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by not2b 5y ago
For traditional publishing the publisher is a suit magnet; Stephen King's lawyers would have a field day. Bette Midler won big damages against Ford when they asked her to endorse a product, she turned them down, so they hired an impers
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by not2b 5y ago
No, because they already know this is going on, and they know the small number of phone models available in NK.
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by not2b 5y ago
Except that when you're found out (generic "you", not the author of the comment), you are disgraced: everyone soon knows that you're a fraud. And social media will expose this kind of fraud very quickly. Doesn't mat
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by not2b 5y ago
Often the headline is very funny but the attempt to stretch it into an article fails.
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by not2b 5y ago
The interesting thing about the Axis of Awesome four chords is that they are the same four chords that were in the stereotypical 1950s/early 60s pop song (Heart and Soul, Teenager in Love, Up on the Roof) but the order has changed. In
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by not2b 5y ago
The 9/11 hijacked planes were also emitting tracking signals. A military plane entering the Capitol exclusion zone unexpectedly might trigger an alert if they can't immediately figure out why it is there, in case it's being p
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Paying damages from all the wildfires they have caused.
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by not2b 5y ago
If you don't want to utterly destroy your company's reputation and have every company that depends on Python or other critical open source infrastructure boycotting you, you need to stop. Just stop. Don't send out any DMCA no
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by not2b 5y ago
Sourcehut is also subject to US law and would have to take down your project if this company files a false claim against you. The problem in this case isn't GitHub, it's the filing of false DMCA notices. And that's not solely
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They have to wait 10 days if the people who filed the notice don't respond.
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by not2b 5y ago
If this was the page that triggered the takedown, any copying was probably in the reverse direction (that is, the HackerRank material copied something from the documentation, which is legal, and their idiot copyright enforcer doesn't u
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by not2b 5y ago
Unfortunately there have been similar problems in other jurisdictions. It's far from clear who is "safe". For example, the EU now has a DMCA-like copyright takedown process.
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by not2b 5y ago
Exactly. When you file a DMCA takedown notice you are asserting under penalty of perjury that you own the copyright. While few have suffered consequences for false notices, pissing enough people off might change that.
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by not2b 5y ago
Unless in that time the people who filed the notice withdraw it and acknowledge the error. Then GitHub can immediately restore it.
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"How can we keep our agent from being identified? Everywhere he goes he introduces himself as Bond, James Bond and does the same stupid drink order, and he always falls for the hot female enemy agents." "Don't worry, Q h
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They form a key part of Wiles' proof of Fermat's Last Theorem as well as in efforts to unify very disparate parts of mathematics, they aren't just for cryptography.
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by not2b 5y ago
Even before the poison pill was adopted, the evidence is the market wasn't taking Musk's offer seriously. That's because he was offering $54.20 per share (ha ha, 420), but the stock price never closed higher than $48.36. So a
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by not2b 5y ago
I once had an otherwise brilliant colleague (PhD, highly respected compiler guru) who believed all this autophile nonsense and would shell out for ridiculously expensive cables and ludicrously over-engineered stuff that didn't matter,
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by not2b 5y ago
That's part of it, but as the article points out many tanks have been captured undamaged: tank gets stuck in the mud or runs out of fuel, drivers run away.
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It's rare that it's achieved without bloodshed: consider the partition of India for the worst example, or the war in Kosovo, or the wars between Ethiopia and Eritrea. It's true that the breakup of Czechoslovakia into two coun
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by not2b 5y ago
For all that time, people had to walk to wherever they needed to get to, so yes, they had to pick places where what they needed was close by.
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The Beaverton's take on this story: "Canada to ban foreign homebuyers who refuse to set up dummy corporations" https://www.thebeaverton.com/2022/04/canada-to-ban-foreign-h...
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My company does phishing email exercises, and they've added a "report phishing" button to Outlook you're supposed to hit, either for the fake messages or any real phish attempts you get, or worse, fall for. The difficult
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It says they might as well stop dividing their effort and focus on the upstream LLVM (or alternatively treat their own version as just a development branch that they can push upstream from). While they have expertise on the details of their
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Except that corn tortillas and enchiladas predate Cortez, going back to the Mayans and before, perhaps 2000 years.
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by not2b 5y ago
AMD should concentrate on making LLVM and GCC work great on AMD processors, by contributing the needed code. They are already making some contributions but could be doing more, and they could be funding experts to work on that and giving th
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"Understand" in the sense of the Upton Sinclair quote: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." Or, in this case, his/her campaign contributions.
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But he isn't a Twitter executive. He has one seat on the board. He'd have to persuade other board members if he wants to force changes.
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Every company has to comply with local regulations or not operate in a country. The same applies to a nonprofit, non-capitalist collective. The alternative to that is fines, or in the case of more authoritarian governments, arrests and jail
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Those aren't benign terms, because that kind of filtering might violate labor relations laws in the US, depending on the details.

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