Thursday, September 19
Daily News Stuff 19 September 2024
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- Nintendo and the Pokemon Company are officially suing Palworld creator Pocketpair. (WCCFTech)
At issue is the idea of catching and training weird animals, that Nintendo asserts it stole fair and square.
Japanese patent law is a bit weird and unlike western patents, so whether they have a case is uncertain. One major problem is that Pocketpair now has a billion dollars to fund its defense.
- Speaking of western patents Congress has decided that now is the perfect time to fuck everything up. (Ars Technica)
The Supreme Court has already thrown out entire categories of patent. You can't patent something that is already commonplace "but on a computer", and you can't patent people's genes.
The proposed bill is supported by the larger pharmaceutical companies and opposed by literally everyone else.
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- Congress is also working on legislation that would require AM radios in all new cars made in the US. (The Verge)
As standard equipment, with no bullshit.
Car makers are upset because this could add as much as a dollar to the cost of building a car.
It's not for music or talk radio, but to provide a standard method for emergency broadcasts.
- When you run AVX-512 tasks on AMD's new Ryzen 9950X it slows down from 5.7GHz to 5.3GHz. (Tom's Hardware)
That's hardly anything given that AVX-512 runs twice as fast on the new CPUs than on Zen 4. And Intel's implementation of AVX-512 - before they killed it on consumer CPUs - could cut clock speeds in half.
- SpaceX plans to sue the FAA over its ongoing bullshit. (Axios)
The FAA twice announced at the last minute that it could not process SpaceX's plan requests in time for launch, and then fined SpaceX when it went ahead with the launches as planned.
No other company is getting this treatment, though it's true that no other company operates at the scale of SpaceX.
- Twitter is using Cloudflare to provide service in Brazil. (The Guardian)
Cloudflare handles something like a quarter of the web traffic in the world, so blocking Cloudflare would cause complete chaos for Brazil's internet users.
Disclaimer: Well, more chaos than usual anyway.
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I see the spammers are getting bold and attacking new articles.
Pretty commonly in the US they have low-power AM audio loop broadcasts near construction zones to inform the public about detours and such. Typically they are at the upper or lower extreme of the AM band.
Pretty commonly in the US they have low-power AM audio loop broadcasts near construction zones to inform the public about detours and such. Typically they are at the upper or lower extreme of the AM band.
Posted by: Mauser at Thursday, September 19 2024 08:07 PM (nk1Z+)
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I have seen absolutely nothing in my life that has convinced me that patents or copyright do what they are supposed to do. Maybe some problem with the lack of it will become apparent if we ever try freedom again, but it's hard to imagine it'd be any worse than what we have now.
Germany had its golden age of science and engineering when they basically were laughing at copyrights and patents and an IP piracy haven of the 19th century.
Germany had its golden age of science and engineering when they basically were laughing at copyrights and patents and an IP piracy haven of the 19th century.
Posted by: madrocketsci at Thursday, September 19 2024 11:33 PM (hRoyQ)
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Another common-ish use for AM radio in the US is local information--you'll see "tune in to AM 1610 for " various things. (It's been a long time since I did it so I don't remember what kind of stuff they talk about but I have seen lots of those signs over the years.)
Posted by: Rick C at Friday, September 20 2024 09:56 AM (pnaK4)
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