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by randombits0 3y ago
So a modern Copy II PC Option Board.
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by randombits0 3y ago
I had a copy of MS OS/2! It was a part of their email gateway product as it ran on OS/2 at the time. I got a NFR copy when my company was a partner I could get MS software for cheap.
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by randombits0 3y ago
My old and unreliable memory thinks that TOS (the ST DOS) was modeled after DOS as far as interrupt calls and whatnot to make it easier for devs. I know the disk format was the same, though DOS wouldn’t read the ST disk unless it had a DOS
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by randombits0 3y ago
Geothermal is even better but can be cost prohibitive. Unlike a boiler, geothermal wells don’t “wear out” and with a steady supply of ground heat, are even more energy efficient.
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by randombits0 3y ago
I agree. Had IBM FOSS’ed the client, there would have been no web, or at least not without a lot of alternate history.
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by randombits0 3y ago
They sold stuff like coins/stamps. I have some silver coins.
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by randombits0 3y ago
Half of the Iranian Navy was destroyed in eight hours by the US the last time something like this happened.
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by randombits0 3y ago
A message-passer or a Quine? Because a Quine would be awesome.
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by randombits0 3y ago
Perhaps if you need to acquire and shutdown your competitors, you should shut down your own firm, or at least pursue a different strategy. Monopolistic business strategies are crass.
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by randombits0 3y ago
They are often used in pre-employment screening for sensitive government jobs. Yes, it would be illegal for a private employer to do this.
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by randombits0 3y ago
I, too, contributed to Phil Katz’s ultimate demise from alcohol abuse. Did you get the red, plastic key/coin holder? I call mine my PKZip license.
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by randombits0 3y ago
Steve Jobs killed himself with his own hubris. Seeing that, at which point in his life should you stop considering his advice?
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by randombits0 3y ago
No, you wouldn’t. Source doesn’t matter. Only the creative expression of humans is copyrightable. You do not own the copyright of the picture your monkey took.
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by randombits0 3y ago
Yes, I know. I guess my comment wasn’t obvious. On Reddit, I would expect it but here?
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by randombits0 3y ago
Gun control must finally be working.
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by randombits0 3y ago
AI output is not copyrightable.
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by randombits0 3y ago
>This copy is not a transitory copy in service of a fair use, nor likely a fair use in itself, Seems vastly transitory and since the output cannot be copyrighted, does no harm to any work it “trained” on.
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by randombits0 3y ago
Ah, I see you have the machine that goes ‘ping’!
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by randombits0 3y ago
Just keep them to yourself! lol! This is where free expression and intellectual property butt heads. Had our subject merely distributed his writings openly (free), it would be much harder to shut him down.
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by randombits0 3y ago
The biggest problem with dying by overdose is measuring the dose. Legal drugs presume quality control and standardized dosing. This, alone, could prevent the majority of opioid deaths.
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by randombits0 3y ago
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson_1984_Ref... “Reflections on Trusting Trust”, Ken Thompson, August 1984
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by randombits0 3y ago
If Sony sold something they are not licensed to sell, that’s fraud.
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by randombits0 3y ago
Same with the copyright. Purely functional code is not creative expression and cannot be copyrighted.
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by randombits0 3y ago
Oh, that could go off the rails quickly. You have to do it!
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by randombits0 3y ago
Of course you are not personally responsible but Jefferson said “The government you elect is the government you deserve.” With the current political circumstances in free fall, you’d think we would have hit “enlightenment” by now. It can
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by randombits0 3y ago
The reason current mapping data is difficult to find/distribute is because it is secret.
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by randombits0 3y ago
>This is the first thing I have ever made of which he approves. So no grandkids yet?
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by randombits0 3y ago
Chinese hackers stole over 70 million records of current/past military members from the Office of Management and Budget back in April of 2014.
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by randombits0 3y ago
A buddy of mine used his Harley to get rid of moles in his yard using this technique.
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by randombits0 3y ago
Since the service alters the data before delivery, a strong argument can be made that it’s not a proxy per se. Say I did something similar with the goal of assisting vision-impaired users. That’s not just a proxy. It’s the weekend. He’ll

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