Comment Re:President Trump isn't "owned" by corporations. (Score 1) 605
Oh, geeze, can you get any more pathetic with a response like that? That kind of response might have worked in kindergarten.
Comment Re:Jurisprudence (Score 1) 263
No, it isn't the same court, you idiot. Unless we had a change of government since 1945.
Comment Re:Angel is a centerfold. (Score 2) 263
There are quite a number of cases in Germany where someone got money for something like that. Here are some examples:
http://www.jusmeum.de/urteile?tag=recht+am+eigenen+bild
Comment Re:Jurisprudence (Score 1) 263
it's still illegal to murder people
This same German court decided that it's not if you are Jewish. I have as much respect for this ruling as for that one.
"Same"? Did they put some Nazi judges into cryostasis back then, thawed them up again and nobody batted an eye?
Because that's what "same" means. And even if it didn't, your argument would still be retarded.
Comment Re:Their basic argumetn (Score 1) 103
Sooo... how do you know who to connect to in such a "decentralised network"? Even the poster child for such connections, BitTorent, relies on someone telling you where to begin connecting.
I'm talking about match-making capabilities here - if you want to go back to exchanging IP addresses over SMS or something, be my guest.
The Tamagochi Singularity Made Real: Infinite Tamagochi Living On the Internet (hackaday.com) 84
szczys writes: Everyone loves Tamagochi, the little electronic keychains spawned in the '90s that let you raise digital pets. Some time ago, XKCD made a quip about an internet-based matrix of thousands of these digital entities. That quip is now a reality thanks to elite hardware hacker Jeroen Domburg (aka Sprite_TM). In his recent talk called "The Tamagochi Singularity" at the Hackaday SuperConference he revealed that he had built an infinite network of virtual Tamagochi by implementing the original hardware as a virtual machine. This included developing AI to keep them happy, and developing a protocol to emulate their IR interactions. But he went even further, hacking an original keychain to use wirelessly as a console which can look in on any of the virtual Tamagochi living on his underground network. This full-stack process is unparalleled in just about every facet: complexity, speed of implementation, awesome factor, and will surely spark legions of other Tamagochi Matrices.
On iFixit and the Right To Repair (vice.com) 250
Jason Koebler writes: Motherboard sent a reporter to the Electronics Reuse Convention in New Orleans to investigate the important but threatened world of smartphone and electronics repair. As manufacturers start using proprietary screws, offer phone lease programs and use copyright law to threaten repair professionals, the right-to-repair is under more threat than ever. "That Apple and other electronics manufacturers don't sell repair parts to consumers or write service manuals for them isn't just annoying, it's an environmental disaster, [iFixit CEO Kyle Wiens] says. Recent shifts to proprietary screws, the ever-present threat of legal action under a trainwreck of a copyright law, and an antagonistic relationship with third-party repair shops shows that the anti-repair culture at major manufacturers isn't based on negligence or naiveté, it's malicious."
Comment Re:Isn't Facebook a private company? (Score 1) 147
You obviously never happened to notice how they deal with nudity of any kind. That's a bit more editorial control than mere copyright watch.
Comment Re:NYT is clueless (Score 1) 89
Actually, the German CEO did state recently that he considered it a help for startups if they were to give the Telekom (the German mothership) money in order to gain access to a fast lane. He also stated that he'd consider a "few percents of the total revenue" fair.
Comment Re:Discourse meta (Score 2) 129
He was unable to discern between how some users behaved on his forum and how the same users behaved on another forum.
Thus the mass ban of all people from this other forum, even when they were completely innocent. The reasoning behind that move is The Daily WTF for us
Comment Re:Companies with stacked ranking don't do "remote (Score 1) 492
Setting goals you cannot achieve so you cannot get a bonus?
We recently had a similar case in Germany where a woman went to court because her company had promised her a bonus, but didn't want to pay it because the company as a whole had missed its target.
The judge didn't quite agree and pointed out that boni coupled to targets have to be set in such a way that it's possible for the individual to achieve this goal.
As a result, your firing over impossible to meet targets would have cost them quite a bit in severance pay...
Comment Re:Cannot reproduce (Score 1) 578
I definitely am signed in. Seems that "occasional" means "rarely if ever" for me
Comment Cannot reproduce (Score 5, Informative) 578
Updated both my desktop and my laptop to build 10565 and am not seeing those suggested apps.
Comment Re:Science is dangerous and math is stressful (Score 4, Interesting) 246
When I'm doing my safety lecture, I'm always demonstrating why some behaviours are not smart. Either by showing videos and photos, or actually doing an experiment which "goes wrong".
Much better if pupils know why some stuff is forbidden.
However, I'm, also showing them that the acids and lyes they'll be working with are not something to be massively afraid of. Respectful, yes. Afraid, no.
Comment Re:You stay classy, Irving ISD (Score 1) 657
Okay, I can only speak for 230 V (and 1,000,000 V due to my Van De Graaff generator
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