A lot of this is why I have the policy I do with regards to just blocking debate-heads. If someone replies with something lacking civility, consideration of nuance, or is just plain simple old POV pushing; I'm just going to shut them down and block their nonsense. They can go rant at the wall for all I care.
Lending the "copy of Your Copy" is arguably not always personal use. The law explicitly only authorizes copies of your copy if those copies are "at rest" for "archival" purposes. I only ignore the distinction that this rule is only for computer software because I view digital video/audio data files as computer software itself. It's just a standardized format that tells an application what to draw and present on the screen and/or what sounds to make.
If you're not going to abuse the mechanic and only lend out fewer copies of your copies than you can count on one hand...then sure, knock yourself out. I don't think the law is ever going to be robustly enforced enough to seek you out specifically for doing this. Personally though; I don't think doing this passes muster under the expected fair and personal use unless you're loaning said copy to someone you live with.
Reason #286 to never own a god damned stupid Tesla.
Cars are required to have manual releases by law; it's just shitty how Tesla appears to be skirting those rules by hiding these manual releases behind inconvenient placements and locations...which is going to get people killed someday when one of these damn things catch fire.
Please, stop spreading this misinformation and conspiracy theory garbage.
As someone who has lived though the events of 9/11; I can assure you that they reported that Osama Bin Laden and his followers did in fact flee to Iraq.
When you purchase a physical copy of a movie in general; you obtain and retain the right to "copy your copy" and "use it strictly for personal use" ad infinitum.
So yes, it's completely 💯% ethical piracy to pirate titles you already paid for but found the format to be lacking. You don't owe filmmakers a second purchase for a new or better format. Don't bother getting into the weeds over per-screen or per-head copies either; you don't owe them that either. Just don't screen a film for more than 3-5 people outside of your immediate household family who are not related to you by blood or name and you'll probably never run into Copyright Lawsuits... because it'll never be worth their time to bother.
Pirate away happily matey. Don't let people fool you into thinking you are more or less ethical in your piracy than what you yourself believes is ethical or unethical. You decide how you will and want to pirate because a pirate is free.
Kick votes alone should never lead to bans or suspensions. Instead; this is when we should switch to server-sided analytics of gameplay and lean heavily on human moderator input to determine if a player might be cheating.
Anti-Cheat should be on server side anyways; not the client side.
I can't wait for the rise of motherboards with hyper-customized TPMs that can fake legitimate ones and totally gaslight the OS and any anti-cheat running that everything is alright. /s
It is not 100% private. Admins can read your messages if they choose to investigate your messages.
It will not get blasted out to the whole fediverse; just to the recipient you indicated. (Unless an admin from the previous point reads your message and publishes it publicly on the fediverse)
You do not get to do anything naughty with it; expect to be caught if you break the rules.
people start ranting about how you don’t have an expectation of privacy at school or work.
That my dear, is patent bullshit. Anyone who does this is absolutely 100% WRONG and you should not be shy about it. Tell them to stfu and block them if needed.
You always have a basic expectation and right of privacy.What actually changes, is "what invasions of that privacy is common and accepted as necessary". 95% of the time you do have every right to be aggrieved, pissed, upset, and perfectly right to have a discussion about those rights being invaded.
Do not suffer fools who would shout you down to shut your objections down.
When will we begin to criminalize the far-right GOP members who incite violence and do naught but spew threats of violence and legal repercussions with no teeth?
How you answer is the difference between being fascist and not. (Hint: it's definitely OK to lock up those who actively do something lawbreaking, but not if someone kept the peace and obeyed the law and kept their rhetoric peaceful enough that no one is threatened)
The paradox of tolerance required that Trump and his guilty cohorts be tried for Jan. 6th. The GA case is an extension of those charges investigating that. How this case goes will probably set a nationwide precedent to whether or not additional GOP oversteps could be tried as criminal on any level.
With luck law will land on the right side; and remind everyone that peaceful discourse is much preferable to aggressive actions.
I'm assuming that unless told otherwise; they have no such capability in the BIOS. It IS probably a public school and IT department that isn't that clever/resourced.
They can't detect if you boot into Linux; but they can detect the presence of external storage devices and scan their contents. It is best if you do not plug in your LiveUSBs or disks while the system is [ONLINE] (Meaning while the device is booted into any default operating system)
Chances are if your hardware has not changed; the capabilities have also not changed. I do however have a few tips for you:
DO NOT MODIFY THE DEFAULT OS OR SPYWARE! It sounds like they are now monitoring the files for the software and will now notice if you have disabled it; as your machine will probably be sending heartbeats to a centralized server. You must accept this spyware when operating the machine as intended to interface with your school environment; but you can limit yourself to submitting schoolwork only on it
Boot into a Live(CD/USB/Media) environment of Linux with Persistence. Google it. They can't detect this without BIOS tampering.
Do Not plug your Live Media into the system when booted into it's default mode. Your drives are probably being scanned.
Keep a separate media storage device for storing your documents and such.
You can boot into your Linux key to work on school things and browse the web privately. Remember though that you are [OFFLINE] and may be unable to access the school network and will be required to save your work on a different piece of media, shut back down and boot into the default OS again to submit your work.
You may be unable to complete assignments in Linux [OFFLINE] that require you to respond to questions interactively [ONLINE] or otherwise require that you be interactively [ONLINE].
Not an unfair opinion to have; but at least they tried. Sadly the "Scene" is this fucked up. They don't adhere to the same standards of behavior that we do on the clear web...mostly because they interact on IRC or other private chatrooms and kick out anyone they don't like, or disagree with.
A lot of this is why I have the policy I do with regards to just blocking debate-heads. If someone replies with something lacking civility, consideration of nuance, or is just plain simple old POV pushing; I'm just going to shut them down and block their nonsense. They can go rant at the wall for all I care.