In California, the grid operator also owns a number of generation facilities, including the only operating nuclear plant.

We are all collectively responsible for what we permit our governments to do in our names unchallenged.

If that troll were focused on CO2 emissions then he'd be pushing wind and solar, given that good faith lifecycle CO2 emissions studies show nuclear as worse than either, and only cradle to grave measurements matter given that the AGW problem will last longer than literally any kind of power plant we know how to build.

Instead, his goal is to promote nuclear, full stop. No clue why, I hope he's a paid shill because unpaid shills are only pathetic.

I think we should be focusing on putting solar panels over car parks and on flat commercial roofs. But putting them on homes which are cooled with air conditioning is a very good move as well, because they both produce power at the point of consumption and they reduce power consumption by reducing the HVAC load. However, we do have to weigh that benefit against the lives lost by solar installer companies too cheap to use roof anchors because they don't care about human lives apparently. (It's about $500 for the reusable first man up anchor, and $100 for a permanent anchor. Installation of the permanent anchor takes only a few minutes.)

I'm not sure. Copyright isn't supposed to apply to functionally required elements. And I don't think "hello" can be copyrighted.

I think it's effectively a ban at this point. After a few court cases are decided that may change. At the moment it's just playing safe...which is normal NetBSD activity.

If history is any indication the only thing they will do terribly "wrong" is delay the PC release so that they can get some console sales, then sell it to some of the same people all over again later.

The real question is, are they going to make architectural changes that will reduce cheating on the online component? Because that's where they have traditionally failed the hardest.

Most distributions which install a dedicated music player by default install a really big one.

On the other hand, I don't see why that's a problem any more. Even my cheapie laptop has 8GB RAM, my desktop has 32GB, I can afford to run Rhythmbox or whatever.

Yep, Fascism is alive and well in California. Mass murder machine PG&E is calling the shots here, not The People. Time for yet another version of California Uber Alles, whee.

That's cool until the cellular network goes down, but if you guys have enough excess capacity and your network is constructed intelligently enough with proper backup power and such, then it may be viable. Here in the US we have a lot of households with no cellular coverage, and POTS is their only option in an emergency until satellite to regular phones becomes an option. In this country, shutting off POTS is going to kill people.

slack_justyb: It's about legal issues.
aldousd666: It's not about legal issues per se, but rather it's about legal issues.
slack_justyb: That's what I said.

I Hope that helps.

AI does substantially the same thing that humans do when they are "inspired by" other artists. Moreover, if it's legal for humans, then it's cannot intrinsically be illegal when a human directs a machine to do it. But even if it somehow was illegal, that would only push back the date to the oldest extant copyrights -- about 100 years. AI could, from there, be used to "evolve" music in the same way people did, producing sounds and songs that are ranked and culled through popularity rankings, until it either arrives at the same point as humans have, or maybe even something more popular. So this is a losing battle in any case. Embrace the AI.

Just about 25 years too late to matter.

"and finally, finally, Slashdot returns to being a shining example of what discourse can be."

That can't happen while the white supremacists are emboldened by the cryptocucks who put their business name in the spam filter, and formerly put "Nazi" in there too so they could shelter them.

My $200 Moto phone offers far better value than any iPhone. Even if it lasts only half as long (past that already) it's still cheaper. And it has features that Apple doesn't offer, not even counting sideloading.

The POTS network is going away. The telcos in the US are trying to get out of their obligation to maintain it right now.