There are in excess of 800k Police/Sheriff/Highway Patrol officers in the US. 50 doing bad things or even 500 is a very tiny percentage. Look at other professions and plot the sizable percentage that go rogue. I wonder what the % of CEO/CIO that commit fraud and embezzle is. Cops that go bad SHOULD be nailed to the wall, but quit painting everyone the same color as the crooks.
On another note Flock is a great tool provided it is strongly regulated. What they are doing today is crap. You need a writ or a warrant to get info on anyone...

FT or Field Training is 12 months AFTER a 14-18 week boot camp academy. You can be let go for any reason during your FT. That seems like a fairly robust training and guidance period. What other countries are you referring to ? All police in the world operate with "qualified immunity" not would not be possible to do the job without i.t

I've done some trail running. Not enough to make a hiker look silly, but a bit, and a lot of hiking. I was hiking in Ethiopia one time and we kept having to duck off the trail to let women carrying bundles of stuff on their heads pass. The real kicker was when a guy on crutches who didn't have any feet passed us.

They're 17. Brains don't work right at that age.

People do dumb stuff in the mountains all the time. A couple of people apparently tried to hike this trail last winter in shorts.

This is a BC provincial park so there is undoubtedly a great big sign at the trailhead telling you how long to expect it to take and advising minimal equipment you should make sure to bring. There's also an official website (advising only experienced hikers go beyond a certain point) and many, many other websites.

I had to take an organizational behaviour course as part of my CS degree in the 90s. "Organizational behaviour" is basically how to get your employees to work harder without actually paying them more. This kind of lying was standard practice back then too, and certainly not just in some little part of California.

It is a nice thought but nothing more than that. Not even enough for a bad cup of coffee each.

Lawsuits are not guilty verdicts. Also, "lines of code" have nothing to do with whether they were copied, as in copy-paste, or filtered through somone's brain first.

You clearly don't know what you're talking about and are too lazy to even do a simple Google search, so what youthinks is pretty irrelevant.

"We know that people uniquely trust Google Earth" Anyone who trusts ANYTHING Gurgle puts out is foolish. Everything Gurgle does is for profit.

It seems like an unnecessary button. LinkedIn already has an icon that labels slop posts generally. It's a blue field with white letters "in".

You're going to buy a car with a list price of $X. Then you find out that it was in a bad hailstorm, or driven by the dealership owner's kid all summer or something. Nothing has changed, so you're still willing to pay list price, right?

More similar to this situation, you're selling your corner store. Corner stores of that kind are typically worth about $Y. However, a new school opened close by and your store is suddenly making twice as much as similar stores. Nothing has changed, so you're still willing to sell for $Y right?

When a human reads code and then produces very similar code, that is infringement.

It is not, any more than when someone writes a book about elves, some Slashdotter parrots something they heard somewhere, or a half decent programmer writes any of the algorithms found in Numerical Methods. The GP is correct, copyright protects the specific expression, not the idea, and both law and precedent protect the case where you read something, put it down, then generate your own. Only substantial portions of exact text and distinctive and recognizable things like character names are protected, and even then only when there are no circumstances like a limited number of ways to write something.

Proving you did that can be tricky. THAT's why "clean-room" implementations were invented. You document the fact that the implementer had no contact with the original so any resulting expression is obviously not infringing.

GCC is covering their asses, as they should. They wrote a completely unenforceable policy so if some bit of code is found to infringe on something for whatever reason they can just remove it and blame the dastardly policy violating original submitter.

Nope and it's not AI. Those are expert systems and the chatbots are Lizabots making Barnum statements.

There was a time when actual computer scientitsts frequented this site. Naive Bayes is a classic AI algorithm, and natural language context filtering is a classic AI problem.

Business types call it "pivoting." It's when your great idea turns out to be not a great idea but you don't want to return the investors' money so you quickly come up with another great idea.

The Hugging Face founders seem to have wanted to be smartasses and name their company with an emoji instead of actual words. Then they accidentally became more famous than they intended.

Sorry, I'm not sure what you're trying to say.