It's been on slashdot before, probably for other states, can't really remember. Frankly, as a European (Sweden to be exact), I'm still surprised you don't have taxes on internet purchases. Any online US retailer exporting to EU does have to add VAT to those transactions (which are then sent off the to EU state).

Well, I didn't check, but if BusyBox is using GPL 3 then it requires that Sony provides the tools or at least instructions to let you install the software on the device along with the source itself. That's the whole tivoization thing and might be what they're trying to avoid.

Maybe you can do without mouse, but once you start using the visual mode, which vi lacks, you'll never go back.

Well, it might work, if they're fast. But you're assuming the debt is in US dollars, which it probably isn't (at least not all of it).

They also announced that they're shutting down codesearch. That's much bigger news as far as I'm concerned. Sad to see a great tool disappear.

Whoosh!

Damn, not sure how I forgot the worst part of all. dtruss requires root to be run, so you usually have to do some convoluted double sudo to run a program the same way as without it.

As long as the leave strace in place. Apple replaced ktrace with dtrace and I've been hating it ever since.
It's not that dtrace is bad, it's just that they have different purposes, and dtruss has several problems ktrace/strace does not:

• It's asynchronous. Meaning it won't output write(1, "foo\n", 4); next to the actual output of foo.
• Sometimes stuff gets out of order, not sure why.
• It'll only output pointer addresses, e.g. bind(3, 0x12345678, ...) instead of bind(3, {127.0.0.1, 8080}, ...)

Ok, rant over.

That's not different from moving a VM from one host to another, the router needs to change its ARP table in that case as well. There's no reason the IP couldn't be app bound instead of machine bound, if you're willing to assign one IP per app (IPv6 would help). But we're lacking the tools to migrate an IP from one host to another, including the TCP sessions. That's a software problem though, and could be implemented if there's demand for it.

It's regulated in law 1998:1593. In short, it has to be a community whose main purpose is practice of religion, it has to have a stature and board, and it has to have sermons. Several organisations falls short on the last point, for example the secular Humanisterna.

From napster? A search for 128 kbit MP3 might be enough. Your legal ones are probably of higher quality.

C would have been an interesting language to compare. We actually rewrote some C code to C++ and saw a speed benefit. Ofc, the original C code was very object oriented in this case, using structs with function pointers.

It's $25 per year and if I understood it correctly you don't get to keep the files if you cancel it. But I didn't watch the keynote firsthand so might very well be wrong.

Those are glob patterns based on hexstrings:
<key>CFBundleIdentifier</key>*<string>com.avm.pkg.avSetup</string>
avRunner.app*avRunner*DownloadPict.png

Not sure about the "Identity" param though. It's 160 bits, so could be a sha1 checksum.

Still seems rather trivial to get around.

Here's the change we are discussing (google translate).

Old text:

Electronic communications may be used to store or access information that is stored in a subscriber or user-dares terminal equipment only if the subscriber or user of the controller is informed about the purpose of treatment and opportunity to prevent such treatment. This does not prevent such storage or access needed to perform or facilitate the transfer of electronic messages via an electronic communications network or which is necessary to provide a service that the subscriber or user has requested.

will be changed to:

Data may be stored in or retrieved from a subscriber or user equipment only if the subscriber or user will have access to information about the purpose of treatment and agree to it. This does not prevent such storage or access needed to transmit an electronic message via an electronic communications network or which is necessary to provide a service the subscriber or user has explicitly requested.

Not sure I've ever seen such an ambiguous law text.