mortdeus

this is going to be annoying to implement in software.

What I want to know is what they plan to call this version of Android. Android Pez, Android Peeps, Android Peppermint, Android Pudding, Android Pie, Android ummm im out.

Hey man, two thumbs up on this. Wall street as a contributor to open source. Who do I thank? Trump?

That's nonesense. This is like somebody claiming they own copyright on your book or code because you used their text editor.

Or how about we start some compartmentalizing your codebase so that you can like. You know, organize your code and restore sanity to the known universe.

I think when the powers that be said that whole thing about geniuses and clutter, they were specifically talking about their living spaces and not their work...

isn't this against age discrimination laws in the us? define "oldster" and "veteran"

Elon Musk works too hard to fail.

What's most concerning to me is that as hackers get more sophisticated with regards to tech, the US judicial system isn't and this is providing a lot of low hanging fruit for said hackers to use draconian laws like the Computer Fraud Act against innocent Americans by pwning their PC's and utilizing torrenting against them.

I have a friend that is pretty much being persecuted by the state of Oklahoma for this very thing right now because the DA, OSBI (oklahoma state bureau of investigations.) and defense attorneys didn't understand how somebody can coincidentally be innocent of the illegal torrenting that appears to being going on from their IP, albeit said activity being totally unbeknownst to them.

The quantum computer is going to suffer the same fate as plan 9. As Kernighan said, it's not as novel of an upgrade to warrant a mass adoption. Especially considering the price. Not everybody needs a real time black hole simulator...

Well it was only a matter of time before we digressed back into a nation with legalized slavery.

Their could be forms of life that we don't even have a clue about the biological nature of itz composition.

Well essentially thats how a hive mind works but I think it's a stretch to classify, idk say a bee colony, as constituting a single organism.

Considering my lacking but informed understanding of the fundamental requirements of life as it exists here on earth, I see a fundamental flaw with the idea that a galaxy sized organism could sustain the engine of life, protein folding.

There has to be some source of external energy that is fueling these organisms and galaxy sized anything make even the most massive stars in the galaxy look infitismally tiny in comparison.

Perhaps gravity of a super massive black hole could kick-start and spin some sort of electric turbine like biological organ or something to get things put into motion but considering life starts small such a scale would hit hurdles.

Of course this is assuming that life on distance planets all use the primarily carbon based deoxyribonucleic acid system of life.

You people seriously want me to believe that it was the fbi's incompetence that led to the gov throwing away their only get in free card for the most popular American phone used to coordinate the only substantial ISIS affiliated attack on US soil. Come on now, do you guys seriously think that this was unintentional?

You don't put rookies on this and I'd seriously be surprised if the NSA wasn't involved in this matter personally.

The government wants a back door installed into all iPhones period. I mean how do you expect apple to build a tool that can bypass the same security features the government is trying to deal with right now without them inadvertently letting everybody and their mother know that there is some fatal flaw in the security layer of every modern iphone and/or iTunes.

There's no magic way to fine tune a tool like this and if out spy agencies don't know this then god help us all. Isis is probably gonna win. rolls eyes

I mean jail breaking is one thing. This is vault busting and once people know there's a bug and where to look they will find it and exploit it.

And apple's only remedy will be to patch the backdoor. Which is obviously what the gov is trying to prevent apple from being able to do by getting a precedent established in the courts that wags a finger at Apple saying "ah, ah, ah you didn't say the magic word"

Please goddamnit!

The gov doesn't want to be Samuel l Jackson anymore. They want to reverse the roles and this case is the perfect cover. Just like the gov exploited the bombing on 9/11 to pass the patriot act. This is no different.

Yep. My flytrap won't trigger its petals until you poke it twice with a toothpick in the same general area. I think it does this for numerous reasons.

1. If the petals close and they don't actually capture anything, they take hours to open back up.

2. If they do close on something, (for example a fly or a spider I happen to come across) they will stay closed for days digesting whatever is trapped inside. The traps themselves don't actually survive this process. They wilt away and new petals grow to replace the old after a month or so.

Speaking strictly from a natural selection point of view it make sense that a plant that has evolved to derive it's nutrients from carnivorism really has no chance at surviving if something as simple as a leaf, a seed, the wind, or any other poor nutrient provider could trigger it to close on said object (or not on said object). Either way, a plant that is in such need of nutrients can't really optimally survive if it closes at every opportunity it might have food in it's trap to catch.

Natural selection seems to suggest that a venus flytrap that is more precarious about when to trigger it's trap is the far more optimal survivalist when it comes to these plants.

