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ASneakyFox··on Why you should use a BSD style license for your Open Source Project
I write and release open source code. I also write and release closed source code. Gpl takes that choice away. Us bsd developers use this license so we can work together to improve our individual end projects through sharing our knowledge and time with each other. I am very regularly contributing to open source projects that I use. For the benefit of other developers and for the benefit of myself (its more convenient for a bug fix or new feature to be pushed upstream so I don't have to recode my changes)
ASneakyFox··on Billionaire must let public access Martins Beach, judge rules
this holds true for most of the US too. If some one gets hurt on your property youre usually liable. Each state varies a little on this though.
ASneakyFox··on Billionaire must let public access Martins Beach, judge rules
That sounds like that could cost a poor person more than a rich person. If a poor person pays 30 days wages he won't be able to pay rent. If a rich person pays that then it could not impact them at all.
ASneakyFox··on For Cinephiles, Netflix Is Less and Less an Option
The way I see it is if it takes me longer than 30 seconds to search-buy-start download of your media... Then your business failed.

Music and video games have this figured out. Movies need to catch up.

ASneakyFox··on Why you should use a BSD style license for your Open Source Project
How is bsd exploiting people?
ASneakyFox··on Why you should use a BSD style license for your Open Source Project
I think the main point is really that the bsd license let's anyone including commercial developers use and contribute to your project. Gpl largely restricts your project to educational use. Your main contributors are likely weekend hobbyists.
ASneakyFox··on New iOS malware steals Apple ID, buys apps
Wouldn't it be very easy to catch these guys by looking who uploaded the apps that are being purchased..
ASneakyFox··on The Revenge Porn Fixers
Surely there wont be any unintended consequences.
ASneakyFox··on Uber sued for allegedly refusing rides to the blind
I agree there's a difference. As the objection is not to the person. But being that the person needs a dog to go anywhere in public the two are very intertwined.

Also itd serve as loophole to discriminate since many blind people have service dogs.

ASneakyFox··on Uber sued for allegedly refusing rides to the blind
Not all drivers have to allow dogs in their car. Just the ones who drive people places as a business.

Buildings are the same way. Most residential homes do not have ramps unless some one lives there who needs it.

ASneakyFox··on Amazon Fire Phone is now 99¢ with a 2-year contract
It has all the same mistakes that their tablet had. Its an android device that's not compatible with android apps. It provides less features than the devices its competing with and offers no reason to buy it over a regular android device.

I don't get how they're not seeing this aspect of it at all.

ASneakyFox··on The War on Sitting
It basically says people who sit more get more cancer. Everything else is just droning on and on. Must be a slow news day.
ASneakyFox··on [dead]
In summary reddit is not a place to discuss controversial topics that get lots of negative media attention.
ASneakyFox··on Employment documents that require you to violate company policy
"Youre not wrong youre just an asshole"
ASneakyFox··on The unstoppable TI-84 Plus: How an outdated calculator still holds a monopoly
Id rather have a less good but up to date education rather than a really good education on 10 year old obsolete technology.
ASneakyFox··on There Are Only Two Weeks Left to Comment on Net Neutrality
What am I paying my isp for then? If subscription fees don't cover bandwidth costs how have they been doing business up to this point?
ASneakyFox··on How Racism Creeps into Medicine
Why is it not possible that people who traces their roots back to different parts of the world have different bodies?

If race has no bearing on ones biology how do you explain that some people have dark skin and some people have light skin.

Don't stifle scientific research over political correctness crap.

ASneakyFox··on Social Login Myths Debunked
I like reddits system. Pick a user and pass. All other fields are optional, and you can fill them out later if you wish or as needed.

Imo if your website doesn't use that system its because you're more interested in collecting and selling my private information than you are providing me with whatever service you want me to sign up for.

ASneakyFox··on E-Sports Set Video Gamers Fighting for Real Money in Virtual Contests
I always thought of chess as pattern recognition. But I guess that's kind of a subset of memorization.
ASneakyFox··on If You Want to See Inequality in the U.S. at Its Worst, Visit an Impound Lot
Doesn't matter. They tow and store cars. They don't investigate the story behind each car. They don't change their policies based on how unfortunate and upsetting your story is. They tow and store cars.
ASneakyFox··on Maximum Bandwidth via FedEx
the word analog does not mean "not on a computer". It is also not the opposite of digital.
ASneakyFox··on Bitcoin’s Earliest Adopter Is Cryonically Freezing His Body to See the Future
Or a better anology. Your brain is (possibly) like ram and once you turn it off the data is whiped. So you'd need some thing like a hard drive to store the data on until the brain is powered up again and can be reloaded.
ASneakyFox··on SWAT Team Detains Popular Gamer Who Was Live-Streaming ‘Counter-Strike’
This kind of attitude is why were seeing a more militarized police. Police is made of of society. Everyone is growing to be uptight over entitled pricks.. so that's all there is to choose from when hiring police.

Chill out. The guy was given bad information about the suspect. Its not his fault it happened. He acted appropriatly for the situation. Hes a person like you and me.

The actual victim in the story isn'tas butt hurt about what happened as you are.

ASneakyFox··on SWAT Team Detains Popular Gamer Who Was Live-Streaming ‘Counter-Strike’
Well not freaking out helps.
ASneakyFox··on SWAT Team Detains Popular Gamer Who Was Live-Streaming ‘Counter-Strike’
That's the whole thing really. 911 responders have to make decisions with out being able to know the outcome ahead of time.
ASneakyFox··on If You Want to See Inequality in the U.S. at Its Worst, Visit an Impound Lot
Why is said person so privledged to park in a no parking zone? Thats public property, he should follow the agreed upon rules that the rest of us follow.
ASneakyFox··on Bitcoin’s Earliest Adopter Is Cryonically Freezing His Body to See the Future
How do those numbers make sense? 300k to maintain a body indefinitely? Then pay for the operation to revive the body? I just don't see it. Not to mention there's nothing you can do to make sure that someone 1000 years from now will see the contract through in good faith.
ASneakyFox··on Hidden obstacles for self driving cars
If all flying cars had autopilot I don't think itd be that hard. They'd all follow the same autopilot guidlines. Ground cars will forever have to deal with the millions of "legacy" systems like lights, manual cars, stop signs, pedestrians.

A flying car system would be totally networked from day one. Id imagine it being like the cars from the minority report.

ASneakyFox··on Ageism in the Game Industry
Hiring some one who is 50 sort of a problem. They likely know what a salary is supposed to be. 20 somethings work for pennies in the game industry.
ASneakyFox··on Why Are PC Sales Up and Tablet Sales Down?
Im sure if tablets were made that "could do more" they would have the same sort of it issues as desktops.

I don't even see why people even want to replace PCs with tablets. Its like replacing a car with a motorcycle. They're just different things.

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