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Comment Re:What? (Score 1) 284

Many of Trumps ventures have been such obvious bad deals that one must conclude that the only purpose is to provide a way for people and entities to funnel money to Trump in the guise of purchasing a product or service. This is therefore an attempt at an end run around the Emoluments Clause. For example, a foreign country could buy a bunch of these phones, with no plan to use them. This is also money laundering, but I guess the SCOTUS would say POTUS is immune from such laws, and the only remedy for violating the Emoluments Clause is impeachment.

Comment Typefaces are not Copyrightable (Score 5, Insightful) 54

Typefaces are not copyrightable in the US. The font file is copyrightable, but unless the "clone font" is just literally the same files just renamed or something, it's perfectly legal. It is common for fonts to be "cloned" by re-creating the font outlines in font authoring software. I'm guessing this is the case here because they were able to tell it was specifically *that* clone font, so there must be some distinctive change they made when tracing the original font.

Comment They didn't debunk anything (Score 2) 124

The thought experiment is about an infinite number of monkeys for an infinite about of time. Nobody who understands the statistics behind this has claimed that you can get the works of Shakespeare using 1000 monkeys in some finite amount of time, even the lifespan of the universe, or even that you could somehow do useful writing work with monkeys randomly typing and somehow filtering the results.

Comment Re:24 or 32 GB RAM 512 GB storage more realistic (Score 1) 105

The RAM and SSD are not upgradable, and you cannot decouple the SSD from the device, it is literally chips soldered to the main board. They claim performance benefit of tightly integrating the RAM and the M-series CPU. If the device is being used in any kind of industry with high confidentiality requirements, such as health care, the whole device will need to be verifiably destroyed when it is decommissioned. (This is more due to the SSD than the RAM).

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