If China wants these removed then that means there's no backdoor they have access to. I was always a bit suspicious of Telegram because Russia gave up on its attempts to ban it.

I'm surprised Threads and WhatsApp were still allowed given that Facebook was banned in about 2009 in China.

I hope prank hackers overwrite MS's spam to say things like that.

There's no way I'll trust my personal stuff on MS's CloudShit. And the lawsuits could be giant. Businesses are typically protected under contract law*, but defective consumer goods are subject to much harsher penalties in many states. If MS tricks or forces users onto the cloud without sufficient disclaimers, they may get the book thrown at them when consumer files are leaked.

Nadella's either over-confident in MS cloud security, and/or doesn't understand consumer law vs. biz law is different.

* It's why MS calls it a "license agreement" and not a product.

No. Religion does not say that we can blame God for our own actions. That is your statement, not supported by religion. Quite the opposite, religion teaches us that we are responsible for our actions, and that when those actions are evil, we are held accountable to God for those actions.

When people initiate wars in the name of God, they are lying. It's that simple. God did not tell them to initiate a war. If someone blames God for their actions, that doesn't make God actually responsible for their actions. Duh!

You deceive yourself when you suggest that science doesn't require faith. The faith part is when you say, in the name of science, that there is no creator. That is a statement science cannot prove or test. So you have nothing left but opinion, conjecture, and faith.

There certainly is *logic* to support the existence of a creator. That logic relies on the concept that things don't happen by themselves. Ever. Therefor, a creator is required because things exist. That to me is more logical than to say that things exist because of...nothing.

This makes for a pretty effective protest, among a sea of protests that are pretty bad.

They didn't actually harm anyone or anything, they put something on the line (their jobs), they raised awareness of the situation *and* Google's role in it.

Contrast with stupid stuff like random looting or tossing food at unrelated art.

Both sides are bigly assholes. Any argument over who is the biggest a-hole is pointless, as they both exceeded their quota. Outsiders, including US, will need to pressure them into a two-state solution; they won't do it on their own. Isr. will gradually have to give the West Bank back. If Pal's set off rockets or bombs, then delay their xfer by a given number of days as incentive to behave.

Under your (directly contradicting their words) theory, then creative endeavour on the front end SHOULD count If the person writes a veritable short-story as the prompt, then that SHOULD count. It does not. Because according to the copyright office, while user controls the general theme, they do not control the specific details.

"Instead, these prompts function more like instructions to a commissioned artist—they identify what the prompter wishes to have depicted, but the machine determines how those instructions are implemented in its output."

if a user instructs a text-generating technology to “write a poem about copyright law in the style of William Shakespeare,” she can expect the system to generate text that is recognizable as a poem, mentions copyright, and resembles Shakespeare's style.[29] But the technology will decide the rhyming pattern, the words in each line, and the structure of the text

It is the fact that the user does not control the specific details, only the overall concept, that (according to them) that makes it uncopyrightable.

> It's rich, and high tech.

It'll stop being that after a dictator gets ahold of it.

Yes, but I trust you are not advocating for employees to take over because the company is doing something they don't like.

According to Chris Rackow writing in a companywide memo:

“They took over office spaces, defaced our property, and physically impeded the work of other Googlers,” Rackow wrote in the memo obtained by The Post. “Their behavior was unacceptable, extremely disruptive, and made co-workers feel threatened.”

Now we can say that these are pacifists of course, but other "sit ins" have occasionally involved kidnapping and death, and at least for my part, I have no plans of waiting for the first person to die before coming to the conclusion that fuckery is afoot.

I'm not at all wild about the centuries old fighting among the relatives there either, because much of the American support is based on religious fundamentalists working their prophecies, and greasing the skids for armageddon, but that ain't the way to do it.

"We're the new Boeing!"

I don't know if one can eventually get used to it, but when I work long hours or weekends, my brain doesn't work as well, and as I get older, my eyes get tired so that it takes longer to switch focus, and I make more typo's. It's the old joke: "If you want it badly, that's exactly how you'll get it".

The PRC must not want citizens spreading the word that their cities are sinking.

Nowadays, university students chant "death to America" and "support Hamas".

Like about 7? It's easy to find 7 radicals over ANY topic.

PHB's are like prions.