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Comment Re:Just include it BUT OFF BY DEFAULT (Score 3, Interesting) 96

The problem is not how well they may protect these snapshots or whether they are enabled by default. That they would exist at all makes every divorce lawyer and prosecutor salivate, let alone the woodies to be found at government security agencies. Even corporations may love this, mandating it is enabled to far better spy on workers, right up until being hit by discovery ;). The true legal liabilities are really staggering.

Comment Re:Copyright owners can change the license (Score 1) 120

This is a legal right of an uncontested exclusive copyright holder (or a group of copyright holders assuming no additional parties or contributors are involved). However, the past remains legally immutable. If something was GPL, that version (and any derivates / future changes to that or prior versions) remain GPL, for example.

Comment Really? (Score 1) 110

You mean all those Asian women with hot profile pictures randomly contacting you with a mostly empty profile other than "aspiring model", "hair designer", or "college student" saying "I love knowing older men with balding hair, a beer belly, and a national security related occupation" actually are real??! Hot dam, maybe even John Bolton and dead Kissinger can get lucky there, too!

Comment Re:I can hear the deep Hungarian accent (Score 1) 263

Think water damage. Mice. There is a rusted out Saturn 1B at the rest stop into Alabama. Sure, it had also been sitting outdoors. But being in a leaky or poorly maintained Russian silo may not offer all that much more protection.

Then there is the half-life question for all those warheads. Nuclear missle or nuclear fissle?

Comment The calculator argument (Score 3, Insightful) 59

Some argue that students using ai is no different than calculators, but they are not the same...

The marginal benefit to society of every student being required to manually calculate, say the square root of 1.579, really approaches 0. The marginal benefit of manually writing essays on their own is near 100%.

Or, of course, we could become the kind of society that has to steal Spock's brain to keep things running ;)...

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