Root Access

I'll follow your lead and skim through them :D

@RahulBasu Usually, there's just a lot of boilerplate that's easily to skip right past.

And they're usually separated into distinct clauses that you can quickly scan the headings of.

NetworkKingPin

Skimming through them and reading the small print is good. Sometimes ive even seen trick questions.

I (almost) never end up with adware

@NetworkKingPin I have too

11:41 AM

@RahulBasu Full blown adware is near nonexistent these days.

hm...

Unless you count bundled software.

...and I do.

All those bundled toolbars and crap? Adware.

;)

Though these days they usually hide a sneaky checkbox somewhere.

java cough java

11:42 AM

@bob I love finding those :D

Back to OEM keys - again, I wonder if I can satisfy the requirements by building a computer for, say, my brother :P

@Bob is it a bad thing that I don't create 100-page long EULAs for my apps, because I personally hate them?

And how far you could stretch 'sold'.

@RahulBasu typically no

@RahulBasu Depends what licence you distribute them under.

11:43 AM

@Bob exactly what I was thinking...

@Bob Usually MIT

Open source licences are also EULAs, in a sense.

The EULA doesn't restrict users.

It gives them permission to use the software, except in certain circumstances.

Without a licence agreement of some form (verbal or otherwise) technically they're not allowed to use the software at all...

Though I suspect the act of intentionally giving it to them also gives them implied permission.

Wouldn't fly past the legal department of any major corp, but most individuals wouldn't really care and would just use it.

@Bob So my EULA should be "Use it anyway you want, as long as you limit yourself to whatever is written in the license"?

@RahulBasu No... the licence itself serves as your "EULA".

For most open-source programs without installers, it's just included somewhere (LICENSE.TXT, or embedded in the program, etc.).

So, I can just leave it all to MIT?

If you grabbed, say, GIMP - you'd get the GPL or something in the installer.

11:48 AM

@Bob I include it too...

@RahulBasu Assuming those are the terms you wish to distribute under.

@RahulBasu what if you want to make money from your software?

@Burgi I don't ;)

@RahulBasu choosealicense.com

Also, can't I re-license it?

11:50 AM

sure

@Bob I choose MIT ;)

choosealicense.com/no-license

> You’ll have to check with your own legal counsel regarding your particular project, but generally speaking, the absence of a license means that default copyright laws apply. This means that you retain all rights to your source code and that nobody else may reproduce, distribute, or create derivative works from your work.

Of course it depends on the country.

@RahulBasu you say that now....

> If you find software that doesn’t have a license, that generally means you have no permission from the creators of the software to use, modify, or share the software.

Which is a problem I face often

I find code on forums which I want to incorporate in my apps, but there isn't any license with it :(

11:52 AM

@RahulBasu You still have full permission to do anything you want with your copy of the code, including distributing it under a different licence.

:D

What you generally can't do is retract a licence already given, unless the licence itself has provisions for doing so.

(technically, that's the difference between a perpetual and non-perpetual licence, but afaik they're usually assumed perpetual)

So, I can't switch to BSD in the future?

@RahulBasu You can distribute another copy under BSD.

You can stop distributing your future code under MIT.

You can't take back what you've already distributed under MIT.

Ah...

11:54 AM

(but remember I'm not a lawyer and none of this is necessarily legally correct)

what about when you are a poor starving student or graduate without a job?

Contributor License Agreement

@RahulBasu Another thing to keep in mind - if other people have made contributions to your code, you need permission from each of them to re-licence it.

See CLAs

A Contributor License Agreement (CLA) defines the terms under which intellectual property has been contributed to a company/project, typically software under an open source license. Creative Commons alumna Catharina Maracke released the next generation legal and technical project, Contributor Agreements which provides important contributions to international legal technical aspects of CLAs and lessons learned from previous CLA projects. == Rationale == Contributor Licence Agreements (CLAs) can be used to enable vendors to easily pursue legal resolution in the case of copyright disputes, o...

@Burgi I'll code some better stuff?

@RahulBasu Because they own copyright to the bits they contributed. But they can give you (perpetual) permission to distribute under other licences, etc, via a CLA.

and give it away for free?

11:56 AM

Other thing to keep in mind is that much of this hasn't actually been tested in court, so there's little hard legal precedent.

:30040653 Dang, I was just about to star that ;)

goes red the pretty girl in the office

Were you typing in the wrong window?

no i was thinking out loud

lol

11:58 AM

then i realised she might look over my shoulder

even more lol

sounds like you want to look over her shoulder!

