Both sides have it wrong, the government should not encourage people to break the terms of service of a website, but they should accept that people should not put unnecessary information on public untrusted websites either...
..the UK government does not have a good record for securing peoples data, there are numerous cases of officials leaving it on trains, sending it unencrypted through the post, etc...
Solution: Shoot them, this is still legal and the most efficient and humane way
Fox hunting as a sport is outdated and often cruel, gamekeeping is necessary to keep the fox population down, and if done properly will cull the correct individuals not just the easiest to catch, or the first found, dogs should not be necessary for a good gamekeeper because they will know where the local foxes live and where to find them...
Most average people using average computers already use Linux, either as Android on their phone, or powering the majority of websites they spend most of their time on...
The "desktop" i.e. a machine with separate screen and keyboard is disappearing in both the corporate world (which is where people usually mean) and the home, to be replaced by laptops and pads, laptops have such custom hardware that they will only every work with the preinstalled OS, and pads normally cannot have any other OS (but this is quite often Android...)
Microsoft with the leadership of Bill, and Apple with the leadership of Steve didn't seem to do too badly...?
The UK £2 coin has "Standing on the shoulders of Giants" around the edge... to doubly commemorate Isaac Newton
He was master of the royal mint and famously quoted this, and he invented Milled Edge coins to stop people clipping coins (when they has intrinsic worth)
Google's version is in images of the pages, most of the illustrations (which are the whole point of the book) are fold outs and are not folded out in Google's copy, the ones that are visible are smudgy poor quality versions of the originals...
Project Gutenburg has a much better copy - HTML,epub,kindle etc... transcribed text and detailed images
When the utility company sell me gas or water they have less gas and water and have to go and find some more, when the record companies sell me music they still have exactly the same amount of music to sell
They have found a way of selling the same thing over and over again almost indefinitely, and people of "steal" from them are hard to find because there is nothing missing to trace...
It's like you wrote it on a huge billboard on a main street, and did not expect passers by to pay, but when someone put up a sign pointing to it then you want to charge them....?
...Oh yes the Russian modules only provide power, life support, storage, docking, and a science module... i.e. are a complete space station on their own ?
...except if you remove all the US, European, Japanese etc parts from the ISS and just leave the Russian parts you have a perfectly serviceable space station
The number of manned space stations launched by the USA alone is 1, the number by Russia/USSR is 7, and China 1 (so far)
Skylab was manned for 171 days, Mir was manned for 4594 days (and Salyut 6 for 683, Salyut 7 861)...
...So you want NASA a non-policing body, to arrest a Foreign national, for being involved in a transaction in a second foreign country, which is perfectly legal in all three countries....
Do the words "outside your jurisdiction" and "not illegal" mean anything to you?
The accuracy might be good, but how accurately can you actually use this...?
Try putting your fingertip on a small item, did you get it right first time? Now try this when you cannot feel the object, and cannot see it in relation to your hand ?
Roll on the holographic display version of this....
Thumbs up is not universal - Try using this in some countries and most people will be very offended
"The finger" is largely unused outside america and not recognised in most of the world
ASL is only used to sign English, in the USA, by the majority of US deaf people, Other languages in the USA have their own sign languages and e.g. BSL (British Sign Language) English signers would seem to be signing a completely foreign language
ASL is largely unused outside North America and so is nowhere universal as English
In Japan bikes are and always have been used in huge numbers, and on the streets of Tokyo pedestrians outnumber bikes, which outnumber cars... so this is not an issue
In Europe it used to be that everyone walked or biked to school, and went out to play, now they are ferried to school in a car/bus and are not allowed out unsupervised so bikes are not as common...nothing to do with helmets, a lot to do with perceived danger to children?
Move your company to Europe, do not trade with the USA, instead only trade with the mysterious entity know as the "rest of the world" which has a very large, diverse and robust economy and slightly less powerful corporations, laugh all the way to the bank...
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Both sides have it wrong, the government should not encourage people to break the terms of service of a website, but they should accept that people should not put unnecessary information on public untrusted websites either ...
..the UK government does not have a good record for securing peoples data, there are numerous cases of officials leaving it on trains, sending it unencrypted through the post, etc ...
Facebook has only my absolute minimal details needed to register .... all the optional fields are blank ...
Solution: Shoot them, this is still legal and the most efficient and humane way
Fox hunting as a sport is outdated and often cruel, gamekeeping is necessary to keep the fox population down, and if done properly will cull the correct individuals not just the easiest to catch, or the first found, dogs should not be necessary for a good gamekeeper because they will know where the local foxes live and where to find them ...
Most average people using average computers already use Linux, either as Android on their phone, or powering the majority of websites they spend most of their time on ...
