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You might. 'In any other context' we would do no such thing. And I am quite happy to hold both parties to account for negligence and no small degree of (in AT&T's case institutional) malice.

Being careless with other people and their things is a crime. It's just a matter of managing the prosecution.

It actually renders faster than on my desktop. Maybe Firefox has a higher per-frame delay?

At the same time, it's important to check the work rather than just dismissing it. Mochizuki's work isn't totally original - a lot of it is derived from existing theory. So it should be possible to validate it despite the complexity.

It's true that serious breakthroughs from individuals working alone are rare, but they are not unheard of. The real test is whether or not this work can be adapted to the rest of mathematics (or the other way around, perhaps).

It provides very nearly no incentive whatsoever to comply with users. What provisions it does provide are practically unenforceable due to absurdly high standards for users and absurdly low standards for 'content owners'.

I don't care a whit for your interpretation of the law. Especially when your interpretation flies in the face of the text of the DMCA (see in particular sec 202 on standards for perjury, which differ significantly for notices and counter-notices). I care about results - and the results, across dozens of major content hosts, speak for themselves.

The DMCA has not only failed to protect users and content creators who aren't 'content owners', it has also given rise to independent policing mechanisms modeled on and derived from it but with even fewer protections.

I'm in complete agreement. But fixing that issue will be more difficult than fixing this one, in my opinion. Getting this bill passed would do some good even if it is overstating things a little.

The situation before the DMCA was preferable because it involved only the general legal system rather than a badly-designed special case.

It's not merely the result of a resource imbalance but of a fundamental misapprehension of the nature of content ownership - the set of 'content owners' recognized in practice by the DMCA is not the entire set of owners of content.

So in practice the DMCA takedown procedure provides a method of immediately (and sometimes permanently) removing content (not necessarily infringing) from any major provider.

As an example, the method of removing allegedly infringing content from YouTube is not a DMCA takedown but it is a result of that mechanism.

Trying to revise or remove the DMCA wholesale would be a much more difficult undertaking, and correspondingly less likely to succeed.

(I recommend reading the bill to everyone, by the way. It's only five pages long.)

As for complicated well, that depends - complicated for who? There are a lot of people who couldn't configure && make && make install if their lives depended on it. Even if their lives literally depended on it. That's not necessarily their fault, but there you are nonetheless.

startx from a VT should give you an X server. You can get from there to a standard session (minus the DM) by setting the appropriate environment variables and making sure the right session manager is executed.

I don't call that 'no configuration' though. And if you want to startx into Fluxbox you also have to make sure that all of the aforementioned services are run (unless you're totally abandoning your Desktop environment, in which case this whole conversation is pointless).

Ideally you want a full Desktop environment, but at a minimum you need a session manager (for auto-starting everything else, communicating with the * kits, * buses, * agents, and * managers for device integration, etc . . .), a settings daemon (stores settings for applications that care to use it, might be more than one of these - Xfce has two or three at the moment), a desktop manager (like a WM but for desktops), a window manager, a compositor (for special effects, might be part of the WM), plus miscellaneous bars, launchers, and plugins for same.

It's perfectly possible to split all this up, but then you have to make all the parts compatible. Most distros want more integration, not less.

The sound-server wars are still ongoing but I've personally never had any cause to touch anything besides ALSA or OpenAL/SDL on the development side either. Other people may have different experiences.

As it is, this is one case among many (not all about grade schoolers and not all 'stories on the Internet' by a long shot) and the professor doesn't always acknowledge they were wrong. Speaking as an engineer, the work is hard enough when you do understand the math.

The problem does specify 'works as fast' without any regard for length, though. And it obviously isn't actually a geometry problem because it doesn't even specify any ratios or angles - you could just cut a corner off and be done in a few seconds!

It looks like some people are having font issues, though. I'm not seeing any overlap between the columns, but there's a lot visible in some of the linked images.

You just have to convince yourself that the situation is grey (which is mostly true) and that everyone who is 'as good as you' is somewhere else (which isn't). Then it's easy to sleep at night. This has the benefit of being true some of the time, which makes it harder to convincingly criticize.

Pointing out that you're personally not a fan of some particular policy (provided you do so politely and don't belabor the point) can be informative for incidental third parties as well as for the people currently writing the rules.

I know I for one appreciate it, for the same reason I appreciate Google's public programming style guides.

'Major intelligence agency' is apparently now code for 'anyone with a few hundred dollars and an Internet connection'. Google did not invent the concealed camera!

The rest of your post is rather more accurate. Hence the need for good security (on devices that you don't wear as well as ones that you do).

The real danger is from more subtle manipulation, assuming most people come to trust what's being displayed. That's true of any information source that can be spoofed, though. GPS errors are bad enough already.

Just looking at extensions can be misleading because not all files have extensions and some extensions correspond to multiple types of files. In general, no method will be perfect because no modern OS provides dedicated file typing (some older operating systems stored the file type as metadata, although even that breaks down at the boundary between your computer and the rest of the world). The imperfection is usually manageable, depending on the type of file (which is the real answer to your question - it depends on why you want to know).

Applications that won't open what I tell them to because they disagree about the file type are just broken. (Having to rename files whenever I want to open them is annoying. Having to replace a good piece of software because it refuses to follow instructions is even more annoying.)

It sounds like they've found a way to prevent the nitrate-sulfate substitution from occurring directly in the fertilizer, which is very interesting if true.

Even if you let the car/plane/misc operate itself, the legal ramifications of rooting are interesting (presuming you've already reached the point of having cars without manual overrides, that is).

Imagine the impact of rooting your car on your insurance, for example.