Ban on tobacco products.

Yeah, let's make cigarettes cool again!

I think that after every 3rd wave of Missile Command (what a disgustingly irresponsible creation!!), the game should require that the player's parents check to make sure the player isn't getting depressed by the prospect of nuclear war.

And in Asteroids, after any ship destruction due to collision with an asteroid, the game should require parental attestation that the player isn't starting to develop symptoms of petraphobia.

In both cases, if the parents aren't available (e.g. dead because the player is in their 80s) I suppose a Notary Public or a AMA-certified doctor would be a good-enough replacement.

We have learned so much since the early days of computer games, and it's better to be safe than sorry. (But don't fuck with Joust! I want to be able to play without having to call my mom every time the Lava Troll touches my mount's legs inappropriately.)

especially if there's no reward for doing so.

Even with a reward for doing so your response rates may be skewed towards people who care about the reward enough. A $1 survey recompense means nothing for some people who earn thousands an hour and just don't want the hassle of another random solicitor bothering them, etc. It's tough to make a reward that is enticing to everyone, unless it waives some kind of annoying requirement everyone has.

It is not. We need to ask our legislators to get stronger exceptions for libraries added to the law.

There ALREADY are exceptions, but for some dumb shit reason a lot of digital stuff, such as copying sound recordings to a digital format, or streaming a library copy digitally, is specially excluded from or not covered by the exceptions which are written into the law for libraries that would apply if the library were disseminating the work using an analog medium to someone physically present. The internet archive's very nature is that the patrons of this library are Not physically present. It's a "remote library" -- you visit the library remotely. It seems ridiculous in the 21st century, but there need to be new carveouts in the law to allow for this concept of a physically remote library to exist just like a library you visit in person - and enjoy the same capability to operate. Such as the capability to digitally view or listen to content in the library over an internet connection.

Appears to me as if the record companies were afraid to litigate on this one and establish any additional precedent

Possibly, but it takes two to settle, and the terms are confidential, so we don't know whose paying who or who is conceding what if anything. You have to have the defendant's permission or leave to withdraw a case. If the Archive were so confident about winning and establishing a precendent, then they probably would not have agreed to settle. That means they probably regarded their chances at not significantly more than 50%. An resulting precedent in their favor would be enormously valuable to not only the IA, since they can face other attempts at suit by different music recorders, but also to other libraries throughout the US, and possibly libraries in other countries whose courts may become aware and read about prevailing legal arguments surrounding copyright in other treaty countries..

The AI is fed (and stores) real patient medical data.

That is an irrelevent observation.

New research that only uses existing data is already exempt from review.

You have yet to explain a reasoning why new synthetic data based on previous studies should require a review.

I haven't read the text of this Swiss law, but if it's anything like USA's, UK's, or EU's laws, then it regulates "providers" and/or "carriers," not software applications themselves.

If you are sending already-made ciphertext through a regulated service, the service won't be in trouble. But if the service offers to encrypt for you, then they will be in trouble.

It just occurred to me that the now-common conflation between web apps and local apps (to a lot of phone users, these two things look the same) matters.

How do you make the synthetic data, dipshit? AI copies real data..

Hey, stupid idiot. AI copies nothing. AI is trained on real data, but the output is new data imputed by a generation algorithm: it is the reverse of a pattern match or categorization, and synthetic data is not a collection of new data from a person. I'd say it is also questionable how they can show the data is truly representative.

In any case: the ethics review is only about data being measured and collected from patients as part of a study. They address issues such as how are you going to make sure the patients are safe and not at risk of physical harm, and are being treated with dignity by your experimental process when you are interfacing with them and collecting their data: for example you aren't collecting samples in a public place allowing them to be seen indecently in public. Once the data has already been collected you could re-use the existing data for as many studies as you want without further review. The review process is about how your experiment uses humans; not how you use the data after the experiment. So it doesn't really matter.. If you aren't physically bringing people in and taking measurements on them or having them directly participate in an experiment, then there is nothing to review.

