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athms··on Twitch will ban users for 'severe misconduct' that occurs away from its site
>I am for banning terrorists, pedophiles etc.

Who is a terrorist in your opinion?

Pedophiles? Pedophilia is the sexual attraction to prepubescent children. It isn't anything more than that. Puberty normally begins from 9-11 in girls and 10-12 in boys. All the research done to date has shown that pedophilia develops in the womb, hence people are born this way. No different than homosexuality. Also, most pedophiles don't molest children and most child molesters are not pedophiles. The molestation is usually done because the person has access and control over the child, not necessarily attraction to the child.

athms··on French monks locked down with 2.8 tonnes of cheese pray for buyers
Human don't need to get pregnant to produce milk. Lactation can happen with medication or stimulation, which becomes easier as women age. If a woman is not inducing lactation with hormones, she must stimulate the breasts several times a day using hand compression or a breast pump. This is how adoptive and foster mothers breastfeed their babies. Lactation can also occur in men because they have milk glands, which is the reason they too can get breast cancer.
athms··on What’s up with these new not-open source licenses?
Please stop spreading incorrect information. Re-licensing is an exclusive right granted to the copyright holder; it has a specific meaning under copyright law. There is nothing in the Apache, BSD, or MIT license that grants re-licensing. Using source code that has been licensed under a permissive license in a larger work that is licensed differently (including more restrictions) isn't re-licensing.
athms··on What’s up with these new not-open source licenses?
>Also, they can't "unlicense" previously distributed code

The United States allows authors (and heirs), except work-for-hires, to clawback copyright transfers and terminate licenses after 35 years on works made after 1977. This is an inalienable statutory right, which means it cannot be waived even with a contract.

That said, it may be difficult to terminate licenses in practice because open source licensing is done informally in most cases and courts haven't ruled whether this impacts the right of termination. However, copyright assignment and contributor license agreements are subject to termination.

athms··on What’s up with these new not-open source licenses?
I think you are confusing re-licensing with sub-licensing, which are not the same. Under copyright law, the copyright holder is granted certain exclusive rights over their work and re-licensing is one of the rights. If the license grants sub-licensing, a licensee can pass on some or all of the rights in the license to a third party. Of the three licenses you mentioned, only the MIT license allows sub-licensing.

The license terms for a sub-license must be consistent with the original license terms, although not necessarily the same. The sub-licensor can use different words as in the original license, but they cannot override the terms and conditions that are required by that license. The sub-licensor cannot sub-license more rights than have been granted by the original license.

Works released under the Apache, BSD, and MIT license can be included in a larger work with a more restrictive license or modifications can be put under such a restrictive license, but the original license must remain intact.

If you are getting your information on re-licensing from the Wikipedia page below, it is wrong.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permissive_software_license

athms··on Popular YouTubers who are building their own sites
>It’s the same as the old Apple saying: if you’re serious about software, you have to make hardware.

The actual quote, "people who are really serious about software should make their own hardware," is from Alan Kay, when he was speaking at a seminar in 1982 called Creative Think. Andy Hertzfeld was in attendance and took notes. When Hertzfeld got back to his office at Apple, he summarized the notes on one page and handed out to his team members. Kay was later hired as an Apple Fellow in 1984.

athms··on What security does a default OpenBSD installation offer?
>Bitlocker by default on windows will happily depend on these broken implications...

This was changed September 2019, when Microsoft pushed an update that defaults Bitlocker to software encryption.

athms··on Chick Corea has died
Yes he was, but if you like jazz, his music is amazing and he did many collaborations. Mark Isham is another jazz musician (and film composer) I like and he is also a Scientologist.
athms··on Chick Corea, Groundbreaking Jazz Pianist, Dead at 79 – Rolling Stone
Sorry to see him go.

Unfortunately, Jazz has fallen out of favor in the United States. America, with a population of over three hundred million, accounts for about 1% of the global Jazz market. Japan is the biggest and has been for the last two decades. Europe is second with France, the UK and Sweden being epicenters of both musicians and listeners.

athms··on Migrate Everything from Linux to BSD
You can use Bhyve and run Docker in a Linux virtual machine. Docker works similarly under MacOS using the Hypervisor Framework. FreeBSD would need to radically change in order to implement Docker natively.
athms··on What happens when the NYT and New Yorker make mistakes
>But the purchase gives her access to all of the information which must be legally shared with investors...publicly-traded companies.

Publicly traded companies must share this information with the public.

athms··on Migrate Everything from Linux to BSD
FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, and DragonFlyBSD are not the same operating systems, they don't share the same kernel. There are custom distributions of FreeBSD for specific use cases, such as OPNsense, but they are the same operating system and kernel as FreeBSD.
athms··on Tesla: Recalled touchscreens were meant to only last 5-6 years
The recall didn't involve any physical change, it was a firmware update that engaged the parking brake when the transmission is shifted into park. This shifter design came over from Mercedes, where it was used successfully.

