If there is no original footage, there can be no copyright violation on the original works. Fan-fiction, whether the author allows it or not, is not part of the original author's copyright. The author has legally no say in what other people can and cannot write (and any legal decision that says they do is unconstitutional). A fictional character can be copyrighted only if they are very well-defined (usually written) and non-generic, it can also be trademarked but that does not exempt them from parody and a whole other litany of copyright/trademark exceptions also known as fair use. A "power-ranger-like" character is fairly generic (costumed (teenage) super-hero?).
That's like saying the KKK, Westboro Baptist Church, Jehovah's Witnesses, (insert dangerous cult here) aren't "real" Christians. They still believe they are, it doesn't matter what the rest of the world thinks about them, as long as they believe they are doing the right thing.
The problem with Islam is that unlike Christianity they are loosely unified in their belief systems. They in large lines won't call each other out for the hypocrisy or violence. Most Islamists, even the 'moderates' will, if nothing else, quietly avert their eyes when it comes to their interpretation of the Prophet and the Koran. There are some pockets of progressive Islamists that will call out against the violence but they won't go as far as to say that the Koran is incorrect.
Christians have progressed far enough where the progressive Christians will say that the Bible is on occasion incorrect, moderates will say it's allegorical while all but the staunchest of conservatives will say that it's up to God or government to do the punishing. Doesn't mean that the Christian faith is any 'better', it's just slightly better adjusted so as not to upset the majority of people although they still want to take over the world as much as ISIS does (look at how much they have been pushing creationism and anti-science in the last decade)
And how would you do that? You can fill it with junk, but then an attacker can just hide among the junk. Or you could put very bad, lengthy versions of your program in there but then that would make your program slow and cumbersome to use, debug and troubleshoot. You'd actually possibly create more attack vectors trying to fill in blank space.
The amount they pay out to the artist per stream is irrelevant if you don't know how much streams, how much revenue and how much other costs they incur.
If they pay $0.1/stream to the 'rights holders' and $0.001 to the artist, then that is a contractual issue between the artist and the rights holders. If Pandora pays $1M upfront to a label company to stream their library and then additionally pays $0.001 to the artist/stream and Spotify pays nothing to a label company but pays $0.006 to the label company who then gives 1% to the artist, then which approach gets the artist more money?
Why would the price go up? They can simply wind down some coal or gas powered plants and pass the savings on to the customers. I smell shenanigans on the side of your power company, your prices would've gone up regardless. In one version it would be 'because Apple is using more power than they told us' in the other, it would be 'because Apple isn't using all the power they told us'.
And you can't stop an idiot from being an idiot. If they don't join ISIS, they'll join the military, your local police force or a mall security detail. If they join ISIS at least they have a higher chance of being taken out of the reproductive pool.
No, the best way of frustrating an enemy like that is simply ignoring them. The technique works on pretty much any type of fundamentalism. You can see the effectiveness by ignoring a fundy Christian (eg. a family member) whenever they start talking about the end-of-days or whatever.
Amps? Really? You obviously have no idea what you're talking about. There is no 30A coursing anywhere through your brain - we'd have an MRI machine on our head if that were the case and anything metal in a 3m radius would (fatally) fly towards our heads.
The problem wasn't the iPads - with edu discounts those things are cheap. The problem was the fact they went with Pearson - the mother of all rip-off scams. I think in this instance the 'software' came at a $1000+/student/school year price tag or something like that. They are the same people that cause a standardized test to come in at $1200.
The problem is that there are too much applications for most "prestigious" schools to fulfill. Everyone with a scholarship or enough money is going to apply to Harvard, Yale, MIT, Carnegie... Even less-prestigious schools have to turn down thousands of applicants yearly. There are simply too many kids and not enough space to educate these kids.
There is no shortage of employees in these fields, I know plenty of people in those fields that are unemployed, both freshly educated as well as seasoned scientists and techies (I work at a somewhat prestigious University). There is a shortage of 'free' or 'cheap' slave labor however and that's what H1B's are there for - H1B's with PhD's at $26k/year and minimum benefits - why not.
There is nobody paying for men's vasectomies. Male contraception of any type is not even covered under ObamaCare. Even though male contraception thus far has always been cheaper and safer than female contraception.
