That's interesting. Red Hat claims that they still submit their patches upstream first, but maybe it doesn't all go smoothly...

From that article:

Other distros will not be affected, Red Hat's Stevens says, because the company distributes its kernel changes upstream as well. "The work that we've done should not impede companies from building their own versions of Linux and supporting those for their customers," he says. "All the code we deliver through RHEL is out there. In most cases, the changes that go into RHEL. We already distribute into the upstream kernel. We have an upstream-first policy, where we're developing openly and then later integrating into our tree and then delivering it. So it shouldn't at all impede the community or anybody that's in the business of competing on that."

Because flickr is so different from facebook in this respect? It's another cloud service which is one acquisition away from disappearing.

Eventually? You mean that hasn't happened already?

Not that I'm a fan of tracking, but it does fix one other problem...

• did I vote without knowing it,
• did my vote get discarded, OR
• did my vote get counted for the option I intended?

The people arguing for tracking are claiming that tampering is possible by people who will gladly accept the fact that you voted, but ignore who you voted for (by switching ballot papers, discarding your vote as "invalid", etc...)

Now, there are other ways of solving that problem, which do not require public voting lists, but the argument is that they are more complicated so people won't understand them.

The higher the voter turnout, the greater the percentage of voters who actually cared enough to form an opinion about an issue.

Whether they formed that opinion through study or some other means, and whether it is a single issue or many issues, is not evident. But yeah, they cared enough to form opinions and act on them...

FTFY.

From the case details

So, possibly he doesn't own any sites anymore...

And anything else which uses the MHTML component, which includes many, many applications, including anything which uses the "Windows Help" system...

I remember that crypt used to only care about the first 8 characters, but I don't remember anything about it being case insensitive... Where did that come from?

Agreed. In fact, they not only get the model ID, they also get the IMEI ("equipment identifier" roughly equivalent to a serial number), so they can choose to lock out this specific piece of hardware just because they feel like it, even if they let others of the same model through...

And the trade off was that the analog signal used around four times the bandwidth to get that robustness...

And most people could. Only the people near the limit of the error-correctable range would be affected. However, the people who are negatively impacted will always be the most vocal about the new system, and thus will create the impression that the system was somehow inherently broken...

The digital cliff effect (also at wiki:Cliff Effect) is what ends up with some people requiring new antennas... However anyone who could receive reasonable picture quality over analogue with rabbit ears should be able to get digital with similar equipment, except in the "cliff zone"...

In the GSM world, carriers don't get to decide which devices are allowed on their networks. They get to issue subscribers (people) with identification modules (SIM), which can be placed into any compatible device (phone, computer, or otherwise) and the device can then authenticate and talk to the network.

I assume by

he meant something fairly similar to

Admittedly, those statements aren't identical, but they're close enough for the vast majority of the employees....