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Comment Re:Open source privacy policy (Score 1) 108

I remember finding out about forms during a DIY child custody. I turned to Nolo books and they had the boiler plate doc. The family judge signed it off in 10 mins...$500 lawyer fee saved. Since then, I've learned how much of our judicial system could be lawyer free. This only applied to a non-arguable situation. A trained mad hatter arguable individual is your friend in other situations....Melvin Beli was my favorite for beating a drunk driving complaint and giving up his driving license to win. Simple English (no boffin/pundit London speak) works in America. Lawyer are the bain of the common man as they prosecute one and protect one under law created by them....The arguments for the 2nd amendment was a short breath of freedom.

Comment Re:Open source privacy policy (Score 1) 108

"No other personal information is collected" or other similar wordings will do nicely. If there's something that you know your app will never try to do, it can be listed as a reassuring gesture to the user.

By the way, the link in your signature is broken.

That works for apps off the various stores....But doesn't work for pre-installed bloatware the provider is running while you use your phone. Verizon is great for these apps. They crash your phone not releasing memory while your doing memory intensive activities. No App needs access to your cellular phone except to keep it from sleeping. Asking for contacts is bad programing and presentation....I'm seeing alot of this disappear from the Google apps. But Apple doesn't present rights to the end user....is it too complicated for an iPhone user to grasp program rights? So, maybe she feels she needs to protect Apple users as her office protected the mass murder from Mexico that killed a father and son on the streets of San Francisco. In the end, all those idiots paid to spam the internet on an apple breakout day, could be used to check the battery usage of and I-device....Android user need not worry....just read the tech blogs. BTW, every Apple device calls home on $10 a gig lte line. Apple should post this each time a device connects without user wanting it.

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Graphic Map of Linux-2.6.36 25

conan.sh writes "The Interactive map of Linux Kernel was expanded and updated to the recent kernel linux-2.6.36. Now the map contains more than four hundred important source items (functions and structures) with links to source code and documentation."

Comment Re:real science (Score 1) 672

to mote gov/indiviual scientists tacktics are so real. Tomorrow the sun will shine and kids will laughtl The true point is will these enigmas still get money from being chicken littles.

Comment Re:real science (Score 1) 672

The problem is showmanship.....Lovecock gave a lecture on gia in the late 1980s at SJSU and it was obvious he was looking for funding. All the global warming scares come from the UK, except the discredited hockey puck graphic by an American scientist. So is it real or memorix? Science doesn't work that way...Its all memorix until repeated in an observed experiment. The ban on refrigeration cf chems like cf12 was based on a repeatable experiment. But while cf12 was used, it was never seen being bad in the wild...only in the lab....So....are you a chicken little person or a realist?

Comment Re:Nah (Score 1) 498

'Ask any car mechanic on who owns the tools... Sure the mechanic does not buy the big and expensive tools. BUT mechanics are expected to bring their own toolbox.' As a young man I was a seamer mechanic in a cannery. We bought craftsman tools...cheap and did the job....My tool box was robbed by some local kids and it cost the company $2500 to replace my cheap tools in 1970s dollars. The company was self insured...So I went through a lot of questioning. Tools are not cheap....If I had Snap-on tools, the price would have been over $4000. In the end, it would have been cheaper for the company to supply my tools. While I was there, I cut product costs by 1/3 through design innovations on the post ww2 American Can Co. syrupers and the Continental can seamers. What was really rude was the fact some workers thought the company did pay for our tools and stole them like pick pockets and thieves they were.
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Company Seeks To Boost Linux Game Development With 3D Engine Giveaway 140

binstream writes "To support Linux game development, Unigine Corp. announced a competition: it will give a free license for its Unigine engine to a seasoned team willing to work on a native Linux game. The company has been Linux-friendly from the very start; it released advanced GPU benchmarks (Heaven, Tropics, Sanctuary) for Linux before and is working on the OilRush strategy game that supports Linux as well."

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