Since the code is created by an AI, is it copyrightable?
The case of the monkey that took a selfie (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_selfie_copyright_dispute), has some interesting takes on non-human creations; basic answer is no.

Allow me to add my favorite book on programming, which sits on the shelf next to Mr. Knuth's opus.
the dot, by Peter H. Reynolds. ISBN 0-7636-1961-2.

If you fail to comprehend the lessons in Mr. Reynolds book, then perhaps programming isn't for you.

The tub spins ultra-fast and thus can be used to purify uranium.

Not really. If I worked at Apple and Meta wanted to really hire me, RSUs are just a negotiation point.

Right now Meta does have a problem with people leaving since their RSUs and grants in particular being underwater, new hires are coming in cause they're buying in on the dip.

Certainly ideal for the maker community, but for the commercial community, me thinks a contract will be required.

I see a lot of comments here saying why it wouldn't work, and they're correct that the people in a house could not scale to the needs of the home.
However, there are spaces / places where this technology would scale - think a train station, airport, theater, sports arena, nightclub, etc.
That's where the question becomes interesting to explore, and does offer possible solutions to the needs of the space.

Well I don't know about other AT&T customers, but I am certainly looking forward to my $10 inconvenience discount for this data breach.

Really, tying your economic stability to any 'rare' mineral is 'great' until someone comes up with enough to crash the market.
Either by mining asteroids, or figuring how to get the gold out of sea water (about one gram of gold for every 100 million metric tons of ocean water), there will be a chase as it's scarcity drives the price of it up and up and the more exotic methods of collecting it become financial sound.
Sounds a lot like Bitcoins, eh?

Grew up in Morgantown, WV, have family there still, and will be visiting here shortly for a week.

Okay, here's the problem with WV- They consistently shoot themselves in the foot.
With a shotgun. And for some explainable reason, they take great PRIDE of this act of self-sabotage and general dislike of book smarts.

Morgantown has always had this dual personality, the University crowd and the locals. You see this in a lot of smaller University / College towns, but never at this level. Every time someone tries to make something nice it inadvertently fails because better options are a short drive to Pittsburgh or DC exist.
Very few locals take advantage of what the WVU offers, specially for their children.
Music, theater, arts, math and science courses offered at no cost / low cost. Who's enrolled in them? Mainly the children of the professors.
Outside of Morgantown, it's further nuts. Elkin's WV, which was founded by Swiss immigrants, kept their traditions alive and still celebrated today, but is generally unknown outside of the state. Tamarack near New River, showcases native artistic talent. The White House crystal was made at Seneca Glass Company out of Morgantown.
The list goes on and on.

You can blame the mountains, you can blame the lack of good paying jobs, but in the end, it comes down to the lack of education, the dislike of educated people, and the fear of change.

And here is where it's sad: WV has had a lot of really capable, able, smart people come from it, but that's my point, they came from WV. They didn't stay because they knew there are limited options and choices, and thus had no other choice but to leave.

Which should be long enough to validate the submissions.

Old code isn't a bad thing, and I have no issues with the choice of COBOL as a language for running the infrastructure of a bank.
My worry is the assumptions of the initial team are now invalid.
Little things like the Y2K bug, a company's worth is trillion dollars (or individuals worth 100s of billions), or the methods for data writing and retrieval.

As for finding people to hack away at COBOL, answer is easy, paid them money to do so.
Shocking how simple money makes problems go away.

Have you ever looked at Google's BoringSSL?
Scratch that, my actual question is have you ever audited BoringSSL?
Any code that does anything important (Cryptography) is OpenSSL under the OpenSSL license.
Google trimmed the stuff they did not want or need, created their own header files for their interfaces. This is for them, in fact they say as much in the readme.
Worse, in my opinion, they hid the release version of OpenSSL in one of their files, so unless you know where to look, you really do not know which release you're using if you do go down this road.

Yes, I found out about 5 minutes after posting.
Thanks

Ah, there's the rub, RMS is using English to explain assault, not the legal definition. What RMS is describing is Battery.
Here we go:
https://www.law.cornell.edu/we...

Oh please...
Having sex with someone who has been coerced is still sexual assault under the law, regardless of who approached who.
Add to the fact that she was in the Virgin Islands, a gilded cage is still a cage.
If the prosecution is really looking to nail you to the wall, they have a whole bookshelf of law books to hit you with.

Stallman's failure is that he has always shown poor leadership, and continues to do so.
The correct answer is to say, While everyone is presumed innocent until found guilty, _if_ these allegations against Minsky are true then Minsky needs to answer to them. Until _we_ know all of the facts, _we_ will be limiting our interactions with Minsky.
Stallman could then continue to say that he believes in his friend's innocents, but those are his believes and not those of the FSF.

This is not about the powerful using the law to silence enemies, this is about those with power being asked to answer for their questionable actions.