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You can inspect the WhatsApp binary and prevent updates. Having to trust the server is a big deal.
Re:Against the synchronous society on Saturday January 06, 2018 @07:33AM (#16085000)
People want to maximize the time they spend together with their team mates, spouses, friends and children. That requires synchronization.
Proprietary codebase does not deprive original project from potential contributors. Gpl'd fork might
Re:The lost art of 3D rendering without shaders on Saturday January 21, 2017 @03:38AM (#13449388)
Minor nitpick

"The green and blue colors, z-position, and normal vector are all interpolated in the same manner. (Texture coordinates behave slightly differently because there you’d also need to take the perspective into account.)"

Colors (c), z, and texture coordinates (t) should all be interpolated differently because of perspective. You need to interpolate 1/z, c/z, t/z and for every pixel then do division eg. c/z / 1/z = c

Re:Microsoft and Linux and Patents and Tweets on Wednesday November 23, 2016 @10:06AM (#13023099)
> The issue here is Software Patents exist.

It's possible to not be asshole with software patents. See Facebook and Google.

Re:Google moves to replace Flash with HTML5 on Friday May 20, 2016 @10:19AM (#11737954)
Netflix begs to differ.
Re:FFmpeg 3.0 released on Monday February 15, 2016 @11:14AM (#11104108)
IMHO the hostile takeover of the ffmpeg project by the libav guys (Fabrice Bellard had to wield trademark to force them to rename the fork) and intense FUD campaign were much bigger issues.
Re:Focus by Firefox, a Content Blocker for iOS on Tuesday December 08, 2015 @09:48AM (#10696589)
To be fair, Firefox can and does ship their own browser engine on Android, something that is forbidden on IOS.
Re:E-Prime: English without the verb 'to be' on Monday December 07, 2015 @12:34PM (#10690989)
The point was that those are forbidden in E-prime, (they have "am" in them).
Re:E-Prime: English without the verb 'to be' on Monday December 07, 2015 @09:51AM (#10689791)
How do you introduce yourself?

http://eprimedictionary.pbworks.com/My+name+is+Sally

Has some suggestions. All seem pretty awkward to me.

Re:Signal Desktop on Wednesday December 02, 2015 @02:39PM (#10665277)
Can't you run it under Chromium then?
"The real problem with land [and property taxes] is the fact it tends to flow into the cost of rent and homeownership."

The price of property and rent in popular places will be what the market will bear. So with tax, the rent would stay the same. Price of apartments would go down, because buyers need to pay the tax, so they cannot afford as much.

Apartments in space efficient towers would be grow in value relatively, because they don't need to pay so much tax, so there would be incentive to build more densely.

This means more apartments and cheaper prices.

Re:You Do Not Have to Drink 8 Glasses of Water a Day on Monday August 24, 2015 @11:28AM (#10110483)
It's discussed in the article:

Many people believe that the source of this myth was a 1945 Food and Nutrition Board recommendation that said people need about 2.5 liters of water a day. But they ignored the sentence that followed closely behind. It read, “Most of this quantity is contained in prepared foods.”

Indeed, from the references of your link:

The Panel has decided that the reference values for total water intake should include water from drinking water, beverages of all kind, and from food moisture.

Re:Build a 300-Mile Wall Around SF During Burning Man on Wednesday August 05, 2015 @03:30PM (#10012232)
It's $2B
Re:An Update on Microsoft’s Approach to Do Not Track on Friday April 03, 2015 @02:16PM (#9317453)
It's politics. If the default is "don't track", advertisers have a case that the user has not explicitly asked to disable tracking.
Re:React Native is now open source on Friday March 27, 2015 @03:01AM (#9275035)
But is there evidence that Facebook is willing to use other companies' code under similar grant?
The intent is to prevent man in the middle -attackers from getting access to those features.
Re:Is Apple stifling progress in Web standards? on Wednesday February 25, 2015 @02:00PM (#9108741)
To be really fair, out of the four biggest browser vendors (MS, Apple, Mozilla, Google) only Google makes it possible to use the other browser engines on their mobile platform.
Re:Is Apple stifling progress in Web standards? on Wednesday February 25, 2015 @12:21PM (#9107973)
https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/

"Apps that browse the web must use the iOS WebKit framework and WebKit Javascript"

Re:The Ronco Principle on Tuesday January 20, 2015 @04:46PM (#8919868)
"And yet he's a super nice guy. In fact, nice is not the word. Ronco is good."

So good he supports torture http://blog.sfgate.com/cityinsider/2014/12/09/ron-conway-bla...

Re:An Attack on Telegram on Sunday January 11, 2015 @09:13AM (#8870009)
"This past spring, Juliano Rizzo (@julianor) and I came up with a cryptographic attack on Telegram's MTProto "secret" chat communications which can be performed in O(2^64) time."

Using asymptotic notation without an argument (usually "n") makes me cringe. O(2^64) = O(1)

Re:Firefox for iOS on GitHub on Friday December 05, 2014 @12:55AM (#8703159)
> Rendering engines are okay. Its the Javascript execution engine that is not allowed.

No, they must use WebKit:

"Apps that browse the web must use the iOS WebKit framework and WebKit Javascript"

https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/

Re:Jolla Tablet on Wednesday November 19, 2014 @07:40AM (#8629653)
It's not a re-implementation, just a port. Dalvik is licensed under Apache License 2.0 which allows proprietary derivatives.
Re:Chrome now uses clang for production builds on Linux on Monday November 17, 2014 @02:37PM (#8620004)
As an end user:

I can combine GPLv2 (eg. linux kernel) and BSD licensed code, and distribute it.

I can combine GPLv3 and BSD licensed code, and distribute it.

I cannot combine GPLv2 and GPLv3 licensed code, and distribute it.

As an end user, I like BSD licensed code more.

Github costs $0 and 0h of admin work for OSS code.
Re:Microsoft to release Android-powered Nokia X2 handset on Tuesday June 24, 2014 @08:47AM (#7937368)
They use the same loophole as with phones. Microsoft distributes Linux VMs through its subsidiary Microsoft Open Technologies, which was created just for this purpose. It does not own the patents so MS doesn't have to license them.
Re:Microsoft to release Android-powered Nokia X2 handset on Tuesday June 24, 2014 @08:43AM (#7937349)
Unfortunatey they created a subsidiary called Microsoft Mobile that sells the phones. The subsidiary does not own the patents, so no patents gets licensed. Qualcomm uses the same loophole.
Re:Opera 24 for Linux released on the Developer stream on Monday June 23, 2014 @09:25AM (#7931782)
"Unity 8 uses QML for the shell itself but the applications will still be in GTK."

I think GTK will be just for legacy/3rd party applications and new stuff by Canonical will be Qt based.

Re:Uber protest gridlocks London on Wednesday June 11, 2014 @11:57AM (#7878672)
They probably also oppose any easing of those restrictions.
Re:U.S. Is No. 1, China Is So Yesterday on Tuesday May 27, 2014 @04:35PM (#7806706)
Per-capita GDP does not matter in the power contest. There are countries that have GDP/capita twice the size of US's: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_%28nom...

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