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Yeah, fuck anyone who can't land perfectly on the Moon every time despite lacking 4% of the federal budget and a national mandate to make it happen. Losers, all of them. Right??

"Guns don't kill people. People kill people." It's never the tool, or in this case, the data, that's the issue for groups like Kochava. They want to sell private info and wash their hands of the consequences.

"It's not our fault that people were harmed just because we put their name, address, and visits to the nearest club out for sale to the highest bidder."

Yep, I'm betting their performance guarantee is that they got some of the remains onto the spacecraft and did in fact scatter the rest near the launch site. What an odd service.

It's more likely a "we'll give it our best shot but no guarantees" contract. You pay for the opportunity, no refunds.

If anything, being "failure-prone" and "build-and-test" seems exactly the kind of situation for which you'd want a regulator watching closely. We'd love for the FAA to move faster, but we don't want them getting out of the way entirely.

It was Kathy Lueders, not Gwynne Shotwell, that was quoted. Yes, this program continues to provide outstanding views.

Why can't you deal with a 20-30 minute charge time? I don't own an EV so I can't say for sure how I'd feel either way, but I'm hoping I am either not so productive or not so lazy that I can't spend an extra 10-20 minutes charging on the few times I would need this throughout the year. Do you...

Living in a remote area, especially targeting dark skies, should require an understanding of and commitment to that kind of environment. I have no interest in bringing light pollution with me (though a small bit is probably inevitable).

Big Bend is farther from Dallas than New York is from Cleveland. Space is big. Texas is something else! I'm still trying to convince my wife to move near a dark sky community when we retire. Would love the kind of views of the Milky Way you only get when you're really away from it all.

Do you really want to find out??

The problem is that unless NASA leads this, the private sector can survive on vaporware for quite a long time. This just increases the risk to NASA of not having a home in LEO. The private sector needs NASA's funding and expertise, and NASA needs the private sector to actually pull it off...

His name was Antonin Scalia. And yeah, his obsession with originalism and textualism was both predictable and the worst.

To your last sentence, if anything that shows why OpenAI is in a stronger position. Their output doesn't rely on the content of the specific authors. Having consumed such content at one point, among billions of other works, doesn't mean the LLM's output is derivative of these authors.

Copyright is about the rights concerning reproducing a work. It's NOT about the rights to consume a work. You have to hold/license the right to put something out there, but you do not need a license to read.

In my legally-trained opinion, this not what copyright is for and OpenAI has the better argument. Copyright doesn't mean an author should be paid every time someone/something reads their work. Else we are all in trouble every time we read something and later write something else.

There are several issues with this. First, An author doesn't get paid every time a book is sold or shared, they only get paid the first time. Copyright law is not designed to ensure an author profits every time their work is consumed. Second, humans absolutely profit from having read others'...

They just did, firing a bunch of workers and shifting at least 50 to the engine division.

Not sure this is correct, it looks like the 2nd Circuit held that Genius themselves didn't have the license, thus their claim against Google was barred because they were essentially arguing copyright (hidden behind a contract claim) without holding the right to create a derivative work (the lyrics).

Don't feel bad for Genius. The solution you describe is going to the "browserwrap" argument, in which locking down their content might have upheld their claim that a contract was agreed to by visitors to their site. However, that doesn't solve the copyright issue, in which Genius hid behind...