Comment Re:github is a trap (Score 1) 220
Care to elaborate?
Comment Re:github is a trap (Score 0, Troll) 220
Taking into account most code is written with the intent of releasing an application to the general population, the previous AC has a point. The freedom to not make your changes public is in fact important.
Don't get me wrong, there's nothing wrong with the GPL. It's just not for everything. The GPL does in fact require to make your changes public, if you release the application publicly. This isn't a problem with the license mind you. If this is what the original author of the code intended, then the license is working just fine.
I personally find this argument of which license is most "free" (libre or beer) to be an idiotic one. As the author of code, don't pick a license simply because it's most "free". Pick a license based strictly on what you want the end user to be able to do with both the code and binary. End of discussion.
Don't get me wrong, there's nothing wrong with the GPL. It's just not for everything. The GPL does in fact require to make your changes public, if you release the application publicly. This isn't a problem with the license mind you. If this is what the original author of the code intended, then the license is working just fine.
I personally find this argument of which license is most "free" (libre or beer) to be an idiotic one. As the author of code, don't pick a license simply because it's most "free". Pick a license based strictly on what you want the end user to be able to do with both the code and binary. End of discussion.
Comment Re:misleading (Score 1) 543
Until we see alternative OSes based on alternative licenses take a bigger spot than LInux, the GPL is in no danger.
It's always annoyed me when people have spoken about the GPL as if it's a living, breathing, entity. It is a license and nothing more, not a culture, nor a way of life.
Unless the GPL is found to not be legally binding, the GPL as a license will never be in danger of anything.
NOTE: Please don't take this as a personal attack. Had I mod points I'd mod you insightful for everything else you had to say.
Comment Re:Quake Live is awesome. (Score 1) 205
I wasn't even aware that people _had_ invites to give out! Oh Lord and Master, will you not bestow upon me the wonder that is a Quake Live invite?
On another note, how is the matchmaking and such via Quake Live? I understand it's still in beta, but I'd like to know how it's coming along. Are there persistent stats between games? Is the ladder system working well?
I'd be grateful for an invite: btaylor at fuzzylogicstudios dot com
Next G8 President Wants To "Regulate the Internet" 279
antispam_ben writes "The President of Italy, which will have the Presidency of the G8 starting January 1, says he wants to use the future position of Italy to 'Regulate the Internet.' Italy's President Berlusconi appears to be a cantankerous character, prompting riots when Italy last had the G8 presidency in 2001. This will no doubt be a serious effort, but knowing the fundamental design of the Internet involves routing around damage, the efforts could be more amusing than threatening."
Update — 12/5 at 00:04 by SS: Reader fondacio noted that Silvio Berlusconi is Italy's Prime Minister, not its President. He is Italy's G8 representative, and Italy will hold the presidency in 2009.
Geoengineering To Cool the Earth Becoming Thinkable 419
johkir writes "As early as 1965, when Al Gore was a freshman in college, a panel of distinguished environmental scientists warned President Lyndon B. Johnson that CO2 emissions from fossil fuels might cause 'marked changes in climate' that 'could be deleterious.' Yet the scientists did not so much as mention the possibility of reducing emissions. Instead they considered one idea: 'spreading very small reflective particles' over about five million square miles of ocean, so as to bounce about 1 percent more sunlight back to space — 'a wacky geoengineering solution.' In the decades since, geoengineering ideas never died, but they did get pushed to the fringe — they were widely perceived by scientists and environmentalists alike as silly and even immoral attempts to avoid addressing the root of the problem of global warming. Three recent developments have brought them back into the mainstream." We've discussed some
pretty
strange
ideas
in the geoengineering line over the last few years.
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