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Comment The "spirit" is pretty simple (Score 1) 58

Open source at the lowest level is you get the source code with the software, and that code builds to the same software you got it with. You can modify the source, build your modification and use it without breaking the license. That's pretty much it.

The differences in open source flavors come from definition of "use": share your software(with or without you changed code), sell your software, share changed code publically or privately, etc.

All the argument is really about open/free software not open source. The belief all software should be free in terms of having to share your changes. Not a big point I know but the terms need to be correct. Not "open source", but people who think "open source" means freedom. It doesn't. Means you get the code and can use it.

Comment Re:Lojik! (Score 1) 250

"The fallacy here is that one person being wrong doesn't automatically make the other right (with exceptions). They could very well both be wrong or have bad judgement"

I'm thinking there is a version of this that should be the slogan for the election results. A slogan that needs spread as much as possible.

Comment Re:One thing "standing only" is good for us keepin (Score 1) 140

Although juggling in meetings seems like it would help with being active, eventually some will have other issues from the repetative movement.

I also assume there's ramp up time before that rule can be followed consistently in meetings. But I have to admit the meeting would look more fun.
But I'm not letting someone borrow MY phone to juggle.

Comment 2 birds with1 stone: convert all Starbucks (Score 1) 247

The issue is lack of chargers for EV's, and isn't Startbucks starting to falter?
Tackle both at the same time: Starbucks can re-brand as the EV equivalent of gas stations. Just switch focus and provide place for people to sit, eat and drink over-priced stuff, use the wifi, then off they go on to their busy caffeinated day. All they need to do is install the chargers in the parking lot, rake in the subsidies and company saved!
Just based on real-estate holdings, charging network solved.

someone call Brian quick.

Comment Demand pricing could get stores in trouble (Score 1) 221

I'm working from memory so maybe I am not getting the details right, but didn't some stores get sued for the price on the shelf not matching the scan price at the register?

If the concern is demand pricing that changes the price throughout a day, won't the same laws kick in that got stores in trouble that scammed people by listing one price on the shelf and then changed different at the checkout?
I know I got a good deal on some electronic thing back in the day, the floor worker at a store mis-labeled a shelf by getting one item confused with the next one and put the name of one item and the price of the next one, store had to give me the half off price after they confirmed the shelf was labeled wrong.

Comment Why was her picture even there for the AI?! (Score 1) 220

This sounds like lazy investigation which just happened to use AI. When is it the right decision for all available photos they have to be included in looking for a suspect? Is that really a practice when looking for suspects? Just find any picture that might be a match?
Or did she have some prior or other criteria to get her in the running?

Comment Re: Not sure everything will change (Score 1) 241

This baffles me. Just because some or even a lot of users think or act like it is a public square doesn't mean it is a defacto one. IT IS NOT RUN OR MANAGED AS A DEFACTO PUBLIC SQAURE. It does not meet the minimum requirements of one BECAUSE IT IS MODERATED AND CONTROLLED AS PRIVATE PROPERTY. Why a lot of people think they can declare it a public square and make it so is beyond me.

Comment Doom as a utility was cool (Score 4, Interesting) 95

Not a long story but I thought it was cool back when I read about it:
Doom as a system utility: https://www.cs.unm.edu/~dlchao...

Other than that just remembering how mind-blowing it was when it came out , since at the time Wolfingstein was amazin, the features Doom promised seemed so hyped and exagerated. But it worked, played many a game on Sun stations in the computer labs

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