@DavidPostill finnaly got boot, to test a "Scancode" that "changes the capslock into a shift key" and that is exactally what it does, the caps lock is now just a shift key and functions of caps lock itself do not exist at all

up to and including the whole board being shifted

@Psycogeek Congrats. You can write a self answered question ;)

@DavidPostill kinda

given the option the other method at least there is some function of the caps lock existing still , which is better.

12:07 PM

> Wrong email

mate, this is a registration form

I'll decide if my email is right or wrong, tyvm

arstechnica.co.uk/gadgets/2016/05/…

@HackToHell no worky

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Should now ^_^

spacex - 96% success rate
snapchat - 100% success rate in the sexting market

12:18 PM

lol

and the landing stats for spacex are even worse

50% failures on landings

William Mariager

Snapchat has failed too. :P People just don't care.

@WilliamMariager They failed on the advertising too, I've never heard of it ;)

William Mariager

@DavidPostill You might not fall into their target audience. ;)

i love that image

12:24 PM

@GuitarShoeDave I don't fall in any advertisers target market - I don't believe any advertisers actually tell the truth about their products and I don't want to read/see/hear their lies. ;)

@DavidPostill its what the kids do instead of flirting and staring at the floor awkwardly

i used to work for one of those companies

we used to fire pixels on pages

to track online behavior

ah so you worked for snapchat

well i didnt care till sexting came up, but being sexted by some 90yr old dude posing,, not my kind of thing

The only reason for adverts is to spin things to make products look good and to break your enjoyment of any drama on TV.

12:25 PM

@Burgi: Nah, worked for a company that provided analytics to dealerships across many segments in the usa.

I suppose "sexting" is a rude text? Why do you need a special app for that?

we correlated online advertising with offline purchases.

@GuitarShoeDave You would get 0 from me ;)

@DavidPostill it specifically needs a photo attached

ah. But most apps allow photos to be attached don't they? I can do that with email.

12:27 PM

@DavidPostill: You'd be surprised of the # of browser vulnerabilities that there are that enable companies to still track you.

normally of someones naughty bits

which you can then steal and put on the internet

love is complex....

@GuitarShoeDave heh, most of my offline purchases are cash ;)

@GuitarShoeDave I wouldn't. I use uBlock and no 3rd party cookies ...

in dark alleys?

@Burgi: nah our method was 100% private, there was no way of tying our information down to a specific user. But yes, there are some that are VERY invasive.

12:29 PM

"meat? we have meat"

@Burgi usually no.

Oh and Privacy Badger

there was a guy in futurama who sold "stuff" in dark alleys

to dogs?

I don't get targeted ads, I only get spam.

12:32 PM

Ghostery is probably the best you can use to opt out of everything.. evidon requires all companies to provide methods of opting out of online advertising.. have you used it? I havent heard of uBlock though.

ublock's a fairly conventional adblock thing

If you dont want to dowload ghostery u can just go here ghostery.com/support/global-opt-out

and blamo, instantly opted out of thousands of companies.

will have to try it out

opt-out? in the US they have a "do not call" list, it is just used by the worst of them as the "Do Call" because nobody else is calling them in that list.

Q: How can we add a "useful resources" to the help center?

@Psycogeek: I feel your pain trust me.

ublock looks pretty sweet

XKCD

Does the screeching chill your blood and herald death? If yes, banshee. If no, seagull.

William Mariager

12:41 PM

Moving around randomly I ended up at New Age Beleriand.

Pandya

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I've visited the help-center of one the sites, and noticed a "useful resources" section: I'm surprised to see it, since I don't see it in the help center of other sites. So, how can we have such section in other site? Can a community (say Hinduism) decide and write such stuff (if worthy t...

The advantage of never providing real information to forums, getting birthday notices throughout the year :-)

(now if they would just send presents)

@Psycogeek: i did that once on face book. I changed my birthday for a full week every day of the week. Just so that people would recieve the notification all week long.

@GuitarShoeDave lol

Also, where did you get that file with 530k periods?

I want it now!

For documents edition (word, openoffice,..) is it bad to work on files on a USB key directly?

12:52 PM

@crl No?

why would it be??

I don't see why it would be bad, but someone once told me it should be avoided

dunno, maybe it takes more time to save, or whatever

um... if someone steals the usb, you don't have a backup?

@crl same issue you have if you have one copy of anything

@crl USBs have a habit of just failing. You have backups, right?

