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  1. Re:Nuclear weapons aren't the deterrent on Kim To N. Korean Military: Be Ready To Use Nuclear Weapons At Any Time (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    What confuses me, though, is why China doesn't just bite the bullet and allow that to happen. For a country of over 1.3 billion people, which builds brand new multi-million-person cities on a routine basis, cleaning up the mess of a collapsed North Korea wouldn't be unmanageable.

    Maybe this is the backup plan behind all of their empty megacities like Kangbashi.

  2. Re: Checks take a while to clear too on Bitcoin's Nightmare Scenario Has Come To Pass · · Score: 1

    That's not what they're saying. The point is that insufficient funds won't reverse a credit card transaction, whereas this could happen with a check or Bitcoin.

  3. Re:When I worked for these bums on IBM Sues Groupon Over 1990s Patents Related To Prodigy (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    With a 5-digit UID, your patent probably expired by now.

  4. Re:I'll go to hell for this. on Iraq's Mosul Dam Could Burst At Any Time (blastingnews.com) · · Score: 1

    bound and prostate

    Prostrate != Prostate. Unless you're imagining something a lot more unusual than I am.

  5. Re:Still has the problem of night on Scientists Achieve Perfect Efficiency For Water-Splitting Half-Reaction (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    OK. Geothermal, yes. But the cause of the energy in solar power isn't really relevant since that in itself is outside the Earth's energy system.

  6. Re:Disable SSLv2 on A Third of All HTTPS Websites Vulnerable To DROWN Attack (drownattack.com) · · Score: 1

    SSLv3? TLS 1.0 is no longer even PCI compliant due to vulnerabilities.

  7. Re: Wow, really? on A Third of All HTTPS Websites Vulnerable To DROWN Attack (drownattack.com) · · Score: 1

    And was forked from OpenSSL long after this bug was in the codebase.

  8. Now do it with ATSC on Microcasting Color TV By Abusing a Wi-Fi Chip (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    Right now, I think the cheapest ATSC "modulator" (probably not the right term) is in the neighborhood of $1000. Would be nice to connect something like this to in-home wiring to stream video over existing wiring.

  9. Re: But the license does NOT ban profit on Ebay Shop Scrapes Thingiverse, Sells Designs In Violation of Creative Commons (all3dp.com) · · Score: 1

    It's apples to oranges unless the fonts set a dangerous precedent. I agree with the font ruling for a lot of good reasons.

    SVG is really not code. It's still a description, just using polygons and color fills instead of pixels. Fonts are literally programmatic code.

    By your logic if I make a bit of code to print out a barbie doll it's perfectly legal to do so?

    That's a violation of trademark, not copyright.

    downloading them for commercial use broke copyright well before any prints were made of them.

    You can't violate copyright without copying. Downloading to your computer does not count as a copy.

  10. Re: But the license does NOT ban profit on Ebay Shop Scrapes Thingiverse, Sells Designs In Violation of Creative Commons (all3dp.com) · · Score: 1

    For a font it definitely does, if you do not have the rights to use the font the output is also tainted since it's just many copies of a copyrighted work.

    Not in the US: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    You may not be able to embed the font in a PDF due to copyright, but if you're printing there are zero legal restrictions. You just can't embed the font (copyright) or use the font's name (trademark).

    A 3D Printer isn't printing out an image. It sort of depends on the file format structure - if it's a 3D "image" vs programmatic instructions. The output of a computer program is not subject to the same copyright as the program itself. AutoCAD files are where you have established case law, but those are definitely more in the form of drawings than instructions.

  11. Re:Still has the problem of night on Scientists Achieve Perfect Efficiency For Water-Splitting Half-Reaction (phys.org) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Solar power is a distraction from energy production schemes that actually work.

    Solar power is the root of all energy production schemes that actually work. With maybe an exception for nuclear. It's the only energy input into our otherwise closed system. Oil and coal are both sequestered solar power, while wind and hydro are both driven by solar power converted to heat.

