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Comment Re: Wow (Score 1) 168

You really are clueless.
The car companies have a ton of software engineers, but they focus on car stuff, not cute features. A car company adding software is a much easier move than a software company adding a car (tesla).
GM has had evs for a long time, tesla got the battery thing figured out and the pr push. That is how tesla got ahead.
The biggest mistake gm is making is going full electric instead of hybrid.

Comment I don't see a problem (Score 1) 152

Information wants to be free
A private company that is paid with our tax dollars to create weapons had the weapons blueprints released to us, the buyers.
Space X's vendors list and partner program, oh no, we'll know who get's good deals and more of our tax money since at the end of the day most of the Space X revenue is from the federal government.

The ransom guys released the info, they didn't destroy years of research. I'm fine with weapons schematics being available, hell, I'd be more happy if we could build our own and not get ATF raided.

Comment It's using Plan 9 (for real) (Score 1) 123

This is actually really cool since you can interact with the Plan 9 system and do all kinds of crazy stuff. The big question will be how much can we get into that part.
Those of you that are wondering what kind of stuff, you could force the FS to only see files as lowercase, you could have it be case insensitive, you could have if be case sensitive on match and insensitive otherwise, mount remote plan 9 filesystems (good ol' grid computing). It could be a MUCH bigger deal than it seems.

Comment GPL BSD (Score 2) 1098

Proof: Linux used all over the place, BSD used for Apple.
Anything that falls into the tools category really belongs under GPL. Greater good and all that. If you want your work to be able to be taken improved and sold without any of the benefits coming back to you, fine, but the reason that GNU/Linux won is because anything you wanted to let out of in-house use had to go back out.

Submission + - Ada 2012 Language Approved as Standard by ISO (paritynews.com)

hypnosec writes: The Ada Resource Association (ARA) announced that the Ada 2012 programming language has been approved and published as a standard by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). Announcing the development, ARA and Ada-Europe said that the new version brings with it the concept of contract-based programming, Concurrency and Multicore Support, Increased Expressiveness and Container Enhancements. Under the contract-based programming, developers will have the “ability to specify preconditions and postconditions for subprograms, and invariants for private (encapsulated) types.”

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