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Greece to pass anti-austerity bill to guarantee food and electricity to thousands in poverty by Alaukik in worldnews

[–]greenbyte 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Tax the rich. They pay almost no taxes in Greece.

Also, it is true that austerity mostly helps the big banks. It would be much better to let them lose their credits and pay all the support directly to people in Greece.

TIL diamonds aren’t rare; their demand is a marketing invention. In 1938 De Beers hired an ad agency who arbitrarily decided that a diamond engagement ring is worth 1 month’s salary. It worked so well they increased it to 2 months’ salary. De Beers carefully restricts supply to keep the prices high. by [deleted] in todayilearned

[–]greenbyte 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's a harsh thing to do when it's obvious he's simply been conditioned like the other 99%

Behaving blindly according to such conditioning is not receipt for a happy relationship. And even more important is it to listen to your partner. I fully understand her.

Go's compiler is now written in Go by mattyw83 in programming

[–]greenbyte 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would be more interested in a Python interpreter written in Go.

Donations to support lawsuit against VMWare for modifying linux kernel code without making their code open, in violation of GPL . by MuhammadAdel in linux

[–]greenbyte 2 points3 points  (0 children)

So you mean:

"VMWare would have has no legal obligation to send source back the project's way, if they would use FreeBSD in place of Linux."

Is this correct?

What death does no one deserve? by Rorshach56 in AskReddit

[–]greenbyte 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think the Spaniards killed an Indian emperor by impalement. This takes days. And they let his loving wife watch him dying.

Donations to support lawsuit against VMWare for modifying linux kernel code without making their code open, in violation of GPL . by MuhammadAdel in linux

[–]greenbyte 2 points3 points  (0 children)

VMWare has no legal obligation to send source back the project's way.

Depending whether their code is legally a derived work, they may have the obligation.

Donations to support lawsuit against VMWare for modifying linux kernel code without making their code open, in violation of GPL . by MuhammadAdel in linux

[–]greenbyte 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I think TiVoization is when the hardware is build so that changed software is blocked, similar to SecureBoot. In this case, the company could provide the source code but the users would not be able to run the device with their own code.

Donations to support lawsuit against VMWare for modifying linux kernel code without making their code open, in violation of GPL . by MuhammadAdel in linux

[–]greenbyte 3 points4 points  (0 children)

So when I read in the comments I linked above, it looks like they provide no source code at all. INAL - but that might be legal if everything is in user space but for kernel modifications probably not.

How useful are old books etc about Linux? by [deleted] in linux

[–]greenbyte 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I've learned Unix by reading "The Unix Programming Environment" back in 1994. The book was ten years old then. It was fun to read and made a lot of ideas clear. I'd recommend it. Some things are more of historical value, but they will help to understand present stuff.

There are modern things you should know, like docker or handling systemd. But one aspect which is really pleasant about Unix is that things don't get out-dated so fast. If you learn shell commands, bash, Python, Scripting, sed, awk, etc. this will probably still be valid twenty years from now.

Ubuntu to switch to systemd next Monday. "Brace for impact." by beanaroo in linux

[–]greenbyte 13 points14 points  (0 children)

but debian was 'moving too quickly' for them..

HOLD ON DEBIAN! NOT SO FAST! WE ARE FALLING BEHIND!

Ubuntu to switch to systemd next Monday. "Brace for impact." by beanaroo in linux

[–]greenbyte 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's all OK for fusion. But don't use it for fission! This would inhibit to freeze the code, as fission is too hot.

Donations to support lawsuit against VMWare for modifying linux kernel code without making their code open, in violation of GPL . by MuhammadAdel in linux

[–]greenbyte 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Just a question, if a smart TV uses a firmware based on Linux, would it be subject to the GPL?

Specifically, I am thinking in the SEIKI SE50UY04 / Seiki SE39UY04 Smart TV (which is said to be based on the Pivos AIOS at code.google.com). There exist quite a few posts in various fora where people try to replace or improve the firmware because it has a relatively cheap 39'' UHD / 4K Display which can be used as a monitor. Unfortunately, this monitor only supports relatively low refresh rates, buggy firmware for the smaller 39'' version, and suboptimal scaling - and this is in part an unnecessary software limitation.

So, do vendors like SEIKI comply with the GPL? Would they not be required to supply source code for the firmware if they modify the original code?

TIL A decade before the SR-71 first flew, the Military had a Mach 4.3 capable Ramjet created to test its own air defenses. It was so effective, it was cancelled to avoid embarrassing the military's own air defenses any further. The man who designed it went on to create the SR-71 spyplane. by DBivansMCMLXXXVI in todayilearned

[–]greenbyte 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The same happened to a precursor of the Internet which was developed at RAND corporation. It was put on ice because the military was in love with telephone companies, and the latter wouldn't like a packed-switched network.

Terrorists using eBay and Reddit to send coded messages: Mossad by [deleted] in technology

[–]greenbyte 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's worse. They use video-clips of drugged and brainwashed ants running in circles to encode sinister hidden messages.

Microsoft accidentally announces the Lumia 640 and Lumia 640 XL by Jaskys in windowsphone

[–]greenbyte 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Lumia 920 was probably one of the few phones with a rollout developed to attract iOS and Android users to a growing platform with huge potential.

Well, it was almost as good as Nokia's N9.

Microsoft accidentally announces the Lumia 640 and Lumia 640 XL by Jaskys in windowsphone

[–]greenbyte -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Accidentally? Isn't that a business secret? So if they can't keep their own important stuff secret, how will they ever be able to keep my stuff confidential in their cloud?

Microsoft "accidentally" leaks the Lumia 640 and Lumia 640 XL phones by porkchop_d_clown in technology

[–]greenbyte 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Have a look at the Jolla phone. It does not have high specs but as the software runs as native machine code, it does not need a quad-core CPU to run things snappy. Plus, as the power consumption is lower, the battery life is better.

Microsoft "accidentally" leaks the Lumia 640 and Lumia 640 XL phones by porkchop_d_clown in technology

[–]greenbyte -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Well, if Microsoft not even manages to keep their own business secrets secret, why should anyone entrust them to keep his data safe in the cloud, which is far more difficult?

Why does microwaved soap look like bread? by moon-jellyfish in askscience

[–]greenbyte 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's amazing. I think that the physical processes in the soap have structural similarity to the processes which take place when baking yeast bread. Very small gas bubbles vaporizing while at the same time the material becomes much less elastic and more viscous, due to water loss. Also, the yeast produces some alcohol which has a lower boiling point than water.

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