BitTorrent v2 supports modifying torrents as well as deduping matching files from multiple sources (great for varying collections of books)

https://blog.libtorrent.org/2020/09/bittorrent-v2/

P2p protocols like BitTorrent are useful because they are decentralized and very very hard to control by authority.

Shutting down one or a cluster of servers owned by one person is easier than chasing after 10,000 people in 100 different countries.

Sorry 15 years 2010 midterm and forward.

Most states as far as I know, count votes upon receipt, only a few states have to wait until the last day that polls are open.

I'm not asking why the polls are open more than one day, moreso, why everything is consistently referred to as 'early' or in other words, why does the media in general encourage people to wait until the deadline?

I've voted 'early, in every election I've participated in. For as long as I've known, which is about to be 4 presidential and all of the elections in between, the polls have always been open for weeks.

That's approaching 20 years, I don't think it's a new concept really at this point.

Right I get that.

But why is it marketed, for lack of a better term as early. Why wouldn't it be, 'the polls opens on October 20th, and you can vote late up to November 5th'

TPM isn't inherently bad, it's just a way to cryptographically store keys. TPM overall is great as it gives you a very secure way to store things like encryption keys.

You also don't need TPM to lock down a system. Locked bootloaders have existed for decades and platforms have historically rolled their own encryption modules as they wanted, like your ipad example, or any video game console in the last 20 years, or most mobile phones, etc.

The 'knows enough to be dangerous' crowd has been fearmongering about tpm since it's been introduced, it isn't some magic bullet for vendor locking, since vendor locking is already achieved.

How uncanny that our perception has changed so much. The pose, grip, and direction of the phone just made me instantly assume the dude was taking a picture, but reflecting back to that time and not a single person would have made that assumption.

I agree with you, but Nintendo's arguments are that the emulators pirated their code in order to develop the emulator and for it to function.

It's just a road and sidewalk in front of the building where people who are giving rides pull over so their passengers can get out.

I got downvoted for this before, but, when you sublet your property like this, you take on an inherent risk. This isn't any different to a bad tenant, or an investment not panning out.

Any business who accepted these red boxes should have either a) established contingency with Redbox themselves or, failing that, b) established a contingency through their own means by keeping liquidity to handle disposal of the machine (or something like insurance)

Don't feel sorry for these businesses, they took a calculated risk, likely made lots of money over the last decade, and now are faced with potentially needing to use some of that revenue to dispose of the machines. Any normal business keeps assets and liquidity available to cover expenses of doing business, the same way a landlord needs to use some rent money to clean up after a bad tenant, it's part of their business model. If a business thought these machines would just live there forever and magically go away when they aren't making money anymore, that's their fault.

Ok but linear equations are like early highschool, like the slope intercept y=mx+b and all that. I would hope that most people at least know of them.

Wouldn't it mostly be assets like logos, maps, icons, etc?

At 65mph, you cover two car lengths (~30 ft) in about 1/3 of a second.

Typically human reaction time for braking is about 1.5 seconds.

If something went seriously wrong in front of you (like a sideways car, or a hidden obstacle in front of the car in front of you) you would have covered 10 car lengths before your foot touches the brake pedal.

These isekai titles are getting too much.

This is what I don't get, I can also just say 'visionary' things by just opening any sci-fi book and pointing at a random page and claiming that I want to make that.

The hard part isn't envisioning cool sci-fi concepts like self driving cars, colonized planets, ai servants, and life like VR. The hard part is actually doing them.

This isn't actually true.

Gog isn't 'piracy is strictly legal' there is still a license attached to the software that can have restrictions.

I assume business would insure against scenarios like this, whether that's through securing cash as they suggested or if that isn't an option (which seems to be the reality of the situation) through things like, escrow accounts, insurance, and cash on hand.

You say the businesses wouldn't just 'throw away money' yet here we are, the businesses, by not 'throwing away money' are stuck with these machines to deal with.

I understand that the person was saying that the business should have collected a deposit, but they didn't, so my question is, why are these businesses caught out by this? Why didn't they prepare for the risk they assumed by subletting their property, if they didn't collect a deposit, they should have sequestered some cash to handle this scenario.

No, but any smart business would retain some of the revenue they got from the red box for scenarios where they may have to deal with shit they didn't expect.

In other words, the revenue they gained from having a red box on their property for 10 years probably more than covers the insurance claim they can file to get it taken care of.

Did the stores not profit off of the machines being there for all of these years?

I can't imagine redbox wasn't paying these stores some kind of rent or commission, otherwise why would the store let them just post up their business on their property?