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iirc they actually paid those users. And i don't think any company should be trusted. Apple was part of prism and is known to strong-arm their users to stay locked in their ecosystem. This sign in is a good step for security, but i don't think there can be such a thing as corporate-owned privacy.
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Does this mean that any GPL project could reuse source code from this game, under the logic that it all inherently must be GPL licensed?

I'm pretty sure the answer is "no", but I'd like to know why, it makes logical sense...
Wait... what? Sun didn't move into distributed systems? The "dot in dotcom" ignored the Internet? What are you smoking?
What’s amazing about this is the short sightedness of the company. If they just paid you a decent severance, I’m almost sure that you would have been more than willing to help them.
How sure are you about this?
I work remote and at least a few times a month I make it a point to work out of my small towns public library. It's so cool! when I do pomodoros and take a 5 minute break, I walk the stacks and find so many books I want to read!
Doesn’t bode well for their path to profitability.
I think the concern is that Apple could exert influence over third party apps/networks because they control access to all Apple users. That problem doesn’t really exist when it comes to Apple disabling entire iPhones of certain users.
Would this mean that only their changes to the GPL would be forced to be made public or the whole piece of software using it?
Except, there's a special circle of hell for people that knowingly break glass bottles out "in the wild", and I wouldn't want to fill their hands with greater temptation, lest their ignorant souls be damned for eternity.
I try to at least move the problem forward. However does anyone have a way they make sure to close those things out and circle back? I mean other than just doing it?

On internal tools I do do that but that's a smaller number.

Worse is stuff like car and fridge repair. I have no idea what forum I find qqs on.
wait a second, when did facebook say that the ledger will be visible to the public?
Most intel people seem to admit that the US and certain EU nations use their spy agencies to bolster domestic companies. The US has been caught out repeatedly but do their best to hide it, France has been called out by a bunch of other countries as one of the worst offenders around. The Chinese are just shameless about it and couldn't are less what people think.

Since historical arguments don't work for you here's proof of Australia bugging one of the poorest nations on Earth in the midst of an oil trade deal and passing along the information to a huge. The minister in charge at the time now works for that company with a very lucrative salary.

The only reason we know this is because a high ranking agent first complained internally about limited resources being diverted away from anti-terror work in Indonesia. He then complained to the Intel Ombudsman and was again ignored. Then he went public. He's now had a trial going on for a decade, his lawyer is also being tried for taking on the case.

https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/prosecution-of-witne...
Haha, that last one is hilarious!

Even though I'm still juniorish, I still run into issues like this that stump me. But then occasionally you do find bugs with existing software which keeps you second guessing everything. Usually those bugs come from using two things in conjunction that haven't been well tested together.

Also sometimes, you find a bug that isn't accepted by the software vendor/owning team as a bug, because it has some sort of obscure work around that would take you a week of tinkering to figure out. Those "aren't bugs" but yeah, they are bugs. Software vendors that also sell consulting and related services love to pull shit like that
Part of me wants to express the irritation that people being neurotic about the GPL could cost us access to old games like this. I worry that someone overzealous would take down source for an 18 year old PS1 game over it.
Can we talk about the fact that in the US you are granted no right to privacy in public spaces? I don’t think this is universally good. Companies have used this fact to build databases of license plate locations and much more. Our anger shouldn’t primarily be directed at Amazon, but rather at the acceptance of public surveillance.

Hopefully, events like this help bring more light to this kind of blanket acceptance.
A well run company could build an arbitrarily large technological and financial moat on the back of consumer welfare, until it amasses enough power to completely subjugate regulatory bodies. (This is all theoretical, I don't think Apple is at that point). OTOH, anticompetitiveness is an easier thing to detect and act upon before it gets out of control.
I'm confused as to why this hasn't been incorporated into designs for electrical utilities, squirrel length is pretty easy to figure out and then just never design components that could be shorted via that reach.
I'm pretty sure the answer is "yes" if the violation is true and the game has been distributed. Tit for tat.
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I believe your last statement is incorrect. Applications written entirely by your developers that merely happen to run on a Linux-based operating system, distributed in conjunction with those works (Linux/Busybox/etc), are separate works within the meaning of copyright law. GPL requires you to provide complete and corresponding source for the GPL’d components and your modifications thereto, but not for independent proprietary applications.

