I have worked for over 2 decades now in an actual working mine on underground physics projects in SNOlab.
That's nice. Maybe you should come out of that hole in the ground and look around and see what other people are doing. They're a lot smarter than you, Coward.
The closest things we have are huge tunnelling machines (as shown in a post above)
Not the closest. This is a mining machine, built for the express purpose of strip-mining in vast quantities. Turning it into a robot is fairly simple, given that on Mars, your code doesn't have to keep track of things like property lines, power lines, roads, or basically anything. Plunk down some beacons, code it to stay within the beacons, and you're done. The automation required for the dump trucks that accept what it produces already exists here on Earth. That mine has 69 mine dump trucks running around entirely autonomously.
Mining robots are already starting to exist. I'm quite certain that same mine will fully automate its excavators in the next few years. The automation is not the hard part of mining on Mars. Building machines that can operate reliably in a soft vacuum is the hard part.
Stop the orbital bombardment of Mars! White cis-gendered males are attempting to continue their colonial exploitation of indigenous peoples! They're trying to buy Olympus Mons for a handful of beads! #martianlivesmatter
Perhaps we can get the USA built and launched Opportunity rover to motor over there and clean up the mess. It might take 25 years to get there, but hell it has been running for 11 years, what's another quarter century?
Funny how this is the same Slashdot that excoriates Disney for appropriating freely provided legendary stories and characters for massive corporate profit.
Mostly because Disney then sics their lawyers on anyone trying to do their own retelling, even when they try not to resemble Disney's rendition of the characters. You have to try really really hard not to resemble Disney's rendition, and even then you're still at risk.
It's not so much that Disney likes to plunder the public domain. It's that Disney likes to plunder the public domain, then try to prevent anyone else from doing the same, both by suing people who use the same public domain stories and by trying to make sure nothing else ever becomes public domain ever again. (Pulling up the ladder behind them.)
We could be building our own infrastructure instead of blowing up other countries infrastructure. Instead of Lockheed building more F35s, which will be obsoleted by drones in 10 years, they could be building comms infrastructure, smart roads, and other actually useful things.
Oi. Why do you hate America? Can you even imagine having the same jackoffs who are designing the F35 involved in something that's actually important like roads and bridges? This would suddenly become real (after approximately 40 years of generating nothing but a pile of paper).
Almost all the big guys have stopped interacting with it and now use it as a write only medium due ot the sheer numbers of shitmouths that are there that make slashdot trolls look civilized.
Er... Slashdot trolls are civilized. The moderation system demands it. We get our share of spammers, propagandists, and assorted lunatics. We mod them down so fast and so frequently that they give up.
Plus Whipslash and company continue to fiddle with the filters, so the most obnoxious aren't even making it to moderation.
There aren't many assholes dedicated enough to trolling to run a mining rig just to shitpost.
Interesting. That sentence was supposed to be:
There aren't many trolls dedicated enough to trolling to run a mining rig just to shitpost.
But Slashdot's lameness filter wouldn't allow it in combination with the rest of the text. Yet I can post it standalone. Odd. I haven't run into the lameness filter for anything other than all caps in years...
The problem is if you want replies to tweets, you'll run into the same uncontrolled spam / troll / junk / harassment / propaganda problem that has driven users from distributed systems towards centralized sites and why so many blogs and other sites disable comments. You need some kind of CAPTCHA for rate control and it needs to be replaced/updated as it is broken.
Require proof-of-work to reply. In other words, deploy a blockchain-driven comment reply system.
I initially wrote that sarcastically, since blockchain is the new nonsense buzzword, but it just might work. Dunno, since I've never participated in that type of social media and don't understand the mindset, so I don't know if that sort of restriction would be acceptable. The only social media site I use is Slashdot, and it seems to be qualitatively different from all the others. Still, proof-of-work can not be gamed, no matter what you do. That eliminates spam, 99% of trolls, 98% of junk, 99% of harassment, and some large percentage of propaganda. The only surviving propaganda would be paid propaganda. There aren't many assholes dedicated enough to trolling to run a mining rig just to shitpost.
