brianorca

He did nothing actually illegal, except that income tax thing.

Why is the spring backwards? The lever is supposed to hold it down, but had no pressure on it, since the trigger is removed.

If someone is paying you to write code, they have some say in the contract about how it is licensed. You could be upfront about only doing GPL, and they could be upfront about saying no. But if you try to do it after the fact, that’s a violation of the contract.

Bringing her forward would have less impact on the timeline than sending her back with knowledge of the future.

I remember seeing somebody back in the 90’s, who apparently had extreme visual problems, wearing a contact lens that looked like a tiny telescope sticking out. It looked a lot less comfortable than this image though.

I’d guess it’s easier for the paramedics to jump out when they first arrive on scene. Nothing happening in the back yet, so they can look around and see the situation while rolling in.

But you could still be asked to serve if the case was civil and did not involve cops. There are many reasons you can be dismissed, but it varies wildly from one case to the next.

It does still increase the cost of automating usage of those sites, which puts an upper limit to how they can be abused. We probably won’t be able to go back to no Captcha without seeing a large increase of spam, spoofing, scalping, and scraping. They would have to give up offering most kinds of free trials and other consumer friendly practices if the bots can just make new accounts at 1000 per second.

That was mostly to counter the “it will keep shining for thousands of years” in the previous comment. Yes, a starship might outrun the shockwave of material, but it might not detect the gamma waves until it’s too late, as the sudden influx of energetic light could overwhelm shields, and those do travel at light speed, and could reach the ship before it can jump.

A star massive enough to supernova, during the final stage, is held up by fusion. Fusion in the core continues to make heavier and heavier elements in stages. The final stage is measured in days. When that stage completes, the supernova initiation is measured in fractions of a second. The resulting shockwave travels faster than 10% of light speed.

Startide does give some context to make some of Reef’s anomalies more interesting earlier than Reef by itself would reveal. (Don’t want to say more to avoid spoilers.)

Our eye perceives color as a mix of red, green, blue. The lowest color of the rainbow is red (hue 0 degrees on a color wheel) but our red cones have another sensitivity just above blue, so the rainbow shows as violet (hue 270 degrees) when both blue and red cones are triggered. But here, blue is triggered more than red. Then the rainbow extends into the ultraviolet which doesn’t trigger any of our receptors. But the color wheel still has another 90 degrees or so of hue where red gets stronger and blue is weaker. These are not pure spectral colors, because they must activate both red and blue cones at different frequencies, not just a single frequency like violet does.

There will probably be a new app for the new chairs. You’ll have to upgrade the chair to keep using the app support.

That wouldn’t stop them from pursuing something in a US court if the other party is in the US. But even here, I doubt their argument would hold water in an actual trial, considering existing precedent.

It’s an open source project repository. It can be compared to the process descriptions in the patent. But patents and copyright don’t cover APIs, as decided in Oracle vs Google in 2021.

I’m saying this usage of reverse engineering is probably safe, but if you reverse engineered a way to process data that happened to match a patent, it doesn’t matter that you never saw the patent or original code, it can still be infringement.

Reverse engineering is legal, but if you still arrive at a solution covered by a patent, then that solution is illegal. But this shouldn’t be covered by a patent.

Many more recent cars will do this automatically at high throttle conditions, such as acceleration to pass.

You can set up a command line to start VLC using the OS’s built in task scheduler.

Probably a serial number for the stamp. In the US, you can even pay online and print your own stamp, and it uses the barcode to track when you use it, so it can’t be used twice.

Some fish are good at pulling off individual spikes one at a time.