So millions of people stopped working altogether and stopped collecting unemployment? How are they making money? How are they surviving? Why have I not heard about this and how do I stop working and put food on the table?
And what's the difference there to running Ubuntu or Fedora? I can give Ubuntu to someone and say "run this" and if they are not technically adept, they are none the wiser. Gnome or KDE is the default for most desktop Linux distro. Same would go for your KDE distro, except you'd have one more distro to contend with the others.
Although KSplice is nice (and functionality like this has been in Solaris/AIX/... for a really long time), last time I looked at it, it didn't support live-patching everything. You couldn't just bump an entire kernel version (as is possible on Solaris), only patch modules with a very specific patch as long as there are no processes using any part of it.
I'm happy you're not working for me and not developing real software then.
I've used Cygwin (or at least tried to) and Python on Windows. You're missing a hell of a lot of things there that are crucial for development and relying on VisualC to not screw you over.
It may be that weird but the explosion has to be on the scale of an object with several times more energy than our sun to make such thing possible. According to some, a black hole could have a universe attached to it, a controlled explosion could thus create a universe and subsequently also allow it to collapse. Any aliens in the universe wouldn't notice though.
Any decent IDE has the capability of pointing at least towards unused blocks of code and will generate a tree of function calls. I've worked with Eclipse and Xcode both of which have these capabilities. Even GCC (or another C compiler) can warn you about chunks of unused code or missing/bad header files. You can also rename functions across the entire codebase if necessary.
If your code has warnings or errors, continue fixing until the warnings are gone. As far as functions that do similar things but are named differently, that is a bit harder because 'looks like they are doing the same thing' doesn't always mean they ARE doing the same thing (if they have the exact same code, you could perhaps solve with statistical analysis or simply a text finder).
Make sure that if you replace a function that it has the same behavior in all cases. Even mediocre developers have learned that reuse existing code is a "good thing" and often different functions that do "the same thing" have edge cases (often undocumented) where it does behave differently (especially in C/C++ eg. difference in signedness, memory mapping method, characters etc)
Spending money to build infrastructure isn't deficit spending. It's an investment in the local economy. If it brings a few businesses to town or even better, creates them, it is essentially free
Where is the community for said platform? Does it give you a good example in a simple fashion? Or do I have to read reams of data sheets?
I've had to read data sheets for the Arduino but most of the stuff is easily available with plenty of examples to learn from. The cores of these processors have been around for years but until someone puts it in an easy to use package, only specialists will use it and specialists already know how to pick the best technology for a specific task.
I was about to write something similar. I've developed on a Pi since the beginning and got accelerated, seamless video and picture loops to work for an ad platform currently in production. Changing to another board would cost another 300-500 hours in development costs. And that is if the other boards even have the features, most of the "other" boards don't have stable, open API to the GPU.
Mali GPUs which most of the "other boards" run just got decent acceleration in Linux in 2014, years after introduction of the chip because the manufacturer doesn't want to cooperate (and the android binary isn't a solution).
There used to be an option in BIOS'es (may still be there, don't know) to enable spread spectrum clocking. This basically caused the system to slightly vary (spread out) various clocking signals in order to lower emissions at a particular frequency in order to pass FCC inspections.
This thing requires malware to be installed anyway, at that point it's trivial to do anything. You could send things through any port which many computers have webcam lights, backlights and status indicators that can be controlled quick enough for any human to notice.
They 'invented' RAIDZ3? Or they are perhaps using ZFS or something similar internally and not telling anyone (like so many in the industry). Sure you can achieve very high reliability using ZFS but most systems maintain those 9's by a) having hot spares and b) replacing disks that failed in a timely manner. They are simply adding more hot spares so a service call is less important, you can just go by and replace 5 disks at a time whenever you need to expand your storage.
They also forgot to mention that once disks start failing, you could easily have a whole set of them fail. Especially with firmware issues or if someone dropped an entire box in shipping. Once you drop below 2 hotspares/10 disks, you are in serious risk of degrading your system because disks could fail while rebuilding as well.
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If there is no original footage, there can be no copyright violation on the original works.
