The EULA is not beholden to copyright law. "Limited license" is in direct contradiction to European Court of Justice's ruling that if a commoner expects a "sale" then all rights given by a sale are protected which cannot be limited by an EULA. Right now regulators are questioning whether having a "Buy" button constitutes a sale and is thus protected by the ECJ ruling in UsedSoft vs. Oracle. Nevertheless they're trying to combat this behaviour either through interpreting current regulations or by creating new regulations to close potential loopholes.
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I'm not American, so no. A contractual term can only be provided before entering a purchase agreement in EU. Copyright law is still in effect, but all the EULAs you read after purchase (e.g. during boot) are void here.
EU is very adamant that you can only present contractual terms before entering an agreement (purchase) not after. All those EULAs showing up in the game before you are shown the main menu are void in EU.
If the EULA is instead embedded in the purchase flow with an "I agree" checkbox then the UsedSoft vs. Oracle case is likely still precedence to argue that you own the copy. Reason is that the purchase flow uses the "Buy" terminology and nowhere outside of the EULA it mentions rental/lease/limited/etc. This would breach the "reasonable consumer expectations" as the storefront didn't make it clear in their purchase experience that it was only a limited license you obtained and that a normal consumer doesn't expect "limited" when reading "Buy". This part has though not been tested in court yet but most legal scholars agree that this would be the likely outcome should someone bring it up.
Luckily the EULA doesn't apply when obtaining it through unauthorized means since the EULA would never have been accepted upon a purchase that didn't happen.
(It is though copyright infringement, but you still have more ownership over the bytes on your own disk since DRM would have been removed or neutered)
Great temp for some pulled pork.
And I've given up on Facebook ages ago. You should too.
Danish here: This isn't exactly a foreign concept. All of my project exams in University had a written part (ranging from 50-150 pages), sometimes a technical part, and then an oral part where we defended the report. That's one per semester.
Defending an essay would likely not take more than 15min, 3-4 hours was enough to probe a group of 7 to figure out who should get what grade based on contribution (or lack thereof if they just rode the other's coattails). 5min to present the essay with a short summary, 5min for questions to probe the student, and 5 minutes for buffer.
I could even see this be used as a combined written/oral exam where you get a grade for both in a language class. If the essay is shit but your oral articulation in the foreign language is excellent then you could get top grade orally while failing on the written exam part. That means no actual loss of time.
The hard part is that most grades in our version of high school (gymnasium) are based on the teacher's observations of your abilities in class. It is only some classes that are randomly selected for a end-of-year exam to save time. This idea about defending an essay wouldn't work in the rest of the classes.
Who the fuck believes this shit?
The AI is most likely trained on the human mods.
This is the Hoover Dam, the GTA V dam is based on Pacoima Dam and Morris Dam
Euria is hosted by Infomaniak. I'm not sure they tell what model they use but given the few times I saw a random Chinese character in the output I'd guess it isn't an American model.
They also have a pay per token model that you can hook up to everything, that one's just quite expensive for normal chat use, but at least you select the model you want to use.
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That was kinda the plot in 007: First Light
Spoiler
The AI was sold to MI6 and had perfect accuracy. Turned out the guy who sold it sent a fix team every time it was wrong and MI6 made a "mistake" because of bad Intel, so the team could clean up the scene and make it look like the AI was right all along.