I would imagine it is because the passwords were stored as one-way hashes, and they use a 3rd party payment processor for financial transactions.

You're talking about if the sound had 50% more energy. However, since human hearing is logarithmic, doubling the energy will lead to a 3 decibel increase, which humans perceive to only be about 25% louder. When people say "50 percent louder", in sound terms that is pretty close to 6 decibels (1.25 * 1.25 = 1.56), which is 4x the power.

So, they are actually pretty close to spot on. 50 percent louder can be heard roughly 2x farther away.

You are absolutely right. Not just the open web, but everything on the web with any kind of incentive. If there is anything to be gained, people will launch a barrage of slop in the quest to gain it.

"...combined field observations of more than 20,000 lake skygazer fish from lakes..."

Not sure how fishing fleets roaming the oceans impacted the lake fish, but if you say so ...

I'm not a lawyer, but my interpretation of the law is that they would be OK if they used traditional paints. If they hand drew the image using something like Photoshop or Painter, they might still be liable.

is created through the use of software, machine learning, artificial intelligence, or any other computer-generated or technological means.

Maybe an ambitious lawyer would pull up some renaissance manuscript describing oil paint as high technology, but I think most judges are going to interpret that to mean it has to be digital.

I haven't seen Sassy Justice, but given what I know about the South Park universe, I imagine it would not meet the criteria of: is indistinguishable from an authentic visual depiction of the identifiable individual when viewed as a whole by a reasonable person.

One dog I had as a kid (an American Eskimo) had a ridiculously large vocabulary. You could tell that she was always listening to everything said in the house. When we wouldn't want her to know what we were talking about we would spell words, and then she learned the spellings. My friends didn't believe me, so they would try spelling words using monotone voices, directed at somebody else etc, and she would always react.

She wasn't necessarily the most trainable dog because she was a bit stubborn, but you could always tell that she knew exactly what you wanted!

Yes, for a lot of dishes you can look to general purpose cookbooks (Joy of Cooking, or something like it). But a great part of the internet is that you can find regional dishes from all over the world. In fact, the very first thing I read when I got on the usenet in 1990 was from a recipe group.

For example, my son has gotten really into watching Liverpool football. People from Liverpool are often called "scousers" based on a stew that is popular around there, so the last time they played I wanted to make my son some authentic scouse to eat while we watched the game. How am I supposed to get an authentic recipe for a regional dish when I live halfway around the world if I don't use the internet?

When I went to find a recipe, most of the top results were indeed AI slop with all regional context removed. It's a stew, and a hundred locals will all cook it a different way - I want their stories of why they include the ingredients that they do, where the recipe comes from, etc. It was harder for me to find that then it was in 1990 when I was using usenet and a dialup modem.

It's weird for the article to not even address this, given how two sentences earlier they said "To prevent two of them from colluding to cook the results..."

Javascript can have linked lists and recursion. It is not uncommon for me to use recursion in my js code. Linked lists are less common since js arrays can do most of the things that you would normally use a linked list for, but there is no reason why you couldn't have students build their own list implementation for the sake of instruction.

There may not be pointers in js, but there is enough of a concept of references to explain it. Similarly, you can show a student typeof() show them how types are mutable in js, and explain that in some languages that is not how it works. Any halfway smart student will understand the implications that strong typing would have.

If a keylogger finds its way onto your computer, then all your passwords are essentially toast anyway.

I think that your reasoning is assuming a much smaller chunk size than torrents actually use. Torrents usually have somewhere in the neighborhood of 1000 pieces, which would translate to roughly 5 seconds of a 90 minute movie. The pieces are definitely way too large to support your claim of, "practically that would make every sequence of bits someone's intellectual property," you could download torrents for the lifetime of the universe and probably not have two identical pieces.

Courts have found for copyright holders when musicians have sampled less than 5 seconds of songs (a single bittorrent piece of a move would of course not be playable for even 5 seconds because of the way video encoding works, so that argument may or may not hold up).

I'm no rocket scientist, but I am pretty sure that they largely use liquid oxygen for the rocket boosters. Most of the exhaust is probably water vapor and oxygen.