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TheGreatAndPowerfulOz wrote: why should the site pay anything to some third-party just because someone else is doing something wrong?
It is the site that is displaying copyrighted content, and getting paid for it.
Assisting someone to commit a criminal act is in itself a criminal act.
Getting paid for work that is someone else's copyright is an illegal act.
It would be a trivial matter to vet files that are uploaded, but they don't want to do that, because they are stealing money, and they like it.
They even refuse to take down copyrighted content -- entire TV shows -- if the audio quality is poor.
So they're allowed to steal other prople's work and make money out of it if the sound's a bit tinny?
They are criminals. And if you don't think that you're not defending them and their criminal activities, try reading back what you've written.
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So every telephone network and and internet services provider and anyone else involved in this enterprise including you are criminals. Got it.
Just because I disagree with your extreme, moronic statements doesn't mean I'm defending anyone.
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Scientists are about to restart the two giant facilities in the United States that register gravitational waves, the ripples in the very fabric of the universe that were predicted by Albert Einstein more than a century ago. They put tin foil on the bunny ears?
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Being a fan of George Smoot, I would have been interested in this (which is why I set it aside o=to veiw later), but, unfortunately, their flagrant disrespect for privacy laws prevents me from viewing the page.
Ne' mind. I'll get the info from somewhere less criminal.
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All EU Android users will get the option to turn down Google Search and Chrome. Because it worked so well last time
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You know... that's Google's revenge for the fine they are getting   
Jokes apart... nice irony.
Microsoft shuts Edge down and adopts Chromium because it sucked and noone was using it.
Google revives Edge to give an alternative to Chrome to avoid monopoly complains.
M.D.V. 
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Is that "turn down" as in "uninstall"?
That would be an improvement.
I've got about 700 chrome updates queued, but I never open it, so why bother? I just want the nagging to stop.
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Computer design meets potions class: A little of vial 1 and a little of vial 2 yield six-bit computations encoded in DNA. Now your bugs can have a computer program instead of the other way around
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Then... will we need karpersky instead of gripostat next winter?
M.D.V.
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Excellent stuff!
This is the future of computing, not that quantum rubbish (as I predicted in thirty-five years ago[^])
Computers will be grown and bred, not made in environments that are hostile to life, and require all manner of "protection" and exclusion from the real world.
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Now that the US government has been ordered to prioritize AI, it's launching a website to promote its AI efforts. I'm sure someone can come up with an appropriate and polite blurb here, but I'm dodging it
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Kent Sharkey wrote: an appropriate and polite blurb
You will have to wait for Mark Wallace  
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Prioritizing is done by launching a website??
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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It's a hot topic on twitter.
Well, for one twitterator, anyway.
I hear the decree came out after some of POTUS' buddies decided to buy up AI companies...
Let's try that again...
I hear the decree came out after POTUS realised how dumb the US intelligence services are, and figured "Hell, it couldn't be worse!"...
Nope. Third time's the charm?
I hear the decree came out because POTUS heard that computery stuff involved firewalls
Damn! What is wrong with me, today?!?
I hear the decree came out because an AI had been trained to write fake news stories...
Oh, I give in!
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Well, we all have a few problems getting our snark online some days
TTFN - Kent
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The main thing I’d say about computer science is that [programmers] have a self-concept of being totally skills-driven, but if you actually look at employment in computer science, that’s not how it works. Degrees from leading schools really do seem to matter. They really do seem to open doors. Semaphore, or critical section?
A counterpoint to the "Do I need a CS degree?" posts.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: A counterpoint to the "Do I need a CS degree?" posts.
Most of the people asking that don't read this forum... maybe you should stick that link in the Q&A section
If you do so, don't forget to add the "we don't do your homework" in big fat red letters
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Degrees from leading schools really do seem to matter.
To the people doing the hiring, not to the work that needs to be done.
CS programs are on the trailing edge of the current art. "Yes, sir. I have an advanced degree in tech you've already abandoned."
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White Collar Union Cards.
(Think the construction industry. The pumbers union card doesn't prove you can install pipe correctly, but you're not going to be working at a union construction site without one.)
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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They might be able to open doors, but how many does it take to change a lightbulb?
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Amid general political divisiveness these days, it appears plenty of us would be happy to have robots make the tough decisions instead. Apparently 75% of Europeans have better politicians than I have
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I suspect 3 of the 4 people polled on this question were politicians.
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And that 25% is in the UK, so it doesn't really count, any more.
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A report from WhiteSource examined security vulnerabilities in some of the most popular programming languages and looked at the trends of high security vulnerabilities over the years. There are no secure programming languages, only secure developers?
Well, not counting PHP. It deserves to be on the insecure list.
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Aw, give credit where it's due: PHP is becoming more secure.
Because no-one wants to use it, any more.
Extinction guarantees security.
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