I would like to add an idea to mandatory registration - you should have to give the copyright office a full copy of your work (source code too if it's software) and when copyright expires it goes into a centralized online library from which anyone can access it (so you don't have copyrighted works disappearing from existence because it's illegal to make copies and all the existing copies get lost).
Because it's supposed to be 10% faster (for the writer, 40% slower for the reader of course) if you dedicate as much time to it as you do to normal writing or typing.
Many other posters have already commented on the idea of encrypting your data but if you want it destroyed (you're paranoid about aliens with 10^40 flop computers or the 5-dollar-wrench attack) there are 2 solutions with their own weaknesses. First, you can install a program to remotely view your desktop, hope the box is connected to the internet, then wipe the hard drive right there. Second is the fail-deadly solution - require a password every 10-30 hours or the data is automatically wiped. This has a high risk of destroying the data when you could have recovered it, but if you have another copy of all the data (preferably a disk image to clone right onto your netbook for ease) in a secure location it can work.
There were two accidents so far. One caused no deaths and little damage and the other was the result of outdated Soviet RBMK reactors. With modern safety technology, such accidents are practically impossible - we'll almost certainly have none until the last fission reactor shuts down and we all switch to fusion power.
It's about the rights of the people that aren't texting/drunk/talking on phone. Many accidents involve two or more cars, not just the idiot who was doing something he shouldn't be. Also, car accidents tend to cause traffic jams or even other car accidents as other drivers turn and look.
If we wanted to, we could have cleared Iraq of all hostiles within 2 weeks. We just had that annoying requirement of keeping some civilians alive (and not wrecking the oil fields).
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I would like to add an idea to mandatory registration - you should have to give the copyright office a full copy of your work (source code too if it's software) and when copyright expires it goes into a centralized online library from which anyone can access it (so you don't have copyrighted works disappearing from existence because it's illegal to make copies and all the existing copies get lost).
The other big advantage of getting computers with Linux pre-installed is that everything works out of the box.
Hey, Blacksmithing makes perfectly good epics! Stupid engineers...
50 more years: That's right kids, my grandpa was outside his computer.
Because it's supposed to be 10% faster (for the writer, 40% slower for the reader of course) if you dedicate as much time to it as you do to normal writing or typing.
I can write cursive! fuck shit bitch hell damn. see?
a lot of security companies are simply a collaboration of thugs, looking for an excuse to beat someone up if they're having a bad day/night at work.
And that differs from the FBI/NSA/DEA how?
Many other posters have already commented on the idea of encrypting your data but if you want it destroyed (you're paranoid about aliens with 10^40 flop computers or the 5-dollar-wrench attack) there are 2 solutions with their own weaknesses. First, you can install a program to remotely view your desktop, hope the box is connected to the internet, then wipe the hard drive right there. Second is the fail-deadly solution - require a password every 10-30 hours or the data is automatically wiped. This has a high risk of destroying the data when you could have recovered it, but if you have another copy of all the data (preferably a disk image to clone right onto your netbook for ease) in a secure location it can work.
There were two accidents so far. One caused no deaths and little damage and the other was the result of outdated Soviet RBMK reactors. With modern safety technology, such accidents are practically impossible - we'll almost certainly have none until the last fission reactor shuts down and we all switch to fusion power.
It's about the rights of the people that aren't texting/drunk/talking on phone. Many accidents involve two or more cars, not just the idiot who was doing something he shouldn't be. Also, car accidents tend to cause traffic jams or even other car accidents as other drivers turn and look.
So who's going to be the new enemy? Google?
From what I understand it's a treaty so the countries are supposed to ally against whoever violates it against one of the signing countries.
My favorite analogy is that atheism being a religion is like turning the TV off being a channel.
Iran != Iraq.
No they didn't, you liar.
We'll have the technology for fully functional and even ethical robot soldiers years before we get to that kind of cloning.
It's in the open source definition and/or the free software definition, don't remember exactly.
Leaving your internet connection open should be a crime because you're making it availasble for child pornographers and terrorists!
Coal releases more radioactive waste than nuclear. Citation here.
Wait, how is making it illegal to use personal data as a means of payment for a service "civilized"?
If we wanted to, we could have cleared Iraq of all hostiles within 2 weeks. We just had that annoying requirement of keeping some civilians alive (and not wrecking the oil fields).
Google is over 100 years old, so why not Slashdot?
Won't adding a provision to the GPL specifically about Windows violate the non-discrimination requirement?
that can play a nice loud PSHHHHHHTTTT sound
You should be careful there. At least 1000 RIAA songs have that sound somewhere, so they could sue you. (Had to work the RIAA in there somehow)
They would ban alcohol and tobacco as well, but they're just too popular. Every politician knows that you demonize the fringes, not the mainstream.