I should also point out that calling them a flytrap is kinda lame considering their trap mechanism is not really all that fast enough to trap most flies. Atleast not in my observations. Although I have discovered that they get lucky from time to time, their trap mechanism is also apparently evolutionarily optimized to avoid most bugs that just land, chill for a minute, and fly away. Bugs they wouldn't likely catch. They would rather wait for a caterpillar, spider, beetle, etc to cross their path.

My pitcher plant is the real fly catcher. It uses the old fashioned, "oh hey thats a nice smelling hole. I wonder what yummy things are down there for me and my maggot babies to eat. Dooo da doo da... eh... feets sticks to pitcher plant's trap oh no... AHHH! HELP! SOMEBODY HALP MEEEE!... HELLO?! Isn't there anybody out there!?

,,,

ohhhh pooo. Well at least it still smells wonderful down here." technique.

What is the patent policy?

The point of piping is that output shouldn't ever be as complicated as this...

Man, their new CEO is a breath of fresh air. Im actually starting to respect the MS brand again.

Many of the families who lost their homes to foreclosure signed into a mortgage under the assumption that they would be employed/in-business for the next 20-30 years.

Unfortunately, when one economic domino falls and sets of a chain reaction leading to a market crash, a lot of hard working and responsible people get caught up in and swept away by the ensuing tsunami.

I wrote a lengthy blog post in response to this post in hopes that it will help aspiring founders avoid a similar fate if their startup gets accepted into Y Combinator.

http://mortdeus.blogspot.com/2015/01/y-combinator.html

This is the best way to help Africa's people. Moreso than providing charitable donations of free food and clean water; helping to empower this continent's people so they can provide for themselves is the best possible way to improve the lives of the African people. No self respecting human adult wants to be "taken care of". They want to earn their keep. They just need the opportunity to pursue something worth earning. This is the kind of philanthropy they deserve.

There just isn't a compelling enough reason to use ANOTHER social network. There is facebook, twitter, google+, instagram, snapchat, and to some extent reddit. There is only so much time people can attribute to this kind of social engagement.

While I personally have imagined the golden potential behind an anonymous social network (particularly when it comes to data mining; I mean imagine a world where Taylor Swift can't get a million likes because everybody attributes what she says to a hot girl). There is just too many social networks trying to compete for our time. This market is so over populated that at this point starting a new pizza franchise would probably make more economic sense.

While I find this ultimately depressing, this is just how things are. I only hope the engineers at secret don't make a bad mistake and waste that 35 million on a startup that won't overcome this bump in the road. I hope they decide to pivot and pursue an idea that leads their team and their investors to financial success.

That's just my two cents anyways.

Though its fair to say that the ideas first introduced in plan9 lives on today as technologies like Go and Docker.

Plan9 failed because of a failure of efficient marketing and executive management.

http://usphoenix.net/science,%20technology/what_really_happe...

Ooo, ooo I just thought of the cutuest name for this project.... xmarkdown! Get it guys? You know like XHTML... Cute right?

What's funny about this discussion is the fact that Linus is supreme dictator of kernel.org. Whatever he decides to merge in his personal fork of Linux shouldn't be up for debate just because the Linux community willingly decides to keep pulling his commits into their clones.

That's why we have the right to fork. While we can't change GPLv2 kernel code, there is nothing stopping anybody from including GPLv3 code in the kernel so long as it doesn't directly link against GPLv2 code in a way when the fork is distributed.

"If id asked people what they wanted, they would have asked for a faster horse." -Henry Ford

Stop arguing for faster horses just because cars don't run on oats and hay.

"The PDP operating system."

Unix?

I'd say you hit the nail right on the head, but I find myself imagining this statement more like a compressed air nail gun shooting the nail so far into the wood that it splits; resulting in the entire house falling down.

Finally.

This argument is moot. Proprietary software doesn't have to live at a dissonance from FLOSS software, nor does free software protect the integrity of freedom. So there are proprietary compilers being derived from LLVM... How does that prevent somebody from throwing out the proprietary compiler on principle in order to support the open source alternative?

Forcing somebody to respect your ideological beliefs regarding freedom is just as much a wolf in sheep's clothing as a notion to force somebody to bend to your will regarding how the software you use may function by design.

There is a place for open source licenses and there is a place for free software licenses. To say free software protects the interest of technological innovation better than open source software can is a position based on a foundation of ignorant dissension.

Science has little use for politics playing a major role as a core value. 99% of all people Using software could care less about the freedom of software, and the 1% who do care are split between the engineers who value the ideals of innovation by collaboration, and the executives who understand that too much freedom means everybody gets stuck with a bounced cheque.