When I was in college, I delivered food more than 20 hours a week, I usually got about $10 a week in tips, never $10 in a single night.
Presumably as an employee with the company paying the expenses. You wouldn't have been able to do this as an Independent for a tipping app for $10 a week --- I mean that your material costs as in gasoline at $3 a gallon plus the wear and tear on any vehicle would exceed the $10.

Pretty nice to get $25k tax-free every year, eh? I predict this will spread like weeds.

They are not deductible unless the specific job you are performing is in the list of customarily-tipped jobs.

I believe it only counts as a tip if the customer specifically Pays it as a tip.
There are tipping services broadcasters can put up, Or they can accept payments directly at a Paypal account, and the only amounts taken out are a ~5% processing fee.
It is not clear if the other more expensive "gifting" features some of the platform sites offer would count as a legitimate tip,
because with those you are actually paying to the platform, and the paltform is just sharing a small percentage with their supplier.

Tips by definition cannot be collected by an employer, because it is the employee's property.

However, the employer can collect the tip through the credit card processing and charge for their payment processing cost.
An employer can also force their employees to participate in a tipping pool which pays out to customer-facing customarily-tipped coworkers.

In any case, the tipped payment deductions are only for the employee.

Yes.. Honestly there should be an "ethics" review of every piece of research involving data prior to publication. The inquiry should be how is the data protected procedurally to ensure high-quality accurate representative data and sound reasoning both in terms of logic, mathematically, and statistically with disclosures of uncertainties and potentials for error.

We're literally in a world where AI is allowed such carte blanche that medical records that need ethical review to be included in a study can just be flung to the AI as training data

No. It says synthetic data, which belongs to no person, is exempt from the review. There are obviously no privacy concerns for synthetic data which does not belong to anyone. Research involving developing an AI by processing, training it on a real person's or persons' medical records would obviously require ethical reviews before building that AI or supplying training data.

Maybe ASF just likes whiskey.

White oak has more tyloses and a tighter grain structure than other oak varieties, which cause its barrels to be more waterproof. It chars better. And it generally wins most taste tests. It's just perfect for barrel aging.

Save your red oaks for furniture.

the First Sale Doctrine or something like it generally applies, and the purchaser gets to do all sorts of innocent things

The First Sale Doctrine is a US legal precedent which does not apply in the UK. Also: The first sale doctrine generally does not apply to Unpublished work -- suppose I wrote a book, never published, but lost a copy of the book, Or the company I had do the printing made an extra without my knowledge and was lost in shipping. In theory you could find my lost book, but No first sale exists, since the copyright owner did not authorize the original first sale - there are no first sale rights that can flow to the holder of the physical copy.

Thus even in the US; this precedent would not save you, because the console was property of Nintendo, and never sold with their authorization. The copyright owner never authorized a sale. In short, there is no first sale, because Nintendo did not sell it, and neither did they ever grant anyone else the right to sell the copy.

The Merchant's mere intent to traffic in it by reselling it further can thus constitute not just Copyright infringement with commercial gain, but Patent infringement as well. (Nintendo's hardware designs covered by multiple patents)

It is a remarkable stretch to claim that copyright extends to turning something on. Copyright doesn't deal with that sort of thing at all.

Under UK Copyright law: Powering a device up and loading software into RAM counts as making a new copy of the software, and it is a violation of the law If you are not properly licensed. You also have no fair use rights if you possess software which was not first sold with the authorization of the copyright owner. Since Nintendo will never have intended for the Dev Kit to be released to the public -- the copyright work will be unpublished, And the copy has never been sold with the authorization of the copyright owner -- therefore, It is not possible for the Merchant to convey a legal copy or license to their buyer, since the unit was never legally sold with distribution authorization of the copyright owner to begin with.

Powering the console on loads some kind of software into memory. Even if Nintendo has implemented security protocols which prevent you fully booting the dev kit without authenticating your entitlement.

Copyright covers the distribution or trafficking in works as well. The copyright holder has the right to control distribution of -- in what is in this case unpublished work.