One way is that since an IP address can not tie back to a person (only a device, typically a NAT router that services multiple devices behind it), that data is useless for identifying an actual person who is breaching the copyright law in the first place, and as such, the collection of such data is futile.

The other way of looking at it is that since the IP address can not be tied to a particular person who is using it, the data is not personal data in the first place, and thus not subject the the privacy laws.

Well, it goes back to the original definition of patents (and copyright). You can not patent or copyright math. A mathematical system works and creates a mathematical answer. While it may seem like magic to those who do not understand what is occurring "under the hood", AI in its current forms are simply a large mathematical model of probabilities and statistics with various weights given to certain computational nodes (typically in a neural network as most current models are based on this approach) which generate a "solution" when given specific inputs. At the end of the day is is basically like any other mathematical function (like f(x) = 2x+1), just more complex, and since you can not patent math, and anything AI produces is by it's very nature, just math, you can not generate patents from AI.

It brings up more broad philosophical question, are we simply "math" ourselves, programmed to interpret and react certain ways to certain inputs, after being "trained" to some extent on the particular subject matter? However, that question does not matter with patents or copyrights due to the definition of those items (both in the law and refined by the court systems).

You probably believe that women can have penises, right?

More like they have 100,000 customers who didn't read the memo that they were closing by the end of April and had yet to pull their "coins" or transfer them to another digital wallet system.

I don't know a single high end western style restaurant that would be able to properly function without gas stoves, ovens, broilers, or charcoal hearths/pits.

This is why regulators, especially in the EU, actually still scrutinize Microsoft. It is this very behavior that got them in trouble in the late 90's and early 2000's, and they think that people don't remember.

It isn't just the "company" involved in the request. The problem is that these are "outsourcing" agencies that are doing it. In other words, they are contracting to other companies. At worst that simply means next year for the H1B's, they register a new company that is no longer banned, and place the requests. These applicants in many situations will be contracted to another company or to a parent company that then supplies outsourcing services to other companies.

The way you fix it is to make H1B's what they were intended to be in the first place, a ranked system of people of extreme technical proficiency that doesn't exist in the USA. Rand order the applicants based on having advanced degrees (PhD, Masters) from prestigious, world renoun, accredited institutions (i.e. not some mom+pop degree mill that someone paid $500 to have a piece of paper with their name on it and a "transcript" of their "classes" they took).

And on top of that, require that the job could not be handled by existing population at up to 2x the pay for the position (almost every case, there is someone who would fill these positions if the pay was actually what it is worth for the location, but these companies try to pay based on what it would cost to have someone who is living in a commune shack/house and saving all the money to send back to their home country as a month's work here is equivalent to 1 year or more back home). And require the H1B position to as filled be payed a rate 20% higher than that 2x price.

Make that kind of change and all of a sudden you will find that we are really only bringing in the highest quality of foreign skilled workers, like the program is suppose to be used for, and not the high school grad equivalent that many are and filling jobs that do not pay the going rate for a US worker and as such can only be filled by someone from overseas that the "low" US pay rate is well above what their rates are in their country.

What do new plumbers train against?

What do new landscapers train against?

I suspect that Apple will just say we are done in GB and pull opperations. I also believe some of the others will consider it as well. They will then let their customers in GB complain to their reps to have this bill changed/removed.

Fucking idiot alert.

We have unrestrained statism.

It comes down to conflicting religions for using the bible as source materals. The original authors of the bible were Jewish, a celebrate the 7th day of creation from biblical book of Genesis on the day currently called Saturday. From this interpretation, Saturday is in fact the last day of the week, as it is the 7th day, and the day of rest and worship.

Unfortunately, Christianity shifted their day of worship to the day of the week where Christ was raised from the dead (or more to the point, discovered to have been raised from the dead). For Christ and his followers were Jewish, and he was crucified on a Friday and hastily burried (the day of rest officially begins at sunset on Friday, and according to Catholic tradition, Christ died at ~3pm, and was hastily burried before sunset). No one could go to the tomb on Saturday since it was their day of rest, and the first oppertunity to provide a proper internment was Sunday, when they found the tomb open and the body missing.

