OK, so maybe the feature just is never documented, and the only one who uses it is the original developer and his friends. I might not be any better than anyone else, but that does not make it possible.
No it definitely is their land. In fact that is even how land property works in western nations. You basically ~lease~ it from the government. That is how they have so many legal rights over you and "your land"; And exactly why doing things yourself on your own land is restricted immensely. That is why certain land is considered part of the US for example, because they own it.
There are rules the the government sometimes, when it suites them, decides to abide by. I do not see how that changes anything. And if they did not own you, than they could not highly restrict you from leaving the country.
In my experience it was the developers of FOSS software who yell at you and tell you that they are not going to fix the documentation because they do not have to.
Because the world does not bend over backwards to accommodate people. And expecting everyone else to make sure you are comfortable is completely wrong headed.
"If you say something dumb on another person's server, it is their property and they can expunge it." And that is how governments feel about their subjects, saying things they do not like on their land.
But that is not distributed, that is just 0-value content. Sure, you could take the static pages of wikipedia right now and have everyone host 1 single page. But then what do you do with the high-value content. The content that loads of people are interested in. Like Algebra or Elvis Presley, that individually get 10s of thousands or 100s of thousands visitors per month. And what about search engines, do we just have thousands of search engines who each only catalogue a tiny portion of the web?
"for literally pocket change even on a student's salary." That is because the cost is directly proportional to its use. It can cost peanuts or even nothing (bundled with the ISP) to host content. But it costs if anyone uses it in bandwidth. It only costs you nothing because the content benefits few to none.
Yes, but if everyone used adblock 99% of the sites on the internet would be shut down. Most people would not want this and are not selfish enough to contribute to this.
OK, but self censoring 99% of the internet because one does not like big corporations or little guys with ads and viruses is not for 99% of Internet users.
It is worth noting that even if you do pay for a service, it most like still still spy on you, and well your information to advertisers; But this is not guaranteed. But something that is guaranteed is that the second the government comes knocking they going to hand over everything they have on you.
.... Who cannot even afford a lawyer be more likely to stick his neck out to protect his customers privacy against the government? And decentralised means it would cost orders of magnitude more money to run, meaning necessarily either far more ads, or everyone being willing to run one at a huge loss.
Sure, I could see many people running one at a huge loss, but you are not going to get away from 80% of the market, at least, being run by people who can afford to offer better service because they run at a profit, because they host far more ads than FB.
You might be right about the exact terminology, but I defining obscenity you be a first step in defining porn. And if you do not now what is obscene, than knowing what is pornographic is a lot harder. As when people are actually legally talking about porn, they are not just talking about anything arousing, but something the society considered arousing and obscene.
"Obscenity is a legal term that applies to anything offensive to morals and is often equated with the term pornography. Pornography, however, is a more limited term, which refers to the erotic content of books, magazines, films, and recordings."
OK, but if you actually read my post I was clearly saying that computers cannot do it, because it is simply impossible for anyone or thing to do it because they are indestrinquinable. Porn is often indistinguishable from non-porn, and children are indistinguishable from non-children. These are not just tiny edge cases, but significant portions of the content.
Judges have already declared that porn is basically undefinable, and I disagree with them that you know it when you see it. Added to this that you cannot tell the difference between a 15 yo and a 21 100% of the time, sure 95% you would get it right with that big of a range, but not always. And trying to tell the difference between 18 and 17 or 16 if more like a 50% chance of getting it right, regardless of if you are a computer or a human being.
That is like saying you help the survival of a single human by preventing paper cuts. Not to mention that our species is only here because of death and genocide on a massive scale. Natural Section only creates and maintains species with massive death; And without it any and all species would eventually become unviable.
"Would we better off if Steven Hawking died young? Will his work lead to construction of hyperspace drive 20 years later?" Then what about the guy who invented the Atom bomb, that potentially destroy the species at any time (even if it is far less likely to happen now than it was 30 years ago). Or some scientist who creates some super virus. Add to this that the idea of an actually usable hyperspace drive is dubious, as well as the possibility of colonizing space. But sure, if interstellar travel was possible and it almost certainly would help the survivability of the species. But needing any one individual for this is a misconception. Inventions come along when previous incremental and obviously discoveries make the invention obvious, not because the one man who could possibly invent it lives long enough to get a blinding flash of genius.
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OK, so maybe the feature just is never documented, and the only one who uses it is the original developer and his friends. I might not be any better than anyone else, but that does not make it possible.
What? The only way to write documentary for some esoteric feature is for the developer of said feature to document what he coded.
No it definitely is their land. In fact that is even how land property works in western nations. You basically ~lease~ it from the government. That is how they have so many legal rights over you and "your land"; And exactly why doing things yourself on your own land is restricted immensely. That is why certain land is considered part of the US for example, because they own it.
