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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 d…

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 h…

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 pr…

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…

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 br…

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 t…

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: …

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 n…

> 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

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 …

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…

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…

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…

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 li…

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 "copyri…