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by orra 5y ago
You'd hope so. There's also the CJEU case of Ninetendo v PC Box & 9 Net (C-355/12), which sets out circumstances where it's lawful to sell a device which circumvents DRM. Alas in that case, the bar is set too high:
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by orra 5y ago
Reverse engineering for interoperability has been legal in the EU since at least the 1991 Software Directive. Yes, there's a requirement for interoperability, but "interoperability" is construed broadly. Interoperability in l
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by orra 5y ago
IMHO this is a sensible decision, one that reflects the clear underlying intention of the statute. Article 5(1) of the Directive says: > [certain acts] shall not require authorization by the rightholder where they are necessary for the u
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by orra 5y ago
> does it allow for redistribution of the fixed product? Nah, that would almost certainly infringe upon the exclusive [power] of the copyright holder to distribute the original product. But I presume this may allow you to redistribute a
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by orra 5y ago
Erm, I was explicitly talking about reduction in hospitalisation and death, not of transmission (from infected people). Those are separate aspects of vaccine peotection.
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See the section "What are the main differences between the EU's Conditional Marketing Authorisation and the Emergency Use Authorisation issued by some other countries?", onwards. https://ec.europa.eu/commissio
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by orra 5y ago
> It was more of a 50% reduction No, it's better than you think. According to my favourite immunologist, Iceland reports vaccine effectiveness of 60% against ANY infection and 90% against severe disease. See thread at https:/
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by orra 5y ago
And? The original bullshit claim was that the vaccines are “experimental”. A Conditional Marketing Authorization is not an Emergency Use Authorization. The European Medicines Agency even explain this.
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by orra 5y ago
> Pfizer dropped quite a bit. Pfizer might drop with Delta, true, but then the decrease is reversed. https://twitter.com/sailorrooscout/status/143849966572136858... Other credible studies don't even show
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by orra 5y ago
> Then Delta emerged, and vaccine efficacy dropped wholesale. This is bollocks. Pre-Delta, if double vaccinated the vaccines are about 95% effective against severe illness and death. Post Delta, about 92%. That's still incredible, a
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by orra 5y ago
> In other words, the ECJ considers EU member states to no longer be sovereign. No, EU Member States are sovereign. They can quit whenever they want. Unlike say Texas in the USA. > Why can't the EU be merely a trade and foreign p
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by orra 5y ago
That's not a simple fact; that's something you're making up.
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by orra 5y ago
That's an oddly specific ask. The vaccines are absolutely fantastic in the short term, and there's credible evidence indicating the vaccine protection is long term, by analogy with how other vaccines work. See e.g. https:/&#
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by orra 5y ago
> I think that can be bundled into the efficacy number if you look at it as "efficacy against infecting others". Absolutely, I'm just stressing it cause people have used the word 'efficacy' to measure lots of di
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by orra 5y ago
> If we’re going to disingenuously compare smallpox and measles vaccines, perhaps we could start with their efficacy. Are there any claims from even the mfgs that Covid shots are in the same range? Ain't nothing disingenuous from me
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by orra 5y ago
> No, it does not. It only prevents serious cases. That's not true either. Double vaccination completely prevents infection (even asymptomatic infection) in 50-70% of cases. See e.g. https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news&#
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by orra 5y ago
> For instance if Delta has an R0 of 8, and we're 100% vaccinated, and the vaccine has an efficacy of 85% against infection, the resultant Rt would be 1.2: For herd immunity, you also need to take into account that infected people—e
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by orra 5y ago
Refusing a safe and effective vaccine (that clearly wins any risk/benefit on your personal level!, not just population wide) is such an odd choice. Past vaccines, like against measles and smallpox, were so effective that eejits like yo
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by orra 5y ago
> A little innovation is required here You can't 'innovate' a doubling of trained medical staff, not in a matter of months.
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by orra 5y ago
There's no simple answers. American has some of the strongest free speech rights, but also a scarily large anti vaxx population. (It's also worth noting that what YouTube decides to allow isn't a First Amendment issue.)
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by orra 5y ago
Fair point about relative distances.
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A design goal? Good point.
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> they almost certainly have one or more GPS receivers onboard. Wait, GPS works in space (LEO)?! Will that have required customisation?
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by orra 5y ago
I have to disagree: OpenSSL shares the blunt of the blame. (Whilst saying that, it doesn’t help that both projects are under resourced.) The Debian maintainer contacted upstream about the underlying issue, but received no response. Nor did
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by orra 5y ago
Eh, OpenSSL was invoking blatantly undefined behaviour. The diff applied by Debian? GCC and Clang are perfectly entitled to behave the same.
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by orra 5y ago
> Two Years !! - Ja this just makes me mad ! Just goes to show that "responsible disclosure" can be a very misleading term...
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by orra 5y ago
> The WireGuard team seems to make [performance] a top priority. Well, if people adopt WireGuard because it's really fast, they'll also end up with a relatively secure VPN. Together, it's really compelling.
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by orra 5y ago
> OpenBSD is not being "silly" they have solid reasons They're entitled to their opinion, but I'm entitled to think they're silly. In particular, it's weird that they hate the termination clause of the paten
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> 3. If you modify Apache-2.0 software, you must make modified files carry "prominent notices" thating that you changed the files (in practice, this raises interesting questions regarding workflows centered around pull requests
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by orra 5y ago
There’s nothing horribly wrong with BSD licenses if you’re wanting something permissive. But there are some minor drawbacks: * there isn’t a "the" BSD licence, but a family of similar licences * MIT is similar in spirit to BSD l

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