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For instance, in Poland (which is in Europe) you have all rights to create copies of software, music, movies, for your personal use after paying for the original copy. You cannot do this under copyright which strictly forbids you from creating copies of the original media. Copy-right, as a right to create copies.

In this meaning, copyright is not the same as authorship rights, which is a basis of intellectual property protection in Europe.

Similarly for software patents, they do not work in EU.

Not only that, the article being from American media, even with the footnote, the commenters, miss the whole point about copyright being exclusively American concept and we don’t have this in EU. We have IP and authorship rights that work differently. See last part for explanation: https://thehftguy.com/2020/09/15/french-judge-rules-gpl-lice...

Which, if I read that right, indicates that for Netherlands, winter months in 2022-2023 had more sunlight than in 2021-2022?

EDIT: Another data point would be total solar energy production in winter divided by installed power, per month, in comparison to previous winter.

They also failed to grasp that outside temperature might not be the only factor affecting power consumed for heating, assuming we want to keep constant inside temperature. The most obvious is sunlight - when it's 0C outside, my home requires much less energy when the sun is shining through the windows and on the roof.

Weatharrr!

Official SEC document regarding regulation SHO describes both illegal and legal cases when you can "just" fail to deliver [0]. Market makers which also happen to have hedge-fund branches are having the most flexibility in this.

[0] https://www.sec.gov/investor/pubs/regsho.htm

You can Fail-to-deliver and never locate the stock that you are supposed to borrow. Or you can short ETF with this specific company in basket while going long on anything else in this ETF.

Everything you own, even your own debt, can be used as a collateral by creating and selling swaps.

Maybe I misremembered something and cannot find a source now, but I think there was some way to avoid paying tax on short sales when company goes bankrupt and gets delisted.

EDIT: See sibling comment.

EDIT 2: Am I reading this right? almost 1,800,000 shares failed to deliver just in one day of Sep 22nd? [0]

[0] https://fintel.io/ss/us/rxt

Officially, Rackspace is ~30% sold short. Someone is already making tax-free billions shorting it to death.

I have 2 gift cards and one additional "LunchPass" card issued this year in Poland, all three are magstrip only.

The magstrip readers are not removed from the terminals, even the newest smartphone-like have them, you just don't know where to look. Of course, sometimes cashiers are surprised that my card is magstrip-only and they are double-surprised when I show them where is the magstrip reader on the terminal they use :)

can move from genre to genre constantly reinventing themselves

Sounds a little bit like Nokia, more than Apple. Paper mill, cable products, rubber boots, tires, TV, mobile phones... ;)

Too bad Phabricator is no longer with us. Are there any actively maintained forks?

In other words: please always be wary of differences in C and C++, for instance type punning [0].

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/a/25672839

She found a hardware solution to a software problem.

Something like ONE_FIX_UQ8? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q_%28number_format%29

<insert astronauts meme>

Hey Mozilla, interrogative: Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?

You want to tell us you're in bed with Google now?

In addition this article is also strongly opinionated, charged with emotions, feels like stitched together without second reading IMHO. Like:

It would allow operators to procure [...] with different players to piece together a 5G network, breaking the market power of “end-to-end” vendors like Ericsson and Nokia.

And later: > the O-RAN Alliance. It's a standard-setting body that includes [...] leading vendors Ericsson and Nokia.

First, it doesn't work like that. They will still offer end-to-end deals, even with ORAN, it's just that winning conditions change. Second, why would companies support standardization effort that is supposedly intended to "harm" them? :D

The operators, now barred by governments from using Huawei in several European markets, see Open RAN as a fix to what they consider a duopoly in the vendor market that allows Ericsson and Nokia to charge higher prices for 5G equipment.

I LOL'ed. From what I know, Ericsson and Nokia does not charge higher prices for 5G equipment due to duopoly, because that would be called price collusion and the journalists don't have proof to back it up. Also, Ericsson and Nokia are fighting each other for every piece of market share, I don't see how pumping up the prices would help here.

Recently Nokia strongly communicates its commitment to Open-RAN. They want to be like Tesla or Toyota (in case of hybrid-drives): so good that competition is unable to keep up even after opening their patents. Once telcos grasp the benfits of open-interfaces infrastructure (eCPRI and stuff), there is no coming back to closed ecosystems.

