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Yes, because being the party that obtained the data, holds the data, and is using the data containing the pirated works is exactly the same as being the pipe that took it from A to B and never retained or used it beyond being a carrier. What planet do these assholes think we're on? I mean...

The amount of complexity and unknowns being accepted here feels radical after so many missions' worth of exacting NASA testing and design work. But being able to deal with the unexpected is going to be a crucial capacity if we even want to approach mature, widely-available spaceflight. Imagine...

I've long pondered about who, between a bad lawyer and a bad doctor, can ruin your life more thoroughly. At least if you're retaining an attorney/practice you have someone to hold liable in the event of malpractice. We all know how ferociously "AI" companies will fight to have their outputs...

A good reminder that it's possible to dig in and become dogmatic in the sciences. Good science demands that we remain humble enough to retain an open mind when new evidence challenges old assumptions...but to remain healthily critical of new work all the same. Cool story. It's a subject I've...

As far as the terminology goes, the article is written for a layperson's understanding and so "RoF" seems fine as that is what the audience is most likely to have heard before. I understand the technical frustration but in this specific instance it's a distinction without a difference insofar...

Linguistics is such a fascinating field at every level, but it demands an understanding that anthropological factors underlie whatever concepts of "objectivity" you may think govern communication. My linguistics professor in college noted constantly that "linguistics is descriptive, not...

That is the responsibility you bear as a parent. We need to better support parents, obviously, but the primary burden of childcare cannot be shifted to private corporations or the state. At the most basic level grasping for technological solutions is a losing battle because of the...

These two companies are so wildly unpopular that there's bipartisan hate for them in today's day and age. And then the federal government just mysteriously drops its case in favor of a limp, insultingly lowball settlement offer. The evidence of corruption is right there, dangling from the...

Would be that we could get Carr on a prominent live news channel (I mean, it's only fair given he wants more screentime for conservatives) and hold up a graph showing the steady upwards march of prices trending with the steady decrease in ISP competition (in terms of # of relevant corporate...

Cryptography is a world where threats move fast and defenses (user-driven updates and behavioral changes) move glacially slow. Getting ahead of where we know technology will be- even if that's a year, five years, ten years out- is imperative when we're talking about the basic underpinnings of...

"Break things and move fast" has apparently been chosen as the speedrun candidate for how fast a popular phrase should go from darling to dumpster. It should never have been applied to things that have significant real world impacts, particularly ones that are poorly understood and/or complex...

When the company itself makes "AI" a headline feature in its marketing and promotional materials, what, exactly, are you expecting coverage to do? Selectively highlight it when it's convenient for "AI" "advocates"? What fundamental intellectual dishonesty. And I wish that it were rare among...

As was previously noted, it's moderately appalling that the magistrate judge, "fast-paced environment" or no, essentially abdicated his responsibility to be a check on the scope and nature of the government's warrant. Yes, it seems like there were some roadblocks tossed up, but missing the PPA...

Anyone with any sense of economies of scale will understand that this is a token gesture among token gestures given the minuscule quantities of this line that will be made and sell relative to the rest of their product portfolio, which will continue to be made overseas. The most important...

It's nice to see companies doing something that, with a minimum of corporate effort, can keep millions of devices out of landfills for that much longer. Please continue putting (at least some) money where the mouth is in re: environmental sustainability priorities. Some degree of business...

Oh dear. It must be a terrible thing to have made it to adulthood without enough impulse control to not click on something. Or to refrain from complaining about the same.

"We have learned nothing from the space program and furthermore I wish for the field's legacy to be cemented in total failure, including possible loss of life." Commendable attitude. Truly. Even were we to accept your (ridiculous) premise, the idea that the well is truly poisoned for any kind...

Remarkable to me is the doctors who kept an open mind and were able to identify the correct diagnosis with little information and even less time. People like this exemplify their profession. It takes good judgement, humility, and recall to sift through the enormous number of maladies that can...

I really have trouble justifying the idea that Apple can't set rules for its own store-- especially given the moves to force them to open up to third party app stores. If the point of allowing other storefronts is to admit entrants with different policies (payments, compliance, and otherwise)...

Did you read the part of the article where the "60 days of service" clause was implemented retroactively and in violation of statue? You can think whatever you'd like of the plaintiff, but even if you're right, "being shitty" is not illegal-- as we have discovered an infinity number of times...