That's too broad a topic to address without specifics. Generally laches does not supersede statute of limitations. In cases like murder, there are no statute of limitations so laches may not apply. Why would the state wait decades to file a murder case? Most of the time they did not have the evidence so laches would not apply.

More and more MS enables things by default that are all about collecting data most likely so they can sell it. Telemetry (On). Periodic screenshots of users' displays (On). Metadata about gaming habits (On). Biometric data (On)

Yes and no. Bungie's dev channel on Twitter admitted something; however, Bungie officially has not said anything. Until Bungie officially releases a statement, they can try to walk back what their dev channel said.

The language in that doctrine is "unreasonable delay". A delay of a year may not be unreasonable to a court. Part 4 of the elements is "lack of excuse". If the plaintiff has a reason like "I could not afford money for a lawyer" which a struggling artist may not have the money. There might be a lot of lawyers that would have taken this case without money but realize the lawyers are going up against Bungie which is owned by Sony. There are not of small law firms that could do that.

From what I understand, game developers have a library of textures that can be used in games. How her art got into that library is the key question. If no one is checking the origin of the textures, then situations like this could happen. I think that's what happened in the Capcom stolen photos issue a few years ago. The photographer published a book with a CD-ROM of 1,200 photos of textures in 1996. Capcom used some of those photos as textures in games like Devil May Cry and Resident Evil 4. Since Capcom settled the lawsuit, we do not know the details of what happened. More than likely the photographer got a large settlement check and Capcom got a license to use her work.

He said "handheld retro consoles". Like these. From what I can tell, many of them use ARM CPUs.

I don't understand what you mean by "once people start coding in C++"? People have been coding in C++ for like 40 years now. It is not suited for every use case. For example, kernel development has been done in C for a reason. There are reasons why python is used in web development and other areas instead of C++. Even Java offered many advantages over C++.

Read the article. There are numerous other articles and YouTube videos on the copying allegation. The artist's work has seemingly been used as textures in the game so it appears in many places in the game. And the copying is not subtle or up to possible "interpretation". For example in one poster, the artist used 7 logos in boxes lined up horizontally. The game has the exact same logos but rotated at a different angle, reversed, and in a different color, but it is the same logos. Incidentally, one of the logos is the artist's logo that she uses as a stamp on her work. Another example is the block "Antireal Daily Series 28". In Marathon, again, it has been reversed and rotated and in a different color. Bungie also faded the text "Antireal Daily Series" but it is still visible. However the font is exactly the same. To remind everyone "Antireal" is name of the artist.

*Sigh* Again you missed the point: Let's review:

OP: Apple said it was about costs why they are manufacturing in China.
Me: Citation please
OP: Links to a quote where Tim Cook said the reason why is labor skill and quality.
Me: That's the exact opposite what Tim Cook said.
OP: But I was right all along! Victory!

It was not about labor costs. Tim Cook does not mention ANY OTHER costs. He didn't say "well other costs are lower in China but China has higher labor costs" He specifically said manufacturing was about labor skill and quality. It might be that some costs are minimal in China compared to the US, but Tim Cook said nothing about that.

Please actually read and listen to what Tim Cook said.

Tim Cook literally said it was about labor skill and quality. And you are desperately trying to say it was about costs when he said the exact opposite. Please read his response again. It was not about costs. It was not about labor costs.

WTF does any of this have to do with Tim Cook saying it was about skill and quality? Nothing. Denial and dishonesty.

In which Tim Cook said the EXACT opposite of what you said. Dishonesty?

BHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. You think the president is smart? That says a lot about you, doesn't it?

Name calling. Denial. Dishonesty. That's all you have.

1) How do you know what the intent is unless you work at Apple? 2) Apple is not stopping the user from making the payment. 3) Will you handle all the support calls at Apple when users start complaining about payment issues at 3rd parties that they were not told about? No? Maybe Apple should have had a warning.

No I did not. I said "The players have to figure out these two encryption systems should work together." The iMessage protocol is DIFFERENT than Signal protocol. Apple and Google will need to figure out how to pass messages between different E2EE systems. At no point did I say the process would involving decrypting and then re-encrypting a message as I specifically said that would defeat the entire purpose of E2EE.

Considering that RCS 3.0 was released in March 2025, probably neither Apple nor Google have an answer yet. The options on the table are: 1) Messages between iOS users use iMessage. Messages between Android and iOS use Signal. 2) Apple and Google agree to a common, hybrid protocol. This would involve releasing parts of iMessage to open source at the minimum. 3) Apple open sources all of the iMessage protocol so that Androids can use it.

I understand exactly what I've written. Maybe it was you that didn't t understand what has been written.

Don't worry: Ubisoft will makes lots of money as soon as they add NFTs to Odyssey. I mean they made $400 total in Ghost Recon Breakpoint. Surely that will scale to trillions.

And how is any of that relevant to maintaining the linux kernel?

What are you talking about? If anything Rust enforces good practices by not allowing things that C allows that lead to bad code.

Again what are you talking about? People don't just slap things into Linux and no one does any testing.

That is the EXACT opposite of what he said.

He is talking about C and Rust. Not SQLite. Please try to stay on topic.

Greg Kroah-Hartman, linux kernel maintainer (-stable):

You: "Me too . . . " and politics.

Or a guy who knows that C can and has lead to bad code even under strict review policies. And he attempted to solve some of the issues by inventing Rust. But for you it was about Me too and politics. I guess when all you have is a hammer, everything must be a nail.