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Comment Sell it like a piece of closed source software (Score 1) 87

An often looked over option is that you can sell the software. There's no provision whatsoever in any of MIT, BSD, GPL, and numerous other licenses against selling the software.

In the event you're selling to consumers rather than developers, it doesn't matter the slightest if you make the source code available. The bulk of your clients either won't know how to install from source, or won't bother if you're asking for a reasonable amount to keep the lights on.

Comment Re:Study is dead wrong - waste (Score 1, Informative) 430

As much as I agree the study is moronic, you can't just wish the notion that pets contribute to producing extra meat out of existence.

Do pets eat leftovers after you're done eating yourself? Certainly. Are pets open for ickier bits of meat than you are? Also yes. But what constitutes the latter depends on culture and development levels (e.g. there are people who eat pig tail and chicken feet), and other times ickier bits just aren't so edible (e.g. bowels) or turn out to be downright unhealthy (remember Bovine spongiform encephalopathy).

Best I'm aware, a lot of industrial pet food is made with less "presentable" but still perfectly digest meat or carcass, as well as stuff that's deemed too fat by consumers, all of which would have ended up in stews or as grease in the past. Moreover, let's not forget that numerous pet owners treat their pets - because they're hipsters or better informed or both - with human consumption grade meat. Either way, pets have an impact on meat production.

Comment Re:Of course (Score 1) 310

I don't need an account to see or hear about his tweets, so why would I sign up?

To answer him with an aviation hangar loads of insults just because you can? It's like, come on, the guy is so thin skinned that he's blocking users he doesn't like - and getting sued for it. Hopefully a gazillion more of the same will lead him to question what he's doing at some point.

Comment At long last! (Score 4, Insightful) 154

Now, if the many sites that still assume it's present and default to it over HTML5 could finally start working properly when Flash isn't available, the Internet will be a much better place. I'm looking at you [crappy TV news channel websites of your choice goes here].

Comment Wtf is this spin? (Score 1) 241

The data breach exposed the names, photos and home addresses of millions of Swedish citizen, including fighter pilots of Swedish air force, members of the military's most secretive units, police suspects, people under the witness relocation program, the weight capacity of all roads and bridges, and much more.

Oh yeah, and it also reveals the names of catholic priests, pedophiles, skull-fuckers, rapists, and community leaders. Which, as anyone knows, are all the same people. And fuck, they also reveal who knows about Area 51, alien invaders, and [enter your tinfoil here].

In all seriousness though, wtf is the spin in TFS. It reads as if it was a national security issue, whereas TFS holds that it's about names, photos and home addresses. Not activity.

Fuck you Slashdot editors. You're worthless.

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