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E.g. Atom bombs

It's a weapon that has no counter measures. None that I'm aware of, except prohibition.

>.... a cheerleader for Washington's intelligence committee

Well, if that's not sexist..

Would Sailfish also run apps that use google play services?

Try asking for help first.

Courts are always mindful of public policy while making rulings. So, benefiting public has been a valid reason for a long time. And I think it's a good reason.

Now does this really benefit people or not is another question. I think it does. Do you think it does not?

I'm not sure but since this ruling took place in higher courts, lower courts now have a precedent set. Similar cases will tend to lean this way, unless exceptional circumstances.

>The decision also comes as a major volte-face for Judge Chin... that the higher court (on which he now sits) wanted him to acknowledge fair use.

I find it very disheartening. The reasons given by the judge are very fair and convincing. If it's true that he ruled this way because higher court wanted him to acknowledge fair use, judge was not objective.

I wonder if his stance, now or previously, was politically motivated. Let's wish that the judge came to this decision solely on the merits of arguments for/against "fair use". The alternative is depressing to think about.

But that's not computer science.

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If the author has not labelled it opensource, should you be cloning it's source code (unless of course, you're the author)?

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Edit: Sorry, just researched it, you're linking the repo from the author's git account.

How about helping you make an informed decision?

Just in case someone (like me) is not familiar with the concept of deterministic builds, this is a good read:

https://blog.torproject.org/blog/deterministic-builds-part-o...

Synopsis:

"deterministic builds" -- packages which are byte-for-byte identical no matter who actually builds them, or what hardware they use.

I spent 10 minutes reading your comment, parsing it and then responding to it. You owe me $5.

How are you handling backups? LVM snapshots? Incremental/differential backups? What is the disaster recovery procedure? What monitoring tools do you recommend? Is clustering as advanced and complicated as it seems? Should one explore traditional slave-master read/write segregation, sharding, partitioning, archiving etc. and exhaust those options before going for clustering or is it better to just jump to clustering?

I'm a mysql newbie but am very fascinated with scaling relational databases. It's just seems so challenging and exciting.

Maybe one of those PHDs thought that you've captive audience. Let's make them spend more time on your site.

I normally use linux but thought i'll try w8. Installed it on dual boot and played around. Wanted to restart it so I could boot to linux. Had to google how to shut down w8.

Karma-whoring will be counterproductive if the community doesn't solicit/reward such behaviour. And this attitude of the community has more or less thwarted karma-whoring till now. We'll see how this works out in future.

To put it other way round, maybe comprehensive writing is not a strong suite of the Internet.

Stronger argument against this is they'll lose customers due to lack of seating space.

I'm sure they can/will monetize it once it impacts their bottomline. Like charging on time spent in shop or seat reservation charges.

Worse than the scaling problems will be the count mismatch between your and your wife's app if data integrity breaks.

Trickier than that is the following:

If such actions are committed on US soil, this section will not be applicable. So this is about arresting and detaining, indefinitely, someone on foreign land. Land where the US government has no jurisdiction. Am I missing something here?

This should be a blog post in itself.

Had to google what article 5 of NATO was:

The Parties agree that an armed attack against one or more of them in Europe or North America shall be considered an attack against them all and consequently they agree that, if such an armed attack occurs, each of them, in exercise of the right of individual or collective self-defence recognised by Article 51 of the Charter of the United Nations, will assist the Party or Parties so attacked by taking forthwith, individually and in concert with the other Parties, such action as it deems necessary, including the use of armed force, to restore and maintain the security of the North Atlantic area.

Any such armed attack and all measures taken as a result thereof shall immediately be reported to the Security Council. Such measures shall be terminated when the Security Council has taken the measures necessary to restore and maintain international peace and security.

Not rendering correctly for Firefox 21.0 (Mozilla Firefox for Ubuntu Canonical 1.0). Am I the only one facing this issue?

Do you have spam filters for traditional corporal mails as well, Matt? It'd never bypass them in that case.

And don't forget Analytics. Google Analytics has seen a vast improvement in UI and usability.

The URI seems to be dynamically generated. But, yeah, we can write some rewrite rules and serve the requests.

If I'm not wrong, this is implementation of JSONP to avoid cross-domain AJAX request block, right?

What is the racial distribution for top x% who can afford Tesla? I missed that.

> The “corporate brand functions” (i.e. marketing, PR, legal) value privacy issues over speed. My poor friend is stuck in the middle.

Marketing dept. is most probably the worst offender of online privacy.

Sorry for going off in a tangent but PG, would you consider doing an AMA on reddit. I've seen two posts in last week with the sole purpose of asking you a question. Seems like the community wants an interaction with you. If you've already done it, I couldn't find it.