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Re:Mozilla has stopped all commercial development on Firefox OS on Tuesday September 27, 2016 @09:07AM (#12589287)
Ubuntu phone is still on.
It is great to see end-user products!
Re:Map-dl: Download Google Maps on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @03:16AM (#12546033)
Very handy!
Re:Scientists Have Found Another Species of Crow That Uses Tools on Wednesday September 14, 2016 @06:13PM (#12501647)
If humans were to grow up without social structure or education, they would not be very effective at survival. It is due to learning skills through education, etc that makes humans effective.

What we have here is specific populations of corvid species that grew up in relative isolation/protection that enabled them to have social structure to exist between generations.

It should be feasible to influence other corvid populations to show such remarkable feats. As long as there is no big mortality, the younger birds should learn from the older.

Re:The MI6 Spy Who Perfected the Art of the 'Honey Trap' on Monday September 12, 2016 @07:20AM (#12478741)
Looks like she found in MI6 the justification to a life of affairs.
Re:Contemplating the possible retirement of Apache OpenOffice on Friday September 02, 2016 @02:04PM (#12414914)
Some AOO developers appear to have a superiority complex. It is visible in the discussion.
Re:The kernel community confronts GPL enforcement on Thursday September 01, 2016 @02:19PM (#12407635)
Thanks for the clarification.
Re:The kernel community confronts GPL enforcement on Thursday September 01, 2016 @11:12AM (#12405862)
It becomes obvious from the discussion that Linus is specifically focused on those cases that companies became Linux-friendly after long-term encouragement. He probably took part in such cases.

In addition, he has in mind that companies can abuse the GPLv2 and just do code dumps.

It makes sense what he has in mind but his attitude is too much drama.

Re:The kernel community confronts GPL enforcement on Thursday September 01, 2016 @11:06AM (#12405804)
It looks like a simple issue that transformed into drama due to the attitudes on the lkml.

It is obvious that there will be cases that the GPL will have to be enforced. Was accepted by the other side in the end.

The SFLC will only undertake a case if they have the support of copyright owners, not on their own volition.

Re:Bertrand Russell, Donald Trump, and Archimedes on Thursday August 11, 2016 @12:02AM (#12266249)
Trump and his media people want to get their opponents to become uncomfortable, stressed and start making mistakes. It is a strategy that worked too well in the primaries and they want to repeat in the election.
Re:Why bad-tempered people earn more and live longer on Wednesday August 10, 2016 @04:09PM (#12264456)
The article is a hodgepodge of anecdotes. Does not make an effort to attach some science to it.
An increase of 1C globally means that the planet gets hotter by a gazzilion of Watts.

Imagine how much energy is needed to increase the temperature of a glass of water by just 1C. Then, a swimming pool. Finally, a planet.

Re:Donald Trump AMA on Reddit on Tuesday July 26, 2016 @05:38AM (#12164417)
Softballing, because it will take place on /r/The_donald instead on /r/IAMA
Re:Highly Available Block Storage on Wednesday July 13, 2016 @09:34AM (#12085981)
I benchmarked the new block storage and it is not that faster than the virtio disk.
Re:Ubuntu Unity running on Windows 10 on Sunday July 10, 2016 @06:37PM (#12067603)
The purpose of WSL is to bring back developers to Windows. It is more efficient than Wine and is more useful to Microsoft to get almost native Ubuntu containers than some way to run Windows GUI apps on Linux.
In modern societies, kids tend to get little quality time with their parents. In addition, they tend not to grow up in a relaxed carefree environment.

I see kids today with mobile phones, playing addictive games and being unable to focus on a single thing for more than a few moments.

It is tough to make multiyear controlled experiments on such things. I would discount heredity for now.

Regarding the cringiness. The mail should have started with 'fam', not 'bae'. 'bae' is babe and definitely unacceptable, either to men and women!
Does not look like INTERNAL when it is sent to 'bay area interns'.
Re:Bulgaria Passes a Law Requiring Open Source on Monday July 04, 2016 @09:13AM (#12030524)
It mentions "OpenOffice", which is now defunct.

In any case it is good. Future procurements will show how well the law is applied.

It is annoying how such studies presume that genetics are a factor in academic achievement.

They can be evidence that social mobility is not happening and that academic achievement requires a certain attitude by the parents and their social class.

Poorly documented campaign!

AVOID

Re:Back door found in Allwinner Linux kernels on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @08:16AM (#11674540)
Really, espionage?

The hardware is used in lowcost tablets...

Re:Back door found in Allwinner Linux kernels on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @08:12AM (#11674500)
This is a search on the github issues, and not on the source code.
Re:Back door found in Allwinner Linux kernels on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @08:10AM (#11674491)
It was a debug feature that was left enabled in the kernel source for H3 and newer cpus.

They should have done #ifdef DEBUG in the kernel source...

Re:Back door found in Allwinner Linux kernels on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @08:06AM (#11674456)
That Occam razor says that it was a debug feature that they forgot to disable.
For most games, amdgpu is ok. If your game requires fglrx, then stick to 14.04 or 15.10.

fglrx does not work on 16.04 and all resources from AMD now go to amdgpu so it gets fully useful by the end of 2016.

The shadows are quite subtle. How does it annoy you?

You can disable through 'compizsettings'.

That is an upstream issue. I do not see a link to bugzilla.gnome.org on launchpad.
You should read the release notes for 16.04. It covers some issues that will be rectified soon. Including that of the software centre.
Not so much actual worry. Such panic articles appear regularly.

If you stick with official packages, you are fine. It is the front-facing services that are important, and these are updated for security issues.

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