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Comment Should have been merger (Score 1) 155

Fair Use is fraught.

Should have been decided on merger: the expression is the idea. You can't copyright an idea, so when the expression is the idea, you can't copyright the expression, either. One test for merger is that there is only one way to express the idea. In this case

double sqrt(double);

is the only way to write the header for the square root function (and have it work). So merger applies and you can't copyright that header.

The SC has denied copyright on technical standards (like the electrical code) that have been incorporated into statute by reference. Same idea here.

Comment Been there; done that; buried the dead children (Score 3, Insightful) 294

Back in the '70s there was this thing called the energy crisis. Not much by today's standards, but it freaked everyone out at the time. In response, we went to DST year-round. By the middle of the winter kids were getting hit and killed by cars while waiting for the school bus in the dark. I think it was repealed before the second winter.
Maybe this time we could not enact it in the first place and skip the part with the dead children.

Comment It's just ugly (Score 4, Interesting) 108

As soon as I saw it, I was like, what is that? Where did it come from? Was it always there? How did it get on my phone?

It's ugly.

It's ugly because it's brown. I understand that it's meant to evoke an Amazon shipping box, and I've got nothing against brown per se. But app icons aren't brown. App icons are bright, clean, primary colors. (Check your phone; you'll see.) It clashes with everything else on my screen.

After a few days, I moved it off to the screen where I keep apps that I never use so I wouldn't have to look at it.

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