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[identity profile] bracknellexile.livejournal.com 2012-06-13 11:15 am (UTC)(link)
On the back of the "Dear The Internet..." article, this one slipped through mostly under the radar a week or two back on the BBC pages and the World Service:

Sexual harassment in the world of video gaming
World Service "Assignment" podcast
Related BBC News article

[identity profile] naath.livejournal.com 2012-06-13 11:24 am (UTC)(link)
Civ II> that made the Today program this morning.

Smart sensors are being trialled all over Glasgow to allow querying of city status.

[identity profile] cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com 2012-06-13 11:33 am (UTC)(link)
Oh wow, cool. I'm sure if the data's there people will find applications for it, that's awesome.

Although now I'm mildly reminded of a Niven or Asimov story about early teleport booths, where one of the side effects was that whenever there was a crowd, people would flash in from all over the world to join in.

[identity profile] cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com 2012-06-13 12:05 pm (UTC)(link)
It sounds like shooting a missile at someone may be similar to them accessing your webserver -- I thought the GPL was updated at some point to only cover the person actually running the program and owning the computer, not everyone getting the benefit of it, but I don't really follow all of the cases.

[identity profile] momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com 2012-06-13 12:11 pm (UTC)(link)
The smart sensors thing sounds ace... provided the code is open, the data is anonymized, the APIs are public, yada yada yada :)

[identity profile] spacelem.livejournal.com 2012-06-13 12:27 pm (UTC)(link)
That's missile with two i's. (sorry)
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[personal profile] simont 2012-06-13 06:17 pm (UTC)(link)
If you fire a missle containing GPL'd code at someone, do you have to make the source available too?

Aha, I think I've just worked out the answer to this. If you maintain that firing a missile at somebody containing executable code constitutes distribution (for GPL purposes) of that executable code and thus incurs an obligation on the firer to provide the target with a copy of the source, then surely you must also accept that the same distribution method is also a legitimate way to convey that copy of the source code.

So if anyone sues me for the source after I fire the first missile at them, I stick the source code somewhere inside missile #2, and just incidentally try to aim it a bit better than I did #1.

(Bonus: per GPLv2 clause 3(b) or GPLv3 6(b), I can charge them my delivery cost. So I not only get to shoot them with missile #2, but they have to pay me for it as well!)

[identity profile] usmu.livejournal.com 2012-06-14 10:04 am (UTC)(link)
Back in the day Terry Moore (almost automatically typed Pratchett there) was negotiating an animated series of the Strangers in Paradise comic with HBO. One of the reasons it fell through was the fact they kept pushing for more nudity, like character walking into the kitchen in the nude instead of their underwear. So yeah...
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