For example, programs compiled by gcc (GPL) are not considered derived works and therefore don't need to also hold the GPL license.

In the case of the topic, that appears to be a violation as the game can be considered a derived work. Most violations are handled on a case by case basis if there is legal action due to the nature of "derived work".
The common usage of the word "free" is something like "without cost" (yours doesn't work and I actually couldn't find a definition that explicitly says "money"). Placing ads in an app has various costs, just not usually monetary. I don't think you need to redefine anything or go to this odd extreme you're trying to straw-man into the argument.
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I never open the door unless it is for someone I am expecting, no exceptions whatsoever. It is a textbook case of something that has marginal upside and unlimited downside.
The archivist in me loses this fight, I feel general adhering to software freedoms is more important and the greater good compared to a single game.
“strong arm their users”?

Do jack booted thugs come to my door to force me not to buy an Android device?

Do you really think most users were aware that they were giving up their privacy? Even if you assume they do, Google broke a contract with Apple by using a developer certification.
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You would need PRN codes with zero cross-correlation; no such thing. So when you add more users, they appear as noise in your de-spread bandwidth. Add more users, your noise floor goes up, degrading your SNR.

There are optimum codes to use, such and Gold (GPS) and Walsh (IS-95 CDMA), but they still have non-zero cross-correlation, so your users are limited. Still no free lunch.
> left-wing activists are far more common at Google,

Yes, and I think this is common knowledge. Good place to look is Code of Conducts for all kind of technical groups. Their language is pulled straight from identity politics of left.
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I think the answer depends if you can afford a lawyer or not.
I agree - I’m all for fairness, but billionaires could come back to Earth and redirect billions of dollars. All I could do is, I dunno, write a medium post.
I'm bad at open source licenses, but wouldn't they need to make modifications to the Linux they're running on to be required to distribute their source?
> Do you feel like you're in control on your Android device?

Absolutely. I have hundreds of different independent ROMs to choose from many of which are completely FOSS. I get to add or remove any app I want and don't even have Google Play services installed.

The only software I don't control on the device are the proprietary drivers and boot loader. But that's no different from my Linux desktop.
>The sins of the fathers ought not be visited upon the sons.

This idea only works if all parties believe in it. I don't think the majority of people on this planet believe groups should be able to go on economic crime sprees that affect large swathes of populations then allow rich offspring to live comfortably with zero economic consequences.

I can see why this would be a desirable outcome for some but this feedback loop needs to remain intact to stop shenanigans.
I never thought I'd live to see the day the Riggios ran out of ideas to squeeze more cash out that business.

They've been experts at killing a business slowly. Maybe only Sears has done a better job of extracting value from a death spiral.
>If the developer doesn't remember to do it when making changes, then the code reviewer can catch it and enforce it.

They can. Just after correcting all the buffer overflows and before fixing all the use-after-frees. Then the comments can be consumed by all the other teams with the discipline and culture to avoid writing bugs for all time.
If this is a problem consider Opengear.

https://opengear.com/products/acm7000-resilience-gateway
A "single game" is unlikely to be affected. Many games are likely violating the GPL, and it's likely that if there are takedowns because of it, there will be a chilling effect on future source code release.

Are you really protecting software freedoms if it ends up, in fact, discouraging the process of freeing more software?
But how’s the politics? I grew up in a small town. There were untouchables constantly getting in trouble with no repercussions, and innocent youth getting criminal records for a one and only infraction. But I get ya. I long for the solitude of country life again, but am deeply grateful for the exposure to city and international opportunities. Sounds like you are, too. I would condemn the ignorance, but that makes me no better than the small town school of thought. I hope life is good enough to them to give exposure to things, people, concepts, ideas, and cultures outside their sphere of comfort. That’s the best I can do.
> The article says a "microplastic particle" is any peice of plastic smaller than 5mm

I double checked the article and you are right, this is why the use of the apothocary symbols are not used in medicine any more it should be "5 and 20 μm polystyrene micro-particles elicited somewhat similar pathological and physiological changes in mice. These, particularly the 5 μm micro-particles, could be detected in histological sections of the gut, liver and kidney." The symbol means micro or an order of a million times smaller than a gram/meter so the particulate size appears misstated and is actually an order of 1000 times smaller than a millimeter.

> This could easily be genuine epidemic levels of awful, or it could be completely nothing. Does anyone know more?

