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Comment Re: just run to corrupt SCOTUS (Score 2) 38

Most corporations don't use GPL code

Then they aren't affected. Full stop.

Vizio fucked up big here, but the courts could fuck up big too by not recognizing how insanely important a single GPL case like this can be

This is true. So the courts shouldn't fuck up. Shouldn't need to say this as it is essentially a truism.

The GPL/AGPL are a good way to keep corporate hands off your code

It's only as good as the enforcement mechanism.

A bad ruling could destroy that

Any number of things could destroy that...bad rulings, bad enforcement, graft, political interference, ignorant or malevolent public servants, ignorant or malevolent jurors just to name a few.

For the law to work properly everything that enables it has to work properly. It's a moderately fragile system that require constant, vigilant, informed oversight to ensure justice.

Comment Re: just run to corrupt SCOTUS (Score 1) 38

A copyright case with little impact outside the two parties?

There are a lot of corporations that are going to watch the outcome of this case very carefully as they want to continue to use open source code freely without releasing their own code to be examined and/or used by others.
There is a lot of IP riding on the outcome of this and similar decisions.

Comment Re:No input sanitization. (Score 1) 84

You could with some abuse of notation talk about trusting/distrusting the input and context, but there is no such notion for training data.

But a cardinal rule of reasoning is "consider the source"...and current models have no definitive models for doing so. I believe they should. Moreover, they should validate data periodically or whenever new data exists that calls into question existing data. But the models are still too simplistic to do this.

Comment Or you can do what I did (Score 1) 126

When the receiver for my LiftMaster garage door (LiftMaster, Chamberlain, Merlin, and Grifco are all part of the Chamberlain group) started to fail I simply bought a meross Smart Garage Door Opener Remote. Right now they cost $39.99 on Amazon. It took me about 30 minutes to install.

It's compatible with Apple HomeKit, Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, SmartThings, Siri, CarPlay and Android. I use it with Apple Home (aka HomeKit). I can now open my garage door using my iPhone, my Apple Watch, or even my laptop using the Home app or using verbal commands to Siri. I can use Apple Home automation to do things like turn on all the garage lights for 3 minutes when the garage door opens. It's great, it's been reliable and it's very reasonably priced.

My only annoyance is that it doesn't like reserved DHCP addresses. It wants an automatically assigned address from an address pool. Oh well...

Comment Re:Equitable Treatment (Score 1) 19

Of course, I would grant fair use exemptions as provided by law for such use as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Again, lawyers, publishers and elected officials can hash out the lines between limited quoting as fair use and content theft.

Comment Equitable Treatment (Score 1) 19

I suggest that any publisher's website (like Google's search results) with a webpage featuring content that is the primary result of the page (featured top of page content) or constitutes 50% or more of the result as summaries of original published news or research articles remunerate the originator of the content proportional to the amount of text published relative to the amount of text in the source publication. The rate of that remuneration can be decided by negotiation between representatives of the content originators and the content republishers.

Comment Re:News entertainment sites are the bane of societ (Score 1) 19

While often more truthful than some will admit, the format tends to regularly bend reporting for profits, corporate needs.

Well, since they are entertainment websites they will make the content entertaining, right? And that implies writing it with a spin. Identifying your content as humor (legally, as parody) implies this spin, makes it social commentary, and by law grants it an exemption to infringement and defamation cases.

Comment Digital Property (Score 4, Insightful) 77

If I pay money to "buy" data (like mp3s, mpeg videos, executable files, etc.) and the license/contract doesn't grant me the right to perpetual use of the data as well as the right to store it locally then I'm simply renting it.
The law ought to mandate that this be clearly indicated within the first sentence of any license or contract.

Comment Say what? (Score 2) 44

- Frequency-complementary couplings of TENG, EMG and PENG create full-spectrum harvesters that deliver 117 % power-conversion efficiency in real waves.

So is nobody going to question the claim that this delivers 117% power-conversion efficiency? Really??
Please explain this to me, because right now my bet is this is innumeracy, ignorance or wild exaggeration.

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