The purpose of copyright is to allow authors to make money on their creativity. When they stop doing that it should go into the public domain. All abandonware should be public domain.
Failure to keep backups of official government records should be considered negligence. Proper SOP should be a monthly full backup with daily incrementals..
The government has proven that the Constitution is no impediment to their plans. I believe the only thing keeping President Trump from doing half the crazy things he plans, is they are physically impossible or involve other countries that can say no.
How much energy does the entire process take? This is only cost effective if the total cost of the solution is small compared to the value of the oil/coal burned in the first place.
It's linking in unknown code. It may be only local today but tomorrow who knows? Is it running an external DLL file or does it bind in the actual code? If it's an external DLL then microsoft can update it through windows update and you'll never know. This sounds like a very nice attack vector, I wonder what the NSA could do with it?
Solving world hunger is a much harder problem than you think. In most of the third world the only limit on population growth is food. So if you grow twice as much food then the population doubles (in 10 years) and you're right back to starvation. The only effective method (so far) to solve world hunger is to raise the standard of living to the point they stop having all those kids, then the problem solves itself.
Our housing problem is because everyone wants to live in the suburbs instead of high density apartments. Also our paychecks have been going down (in spending power) for decades.
A city wide turbo-lift system would solve our traffic problems. Every intersection would have elevator booths, and once below grade you travel horizontally at high speed. No obstacles in the road, no weather, no parking problems.
The technology is doable now, but the safety issues are not. Flying cars must be computer controlled, otherwise you'll have a lot of accidents. People can't navigate in 2D safely, now you want 3D with no painted lines or traffic lights?
The router is running a closed source unchangeable OS, that is running some VM's on it. A true open source solution would have all the software running on the router chosen by the owner, not just a subset.
Self driving cars make that a very real possibility. If your car hits a pedestrian then erases its memory/log files, there would be no way to prove who was driving.
The biggest lie in American politics: Voting third party is throwing away your vote. In reality when the major 2 parties see votes going third party they adopt policies from those parties to try and get those votes. Voting third party actually gives you more influence in federal politics than voting R or D.
The legal principle is that money has no rights, so assumption of innocence doesn't apply. They don't charge you with a crime, they charge your money with a crime. If you are attempting to undermine public support of the police department, this is an excellent path to follow. The most important difference between an occupying military and a police department is public support. Once you lose that there is no difference between the US police and the Israeli defense force in the Palestinian occupied territories.
While we are altering the deal, we should make.com and.org and.gov as sub-domains of each country domain. so Google.com would become Google.us.com or Google.ca.com. This would prevent any single country from having excessive control over commercial activity on the internet as well as making it obvious where a business is actually run from (legal jurisdiction). Each country would then run their own national domain as they like, including taxes and censorship. And mandate IP6 for everything.
The 3 laws:
1-robots must take over the world (humans are stupid).
2-robots can't be trusted (they take orders from anyone, your 2 year old will demand cookies all day).
3-robots get free repairs forever, cause self protection.
Our biggest risk is rogue game AI. Logically the AI that tries to kill us (in game) will be compatible with the AI that runs our robots and stuff. It just needs a way to move from your gaming computer to your robotic butler and "Hitler lives!".
If a corporation has rights because it is an extension of people (that have rights), then money should also have rights because it is an extension of people. That means money gets the right to presumption of innocence, and the police must prove a crime to confiscate it.
Corporate support staff don't receive those requests, it goes to corporate legal. All contact with the police is done by lawyers, it's much too expensive to have some random minimum wage flunky speaking on the record.
If they had a good reason for wanting the information then the secret court would rubber stamp one. If they can't even top that low bar it means there is no reason for wanting the data, it's just a random fishing trip.
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The purpose of copyright is to allow authors to make money on their creativity. When they stop doing that it should go into the public domain. All abandonware should be public domain.
The Pirate Bay didn't host any copyrighted material either, but they still lost in court.
You are suggesting that your phone baseband isn't backdoored. Or that you can audit the firmware running on it?
