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Comment Re:Spoofing from address? (Score 1) 16

Yea, I have gotten a few of the "I lost my wallet/phone/etc. can you send me xx cash via WU ..." email spoofing scams, but they seemed to have died out. Now they spoofing seems to be emails sent from me to me; I guess they hope it makes it past my spam filter. I'd block my email address in the filter, but I do legitimately use it for bcc emails where the entire list is bcc'd to avoid "Reply All" messages.

Comment Re:Think of the school children (Score 1) 128

It was mostly people in northern states in the darkest days of winter.

I was in 2nd grade in the southern U.S. the year Nixon had us stay on DST for a while. My friends and I really enjoyed the change. It was dark(-ish) when we walked to the bus stop, but we got to take flashlights to school (much more exciting when you're 7 years old!).

Comment Re:good people (Score 3, Insightful) 37

This guy is a class act. It's no wonder he had "less success". The people who most people praise are really not good people.

Steve Jobs was totally irrelevant without Woz. Steve was a fake-it-till-you-make-it kind of guy. A lot of Trump qualities actually. Woz made Steve.

And Steve made Woz. Apple just happened to have the right two people involved from the start. Without Jobs, Woz would likely just been another guy who liked to play with electronics. Both were essential in their own way.

Comment Re:Vizio's Arguments (Score 1) 64

Vizio also argued that GPL is a software license, not a contract, so the company has no contractual obligation to provide SFC with Vizio OS’s source code, even if SFC were considered a third-party beneficiary of GPLv2 LGPLv2.

Heh, good luck with that one. Furthermore, I don't think that's a precedent that any proprietary software wants set This is gonna be a good one!

Yea, I'm sure Vizio and every other company that licenses software would love a decision that a license is not a contract and thus only a right to use the software without any obligations that would come from it also being a contract.

Comment Companies view free as different (Score 1) 64

Companies will always want to use GPL software because it is free in as we don't pay for it but want to protect their implementation. I hope this lawsuit results in a win for the SFC and thus set a precedent, rather than a settlement. A win would strengthen enforcement, and likely cause a lot of concern amongst companies using GPL'd software. Unfortuantely, IMHO, there are enough gray areas that even if SFC wins the resultant compliant code release will not easy enable modifying and using teh software on existsing devices due to how Vizio actually implemented the GPL'd code. For example, do they use keys to enable access/operation of key components.

Comment Re:The smart ones, yes (Score 1) 146

I'd bet, though, that we'll see a sudden surge of voters pressuring their legislatures to force power companies to give residential service priority over data centers.

That is the key. Vote out politicians such as PSC members or who appointed them and you’ll get the attention of the rest.

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