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Comment: Re:Videos I've seen (Score 1) 961

by Chaos1 (#37530368) Attached to: Conflict Between Occupy Wall Street Protestors and NYPD Escalating

I got that impression as well. In at least one video you can see the arms of a protester swinging at a cop before they pan over to show the officer grabbing and subduing them. Just because you yell "this is a peaceful protest" does not make it one.

I'm not saying that there's not overly aggressive cops involved, just that the story is being skewed in both directions.

Comment: Unprecedented? Really? (Score 1) 722

by Chaos1 (#36767792) Attached to: Netflix Deflects Rage Over Price Increase

"Netflix provoked an unprecedented outpouring of backlash across the Internet ..."

Really? I'm pretty sure the Internet is a small toddler who throws fits when it doesn't get it's way. Not every backlash can be unprecedented, nor is this the first time people got vocally (in a sense) angry at a company. The loudest crowd is not always the majority.

France Bans Use of 2.0->

Submitted by illybilly
illybilly writes "French President Nicholas Sarkozy was mad about what was called a "version 2.0" website redesign for the presidential palace in Paris. So he pushed through legislation that bans the use of the term "2.0" in France."
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Open Source

Announcing Freecell Solver Enterprise Edition->

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Shlomi Fish
Shlomi Fish writes "Freecell Solver Enterprises Inc., on behalf of the Freecell Solver development team, is glad to announce the upcoming availability of Freecell Solver Enterprise Edition. In its Enterprise Edition, Freecell Solver will be enhanced to solve generalised Freecell, in which there can be an arbitrary number of card ranks. Since generalised Freecell is NP-complete. This will allow using Freecell Solver's ingenious, cutting-edge algorithms to solve the previously hard, provably NP-Complete problems of the Travelling Salesman problem, Subset sum, Sudoku and Enterprise content management.

Read more on the announcement to learn more about this and upcoming exciting developments."
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Privacy

Federal Judge: N.S.A.'s Wiretapping is illegal->

Submitted by mdl4
mdl4 writes "WASHINGTON — A federal judge ruled Wednesday that the National Security Agency’s program of surveillance without warrants was illegal, rejecting the Obama administration’s effort to keep shrouded in secrecy one of the most disputed counterterrorism policies of former President George W. Bush.
In a 45-page opinion, Judge Vaughn R. Walker ruled that the government had violated a 1978 federal statute requiring court approval for domestic surveillance when it intercepted phone calls of Al Haramain, a now-defunct Islamic charity in Oregon, and of two lawyers representing it in 2004. Declaring that the plaintiffs had been “subjected to unlawful surveillance,” the judge said the government was liable to pay them damages."
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The Internet

SPAM: Silicon cockroaches, dirty IPv4 addresses & mo

Submitted by alphadogg
alphadogg writes "The world's leading Internet engineers see many surprising trends occurring under the covers of this complex network environment. Among their findings are the evolution of silicon cockroaches — tiny, mobile, unattended wireless devices — and "dirty" Internet address space that can't be used by network operators. Here are a few eye-openers about what’s really going on in the Internet infrastructure that were discussed at a meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) held in Anaheim last week, summed up by Network World's Carolyn Duffy Marsan."
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Comment: Distribution Charges are not a violation (Score 1) 782

by Chaos1 (#28917867) Attached to: The Ethics of Selling GPLed Software For the iPhone

I'm sorry to hear that you have one developer raising a stink. The GPL doesn't have any restrictions against charging for distribution. Hell, even Stallman used to charge to distribute GNU utilities and it was more than just the cost of shipping (time + media + shipping).

Or yet another example, Wolfenstein 3D was ported to the iPhone by ID Software. Keep in mind that this piece of software has been available as GPL'd source code for a number of years. ID Software didn't go back to the virgin code either, they found an open source project which had done a number of modifications, re-hacked it and then sold it on the Apple store. The source code for the iPhone app is available for download at no cost.

You've obviously had to lay out some money for the developer license and spent a fair amount of time on the port, so I don't think charging a couple of dollars violates the letter or the spirit of the GPL.

Now if you'd kindly get to work on porting NetHack to the iPhone, it would be appreciated.

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