It has been shown microplastic contamination is very significant in plastic-bottled single-use drinking water. Avoiding exposure as much as possible is 100% best medical advice, avoid drinking from single-use plastic bottles whenever possible. An infographic from WHO: https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2018/03/16/study-...

As for health effects microplastics definitely bioaccumulate in the gut, liver and kidneys in mice. Mice are not human but as this is a basic physiology issue it is very highly likely that they also bioaccumulate in humans. It is not clear whether humans or mice can ever clear these particles, it is likely they can damage these organs over time, they do cause biomarker and endocrine changes short term. This can indicate damage, possible scaring and a propensity to weight gain respectively. Also other unknown fun stuff. It is probably dose-dependent so if you avoid single use plastic bottled water thats key. The food supply issue (seafood) is less significant from a human health standpoint.

Second source:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fenvs.2017.0006...
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I'm sorry, but you don't know what you are talking about. JavaSpaces was a distributed key-value store. JXTA was all about a resilient distributed mesh. I hate on NFS all the time, but WebNFS demonstrated a much better understanding of how to do reliable data delivery over the Internet than HTTP ever did. Heck, even the old stuff around NIS+/ONC or NeWS or USENET covers distributed systems pretty well.

If you compare Sun to their competitors at the time: IBM, DEC, SGI, HP, and even Microsoft. Sun was way ahead on distributed systems.
There is more, they couldn't even survive the age of the internet and distributed computing.
Good is relative. And you could easily rabbit hole on this. Do people have the same sense of quality? Have people changed their rating scale based on production/effects quality? Etc etc. Probably best to just take the subjective rating.
Unless this becomes open for everyone, even for web devs that do not specifically have an Apple device and Apple Developer Licence, I do not see it getting far.
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No, the whole binary this code was compiled into needs to be GPL licensed in its entirety.
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> I believe your last statement is incorrect.

If you distribute binary GPL'd software such as the Linux kernel you also have to provide the exact source used to generate those binaries.

Because ip cameras are shipped with binary Linux kernel images they should also provide either the exact source used or an offer of how to get the source.

> For example, programs compiled by gcc (GPL) are not considered derived works

Yep you're right. We probably just misunderstood each other. I was specifically referring to GPL'd components like Linux & Busybox, not any applications that happen to be running on top of them.
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BPA is not used to make plastics more flexible. It is commonly used in all sorts of places though.

Phthalates are commonly used to make plastics more flexible. They are also estrogenic.

Parabens, PCBs, and pesticides are all other common entrants into the body with estrogenic effects.

( Reduced sperm count and sperm quality)
For audio and most 8 bit work you can buy a two channel 10Mhz picoscope for about £120. Really solid piece of kit, and it's designed in the UK (if that has any weight). Has tons of stuff like signal decoding built into the UI which you have to pay for (or hack) on the Rigol. Don't believe the crap about USB scopes being bad. It's really handy for not taking up valuable bench space, and you can take it in the field easily. It also has a basic signal gen, but I've not used it much.

I also have a 1054 which is great - sometimes you just need 4 channels. I would be happy with either.

The trade off is something you can fit in your pocket versus two extra channels and more bandwidth. The 4 channel 50Mhz version is actually quite close to the Rigol price.

https://www.picotech.com/oscilloscope/2000/picoscope-2000-sp...
Would love to start one someday. That's more reason why I started Podcast Gang (https://podcastgang.com)
I'm not sure I agree. Building ever-bigger colliders has pretty hardcore diminishing returns. ISS (what Space Station Freedom became) is also a platform with a whole bunch of scientific and now commercial applications, many of which were not even foreseen at the time. Additionally, CERN ended up building CERN, which basically accomplished the goals of SSC. I doubt anyone else would have taken up the mantle of ISS other than a few small modules.

But I agree it's potentially problematic that ISS has become a budget drain on NASA. That's why it's good to look for alternative customers/uses of ISS other than being entirely paid for by NASA.
Why would you do that when you could have 1 sim in a 96 port terminal server?
> If you think "All code must be perfect" then you're not a pro yet.

> Applying a single heuristic to every problem isn't that.

How ironic :)
This was such a monumental marketing fail. If they had just said the price of the monitor was $7000 none of the target audience would have blinked.