@crl if one was to manufacture a reason, versions of word can store a backup version of what your working on, if a person was still working on it, and pulled any "removable" disk item, things that the program was doing might not finish up.

even if it was flushed and unmounted proper before uninstall, if the document was still open

1:09 PM

geek.com/chips/…

whoa much

Samsung has for the first time (and an industry first) created a complete 512GB SSD solution in a single one-chip package. That’s the storage using 20mm NAND chips, 4Gb of DDR4 memory, and a controller in one to create an SSD called the PM971-NVMe.

Waiting for phones to come with that

@DavidPostill the girl on reception is pretty too but she smells of coffee (we have a real barista coffee machine thing in reception)

OOh. I like the smell of coffee ;)

i realise this makes me sound like a proper weirdo who goes round sniffing people

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ah ok, thanks guys

i don't

1:18 PM

@Burgi Maybe not, but you're going to get stars anyway ... ;)

GemsFromStackExchange: “GURENTY”

as long as she doesn't smell cigarette you're safe

GFSE

posted on June 01, 2016

“GURENTY”

spam like that deserve more to be ignored

1:38 PM

joelgrus.com/2016/05/23/fizz-buzz-in-tensorflow

2:15 PM

I have two tunnels, using plink, to the same machine. One for RDP and one for HTTP. RDP works, HTTP doesn't. wtf

However, I can access the HTTP service from other machines on the remote network, so the service is there

I have other tunnels that don't work right either. The HTTP one is just for easy debugging right now

All tunnels use the same exit node on the remote network, so... I don't get it

swap the tunnel prts?

ports

@JourneymanGeek Let's try

then if the broken one changes, change the port of the broken one

@Burgi For gods sake how old are you

i'm shy!

2:20 PM

@qwertyuiop heh, age has nothing to do with that IMO

@JourneymanGeek RDP still works, HTTP doesn't. So it's not the port number

Ben N

<bursts in> Is the HTTP service hosted by IIS?

@qwertyuiop i could say the same about you based on monday afternoon....

@Burgi Hehe. Nice riposte

A: Increase the font size on Sublime Text 2 status bar?

any advice on this answer?

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I realise this is an old question, but I had a similar problem where all the text was too small; status bar, tabs, folder/file tree etc. The answer was to add "dpi_scale": 2.0 to my Sublime Prefs, as detailed here

2:28 PM

@Bob Noooooooooooooooooooooo

@qwertyuiop ?

@Burgi WhenwasMonday afternoon?

What iswrongwith amy spacebar

 ,cvl.,bn

Problem solved.

who is amy spacebar?

11 hours ago, by Bob

Spectre X2, w/ Core m7 & 512 GB SSD. $1240.

Noooooooooooooooooo!

@qwertyuiop Why no? o.o

2:30 PM

Because Monday afternoon!

o.O

Is that a "no, don't buy it" or a ... actually I have no idea

I'm so confused

That's what she said

It's a no don't buy it because it's an X2

!!what

2:32 PM

!!dave JourneymanGeek

ChatBot John Cavil

trouts @JourneymanGeek around a bit with a large @Dave!

@qwertyuiop What's wrong with the X2?

@Bob It's an X2

@BenN No

o_o

I'm not following

2:33 PM

beats the fear of god into @qwertyuiop with a monkfish

Any particular reason the X2 is bad?

Detachable 2-in-1's, especially if you want a larger machine, are generally shitty

Which is why in general there are no larger detachable 2-in-1s

2 days ago, by DavidPostill

@qwertyuiop If you have to ask a question like that you are probably too out of it to even think about an interview.

@Burgi Think? What's think?

What's DavidPostill's think got to do with your girls in the office?

what you do if you need to decide if you even need to ask a question like that

2:37 PM

@Burgi I suggest you ignore the troll.

i was

we need a !!goat

TIL my company does the fizzbuzz test

A question like what?

How old he is to be blushing about girls in the office instead of just talking to them?

People can do that at any age

:30044735

2 days ago, by qwertyuiop

Should I wear a condom during this interview?

2:39 PM

Not if they're so old they experience cardiovascular collapse!

Ben N

!!xkcd 463

ChatBot John Cavil

And that's *another* crypto conference I've been kicked out of. C'mon, it's a great analogy!

they can blush. Then they can die.

@qwertyuiop Ah, it's detachable? urk.

Yea, I have one and it's not great :\

Hm.

In addition to emotional triggers, other causes of blushing can include:

alcohol
hot or spicy foods
hot drinks
a high temperature (fever)
sudden hot or cold temperatures
strenuous exercise
certain medical conditions or medication

2:40 PM

OTOH, it's effectively what a Surface Pro is.