So now that you had your little religious lessons, Christinanity changed the day of worship to Sunday, the day of Christ's rebirth, thus leading to the inconsistencies in what day of the week is the actual week end, Saturday or Sunday, as for thousands of years before Christinanity for all the people who ascribed to the 7 day week, Saturday was the last day of the week. Christianity celebrating a rebirth and renewal really shouldn't change that message, as thus worshiping the "beginning" as opposed to the "end" would seem to fit their message better and was probably one of the original reasonings for the shift.

Similarly, Islam, which is also based in part by the books in the bible (particularly Genesis), decided to use Friday as opposed to Saturday or Sunday to also distinguish themselves as different from the Jewish and Christian traditions.

However, the calendar we use that you are discussing is the Julian calendar, based on the Roman system which became Christian system when the Roman Emperor converted and mandated the change. This then leads to some of the deliema as to the end of the week, as the Roman's were using a 7 day week, and aligning the last day of the week, the 7th, with Sunday (obviously previously the day celebrating the Sun, and often the main day of worship in the pre-Christian religions across the Roman Empire).

So to make a long story short, blame religions and the conflict between the Book of Genesis and the newer religions for when the week ends, Saturday or Sunday....

Well, at least with the Seagate drives they know they are actually getting that 1TB, as opposed to a 64GB chip programmed to say it has 1TB....

I certainly wouldn't say something like a record is "low fi" like you are making it out to be. CDs are good, and excellent for multiple playbacks with minimal noise floor and get the vast majority of the song/music/audio capture. But they do it at a price, which was loss of signal in the frequency response, as it can not record a 1Hz or less frequency (and have difficulty with frequencies below 22.5), and lose of frequencies above 21KHz. They also quantize the frequencies, as it can't record the exact actual response as it is limited to the steppings inherent to the mathematical digital units in the range (as there are an infinite number of numbers between 0 and 1, a digital representation of that can not actually reflect the exact value throuought that entire range).

The analog recordings on records can in fact capture those exact frequencies and reproduce them. The downside is the method to read and playback those signals is prone to signal strength loss, and the easy introduction of noise due (from dust, micro-scratches, wear, and warpage/distortion of the media). Some of these imperfections even occur at production time as the record is stamped from a heated metal master disc and pressure is applied to the heated vinyl blank, with the metal master slowly deforming with each stamping, uneven pressure, incorrect temperatures, and contamination in the air (such as dust or other particles) being pressed into the vinyl disk. But the benefits of frequency range capture especially in overtones and harmonic frequencies simply can not be reproduced on CD.

That said, SACD format helps some, increasing the number of bits for storing the frequency range from 16bit to 24bit, having a wider dynamic range, and able to capture frequencies up to 100KHz (but in reality/practicality it is usually only about 50KHz in practice due to multiple reasons). In anycase, this covers a lot more of what the human ear is capable of perceiving, and gives the people mastering the audio of the recording more freedom which typically results in a much better overall recording.

That wouldn't help you if you are in a truck/SUV that has ground clearance until your tire hits the sensor. If it started closing as you were just a couple feet from entering, you could easily hit the door with the windshield before the door stops and starts reversing from your front tire triggers the optical sensor. And don't just say, well move the sensor up higher, because if you did that your door wouldn't detect if someone fell and was knocked out across the threshold of the garage door (or toddler, or baby crawling, or small cat/dog).

Why are you stopping at Aspirin? What about sugar, alcohol, caffeine, salt, heck even WATER has side effects that are debilitating if too much is taken. I mean really, if you are proposing the whole nanny state, then do it right, take it to it's proper logical solution. Become the government from "Demolition Man" (salt is bad for you, hence it is outlawed.... and fine people for cursing because it can cause emotional damage to those who hear it, and physical contact it banned because it spreads disease...). I can't believe I had to bring up a reference to this movie (it gets close to the so bad it is good, but really it was just bad, but we are getting closer to some of it's insights into what the future could become if we take these kinds of changes to their logical conclusions).