Why does the European Space Agency have something to say on this matter?
It doesn't, except to the extent that games published by members of the Entertainment Software Association use data sets published by the European Space Agency.
1 is probably not fair use, as the production could instead produce an original film and have the characters watch that film. In fact, "Angels With Filthy Souls" in Home Alone is exactly that.
2. The production can instead build a replica set. That's how it'd have to be done anyway for movies set before color motion picture film became widespread.
3. Star Trek Generations and Star Trek VI share a distributor. Licensing is a doddle in such cases.
You aren't getting the same bits. The stream on a BD and the stream for Amazon or Netflix often have different quantizer settings, even if they are made from the same pixels. A higher quantizer reduces bitrate but adds more noise to the picture to make it easier to compress.
When I was of the proper age to appreciate Happy Meal, the toys were released one per week over the course of the campaign to encourage return visits. Has McDonald's since changed that to random chance without a way to trade in duplicates?
And as long as the F2P games are not selling WIN buttons, we're ok with it.
Sometimes it's not a "win" button but a "play at all" button. In the mobile version of Dungeon Keeper, for instance, excavating past a certain distance from the starting point ends up taking 1 day per cell without consumable items purchased with real money, and a typical room is 25 cells. So much for Dungeon Keeper being "real-time" strategy.
That's why I usually wait for the GOTY edition to come out that already has all of the "seasons" (or expansion packs as they used to be known).
But how are you sure that such an edition will come out at all before the game's publisher shuts down the official multiplayer matchmaking server and asserts copyright against unofficial ones?
If you claim that the requirement of an electronic payment method ought to be enough to make a game rated AO, then why shouldn't all games on an online store (PlayStation Store, Itch, Steam, Apple App Store, Google Play Store, etc.) be rated AO? Parents are buying games for their minor children to play.
Consider "shareware" games, which are free to play the first few levels, then one payment for the rest, like Doom (1993) or Super Mario Run. Should these be AO because of the possibility to register them?
Even if Apple Pay works for CNP purchases, for what fraction of the online shopping user base is it practical to buy a Mac, iPhone, or iPad just to continue to transact online, in addition to the non-Apple desktop, laptop, tablet, or pocket computer you already own? Or has Apple announced plans to expand Apple Pay to competitors' operating systems?
When misfeatures and missing features of Windows keep me from getting work done during the commute, then of course Microsoft has something to do with it. For example, what Wayland server are WSL users using?
I might be perfectly willing to bear an hour of congested commute if I can kick back and do some work
Good luck with that once it becomes harder to find an affordable compact laptop computer whose operating system respects its users. (System76 laptops aren't especially compact.)
vehicle will arrive for pick up "pretty soon" rather than "sometime in the next 45 minutes or perhaps not at all if there is some event or mechanical breakdown"
Or in the case of bus systems that don't run at all on Sundays or major holidays, "pretty soon" rather than "36 to 60 hours from now". Such systems include those of Fort Wayne, Indiana, and Tulsa, Oklahoma.
The summary implies that the test assumed current subscriber-to-tower ratios. I imagine that prioritizing bursty interactive traffic improves overall user experience for a given subscriber-to-tower ratio.
I assume the test involves some simulation of the congestion control policies that Qualcomm expects cellular ISPs to apply. An ISP can oversell capacity more for bursty interactive use than for bulk downloads.
When the user navigates to an HTML document, a browser doesn't immediately display the data as it comes in. Doing that would cause the layout to jump around as style sheets, images, and fonts provided by the server replace those built into the browser and operating system. This jumping is often called the "flash of unstyled content" (FOUC). So before rendering anything, some browsers wait until the layout "above the fold" (that which can be seen without scrolling) has stabilized.
The CA is not saying anything about the products they provide.
Agreed.
Further, in practice, all you need is a DUNs number, which you get just by applying to them. The CA then checks that number matches your name.
Apparently getting a D-U-N-S number requires your business to be organized as a corporation or LLC, not a doing-business-as or other passthrough. Thus there's also the cost to incorporate or form an LLC with your jurisdiction's business regulator, keep that corporation or LLC renewed, and file its income tax return. Or should every developer of free software and every hobbyist developer of proprietary freeware be expected to have already done this?
There is absolutely nothing wrong with thieves.com getting a code signing cert that validates that their malware is genuine thieves.com malware.
Except the CAs that I'm aware of don't trust domain ownership; they insist on (at least pretending) to verify the organization's identity and charging for that (purported) service. Either that or there's some automated CA that I'm not aware of that offers a code signing certificate accepted by Windows at negligible or no cost to, say, free software developers or hobbyist developers of proprietary freeware. Which CA might that be?
There's currently no counterpart in the code signing PKI to domain validation.
Of course there is.
What CA issues a code signing certificate that operating systems trust automatically based solely on evidence of domain ownership?
You can even self-sign your code signing certificate.
That has the same drawback as self-signed TLS certificates. Because operating systems do not trust them, the operating system assumes that the publisher is trying to impersonate the would-be rightful holder of such a certificate and blocks execution.
One key difference between the TLS certificates that Let's Encrypt offers and code signing certificates is that the latter are always at least organization-validated. There's currently no counterpart in the code signing PKI to domain validation.
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Why does the European Space Agency have something to say on this matter?
It doesn't, except to the extent that games published by members of the Entertainment Software Association use data sets published by the European Space Agency.
1 is probably not fair use, as the production could instead produce an original film and have the characters watch that film. In fact, "Angels With Filthy Souls" in Home Alone is exactly that.
2. The production can instead build a replica set. That's how it'd have to be done anyway for movies set before color motion picture film became widespread.
