No, it's to ensure the people making them rich stay poor enough not to fight back.
Part of being rich is being comparatively wealthy. If everyone became a millionaire, nobody would feel like one, because apart from the rampant inflation required to make such a thing a reality, part of the perk of being rich is having what other people can't. If everyone around you was just as wealthy, you wouldn't feel special.
In a zero sum world where resources are finite, you cannot win without someone else losing.
Especially when we get suckered by wolves peeling off their sheep suits once they're voted in because we can't fire them after they show their true colors.
When you have a dogmatic professor who threatens to expel you from his class simply for challenging him, you learn to respect authority and not rock the boat, another skill that is sadly required to survive in today's world where old fashioned hierarchy still holds sway.
Not to mention that most AUPs say "we reserve the right to change any term with or without notice at any time", which could be construed as ex-post facto law if you are not notified with sufficient opportunity to cure.
The script kiddie would be primarily responsible because he was the one whose actions foreseeably caused the damage.
Whether the robot creator is liable depends on if they were negligent with their security systems. If it was foreseeable that a script kiddie could hack into it, they might be. They could still go after the script kiddie for indemnification.
That's the theory anyway.
In practice, a lawsuit is so oppressive in the line of legal expenses that you may be paid a settlement just to make it go away quietly.
The unlikeliness of such a scenario may well make GE liable under the preponderance of evidence if you also stole 400lbs of fresh meat and vegetables before putting the rotten stuff in it. All the evidence would point to GE's alleged negligence, and under a civil standard of "more likely than not" GE would almost certainly lose.
Now, if GE ever found out that you were the one that stuffed it with rotten food, they would probably sue you for whatever they wound up out as a result of your joe job under the theory of indemnification.
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No, it's to ensure the people making them rich stay poor enough not to fight back.
Part of being rich is being comparatively wealthy. If everyone became a millionaire, nobody would feel like one, because apart from the rampant inflation required to make such a thing a reality, part of the perk of being rich is having what other people can't. If everyone around you was just as wealthy, you wouldn't feel special.
In a zero sum world where resources are finite, you cannot win without someone else losing.
I'd say that checking deleted files out from a previous revision is rather akin to snooping for garbage in deleted areas of a disk
The hard part is surviving lawsuits from DeBeers.
How can he trust you to follow him?
And how do we make sure that whichever one gets picked doesn't have one of the committee members hiding submarine patents on it up its sleeve?
So basically MPEGLA is the 800 pound gorilla in the room and it would be less risky not to piss it off.
You can't just make debt go poof. The money is already gone and we're already in the hole.
Stopping it wouldn't take care of the IOUs that are already outstanding.
The US would have to go bankrupt against its own citizens to pull that off.
The so called "social security trust fund" has already been raided with sneaky accounting in the form of government bonds.
It's already bankrupt because it's holding worthless IOUs from Uncle Sam.
Considering that deception and obfuscation are profitable for the people in a position to prohibit it...yeah, I'll wait till I see a pig fly.
If you're a corporate lobbyist, getting a bill introduced is actually quite easy.
You do when patent granting hurdles are shorter than patent infringement defense hurdles.
conflict of interest
Only problem is that since they're in office for years at a time they've already done their damage by the time you get rid of them.
The corporations funding their campaigns know this.
The cheapest thing would be to yank health insurance for everyone and say to hell with society, let darwinism weed out the weak links of society.
Not humane, but it is economical. Unless of course, human life, comfort, and dignity have a measurable value.
And people wonder why their vote doesn't count anymore these days.
Hear hear!
Especially when we get suckered by wolves peeling off their sheep suits once they're voted in because we can't fire them after they show their true colors.
Do you have any words of encouragement for the few prudent voters drowning in a herd of sheeple that are hypnotized by corporate run media?
Freedom is only trouble because it steps on the toes of the powerful.
The captain has the right to sink his own ship.
The FCC has just been proven to be in bed with the media.
Do you think for one second they will hesitate to use their spectrum regulating and licensing powers to squeeze out mobile competition like that?
What I'd like to know is how seniority gives the old guard such a sense of entitlement.
When you have a dogmatic professor who threatens to expel you from his class simply for challenging him, you learn to respect authority and not rock the boat, another skill that is sadly required to survive in today's world where old fashioned hierarchy still holds sway.
Not to mention that most AUPs say "we reserve the right to change any term with or without notice at any time", which could be construed as ex-post facto law if you are not notified with sufficient opportunity to cure.
The script kiddie would be primarily responsible because he was the one whose actions foreseeably caused the damage.
Whether the robot creator is liable depends on if they were negligent with their security systems. If it was foreseeable that a script kiddie could hack into it, they might be. They could still go after the script kiddie for indemnification.
That's the theory anyway.
In practice, a lawsuit is so oppressive in the line of legal expenses that you may be paid a settlement just to make it go away quietly.
The unlikeliness of such a scenario may well make GE liable under the preponderance of evidence if you also stole 400lbs of fresh meat and vegetables before putting the rotten stuff in it. All the evidence would point to GE's alleged negligence, and under a civil standard of "more likely than not" GE would almost certainly lose.
Now, if GE ever found out that you were the one that stuffed it with rotten food, they would probably sue you for whatever they wound up out as a result of your joe job under the theory of indemnification.