@starr @jamie Audiovisual works being relatively easy to display in the library and also a part of the national cultural heritage, the LOC does tend to require deposit, but it's up to the librarians to decide whether they will add a copy to the nation's collection. I should read up on what they do for computer games, where the "work as a whole" may not even exist in one place or be in any way functional offline.

@jamie @starr (The Berne Convention allows this because the formalities are only required to file suit, so it's no different under the convention from having to present any other form of documentary proof before a court. Copyright law in general was built on a centuries-old threat model of "infringer produces 10,000 copies of one work" and not "infringer produces one copy of 10,000 works" let alone the millions in various pirated e-book collections.)

@jamie @starr No. You must deposit the work with the Copyright Office but the rules vary depending on the kind of work and the nature of the claim. For very voluminous non-literary works, the Office has long allowed deposit of a representative sample. While the Copyright Office is part of the Library of Congress, copyright deposits do not become part of the Library's public collections. (The Librarian can require publishers to deposit copies of specific works for public access.)

@jamie @starr This was a big deal for authors in the Anthropic suit: those whose works had not been registered for whatever reason prior to the infringement were excluded from the settlement because they would only have been entitled to at most a few dollars in lost royalties, a fact-bound question not conducive to class action and for which they could not be awarded fees. (Foreign authors are understandably angry about this.)

@jamie @starr Registration is required to sue to enforce a copyright, yes. The copyright exists without registration, but as soon as you want to sue, you have to provide the registration number or a copy of the Register of Copyright's formal denial (which you can then litigate).

What registration gives you is "statutory damages": for infringement that occurs prior to registration, you can only receive *actual* damages, not the act's fixed penalty plus treble damages and costs.

@inthehands OTOH, as practitioners come to rely on stochastic information retrieval for more and more diagnoses, as it confirms what they already know, it may cause them to assign more weight to the information in the model than is justified, overruling their own second thoughts. ("Computer says...")

@inthehands Worth noting, however, that when the training set captures a lot of outdated or irrelevant information, because the field has advanced rapidly since the model was trained, "typical" can start to diverge again. This can be mitigated if the practitioner knows to consult the latest information (either by reading it or by feeding it to the model as a part of the query) but of course they have to be aware of that. This is I suppose no worse than relying on the practitioner's knowledge.

@MAKS23 They used to have one, Europay -- it's the "E" in "EMV". They allowed it to merge with MasterCard.

@fluidlogic @argv_minus_one The controller had an option ROM.

@fluidlogic My mother worked for IBM so of course rather than a normal computer we had to get a 5150 (version 2 system board, so it could hold up to 256K RAM), which she paid for through payroll deduction. A few summers later I went to a "computer camp" where I was the only kid with a PC in a sea of TRS-80s and C-64s and Apple IIs. It was upgraded over time; the second floppy drive broke and was replaced with a 20M hard drive, and we got a better (non-Epson) printer and a color monitor.

@mattblaze Visited my parents for Thanksgiving, and in their single-story two-bedroom they have four smoke detectors -- all of which decided to start beeping overnight Thanksgiving morning. And they don't all use the same kind of batteries or have the same battery holder. (Some are 9-volt, some 2xAA. And of course once you get the latter sort open, good luck figuring out the correct polarity because it's marked in injection-molded white text on white ABS.)

@pekkatahkola Lovely pictures, but I have to say, I lived for six months in the rural area outside Kuopio (albeit 37 years ago) so I'm not sure I'd be too eager to try Oulu even farther north. You're up at 65N and I'm down here at 42N thinking the days are still too short. A different kind of folk to be sure.