As a tvtroper, if only a casual one, I read the headline and immediately thought of Nice Job Breaking It, Hero. Of course only Nintendo thinks of itself as the hero here, so it's more of a Nice Job Fixing It, Villain, but they're really just two sides of the same trope.
Maybe he's just arbitrarily redefined "mile". After all, English is just a misc language with borrowed words and arbitrary rules, none of which he can be pissed to follow anyway.
"In this case. Defendant has misappropriated every single word of every annotation using a bulk industrial electronic scanner." I'm not sure why the "bulk industrial electronic scanner" needs to be called out here, as that's really kind of unrelated to the fair use question, but the judge went with it.
Because using a bulk industrial electronic scanner is evocative of laziness and mass copying. Had the laws been lovingly hand-copied by monks in a remote mountain monastary using quill pens, their breath clouding and the ink freezing in their inkwells, with each page meticulously decorated with gold leaf -- well then the judge would TOTALLY have declared it fair use.
I have wasted far too many hours of my life on tvtropes. I have an account and have done a fair amount of editing (mostly a few videogames I'm addicted to).
Another pretty good time-waster is imfdb.org, albeit not to the same degree.
I've been with Ting (Sprint and T-Mobile MVNO) for just over a year and I have to say that I only have one complaint: They persistently don't wire my community with fiber. Damn them!
Recently upgraded from my old Galaxy S4 to a Nexus 5X, and I'm pretty happy with it. It's got a cool fingerprint reader on the back. It even works, I've tested it.
...And immediately turned on the pattern lock. I can change the pattern, or a PIN. I can't change my fingerprints.
"This is about the time that defenders of copyright and trademark will chime in to suggest that intellectual property enforcement has led to the creation of new intellectual property, thus fulfilling its purpose..."
...Which sounds suspiciously like the Broken Window Fallacy.
I use bluetooth headsets, myself. Those won't transmit sound back when they're in streaming mode, and if they're in headset mode, it's a live mic by design. (Also much lower quality sound.)
Except on my desktop when I'm playing video games, and I've got a mic plugged in anyway to talk to my gaming buddies. No need to get elaborate. But what you hear will probably not be terribly interesting unless you're a fan of Payday 2. And probably not then, either.
If you're worried about your desktop computer speakers being repurposed, chances are they're powered speakers. Those aren't going to be able to pass the signal backwards through the amplifier.
"There is a simple way to block the attack, keep something playing on your earphones, as an attack would have to check for active use before switching to microphone mode, as silence would make the user investigate their earphones. You do not need to be listening to it, just keep the output mode occupied."
... Or unplug your earphones when they're not in use.
What's new isn't that headphones can be turned into a microphone; it's the combination of that and the fact that the Realtek chipset's headphone output can be turned into an input. I wouldn't have guessed it, myself. (I mean the chipset thing. I also already knew that a dynamic speaker can be used as a mic.)
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"In this case. Defendant has misappropriated every single word of every annotation using a bulk industrial electronic scanner." I'm not sure why the "bulk industrial electronic scanner" needs to be called out here, as that's really kind of unrelated to the fair use question, but the judge went with it.
Because using a bulk industrial electronic scanner is evocative of laziness and mass copying. Had the laws been lovingly hand-copied by monks in a remote mountain monastary using quill pens, their breath clouding and the ink freezing in their inkwells, with each page meticulously decorated with gold leaf -- well then the judge would TOTALLY have declared it fair use.
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So much for speechwriters.
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Another pretty good time-waster is imfdb.org, albeit not to the same degree.
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Hah hah hah! I see what he did there!
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I've been with Ting (Sprint and T-Mobile MVNO) for just over a year and I have to say that I only have one complaint: They persistently don't wire my community with fiber. Damn them!
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Because they have a monopoly.
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...And immediately turned on the pattern lock. I can change the pattern, or a PIN. I can't change my fingerprints.
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...Which sounds suspiciously like the Broken Window Fallacy.
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Except on my desktop when I'm playing video games, and I've got a mic plugged in anyway to talk to my gaming buddies. No need to get elaborate. But what you hear will probably not be terribly interesting unless you're a fan of Payday 2. And probably not then, either.
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... Or unplug your earphones when they're not in use.
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