Huh. I also have grown up thinking bumblebees don’t sting, but:

> Female bumblebees can sting repeatedly, but generally ignore humans and other animals. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bumblebee

So they can sting, they just don’t want to. Further proof, if any were needed, that bumblebees are Best Bees. :)

As a child, I caught a bumblebee in my hand because I didn't think it could sting. Those stings hurt.

Yep, the goal of civil disobedience is literally to get sued/charged/arrested in order to force the issue to be (hopefully) properly and publicly resolved.

This is standard. :P EE code, like programmer art and mechanical engineer circuits, shows just how non-multidisciplinary most humans are. :D

SW engineer's crap has way more levels of abstractions. /s

I refer to it as ‘wanking’. It’s doing something that’s unproductive but that’s incentivised by its architecture.

I'll use that term from now on. :D

What if the output regurgitates some other legal entity’s boilerplate licence agreement? Is the output automatically licensed to that entity?

No, the copyright is the colour of the bits, and red bits with a comment saying "these bits are blue" are not blue bits, but you may be prosecuted for fraud.

It's wild to me that there haven't been more court cases to answer questions like those being asked in this thread.

No one knows.

It's new, fast-moving technology, and the courts are slow and expensive.

It would take two stubborn businesses with a lot of money deciding that it is better to battle it out than focus on their business. Something like IBM v SCO or Oracle v Google.

Huh? LIDAR absolutely is confused by reflections. Not always the reflections you can see (because often it’s using IR wavelengths) but nonetheless, reflections.

I wouldn’t call a ship “Titanic”.

Wow, that’s really interesting! I always suspected bit flips happened undetected way more than we thought, so it’s great to get some real life war stories about it. Also thanks for Guild Wars, many happy hours spent in GW2. :)

The worst thing that could happen is that you get caught in some government dragnet based on your historical viewing data and get disappeared because (as is the nature of dragnet searches) no matter how innocent you are you still look guilty.

Does anyone here not know that ‘twas brillig, when the slithey toves did gyre and gimbal in the wabe?

Isn't that from Jabberwocky?