Comment Re:What "wider issues"? (Score 1) 46
More likely Vibe-hacking.
More likely Vibe-hacking.
Maybe the legal experts could sit down and work out how to modify licenses (including the GPL/LGPL) to be for non-commercial use only? As long as an entity wasn't making money using FOSS, it could use it just like now. Individuals and non-commercial projects wouldn't be affected. But if you're a business making money using FOSS? Not without paying for it you're not. Yes, this would go against the free-software principles. But principles don't pay the bills every month, and none of these changes would prevent anyone from staying with the existing licenses if they wanted to.
The first thing I think of as a problem would be a company setting up a separate entity that wouldn't make money, just make services available to the company using FOSS to get around the fees. The trick to preventing this would be to phrase the terms so that that entity truly had to pay it's own bills without having the company using it's services pay anything either directly or indirectly. Not even by doing things like providing hosting "free". I'd have to sit down with a bunch of rules lawyers and game out all the ways to funnel money into that entity and how to block them, but what's life without a little challenge?
Wonder if Meta has Case's number on quick-dial?
produces higher quality sperm
That's really important for the sperm destined for the septic system, sure...
Keith Richards has already lived through the heat death of one universe.
I was lucky; I lived in a Road Runner test market and my off-campus apartment with early cable modem had unreal speed compared to the fractional T-1 the school used.
Oh geez, they've flooded alt.sex.bald.captains with crappy AI / and it's always Q. WTF?!!
Is nothing sacred?
Or chloromidians? Was there any mention of chlorine on it?
In the absence of chlorine, would flouromidians form? Would flouromidian-based life have any unusual properties?
Or whatever it is that tricorders detect?
Or souls? Did it make a detour through our solar system to pick up a few souls for later use?
John Brunner has entered the conversation.
Obligatory:
plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose
--Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr, January 1849 Les Guêpes Journal
Wasn't one of the first open source scrapes of teh internets (text and images I think) around 80TB to download? Can see smaller IT businesses, labs, universities able to use something in that range. Lost of schools had decent size clusters.
I was hopping for a bobble-head run.
Never would have believed it was a fake.
It is a rather high number. So, high UIDs correlate with cognitive decline. I'll remember that.
Keep the number of passes in a compiler to a minimum. -- D. Gries