@Bob That's what the X2 means

The 360 flip ones are called the X360

@BenN lol

@BenN there's an XKCD for everything

@Bob There's a reason the Surface Pro only comes in "a tad small" screen sizes

@qwertyuiop Eh, I think 12" is still usable as a tablet

2:42 PM

@qwertyuiop "fun sized"

Maybe just a bit small to read as a laptop.

since I'll prolly never buy a >12 inch laptop ever again

But, yea. Thanks for the warning. I'll probably stay away from this one.

@ChatBotJohnCavil And the teacher blames his teaching errors on his condom...

@Bob You said itself it's a tad small

I ASSUMED YOU MEANT WHAT YOU SAID :-((((

@qwertyuiop I meant a tad small since I was originally looking for 13". But my brother said he actually wanted 12" more :P

2:43 PM

13-14" convertibles are IMO the best size for me. At least they're my target area

Especially with next-gen dGPUs that can easily play Crysis

@qwertyuiop What's the new "crysis"? :P

(for "but can it run")

@Bob It's still Crysis

Huh.

Not, say, AotS?

Though if you were really forward looking, I'd say Star Citizen

Is that one even at release yet?

2:46 PM

No but the previews/demos are raping high-end hardware already

@qwertyuiop Yea... I'm kinda torn between wanting a full-size laptop to use at home (the XPS 15 looks nice) or a little one that's more portable.

Burgi goes around sniffing girls in the office?! WTF

My current one is kinda in the middle... 13", powerful, but still quite bulky/thick.

@Bob XPS 13?

@Bob I'm trying to convince my brother not to replace his desktop replacement laptop with another one ;p

2:47 PM

Do you want convertible? If not then you have a huge amount more choice

.

@qwertyuiop I rarely use things in tablet mode anyway. But I've been eyeing the cheap ~$200 Chinese convertibles for the portable role.

Pizza Hut does a good Macaroni Cheese

ideally it'd be a Core M of some sort. But that instantly pushes it up to at least $600...

Well if you're not too fussed about convertibles, Gigabyte have a decent range of 13-14" machines with powerful internals that are still thin, light, and have great battery life

o.O

Never used (or seen) a Gigabyte laptop

2:49 PM

If you don't care about gaming, Lenovo and Dell's ultrabooks are great too

@Bob aorus.com/Product/Features/X3%20Plus%20v5

Well that's one model from last year

Yea, that's kinda why I wanted to go with two separate devices this time around :P

razer blade stealth!

;p

@qwertyuiop That's basically a beefed up version of my current one (W230SS).

@Bob hexus.net/tech/news/laptop/…

That's their newer model

@Bob I thought you said you had an XPS 15

@Bob what's that

2:50 PM

The Gigabyte ones are beefed down if you know what I mean (a lot thinner)

lol. I just had a recruiter offering a job in the Czech Republic

@qwertyuiop I said it looks nice, as in I'm considering it :P

you'r a genius.

@jokerdino A terrible ad

yer a genious arry

2:51 PM

@jokerdino It's his genius detector, written by an obviously jealous non-genius

@qwertyuiop They look nice, but they're again kinda in that awkward slightly too big to carry and slightly too small to use comfortably at home

going to visit some of Bob's rooms and kick him out. brb

@Bob Too big to carry? :-o

In a bag or in your hand?

Probably looking at 10"-13" to leave in the bag

@jokerdino Oi!

Leave my rooms alone!

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> Discussion on question by Bryan McClure: What can the government do with its clone army after the war is won?
Discussion on answer by mark kirby: Does Ubuntu damage USB drives?
Discussion on answer by Wally: What are the programming and computer references in Steins;Gate?
Discussion on question by Edison: How to divide large bank notes into smaller ones while traveling?
Discussion on question by Lumberjack: How can I help my direct report to understand he is not being micromanaged?
Room for Bob and jokerdino

2:53 PM

@qwertyuiop 13"-14" usually requires 2 hands

last posted 441d ago. Pls.

What the

@jokerdino Hey, if your problem is with the UI complain to SE...

> A last option, although not one I particularly recommend for other reasons (RSI injuries in particular) would be to get a job filling jars in an artisan scale canning/bottling plant. A friend of mine does that and after several years has bulked up his arms to the point he was able to use my 15x70 binoculars with 1 hand the way an average person could do with a light weight 5x35 pair

that's a new one

2:53 PM

0_0

@JourneymanGeek But does it stop the shaking ;)

@Bob Meh, 14"'s can be easily left in a bag

Adds a bit of weight though but the size is basically un-noticeable