Heâ(TM)s is Israel. Thatâ(TM)s how things are there.

SEGA is not sending these notices. They contract a brand protection firm. The likes of BrandShield Ltd., BrandVerity Inc., Corporation Service Company, Custodian Solutions, EnablonS.A., etc. Those use Web crawling and analysis software - usually developed in-house - and they act as the copyright holderâ(TM)s legal representatives. The notices are automated and are sent out by a truckload every day. Nobody is checking them for accuracy. All this tells me the chances of a significant penalty for an erroneous DCMA take-down notice are virtually zero.

Interesting. Sounds like the GNOME Foundation has nothing to do with the actual desktop software (which is still terrible). People and their causes... They need to stay away from Karens.

Thanks for sharing, Jeff!

Since 2005 the GNOME Foundation has been promising a 10% desktop market share. Sixteen years later Linux desktops (including GNOME) account for less than 2%. The GNOME desktop is still a mishmash of loosely-fitting bloatware sucking the life out of, thankfully, only about 2% of laptops around the world.

A sperm whale's brain weighs 18 pounds, and an African elephant's brain has three times the number of neurons of a human brain. Every day I work with apes who have giant heads, and, frankly, I am not impressed.

Maybe youâ(TM)re right, but dying of a brain blood clot sounds pretty serious to me. So you go ahead and take the first vaccine being offered, and I will see if I can get the one with the most consistent trial data behind it.

How much it is different from live teaching is something colleges will need to figure out over the coming years. For now they need to refund tuition they charged for in-person teaching and adjust tuition rates to reflect this new reality of unknown risks.

You may be missing the point here. There are colleges that specialize in online education and are far better situated for that. If thatâ(TM)s what people want, thatâ(TM)s where theyâ(TM)ll go. A couple month back I fixed a leaky toilet. It was a lot of work and I think I did a good job. Does this mean I can advertise my services as a plumber? If I did, the customers might be disappointed and ask for their money back. And nobody would blame them.

You canâ(TM)t separate lectures from the rest of the advertised service package. Essentially, youâ(TM)re trying to convince me that a university is as good as watching a YouTube video and exchanging emails, and we all know this is not so. Is it possible to remotely deliver some of the promised service at some level of quality? Probably, even though no university can empirically prove this. And that partial delivery of contracted work is what the universities should be charging for. But it should be up to the students to decide if they still want this modified product.

Everything you wrote is probably true, but also irrelevant. This is something colleges can explore on their own dime - not after taking peopleâ(TM)s money for a service they can no longer deliver.

Nearly all advertising and promotional material published by colleges to attract students tout campus life and âoecollege experienceâ as essential factors justifying the cost of tuition. In large part, this is what people are paying for.

If MIT refunds tuition for online courses, as it should, it won't have money left for professors, let alone any comet-orbiting satellites

Every college that goes out of business as a result of trying to fix its finances by screwing over the students will bring us closer to free higher education

It is not up to the students to show that they are getting less than what the paid for. Colleges are claiming that online learning is an equivalent substitute and so colleges should be able to prove it, otherwise it's a classic bait-and-switch scam. And they can't prove it.