Ultimately, a constitutional amendment may be needed.
"Congress shall make no law abridging freedom of access to the Internet as a whole or in part, nor abridging freedom of site creation or inclusion in a naming scheme. The right of the people to secure their personal information, physical and non-physical correspondence and Internet traffic from unreasonable search shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the data to be accessed and copied. No data nor files shall be removed from computer or hindered from Internet access without due process of law establishing reasonable certainty that the particular data is wholly detrimental to society. Nor shall enforcement of any kind be delegated to private corporations or individuals."
There is very little on TV/cable that a thinking conservative can stomach. Fox is garbage and the liberal media has reacted to it by abandoning even the pretext of objectivity. They are more cheerleaders for Obama and the DNC than ever..
I pay for my air by producing waste CO2 that plants can use to grow and produce waste O2. While there is a glut of CO2 on the market, and adjustment will need to be made, the quid pro quo is still valid.
As a MAFIAA member, it is is pretty much a given that Paramount is a short-sighted all-the-market-will-bear robber baron type of company. They have their unregulated monopolies and will stick it to the consumer until the customer dies from loss of blood.
The Hollywood tradition is to screw both the artist and the consumer and the MAFIAA has had a century to perfect their craft.
Let's just hope that Google has not sold their souls to the great MAFIAA Satan, and that they haven't compromised their stand on Internet freedom to make this deal. I, for one, will be keeping my eyes open for the tell tale (or more obvious, in your face) signs that they are compromised.
Err, that would be Jerry Pournelle. They chose to use a comet because comets can come out of essentially nowhere and hit before anyone could devise and put in place a defense.
If you are going to cite and SF story, Donald Kingsbury's "To Bring in the Steel" is the one to cite.
You are thinking Mars, the Moon, L-5 habitats as additional baskets? They will never be a robust a place for survival as the Earth, but I agree. Species survival is an imperative. And neither our Earth, nor solar system should be the sole home of H Sap.
With the computing power, the n-body problem can be solved with sufficient precision for the purposes of detecting this particular threat. And it will give us enough fore-warning to do something to prevent it. Whether we can come to a consensus and actually do it is another issue.
According to our 'lovely' president Obama, ACTA does not need to be ratified by Senate because it is a trade agreement, not a treaty. So, unless forced to (e.g. by Sen Wyden's amendment to the JOBS Act http://www.bna.com/wyden-amendments-houses-n12884908487/) or Obama decides to send it to the Senate on his own, The Senate will have no say on ACTA.
Real space aliens would surely find any imaginary creatures from outer space which might creep into tests, offensive. And even if they are not around now to take offense, that doesn't mean they will never be around, never dig into historical test records and never take offense to what might be there. And, being space aliens and all, who knows what kinds of imaginings about them will be offensive.
Since these planets could not have formed naturally, they must be artificial. Or perhaps artificially moved into this star's system. Since the star has existed 13 billion years, it must be extremely stable. Perhaps that is why these worlds were moved there - to be a sanctuary away from those star systems that last only a few billion years before expanding into into red giants. A type II civilization could easily handle the energy expenditures and would have the motive if the civilization's original star was getting to a dangerous stage in its life-cycle.
But a civilization that long-lived would probably not tip off existence unless it had fallen and is now unable to mask the wobble that gave it away.
Also, even at 13 billion years old, the star could have formed in a neighborhood where supernovae had already exploded. The most massive stars will last less that 50 million years before going supernova. And 13 bya, stars that massive were much more numerous than they are now.
Using neutrinos is positively slow compared to quantum entanglement communication. This would eliminate latency completely and allow the masters of the universe to do their trades even faster than OPERA thought their neutrinos were going..
You have only taken one step in your analysis. I don't believe any of the services that you cite are big money makers for Google and, in fact, have a history of losing money. And it can be argued that Google got into these services, and continue them, out of altruistic principal -- to benefit the users.
