It doesn't. If it's public domain, i.e. uncopyrightable, that's what it is. Anybody can use it for whatever they want. It doesn't infect the rest of your code the way the GPL does.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

That one averaged 100 km/h over 3000 km.

The limitations of solar cars depend on what you decide "car" means. This one starts with a carbon fiber frame, meaning it's probably closer to the thing I linked than the thing you're thinking of.

Have you ever seen someone process a return at a store that's not really used to them? Or watched a customs officer process anything other than a routine border crossing, for that matter?

A dozen an hour seems pretty brisk in comparison.

Obviously, this is another ignorant American posting. Apparently not confident enough to post under user; so maybe there is some hope for this one... usually Americans are so confidently ignorant; like a chatbot and also living in a hallucination.

The Chinese version is quite different than the us version and they protected their kids; still do and we do not at all. We sacrifice them to the firearms gods of reading incomprehension every school shooting.

decades old, biggest fraud ever continues to kill

They'll not remember where they put all that money... will it ever be found?? More likely after years of lawsuits and playing games with judge's orders they'll just have the government print more money while they keep their stolen money. The treasury is totally corrupt. I'm waiting for Putin to buy bitcoin so then we can move our gold reserve into bitcoin...

Email readers essentially look like spreadsheets with 3 different panes, accounts, messages, message details. There is no other way to do it.

Ah, you must be one of those young people who only cares about looks. Behold:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

I admit a list of accounts is somewhat handy, so long as it can be hidden somehow. Having a pane for the message subject and another for the message itself has annoyed me ever since it was foisted on us in the early 2000s and then became non-optional in most software a decade later.

Why would they need to warn anybody? If the code is public domain someone can use it freely.

Looking at who the top maintainers are, I suspect the goal here was to remove the restrictions imposed by the GPL so the software could be easily used in closed source programs from their employers. The MIT license allows that. Public domain even more so.

By the time it gets to them, it will have been an expensive, annoying court case for two or three years.

In case you somehow missed it, my post was sarcasm.

There are good reasons to keep ISS running, the most obvious one being that it exists and is up there now. It is useful as a location for space-based experiments, and now that they have stopped the leaky Russian module from leaking, the most critical reason for shutting it down no longer exists.

Mind you, given the political situation, it would be great to not have to keep paying Russia to keep their parts operational, but the most critical "Russian" parts were paid for by the U.S., so we own those parts. And the rest at least arguably don't matter, or could be replaced with new modules built by western companies.

So shutting it down means spending a rather large amount of money to replace the whole thing when all they really need to do is jettison any Russian modules that the U.S. doesn't own so that they don't have to keep paying Russia, and optionally replace them with new modules. It's like throwing away a whole computer because your hard drive got full, even though you have already cleaned up a bunch of stuff and now it is almost empty.

Shutting down a modular station because of some old modules never made sense to me. Open up contracts to replace the modules. Building commercial space stations also never made sense, because there isn't exactly a huge queue of companies wanting to do experiments in space, and space tourism likely won't fulfill the scientific mission of ISS.

A more reasonable approach would be to allow companies to build their space tourism stations and connect them to ISS so that ISS could be a lifeboat for them and vice versa in an emergency. Allow some limited access across the boundaries, but minimal resource sharing. If it becomes obvious that the commercial companies can render parts of ISS unnecessary by just paying them some money, then reevaluate those plans over time.

But without ISS, how will those poor defense contractors earn their corporate welfare? Won't someone think of the corporations?

With that much spin, I'm the Pentagon hasn't started emitting radio signals.

There's a word for this: extortion. The military has decided that if they cannot use Anthropic's technology in any way they please, that they will just ban all government use, in an attempt to force the company to violate their principles. Here's hoping Anthropic shows them that the real world doesn't work that way by spanking them with a volley of lawsuits that will keep government lawyers employed for the next decade.

That's not a principle. That's a functional requirement for the software that you're buying. If it is spelled out in the requirements document when a company bid on the contract, then they are obligated to comply. If you failed to specify the requirements in such a way that you could do whatever you want, tough s**t. That's your mistake. Do better next time. It's no different than any other situation where the government buys something that isn't suitable for what they are trying to use it for. They should have understood what they were buying before they bought it. Period.

I think it is safe to say that if those requirements were in the contract, the military would have sued for breach by now. So what we have are a bunch of embarrassed generals who failed to do due diligence in their procurement contracts, are realizing how much money they wasted, and are acting in ways that likely violate any number of federal securities laws, among others, to try to force the company into accepting an amended contract or else watch their dreams of an IPO (rumored to happen soon) turn into a nightmare.

I believe that the maximum penalty for securities fraud is 25 years. Just saying.

Airlines already have the right to remove or otherwise deal with disruptive passengers, where "distruptive" is pretty broad. Just not obeying a crew member is illegal most places. American airlines just find it a good idea to also put specifics in the actual contract so they can point to it when they get sued.

On the other hand, I was on a flight where the woman behind me kept demanding booze from the flight attendants before we'd even moved. Eventually they gave her a bottle to shut her up and she fell asleep and didn't bother anybody again.

Perhaps a registry that keeps track of whether you're more annoying drunk or sober.

Duct tape suffices.