Posts by Arion

Re: Kill this licecence with fire, its' replicating.

Interesting that this post enters with "bollocks", because that's largely what the first couple of paragraphs consist of.

The Devs have already consented to their code being relicensed by licencing it under the Apache licence. Further approval is not necessary.

Amazon essentially did fork ElasticSearch in the form of OpenDistro for ElasticSearch. [Although according to the FAQ it's not technically a fork, it achieves the same effect].

The OpenDistro FAQ says that any updates are contributed back to Elastic. Even if they weren't, Elastic could just take them under the terms of the Apache Licence.

Amazon and RedHat are co-operating on providing and supporting ROSA (RedHat OpenShift in AWS). It's very possible that Elastic could have done likewise, or indeed licenced the commercial features to Amazon the same way as Microsoft and Oracle licence SQL Server and Oracle DB respectively. They dug their own grave here.

Re: Better idea..why does n't GOOGL buy 1,143,934,581 shares of ORCL..

Probably because Google buying Oracle shares would constitutes a demand for Oracle shares which would increase the price of Oracle shares, which would mean it would cost a lot more than that number times their share price.

Re: That's nothing !

I believe later iterations of the HTSPSP spec support Tea. I'm not sure if there's a Tea implementation though.

Bah Humbug.

There are situations where this is is healthy; it encourages a preparedness for hardware failure, if there's a likelihood that the system could fail for some reason. It instills the ethic of frequently saving, and backing up.

What exactly would the "something illegal" be? If it's downloading copyrighted material without the copyright holders consent it isn't illegal. There could be something about unwarranted search and seizure though.

Re: Security?

Not necessarily.

AWS set up a dedicated GovCloud region, and the DoD could insist contractually on all employees with access being the US equivalent of SC cleared.

Re: Rubbish Coverage

I've tried 3 enough times, and been disappointed enough times, that I'm going nowhere near them.

My EE phone goes on the 3 network any time I go to Ireland, and don't get around to manually setting it to eir/meteor.

The last time I tried them in the UK, was about 3 years ago, when I figured that if they can't have good coverage in Central London (between Euston and Kings Cross), they weren't worth bothering with.

Re: Can Ritchie sue Oracle then?

No.

Dead people can't sue.

Maybe his estate (or former employer) could....

Re: I'm not sure that targeting specific companies is the way forward.

As an ex-Amazon employee; I have absolutely no qualms about how I was treated at Amazon.

The only problem with three though is that their Network is complete absolute Shite.

I've tried Three in both Ireland and the UK, in both cases urban areas, and in both cases, it was really really bad.

Re: Correlation is not causation

Seriously?

In the general case yes; correlation is not causation, and yes; there's probably no causal link between internet explorer market share and murder rates, or between Autism diagnoses and organic food sold, even though the graphs show a correlation.

This however was a database upgrade causing several hours outage, so I'm sorry, but without information to the contrary the most likely cause is an error by one of the people involved. That the people involved were changed out a few months back, then that's a little beyond correlation.

Re: Good going cobber - Pollution reasons

Well for starters 100kph (at just over 62mph) is about 6mph faster then the 56mph speed you mentioned.

Re: Bollocks

"Where's that then? Israel? (I *think* they operate a fairly pure form of PR. I don't think many, if any, other countries do.)"

What would you consider deficient about PR STV as exercised in Ireland?

Re: This is why we cant have nice things

You're confusing the way patents are supposed to work, with the way they do work.

Re: "publish the API" - "enforce control"

Well; they're doing it already; Windows 10 comes with a Linux subsystem, which is essentially a Linux API implementation (although ABI too).

Linux itself is essentially, fundamentally an implementation of open standard POSIX APIs.

Re: As I observed elsewhere in this illustrious mag

> "I am not legally required to close and lock my door; but if I'm burgled, then

> I'm at least partly responsible."

>

> No you're not. Not legally, nor morally.

Your analogy of blaming the victim doesn't apply here; in this case the victim is the customers who trusted talktalk with their payment details, and regardless of specific law about encryption, talktalk had a duty of care to these customers which it neglected.

Falling back on the absence of a specific law requiring encryption is both pathetic and contrary to the concept of common law ( or as the merkins would call it, case law ). I suspect that if this ended up in court in the UK, or the US, that there would very soon be a law requiring such data to be encrypted. The law is whatever the judge says it is, and this kind of bullshit is why.