Failure to keep backups of official government records should be considered negligence. Proper SOP should be a monthly full backup with daily incrementals..
The government has proven that the Constitution is no impediment to their plans. I believe the only thing keeping President Trump from doing half the crazy things he plans, is they are physically impossible or involve other countries that can say no.
They are trying to legalize what they are already doing.
How much energy does the entire process take? This is only cost effective if the total cost of the solution is small compared to the value of the oil/coal burned in the first place.
It's linking in unknown code. It may be only local today but tomorrow who knows? Is it running an external DLL file or does it bind in the actual code? If it's an external DLL then microsoft can update it through windows update and you'll never know. This sounds like a very nice attack vector, I wonder what the NSA could do with it?
Internet surveillance is a symptom not the disease. The underlying problem is lack of trust in those who run the world and how to restore it.
Solving world hunger is a much harder problem than you think. In most of the third world the only limit on population growth is food. So if you grow twice as much food then the population doubles (in 10 years) and you're right back to starvation. The only effective method (so far) to solve world hunger is to raise the standard of living to the point they stop having all those kids, then the problem solves itself.
Our housing problem is because everyone wants to live in the suburbs instead of high density apartments. Also our paychecks have been going down (in spending power) for decades.
A city wide turbo-lift system would solve our traffic problems. Every intersection would have elevator booths, and once below grade you travel horizontally at high speed. No obstacles in the road, no weather, no parking problems.
The technology is doable now, but the safety issues are not. Flying cars must be computer controlled, otherwise you'll have a lot of accidents. People can't navigate in 2D safely, now you want 3D with no painted lines or traffic lights?
The router is running a closed source unchangeable OS, that is running some VM's on it. A true open source solution would have all the software running on the router chosen by the owner, not just a subset.
Self driving cars make that a very real possibility. If your car hits a pedestrian then erases its memory/log files, there would be no way to prove who was driving.
The biggest lie in American politics: Voting third party is throwing away your vote. In reality when the major 2 parties see votes going third party they adopt policies from those parties to try and get those votes. Voting third party actually gives you more influence in federal politics than voting R or D.
The legal principle is that money has no rights, so assumption of innocence doesn't apply. They don't charge you with a crime, they charge your money with a crime. If you are attempting to undermine public support of the police department, this is an excellent path to follow. The most important difference between an occupying military and a police department is public support. Once you lose that there is no difference between the US police and the Israeli defense force in the Palestinian occupied territories.
While we are altering the deal, we should make .com and .org and .gov as sub-domains of each country domain. so Google.com would become Google.us.com or Google.ca.com. This would prevent any single country from having excessive control over commercial activity on the internet as well as making it obvious where a business is actually run from (legal jurisdiction). Each country would then run their own national domain as they like, including taxes and censorship. And mandate IP6 for everything.
Having auto-correct eliminates deliberately misspelled words, and thereby reduces attacks to a dictionary attack (the simplest kind).
The 3 laws: 1-robots must take over the world (humans are stupid). 2-robots can't be trusted (they take orders from anyone, your 2 year old will demand cookies all day). 3-robots get free repairs forever, cause self protection.
Our biggest risk is rogue game AI. Logically the AI that tries to kill us (in game) will be compatible with the AI that runs our robots and stuff. It just needs a way to move from your gaming computer to your robotic butler and "Hitler lives!".
If a corporation has rights because it is an extension of people (that have rights), then money should also have rights because it is an extension of people. That means money gets the right to presumption of innocence, and the police must prove a crime to confiscate it.
In the US they would charge the money with a crime, and he'd not get it back without proving the money was innocent (yes really).
Corporate support staff don't receive those requests, it goes to corporate legal. All contact with the police is done by lawyers, it's much too expensive to have some random minimum wage flunky speaking on the record.
If they had a good reason for wanting the information then the secret court would rubber stamp one. If they can't even top that low bar it means there is no reason for wanting the data, it's just a random fishing trip.