That one is the best, like what a statement to make unironically.

The policy is good but it needs to be coupled with efforts to incentivize and enforce these companies to comply with security protocols and proper backups and get them in a position where they won't get ransom-wared in the first place, you need a national IT security policy and you need to enforce it, very similar to resturants and the health inspector.

That means spending some money and making some effort otherwise you are just shuffling the problem around. If you're serious it should be a no brainer to spend that money otherwise it's just more empty "tough on crime" policies that will go nowhere.

Yup only takes one time waiting on the lobby at 2AM on the phone with a Priceline rep trying to figure out why the hotel doesn't have a record of your reservation to change ones tune as it did mine.

His surname is one transposition away from "AI Mode".

As someone who does a fair amount of work travel it really has become preferable to book through the hotel and airline sites than use Priceline or Expedia. Hotels generally don't give you rewards points, they won't handle issues at the front desk (you'll have to call Expedia) and as mentioned the policies are different. Most hotels will honor the price rate a 3rd party site offers as well if you ask them to.

It wouldn't be the elected elites. It would be the bureaucrats making the rules whom, after tailoring regulations to favor some companies over others, would then go work for those companies.

Having that amount of money gives you the privilege of being able to sort that out for yourself, he gets to decide between enjoyment and doing literally anythign else he wants.

It's something 99.99% of us will never have the option of experiencing, we are effectively denied that choice, my point is a person with a billion-with-a-B dollars has an experience with life that is inhuman to the rest of the planet.

Considering the trend of defense contractors naming themselves after Tolkien I think to these guys it's just as simple "It sounds cool and there is a metaphor and symbolism somewhere I can't be assed to really think about beyond the thin film of surface tension"

"Working" is an entirely different prospect when it's optional, when you can choose to walk away any day, any time with zero consequences. You won't go hungry, you won't have to worry about your rent, nobodies gonna give you shit if you want to roll in around 11:30 this Monday.

Really this scenario is the only legit "right to work" that exists, when you are wealthy enough to choose to work and where and how.

IIRC, in music copyright cases one bar of sufficiently similar notes is enough to justify suing for copyright infringement. And a composition of names is enough to justify the grant of copyright.

Law being what it is, that doesn't really prove anything, but it strongly suggests that a "novel combination" of code should be copyrightable even if all the pieces are public domain.

That's clearly the ideal approach. The problem is that you're likely to end up drowning in submissions.

Yes, but if you take several pieces of public domain code and create a new composition with them, that new composition is copyright. (I don't think you can even avoid having a copyright, though you can have a license that is essentially the same as public domain.)

Well...now I suppose you can avoid a copyright by feeding it into an AI and then having the AI regurgitate it. Or, if I've understood the news stories correctly, by claiming that an AI wrote it rather than "wrote the basic parts which you later adjusted".

I'm an American so I don't appreciate you pushing these woke Arabic numerals on my kids.

That's not the question.

The question is whether the AI-produced code is a derivative of existing code, and the answer is still not resolved.

In some cases, the answer is a clear YES, because the code is a direct copy of something written by someone else. If something like that ends up in the kernel, it will have to be removed when someone notices.

That is a good approach, but Walmart success shows that it's not the only approach. It is also possible to make a load of money by selling everything. (See also: Procter and Gamble).

Steve Jobs chose the right solution for Apple. It's not the right solution for every company, or all the time.