$40/year, unlimited storage, unlimited uploads, will keep things private, and unlimited traffic for the photos you want to share. They use Amazon's S3 server system, which is the platinum standard in digital archival safety. Plus, they're cooler than Flickr. The only way this doesn't work is if your internet connection isn't pretty decent. Then, keeping up with the uploads could become a pain.

We're kinda touchy about this. ;)

Slashdot has run stories about this system before, too, and it's awesome. But yeah, this was developed largely at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.