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Every year, The Slashdot editors go on vacation at the beginning of April.
In place of news, scripts search the web for bad jokes, theonion articles or random text, and post them as news.
Most readers take the day off, and hope that by the evening, the editors are sacked and the site is returned to normal.
may I suggest
http://www.sciencedaily.com/
during today's slashdot news shutdown
Fake news all day.
It is no longer funny.
I am only reminded that on April one, I look for an alternative site that is not shutdown for the day.
"Are you trying to say that a change has to be made available the SECOND it is added to the code?"
No. There is a subtle line between copying code for development/testing and distribution (yes internally).
"Copying internally to the company is not distributing the code".
This is the general statement that I disagree with.
If you copy Windows internally to the company, is that ok?
If the company uses a modified gcc compiler, and 1000 or 10000 developers use it to compile code, yes the code is being distributed.
But, as you mention, if I have a gcc patch, and I copy the modified code to others internally for testing, perhaps that's not distributed.
The author mentions that most people think personal use copying is ok.
I would say the same is true of companies, but only for open source, for some reason.
Companies often download open source, modify the software, copy the modified software among hundreds of people, demonstrate the modified software publicly, then say they will release the software when the product is released.
But, there was no copyright or licence that granted the internal copies of the modified software, as the modifications were not published.
If a company used evaluation copies of Windows, internally, copying to hundreds of developers, then demonstrated something publicly obviously on an evaluation copy of windows, what would happen?
Side rant: Often "viral" is mentioned in FUD concerning Open Source, but one should note that regular copyright is also "viral", in the sense that if you make a derivative copy of commercial software (or writing or music
Are the Korean hands getting bigger every day? Or is it now popular to hold a phone with two hands now?
I really wish there was a Nexus phone with a 4"(or less) display.
The security flaw was the storage of the passwords rather than passwords hash.
Did they fix that?
What should concern everyone, and the reason John Roberts supported the mandate, is that it sets a precedent to allow privatization of taxation.
The "Left" supported it because the mandate was attached to health care, but this is a step towards corporatism much bigger than Citizens United.
Sugar does have thousands of years more testing than artificial sweeteners....
And there is no statistical evidence that 'diet soda' helps one loose or maintain weight.
Even if we had no studies that show that artificial sweetener is dangerous, why consume it?
Especially when it taste so bad...
What's wrong with water?
I view soda as a dessert (not a very good one...). I will have one occasionally, but never with a meal. I would never eat sugar free cake or ice cream,
oh, you said Bowser
Without support for modern file systems, It can not be taken seriously.
They should not dismiss suggestions to adopt use of fuse based filesystems such as ntfs3g, as this may likely be the most direct way to get support for popular file systems.
... It just say "France"...
Why is Cinnamon needed. Hasn't LXDE and/or XFCE filled that void?
Google was the best bet in bringing Java back to life.
But Oracle is suing Google for making Java somewhat popular again
I imagine even Google will give up on Java at some point with some new platform that exposes binder services to javascript, deprecates Java, and merges with Chrome OS.
I think "most useful" here means "most profitable".
Ideas are most useful
Thufir's a Harkonnen now.