Since so many users of such sites insist on using their phones, you'd have to link installations via accounts. The phone app would not mine and would not serve data to the distributed system. You'd have to run a PC for both of those functions. The PC would mine and be a server node in the distributed system. The phone app would tap into the credits generated by the PC to be able to post. PC installation and app to PC linking would have to be drop dead simple while still being exceedingly secure, or credit piracy would be a thing, and the shitposting would continue. That's probably enough to torpedo the idea, right there. Key exchange isn't easy enough. Even easier key exchange, like "use the app to take a photo of a QR code" is still not easy enough.
Never mind. Solving the problem requires implementing security. Users hate security.
Intel can get in big legal trouble with the SEC for lying on these type of financial announcements, so I tend to give a little more cred to regulated stuff like this than just some random analyst.
They're both right. I built a new PC this year. So did no less than three of my coworkers. We all finally felt it was time. And we all bought Intel CPUs, because let's face it, AMD can't seem to get their heads above water. But not one of us gave any money to the companies this analyst is talking about. We all built machines, not bought machines. I have a sneaking suspicion that this is considerably more common than it once was. Not everybody can build a PC, but practically everybody knows somebody who can, and when they ask that somebody, "How do I get a new PC without Windows 10?" that's the answer: build it yourself.
So that's what's happening. PC component sales are enjoying a resurgence. Each generation of upgrade for the past 8 years has indeed been a small percentage increment in performance, but it's been like compounding interest. At the end of four or five generations of 5-10% faster than the previous generation, a completely current machine is actually quite damn fast compared to your old desktop that was doing everything you wanted and seemed ok after an SSD upgrade.
Today, you build a 6 core i7 with 32 GB of RAM, an nVME 4X storage device, and a GeForce 1070 or 1080 and the difference between that and your 8 year old machine is kind of tremendous. Meanwhile you can't get a pre-built system at all with those specifications from many builders, and for the rare few who will do it, they want to charge you 3X to 4X retail on the components and still try to stick you with Windows 10. So yeah, they're losing sales. And since we haven't paid for a new machine in nearly a decade, and since we're expecting our new systems to last another decade, we're willing to spend like it's 1995 again, so we're buying high end components.
Cool story bro. Now explain how it only happens to Samsung Galaxy 7, and why it happens when the phone is in someone's pocket.
He was talking about burning iPhones and Apple's principle excuse for DRM-enabling their chargers. Super cheap Chinese iPhone chargers were melting internally and promptly setting fire to the connected iPhone. And responding to someone claiming the external charger doesn't matter, when it so obviously does.
Honestly, redundancy over redundancy is retarded. AWS and Azure have back-ups, disaster recovery plans, multiple data-centers, and multiple peerings per data center.
It's not about technical redundancy. It's about business flexibility. If you build some big convoluted system that is utterly dependent on the deep foibles of one particular cloud provider, you could find yourself in serious trouble if your provider becomes hostile to you because of an acquisition or (in Amazon's case) a sudden urge to compete with you. They don't even have to be openly hostile to still cause you serious grief. Better to have a way out from the beginning, if you can afford it.
At today's interest rates, there is very little reason to keep money in a savings account unless it gives you some advantage in dealing with the bank. Bank failure or government seizure of your assets in a bank is not impossible. You should keep a supply of cash on hand sufficient to handle your needs if the next-most-liquid deposit of wealth fails.
It does give me a small advantage in dealing with the bank, but that's hardly the point. I bank with a national bank. It is quite literally too big to fail. It will be propped up by the government if necessary. We have all the proof of that we need. As for government seizure, I keep my three felonies a day to the socially acceptable ones. If either a bank failure without bailout or an arbitrary government seizure happens, there will have already been a catastrophic breakdown of social order, and no amount of cash is any use. At that point, we're at the stage of canned goods and ammo. (And spices. Anybody who has read Lucifer's Hammer remembers the spices.) The savings account exists for the number one most probable personal disaster: layoff.