I am realistic or cynical enough not to believe Google acts solely from altruistic principal. But I do believe that their motives are far closer to enlightened self-interest than that of the MPAA. The MPAA, in fact, is so singularly focused on their own immediate self interests that they fail to see that, in the long run, they are hurting themselves. Their actions alienate their customers and potential customers, they misunderstand the marketing benefits of widespread, cheap distribution of their product, they advocate laws that could be as easily used against their own interests as those they would use them against, and they act out of fear.
I have certain self-interests of my own to defend. In this I join with other users. And I welcome allies - even/especially corporate allies willing to spend money. And while I don't blindly embrace them without a thought to their motives, those would have too run significantly counter to my own self-interests for me to reject them out of hand.
I recognize that Google is acting out of self-interest, but fail to see any agenda on their part that even approaches the level of evil of that of the MPAA, RIAA and other such entities.
There are some major privacy issues here. To determine what you are downloading, the ISPs will need to look at it. Passwords, financial records, email all seem to be at risk.
Also, the ISPs involved appear to consist of cable tv franchises. And those are subject to local municipality controls. I doubt if the RIAA and MPAA can bribe all the local politicians in the US. So I would think that enforcing these kinds of controls would be something that municipalities could fight locally by threatening to revoke the franchise monopolies for the cable companies who try to enforce these draconian measures.
I suggest that people start looking into local government and seeing if they can hit these conglomerates where it hurts.
And if your lips move while you read a book, newspaper or magazine, and there is a possibility of a lip reader who can see you, that is also a public performance. And you need to pay for that as well.
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After I patent the idea of using open source to create textbooks, those guys are really going to be hurting.
Ultimately, a constitutional amendment may be needed.
"Congress shall make no law abridging freedom of access to the Internet as a whole or in part, nor abridging freedom of site creation or inclusion in a naming scheme. The right of the people to secure their personal information, physical and non-physical correspondence and Internet traffic from unreasonable search shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the data to be accessed and copied. No data nor files shall be removed from computer or hindered from Internet access without due process of law establishing reasonable certainty that the particular data is wholly detrimental to society. Nor shall enforcement of any kind be delegated to private corporations or individuals."
Sounds like you have a lazy lawyer.
You have the right to sue for actual and punitive damages. And if you use copyright math, those damages can be astronomical.
There is very little on TV/cable that a thinking conservative can stomach. Fox is garbage and the liberal media has reacted to it by abandoning even the pretext of objectivity. They are more cheerleaders for Obama and the DNC than ever..
I pay for my air by producing waste CO2 that plants can use to grow and produce waste O2. While there is a glut of CO2 on the market, and adjustment will need to be made, the quid pro quo is still valid.
As a MAFIAA member, it is is pretty much a given that Paramount is a short-sighted all-the-market-will-bear robber baron type of company. They have their unregulated monopolies and will stick it to the consumer until the customer dies from loss of blood.
The Hollywood tradition is to screw both the artist and the consumer and the MAFIAA has had a century to perfect their craft.
Let's just hope that Google has not sold their souls to the great MAFIAA Satan, and that they haven't compromised their stand on Internet freedom to make this deal. I, for one, will be keeping my eyes open for the tell tale (or more obvious, in your face) signs that they are compromised.
Err, that would be Jerry Pournelle. They chose to use a comet because comets can come out of essentially nowhere and hit before anyone could devise and put in place a defense.
If you are going to cite and SF story, Donald Kingsbury's "To Bring in the Steel" is the one to cite.
He probably meant the Oort Cloud.
To paraphrase Foghorn Leghorn, "That is why we should keep Bruce Willis around for just such an emergency. "
You are thinking Mars, the Moon, L-5 habitats as additional baskets? They will never be a robust a place for survival as the Earth, but I agree. Species survival is an imperative. And neither our Earth, nor solar system should be the sole home of H Sap.
