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Comment Re:Ah, the beauty of distributed repos (Score 3, Insightful) 49

Unfortunately for the developer, the way git is is designed, every developer holds a copy of the entire source in their local master branch, and the pipelines are codified. All RockChip have to do is take the latest available copy at hand, push to a new repo provider, do some extra devops on top of it to adjust the secrets and permissions in the pipeline and it's business as ususal within 24 hours

Fortunately for the developer, anyone shipping hardware with the infringing software is legally "hosting" it and can be forced to stop shipping it unless they want to pay major fines for every copt.

Comment GPL vs DMCA (Score 2) 49

Really, if someone commits copyright infringement by shipping your GPL licensed code without the GPL license, then the simplest way to stop them in the USA is a DMCA notice. The only surprising thing is that they waited two years.

That means anyone hosting the infringing material can be sued (including for example GitHub) and will therefore remove the material instantly, and you can still demand up to $150,000 for every infringing copy shipped to third parties.

Comment Thereâ(TM)s a scam - somebody has to be the v (Score 1, Troll) 14

It seems he tried to redeem a $500 gift card that was already redeemed. So obviously _some_ fraud and some scammerinvolved. Apple decided that since they were not the ones at fault, they were not making themselves the fraud victims and pay $500 to the scammer.

Comment Re: How many people board flights at Heathrow year (Score 1) 86

So what? What damage do you think can he cause with a non-existing flight ticket except some financial damage to the airline who will be forced to fly him back to Heathrow if he managed to get to LAX, for example? He cannot even use it to give me a paper cut because he doesnâ(TM)t have a bloody ticket.

Comment Re: Security Theater (Score 1) 86

In Germany he would easily get through security, because security checks security, not whether you have a valid passport, ticket etc. You can kill someone with a knife so security confiscates your knife. You canâ(TM)t kill someone with a fake passport, and definitely not with no ticket, so thatâ(TM)s not their business. Making sure you have a ticket is someone elseâ(TM)s job.

Comment Re: Security Theater (Score 2) 86

I had a colleague who had studied architecture. He told me they made little clay models of houses and for that you need a clay cutting tool that is sharp enough to cut clay. For all intents and purposes this tool is just a knife, but with an extremely sharp edge. Will make an absolutely clean cut through clay, which many knives cant, and cut your throat very easily. But officially itâ(TM)s not a knife, itâ(TM)s a clay cutting tool. They let him carry it on flights.

Comment Interesting but no security concern (Score 1) 86

So he got on a flight without paying for a ticket. Quite common on trains or underground in the UK, rare for an airplane. Saved himself a few hundred pound maybe except he got caught.

But no security risk, because anyone up to no good would obviously buy a ticket. Trying to get on a plane with a bomb or gun or knife but no ticket would just be obviously stupid. You wouldnâ(TM)t bring a bomb and risk being caught because you have no ticket.

Comment Just a quote (Score 1) 184

From someone wiser with me: "You can make people stay in the office more than 40 hours a week. You can't make them work more than 40 hours a week".

And I remember a study that showed after working six 60-hour weeks the total output per sixty hour week became less than after a forty hour week. Not productivity per hour, but per week.

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