I have just one word, for you. Just one word. Plastics....
Or, maybe ghammahydroxentium, or whatever the newest, most interesting, non terrestrial ore/mineral/etc is discovered.
The key will be getting someone to physically live on the Moon, Or Mars, and start doing some semi deep core drilling to find what exploitable resources may exist in non-terran environments. And then researching those ores to find a use for them, and then finding a way to make that use profitable.
The colonization of the western US was enbouldened by the dreams of many striking it rich on Gold. You will see a similar 'Space Rush' based on profitable exploitable resources discovered in environs outside of ours.
I envision that this material will be something new that offers revolutionary new power generation yields, or an item that will increase the yield of electronmagnetic environments, which in turn will be the catalyst in both fusion research as well as long term anti-matter storage and containment, either of which will, almost in their own right, create a need that funds it's own extraction.
Until a profitable, and exciting 'everyman' concept of space is envisioned, it will remain an environment we dabble in from time to time just to make sure we keep our technological advantage in the only endeavour that validated itself in regards to mankind actually taking a dream and making it a reality.
If you want to look at it that way, the government already captures access information via tollgates, etc. So, in a sense, where that information is available for capture, they do.
Thus, in the sense that it is realistic to accept that 'traffic' information does pass through ram, using your analogy, then that 'tollgate' information must be captured as well.
Oh, I'm sure, many of you are going off on this whole RAM thing as if that was the point. What you are missing is that this ruling was meant not really believing that RAM is the key, but the fact of the matter that, for torrentspy transactions, they do not, for just the exact reason this lawsuit began, log connection information, even though that information does pass through the RAM of the system.
They focused on RAM as it is, in this case, the only memory device that is realistically capturing any connection information.
That connection information is what the prosecution wants.
Ergo, this order is, for all intents and purposes, forcing torrentspy to adjust their software to capture the connection information. That's really all it is. The courts, I'm sure, are aware of the transitory nature of RAM, and, through this order, are only addressing that the memory in RAM be captured.
The reason they bring this up is because torrentspy, all along, claimed they have no logs that capture connection information, so potential downtheroad supoena's of torrentspy users cannot occur, plsu an audit trail of abuses cannot be captured.
This ruling basically says 'Nice try guys, but you now need to close up that loophole'.
Seriously, you all go off on the nature of RAM and stupidity of non-technites, but you fail to grasp what this ruling is really about, enforced logging of details that should be captured but the fact that it isn't is 100% an attempt to cover up any illegal activity going on with their servers/services abd leaving no trail to trace.
If this was read for what it really means 'Court orders torrentspy to modify software to capture all connection info', which would be more outside the realm of the court to order, it wouldn't even raise an eyebrow save for the tinfoil hat privacy types. But that is outside the mandate of the court, so they just said what they need and now it's up to Torrentspy to figure out how to do it.
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I have just one word, for you. Just one word. Plastics.... Or, maybe ghammahydroxentium, or whatever the newest, most interesting, non terrestrial ore/mineral/etc is discovered. The key will be getting someone to physically live on the Moon, Or Mars, and start doing some semi deep core drilling to find what exploitable resources may exist in non-terran environments. And then researching those ores to find a use for them, and then finding a way to make that use profitable. The colonization of the western US was enbouldened by the dreams of many striking it rich on Gold. You will see a similar 'Space Rush' based on profitable exploitable resources discovered in environs outside of ours. I envision that this material will be something new that offers revolutionary new power generation yields, or an item that will increase the yield of electronmagnetic environments, which in turn will be the catalyst in both fusion research as well as long term anti-matter storage and containment, either of which will, almost in their own right, create a need that funds it's own extraction. Until a profitable, and exciting 'everyman' concept of space is envisioned, it will remain an environment we dabble in from time to time just to make sure we keep our technological advantage in the only endeavour that validated itself in regards to mankind actually taking a dream and making it a reality.
If you want to look at it that way, the government already captures access information via tollgates, etc. So, in a sense, where that information is available for capture, they do. Thus, in the sense that it is realistic to accept that 'traffic' information does pass through ram, using your analogy, then that 'tollgate' information must be captured as well.
Oh, I'm sure, many of you are going off on this whole RAM thing as if that was the point. What you are missing is that this ruling was meant not really believing that RAM is the key, but the fact of the matter that, for torrentspy transactions, they do not, for just the exact reason this lawsuit began, log connection information, even though that information does pass through the RAM of the system. They focused on RAM as it is, in this case, the only memory device that is realistically capturing any connection information. That connection information is what the prosecution wants. Ergo, this order is, for all intents and purposes, forcing torrentspy to adjust their software to capture the connection information. That's really all it is. The courts, I'm sure, are aware of the transitory nature of RAM, and, through this order, are only addressing that the memory in RAM be captured. The reason they bring this up is because torrentspy, all along, claimed they have no logs that capture connection information, so potential downtheroad supoena's of torrentspy users cannot occur, plsu an audit trail of abuses cannot be captured. This ruling basically says 'Nice try guys, but you now need to close up that loophole'. Seriously, you all go off on the nature of RAM and stupidity of non-technites, but you fail to grasp what this ruling is really about, enforced logging of details that should be captured but the fact that it isn't is 100% an attempt to cover up any illegal activity going on with their servers/services abd leaving no trail to trace. If this was read for what it really means 'Court orders torrentspy to modify software to capture all connection info', which would be more outside the realm of the court to order, it wouldn't even raise an eyebrow save for the tinfoil hat privacy types. But that is outside the mandate of the court, so they just said what they need and now it's up to Torrentspy to figure out how to do it.
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