Fan-fiction, whether the author allows it or not, is not part of the original author's copyright. The author has legally no say in what other people can and cannot write (and any legal decision that says they do is unconstitutional).
A fictional character can be copyrighted only if they are very well-defined (usually written) and non-generic, it can also be trademarked but that does not exempt them from parody and a whole other litany of copyright/trademark exceptions also known as fair use. A "power-ranger-like" character is fairly generic (costumed (teenage) super-hero?).
That's like saying the KKK, Westboro Baptist Church, Jehovah's Witnesses, (insert dangerous cult here) aren't "real" Christians. They still believe they are, it doesn't matter what the rest of the world thinks about them, as long as they believe they are doing the right thing.
The problem with Islam is that unlike Christianity they are loosely unified in their belief systems. They in large lines won't call each other out for the hypocrisy or violence. Most Islamists, even the 'moderates' will, if nothing else, quietly avert their eyes when it comes to their interpretation of the Prophet and the Koran. There are some pockets of progressive Islamists that will call out against the violence but they won't go as far as to say that the Koran is incorrect.
Christians have progressed far enough where the progressive Christians will say that the Bible is on occasion incorrect, moderates will say it's allegorical while all but the staunchest of conservatives will say that it's up to God or government to do the punishing. Doesn't mean that the Christian faith is any 'better', it's just slightly better adjusted so as not to upset the majority of people although they still want to take over the world as much as ISIS does (look at how much they have been pushing creationism and anti-science in the last decade)
And how would you do that? You can fill it with junk, but then an attacker can just hide among the junk. Or you could put very bad, lengthy versions of your program in there but then that would make your program slow and cumbersome to use, debug and troubleshoot. You'd actually possibly create more attack vectors trying to fill in blank space.
Nothing, artists typically pay to get their songs on the radio.
The amount they pay out to the artist per stream is irrelevant if you don't know how much streams, how much revenue and how much other costs they incur.
If they pay $0.1/stream to the 'rights holders' and $0.001 to the artist, then that is a contractual issue between the artist and the rights holders. If Pandora pays $1M upfront to a label company to stream their library and then additionally pays $0.001 to the artist/stream and Spotify pays nothing to a label company but pays $0.006 to the label company who then gives 1% to the artist, then which approach gets the artist more money?
Not in the foreseeable future (next billion-or-so years)
Why would the price go up? They can simply wind down some coal or gas powered plants and pass the savings on to the customers. I smell shenanigans on the side of your power company, your prices would've gone up regardless. In one version it would be 'because Apple is using more power than they told us' in the other, it would be 'because Apple isn't using all the power they told us'.
And you can't stop an idiot from being an idiot. If they don't join ISIS, they'll join the military, your local police force or a mall security detail. If they join ISIS at least they have a higher chance of being taken out of the reproductive pool.
No, the best way of frustrating an enemy like that is simply ignoring them. The technique works on pretty much any type of fundamentalism. You can see the effectiveness by ignoring a fundy Christian (eg. a family member) whenever they start talking about the end-of-days or whatever.
Salaries are fine, I work anywhere between 10 and 40h/week, come and leave when I want and get paid for a full work week.
Amps? Really? You obviously have no idea what you're talking about. There is no 30A coursing anywhere through your brain - we'd have an MRI machine on our head if that were the case and anything metal in a 3m radius would (fatally) fly towards our heads.
The problem wasn't the iPads - with edu discounts those things are cheap. The problem was the fact they went with Pearson - the mother of all rip-off scams. I think in this instance the 'software' came at a $1000+/student/school year price tag or something like that. They are the same people that cause a standardized test to come in at $1200.
They're only selecting girls? *ducks*
The problem is that there are too much applications for most "prestigious" schools to fulfill. Everyone with a scholarship or enough money is going to apply to Harvard, Yale, MIT, Carnegie... Even less-prestigious schools have to turn down thousands of applicants yearly. There are simply too many kids and not enough space to educate these kids.
There is no shortage of employees in these fields, I know plenty of people in those fields that are unemployed, both freshly educated as well as seasoned scientists and techies (I work at a somewhat prestigious University). There is a shortage of 'free' or 'cheap' slave labor however and that's what H1B's are there for - H1B's with PhD's at $26k/year and minimum benefits - why not.
