Comment: Re:People are funny. (Score 1) 618
I'm British you insensitive clod
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Comment: What do you think the sausages are made out of? (Score 1) 140
Many South Koreans apparently turned to using sausages as a stylus but if you'd prefer not to be hassled by dogs as you type a text there are less meat product-based solutions
Hassled by dogs? For Koreans it's a virtuous cycle
Comment: Re:All HTTP traffic should be encrypted (Score 1) 288
Many websites are hosted at a single IP address. For SSL to work I believe you need 1 website=1 IP Address. I suppose IPv6 could solve this but people could then still eavesdrop on what websites you are visiting, albeit not the pages on that website.
IPv6 could solve the don't have enough IP addresses problem and IPv6 would also bring IPSEC, which AFAIU will allow all IP traffic to be trivially encrypted.
Comment: Re:Gender isn't sex. (Score 1) 1091
Even if that were true it is not very useful in this situation. Would you argue that infertile people should not be able to compete in IAAF events?
Comment: Re:Not that amazing (Score 1) 419
Valerie Aurora wrote an interesting article about the paper at lwn: http://lwn.net/Articles/270081/
Comment: Re:You Only Rip Me Off Once (Score 1) 554
Comment: Re:What about Python? (Score 1) 288
See <a href="http://log.ometer.com/2008-08.html">Havoc Pennington's blog entry on this</a>
excerpt:
<quote>I would define an "embedded" language as one that doesn't come with a platform. It's small and easy to glue together with an app written in C or C++. It uses the same platform as the app. If the platform has an introspection capability like XPCOM or GObject-Introspection, then the platform can be exported to the embedded language in an automated way.</quote>
excerpt:
<quote>I would define an "embedded" language as one that doesn't come with a platform. It's small and easy to glue together with an app written in C or C++. It uses the same platform as the app. If the platform has an introspection capability like XPCOM or GObject-Introspection, then the platform can be exported to the embedded language in an automated way.</quote>
Comment: Re:Open source overkill (Score 5, Informative) 127
The GPL makes assurances regarding patents that the MIT license doesn't:
"Each contributor grants you a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free patent license under the contributor's essential patent claims, to make, use, sell, offer for sale, import and otherwise run, modify and propagate the contents of its contributor version."
So if you use it as a GPL licensed library you can't get sued by the BBC or other contributors to the code.
"Each contributor grants you a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free patent license under the contributor's essential patent claims, to make, use, sell, offer for sale, import and otherwise run, modify and propagate the contents of its contributor version."
So if you use it as a GPL licensed library you can't get sued by the BBC or other contributors to the code.