Then when it went on sale, they could have quietly added in their configuration when you buy it:

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I'm guessing nobody ever asked for the source code, so maybe it wasn't that violating, and now we know it's GPL. ;- )
Because they are distributing GPL'd software they also have to at least offer the exact source they used. If they are using an unmodified kernel, giving users a link to a git tag would satisfy this.

In practice, every embedded use of Linux I've seen has included at least some modifications.
This also would require that devs who are on the PR reviews ACTUALLY look at the code. In about every job I've worked at in my short career there are people I work with that I don't trust them to actually review my code. I've come to accept that. I instead make sure the people I know will do a decent job are on the PR. Some people will just look at the diff and an even smaller few will actually pull the branch locally so they can see the entire context. That being said I always do my best to review other peoples code regardless of whether or not they will review mine.
The Faithful would also call just about anything “evidence”.
The problem with past movies is you only see the good ones. I've spent some time watching the bottom barrel movies from the past and they seem even worse than Today's movies - because while both suffer from horrible plots usually modern movies at least have interesting visuals.

However for certain categories the past was most definitely better. Dramas being the main one. Without a lot of fancy effects the plot was the only thing you had to carry the movie. They also don't beat things over your head and can embrace subtlety in a way modern movies do not.

I also really liked the 70s trend of movies that didn't really have a satisfying ending, you just get to experience the lives of people who don't really improve. 5 easy pieces or The Last Detail fit that category very well.
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> Early in your career, you can learn 10x more in a supportive team in 1 year, than coding on your own (or with minimal feedback) for 5 years.

Spot on!!!
> If you distribute binary GPL'd software such as the Linux kernel you also have to provide the exact source used to generate those binaries.

In this case, the kernel source could be unmodified, which could mean that they could just refer you to where they got it.
What is OsCp about? What’s the salary range for this type of job?
This looks interesting. Seems to be a bit more of a generic Kafka installation compared to the Confluence option. The fact that it makes it easy to run with Minikube is definately a plus.
> You seem to want a distinction between whether the referent was a subject or object in the preceding clause

Yes.

> ...to refer to the subject you would render the sentence exactly as your example except dropping the pronoun entirely.

Oof. Of course. I seem to forget how to speak when I'm thinking too much about the rules.
I think it is very safe to say their failures had little to do with not appreciating the Internet or not understanding distributed computing. You might note that a LOT of companies that didn't survive that era actually understood both very well, and yet failed nonetheless. In a lot of cases you can point to startups these days that essentially retrieved those ideas from that era and reintroduced them to a world that had caught up with where they were at.

Sun moved in to this stuff. They understood it. They just weren't successful at figuring out how to run a business with it.
The WWDC2019 video literally starts with the text:

"All Rights Reserved. This Broadcast and its contents are the sole property of Apple and are protected by Federal Law and International treaties. You are strictly prohibited from making a copy or modification of, or from rebroadcasting, or re-encoding, this broadcast without the prior written permission from Apple Public Relations, excepts as may be permitted by law."

The whole video is published on YouTube, they could have just linked to the timestamp of the official video on there or on Apples own website.
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Yep, if they're not actually interested, which is usually the case, you're either going to bore them or insult them because it will come off as bragging.
Surprisingly, i was happy to see both the bridge saw and the line polisher at my work both conform to the gpl and provide a link to the source code. It pops up on boot. Every time I see the 'this
device is powered by free software message' when it powers up it makes me smile.
I imagine this is pushed forwards by the advances in in-orbit production of optical fibre. From what I gather microgravity helps producing much better optical fibre, at a cheaper price than producing high quality optical fibre on earth, with a prototype production unit being shipped to the ISS [1].

Of course to further develop this commercially and gather funding you would need some assurance that there is actually a viable way to produce things in orbit without setting up an entire space station yourself. And that's exactly what NASA is announcing.

1: https://upward.issnationallab.org/the-race-to-manufacture-zb...
QUCS is nowhere near equivalent to Microwave Office or ADS; those each have well over 100k man-hours of code development. Harmonic balance, transient for distributed circuits, envelope and system simulation, layout, 2D and 3D EM, and hundreds of models, all tightly integrated. Not to mention all the MMIC and RFIC PDKs.

It’s fine for hobby use, but if you need to make $ and get designs out the door, you need to use the real stuff.

I tried KiCad, but using Altium for 25 years, it just doesn’t have the functionality I need. Lacks basic things such as assigning nets to arbitrary polygons, which is a must for RF.