A sensible person weighs the balance of probabilities, and does not give undue weight to emotional analysis. In this world, losing your job is by far the highest probability happenstance that has a negative affect on any individual. The probability of bank failure that affects a retail savings account is indistinguishable from zero. The probability of arbitrary seizure is considerably higher but still quite low, and can be considered against the backdrop of society, and let's face it, people who have a reason to argue about the diversification of assets are unlikely to be subjected to it unless they have particularly unsavory habits or have specifically offended the powers that be. Enough cash to be of use in the event of a layoff is too much to keep on hand, because its purpose is to pay the mortgage. Conclusion primus: a bank account, kept in a bank that differs from the one which holds my mortgage. Conclusion secundus: pay off the mortgage as soon as possible. Working on that...
What kind of abject moron keeps any significant chunk of change in a savings account? Are you so old as to think they pay out any meaningful interest or something?
The kind of not-at-all moron who understands not keeping all your eggs in one basket. I keep a chunk of money in a savings account because I want at least some liquid assets backed by an FDIC guarantee. Because I'm not a moron. I have another chunk of money in the market. Neither liquid nor FDIC guaranteed. I have another chunk of money in CDs. FDIC guaranteed, but not liquid, but it pays interest. I have another chunk of money in real estate. Not even remotely liquid, and no guarantee, but not in a hyperinflated market so probably ok.
It's called diversification. A bank savings account is very much a part of sound fiscal habits.
But there is no doubt that the average temperature is rising and some areas close to the equator will start to be come uninhabitable in 20-30 years.
It's nonsense like that which makes people decide AGW is bullshit and everyone associated with it is either a useful idiot or has a secret agenda. No, areas close to the equator will not become uninhabitable, any more than they already are because most of the equator is covered by ocean. 78% in fact. The remaining 22% is across the narrow part of Africa, the northern edge of Brazil (which is Amazon jungle), and bits of Indonesia, which is also heavy jungle. By reasonable standards, most of the land crossing parts of the equator are already uninhabitable. I dunno about you but centipedes a foot long put me off.
Yeah, there ought to be SOMEWHERE we can still talk about using our power to take advantage of or sexually assault women without fear of repercussions...
Who's this "we", white man? And what power? Or did you think all straight white cisgendered males are nationally known television stars who do billion dollar real estate deals?
I'm thinking the number of people who can get away with what Trump has gotten away with are precisely as limited as the number of male billionaires, who have far too much power in every aspect of life, not just in sexual matters.
Sounds like a great time to start an American VPN company. Let's see them try to extradite for enabling free speech.
Our police state will know everything about everything said using it, but doesn't care. They think the masses should be allowed to vent, knowing it has as much meaning as the squeals of puppies in a box. It's a little surprising the UK doesn't seem to understand how effective the 2 Minute Hate is considering it was invented by a British author. Perhaps they think undirected hate undermines its effectiveness.
Let us know when the list of allowed hate targets is released in Britain. Then we'll know for certain that they're using 1984 as a manual.
The TR3-B 'Astra' is a large triangular anti-gravity craft within the secret U.S. fleet.
Now that is a bona fide Space Nutter, with capital letters. Where's our binary friend when we need him. There should be a rant right here. Or perhaps some of his new biting sarcasm.
Last I checked he had a mediocre record at getting anything off the ground at all. Boeing does that tens of thousands of times a day with narry a whisper of a problem.
Tens of thousands, eh. Boeing has exactly one rocket that is flying right now. The Delta IV and its variants. Boeing has launched three of them this year, with one more planned. All three were successful. SpaceX has launched eight Falcon 9s this year, all of which were a success, and five of which successfully recovered their first stages intact, which Boeing has never done for any rocket. Plus SpaceX blew up one on the pad. SpaceX could have failed five more times than they did and still would be launching more rockets this year than Boeing. They have two more launches planned this year, to Boeing's one.
I understand your daddy works for Boeing, and you're 15 and all, so you are incapable of expressing yourself without absurd hyperbole, but you should be quiet. Grownups are talking.
