1) The people who are pro-piracy are not necessarily the ones who are pro-GPL enforcement, and are not the same ones who try to enforce copyright on Slashdot's stories.
2) Many times the GPL violators were themselves in the copyright mafia. Even if you don't agree with a law, that doesn't mean you can't laugh at corporations that can't follow their own rules.
Because it has to happen eventually. Any human introduced into the loop adds a few seconds of reaction time and in the modern "first guy to shoot the nukes/missiles at the other side wins" style of warfare a military commander who lets robots do all the quick decision making will always win.
Also, what's with this idea that keeps floating around that humans are somehow by definition more capable of moral thought than robots? I would argue that robots are much more capable of such thinking - humans get bogged down by concepts such as "the death of one is a tragedy, the death of a million is a statistic" and "they killed my brother, at least X people must die to pay for that"
Ridiculously high upfront cost, is a waste of resources to make multiple sets of them for each competitor, internet cables, like roads, seem like the perfect thing to have under government control. We can have private companies competing for the services they can provide over these lines.
I agree with this. We have gotten quite good at measuring the short-term impact of pollution (google "external cost"), so it would be quite reasonable to charge people for the environmental damage caused by their cars and let people pollute to their hearts' content... if they're willing to suffer all the evironmental and health damage caused by themselves.
Hopefully this will open up an incentive for governments and businesses alike to actually set up a half-decent public transportation system.
5. The Right to publish any information that is true without fear of takedown notices
I have to disagree with this one. Secrets, like military secrets, passwords/key combinations, etc. can be very damaging if revealed. In fact, I would much rather make defamation 100% legal* than give everyone the right to publish classified stuff.
*Not that I have much of a problem with doing that in itself.
Can we please stop with the "computers taking over the world" paranoia? There will be bugs but humans are just as bugged, and the same checks and balances that work against humans will work against machine decision-makers. Lastly, there is always an off switch.
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I never understood this whole "backward compatibility is bad" thing anyway.
1) The people who are pro-piracy are not necessarily the ones who are pro-GPL enforcement, and are not the same ones who try to enforce copyright on Slashdot's stories.
2) Many times the GPL violators were themselves in the copyright mafia. Even if you don't agree with a law, that doesn't mean you can't laugh at corporations that can't follow their own rules.
Screenshots + 10 seconds in GIMP?
By "all PCs" do you mean "all Personal Computers" or "everything that runs Windows"?
Ludicrous Cold... GO!
Can I also inject the fact that dimensions are perpendicular, not parallel, so going into a parallel universe is NOT the same as another dimension.
Because it has to happen eventually. Any human introduced into the loop adds a few seconds of reaction time and in the modern "first guy to shoot the nukes/missiles at the other side wins" style of warfare a military commander who lets robots do all the quick decision making will always win.
Also, what's with this idea that keeps floating around that humans are somehow by definition more capable of moral thought than robots? I would argue that robots are much more capable of such thinking - humans get bogged down by concepts such as "the death of one is a tragedy, the death of a million is a statistic" and "they killed my brother, at least X people must die to pay for that"
Can't even figure out what the "world's population per capita" is...
Ridiculously high upfront cost, is a waste of resources to make multiple sets of them for each competitor, internet cables, like roads, seem like the perfect thing to have under government control. We can have private companies competing for the services they can provide over these lines.
Is it just me or is corporations intentionally crippling their own products the epitome of free market failure?
Try replacing the copper pipes with gold ones, that should make the current flow more easily.
I agree with this. We have gotten quite good at measuring the short-term impact of pollution (google "external cost"), so it would be quite reasonable to charge people for the environmental damage caused by their cars and let people pollute to their hearts' content... if they're willing to suffer all the evironmental and health damage caused by themselves.
Hopefully this will open up an incentive for governments and businesses alike to actually set up a half-decent public transportation system.
5. The Right to publish any information that is true without fear of takedown notices
I have to disagree with this one. Secrets, like military secrets, passwords/key combinations, etc. can be very damaging if revealed. In fact, I would much rather make defamation 100% legal* than give everyone the right to publish classified stuff.
*Not that I have much of a problem with doing that in itself.
Can we please stop with the "computers taking over the world" paranoia? There will be bugs but humans are just as bugged, and the same checks and balances that work against humans will work against machine decision-makers. Lastly, there is always an off switch.
Google search has an interface in:
Elmer Fudd (Google seawch for those wascaly wabbits)
Hacker (aka 13375p34k)
Klingon
Bork Bork Bork (I don't even know what that is)
That's just external senses. Now let's add some internal ones: Thirst Hunger Pain Bladder Sleepiness Any others?
sudo is very easy to circumvent (social engineering)
That applies to pretty much every password system in existence.