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Comment Re:Is this 2019? (Score 1) 148

I don't think they've decided what sound to use yet and have announced the ruling, to give the big consultancies plenty of time to work out how to charge a vast fortune for licencing whatever new sound they come up with.

The wired.co.uk article did, but ...

Oops, we couldn’t find that track.

SoundCloud.com

Comment Re:victims' not victims (Score 1) 72

Ok, I get it. The article says, "Breach victims part ...". I thought the word "victims" was a noun, and "part" was a verb, as in the victims were parting from something.

The word [victims] here should be [victims'] (with an apostrophe after the word, meaning possessive). So [Breach victims] describes the noun "part". So the article means "the part of the lawsuit that belongs to the breach victims".

It should be "... victims [who are] part of ...".

Comment Re:Sold! (Score 2) 116

I would pay a lot for an outdoor-does-it-all device.

I believe you can train a child/wife for this.

My kids love to "help" in the garden. The biggest problem is they get overly enthusiatic, and pull up nice plants when weeding. As for the wife, I always say, she's not a farmer's wife, I'm a farmer's husband. She does the bulk of the planting, weeding, etc.

Comment Re: why should i care?` (Score 1) 555

If what I read is correct they weren't students at the university and so it had no contractual agreement with them. So what did it owe them?

If this had been a government site - that they were obliged to use to file their taxes or apply for a driving license or whatever - that'd be different.

But it isn't.

The trouble is that the University of California Berkley IS a government site. At least, they are a state sponsored public university that receives public funding.

Comment Babylon 5 but... (Score 1) 480

I loved both Babylon 5 and Star Trek: The Next Generation, but usually Babylon 5 was my favorite. However, I have one exception which for me shall forever reign as the epitome of awesomeness:

THERE ARE FOUR LIGHTS!

Submission + - Mark Shuttleworth Says Open-Source is More Secure Because of Diversity (datamation.com)

darthcamaro writes: 2014 was seen by some as a tough year for open-source, given the Heartbleed and Shellshock vulnerabilities that impacted millions of users and systems. Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu Linux (and former space tourist) has a different view. 2014 was a great year for him, as he marked the 10th anniversary of Ubuntu — and in terms of security he knows exactly why the open-source model is superior.

"The great thing about open source is that it's so dynamic and has so much innovation, that we have much more diversity in our ecosystem than there has ever been in the proprietary ecosystem," Shuttleworth said. "You'll never stop security issues from occurring in either open source or proprietary software but you deal with issues faster in open source."


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