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by extra88 5y ago
Plagiarism, pretending you made a work entirely yourself when you didn't, is rarely a matter for a court to decide and the standards for what constitutes plagiarism can vary a lot. When I turn in projects for a course, a cite sources i
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by extra88 5y ago
> Is it Novel? Is it Non-Obvious? Those questions for patents are barely more clear-cut than copyright fair use tests, there is lots of room for disagreement. It's definitely true that a fair use defense against copyright infringeme
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by extra88 5y ago
Yes to all this. I think the factor most at risk in a fair use test with Copilot is whether it ever suggests verbatim, code that could be considered the "heart" of the original work. The John Carmack example that's popped up
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by extra88 5y ago
> Authors won't incorporate snippets of books into new works Of course they do, previous works are quoted all the time.
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by extra88 5y ago
The U.S. (and Spain and Italy) are desirable places to be so immigration can make up for fertility rates being below what's needed to maintain the population. As a bonus, you don't need to wait ~18 years for an adult immigrant to
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by extra88 5y ago
Depends on what you're counting. Very few apps in the Apple store are charged 30% but they're the ones that bring in most of the revenue. Therefore, the average app is charged 15% but the average app transaction is charged 30%.
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by extra88 5y ago
Yes, Apple is much more "clean." Apple and Google are both potentially abusing is market dominance in areas but Google is also in the slimy business of selling ads (and the tracking that goes with it). Google also catches anti-soc
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by extra88 5y ago
This article [0] says the Play Store takes 15% from the first million but Apple's store takes 30% of everything once you pass one million/year. But it also makes it clear that only a very small percentage of apps in either store m
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by extra88 5y ago
I don't care about 3rd party delivery services but it looks like like DoorDash has a website so you can still be their customer. It looks like their app requires iOS 13 which requires an iPhone 6s or newer (though it can run iOS 14 and
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by extra88 5y ago
Claiming devices from before 2018 are essentially bricks is still hyperbole because the iPhone 5c was released long before that, 2013. The iPhone 6s, released in 2015, will run iOS 15. I think the original message was poorly worded, I think
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by extra88 5y ago
To be honest, I don’t know what an app literally can’t do on an iOS device (or Android device), regardless of how it gets there. I expect there are private APIs that could be exploited to do things an app otherwise couldn’t do that could be
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by extra88 5y ago
Because it’s from the Apple App Store, you can be reasonably sure it does what it says and isn’t monitoring your communications. You can also use permissions to deny it things like background app refresh or location data.
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by extra88 5y ago
> recording music that wasn't digital into a digital format is fair use If you’re doing it from an analog format you bought for your own use (format shifting), it is fair use.
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by extra88 5y ago
> I am suspicious of any of the for-profits being able to sustain a business. Blackboard has been around a long time and seems to do okay. Instructure (makers of Canvas) has done very well. Both sell Learning Management Systems (LMSes),
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by extra88 5y ago
Why are you bringing up Trump? This is about whether Russians hacked the DNC's email, that doesn't require collusion or even awareness from the Trump campaign. But since you did bring him up, it reminded me that in July 2016, week
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by extra88 5y ago
I haven't heard that claim before either. The Wikipedia sources for the DNC hack article [0] say the RNC wasn't successfully hacked. "GOP" refers to the entire Republican Party so I suppose there could be emails from a d
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by extra88 5y ago
I assume by "Pacific Green" you mean the Pacific Green Party of Oregon. A quote from the party platform: > We the People must: […] End the cold war with Iran and the resurgent cold war with Russia, forestall the emerging econom
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by extra88 5y ago
Yep. The Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity has members who have done good work for the public and the country. However, the memo referenced in your link did not even have the backing all the group's members and its argument
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by extra88 5y ago
This strikes me as whataboutism. It has nothing to do with the message to which you replied. Your link is primarily about the press being insufficiently skeptical about sources in stories related to foreign intelligence. At yet it contains
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by extra88 5y ago
If that's "a flood," you must live in a very dry place. A. He wasn't president at the time. B. While it's natural to assume that a candidate is aware of, and is ultimately responsible for, everything his camp
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by extra88 5y ago
> when not skipping bail means you get extradited to a country that will torture you via extended solitary confinement prior to trial On plenty of occasions, the UK has demonstrated its willingness to not extradite suspects to the US out
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by extra88 5y ago
The claims are not extraordinary. The Trump Tower meeting [0] is clear evidence Trump campaign members' interest in colluding with foreign agents. Donald Trump personally had a fig leaf of deniability about that meeting but in intervie
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by extra88 5y ago
> did the production of a vinyl record / cd use more electricity than a lifetime of storage of its modern day digital equivalent? Replace “electricity” with “energy” and yes, the manufacturing and distribution of physical media like
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by extra88 5y ago
> LinkedIn asked you to enter your GMail password in a form on their website. That is entirely different than what was claimed. The claim was platforms were running "credential stuffing" attacks against their own users by attem
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by extra88 5y ago
In some places, like Massachusetts, happy hours (happys hour?) are illegal, I think the on the theory that they promote binge drinking.
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by extra88 5y ago
> Google copyrighting the word "Google" You can't have a copyright on a word. You're thinking of another category of intellectual property, trademark. Google has a trademark for the word "Google" but tradema
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by extra88 5y ago
In iOS, you can set a WiFi network to Low Data Mode, macOS doesn’t seem to have an option like that. I don’t think any of these are relevant to the subject of whether Google tracks the movement of hotspots.
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by extra88 5y ago
Thanks, I hadn't seen (or don't recall) those details. Even that story portrays the payload collection as basically one "rogue" engineer's intention, not a part of a business or project plan. While other engineers a
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by extra88 5y ago
Now that one more or less works (not really in the map view but I assume there's an API or some other way to use the raw data). If you're trying to maintain your online anonymity, best to not be casual about revealing your SSID. O
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by extra88 5y ago
Right, BSSID (i.e. the MAC address of the router's WiFi interface) of an access point, unlike a client, needs to be remain consistent. But that's irrelevant to the threat model I was replying to.

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