TOR entry and exit nodes can be run by anyone. Any group with control (even indirect) of enough of both can do correlation analysis to track any users unlucky enough to route through an entry and an exit under the same control.

Also, there's no guarantee that an entry node hasn't been modified to ignore TOR's normal routing rules.

As the son of a coworker of mine found out, close-in-age exceptions can circumvented by prosecutors. In his case, the parents of the girl stated that the girl was intoxicated, therefor, was unable to give consent. There was no proof of the girl's intoxication beyond the parents' statements. Also, the social worker (and her manager) from child protective services recommending against charges. In the end, the prosecutor offered "indecent liberties" with a sentence of 2 years. The judge strongly encouraged the boy to accept the deal, so he did. Of course, he's on the sex offender registry, so unemployable.

back in the 1980s, my GF's mom built a pair of devices she called "Pheely Phone". It was a shoebox sized device with an electron-neumatic mechanism that controlled the inflation pressures of balloons, also in the device, based on data received from its companion device and sent data to its companion. In use, a user of each device inserted their hand and could feel the movements of the other user's hand. Not "remote hand holding" but a kind of remote hand caressing.

The characters will still be trademarked. Only the original cartoons might become public domain. That only means the cartoons can be shown/redistributed as-is. The characters themselves will still be protected - by trademark law.

Well then, how about the "less skilled" players get paid for being used as "streamer fodder"?

There are a lot of things that gamers have to "grind" to get in game. How getting some of that stuff in return for making the streamers look awesome?

Even in the US, Amtrak's coach class is better than airline's first class - more leg and elbow room, free WiFi and 120VAC power at each seat.

But nearly all of the water they consume gets pissed on to the land they graze on. In a non-arid climate, that water either gets back into the water table or, when it evaporates, is rained back down.

In arid climates, importing water to feed cattle is wasteful because too much of it evaporates and carried away by the wind.

Wrong comparison.

Vaccinations fall under the category of "Your right to swing your first ends before
impacts another person's body." In this case, "Your right to choose to risk your health
ends when you put another person's health at risk."

As another poster pointed out, the US Supreme Court has already ruled so, on this.

Actually, both Democrats AND Republicans are, in fact, pro-corporate and
anti-individual. For example, both parties want us to not say or do things they don't like.
(They just dislike different things.)
On the pro-corporate side, for example, both parties put control of collecting and
distributing statutory royalties into the hands of big media, rather than a nonprofit
association.

Has anyone done a paternity test on any of his alledged children? If not,
we only have his word he's any good at fucking.

Interestingly, it was right wing conservatives who came up with a reason
to whine about solar:
Solar panels collect energy from the sun, so increase the amount of energy
accumulated on Earth.

This, of course, ignores the reductions in CO2 and
other greenhouse gasses, resulting in a net decrease.

Also interesting to note: Much of the wind power built in the US was
built by conservatives wanting to pay less for power. It also gives
them cover when the power does go out: "See! Those damn greenie hippies
screwed up our power!"

This not just a few short sequences, this is mass collection of sequences.

And, technically, short sequences is only a defense. The plaintiff can still take the matter to court. Just very likely that a reasonable judge will toss out the case.

That's not the problem.

Copilot is not *generating* code that happens to be the same.

Copilot is "coughing up" pieces of the source code it supposedly analyzed.

This is no different from taking samples of some one else's audio recording
and including them in your own. The courts have afformed that including samples
without permission is infringing copyright.

Copying and pasting samples of some one else's code into your own is no
different from copying and pasting samples of some one else's music into your
own. If you don't have permission, it's not legal.

*Unencrypted* FTP and HTTP are bad.

HTTPS uses TLS to encrypt HTTP, so, if you have HTTPS, you also have HTTP.

Similarly, there are SFTP and FTPS. SFTP uses SSH and FTPS uses (spoiler alert) TLS.
Both are encrypted versions of FTP.

Unencrypted use of application protocols should not be done.

Use encrypted protocols or at least TLS. These provide
end-to-end encryption. And consider defense in layers: also using node-to-node encryption,
like IPSEC, will provide another layer of defense.

Photoshop and Illustrator are 2 different tools. While GIMP lacks the full power of Photoshop,
it provides enough functionality for the majority of needs (my employer and many other companies
limit Photoshop licenses to the marketing division; everyone else has to use something costing
far less - like GIMP (or MS Paint)).

An alternative to Illustrator is InkScape. My Illustrator experience is too limited to compare,
but again, it provides enough functionality for the majority of needs.

(I will also mention Visio and an alternative called Dia. While Dia lacks the extensive library
of pre-defined "shapes", it is a service-able alternative. My girlfriend and our daughter often
use GIMP, InkScape and Dia, together, to make things even the marketing people at their employers
are impressed with)

I've never done video editing, but I've met and talked with the people behind
Adventures of Jack UZI.
A completely amateur crew. They used OpenShot for editing. As bad as it is, I don't think it
was OpenShot that was the problem. I've seen worse work done by professionals.

I've used both Ardour (open source) and Mixbus (from Harrison Consoles). Both work very well on
Linux. For a while, there was a boot-able demo DVD for Mixbus. It was based on Linux. (now, they
just have a downloadable demo version). My daughter uses Mixxx on her Linux laptop for DJ'ing.
We both use Focusrite Scarlett series audio interfaces with no problems.

We aren't much into gaming, so can't debate this. (My GF and I like Warframe. Our daughter
used to like Aion (until the game got severely nerfed). We all 3 occasionally enjoy racing in
Super Tux Kart.

Outside of the finance department, at my employer, previous employers and my GF's and
daughter's employers, LibreOffice Calc is more than sufficient for the spreadsheets we
encounter. (For advanced mathematics, we use wxMaxima, which is open source. We
use this instead of either Excel or LibreOffice Calc because it's a better tool for
the advanced math we do.)

Using WinApps or PlayOnLinux, Outlook runs fine on Linux. Also, if your Exchange server
has Exchange Web Services enabled, there are open source EWS clients.

As for security, thanks, in part, to the US National Security Agency (and other contributors),
Linux has built-in security features that require expensive add-ons for MS Windows. The NSA
does use Linux in high security, compartmentalized, need-to-know-only applications. And,
the NSA continues to contribute enhancements to Linux.

Also, Linux has a variety of anti-malware packages available.

For our respective employers, our teams do collaborative product development on Linux - with
no more hassle than on MS Windows. We and our teams say Linux shines in our enterprise
environments.

Flightgear.org is a professional grade, open source flight simulation system that runs on
Linux, MacOS and Windows. It is used in the aviation industry: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwiki.flightgear.org%2FPr...

x-plane.com also runs on Linux, MacOS and Windows. I think there are more. I use Flightgear and
am very happy with it