Cloudflare has over 200 PoPs; in your own name servers, you can use the Cloudflare Resolver's IP (which will be a "close to the user" IP, not 1.1.1.1) to do geotargeting and serve from your closest IP address/server.
> As long as a third party central authority controls our money system, we will always be subject to the whims of the few. Bitcoin is helping to liberate us and it’s absolutely working.
A bold claim without evidence. In fact, the opposite may be true [1]. This is but one counterpoint; another notable problem is the centralization of bitcoin mining in China [2].
SARS had escaped no less than 4 times from Chinese labs[1]. It’s not implausible at all that coronaviruses have a history of escaping Chinese labs.
Meanwhile, this[2] is a terrible source but some of the info can easily be verified. We know that China was researching exactly this type of virus and gain of function in Wuhan after the U.S. stopped due to “biosafety and biosecurity risks” exceeding benefits. [3]. The US explicitly ended that line of research due to the risks; China continued it.
The only question is different interpretations of “fake”: it is a real system dialogue, invoked by a deprecated API; it is fake in that the text is set by Zoom to trick the user into allowing it to install itself without approval.
That article is incredibly misleading in what it leaves out: by using same logic, our existing CA system is equally a “backdoor”.
We have certificate transparency to help address that, and were DANE to be in actual use similar systems would quickly appear, for example using the RIPE Atlas.
DANE is not a backdoor. To exercise it as one would require replacing operator-controlled keys with government (or other) keys. This would be no less visible than doing the same with an existing certificate authority.
He owns the rights to the pictures he takes. No purchase necessary. Especially in the context of wildlife, there are no human subjects to cloud the issue.
Your post is strikingly similar to a modern “let them eat cake”.
What does your idea of economic theory suggest for the masses living paycheck to paycheck due to ever increasing wealth inequality as capital begets capital, facing loss of income due to the virus?
Should they be priced out of buying food so that the rich and privileged can continue to do as they please?
One of the core, fundamental concepts in Computer Science is composition.
We are all standing on the shoulders of giants, building on the work of those who came before us.
Therefore, to the greatest extent possible, our work should be available for all to build upon to the benefit of society.
Music is a more pure creative endeavor; artists generate a specific instance that is unique to them. Copyright applies in the same way that it does to a specific implementation of a program or algorithm.
Software patents fill the role you ask about for programmers. Some companies name their employees in patents, some don’t; and some “programmers” patent their ideas on their own. However, it is quite expensive to apply for a patent.
In addition, it is seemingly impossible to develop any new technology without infringing on unknown patents even for obvious ideas that you can have independent independently. Thus the balance is weighted toward large companies, who may have patent portfolios they can use defensively.
In summary, software patents are an abomination and the reason that programmers are not like musicians.
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