The "radio protocol" is "open" since GSM, anyone can download standards from 3GPP and implement it accordingly. But the mere amount of knowledge and specialized hardware required to do this, even for single layer like L1, is tremendous. I think this is the real reason why we don't already have open-source implementation of the full stack.

EDIT: an afterthought - maybe the O-RAN is really a chance for open-source here. In the future, once O-RAN is accepted and widely deployed, we could work on implementing the stack piece-by-piece, layer-by-layer, filling the gaps with commercial software/hardware as we go, instead of doing everything at once...

I have the same bad experience with Broadcom's technical support. I worked on a project based around StrataXGS Tomahawk and some other chip I can't remember right now. One of those chipsets would randomly lock itself and stop switching traffic somewhere about 5-6 minutes after rebooting. It took us ONE WHOLE FREAKING YEAR of debugging on our side and nagging them to make them figure out that they forgot to tell us that some specific PCI-E clock settings must be set in THEIR OWN DRIVER. It was paid support. Imagine the horrors of dev team whose product gets delayed one year and now imagine their faces after Broadcom provided the solution.

Also, their requests to plug in "logic analyzer" on the PCI-E bus between host CPU and their chipset in finished product where everything was using BGA soldered parts - yeah...

I believe the only reason everything they share with you is under NDA so you don't go and publicly tell how bad they really are. They are like Boeing to me, but I yet have to see their MAX-like mistake.

Nokia was selected to build the first ever extraterrestrial cellular network.

https://www.nokia.com/about-us/news/releases/2020/10/19/noki...

Sorry for not being clear enough. It's not that torrents as protocol are illegal. So yes, it is totally legal to distribute any content you have rights to distribute, such as Linux distros, creative commons material, you name it.

It would also be legal for you to share a music file to, for instance, your friend who lost it's original copy but already paid for the song. You simply can't redistribute the song on massive scale to people who didn't buy it, so that's torrenting weakness here. Also, the personal connections between you and the downloading party matters in determining if this was fair/"personal use".

Then I wonder if level of security a given anti-circumvention technology implements matters in the EU.

See, I strongly believe (and heard of such cases in the past) that where I live, if I "hacked" into a computer system which had administrator password set as "admin123" and the owner sued me, he would be laughed at at the court and I was let free. And I believe in the US I would be convicted for computer crime.

Isn't it the same here? If Youtube's anti-circumvention tech whatever it is that DMCA compliant refers to is so weak that source code how to circumvent it is in the wild for years and Youtube does nothing to address it, isn't it theirs fault? :shrug:

We're both IANALs, but it is interesting to put it into perspective that the same sentences that makes laws mean something totally different in practice on two sides of the globe due to cultural differences and/or origins of given laws.

I believe the way you put it describes this part in the DMCA takedown notice the best way possible. Bringing up European laws on intellectual property and mixing it with US "copyright" is comical to me, especially after reading this [0] article on French law recently:

France doesn’t have copyright. Sorry for US readers, your “copyright” is nonsense that doesn’t apply here, though the word “copyright” can be seen misused verbatim once in a while.

I believe this interpretation of "copyright" is all similar around Europe. US copyright law is all about "right to make copies", be it software or music/video and it just doesn't make any sense on the other side of the globe.

In the country where I live I can purchase a music or video file and legally make unlimited copies for my personal use. It is also legal to download it from any other source as long as I can prove that I paid for it some time ago in the past. Torrents are illegal as the protocol forces me to share the file, and sharing part is illegal. Downloading is fine xD.

[0] https://thehftguy.com/2020/09/15/french-judge-rules-gpl-lice...

Well, following their logic behind DMCA compliant, I guess fiddling long enough with developer's console on Chrome or Firefox would allow you to download potentially copyrighted material from youtube the same way youtube-dl does.

sed s/youtube-dl/firefox/g and voilà, DMCA for Firefox ready to submit...

Let's go further! Let's DMCA the Linux kernel because it runs Firefox/youtube-dl/curl/wget!

USA, they have all that weird stuff there...

Is this a hard rule? I didn't see all submissions on 1st of January to have (2019) tags, and this paper is not that old (Nov 2019).

I was willing to bet before opening the link that it's about SuperMicro. I would lost the bet ;)

I see no mention of various implementations of C/C++ standard libraries. It's like the second most important decision to make just after compiler vendor (or THE most important, whatever your priorities are)

Same here - I'm using credit card only for extra protection (chargeback and so on) always making the full payment at the end of the period.