confusion

LKML: We (the kernel.org team) have noticed a fair amount of confusion about the procedure for the reinstatement of kernel.org accounts.

Brad Kuhn: Lots of confusion around android and the GPL

On CodeIgniter.com today there's a new blog post hoping to clear up any confusion about the Community Branch of the framework and the NDA that would be required for those developers on the project.

Robert Scoble:

Then I went and tried to figure out how to turn it off. I couldn’t find a setting.

Keep in mind, this is to answer questions left over on Listorious. Why was it spamming Twitter? Where was the off button?

So, what problem does OAuth solve exactly?

It’s obviously not user confusion. And Scoble is a knowledgeable technical person—imagine what this does to a regular user.

Like any technology that allows the user to abrogate their responsibility to be alert, OAuth is one bad idea.

Brandon Savage has posted the answers to some questions that were raised by a previous post of his on object-oriented development and some best practices.

In this new post, he answers the questions:

On the ProDevTips blog today Henrik describes a situation where he "tried to be clever" with the array_map and array_filter functions and some of the confusion in their usage.

Communication Breakdown: "Vodafone has dismissed the preinstallation of Linux onto its netbooks, citing consumers' perception that netbooks are equivalent to laptops in their functionality."

On CakePHP's Bakery blog Joel Perras has made a new post that, he hopes, will clear up some of the confusion around which versions of PHP will be supported in which CakePHP release.

Well, that clears up some of the confusion: AT&T sent us an extremely brief statement today in response to yesterday’s reports that the FCC is investigating Apple

Raiden's Realm: "The subject of standard Unix and Linux mail file formats came up as part of a recent article I was writing and I decided that it was something that needed to be addressed to avoid confusion when talking about it in the future."