EPO run based on connections (nepotism), not merit
Summary: The kakistocracy in charge of today's EPO putting people in charge of disciplines they do not understand (and have no experience in!) is another sign of an institution gone profoundly rogue/wrong; FrenchmenBenoît Battistelli and António Campinos have put a fellow Frenchman, Razik Menidjel, in charge of areas he has never worked it, including European software patents
Setting up several reliable copies of the data, plus several off-site backups (this data is nowhere as sensitive as medical data), should only cost a few grand
If someone (or someones) calls you paranoid for taking about "beacon"-like functionality, there will be no lack of authoritative citations (e.g. Web links) they can be provided to prove them wrong
There's no "anti-AI" (it's not even AI), there's opposition to fraud, to plagiarism, and to companies that profit more when there's global warning (caused in part by their business activities)
At least some people squeezed out some "free press" out of this charade [...] That the media kept boosting parodies as the alternative/s to the bigot is a topic we wrote about a great deal over the past 3 weeks