There is nobody paying for men's vasectomies. Male contraception of any type is not even covered under ObamaCare. Even though male contraception thus far has always been cheaper and safer than female contraception.
So millions of people stopped working altogether and stopped collecting unemployment? How are they making money? How are they surviving? Why have I not heard about this and how do I stop working and put food on the table?
And what's the difference there to running Ubuntu or Fedora? I can give Ubuntu to someone and say "run this" and if they are not technically adept, they are none the wiser. Gnome or KDE is the default for most desktop Linux distro. Same would go for your KDE distro, except you'd have one more distro to contend with the others.
Although KSplice is nice (and functionality like this has been in Solaris/AIX/... for a really long time), last time I looked at it, it didn't support live-patching everything. You couldn't just bump an entire kernel version (as is possible on Solaris), only patch modules with a very specific patch as long as there are no processes using any part of it.
I'm happy you're not working for me and not developing real software then.
I've used Cygwin (or at least tried to) and Python on Windows. You're missing a hell of a lot of things there that are crucial for development and relying on VisualC to not screw you over.
It may be that weird but the explosion has to be on the scale of an object with several times more energy than our sun to make such thing possible. According to some, a black hole could have a universe attached to it, a controlled explosion could thus create a universe and subsequently also allow it to collapse. Any aliens in the universe wouldn't notice though.
Any decent IDE has the capability of pointing at least towards unused blocks of code and will generate a tree of function calls. I've worked with Eclipse and Xcode both of which have these capabilities. Even GCC (or another C compiler) can warn you about chunks of unused code or missing/bad header files. You can also rename functions across the entire codebase if necessary.
If your code has warnings or errors, continue fixing until the warnings are gone. As far as functions that do similar things but are named differently, that is a bit harder because 'looks like they are doing the same thing' doesn't always mean they ARE doing the same thing (if they have the exact same code, you could perhaps solve with statistical analysis or simply a text finder).
Make sure that if you replace a function that it has the same behavior in all cases. Even mediocre developers have learned that reuse existing code is a "good thing" and often different functions that do "the same thing" have edge cases (often undocumented) where it does behave differently (especially in C/C++ eg. difference in signedness, memory mapping method, characters etc)
Spending money to build infrastructure isn't deficit spending. It's an investment in the local economy. If it brings a few businesses to town or even better, creates them, it is essentially free
Where is the community for said platform? Does it give you a good example in a simple fashion? Or do I have to read reams of data sheets?
I've had to read data sheets for the Arduino but most of the stuff is easily available with plenty of examples to learn from. The cores of these processors have been around for years but until someone puts it in an easy to use package, only specialists will use it and specialists already know how to pick the best technology for a specific task.
I was about to write something similar. I've developed on a Pi since the beginning and got accelerated, seamless video and picture loops to work for an ad platform currently in production. Changing to another board would cost another 300-500 hours in development costs. And that is if the other boards even have the features, most of the "other" boards don't have stable, open API to the GPU.
Mali GPUs which most of the "other boards" run just got decent acceleration in Linux in 2014, years after introduction of the chip because the manufacturer doesn't want to cooperate (and the android binary isn't a solution).
There used to be an option in BIOS'es (may still be there, don't know) to enable spread spectrum clocking. This basically caused the system to slightly vary (spread out) various clocking signals in order to lower emissions at a particular frequency in order to pass FCC inspections.
This thing requires malware to be installed anyway, at that point it's trivial to do anything. You could send things through any port which many computers have webcam lights, backlights and status indicators that can be controlled quick enough for any human to notice.
They 'invented' RAIDZ3? Or they are perhaps using ZFS or something similar internally and not telling anyone (like so many in the industry). Sure you can achieve very high reliability using ZFS but most systems maintain those 9's by a) having hot spares and b) replacing disks that failed in a timely manner. They are simply adding more hot spares so a service call is less important, you can just go by and replace 5 disks at a time whenever you need to expand your storage.
They also forgot to mention that once disks start failing, you could easily have a whole set of them fail. Especially with firmware issues or if someone dropped an entire box in shipping. Once you drop below 2 hotspares/10 disks, you are in serious risk of degrading your system because disks could fail while rebuilding as well.