Lev_Astov

joined 1 year ago
[–] Lev_Astov@lemmy.world 4 points 23 hours ago

In the US, Atari tried to sue someone who made an Asteroids clone back in 1981 and lost because Meteors, the clone had made some improvements on the idea of Asteroids (color, among other things). This cemented US legal precedent that you can't sue people for "ripping off" games so long as they make some meaningful change to it and aren't just making a direct knock-off.

This current case is in Japan, however, where the legal landscape is very different and companies need to be legally aggressive to maintain any rights to their IP from what I understand. I have no idea how that's going to go down.

[–] Lev_Astov@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

I'm voting for this guy in November.

[–] Lev_Astov@lemmy.world 98 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

At 10kV, a random stick would be all it takes to start an arc. He knows what he's doing.

[–] Lev_Astov@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

They're no problem when properly thrown out, but a huge problem when people litter with them as happens far too much. I hate to see us all punished because a significant portion of people can't stop littering, but I can't see us stopping them...

[–] Lev_Astov@lemmy.world 20 points 4 days ago

The lowest tip value should be higher to reflect current tip pressuring tactics.

[–] Lev_Astov@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago (4 children)

A buddy has been testing whether his LLMs he puts together are properly jailbroken by asking them to explain how to build the silliest bomb possible. I find that terribly amusing. Unfortunately they don't usually come up with anything particularly silly.

[–] Lev_Astov@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

Yes, this is a serious problem with some people. Far worse than OP's issue.

[–] Lev_Astov@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Man, I haven't thought of the Evil Overlord List in many, many years. Thanks for that.

[–] Lev_Astov@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

$

I only ever use Michaelsoft Binbows.

[–] Lev_Astov@lemmy.world -2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Thank you for standing up to the slavering morons around here about bad statistical graphics.

All I'm getting out of this is that police are, in fact less than 50% effective, so we'd better plan on dealing with it ourselves.

[–] Lev_Astov@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

According to the article, they're going for multiple counts of money laundering and wire fraud with 20 years each.

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