"If anything goes wrong with this I'm dead" does not deter people from driving 100 mph on free ways and boarding planes.
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On the contrary Qt changed the license from GPL to LGPL what definitely helped the proliferation (and the survival after the Nokia disaster).
MySQL ... well moving this to AGPL would give MariaDB the final push it needs (if it still needs one). So they just let it rot.
Too bad there was no equivalent project for BerkeleyDB.
Nice to see a company so consistently living up to its reputation.
And one simply must appreciate the elegant irony of using a strong copyleft license as a dagger.
Your argument is at best ignorant, and at worst willfully distracting from the cause.
America was admired for setting an example as a great nation where people can live freely. The policing activities after WW2 (for which Europe has to be thankful) were mostly ill conceived (with the low points being Vitnam and Iraq).
Of course these laws should be abolished.
But these cases show an important difference: These laws while outrageous, were created transparently and published. This enabled citizens to take actions against them, and hopefully at some point they will be abolished.
In the case of the NSA everything was covered by gag orders under the penalty of committing a felony. That is way more insidious.
Bush could be seen as an anomaly. He was not elected by a majority of the American people for his first turn, and even if everybody shook their head about the obvious oilgrab in the Iraq based on blatant lies, people could somehow understand that you don't change an administration amidst a war.
Obama was seen as a return of the USA that was always admired by many if not most people in Europe.
Like someone coming to their senses after a violent fit, Europe was ready to embrace an America that put effort in preserving and spreading civil rights, peace and democracy with means that did not involve letting countries descend in mayhem that bloody dictators would envy.
Then - he did not shut down Guantanamo (and he could have done it if he had acted fast and spent time to convince his party)
- he did not Veto a continuation of the Patriot Act
- he let his administration spy on the press to an unprecedented extent
- he defends spying on everybody outside or with ties to outside the country
If this is the rational, the civilized America, then we are in deep trouble.
Then I found out it wasn't synched over last time I changed laptops.
Installing it now. Thanks for the great work!
Of course they are afraid of cannibalizing their other overpriced stuff. So they wanted to let it die a slow and painful death.
In he grand scheme of things getting rid of the pesky competitor MySQL was only an afterthought in the decision to buy Sun, that was probably driven by the legal department.
Also Oracle is pretty strong in the corporate Java space and has some great products there.
So MySQL did never get the attention it deserved and needed to thrive.
a) Everything is legal and backed by the population, then the NSA didn't have anything to hide.
b) The NSAs concedes that some people and organizations have a legitimate interest in some privacy.
Of course there is no official way to hold slaves in Austria. However stories of foreign diplomats that hold "household staff" under slave like condition surface with saddening regularity.
Very often they are stripped of their passports in a country where they don't speak the language, so their perceived options are very limited.
Being a UN seat with a lot of diplomats certainly aggravates this problem, as do the restrictive immigration laws, that do little to protect people that want to escape from such circumstances.
Also in the case of the actress, her perceived options might have been very limited, while in practice the "only" thing she would have to fear after defecting would be assassins sent after her. Scary enough.
So I also think the question shows a limited view of the world, but is not offensive enough to accuse someone of being brain damaged.
If Soylent plays a part in reducing the hunger in the world, then I am a big fan. I reserve the hypocrisy for me to not be a fan of it in my own diet.
[written after 2 weeks of rain that start drowning everything along the danube ...]
I am happy to spend a considerable part of my budget to procure groceries that have been grown in a sustainable way and meat from animals that were not industrially produced.
I am also happy to spend considerable time preparing these ingredients into Dishes that are not only nutritious but also a good enjoyment for all senses.
For people that otherwise get their food from budget Walmart microwave dishes or McDonalds and the likes, Soylent might be a good alternative. It is probably easy to add all kinds of spices to create the illusion of variation that is very important for most human taste buds.
Also in what way would the Microsoft "Standard" be different?
Only for the MS time limited crapware installed on all the Windows Laptops?
@2. Indeed. To find broader adoption by private users it MUST be click and go. But I don't see a reason why BTSynch can't achieve that in the short term even.
A defence is always only as strong as the weakest link, and an attacker usually has all the time in the world to find and exploit it.
Optimism has no place here.
For most low to medium risk profiles HTTPS is safe enough. However in these cases in-browser encryption is rarely needed. For the threat model applications like Cryptocat faces, the danger for a targeted attack by someone with access to the CA infrastructure is not negligible.
So if can trust the server with your data, you don't need JS cryptology. If you can't trust the server, how can you trust the JS it sends?
> I don't get this. In theory, if it were illegal to print "Item #325" having 200 printers doesn't make it any less illegal to print "Item #325".
It might be illegal. But the law would be unenforceable.
>> Information always finds a way to propagate.
> Doesn't this presuppose that no secret has ever been kept?
Valid point. What I meant is information that is out in the open. The cad files by Defense Distributed where published intentionally. You need a North Korean style regime to significantly slow down the propagation of such material.
As soon as 3d printers will be able to replicate themselves, every regulation will be moot. Information always finds a way to propagate.
Admittedly my interpretation is even more generous, maybe because I tend always to see the good in people ;)
The point of this (as I understand it) is, that very often the most efficient method for small numbers is different from the method you need to scale up.
For example it might be easier to manually provision servers for your first 100 customers if you have a aaS business than starting out with a bullet proof automatic provisioning system before you even know that more than 3 people will want to use it.
Or it might initially be easier to manually check registrations for a market place before moving over to a more streamlined process.
So you "fake" scalability. Of course you should never fake services.