Agreed. Very few people (police included) wake up and say "I want to be a jerk today, escalate lots of situations, get complaints filed against me, and be in a bad mood all day 'cos I didn't abuse someone enough."
Judging by US schools, I disagree. There are tens of thousands of people who do precisely that. I strongly doubt all of them stopped when they got a little older, either.
So does the law. If his lawyers claim that secondary infringement is not a criminal offense in the US is true, why is he being extradited to the US?
Money laundering. They tacked that on in hopes that Polish authorities don't really think too much about how receiving money isn't a crime if you weren't committing a crime. And he wasn't.
But...
... the alleged owner is charged with conspiracy to commit criminal copyright infringement, conspiracy to commit money laundering, and two counts of criminal copyright infringement.
I haven't read Title 17 in a while, but last I checked, there's no such thing as "conspiracy to commit criminal copyright infringement." I'm sure Slashdot's legion of not-lawyers will correct me if I misremember. Mostly they're going to try to swing this on proving that he personally violated copyright in such a way as to fall afoul of the criminal provisions of US law for which Poland has an equivalent criminal offense, per the terms of the US/Polish extradition treaty of 1996. That treaty stipulates that only offenses which carry a maximum of penalty of more than a year in prison in both jurisdictions are extraditable. There is no US copyright infringement criminal penalty that includes jail time of any term. Remedies include injunction, impounding of infringing material (when it's physical), statutory fines, and/or actual monetary damages. That's it.
Addendum: Ok, I've read 17 U.S. Code 506 again. There's no such thing as conspiracy to commit criminal copyright infringement. And Artem Vaulin is not extraditable.
Now we'll see just how anxious Polish authorities are to please the US, and just how much the law matters. Or not.
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I have worked for over 2 decades now in an actual working mine on underground physics projects in SNOlab.
That's nice. Maybe you should come out of that hole in the ground and look around and see what other people are doing. They're a lot smarter than you, Coward.
The closest things we have are huge tunnelling machines (as shown in a post above)
Not the closest. This is a mining machine, built for the express purpose of strip-mining in vast quantities. Turning it into a robot is fairly simple, given that on Mars, your code doesn't have to keep track of things like property lines, power lines, roads, or basically anything. Plunk down some beacons, code it to stay within the beacons, and you're done. The automation required for the dump trucks that accept what it produces already exists here on Earth. That mine has 69 mine dump trucks running around entirely autonomously.
Mining robots are already starting to exist. I'm quite certain that same mine will fully automate its excavators in the next few years. The automation is not the hard part of mining on Mars. Building machines that can operate reliably in a soft vacuum is the hard part.
Stop the orbital bombardment of Mars! White cis-gendered males are attempting to continue their colonial exploitation of indigenous peoples! They're trying to buy Olympus Mons for a handful of beads! #martianlivesmatter
Perhaps we can get the USA built and launched Opportunity rover to motor over there and clean up the mess. It might take 25 years to get there, but hell it has been running for 11 years, what's another quarter century?
You forgot the obligatory XKCD. Shame on you.
Funny how this is the same Slashdot that excoriates Disney for appropriating freely provided legendary stories and characters for massive corporate profit.
Mostly because Disney then sics their lawyers on anyone trying to do their own retelling, even when they try not to resemble Disney's rendition of the characters. You have to try really really hard not to resemble Disney's rendition, and even then you're still at risk.
It's not so much that Disney likes to plunder the public domain. It's that Disney likes to plunder the public domain, then try to prevent anyone else from doing the same, both by suing people who use the same public domain stories and by trying to make sure nothing else ever becomes public domain ever again. (Pulling up the ladder behind them.)
We could be building our own infrastructure instead of blowing up other countries infrastructure. Instead of Lockheed building more F35s, which will be obsoleted by drones in 10 years, they could be building comms infrastructure, smart roads, and other actually useful things.
Oi. Why do you hate America? Can you even imagine having the same jackoffs who are designing the F35 involved in something that's actually important like roads and bridges? This would suddenly become real (after approximately 40 years of generating nothing but a pile of paper).
So i assume they will plant a lot of my little pony pornography into putin's computer and tell everyone?
