USPTO changed its rules in 2013; prior art only counts if it was patented first. This is why Nintendo has been trying to patent stuff other companies are doing that is similar to their games (eg PalWorld).

Part of me wishes Nintendo was doing this to lose on purpose so there is precedent to not use this against them in the future, but I’ve become far too pessimistic for a “good-guy Nintendo” arc…

It’s there now on Lemmy as well. Also Piefed is terrible and it’s made for censorship I’ll stick with Lemmy thanks

Thumbnails are missing on lemmy so much it wouldn’t have occurred to me

What until you hear my theory about who Samus eventually becomes now that we’ve seen the Metroid Ravenous trailer

That username though…

Tossing self-powering rogue access points onto roofs to get around fascistic legal censorship by proxy of VPNs through McDonalds is one of the most we-have-entered-the-Matrix sentences ever.

Someone should submit this technique as an article to 2600

Make those illegal too probably

Fucking Darryl Issa again?

This motherfucker has been trying to censor and cripple the internet for like 25 years

Fuck off dude, you’re the terrorist

This means if we get fusion working, we could have enough energy to scrub the atmosphere of carbon and turn it back into gasoline.

Could literally have our cake and eat it too but that would mean that oil execs would be too poor to molest kids without repercussions

This might signal a fundamental misunderstanding of what AM radio is used for and why it’s important.

Yeah lots of propaganda talk shows and up there because AM sucks for music and it’s cheap to run and dead simple to implement.

It’s also used for emergency broadcasts and traffic updates, and it’s a resilient form of broadcast technology during disasters that the public should have easy access to.

You think WhatsApp is going to be up after a hurricane? AM can broadcast hundreds of miles, 5G needs antennas every couple blocks with hardlines to back them up.

Fuck outta here with this “hurr durr it’s only for racists” nonsense.

Don’t forget logging every Bluetooth and WiFi device (mobile and hardwired) with location and timestamp and sending it all to meta for “tailoring ads”

WINE is a compatibility layer (famously, WINE Is Not an Emulator) for Windows APIs on posix OSes; most notably this allows you to run Windows applications on Linux.

Microsoft would truly love to beat WINE to death with a legal sledgehammer but so far they do not have the legal ground, as WINE is developed based on public knowledge and Microsoft famously keeps their source code closed.

If you saw the Windows source code, and then you contributed to WINE, it is possible Microsoft could make the legal argument that WINE was using stolen trade secrets, even if the verbatim source code was added to the WINE codebase.

Whether or not that would have worked for Microsoft is up in the air; but the WINE project didn’t want to find out the hard way.

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