In 2009 Pollock did the math and concluded that optimal copyright length for artists to recoup investment in developing the art balanced with making art available in the public domain was about 16 years.
This paper's math isn't easy to grok if you're not an economist, but it's a good resource that balances the need for copyright with the need for public domain knowledge and art.
Hello everyone, what is your go-to password manager?
KeePassXC for something hosted locally on your home network. Best aspect of KeePassXC is the support for OTP codes built-in, in my opinion. For mobile OTP codes, I personally use Aegis.
What would you suggest for friends and family that aren’t very tech savvy?
For sure, but like expecting average people to understand the more technical side of Linux right off the bat, expecting average people to even understand that is an option is, frankly, elitist. The vast majority of humans just don't even fundamentally understand the difference between "Windows 10" and "Windows 10 LTSC" and we're not heading into a future in which they will all suddenly turn around and become computer literate when a vast amount of the world is barely regular literate.
We have got to stop expecting so much from average people and do a better job helping them.
I know maybe that's what you intended to do, but if I was an average person, I wouldn't have had any clue what LTSC and IOT meant without a lot of filling me in. Just food for thought, we have to spoon-feed this stuff to a lot of people, and be kind to them when they struggle with it.
but I have been assuming this is because my VPN shows me in Europe.
Glad you found the info yourself, but your version of Windows will still register as a US version. Being behind a VPN doesn't change your OS fingerprints, especially since a VPN is layered on top of your OS, and MS essentially has direct access to your OS underneath that VPN layer. Unless you're running your VPN on your router and all your traffic in and out of your router is pushed through the VPN, then it might make a bit of a difference.
or they are in Europe and they get to wait an extra year.
This is being offered in the USA, too, you know. You have to submit to logging in with a Microsoft account and allowing them to back up your system preferences to the cloud.
Secondly, the onerous TPM 2.0 requirement is actually what is going to stop a lot of those low-end computers from upgrading. I recently was helping a friend with what seemed like a relatively recent machine and I was shocked to find it still has a BIOS and not a UEFI and I had to redo my installation disk to support MBR partitioning instead of GPT partitioning. People like that will be SOL and simply won't be able to upgrade, even if they want to.
As I have been saying for a year now, I foresee a Windows 7 situation all over again that despite Microsoft's best efforts to bully people into upgrading, that eventually they will continue offering updates for Windows 10 that they didn't want to have to offer simply because so many business machines will still be running it to support other legacy software.
If a third of Steam users are still using it, you can bet that it's a similar number of small businesses without the resources to upgrade, especially when the real economy is in a free-fall.
I wouldn't consider any Linux phone ecosystem developed enough to consider a "daily driver" phone yet. If you need a phone to be functional at pretty much all times as a phone, but you don't want to give into smartphones, I honestly would suggest a VOIP landline (that you potentially roll out and serve yourself, depending on your level of technical ability and available resources).
Americans can’t have that, and are forced to upgrade regardless.
No, I'm in the USA, this is what they're offering in the USA, a year of extra security updates if you log in with an MS account and backing up the system to the cloud.
I'm actually a bit surprised the EU would allow it instead of just forcing MS to give everyone another free year of updates.
But I still see a potential Windows 7 situation happening, where they try to force the change, but so many people stay on Windows 10 and just accept the lack of updates that Microsoft will be eventually forced to push more security updates to not appear to endorse letting millions of machines become parts of botnets.
Wow, big dawg. Yawn. Keep going, it's my day off. Let's hear what other pathetic insults you think will make me feel bad about myself while instead making you look like a loser.
it can end up receiving packets not meant for it because switches will flood all the ports for packets they don’t know how to route
This is only applicable to IPv4 networking and is very much "the old way" of doing things. If you have properly designed and set up your own home network, you shouldn't be having broadcast traffic happen at all, because all your switches should have a MAC table that includes all the devices you have physically connected. Especially if you have bothered to take the time to hand out static addresses tied to the MAC address. A broadcast should generally only be happening if there is an unknown destination on the LAN, and an unknown destination only happens when there is a new device added at an unknown location. Once a broadcast packet has been sent and replied to, the switch fills it's MAC table with the information on the new device, now knowing it's location.
Wi-Fi's packets can be intercepted by anyone, it's technically sending all packets on blast as radio waves at all times. Sure, modern Wi-Fi can be encrypted, but that encryption can also often be broken.
Finally, IPv6 doesn't use broadcast packets at all, instead using multicasting, which is similar to a broadcast but doesn't flood every port in the wired network and is a bit more tightly directed.
You care enough to keep commenting back. Someone who didn't care would have given up this chain a while ago. Keep lying to yourself, kid. (Also, you just admitted you cared enough to go look and notice it's one person, do you even listen to yourself?)
Right, the person referencing fucking batgirl as if superhero comics are some super secret underground cool shit isn't the normie pretending to be cool (pro-tip: superhero comics have always been normie trash). You sure have a lot of free time to try to get in the last word for someone who is out there doing big things with their life. I at least have the excuse that I know I'm a regular lame ass not trying pretending to be anything else.
Anyone with actual access like you're claiming wouldn't be stupid enough to be telling random internet yahoos about it to prove internet cred on an unencrypted pseudo-anonymous forum. Whistleblowers don't risk it all to prove something to a guy named "Snot Flickerman."
But you do you, at least you live up the the lunatic part of your username.
Reminds me of the documentary called Spin from 1995. It was built from behind-the-scenes footage captured from live satellite feeds from the 1992 Presidential election and the 1992 Rodney King LA riots.
Don't forget pie and coffee.