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rtbathula··on BJP's Pursuit of Draconian Broadcasting Bill, 2023
As more and more young people criticize the government through various platforms like YouTube and Twitter (X), the BJP government is stepping up with a new Broadcasting Bill to suppress freedom of expression following the failure of their Fact Check Units.
rtbathula··on My View:EU's Unpredictable Policies Making Facebook to Scrap AI Plans
This is a classic case of what happens when laws are legislated without objective definitions. Vilifying corporations makes businesses step back and engage in silent protest, as Facebook has done now.
rtbathula··on [dead]
I have created this Kickstarter site to raise for funds for my film against the dictators.
rtbathula··on iFixit Petitions Government for Right to Hack McDonald's Ice Cream Machine
The findings of the Lexmark International case(the link you have provided) are very important to understand in this context, as they provide us with all the information we need.

1. Is the software lock protected by copyright law? If so, no one should copy it.

2. Did McDonald's/Taylor defraud the users? If so, the users can sue them.

3. Is Kytch copying the software lock and selling it? If so, that would be a violation. However, you have said that they are not copying it; they are simply reading error codes and providing a different output. In that case, I do not see why they would need to invoke DMCA 1201 for an exemption. This is a completely different situation, like someone creating a keyboard or stand for my laptop. Kytch should apply for their own copyright in this case. Their appeal should be made in this direction.

rtbathula··on iFixit Petitions Government for Right to Hack McDonald's Ice Cream Machine
Although different items can come together to form a product, it is McDonald's who brought them together as a WHOLE. This is strictly their property, and they have the right to keep their trade secrets, regardless of how bad they are.

If customers have problems with the machines, they should not buy them or use them. They have the freedom to choose. Additionally, if McDonald's has defrauded them in any way, they should sue McDonald's. There is a free choice.

iFixit may be great engineers who can perform magic, but they are literally asking Congress for an exemption to violate copyright law. This will not end with McDonald's; others will follow suit.

As for Ayn Rand's argument, because it provides the right expression in one line.

rtbathula··on iFixit Petitions Government for Right to Hack McDonald's Ice Cream Machine
In which direction it's not? McDonald has a copyright of their machine — others shouldn't reproduce it. It's like saying some movie has bad scenes and I want the right to fix it by violating the copyright.
rtbathula··on iFixit Petitions Government for Right to Hack McDonald's Ice Cream Machine
It's a violation of patent laws. And I can summarize it in one expression from the novel Atlas Shrugged "Why Rearden could only have Rearden Metal?"
rtbathula··on Swedish government removes nuclear power promise from website
Please provide the link to accessible article. Currently it's asking for subscription
rtbathula··on [dead]
1. GDPR regulations 2. Battery replacement regulation 3. Digital Services Act 4. It's also drafting AI regulation

Effect: Meta didn't release Threads in EU as a start. This is not ease of business

rtbathula··on A site for generating satire news with AI
It's very interesting. I tried similar approach just by giving some input text to Stable Diffusion and the images are not satisfactory. So I didn't pursue the idea. Because making a site with serious content, people are very reluctant to get in. But satirical or comical way of telling the stories are attracting them very fast. Like Tick Tok videos.
rtbathula··on Uncle Sam accuses SpaceX of not considering asylees and refugees for employment
I am not sure why it's getting downvoted. About we hire white people only: H1B has totally changed the dynamics of the world trade. One of the astrophysicists, Michio Kaku, said, H1B is like a magnet attracting all the best minds in the world. So, I think US is doing good allowing all people.
rtbathula··on Chandrayaan-3 rover rolls onto moon's surface as ecstatic India celebrates
It's brilliant, especially considering it was made with less than 73 million dollars. Some Bollywood movies like Adipurush have been made with around 80 million dollars.
rtbathula··on Uncle Sam accuses SpaceX of not considering asylees and refugees for employment
All the private companies have the right make their own choices.
rtbathula··on Canada demands Meta lift news ban to allow wildfire info sharing
Late to the party but Canada says "it's a reckless ban", not a reckless bill.
rtbathula··on Goodreads was the future of book reviews, then Amazon bought it
"should never have been allowed to acquire it?" It's very funny the way you put it. Already government has too much power and you want further they take over the economy and do pulls and pushes. Free market means, freely allowing people to trade using persuasions — not government using its coercion. People also often forget other side of the picture.

1. Why don't they attack smaller companies who are ready to sell their companies to Amazon or Microsoft. 2. Why don't they ask government to put people in jail who are buying products from Amazon and making Amazon big?

Recently EU also making plans to regulate the battery replacement. I covered that here briefly in my site political-ledger dot com

rtbathula··on Goodreads was the future of book reviews, then Amazon bought it
"should never have been allowed to acquire it?" It's very funny the way you put it. Already government has too much power and you want further they take over the economy and do pulls and pushes.

Free market means, freely allowing people to trade using persuasions — not government using its coercion. People also often forget other side of the picture.

1. Why don't they attack smaller companies who are ready to sell their companies to Amazon or Microsoft. 2. Why don't they ask government to put people in jail who are buying products from Amazon and making Amazon big?

Recently EU also making plans to regulate the battery replacement. I covered that here briefly in my site political-ledger dot com

rtbathula··on Political Party Ledgers
A new medium to record all the major incidents in a political party's ledger.
rtbathula··on India ruling party's IT cell used AI to show smile on arrested protesters' faces
1) First of all, state shouldn't involve in any type of religious activities let alone giving priority to one particular religion. It's written in the Constitution and it's the base for any modern society(Especially US's First Amendment). You should foresee the consequences of this. What if a muslim PM get elected in the long future and he invites all Islamic priests?

2) Yes, you have mentioned some of the things that India did on secular grounds. But that doesn't refute the present context. Still wrong doings are happening. Instead of focusing on those, should we remember all the past events and be silent?

3) Islam invades Hindus, then let's Hindus mob-lynch Muslims. Always stuck in who slaughters who. No progress towards right secular habits.

John Lock: https://www.amazon.com/Locke-Treatises-Government-Cambridge-...

rtbathula··on Good coders borrow, great coders steal
Yet one cannot borrow or steal which is not created in the first place. So Great coders are the ones who create or write first.