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Y'know, it's interesting that that article seems to be saying that a defining feature of a "periscope [camera] lens" is that the light undergoes a net 90° shift from lens to sensor, while in every periscope I'm aware of the light shifts laterally (usually vertically) but the angle of incidence...

I'm not ranting at you. I'm ranting. It just happened to be triggered by your comment. But also, it sounded like you would've preferred a very subtle/muted blue, and were disappointed to realize it was a bolder color. I misread you. Also, we may have different ideas of "bold", since I think the...

I don't think I'm getting a 15 Pro, but if I were, I'd be one of the people right there with you. I like my phone (and watch) to give audible feedback. Mind you, I'm very selective about which apps and which actions are allowed to make noise, but if I want it to get my attention, I want to...

To each their own. I've been wanting the Pro iPhones to have bright (not pastel or desaturated, but also not dark or muted) colors. Like, if you might miss the color in poor lighting, what's the point? Who wants a colored phone that you might miss the color? If you don't want bold, obvious...

Yeah, there’s no way the DNC has the ability to rig the election and leaves McConnell in office. And doesn’t get a centrist or progressive to replace Manchin. Not to mention Sinema in 2022.

YouTube joins CNN in telling the next US citizen over age 35 who has a whole bunch of legal or financial problems nippingat their heels to declare their Presidential candidacy—no matter the year or their popularity or plausibility of winning—and everyone will just stop holding them accountable...

Dunno about money (though I assume some was involved), but Netflix discs used to get scanned at the originating Post Office, so Netflix would know my disc was "returned" the same day my carrier picked it up. Which meant that the new disc would get mailed out from Netflix the next day or...

I was already aware of the case, but this only just occurred to me: Has there really not been a single observant Jewish mail carrier in 200+ years of the USPS? Or every single one has been able to always get their work done Friday before sundown, even in January, and always get a work schedule...

Oops. I guess I better at least get to the end of my current queue, right quick. But as others have said, things have been disappearing from my queue for a while now. I can still get movies that were fairly mainstream and successful at the box office, even fairly recent ones, without needing...

Not “completely”. “We won’t revoke/deauthorize OGL v1.0a” is good. But that’s just a concession they don’t have the leverage and/or social capital right now to do it. What we need is “we can’t revoke or deauthorize OGL v1.0a, and neither can we or anybody else in the future.” Them saying it...

Because the original OGL 1.0a has a poison-pill clause—specifically, poison for anyone trying to force people to move to a new license: it says that you can use any version of the license you want for content released under any version of the license. So (1) anybody who wants to write hateful...

And “white" people killed in the US are mostly killed by “white" people, predominantly “white" men. And Hispanic people killed in the US are mostly killed by Hispanic people (mostly Hispanic men). And Chinese-American people killed in the US are mostly killed by Chinese-American people (mostly...

Who says this doesn’t do what they want to do? Just because it doesn’t do what we want it to do, doesn’t mean they don’t understand the ramifications. IIRC, the draft OGL 1.2 also doesn’t have any sort of share-alike or downstream provisions. Between that and them thinking that allowing existing...

"Authorization" can describe an ongoing state that can be reversed/removed. "Authorization" can also describe a singular act that, once it has occurred, has occurred. WotC is claiming that the first meaning applies, and that's what you're describing. The author of the OGL v1.0a claims that the...

Uh, what? I'm not 100% sure I'm understanding you, but if what you're saying is "it's not really possible to re-write the rules in a way that is meaningfully different—different enough to count as 'transformative'—without also changing the rules", then look up the merger doctrine in copyright...

Here's the part that I can't wrap my head around. Let's say, just for sake of argument, that WotC has the authority to deauthorize the OGL 1.0a. Let's say they do so under the terms in the 1.2 draft they recently released: OK, how does that actually work? I've published Penguins & Potholes...

Exactly. And reputable journalists currently do, when his statements merit coverage. The differences are that when he was POTUS what he was thinking mattered—and we continue to find out just how little distance there was between him having a thought and him trying to make it reality. And that he...

The problem is when his tweets are foreshadowing and the huge number of his followers who do pay attention to what he’s saying. If we just ignore him, that won’t stop his followers from doing something dangerous, but it might stop us having any forewarning.

So...we already have a problem due to a significant segment of the population being shut out of basic things like banking and completing a job application due to those things moving entirely or almost-entirely online. And I increasingly run into situations where it's just assumed everyone will...

It's not at all trivial. Lots of the criminal record is tied up in states, so if you actually have a legitimate reason to know that about someone, you need to know where they have been and check each of those states, or you need to check every state, just in case. Also, a "background check"...