You are welcome. In order to receive this data one really doesn’t need a lot. Some USB SDR dongle around ~30$ and software which is readily available. It’s just like any other public service, free to listen to but license is needed to broadcast.

This system is called ADS-B. It’s a peer to peer communication between airplanes where each plane will share its own data (flight level, speed, coordinates, flight number, etc.) and data from other planes by broadcasting it on same frequency as others. Result of this is that all the planes know where other nearby planes are located and their heading thus providing additional safety in avoiding collisions and other issues.

Data being broadcast in all directions means us on the ground can listen to them as well, which is what some sites are doing. Add internet to that mixture and we have a world coverage of every plane on the planet. You might wonder why data is not encrypted or something similar. There’s nothing that can be abused about the data and all this tracking helps enormously with resolving incidents and other useful functionalities like precise arrival estimates and similar.

Now, since every airplane has a registration number, people figured out which plane was hers. Just like they know which plane Musk uses and many others. Data is recorded and known and completely legal, helpful even. If she has issues with this fact solution is rather simple. Get a charter flight or rent a plane and no one is the wiser. This is just rich people entitlement and the only way she can “win” this court case is to go a step further in stepping over the line which is to drown the poor man with legal expenses.

Edit: Oh, also location of boats is known. Not all boats, but commercial ones for sure. Their system is called AIS.

So the summary is, Boeing ruined Boeing. Government is not to blame nor are rules. They decided to be greedy asses who skipped on checks and quality control just to get bigger bonuses for their management.

I think I could justify Chromebooks to a degree when it comes to hardware. The goal is clearly to produce cheapest hardware possible, which inevitably means soldered components and mass production with features disabled in software. I can’t excuse software locking and bad practices, though. However what Apple is doing is just sinister.

It’s the most underwhelming finale in any game I’ve played. Completely pointless. You work your ass off to establish economy which can sustain building of a ship and then once you are done defending it, you get a black screen saying good job grunt. If they connected it with new game, say what you left the planet with is your new starting gear, then I could see it being more relevant. Kind of set it up for mods with extreme planets and stuff. So you have to prepare on more acceptable planet before going somewhere extreme. The way it currently is makes ending pointless.

I can see every single example taking that much time, but Skyrim? Is there really 3000h+ worth of content in that game that doesn’t get boring after first time you do it?

Simple solution to that is not to add people. Am assuming should that happen Signal will add highlight of sorts to warn about users from other networks.

Hm, interesting.

The worst thing of all is that people like these are usually the worst offenders.

In part, yes. Here’s a document explaining it all. In short, they use many different source, of which Bing is one. However when they query for data on those services, there’s no personally identifiable information shared, so they can’t create profiles about you.

And am not sure lawyers classify it as such either.

And quite a bit of inspiration came from Kurosawa’s movie Kakushi-toride no san-akunin.

Do they run in the opposite direction on southern hemisphere?

Theft is not monetary because you didn’t take money away from the creator, hence there’s no “theft” in strict meaning of the word. It’s like saying you stole money from the store because you didn’t pay for the apple. You stole the apple, but not the money. Except in digital world, store would be able to duplicate the apple infinite amount of times, so intellectual property is not missing on the author’s part, you just violated the law because you used it without compensation.

I understand the angle you are coming from, you are seeing it as potential income you have now prevented the creator from earning and phrasing it as theft.

Also, arguing about all of this is pointless, especially online. That’s why lawyer is a life calling and not something anyone can just do as a hobby. Written law is always different from interpreted law and lawyers will try to twist and wiggle around meanings of words as much as possible, which is also the reason why agreements and contracts are written in such a way.

Piracy technically isn’t stealing, it’s intellectual property reproduction license violation. Clever bastards those lawyers. You basically don’t purchase the music, you purchase the right to reproduce it for non-commercial purposes.

Yeah, I guess that’s the case. And I have nothing on that except how it feels, which is a pointless thing to rely on.

I have no evidence, of course. Just a feeling, which is a pointless metric. I think none of us really knew how much waging a war costs.

Most likely nothing to do with Twitter. He asked for 25% of shares of Tesla so he can, along with his other buddies, be in control of it. Purchase of Twitter and various other failures made him sell almost all the stocks he had. He’s currently sitting at around 13%. But it is possible there’s some payment coming for his Twitter loan and he’s shit out of luck but doesn’t want to sell more stocks. We’ll know for sure if he starts pumping stocks again. Their annual report was just the other day and it was not one of a successful company, no matter how many times he said he’s confident next year this next big thing he came up with on the spot.

He never got it in the first place. Musk only has around 13% of Tesla shares. Combined with few other key players, he’s just below 50%. He tried to blackmail the company to give him 50B$ or 25% of shares, claiming he just wants to be influential and not to be able to rule the company. But in reality that’s not true and the judge knew that. Good for her.

Shh, don’t burst their bubble. In their heads you are suppose to accept being terrorized and bombed and do nothing because anything you do is genocide and starting a war.