catloaf

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[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 3 points 7 months ago (4 children)

They took pictures of the facilities and operational aircraft, not the airshow. That's suspicious enough to detain someone.

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 3 points 7 months ago

From social media, or like some Logan's Run kind of thing?

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 40 points 7 months ago (7 children)

It's always been like this. We just have the Internet now so we can learn about it happening.

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 120 points 7 months ago (16 children)

The blockchain components meant it was dead on arrival.

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee -1 points 7 months ago

From wikipedia:

The landing module, which weighed around 495 kilograms (1,091 lb), may have reached the surface of Earth largely intact. Correctly oriented, it was designed to withstand 300 g of acceleration and 100 atmospheres of pressure entering the atmosphere of Venus. However, the age of the craft and the shallow angle of reentry likely reduced survivability; tumbling or misorientation may have resulted in sections of the craft burning up in Earth's atmosphere. The final impact velocity was estimated to be 65–70 metres per second (230–250 km/h; 150–160 mph).

So maybe the main body of the landing module made it down, but it's extremely unlikely that it would have maintained the correct orientation. And any part that didn't burn up was surely obliterated in the impact.

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago

It's literally called copyright because it's about the rights to copy something. The new law would still be a form of copyright.

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 5 points 7 months ago (6 children)

Downloading is still infringement. Distribution is worse, but I don't think it's a criminal matter, still just civil.

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago

The core isn't much better.

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 17 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Agreed. I don't know why people post so many random projects' minor update releases with no context.

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