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The trouble with these code snippets is that they condense very complex and squishy social structures into what incorrectly appears to be simple binary decisions. Creative Commons spent years defining what "commercial" means.

It's obviously a commercial use if I'm using your items to make money... But, what if I'm a charity? What if it's hosted on a website that runs banner ads? What if I don't turn a profit? This was a years-long discussion that you can review https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/NonCommercial

Code emphasizes what consensus we need to come to, the consensus that those complex legal documents define. For example, that's part of why the GPL is so long, it's specific.

It's unlikely the US military was the part of the government that endorsed it. The US government is so big, so bureaucratic, that it's less a case of the right hand not knowing what the left hand is doing, and more like the right 300 hands are working in direct opposition to the other 400 left ones.

Not really. The trouble with deanonymization in a network is that as soon as anyone fails to follow the proper privacy protocol, the entire network can be unmasked through the social graph.

For example, Flickr users have been identified by their Twitter connections:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2009/03/pulling-back-the...

Does Apple acquire?

It'd be difficult/weird for them to start integrating/selling Android devices/ecosystem, which feels like they'd be putting their feet up for a few years while Google continued advancing. It feels antithetical to their business model.

As always, Moxie impresses. :)

If you count the US's 98 international airports, doesn't that cover the entire country?

Heck, friend, Black Tar Sands Crude is the cure for every ill you've got! Back aches, stomach aches, tooth aches, liver spots, bald spots, acne spots, and even your carpet's pet spots, Black Tar Sands Crude will fix them all!

Remember the name kids, Black Tar Sands Crude: that's Black Tar Sands Crude, the only bitumen-based-oil unnecessarily pumped through multiple countries that's fit for your family!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDOI0cq6GZM

Please stop making new licenses. You do not need a new license, you need to understand how to use the existing ones and how they interact with one another.

The number of license interactions you need to mange on any project is the factorial of the number of licenses in the project. With even just 4 licenses (pretty easy when you're just trying to make it work), that's 24 sets of interactions. Just wait till you get to 7 licenses.

Hey, they're not United, which:

- Breaks Guitars: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YGc4zOqozo

- Killed the World's Largest Rabbit: http://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/united-airlines...

- Forcibly Disembarks Doctors: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMTpvzJp4ps

Delta's still shitty with their pricing, but they're clearly the lesser of those two evils.

Totally! We're going to have to start by making sure we never standardize it. </sarcasm>

It was Georgia state law, two years ago, essentially saying that while you can have the text of the law, you can't have the annotations that inform the interpretation of the law:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/03/public-records-a...

However, since court decisions about US law are based on prior rulings, the text itself is mostly useless and doesn't actually tell you what the whole law is. It's like an Ikea assembly manual without pictures.

It's the Tiger Woods problem, also known as Focus on Your Core: TW gets video game endorsements and makes ungodly piles of money because he's a great golfer. When he focuses on making new games and supermodels instead of golfing, his game suffers and all the perks that came because of the good golf game go away.

...Like how he hasn't had his name on a golf video game in years.

Essentially: pursuit of profit when it undermines your core competency is shortsighted.

A painful number of my electronic devices also do this: cell phone charger, laptop power cord, electric toothbrush, surge protector, ...

I go around the house unplugging them at night, and try to keep the doors they're in shut during the day, so the cat doesn't go insane. I'd pay for an ultrasound detector to actually identify remove the buggers permanently, but sadly, my amazon-fu is coming up short.

I've been wondering that too. If possible, it'd be nice to combine username, second-factor, and password, as they all perform different functions that people often ambiguate:

- Your username is who you think you are.

- Your second-factor (faceprint, thumbprint, keyfob) is who you claim to be.

- Your password is your proof.

I'm paraphrasing the news report because it's been a few years, but:

The border patrol agent became suspicious when the driver opened the glove box to retrieve his registration and a hand reached out from within the box to give it to him.

I can't wait until somebody patents "signaling pedestrians" and we all have to deal with brand-specific signaling mechanisms.

Thank Zod QWERTY was invented so long ago.

/cynicism

Not if you're the US government, apparently?

Tim DeChristopher spent 21 months in prison despite how he "had raised sufficient funds for an initial payment to the BLM (which the BLM refused to accept)."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_DeChristopher#Trial

(I bring this up because I'd always wondered about how why that case fell out that way, and apparently it can't, per the common meaning of the terms, so my understanding of legal tender seems correct?)

The only example I've ever seen of American Chestnut is in the North Chagrin Reservation Nature Center. It's amazing wood, it almost glows, even 80+ years after construction:

https://www.google.com/maps/place/North+Chagrin+Nature+Cente...

If you go there, you can read the plaque describing the building and the loss of the chestnut which is now, strangely, between the bathrooms:

https://www.google.com/maps/@41.5617153,-81.4357392,2a,75y,3...

My (somewhat oblique) question is why copyright would apply to a dead guy's works. ...It's not like respecting copyright is going to get him to write more.

Well, that makes about as much sense as this comment being subject to section 1201 of the DMCA, due to it's double-ROT-47 encryption.

Assuming you live in Iowa, you could sell that as a really bad revenge action movie: eBay's Bose Boise Betrayal.

Nah, spreadsheets did that on their own. Have you ever actually found a usable spreadsheet?

But, but... but those aren't the things I wanted them to like!

...Murderers! Industry murderers!

With the 3BN tax-dollar giveaway, Wisconsin will not receive any positive pie returns from Foxconn until 2043. Assuming Foxconn doesn't move on to another location in 2042.

It's worth pointing out that Wisconsin is giving billions to a company where working conditions so bad that workers have been killing themselves there since 2010: "It wouldn’t be Foxconn without people dying."

Yeah, it's like a more prophetable Cassandra cluster.

If you look at the old player guides (the Super Mario World guide comes to mind) you'll actually find a couple mis-pastes where the image was laid out or cut badly before being photographed for the magazine.

It took a fair amount of work to only get pictures of the level's relevant features (and to always crop out the actual player).

Regulatory capture.

Or they're a big enough seller that their (basically) monopoly position allows them to generally ignore bad feedback.

For psychology studies, sure. Not for landing airplanes, unless they're paper ones. Depends on your context, I guess.

Makes me wonder what adding Guix build support to dpkg (and vice-versa?) would look like, or whether it would even be possible in a coherent way.