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Clang IS free software, and RMS agrees. The difference is that GCC discourages proprietary extensions and subsequent lockdown.

I'm not really one of those who criticizes SO that much. They can do what they want on their own website.

I'm just perplexed by the trend over all, especially with Wikipedia, for people to act like the internet is a library and shelf space is running out. Why would a site owner limit their user's contributions in any way except to conform to the law, and prevent trolling, spam, etc? Who knows how much value the next answer might have provided readers if they hadn't closed it down?

Leaving it open is no big deal either. Or would that be the downfall of SO?

I just have my son's name in binary ascii spiraled around my upper arm. It's nothing but ones and zeroes but it gets a lot of compliments.

I was provoked. Did you read the article? It's all about Nazis and not invoking their name, enforced by law rather than manners. I'm contrary like that.

So are many others. Expect a Streisand-like increase in Nazi-calling if this law gets passed.

"What I’m asking is, please put away this special situation that has to do with our history."

Bullshit, Nazi. You're demanding, and threatening people with imprisonment and $30,000 fines. And if they don't go to jail, or pay the fines? You're putting the entire government and it's armed forces behind that threat, and people may possibly die or be killed. This isn't about politeness, or decorum, it's about control. You want to control people, and have them kidnapped or worse if they refuse to submit to your will.

Think about that next time you say "there ought to be a law". It isn't the same as saying "people ought to do such and such". Because with the latter, you're just expressing a preference. With the former, you're attempting to stifle, herd and dominate your fellow human beings, and putting the threat of kidnapping and death by armed goons behind that attempt.

The thirteenth amendment to the US constitution is also restrictive. It protects the right of people to not be owned, at the expense of our right to own others.

I suspect many of my early memories come from my parents, but there are quite a few that they don't remember at all. Those are probably memories of memories.

I remember several things from before I was 3 (and plenty more after that), but I'm always unsure if it is an actual memory, or a memory of a memory.

I was a pretty introspective kid. I thought about my past and tried to recall my childhood even at the young age of 5. So perhaps my earliest memories are really just memories of being 6 or 7 and thinking back to when I was 2. Second hand memories, so to speak.

No paywall at Google cache:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?hl=en&q=cache%3...

Why not offer a link to the Gapps download with instructions for installing them like CyanogenMod does? It wouldn't be that hard to streamline this for novices on first booting their phone and therefore bypass Google's bureaucracy.

Yeah, does anybody think this will actually stop, even if the courts demand it?

They didn't have hosts files in the UK before?

I think that not censoring is the only logical conclusion here. The government isn't your kids' parents. Keep them off the internet if you've got a problem with it, or supervise them.

>in 2007 the US suffered an "espionage Pearl Harbor" in which entities "broke into all of the high tech agencies, all of the military agencies, and downloaded terabytes of information."

Man, I would hate if an entity downloaded my information! Poor agencies. But it's probably fine, I mean, those "entities" couldn't look at terabytes of information. It's probably just sitting in a database somewhere. So, nothing to worry about.

>because there's no other way to pay for the periodic retraining people need as one job ends and another begins.

Companies used to train people. I'm actually a basic income proponent for similar reasons, among others. But when you put it like that, why should the taxpayers foot that bill and not the companies that reap the value?

That's what everyone on Youtube should do. If no one put up with their bullshit bot takedowns, they wouldn't happen.

>“I realized that to program in a feminist way, one would ideally want to use a feminist programming language.”

Tell that to Admiral Hopper.

Programming languages aren't masculine or feminine. Programming is hard because you're a human trying to express yourself in the language of a computer. Not because you're a woman trying to express yourself in the language of a man.

There are barriers to women in tech, for sure, but those are social and cultural barriers, not "sexist tools".

Lots of things have a real world cost to them, that doesn't mean everything that costs anyone anything to make or do should be restricted and withheld from the public.

Presumably there was a cost to figuring out the angles and zooms that showed these machines in the most informative way. Do you think that particular, informed camera setup should be patented?

If not, why should the particular photographs be copyrighted or otherwise excluded from use? Presumably when setting up your business (or the OP's), they looked to other more successful businesses as an example to follow. Should those other businesses be compensated for contributing to the OP's success?

What makes one idea, or expression of an idea, exclusive, private property, while other, often more valuable ideas, are free for the taking?

Sounds to me like the OP is trying to suppress competition through rent seeking, rather than competing on an even playing field by providing more value to the customer.

"Instagram for Android" is the name of the app, the version is now 5.0.

> If we publish our home brewed content without watermarks and it is lifted off google and used to compete against us, we have no effective recourse.

Sure you do. Compete back. Preferably on price and quality of your product rather than the prettiness of your pictures.

Anyone can take a picture of a CPAP machine. Yours aren't special, and if that's what's harming your business, you're doing something wrong. Probably a lot of things.

Isn't that the way it is in the US already? +95 years if it's a corporate owned work. They just want to extend that to the rest of the world now.

The problem is getting the money to move when you have no job. A hypothetical future tax write off doesn't pay for the gas to get across the country today.

Even if I have a good job waiting for me, if it doesn't pay -- in advance -- for relocation, I'm stuck.

Go listen to some Woody Guthrie, sir.

This guy has said a lot of nice things since becoming pope, and I want to give him the benefit of the doubt. It really seems like he's clawing back some of the PR and good will Catholics lost over the last few decades. But the cynic in me only sees a propaganda machine that's finally firing on all cylinders again. I mean, forgetting what he said, what has he actually done?

I'm wondering that myself. Mint doesn't normally use XFCE, or at least didn't when I used it in the past. It was always a fork of GNOME. So maybe that's the news?

Mint is also pretty popular as an alternative to Ubuntu for Linux newbs, so I can see why people think it's interesting and upvote. We get a fair amount of distro release announcements on HN.

Firefox 24 on W7 with adblock plus, it works for me. But I also have noscript with 14 out of 26 scripts blocked on that page. That probably helps.

Because anyone who uses more than 5GB a month is a pirate, don't you know?

>Of course, not everyone's home Internet is terrible.

I dispute this. Is Google Fiber all right? Do you Silicon Valley folks get decent service? Because out here in the real world, ISPs are uniformly horrible. I haven't met or talked to anyone on the entire Internet who is satisfied, or simply not constantly enraged, by their ISP. It seems every single one is corrupt and incompetent at the same time.

No, if they stop paying your salary, you can stop working for them. If you work your entire career, you don't really have a recourse if they then refuse to pay the pension you were promised. You can't go back in time and choose another career.