Uh, why would that embarrass him after this photo? He's not even a closet pony porn lover. He's right out there in public about it, bare chested.
Almost all the big guys have stopped interacting with it and now use it as a write only medium due ot the sheer numbers of shitmouths that are there that make slashdot trolls look civilized.
Er... Slashdot trolls are civilized. The moderation system demands it. We get our share of spammers, propagandists, and assorted lunatics. We mod them down so fast and so frequently that they give up.
Plus Whipslash and company continue to fiddle with the filters, so the most obnoxious aren't even making it to moderation.
There aren't many assholes dedicated enough to trolling to run a mining rig just to shitpost.
Interesting. That sentence was supposed to be:
There aren't many trolls dedicated enough to trolling to run a mining rig just to shitpost.
But Slashdot's lameness filter wouldn't allow it in combination with the rest of the text. Yet I can post it standalone. Odd. I haven't run into the lameness filter for anything other than all caps in years...
The problem is if you want replies to tweets, you'll run into the same uncontrolled spam / troll / junk / harassment / propaganda problem that has driven users from distributed systems towards centralized sites and why so many blogs and other sites disable comments. You need some kind of CAPTCHA for rate control and it needs to be replaced/updated as it is broken.
Require proof-of-work to reply. In other words, deploy a blockchain-driven comment reply system.
I initially wrote that sarcastically, since blockchain is the new nonsense buzzword, but it just might work. Dunno, since I've never participated in that type of social media and don't understand the mindset, so I don't know if that sort of restriction would be acceptable. The only social media site I use is Slashdot, and it seems to be qualitatively different from all the others. Still, proof-of-work can not be gamed, no matter what you do. That eliminates spam, 99% of trolls, 98% of junk, 99% of harassment, and some large percentage of propaganda. The only surviving propaganda would be paid propaganda. There aren't many assholes dedicated enough to trolling to run a mining rig just to shitpost.
Since so many users of such sites insist on using their phones, you'd have to link installations via accounts. The phone app would not mine and would not serve data to the distributed system. You'd have to run a PC for both of those functions. The PC would mine and be a server node in the distributed system. The phone app would tap into the credits generated by the PC to be able to post. PC installation and app to PC linking would have to be drop dead simple while still being exceedingly secure, or credit piracy would be a thing, and the shitposting would continue. That's probably enough to torpedo the idea, right there. Key exchange isn't easy enough. Even easier key exchange, like "use the app to take a photo of a QR code" is still not easy enough.
Never mind. Solving the problem requires implementing security. Users hate security.
Intel can get in big legal trouble with the SEC for lying on these type of financial announcements, so I tend to give a little more cred to regulated stuff like this than just some random analyst.
They're both right. I built a new PC this year. So did no less than three of my coworkers. We all finally felt it was time. And we all bought Intel CPUs, because let's face it, AMD can't seem to get their heads above water. But not one of us gave any money to the companies this analyst is talking about. We all built machines, not bought machines. I have a sneaking suspicion that this is considerably more common than it once was. Not everybody can build a PC, but practically everybody knows somebody who can, and when they ask that somebody, "How do I get a new PC without Windows 10?" that's the answer: build it yourself.
So that's what's happening. PC component sales are enjoying a resurgence. Each generation of upgrade for the past 8 years has indeed been a small percentage increment in performance, but it's been like compounding interest. At the end of four or five generations of 5-10% faster than the previous generation, a completely current machine is actually quite damn fast compared to your old desktop that was doing everything you wanted and seemed ok after an SSD upgrade.
Today, you build a 6 core i7 with 32 GB of RAM, an nVME 4X storage device, and a GeForce 1070 or 1080 and the difference between that and your 8 year old machine is kind of tremendous. Meanwhile you can't get a pre-built system at all with those specifications from many builders, and for the rare few who will do it, they want to charge you 3X to 4X retail on the components and still try to stick you with Windows 10. So yeah, they're losing sales. And since we haven't paid for a new machine in nearly a decade, and since we're expecting our new systems to last another decade, we're willing to spend like it's 1995 again, so we're buying high end components.