Re: How can you fight a monopoly which offers products for free

Ummm - No. Street View was announced in 2007. A9.com ( Amazon Company ) had block view 2 years earlier.

Re: Err…

No, I'm with Gis on this one.

The issue is Mark Zuckerbergs hiring practices. Either that of the headline was wrong, and the article laid out even worse than it seems.

Privacy is a different issue, and including it here was a cheap dirty tabloid stunt.

Re: Proprietary software vendors - what do they do?

source availability is only meaningful if you _or_anyone_else_ has the in house expertise to fix/apply it yourself,

Fixed that for you

Re: Loong term view

You know, capitalising 'is', and putting an American cliche at the end of your sentence, doesn't make it any more persuasive.

i would split the cabbies into two categories; Those who got their licences before GPS became mainstream circa 2005, and idiots.

Before GPS the cabbies knowledge was a much stronger actual advantage than it is today.

Anyone who got their licence since, has been depending mostly on regulation to keep competitors off the road.

We're living in an age of technological advancement, and throughout history advancement does make certain jobs obselete, and cabbies might just be the most recent example. It also creates new ones.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/moneybuilder/2013/10/11/will-technology-make-us-all-jobless/

> Closed-book too, as it should be. Continuous assessment is a total joke.

Can you please introduce me to your drug dealer. I want to try whatever it is you're smoking.

I'm all in favour of a final exam, AS WELL AS continuous assessment, but skills learned for one particular point in time, are soon forgotten after that time has passed. Continuous assessment means that skills have to be both learned well at the start, and either remembered or re-learned for the exam. The need to know the material at two particular points in time, makes it much more likely to be retained in the longer term.

Re: You Sure?

I wonder what legal jurisdiction would be in play here. It's a German seller to a Portuguese (attempted) buyer, hosted by a United States company.

I would doubt if it's legal everywhere to refer to another party by name without their consent. If it were, then why would washing powder adverts blur out the products they're comparing against, and simply refer to them as "the leading brand"?

Re: Unbelievable!

That would only be the case if Google's accounting practices were something to be ashamed of.

Nobody's yet explained to me what moral right the government has to take Google's money, so I therefore fully support their efforts to recoup any money that was coerced out of them. I don't see that the coercing is being done by the Government, or that it's being called "tax" as making any difference. I'll take moral arguments, once someone shows me a credible argument that paying tax is a moral responsibility, and not purely a legal one.

Re: Plugin or runtime vulnerabilities?

I'm not sure if 'djb-ware' would count as an ecosystem, but while there might have been the occasional security issue, it doesn't have a 'history of security bugs'. He has developed some libraries to assist in this task that are not as susceptible to security bugs as the standard C library.

As for why people don't use it?

1: People are idiots.

2: DJB's original licencing was incompatible with software distributions, so his software wasn't included.

3: Some people have a negative opinion of DJB.

Re: What about an import tax then

> Therefore create an import good class of 'dodgy sibling company purchase'

Before you pitch this lead balloon any further, you might want to check up on The EU single market, and its laws regarding excise duties.

I don't have to read a book on what its like working for Amazon. I have almost 3 years first hand experience there, and nothing to complain about.

Re: Anything with 80+% market share

> When you are in charge, I, for one, will keep all of my devices as trade secrets.

And that's fine. If you come up with some new revolutionary product, you can keep the necessary details(except those needed for interoperability) secret. On the contrary if you come up with an obvious extension of existing art, someone else can independently come up with the same thing without having to worry about your salami patent.

When we reach the stage of engineers not understanding their own patents, the original benign goals of sharing knowledge et al go out the window.

Re: What precisely was this guy responding to?

So that would be Montenegro then at 9%, or perhaps you were refering to Albania, Bosnia, Cyprus, Macedonia, or Serbia, each of whom at 10% have a lower corporation tax than Ireland.

Why would they go to Romania or Luxembourg? They have 16% and 28.59% rates respectively.

Re: Microsoft's Operating System Tie-in

You're comparing apple's and gas giants there.

Google bundle android with their phone, but they don't prevent other OEMs fro installing other OSs. (samsung provide both android and windows pho

Also its unlikely that their keyboard supplier gave them an ultimatiun not to have keyboards from alternate suppliers.