Comment Re:Sounds like the accusations are true. (Score 1) 50
It depends. Does the Perplexity agent faithfully relay the personalized messages from sponsors that would have otherwise been presented adjacent to the information on the website?
It depends. Does the Perplexity agent faithfully relay the personalized messages from sponsors that would have otherwise been presented adjacent to the information on the website?
Part of the problem is that there's no way to pay "journalists" as a whole. Because of electronic payment networks' fees per transaction, online newspapers have to sell a monthly subscription, not a single issue they way they would with cash in a vending machine. And a subscription to NYT includes zero articles from WaPo or WSJ. This means readers get sucked into the ideological bubble of the one publication that happens to be part of their subscription plan.
These aren't even marketed as works of art, they're marketed as video games
I concede that I have not viewed incest-themed video games, as sexually explicit works do not appeal to me. However, US law classifies a video game as an audiovisual work, little different from a motion picture. I'm aware of more than one film adaptation of Lolita, a novel by Vladimir Nabokov depicting sexual abuse of a minor. I'm not aware of any statute or regulation that disqualifies a work of authorship from having "artistic value" solely because it is interactive. Could you give me something to cite about categorical exclusion of interactive audiovisual works from having "serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value" per the Miller test?
Note that in the Miller v California decision, Miller lost. His conviction was upheld.
The conviction was reversed and remanded. From Wikipedia's article "Miller v. California, section "Opinion of the Court":
The result of the ruling was that the Supreme Court overturned Miller's criminal conviction and remanded the case back to the California Superior Court for reconsideration of whether Miller had committed a misdemeanor.[5]
[5] Beverly G. Miller, Miller v. California: A Cold Shower for the First Amendment , 48 St. John's L. Rev. 568 (1974).
From the opinion of the Court, 413 U.S. 15 (1973):
The judgment of the Appellate Department of the Superior Court, Orange County, California, is vacated and the case remanded to that court for further proceedings not inconsistent with the First Amendment standards established by this opinion.
Could you give me something to cite about Miller's conviction having been upheld on remand?
The case introduced a three-part test, which you must have known to quote only the third part of the test.
I quoted the part of the Miller test on which authors and publishers would most likely rely in a defense. The Miller test is not like the fair use test in the copyright statute (17 USC 107), in which the judge is expected to weigh the factors against one another. A work has to meet all three parts of the Miller test to be obscene.
And "serious literary or artistic" value wouldn't pass the laugh test.
This is where we disagree on how the opinion of the Court ought to be interpreted.
A real site will encrypt all traffic anyway
Including the DNS transaction, the public IP address of the server, and the SNI field of ClientHello?
I've noticed that a lot of these US-based PCB fabs that offer manufacturing have a limited selection of board thicknesses, such as 1.6 mm and little else. That doesn't help if you're interfacing with another device that needs a 1.2 mm thick PCB, such as a Nintendo Entertainment System Control Deck.
The law specifically requires "age discrimination" through the concept of a "status offense." My country recognizes age as a protected class only in very limited cases, mostly those involving employment of people over 40.
The bigger question is why aren't there laws requiring payment processors to blindly accept all payments and only report fraud.
Because not enough Americans have called their Representative in support of H.R. 987 and their Senators in support of S. 401. These bills, collectively the "Fair Access to Banking Act", would do much as you suggest.
Visa and MasterCard are in the payments industry but they are not payment processor companies.
Or at least this was the case until Visa bought Authorize.net.
Incest is illegal, and depictions of incest are also illegal in many states.
Laws banning depictions of incest are unconstitutional under Miller v. California if said depictions have serious artistic value. This is true under both current state law and the proposed interstate definition of obscenity.
What is the POSIX specified API for graphics, again? There isn't one.
True. Regulators would need to pick a GUI API stack as the baseline for interoperability, much as regulators picked POSIX.1 stack back in the day. I'd even be fine with a regulation that requires an OS publisher to support "either X11 or Wayland" because applications meant for one can run in the other through XWayland or Weston, as can apps made for the subset of Win32 supported by Winelib.
Does Apple allow users to play their own personal music files on the iPhone?
The included Music app plays music that was synchronized onto the phone using either Finder for macOS or iTunes for Windows. Apps other than the included Music app play music loaded onto the phone as files, such as through libimobiledevice for Linux, but these songs can't be part of the same playlist as music rented from Apple Music. Combining purchased and rented music in a playlist is a big sticking point for my roommate.
your roommate could stop renting music from Apple, and instead procure music files in other ways.
That's a lot of CDs to buy and store, especially when a relative's letting her use an Apple Music subscription without charge.
If I want/need to listen to something from [major record labels] I use one of the free streaming services
Free streaming services behave more like noninteractive radio than like an interactive jukebox. All playlists are shuffled. This is because copyright law in my country (USA) provides for a cheaper performance royalty for qualifying noninteractive services.
the thing is to get software which exports a list of the songs and playlists you have and then get copies from wherever available on the internet
Say I've extracted her playlist as a list of artists and titles. Right now, Amazon appears to have a monopoly on selling lawful DRM-free downloads of major-label music over the web. Google closed its store years ago when rebranding its rental service as "YouTube Music", and Apple's store has always run in a proprietary native application, not the web. So it's either enrich Jeff Bezos or "No, I'm not buying two thousand dollars of used CDs just to be able to use that Linux thing you keep talking about."
Gradually move away from an iPhone to a device you actually own.
Which device might that be that operates on the major cellular networks in the USA? I've read takes that one doesn't meaningfully own an Android-powered phone in the same sense that one doesn't meaningfully own an iPhone. In the interest of reliability, Google has been locking down Android tighter and tighter over the years since Android 10 changed W^X behavior so as to break (for example) Termux.
You want laws that somehow force diversification of operating systems? How on earth is that supposed to work?
Here's an idea: All graphical operating systems published by gatekeeper-class companies (as defined in the Digital Markets Act or foreign counterparts) would need to support, at minimum, some specific GUI API for developing local applications. For comparison, the US government used to require POSIX compliance. Microsoft delivered the bare minimum POSIX support in Windows NT versions 3.1 through 4.0, though initially not enough to be practically useful because it lacked networking and graphics.
If there's an application you are using there's probably enough other people that it would be worth getting together and funding an F/OSS alternative to escape onto.
How would one go about building the FOSS alternative to Apple Mobile Device Service, the component of iTunes that synchronizes music into the Music app of an iPhone? That's probably the biggest thing keeping my roommate on Windows. She wants to play purchased songs (ripped from a CD or purchased on Bandcamp or Itch.io) and rented songs (from her Apple Music family plan) in the same playlist. Because Apple Mobile Device Service is a driver, Wine doesn't run it properly. Last I checked, libimobiledevice for Linux could write files but not the music database used by the Music app, and VLC could play purchased songs stored as files but not rented songs.
If not, why in God's name aren't you?
Most Windows licenses included with laptop computers sold in major big-box electronics chains are not Pro.
New systems generate new problems.