Perhaps the author has shorted Bitcoin and has released this paper to manipulate the price down.

The US is charging a corporation criminally? They can’t put them in jail, all they have is money but apparently that’s enough!

No, folks, I’m sorry. You charge the officers of the company criminally.

Slackware has never enabled CONFIG_SMB_SERVER in any kernel.

Why not tax emissions (highly), and let the market work out where that pollution should come from. We've already had accurate emissions measurement equipment for years.

Once a year you get your car exhaust measured (as you already doing most states for purposes of inspection), multiply that by the change in odometer, and multiply that by the emissions tax rate.

EVs would pay a tax of zero, which would encourage their adoption. "But power plants pollute!" you might say. That's true, but power plants are already required to buy pollution credits very similar to what I describe above. This seems like an unobtrusive tax, simple, easy for an individual to optimize, and benefits the environment to boot.

Having chips pulling double duty is one thing, like how the PC keyboard controller once also controlled access to protected mode (A20 gate).

This grows into all kinds of undefined functionality as all these components get consolidated into “chipset” chips. I’m certain the broader concern of chip-level vulnerability has already been with us for a long time.

Purely functional expressions are not copyrightable. Only creative expressions are copyrightable.

Man, I’m going to get tired typing this.

Purely functional expressions are not copyrightable.

Purely functional expressions are not copyrightable.

Let me remind you that copyright only applies to creative expressions. Purely functional expressions are not copyrightable.

The FairTax deals with this by issuing a "prebate" - an equal cash payment at the start of every year to each individual. Think of it as universal basic income if you like, or as a way to make the first $X of spending be tax-free.

Thus spake the master programmer:
                "Though a program be but three lines long, someday it will have to
                be maintained."
                                -- Geoffrey James, "The Tao of Programming"

That’s not a problem unless you fail to remain silent. Invoking the 5th, in theory, means the police have to stop questioning you.

Almost right. Copyright protects creative expressions of ideas, not the ideas themselves.

If the intent of open code is for learning, it shouldn’t matter if I teach a machine instead of a person.

If your “copyrighted code” comes out of an AI, I would suggest your expression isn’t particularly creative to begin with. Most folks can’t wrap their head around the idea that the vast majority of software is purely functional expression and thus isn’t particularly copyrightable to begin with. Larry can go f#€k his hat.

Clearly it's Large Hadron Colliders all the way down.