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Comment Re:and they don't poor people without bank account (Score 3, Interesting) 87

by jhdsl (#61141764) Attached to: Shops Return To Rural Sweden But Are Now Staff-Free

1) Yes.
2 and 3). See linked EU-directive https://eur-lex.europa.eu/lega... that https://slashdot.org/~r2kordma... posten below. Quote:
”2. Member States shall ensure that consumers legally resident in the Union, including consumers with no fixed address and asylum seekers, and consumers who are not granted a residence permit but whose expulsion is impossible for legal or factual reasons, have the right to open and use a payment account with basic features with credit institutions located in their territory. Such a right shall apply irrespective of the consumer’s place of residence.”

Comment Re:killed what? (Score 1) 280

by jhdsl (#61063530) Attached to: Did Linux Kill Commercial Unix?

There probably are not any AT&T code in MacOS. That code is very old now anyway so it can not be very useful.

I don’t think it would be hard to certifiy a Linux distro, Huawei EulerOS 2.0 is certified Unix. The cost and time to do it does not seem to be worth it.

Just Google Open Group.

Comment Re:Does iOS count? (Score 2) 280

by jhdsl (#61061954) Attached to: Did Linux Kill Commercial Unix?

There is more to it than buying a license, you have to certify your product against the Open Group Unix standard, of which there are several.
This costs a bunch of money, so that is why few Linux distributions bother. The Windows NT Posix subsystem is not even remotely compliant, so it has never been Unix certified.
For a list of Unix-certified OS:es: https://www.opengroup.org/open...

Huawei EulerOS 2.0 is certified Unix, and is Linux based. MacOS is regularly certified when a new version comes out.

But some mean by Unix something like "An OS that contains or traces its past versions to some of the original AT&T Unix source code".
Not many of those around.

Submission + - Apple's Tim Cook calls out 'religious freedom' laws as discriminatory

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: It will come as no surprise that Apple's CEO Tim Cook doesn't agree with so-called religious freedom laws. Cook says, "[they] rationalize injustice by pretending to defend something many of us hold dear," and has penned an op-ed piece for The Washington Post which reads in part: "A wave of legislation, introduced in more than two dozen states, would allow people to discriminate against their neighbors. Some, such as the bill enacted in Indiana last week that drew a national outcry and one passed in Arkansas, say individuals can cite their personal religious beliefs to refuse service to a customer or resist a state nondiscrimination law. Others are more transparent in their effort to discriminate. Legislation being considered in Texas would strip the salaries and pensions of clerks who issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples — even if the Supreme Court strikes down Texas’ marriage ban later this year. In total, there are nearly 100 bills designed to enshrine discrimination in state law. These bills rationalize injustice by pretending to defend something many of us hold dear. They go against the very principles our nation was founded on, and they have the potential to undo decades of progress toward greater equality."

Submission + - Memory Wars May Herald In Mobile Devices With Terabytes of Capacity (computerworld.com)

Submitted by Lucas123
Lucas123 writes: With 3D NAND flash going into high production and one startup demonstrating a resistive NAND (RRAM) flash array, it may not be long before mobile devices have hundreds of gigabytes of capacity, even a terabyte with performance only limited by the bus. Samsung announced it is now mass producing three-dimensional (3D) Vertical NAND (V-NAND) chips, and start-up Crossbar said it has created a prototype of its RRAM chip. Both technologies offer many times what current NAND flash chips offer today in capacity and performance. Which technology will prevail is still up in the air, but experts believe it will be years before RRAM can challenge NAND, but it's almost inevitable that it will overtake it as even 3D NAND heads for an inevitable dead end. Others believe 3D NAND, currently at 24 layers, could reach more than 100, giving it a lifespan of five or more years.

Submission + - Upside-down sensors cause rocket crash 3

Submitted by Michi
Michi writes: According to Anatoly Zak, the crash of the Russion Proton rocket on 1 July was apparently caused by several angular velocity sensors having been installed upside down.

Each of those sensors had an arrow that was supposed to point toward the top of the vehicle, however multiple sensors on the failed rocket were pointing downward instead.

It seems amazing that something as fundamental as this was not caught during quality control. Even more amazing is that the design of the sensors permits them to be installed in the wrong orientation in the first place. Even the simplest of mechanical interlocks (such as a notch at one end that must be matched with a corresponding projection) could have prevented the accident.

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