With the computing power, the n-body problem can be solved with sufficient precision for the purposes of detecting this particular threat. And it will give us enough fore-warning to do something to prevent it. Whether we can come to a consensus and actually do it is another issue.
According to our 'lovely' president Obama, ACTA does not need to be ratified by Senate because it is a trade agreement, not a treaty. So, unless forced to (e.g. by Sen Wyden's amendment to the JOBS Act http://www.bna.com/wyden-amendments-houses-n12884908487/) or Obama decides to send it to the Senate on his own, The Senate will have no say on ACTA.
Real space aliens would surely find any imaginary creatures from outer space which might creep into tests, offensive. And even if they are not around now to take offense, that doesn't mean they will never be around, never dig into historical test records and never take offense to what might be there. And, being space aliens and all, who knows what kinds of imaginings about them will be offensive.
I bow to your superior paranoia.
I call LGM!
Since these planets could not have formed naturally, they must be artificial. Or perhaps artificially moved into this star's system. Since the star has existed 13 billion years, it must be extremely stable. Perhaps that is why these worlds were moved there - to be a sanctuary away from those star systems that last only a few billion years before expanding into into red giants. A type II civilization could easily handle the energy expenditures and would have the motive if the civilization's original star was getting to a dangerous stage in its life-cycle.
But a civilization that long-lived would probably not tip off existence unless it had fallen and is now unable to mask the wobble that gave it away.
Also, even at 13 billion years old, the star could have formed in a neighborhood where supernovae had already exploded. The most massive stars will last less that 50 million years before going supernova. And 13 bya, stars that massive were much more numerous than they are now.
Using neutrinos is positively slow compared to quantum entanglement communication. This would eliminate latency completely and allow the masters of the universe to do their trades even faster than OPERA thought their neutrinos were going..
You have only taken one step in your analysis. I don't believe any of the services that you cite are big money makers for Google and, in fact, have a history of losing money. And it can be argued that Google got into these services, and continue them, out of altruistic principal -- to benefit the users.
I am realistic or cynical enough not to believe Google acts solely from altruistic principal. But I do believe that their motives are far closer to enlightened self-interest than that of the MPAA. The MPAA, in fact, is so singularly focused on their own immediate self interests that they fail to see that, in the long run, they are hurting themselves. Their actions alienate their customers and potential customers, they misunderstand the marketing benefits of widespread, cheap distribution of their product, they advocate laws that could be as easily used against their own interests as those they would use them against, and they act out of fear.
I have certain self-interests of my own to defend. In this I join with other users. And I welcome allies - even/especially corporate allies willing to spend money. And while I don't blindly embrace them without a thought to their motives, those would have too run significantly counter to my own self-interests for me to reject them out of hand.
I recognize that Google is acting out of self-interest, but fail to see any agenda on their part that even approaches the level of evil of that of the MPAA, RIAA and other such entities.
There are some major privacy issues here. To determine what you are downloading, the ISPs will need to look at it. Passwords, financial records, email all seem to be at risk.
Also, the ISPs involved appear to consist of cable tv franchises. And those are subject to local municipality controls. I doubt if the RIAA and MPAA can bribe all the local politicians in the US. So I would think that enforcing these kinds of controls would be something that municipalities could fight locally by threatening to revoke the franchise monopolies for the cable companies who try to enforce these draconian measures.
I suggest that people start looking into local government and seeing if they can hit these conglomerates where it hurts.
What does the Australian government fear? And informed public?
The Judicial system is where copyright mathematics was born. The prosecutors will go for the max and a felony.
And you can't just look at the hardware value, alone. The paparazzo probably had $8 billion worth of (infringing) content on it, as well.
And if your lips move while you read a book, newspaper or magazine, and there is a possibility of a lip reader who can see you, that is also a public performance. And you need to pay for that as well.
You could sing the Hapi Berth Dey song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2f2PCWYAZQc
I see this as proof, positive that Stuxnet was not a U.S. government product.