A motor vehicle is a heavy machine which requires proper operation because it can cause serious injury and death. This is no different than operating a forklift. People need to start taking responsibility for their actions. If folks don't read the operating manual and can't successfully operate a motor vehicle, they have no business driving.

athms··on Tesla: Recalled touchscreens were meant to only last 5-6 years
No, the 2015 Grand Cherokee shifter doesn't randomly change gears. There are known cases of it being accidentally hit from a passenger since there is no locking mechanism. That said, it is standard procedure to engage the parking brake and anybody that doesn't is a bad driver.
athms··on Tesla: Recalled touchscreens were meant to only last 5-6 years
That car had two indicators for park, on the center console and the dashboard which Yelchin ignored. Plus, he never engaged the parking brake, which is standard procedure. His death was his own fault.
athms··on Petabyte tape cartridges are coming
No. The consumer and SOHO tape market died around 2000 as companies sold off their business units and/or went bankrupt. Trickle down in the LTO range is buying a refurbished drive that is several generations behind and you better have SCSI or SAS in your computer.
athms··on Prop. 22 faces first legal challenge as SEIU, ride-hail drivers file suit
If AB5 didn't exist, most contractors would have been reclassified as employees under the Dynamex ABC test.
athms··on Prop. 22 faces first legal challenge as SEIU, ride-hail drivers file suit
AB5 was in response to the Dynamex ruling, which threw out the Borello test used to determine whether workers are employees or contractors. The California Supreme Court created a new standard that all workers are presumed to be employees and the burden is on the employer to prove workers are contractors under the ABC test. If AB5 didn't pass, the vast majority of workers would be considered employees.

All of the following conditions must be met in order for the worker to be classified as a contractor. (A) that the worker is free from the control and direction of the hiring entity in connection with the performance of the work, both under the contract for the performance of the work and in fact; (B) that the worker performs work that is outside the usual course of the hiring entity’s business; and (C) that the worker is customarily engaged in an independently established trade, occupation, or business of the same nature as the work performed.

athms··on The Impact of Chief Diversity Officers on Diverse Faculty Hiring
> He's also probably correct.

Then prove it. Linking to an article to support an argument is fruitless if it doesn't support the argument.

athms··on The Impact of Chief Diversity Officers on Diverse Faculty Hiring
>Heavily Democrat

You are making an assumption that Republicans only donated to Trump and not to Biden. The Bloomberg article is about donations based on profession and large employers, not political affiliation or party.

athms··on Facebook is banning leftwing users like me
Non-Hispanic Whites became the minority in California in 2001 and Reddit is based in this state. There are more non-Whites globally, making Whites a minority. If a White person was posting from Nigeria, would he be treated as a minority?
athms··on Electric cars are coming fast – is the nation’s grid up to it?
Racism is discrimination of a different race based on the belief that your own race is superior. Systemic racism doesn't exist in the United States. There are racists in the United States, but that doesn't mean institutions are inherently racist. Also, racial stereotyping isn't necessarily based on racism and not all bigots are racists. You can make an argument for systemic discrimination, but not on racial superiority.
athms··on Electric cars are coming fast – is the nation’s grid up to it?
If you are really serious about reducing your carbon footprint, don't have children or pets.
athms··on Electric cars are coming fast – is the nation’s grid up to it?
You must mean the privilege of being beaten by my father from the age of three after he came back from Vietnam. Or, the emotional abuse my mother handed out because she got pregnant in high school and blamed me for ruining her future? Or, could it be the privilege of being thrown out of the house after high school with the clothes on my back and $300 in my wallet. Maybe it was being taken advantage of the landlord that took my money for a room in his house, only to slip into the room at night to molest me, then throw me out after brushing off his advances. It must be all that privilege of being homeless, bathing out of a toilet bowl in a public bathroom.

But of course, I am a white male, so all misfortune in my life must be my own damn fault.

athms··on Dodger Stadium vaccination site shut down amid protest
The protestors were on a public right-of-way, the sidewalk and street.

Pruneyard and subsequent cases established that as long as private shopping centers encourage the public to freely congregate in a common area at their leisure, that area is treated as a public square and people can engage in speech protected by the state constitution. This activity is limited to the common area of the property, it doesn't apply to areas which may be open for the movement of people. Strip malls and free standing stores are exempt because they don't meet the standard.

athms··on OO in Python is mostly pointless
>Larry Wall was trained as a Linguist

Having an undergraduate degree doesn't make somebody a linguist. Let me know when he has contributed to the field through scholarly work. Doing Bible translations doesn't count.

athms··on FreeBSD/i386 demoted to Tier 2 for FreeBSD 13.x
It comes down to the lack of resources for a platform that is rarely used for new installs. The number of machines running 32-bit FreeBSD/i386 11.x and 12.x are the same as other Tier 2 platforms, such as ARM, RISC-V, PowerPC and MIPS. AMD64 CPUs have been available since 2003.
athms··on PfSense Is Closed Source
>very permissive 2-BSD, there's nothing to say OpnSense couldn't relicense to a proprietary license per the above.

Only the copyright holder can re-license a copyrighted work. Re-licensing is not the same as sub-licensing. Under copyright law, the copyright holder is granted certain exclusive rights over their work. If the license grants sub-licensing, a licensee can pass on some or all of the rights in the license to a third party.

The license terms for a sub-license must be consistent with the original license terms, although not necessarily the same. The sub-licensor can use different words as in the original license, but they cannot override the terms and conditions that are required by that license. The sub-licensor cannot sub-license more rights than have been granted by the original license.

The BSD 2-clause does not allow sub-licensing. Works released under this license can be included in a larger work with a more restrictive license or modifications can be put under such a restrictive license, but the original license must remain intact.

athms··on Electric vehicles close to ‘tipping point’ of mass adoption
I rent an apartment, where would you like me to put the solar panel?
athms··on Electric vehicles close to ‘tipping point’ of mass adoption
There are two emission standards for California, state and federal. If the car was sold in a state that follows federal and it meets the emission standard for the model year, it can be registered in California. The state doesn't change smog requirements; older cars remain at their original specification.
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