We'd just need to embed a chip in our body that would let the car know who was driving it. The chip in our body could then monitor things like BAC to know when we need a DUI ticket, or our heart rate to know when we're dead.
I like to think of spam like this. Think of your computer as a leaf blower. Suppose your neighbor breaks into your garage and steals your leaf blower and then proceeds to gather all the leaves from his lawn, put them in bags, and throw the bags onto your front step. This is not legal. How is that any different from a spammer taking control of your computer and filling up your hard drive with useless crap that you didn't ask for???
One would think this could be used the other way around to refund people who have overpaid. Who wants to take bets on whether they'll monitor for this as well? My money is on "not a chance."
What if the chain of custody is interrupted by a cracker who messes with the fingerprints (or any other images) just for fun? Any evidence stored on a computer on the net is succeptible to this kind of tampering. It would be much easier to crack into a police computer than to break into the police station and mess with things.
I never mentioned being right in my reply, only that you'd have to be certain that you'd win. Given all the loopholes and sheer number of laws that a good team of lawyers could uncover, I'm guessing that a "for sure win" is about 1 in 1,000,000.
I don't think it would completely prevent your average joe from suing a large corporation. Remeber, you'd only have to pay if you didn't win the case. You would, however, have to be 100% sure you'd win or you'd be hosed. I'm guessing there aren't a lot of people out there who would be willing to take that kind of risk agaist a gaggle of high power lawers.
I think it's common sense that if you're a defendant and found not guilty that you shouldn't have to pay. Frankly, I'm surprised something like this doesn't exist already. Perhaps if the plaintiff had to pay ALL court costs if he/she lost there would be fewer nonsensical lawsuits.
What do you think would be the biggest hurdle in the US conversion to the metric system? I, at first, thought it would be automobile manufacturing/repair, but all auto shops already have to deal with foreign cars already with metric parts. My vote now would have to be for gas pumps and speed limits. I think it would take people a long time to adjust to liters and kilometers per hour.
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Why can't we just treat code like the text of a book? It's illegal to copy text from a book and present it as your own. It is not illegal, however, to create a similar work of your own accord.
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I, for one, welcome our new software vending machine overlords.
That's okay, my shoes aren't worth that much anyway.
whoops... forgot to add to the end of my post.
We'd just need to embed a chip in our body that would let the car know who was driving it. The chip in our body could then monitor things like BAC to know when we need a DUI ticket, or our heart rate to know when we're dead.
I think I'll save my money until XP Revolutions comes out.
I like to think of spam like this. Think of your computer as a leaf blower. Suppose your neighbor breaks into your garage and steals your leaf blower and then proceeds to gather all the leaves from his lawn, put them in bags, and throw the bags onto your front step. This is not legal. How is that any different from a spammer taking control of your computer and filling up your hard drive with useless crap that you didn't ask for???
I guess that's what I get for only reading the first couple sentences of every paragraph. D'OH! I'd like to rescind my bet.
One would think this could be used the other way around to refund people who have overpaid. Who wants to take bets on whether they'll monitor for this as well? My money is on "not a chance."
Because we're litigious bastards.
What if the chain of custody is interrupted by a cracker who messes with the fingerprints (or any other images) just for fun? Any evidence stored on a computer on the net is succeptible to this kind of tampering. It would be much easier to crack into a police computer than to break into the police station and mess with things.
I never mentioned being right in my reply, only that you'd have to be certain that you'd win. Given all the loopholes and sheer number of laws that a good team of lawyers could uncover, I'm guessing that a "for sure win" is about 1 in 1,000,000.
I don't think it would completely prevent your average joe from suing a large corporation. Remeber, you'd only have to pay if you didn't win the case. You would, however, have to be 100% sure you'd win or you'd be hosed. I'm guessing there aren't a lot of people out there who would be willing to take that kind of risk agaist a gaggle of high power lawers.
I think it's common sense that if you're a defendant and found not guilty that you shouldn't have to pay. Frankly, I'm surprised something like this doesn't exist already. Perhaps if the plaintiff had to pay ALL court costs if he/she lost there would be fewer nonsensical lawsuits.
IANAL, that's just my two cents.
What do you think would be the biggest hurdle in the US conversion to the metric system? I, at first, thought it would be automobile manufacturing/repair, but all auto shops already have to deal with foreign cars already with metric parts. My vote now would have to be for gas pumps and speed limits. I think it would take people a long time to adjust to liters and kilometers per hour.
Why can't we just treat code like the text of a book? It's illegal to copy text from a book and present it as your own. It is not illegal, however, to create a similar work of your own accord.