I refer to it as ‘wanking’. It’s doing something that’s unproductive but that’s incentivised by its architecture.

What if the output regurgitates some other legal entity’s boilerplate licence agreement? Is the output automatically licensed to that entity?

Huh? LIDAR absolutely is confused by reflections. Not always the reflections you can see (because often it’s using IR wavelengths) but nonetheless, reflections.

I wouldn’t call a ship “Titanic”.

Wow, that’s really interesting! I always suspected bit flips happened undetected way more than we thought, so it’s great to get some real life war stories about it. Also thanks for Guild Wars, many happy hours spent in GW2. :)