How could I, or anyone else for that matter, write documentation for features that are completely undocumented and have an ambiguous name?
There are rules the the government sometimes, when it suites them, decides to abide by.
I do not see how that changes anything.
And if they did not own you, than they could not highly restrict you from leaving the country.
... Would allow an algorithm to randomly change the punctuation and spelling of even a small portion of their novel?
But the government does own the entire country, so it is alright if they do it?
Exactly what I was thinking.
In my experience it was the developers of FOSS software who yell at you and tell you that they are not going to fix the documentation because they do not have to.
Because the world does not bend over backwards to accommodate people.
And expecting everyone else to make sure you are comfortable is completely wrong headed.
And that is exactly how Kim Jong-un feels about his country.
"If you say something dumb on another person's server, it is their property and they can expunge it."
And that is how governments feel about their subjects, saying things they do not like on their land.
But that is not distributed, that is just 0-value content.
Sure, you could take the static pages of wikipedia right now and have everyone host 1 single page.
But then what do you do with the high-value content. The content that loads of people are interested in. Like Algebra or Elvis Presley, that individually get 10s of thousands or 100s of thousands visitors per month.
And what about search engines, do we just have thousands of search engines who each only catalogue a tiny portion of the web?
"for literally pocket change even on a student's salary."
That is because the cost is directly proportional to its use. It can cost peanuts or even nothing (bundled with the ISP) to host content. But it costs if anyone uses it in bandwidth.
It only costs you nothing because the content benefits few to none.
No it is not, and there is no other model. The internet does not work if you have to pay to see the content on most of the sites.
Yes, but if everyone used adblock 99% of the sites on the internet would be shut down. Most people would not want this and are not selfish enough to contribute to this.
OK, but self censoring 99% of the internet because one does not like big corporations or little guys with ads and viruses is not for 99% of Internet users.
And that is why 99% of the internet has more ads than Facebook.
And that is why there are so many ads with viruses.
It is worth noting that even if you do pay for a service, it most like still still spy on you, and well your information to advertisers; But this is not guaranteed. But something that is guaranteed is that the second the government comes knocking they going to hand over everything they have on you.
.... Who cannot even afford a lawyer be more likely to stick his neck out to protect his customers privacy against the government?
And decentralised means it would cost orders of magnitude more money to run, meaning necessarily either far more ads, or everyone being willing to run one at a huge loss.
Sure, I could see many people running one at a huge loss, but you are not going to get away from 80% of the market, at least, being run by people who can afford to offer better service because they run at a profit, because they host far more ads than FB.
Amoral if you do, terrorist if you don't.
Can't win.
You might be right about the exact terminology, but I defining obscenity you be a first step in defining porn. And if you do not now what is obscene, than knowing what is pornographic is a lot harder. As when people are actually legally talking about porn, they are not just talking about anything arousing, but something the society considered arousing and obscene.
"Obscenity is a legal term that applies to anything offensive to morals and is often equated with the term pornography. Pornography, however, is a more limited term, which refers to the erotic content of books, magazines, films, and recordings."
OK, but if you actually read my post I was clearly saying that computers cannot do it, because it is simply impossible for anyone or thing to do it because they are indestrinquinable.
Porn is often indistinguishable from non-porn, and children are indistinguishable from non-children. These are not just tiny edge cases, but significant portions of the content.
Judges have already declared that porn is basically undefinable, and I disagree with them that you know it when you see it.
Added to this that you cannot tell the difference between a 15 yo and a 21 100% of the time, sure 95% you would get it right with that big of a range, but not always.
And trying to tell the difference between 18 and 17 or 16 if more like a 50% chance of getting it right, regardless of if you are a computer or a human being.
You are just being illogical.
That is like saying you help the survival of a single human by preventing paper cuts. Not to mention that our species is only here because of death and genocide on a massive scale. Natural Section only creates and maintains species with massive death; And without it any and all species would eventually become unviable.
"Would we better off if Steven Hawking died young? Will his work lead to construction of hyperspace drive 20 years later?" Then what about the guy who invented the Atom bomb, that potentially destroy the species at any time (even if it is far less likely to happen now than it was 30 years ago). Or some scientist who creates some super virus.
Add to this that the idea of an actually usable hyperspace drive is dubious, as well as the possibility of colonizing space.
But sure, if interstellar travel was possible and it almost certainly would help the survivability of the species. But needing any one individual for this is a misconception. Inventions come along when previous incremental and obviously discoveries make the invention obvious, not because the one man who could possibly invent it lives long enough to get a blinding flash of genius.