Comment Gift cards (Score 4, Funny) 198
Are they asking her to return it on gift cards?
That's how these scams usually work.
Are they asking her to return it on gift cards?
That's how these scams usually work.
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.
The problem is buying an NFT for a URL.
If I'm going to pay money for an NFT, I want it to be for an SHA-256 of the digital artifact and I want a copy of that digital artifact that I can keep and host wherever I want.
Can I have my desktop icons back?
Like on the Macintosh in 1984?
Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.
--Gene Fowler
There's no such thing as writer's block. That was invented by people in California who couldn't write.
--Terry Pratchett
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 I think it was repealed before the second winter.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.
Twitter is primarily a text medium.
Unless they take it down to 110 baud, it's hard to see how throttling will make much difference.
For most consumers, service is a bigger issue than speed.
Currently, ISPs claim to "serve" an entire zip code if they serve at least one address in that block and the FCC accepts this. The FCC should require ISPs to report actual availability to every domicile in their service area.
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.
One of my colleagues, when pregnant, literally called every hospital around, worked out a flat rate, cash up front deal, and paid a LOT less money to deliver than many other people.
She had 9 months advance notice to plan and negotiate.
Not all medical needs are like that.
n/t
And this is his poster child?
Sisolak named Blockchains, LLC as a company that had committed to developing a "smart city" in an area east of Reno after the legislation has passed.
It reads like a cross between a mirage and a ponzi scheme
My wife got hit twice.
Pro tip: never click on an ad.
Sell to who?
If no one can buy...
Sounds like business as usual on the internet, and business as usual in the PRC.
Is the Chinese gov't really concerned about this, or are they just getting worried about the power of the internet firms and looking for an excuse to clip their wings?
Reality must take precedence over public relations, for Mother Nature cannot be fooled. -- R.P. Feynman