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Comment Yeah you need to do both sides of an issue (Score 1) 11

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.

Comment Really the trend is moving away from 3rd party (Score 4, Informative) 17

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.

Comment Re:working (Score 1) 11

people lose themselves when they have nothing to do that involves more than just enjoyment.

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.

Comment Re:working (Score 1) 11

"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.

Comment Re:AI vs GPL? (Score 1) 31

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.

Comment Re:AI code = Public Domain (Score 1) 31

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".

Comment Re:AI code = Public Domain (Score 1) 31

That is how it's been, Those AI tools were trained on open source/public domain content, so any contribution by AI tools must be considered released under public domain. It does not get simpler than that, and current US copyright law has already indicated that any AI created works are not eligible for copyright

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.

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