3. Star Trek Generations and Star Trek VI share a distributor. Licensing is a doddle in such cases.
You aren't getting the same bits. The stream on a BD and the stream for Amazon or Netflix often have different quantizer settings, even if they are made from the same pixels. A higher quantizer reduces bitrate but adds more noise to the picture to make it easier to compress.
The difference is that the authors of many beloved classic Flash cartoons and games aren't around to remake them for HTML5.
The first 21 claims are based on a claim of the device having two display separated by a hinge.
What in the claims distinguishes this invention from Nintendo DS?
When I was of the proper age to appreciate Happy Meal, the toys were released one per week over the course of the campaign to encourage return visits. Has McDonald's since changed that to random chance without a way to trade in duplicates?
On the other hand, what fraction of player spending on game purchases (download price, expansion prices, and consumable prices) is on AAA games?
And as long as the F2P games are not selling WIN buttons, we're ok with it.
Sometimes it's not a "win" button but a "play at all" button. In the mobile version of Dungeon Keeper, for instance, excavating past a certain distance from the starting point ends up taking 1 day per cell without consumable items purchased with real money, and a typical room is 25 cells. So much for Dungeon Keeper being "real-time" strategy.
That's why I usually wait for the GOTY edition to come out that already has all of the "seasons" (or expansion packs as they used to be known).
But how are you sure that such an edition will come out at all before the game's publisher shuts down the official multiplayer matchmaking server and asserts copyright against unofficial ones?
If you claim that the requirement of an electronic payment method ought to be enough to make a game rated AO, then why shouldn't all games on an online store (PlayStation Store, Itch, Steam, Apple App Store, Google Play Store, etc.) be rated AO? Parents are buying games for their minor children to play.
Consider "shareware" games, which are free to play the first few levels, then one payment for the rest, like Doom (1993) or Super Mario Run. Should these be AO because of the possibility to register them?
Even if Apple Pay works for CNP purchases, for what fraction of the online shopping user base is it practical to buy a Mac, iPhone, or iPad just to continue to transact online, in addition to the non-Apple desktop, laptop, tablet, or pocket computer you already own? Or has Apple announced plans to expand Apple Pay to competitors' operating systems?
But it's only been about 5 years since the -gate suffix was popularised. (It wasn't watergate that did that).
It dates back no later than 1993 with Travelgate and Filegate.
When misfeatures and missing features of Windows keep me from getting work done during the commute, then of course Microsoft has something to do with it. For example, what Wayland server are WSL users using?
The other four did not change their behavior in response to the rise of taxi replacements:
I might be perfectly willing to bear an hour of congested commute if I can kick back and do some work
Good luck with that once it becomes harder to find an affordable compact laptop computer whose operating system respects its users. (System76 laptops aren't especially compact.)
vehicle will arrive for pick up "pretty soon" rather than "sometime in the next 45 minutes or perhaps not at all if there is some event or mechanical breakdown"
Or in the case of bus systems that don't run at all on Sundays or major holidays, "pretty soon" rather than "36 to 60 hours from now". Such systems include those of Fort Wayne, Indiana, and Tulsa, Oklahoma.
The summary implies that the test assumed current subscriber-to-tower ratios. I imagine that prioritizing bursty interactive traffic improves overall user experience for a given subscriber-to-tower ratio.
I assume the test involves some simulation of the congestion control policies that Qualcomm expects cellular ISPs to apply. An ISP can oversell capacity more for bursty interactive use than for bulk downloads.
Perhaps the most honest metric is the time to first meaningful paint.
When the user navigates to an HTML document, a browser doesn't immediately display the data as it comes in. Doing that would cause the layout to jump around as style sheets, images, and fonts provided by the server replace those built into the browser and operating system. This jumping is often called the "flash of unstyled content" (FOUC). So before rendering anything, some browsers wait until the layout "above the fold" (that which can be seen without scrolling) has stabilized.
Callback to alt.fan.karl-malden.nose two decades ago, I take it
EFF? Are they chiming in on this?
Yes. Electronic Frontier Foundation does in fact have an issue page about right to repair.
https://slashdot.org/comments....
The CA is not saying anything about the products they provide.
Agreed.
Further, in practice, all you need is a DUNs number, which you get just by applying to them. The CA then checks that number matches your name.
Apparently getting a D-U-N-S number requires your business to be organized as a corporation or LLC, not a doing-business-as or other passthrough. Thus there's also the cost to incorporate or form an LLC with your jurisdiction's business regulator, keep that corporation or LLC renewed, and file its income tax return. Or should every developer of free software and every hobbyist developer of proprietary freeware be expected to have already done this?
So no check at all really.
And that your credit card is valid.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with thieves.com getting a code signing cert that validates that their malware is genuine thieves.com malware.
Except the CAs that I'm aware of don't trust domain ownership; they insist on (at least pretending) to verify the organization's identity and charging for that (purported) service. Either that or there's some automated CA that I'm not aware of that offers a code signing certificate accepted by Windows at negligible or no cost to, say, free software developers or hobbyist developers of proprietary freeware. Which CA might that be?
There's currently no counterpart in the code signing PKI to domain validation.
Of course there is.
What CA issues a code signing certificate that operating systems trust automatically based solely on evidence of domain ownership?
You can even self-sign your code signing certificate.
That has the same drawback as self-signed TLS certificates. Because operating systems do not trust them, the operating system assumes that the publisher is trying to impersonate the would-be rightful holder of such a certificate and blocks execution.
One key difference between the TLS certificates that Let's Encrypt offers and code signing certificates is that the latter are always at least organization-validated. There's currently no counterpart in the code signing PKI to domain validation.