Ergo, PC sales are down, parts sales are up.
Cool story bro. Now explain how it only happens to Samsung Galaxy 7, and why it happens when the phone is in someone's pocket.
He was talking about burning iPhones and Apple's principle excuse for DRM-enabling their chargers. Super cheap Chinese iPhone chargers were melting internally and promptly setting fire to the connected iPhone. And responding to someone claiming the external charger doesn't matter, when it so obviously does.
Do try to keep up.
Honestly, redundancy over redundancy is retarded. AWS and Azure have back-ups, disaster recovery plans, multiple data-centers, and multiple peerings per data center.
It's not about technical redundancy. It's about business flexibility. If you build some big convoluted system that is utterly dependent on the deep foibles of one particular cloud provider, you could find yourself in serious trouble if your provider becomes hostile to you because of an acquisition or (in Amazon's case) a sudden urge to compete with you. They don't even have to be openly hostile to still cause you serious grief. Better to have a way out from the beginning, if you can afford it.
At today's interest rates, there is very little reason to keep money in a savings account unless it gives you some advantage in dealing with the bank. Bank failure or government seizure of your assets in a bank is not impossible. You should keep a supply of cash on hand sufficient to handle your needs if the next-most-liquid deposit of wealth fails.
It does give me a small advantage in dealing with the bank, but that's hardly the point. I bank with a national bank. It is quite literally too big to fail. It will be propped up by the government if necessary. We have all the proof of that we need. As for government seizure, I keep my three felonies a day to the socially acceptable ones. If either a bank failure without bailout or an arbitrary government seizure happens, there will have already been a catastrophic breakdown of social order, and no amount of cash is any use. At that point, we're at the stage of canned goods and ammo. (And spices. Anybody who has read Lucifer's Hammer remembers the spices.) The savings account exists for the number one most probable personal disaster: layoff.
A sensible person weighs the balance of probabilities, and does not give undue weight to emotional analysis. In this world, losing your job is by far the highest probability happenstance that has a negative affect on any individual. The probability of bank failure that affects a retail savings account is indistinguishable from zero. The probability of arbitrary seizure is considerably higher but still quite low, and can be considered against the backdrop of society, and let's face it, people who have a reason to argue about the diversification of assets are unlikely to be subjected to it unless they have particularly unsavory habits or have specifically offended the powers that be. Enough cash to be of use in the event of a layoff is too much to keep on hand, because its purpose is to pay the mortgage. Conclusion primus: a bank account, kept in a bank that differs from the one which holds my mortgage. Conclusion secundus: pay off the mortgage as soon as possible. Working on that...
What kind of abject moron keeps any significant chunk of change in a savings account? Are you so old as to think they pay out any meaningful interest or something?
The kind of not-at-all moron who understands not keeping all your eggs in one basket. I keep a chunk of money in a savings account because I want at least some liquid assets backed by an FDIC guarantee. Because I'm not a moron. I have another chunk of money in the market. Neither liquid nor FDIC guaranteed. I have another chunk of money in CDs. FDIC guaranteed, but not liquid, but it pays interest. I have another chunk of money in real estate. Not even remotely liquid, and no guarantee, but not in a hyperinflated market so probably ok.
It's called diversification. A bank savings account is very much a part of sound fiscal habits.
There are numerous Islamic countries that are very well off that aren't 'lifting a finger' to help their fellow Muslims.
Of course not. They're the wrong kind of Muslims.
You really have no idea just how big Africa is, do you?
I'm perfectly aware of how big Africa is. Which doesn't change the 78%.
But there is no doubt that the average temperature is rising and some areas close to the equator will start to be come uninhabitable in 20-30 years.
It's nonsense like that which makes people decide AGW is bullshit and everyone associated with it is either a useful idiot or has a secret agenda. No, areas close to the equator will not become uninhabitable, any more than they already are because most of the equator is covered by ocean. 78% in fact. The remaining 22% is across the narrow part of Africa, the northern edge of Brazil (which is Amazon jungle), and bits of Indonesia, which is also heavy jungle. By reasonable standards, most of the land crossing parts of the equator are already uninhabitable. I dunno about you but centipedes a foot long put me off.
https://xkcd.com/605/
Yeah, there ought to be SOMEWHERE we can still talk about using our power to take advantage of or sexually assault women without fear of repercussions...
