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But art is also one of the most fundamental things everyone learns to do. Literal children learn to do art, and doodling is something everyone knows how to do.

Although I do think that the issue is exacerbated by the enthusiast-types who will tune a model on someone's work as a form of vengeance, and smugly brag about how they can have the computer crunch out something approximating their work.

They're too big to fail. At least, they were, but they're scaling back these days, so they may be sanctioned sooner or later.

TOS era transporters and post TNG transporters work somewhat differently. Transporting someone in TOS freezes them, where in TNG, they can move and talk. Plus DS9 uses Cardassian tech, so who knows what they have going on.

That's why we should abolish mental health care for soldiers. They're not physically disabled. Shell shock is just mental weakness, compared to their disabled comrades (!)

No, they are. There was a spam wave some time ago that had people upload gore and other things onto instances.

Except that the numbers are also prone to change, like if it's been stolen. They're technically not supposed to be an identification code anyhow.

Things that someone who isn't the police would also say.

Especially since this is what was caught. Considering how brazen it is, and how those involved are trying to worm out if it, you have to wonder if there's similar or worse going on that flew under the radar because a journalist wasn't accidentally roped in.

Polygraphs aren't scientific anyway. All you're really doing is seeing if they're nervous or not.

Making someone nervous by threatening them with a polygraph is arguably more effective than the polygraph itself.

I was most disappointed when I read that he left the group chat. Missed opportunity for some top-class trolling:

Although that may have had him arrested/raided for accessing most secret information he lacks clearance for, so leaving upon finding out it was the real thing and not a joke group was the better move.

I would love to know how much is spent trying to catch people trying to game the system, compared to lost compensation because of sick leave.

Past a point, they must surely be spending more hiring this whole team of detectives than they would be just letting the workers take Friday off.

Worked for the US time and a half ago. It's hardly the newest playbook.

It's odd that it takes in that direction, rather than going with trend of other patents, where the patent is for the implementation, not the idea.

FFmpeg and handbrake do the latter two quite handily. The latter even has a nice program interface, rather than needing commands.

ImageMagick is capable of the first. I've had it go the other way before, and I should be most surprised if it couldn't convert a PDF to a jpg.

Their nervous system isn't. You can see it in the photo.

Apple got an special exemption the last time the EU standardised the port to Micro-USB.

The writing would have been on the wall for them. Especially as thunderbolt 3+ uses the USB-C connector, there was no guarantee the EU would give them exception again, and lightning is almost certainly not designed to handle the wattage needed to charge a Mac.

But otherwise, if not compelled, I doubt that Apple would have carried it over to the mobile devices. The timing is fortuitous, but likely because Apple has a little leeway before the EU forbade their devices/fined them for not following the law.

They are often up, but not at full power. TOS made many references to the computer raising the automatic defence screens, and by TNG, starships had navigational deflector shields that were always on.

1. I don't know for certain, but it seems possible that shields may not be usable at warp. I don't remember any specific episode where that happened, but it seems possible. But even then, a ship could just be programmed to bring them up as it drops out of warp.

I want to say it's the opposite, actually. Shields, at least on some level, are required for safe warp drive operation. Voyager had an episode where they were unable to jump to warp speed because their shields were inoperative.

However, they're probably not at full, since warp drive puts considerable strain on the power systems, enough that your average starship may not be able to power their shields at full, and maintain warp drive at the same time. You may need a high-power ship like the Protostar with its dual core system to make it work.

1. One reason brought up frequently is that raising shields could be taken as an act of aggression. But if you arrive with shields already up, then you're not doing anything aggressive, you just arrived that way, so I don't think this makes much sense in a world where most Starfleet ships just keep their shields up.

Only if they don't have a baseline. Starfleet ships seem to have no problem detecting ships charging their shields and weapons, even if it is an alien ship with technologies and configuration that they have never encountered before. There is no reason to think that aliens would be any different in that regard.

1. I guess it could be possible that the power usage of the shields is too much for the day-to-day use. But again, it seems like a lot of missions clearly begin with "dropping out of warp into an unfamiliar area" and those are the times where your shields should just be up by default.

Shields interfere with a lot of systems, not just the transporter. It also messes with sensors, which is why ships like the constitution-class Enterprise and Phoenix have their shields set up so that they're lowered on a cycle to allow the (high-power) sensors to operate in that gap.

If you're in a new place taking sensor readings, having shields would unnecessarily hamper your readings, so you may end up spending longer there, or be unable to take some readings at all.

Could you not ask the pharmacist to put it in a child-unsafe container instead, in that case?

Because it takes work to obey the rules, and you get less data for it. The theoretical competitor could get more ignoring those and get some vague advantage for it.

I'd not be surprised if the crawlers they used were bare-basic utilities set up to just grab everything without worrying about rules and the like.