The problem is, this assumes that even if the kind of AI creators that are scraping relentlessly (and there's a fair few that do) took this data source directly, that they'd then put an exception in their scrapers to avoid wikipedia's site. I doubt they would bother.
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Not really, an almost infinite number of non-shakespeare monkeys came before him and also didn't happen to write the entire works of shakespeare.
There are quite a few April Fool RFCs, but this one is definitely one of my favourites. This one and RFC 1149 (A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers).
In the year twenty-five, twenty-five, twenty-five.
Although this year might feel like it has 25 months actually.
As an outsider looking in, everything this regime does is testing the waters to see if they can get away with that, and if so how much further can they push it.
If someone doesn't actually take real action to stop it soon, it may become unstoppable.
No! It's Eastasia. I mean smartphones!
Maybe c# has similar. There's \r\n or \n like c++ and Environment.NewLine.
Probably it's similar in that Environment.NewLine takes into account the operating system in use and I wonder if endl in c++ does the same thing?
Yeah but on one hand you hold the possibility of peace and in the other rampant profiteering.
For an absolute scumbag the choice is obvious, no?
This was exactly what came to mind when I read the post.
All hypothetical of course. Not convinced things will go that far without some more clear indicators.
The root servers are already spread over the globe. Enough of them are operated by non US orgs too to handle things initially, I suspect that the localised anycast servers located outside the US for those USA based operators would probably go on serving.
It'd be trivial to replace them anyway, and frankly we traffic would be much lower anyway since a lot of the Internet is run by us based organisations.
For domain registration on tlds not run by the us, they should continue to operate fine.
Well, I'd expect that if they allowed 5v through but with a low current limit (I think the default 5v standard states quite a low current allowance). They could catch anything drawing too much and shut the port off until it detects disconnection/other reset.
I mean, if they're thinking about protecting a downstream device, adding this logic would make more sense than just not supplying any power unless a negotiation is made.
In any case, since standard USB ports on a computer will output 5v without anything being negotiated, then it's really no less safe than any other USB port in that regard.
Well, you might be able to do it. But you might not want to be holding it in YOUR hand when you turn it on. :P