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Comment It's public domain (Score 1) 147

You can put public domain code in your project.

When a company like Penguin Classics puts out a public domain book with their own introduction, only their introduction is actually copyrighted.

The idea that the license covers all the code in your codebase has always been incorrect. And with AI, AI can take any source code and write a new version of it that isn't traceable. So it doesn't matter what your license says. Unless the code is super unique, claiming a copyright is absurd anyway.

I don't think the Open Source community cares "who owns it" as a lot of it comes from random users on the internet who posted it to help people solve an issue.

The only people who care who owns it is corporate.

Comment FOD (Score 1) 223

I feel like the most successful market for this will be Saudi Arabia.
Partly because of many people there having infinity money, but also the fact that it might be effectively single use.

Imagine your super car having foreign object damage (FOD) upon first use on a sandy road. That suction off the bottom requires absolutely clean air which exists nowhere when you're 3 inches off the ground. Sand, bad roads in general, FOD that thing out instantly. Also...when it hasn't quite died yet, imagine the mach 9000 speed bits of sand coming out the jets at the back.

Comment Re:Pull out the screwdriver (Score 1) 123

That job is several years behind me now.

Also, the people that do give a shit sometimes can't help themselves. The wireless has become such a basic part it started becoming difficult to buy a decent sized screen without it. Sure, there are REAL monitors of a large size out there, but they tend to be several thousand more than a similarly spec'd tv with wifi.

Comment Where did this come from? (Score 1) 25

Ok so I understand that they bought up Morpheus a while back, and it does some fantastic things with current state of virtualization with all the terraform and container tools that one could want...

But where did the underlying bare metal hypervisor come from? Is it BSD based so that it can be commercialized fully? Is it a significant enhancement over ZenServer? One doesn't usually just poof a new bare metal hypervisor out of nowhere.

Comment The Big Lie (Score 1) 190

The big lie is that everything that needs to be built is being built by big tech.

Meanwhile, we need nuclear power plants to keep up with massive growth in electricity demands.

We need desalination plants and people to dump salt in the middle of the ocean to replenish water in local ecosystems.

Those are just two obvious things.

We also need the arts, and more people reading books.

Capitalists only care about the profit in their own silo. The oligarchs are preventing more silos from being built.

That is why you tax their profits at 99% to force them to actually invest their money or pay it out to other people who can find better things to do with it than hoard it.

Comment Big Picture (Score 2) 109

Sure. One machine is compromised, in the MS engineers' heads.

The trouble is now there is a standardized, repeatable location and methodology that can be used to now get ALL the passwords ever typed into edge. Suddenly the text file sitting on my desktop named nextcomputerbuild.txt is a significantly less likely to be directly targeted by bad actors.

They need to think through - yup machine is hosed. Oh well...should have had better antivirus.... and eventually get to the point of realizing ermagerd now my bank accounts and investment accounts are emptied out and being used to fund terrorism.

Comment Re:No real penalty (Score 1) 29

I think the odds of him being used by a legit cyber crime organization vs the french victim organization just plain being criminally negligent are pretty even.

Potentially just wildly incompetent...but if I was defense of some 15 year old, I'd lay it out pretty hard that the security was probably so bad my mother could have tripped and fell into the data.

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