No, it means Microsoft shareholders should buy some Google stock...

But Microsoft collect a "license fee" from all the major Android phone vendors for "patents" used in the Linux kernel.

I wonder what the various national courts around the world will make of this... giving your own OS away for free while running an extortion racket for protection money from your competitors?

I hope they don't. I currently live and work in England! :-)

Scotland?

They wouldn't dare invade Scotland.

And we have these too.

But I haven't got the money.

The more I see of other people's code, the more I am inclined to write and test my own. That way I know it works and when it doesn't, I only have myself to blame. This isn't always possible because most tasks are way to big for a single person, so stick to well-used, well-understood, well-tested (in the real world) FOSS solutions. In general, closed-source vendor-proprietary code is dreadful.

Tell it like it is!

Uh, no.

It isn't "fascism" to say your unvaccinated-child may not infect my too-young-to-be-vaccinated child with a preventable disease and risk his life/kill him. In general, your "freedom" to choose an activity end at the point that you're harming another person.

We have a problem, but it is only partly the "messaging." The other part is the "population that can barely read at an aggregate 4th grade level" problem. Specifically, we live in a nation of morons that squeaks through high school with a minimal amount of required "hard-science" and can even get university degrees that require minimal or zero science education (Bachelor of Arts, anyone?) and can then consider themselves "educated" besides knowing neither jack nor shit beyond 12th grade science, and only having a passing familiarity with even that basic level of material.

Certainly if every newscaster mentioned, every time they mentioned flu vaccinations, that it was a vaccination for specific flus and that you can still get other flus, that might help. But if Americans weren't so fucking blidningly stupid when it comes to science, more of us would be able to imply such information by using our noodles.

Religious and personal beliefs are a crock in this situation. Specifically, your right to believe that vaccinations are a direct ejaculation from Satan's loins is one thing, but when your unvaccinated child goes to a park and spreads the disease to younger children, too young to be vaccinated, that's the point where their religious beliefs become irrelevant.

You have the right to believe anything you want--what you don't have the right to do is risk other peoples' lives for your beliefs.

There is a thing called a motorjet or thermojet which was invented in the early 20th Century and was a fore-runner of the gas turbine.

In the days before most people realised that a self-sustaining gas turbine was possible, someone came up with the idea of using a reciprocating piston engine with a ducted fan or propeller to compress air and to inject fuel and burn in in the compressed air stream (like an afterburner on a modern jet engine).

Actually, that reminds me, I was meaning to ask on Slashdot if anyone has any advice as to which is the better editor, Vi or Emacs.

I'd love to know.

Best. Throwaway. Shot. At. The. French. Ever.

Thanks!

But what percentage was desirable nudity?

Why not translate it into a useful language, like Klingon?

People might "get over" in broad strokes the concept of stationary security cameras, but I have a hard time believing we'll ever be "A-Okay" with roving glassholes filming everything, everywhere, including them. Consider: Still cameras have existed for 150+ years and to-this-day we have violent physical confrontations involving people who don't want to be photographed by creepy strangers on the street. I have a hard time believing a technology to make such rude and invasive behavior "normal" is going to work. Probably the early adopters will just keep getting beaten up until the fad ends and the next "revolutionary useless technology" comes along.