Who's this "we", white man? And what power? Or did you think all straight white cisgendered males are nationally known television stars who do billion dollar real estate deals?
I'm thinking the number of people who can get away with what Trump has gotten away with are precisely as limited as the number of male billionaires, who have far too much power in every aspect of life, not just in sexual matters.
fancy robot bodies? much less so, imo.
Somebody has to be working on sexbots. Might as well be this guy.
Though I hear RealDoll is looking into adding robotics to their products...
Sounds like a great time to start an American VPN company. Let's see them try to extradite for enabling free speech.
Our police state will know everything about everything said using it, but doesn't care. They think the masses should be allowed to vent, knowing it has as much meaning as the squeals of puppies in a box. It's a little surprising the UK doesn't seem to understand how effective the 2 Minute Hate is considering it was invented by a British author. Perhaps they think undirected hate undermines its effectiveness.
Let us know when the list of allowed hate targets is released in Britain. Then we'll know for certain that they're using 1984 as a manual.
The TR3-B 'Astra' is a large triangular anti-gravity craft within the secret U.S. fleet.
Now that is a bona fide Space Nutter, with capital letters. Where's our binary friend when we need him. There should be a rant right here. Or perhaps some of his new biting sarcasm.
Last I checked he had a mediocre record at getting anything off the ground at all. Boeing does that tens of thousands of times a day with narry a whisper of a problem.
Tens of thousands, eh. Boeing has exactly one rocket that is flying right now. The Delta IV and its variants. Boeing has launched three of them this year, with one more planned. All three were successful. SpaceX has launched eight Falcon 9s this year, all of which were a success, and five of which successfully recovered their first stages intact, which Boeing has never done for any rocket. Plus SpaceX blew up one on the pad. SpaceX could have failed five more times than they did and still would be launching more rockets this year than Boeing. They have two more launches planned this year, to Boeing's one.
I understand your daddy works for Boeing, and you're 15 and all, so you are incapable of expressing yourself without absurd hyperbole, but you should be quiet. Grownups are talking.
Agreed. Very few people (police included) wake up and say "I want to be a jerk today, escalate lots of situations, get complaints filed against me, and be in a bad mood all day 'cos I didn't abuse someone enough."
Judging by US schools, I disagree. There are tens of thousands of people who do precisely that. I strongly doubt all of them stopped when they got a little older, either.
So does the law. If his lawyers claim that secondary infringement is not a criminal offense in the US is true, why is he being extradited to the US?
Money laundering. They tacked that on in hopes that Polish authorities don't really think too much about how receiving money isn't a crime if you weren't committing a crime. And he wasn't.
But...
... the alleged owner is charged with conspiracy to commit criminal copyright infringement, conspiracy to commit money laundering, and two counts of criminal copyright infringement.
I haven't read Title 17 in a while, but last I checked, there's no such thing as "conspiracy to commit criminal copyright infringement." I'm sure Slashdot's legion of not-lawyers will correct me if I misremember. Mostly they're going to try to swing this on proving that he personally violated copyright in such a way as to fall afoul of the criminal provisions of US law for which Poland has an equivalent criminal offense, per the terms of the US/Polish extradition treaty of 1996. That treaty stipulates that only offenses which carry a maximum of penalty of more than a year in prison in both jurisdictions are extraditable. There is no US copyright infringement criminal penalty that includes jail time of any term. Remedies include injunction, impounding of infringing material (when it's physical), statutory fines, and/or actual monetary damages. That's it.
Addendum: Ok, I've read 17 U.S. Code 506 again. There's no such thing as conspiracy to commit criminal copyright infringement. And Artem Vaulin is not extraditable.
Now we'll see just how anxious Polish authorities are to please the US, and just how much the law matters. Or not.