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A compendium of absurd open-source licenses. Contribute to ErikMcClure/bad-licenses development by creating an account on GitHub.

This software is licensed under the "Anyone But Richard M Stallman" (ABRMS) license, described below. No other licenses may apply.

The "Anyone But Richard M Stallman" license Do anything you want with this program, with the exceptions listed below under "EXCEPTIONS".

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITH NO WARRANTY OF ANY KIND.

In the unlikely event that you happen to make a zillion bucks off of this, then good for you; consider buying a homeless person a meal.

EXCEPTIONS Richard M Stallman (the guy behind GNU, etc.) may not make use of or redistribute this program or any of its derivatives.

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Delta CEO says CrowdStrike-Microsoft outage cost the airline $500 million
  • I think what I was hearing is that the CrowdStrike driver is WHQL approved, but the theory is that it's just a shell to execute code from the updates it downloads, thus effectively bypassing the WHQL approval process.

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    Updating BIOS via Linux ?
  • In the past you could install Windows on a flash drive,but not sure if that’s supported anymore. It was called windows to go I believe.

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    Valve runs its massive PC gaming ecosystem with only about 350 employees
  • Correct. In fact many, many companies have ASNs. Little companies all the way up to large ones. The key difference for an ISP is they allow you to route traffic through them. Almost every company that has an ASN blocks traffic from being routed through them, assuming they know how to configure that and that they have different peering points. Valve most certainly does not allow you to route through their network, they already have enough traffic just doing their own CDN stuff.

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    When did Microsoft stop developing Windows to be good?
  • Windows Defender is actually really good for the common person. If you're doing highly risky things then perhaps getting better software would be warranted. But if your doing low risk activates, Windows defender is pretty great.

    Also, that's not what VPNs do; you can still download ransomware through a VPN tunnel.

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    Tesla to lay off everyone working on Superchargers, new vehicles
  • I think you're still misunderstanding how this would work. So this battery swap setup is like the equivalent of going to the gas station. Basically, when your battery is close to being dead, you head to this place and get a fully charged battery. So it doesn't matter that the battery is used, you just keeping swapping batteries out when you need it. Sure it would be annoying to know that when you bought the car, it came with a fresh battery that would get swapped out with an older battery, but you would have bought the car to get into the swapping system since this is mainly for folks that can't do charging at home.

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    Tesla to lay off everyone working on Superchargers, new vehicles
  • I think the battery swap is more like this.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNZy603as5w

    No need to worry about pervious owners or anything. The system charges and maintains the bank of batteries you swap with.

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    Handy temperature conversion scale.
  • Eh, it's just exchanging what brain cells are used to remember what.

    With Fahrenheit you need brain cells to remember that 32°F is freezing point of water. With Celsius, you need brain cells to remember that 40°C+ is super hot outside.

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    Blizzard locks you out of account if you don't agree to new terms; no ownership, forced arbitration
  • I do like the idea of industry standard license.

    My thoughts are:

    • They need to limit EULAs to something like 600 words.
    • Make them binding and non-changing to the product purchased, only newly purchased products can get the updated EULA.
    • They should make a Ethics Policy (things like no cheating, be kind, no swearing, etc.) separate from the EULA. This Ethics policy can be updated whenever.
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    Palworld Dev Says Massive Profits Are ‘Too Big for a Studio With Our Size to Handle’
  • Still doesn't matter if something is "heavily taxed" because regardless of how much tax, you'll never own more in taxes than you made. So if you got a 10,000 bonus and it was heavily taxed at 60 percent, you don't somehow have to pay like 15,000 in taxes or something on it. You pay 60% of 10,000, leaving you with 4,000 left over. This is typically done before you even see the money, if not ensure that you keep funds aside to pay for the tax.

    Also looking briefly at Japan, it appears that their income tax is a bracket based system similar to the US. So again, even if you go up a bracket, you'll never own more taxes than you make. Honestly, people need to stop thinking in brackets when it comes to taxes, all you need to worry about is your "effective tax rate." That's it, you don't need to worry that your income pushed you into a 29% tax bracket or whatever. All that matters is your effective tax rate is 24.2% or whatever. You'll never own more money because you "moved" into a higher bracket, because that's not how that works.

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    Back for seconds?
  • Make sure the "Get the latest updates as soon as they're available" is off. I think it's off by default. That setting will reboot your computer no matter what as soon as the update is done installing.

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