I've had some experience with this, and the main issue our company had with using GPL code (or even GPL software) was the fear that the piece of GPL software itself was in violation of some license, either not wholly compliant with GPL or worse: incorporating some proprietary code. As Legal pointed out, the company was already successfully sued once for copyright infringement, for using an infringing piece of FOSS in the company.

Releasing our GPL-based software under a GPL license was never much of an issue.

"You will own nothing and print happy"
The summary mentions that repairs aren't included in the plan, but the HP site promises that inoperable printers are replaced the next business day free of charge.

Depends a lot on how the law is worded. It's fine that content providers are obliged to take down offending material when they are made aware of it. It's quite another thing to make content providers responsible for finding offending content, and levying harsh fines if they miss something. This is what was proposed earlier in the EU, and it can lead to censorship-by-proxy if it is coupled with vague boundaries: hosting companies will err on the side of caution. Once those laws cover not only kiddie porn and harassment, but also "fake news", you're getting into muddled waters.

Also, how fast are providers expected to act once notified, and is that urgency related to the nature of the offending material? With kiddie porn you'd expect providers to act fast, but currently we see them taking DMCA takedown notices with a similar urgency, which is silly.

Not necessarily, you could use a trusted identity provider (IP). Could even be a governmental one. All that the porn site gets from the IP is "yup, this person is over 18". You could even add an intermediary provider to ensure that the IP doesn't learn which porn site you visit (it'll still know you are looking at porn, there being few other use cases for online age verification).

It's not corporate interests holding it back, but rather a lack of incentives to plan for the long term. Market failure rather than corporate greed. This is one of those instances where even a free-market oriented government ought to step in.

That's why it's a team sport. The mad genius doesn't need to have the social skills to sell the idea, build a team and run the company, he just needs to have enough to be able to work with people who can do all that for him. Besides money, helping to build that initial team is of the things where VCs can add tremendous value. The smart ones do that, instead of dismissing applicants for lack of social skills.

Lots of successful entrepreneurs dropped out of college to start their business, so clearly dropping out of college is a prerequisite for success.

It's a non-issue. Air pollution (pm2.5 particles) used to be way, way worse, but levels have been declining for over a century, and are still declining further. The maximum allowable concentrations have been steadily lowered as well, from 25ug/m3 nationally (NL), to 10ug/m3 as per EU directive, to the maximum advised by the WHO at 5ug/m3. At the current rate of reduction we'll be there within the decade.

Not just that. People generally want the interaction with their devices to be private. The people around them really want that interaction to be private. A few niche cases aside, voice control in public spaces isn't going to catch on.

"Most modern movies are of such mediocre quality and destined to be dumped on streaming platforms that there are few that justify being purchased, not in physical form nor digitally."
That is what that "woke idiot drivel" is about. Well, that and shit writing. Disney, who own pretty much every major franchise these days, freely admit that they insert politics into their movies, in a way that may upset "certain fans". The mistake they make is that those fans do not necessarily disagree with Disney's political leaning, they just don't want the quality of their entertainment taking a back seat to it.

I ripped my Bluray / DVD collection ages ago and built a library on local disc, along with some content from "other sources". Gets backed up every now & then, so it should be safe from disaster as well as from The Man.

Is that the case though? Here, the Hyundai Kona EV starts at €40k, the hybrid is €35k, IC version is €30k. Those are sticker prices including all incentives. Energy prices have gone up as well, I paid something like €0.19/kWh to charge at home, now it's €0.35, almost double. The economics for EVs make a lot less sense than they used to. Sales of new EVs have dropped, and there's loads of second hand EVs sitting unsold in lots.

The system makes a photo which can be reviewed by an officer (and by law can be requested by the person being fined).

I am glad they are deploying tech like this to stop rampant mobile phone use behind the wheel. And I am also ok with no human looking at it if the number of false positives is sufficiently small. We're not talking about felony charges here, and we don't even have a points system for driver's licenses. It's easy enough to contest these tickets, and when you do, a human will look at the picture and clear the fine.

I fully agree that for more serious charges, the kind that can be life altering by merely being leveled at you, a human should be in the loop before they are brought. But this is just a silly "AI bad" story without any real substance.

The government certainly has a right (even an obligation) to regulate content on the internet. What I take exception to is making hosts responsible for policing the content, and in some cases for the content itself, in order to impose censorship by proxy. They did the same with banks by the way, in the fight against the black market economy: make them responsible, threaten massive fines and impose them a few times, then sit back as the scared corporations go above and beyond to comply, and thus doing the government's dirty work.