The "desktop" i.e. a machine with separate screen and keyboard is disappearing in both the corporate world (which is where people usually mean) and the home, to be replaced by laptops and pads, laptops have such custom hardware that they will only every work with the preinstalled OS, and pads normally cannot have any other OS (but this is quite often Android ...)
Microsoft with the leadership of Bill, and Apple with the leadership of Steve didn't seem to do too badly ...?
Digital TV in the UK still has a text service, and still has subtitles it's just not called Ceefax anymore but "red button" ....
The UK £2 coin has "Standing on the shoulders of Giants" around the edge... to doubly commemorate Isaac Newton
He was master of the royal mint and famously quoted this, and he invented Milled Edge coins to stop people clipping coins (when they has intrinsic worth)
Google's version is in images of the pages, most of the illustrations (which are the whole point of the book) are fold outs and are not folded out in Google's copy, the ones that are visible are smudgy poor quality versions of the originals...
Project Gutenburg has a much better copy - HTML,epub,kindle etc ... transcribed text and detailed images
"http://www.gutenberg.org/files/15491/15491-h/15491-h.htm"
Why is the a story ....?
When the utility company sell me gas or water they have less gas and water and have to go and find some more, when the record companies sell me music they still have exactly the same amount of music to sell
They have found a way of selling the same thing over and over again almost indefinitely, and people of "steal" from them are hard to find because there is nothing missing to trace ...
It's like you wrote it on a huge billboard on a main street, and did not expect passers by to pay, but when someone put up a sign pointing to it then you want to charge them....?
BetaMax was Sony, VHS was a consortium including Sony ...
When BetaMax was shelved VHS gained almost all of the innovation of BetaMax and so became almost the best of both worlds ...
SmartPhones are rapidly becoming Apple vs non-Apple ... and anything Apple patents will never appear in any other phone (or often any phone)
This is for "idle" power usage, if your high-end card uses enough power when idle to fall foul of this it is badly designed ...
Leaving your (Eco) Fridge on for a year ~ 400 kWh
Leaving your PC busy for a year ~ 4000 kWh
Fridge draws a lot of power (but less than older ones) but your PC draws much much more ...and is often used for long periods per day ...
Hint : Anders Hejlsberg designer of Delphi moved to Microsoft to work on C# .NET and VS ....
Can I be first to file on the design of the US patent system then band USPTO from using it?
For those not in the US, Highschool is post primary, and middle education, pre Higher education/College usually ages around 14-18
This does not correlate well to the rest of the world but approximately correlates to most countries compulsory or pre-college education
...Oh yes the Russian modules only provide power, life support, storage, docking, and a science module ... i.e. are a complete space station on their own ?
...except if you remove all the US, European, Japanese etc parts from the ISS and just leave the Russian parts you have a perfectly serviceable space station
The number of manned space stations launched by the USA alone is 1, the number by Russia/USSR is 7, and China 1 (so far)
Skylab was manned for 171 days, Mir was manned for 4594 days (and Salyut 6 for 683, Salyut 7 861) ...
Who's station is it again?
...So you want NASA a non-policing body, to arrest a Foreign national, for being involved in a transaction in a second foreign country, which is perfectly legal in all three countries ....
Do the words "outside your jurisdiction" and "not illegal" mean anything to you?
The accuracy might be good, but how accurately can you actually use this...?
Try putting your fingertip on a small item, did you get it right first time? Now try this when you cannot feel the object, and cannot see it in relation to your hand ?
Roll on the holographic display version of this ....
Thumbs up is not universal - Try using this in some countries and most people will be very offended
"The finger" is largely unused outside america and not recognised in most of the world
ASL is only used to sign English, in the USA, by the majority of US deaf people, Other languages in the USA have their own sign languages and e.g. BSL (British Sign Language) English signers would seem to be signing a completely foreign language
ASL is largely unused outside North America and so is nowhere universal as English
Concorde 27 years in regular service, 1 crash 113 deaths, retired due to safety concerns ...!
Perceived danger is much worse than real danger ...
In Japan bikes are and always have been used in huge numbers, and on the streets of Tokyo pedestrians outnumber bikes, which outnumber cars... so this is not an issue
In Europe it used to be that everyone walked or biked to school, and went out to play, now they are ferried to school in a car/bus and are not allowed out unsupervised so bikes are not as common ...nothing to do with helmets, a lot to do with perceived danger to children?
I have "invented" many things as have most people, but since I did them at work my employer is the only one who could patent them ,,,
Does this inspire me to innovate? Do I reap the benefits ...?
More to the point did the lack of patents stop people innovating before they were invented?
Move your company to Europe, do not trade with the USA, instead only trade with the mysterious entity know as the "rest of the world" which has a very large, diverse and robust economy and slightly less powerful corporations, laugh all the way to the bank ...