This was news about 20 years ago?
I too remember getting wrecked by bots in the Quake 2 days. The article belaboring how much better the AI was than the humans is misleading, that's not the achievement. The achievement is due to *how* these bots learned to play. They didn't have paths pre-programmed by a script, they learned everything about the game and the maps organically including the concept of capturing the flag. Where the bots of yore were probably big ass scripts defining all of their behavior with fuzzy logic and what not, these are using more sophisticated methods to achieve a similar end-result but without someone engineering it specifically to accomplish this goal.
Yup, those are the ones. If Federal copyright law is going to assert that you have a right to repair then doesn't that supersede those agreements? From the first one you linked:
The agreement will not allow farmers to buy repair parts, break firmware DRM, or otherwise alter software for the purposes of repair.
Although it's weird how TFA says:
Previously, it was legal to hack tractor firmware for the purposes of repair;
When the linked articles above suggest otherwise.
Notice the phrase "original specifications".
And if the original specifications include a bug in the software, isn't fixing it an upgrade?
A bug in the software isn't fundamental to the advertised value of the good. A tractor isn't advertised as, "60 HP diesel with bugs in the onboard software!".
The case is widely cited or referenced by the anti-GM community in the context of a fear of a company claiming ownership of a farmer’s crop based on the inadvertent presence of GM pollen grain or seed.[25][26] "The court record shows, however, that it was not just a few seeds from a passing truck, but that Mr Schmeiser was growing a crop of 95–98% pure Roundup Ready plants, a commercial level of purity far higher than one would expect from inadvertent or accidental presence. The judge could not account for how a few wayward seeds or pollen grains could come to dominate hundreds of acres without Mr Schmeiser’s active participation, saying ‘...none of the suggested sources could reasonably explain the concentration or extent of Roundup Ready canola of a commercial quality evident from the results of tests on Schmeiser’s crop’" – in other words, the original presence of Monsanto seed on his land in 1997 was indeed inadvertent, but the crop in 1998 was entirely purposeful.[27]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... If anyone wants more information on the case he's citing, it's well documented on wikipedia.
The difficult we do today; the impossible takes a little longer.