  12. Like H2?

  13. Re:DINOSAUR EGGS on Censorware Failure: Kiddle's "Child-Safe" Search Engine (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Chaos theory. Have to be sure the female dinosaurs at the park don't get any egg-generating ideas on their own.

  14. Re:what next? on Censorware Failure: Kiddle's "Child-Safe" Search Engine (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    To be honest, as a US Paypal user (and as someone who sets up Paypal payments for clients), Paypal is overly generous with refunding customers, to the point of sellers not wanting to deal with it anymore and enabling fraud by the consumer.

  15. Re:Removal of 'gay / lesbian' is controversial?? on Censorware Failure: Kiddle's "Child-Safe" Search Engine (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    pervasive hetero-normative themes

    Isn't hetero-normality pretty pervasive in itself? To be honest, Hollywood as a whole is overdoing it with the inclusiveness to the point that it subverts reality.

  16. Re: But the license does NOT ban profit on Ebay Shop Scrapes Thingiverse, Sells Designs In Violation of Creative Commons (all3dp.com) · · Score: 1

    It's nothing to do with license. The output of running code is not subject to the copyright of the code itself. A font is a program for generating text. A drawing made in Photoshop is not subject to Adobe's copyright either.

  17. Re:But the license does NOT ban profit on Ebay Shop Scrapes Thingiverse, Sells Designs In Violation of Creative Commons (all3dp.com) · · Score: 1

    And what if it was a Font distributed under a CC license? If you make a printed poster with words rendered from those fonts, does it have to have attribution of the font authors? A font is instructions for producing a shape (much like the 3D design files).

    However, that might just illustrate the limitations of copyright law. I'm not sure it's 100% fair to the creator, either.

  18. phone networks long ago quit charging for SMS messages on most contracts.

    This is only true on the more expensive plans. I am on a much cheaper plan and I get only 100-500 msgs per month without going to the next tier. In developing markets, getting the monthly fee to the lowest possible number and then overcharging for overages is the more profitable business model. In the US, you just pay extra by default for features you may not even be using.

  19. Re:Human exploration on South Korea Plans Moon Landing By 2020 (examiner.com) · · Score: 2

    This is just posturing against NK's launching a satellite into orbit. Another thing a rocket is good for is delivering a destructive payload to another country.

  20. All about the war? on South Korea Plans Moon Landing By 2020 (examiner.com) · · Score: 2

    Is this only because of North Korea's rocket test?

  21. Re:Does AT&T own the poles in question or not? on AT&T Sues Louisville Over Google Fiber (wdrb.com) · · Score: 1

    Do you think it should take weeks of cooperation to move a single nail? Or should the job just get done with no harm to anyone? If there's damages, sue for damages - otherwise, just trust each other and get along. It seems pretty reasonable.

  22. Re:Does AT&T own the poles in question or not? on AT&T Sues Louisville Over Google Fiber (wdrb.com) · · Score: 1

    This is discriminatory in Google's favor.

    It's more just in favor of any newcomer. Google won't be the only one. and AT&T can likely use this to their advantage when doing their own maintenance.

  23. Re:Yeah I've noticed that... on Tor Project Accuses CloudFlare of Mass Surveillance, Sabotaging Traffic (softpedia.com) · · Score: 2

    Yeah - the exit nodes that the person is using is likely also being used for DDoS or some other attack.

  24. Re: Duh. Because God made it on Swedish Scientist Suggests That There Is Only One Earth (blastingnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Agape as somehow "above" merely human love

    It's just a Greek word being used for clarity. Not above human love, but above human nature. I don't think you'd even find self-sacrificial love (such as parent for child) being debated as anything but better in most contexts.

  25. Re:Duh. Because God made it on Swedish Scientist Suggests That There Is Only One Earth (blastingnews.com) · · Score: 1

    It's more of a testament to the fact that mankind was going to get it wrong all along.