In princible, vote for someone who says they'll lift the blocks. Accountability in a democracy is via the vote. How well that works in practice varies greatly by country.
It's not changed much. You can get a few good things piratewise (Someone uploads all the FiM episodes), but compared to any more mainstream network the library is pathetic. It's a place for the paranoid.
I like the idea of a mesh network, but you see the problem. There isn't much demand for such a thing because the existing internet already does the job very well. Even pirates have no problems hideing things. Unless you're an activist in a politically oppressive regime (A very small population) there just isn't any call for such a thing. Even if the technology were perfected (I think it'd have to be content-addressable, but it's doable) there wouldn't be enough potential users to achieve the critical node density for it to work. What we have is Good Enough.
TBP doesn't tun the trackers any more, but even if they did, the rumor around here seems to be that Cleanfeed - the child-porn-blocking system - will be repurposed. Cleanfeed only filters http content on port 80.
Even the BBC has gone downhill, though for different reasons. The other channels all chased each other to the bottom seeking higher ratings (That reality crap is very popular, as are pseudo-docs like Ancient Aliens and Most Haunted) to keep the cash coming in. The BBC followed shortly after out of a concern of becoming irrelivent - fear that it could become 'that snobby producer' that no-one watches because it's full of boring programs about some medieval king that no-one cares about any more. So they started making reality crap too, trying to up ratings to maintain their status as a british institution rather than just to get the money coming. They have at least managed to resist the temptation of the pseudo-doc.
Great idea, with one flaw: No plausable deniability. You'd have to include some form of public-key auth, otherwise your own weapon will be used against you. Eventually it will be discovered, and then... you just killed your entire semiconductor industry for the next decade.
If there were a total war like WWII, one where the existance of the US were seriously under threat, none of those forces would matter: They'd get out the nukes. The US nuclear arsenal is less than it used to be, but it's still enough to obliterate every major city in whatever hostile region threatens them. The US doesn't need a navy to defend their own lands any more - they need it to defend their interests overseas. Trade routes, allies depending upon them. Things like that.
I imagine there are environmental concerns too. Some of those materials are sure to be toxic, and even though I am sure the military could easily pull a few strings and get an exception it would look bad to the public if they had to keep doing that.
You start off by reminding us that HPV is a sexually transmitted disease. This is true, but why does it matter? Just by bringing up this fact you seem to be implying that STIs are somehow special: That it's ok for the government to spend money and mandating vaccinations to fight smallpox or polio (And I'm going to assume things like MMR that are already manditory and common, as I've not seen anyone object to those on religious grounds) and yet STIs are somehow special? To an atheist like me, it looks a lot like you are implying that the STIs are a natural consequence of sin and the government has no place defending people against god's natural punishment.
Seriously. This is architecture stuff. You can't just write a backdoor into a chip that easily. You can't write censorship in, because there would be no way to update the censorlist. The most you could do is provide a code injection backdoor (If you see byte sequence xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, jump to the following byte), but with no way to disable it they would just weaken their own defence when it inevitably leaked.
They still like to pretend they are communist to some extent. It's a national pride thing. Regardless, economic and political systems are not that closely linked: It's quite possible for a communist country to allow a great deal of political freedom, or a capitalist country to be as oppressive as any country can be.
They are interfacing to the retina. With appropriate interfacing, you might be able to keep all that processing capability intact. You'd just need a way to stimulate the photoreceptor cells and nothing else. Like, say, a sufficiently high resolution biocompatible OLED display.* Not much good against neural damage, but great if the fault is in the optical part of the eye. There's no reason it couldn't work, just engineering challenges to overcome.
* A literal retinal display. May be trademark issues.
It's quite possible for atheists to hate the religion, even if they don't hate the God. The religion is very much a real thing, with an army of believers to give it power. I used to be indifferent to religion myself, until I read of how Christians were opposing vaccination against HPV* on the grounds that it could encourage people to sin. The more I learned, the more the hate grew. But hate is not a bad thing, it can be a powerful force for reform and a drive to fight that which should be fought.
*Still in the early trial stage back then
It's worse than that (From the pro-act site). The act is written on the assumption that file sharing means a website that can be blocked. This is a true politicians law: To them, the internet *is* the web. All very well, in theory - trackers are of little use if you can't access the website with.torrent files, and using usenet without an indexer is an exercise in spam-induced pain. But, already, TPB has moved from.torrent files to magnet links, and other sites are expected to follow. Links are just text. Which can be emailed, IMed, posted on social networking sites. There is no containing links, word of electronic mouth will spread them far too quickly.
If you want to suffer a search engine, try hunting down drivers for something a few years obsolete. Lots of sites all claiming to have them, right after this ad-laden download page... which always takes you to the site search engine, so it can tell you they don't actually have it, even though the very product name and VEN/DEV IDs are on the page when google goes a-indexin'. Oh, but it will link to you too manner of partner sites so you can repeat the experience a hundred times before finally buying a new one.
When some of that proposed legislation can be a thousand pages or more? Small-print A4 pages, too. Well, small-print Letter for American laws, I imagine.
Could, but then you run into the same reason the US doesn't like being so dependant upon oil imports from the middle east. It's bad long-term policy to be that dependant for something as vital as energy. Makes a country vulnerable - if the world stopped selling oil to the US, they could bring the country to it's knees without fireing a shot. In the same way I don't imagine Iran would wish to be in a situation where a trade embargo could make the lights go out and industry grind to a halt.
Why is the decay an issue? Uranium isn't that radioactive that it would interfere with electronics, and any oppressive regime worth worrying about should be willing to shorten a few technician-lives through insufficient shielding.
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In princible, vote for someone who says they'll lift the blocks. Accountability in a democracy is via the vote. How well that works in practice varies greatly by country.
This is TBP. It's already benefited from everything the Streisand Effect can do.
It's not changed much. You can get a few good things piratewise (Someone uploads all the FiM episodes), but compared to any more mainstream network the library is pathetic. It's a place for the paranoid.
I like the idea of a mesh network, but you see the problem. There isn't much demand for such a thing because the existing internet already does the job very well. Even pirates have no problems hideing things. Unless you're an activist in a politically oppressive regime (A very small population) there just isn't any call for such a thing. Even if the technology were perfected (I think it'd have to be content-addressable, but it's doable) there wouldn't be enough potential users to achieve the critical node density for it to work. What we have is Good Enough.
But if not enough people run the exits, it becomes unuseably slow. Espicially if it's being used for p2p. That'll kill the network with ease.
TBP doesn't tun the trackers any more, but even if they did, the rumor around here seems to be that Cleanfeed - the child-porn-blocking system - will be repurposed. Cleanfeed only filters http content on port 80.
Even the BBC has gone downhill, though for different reasons. The other channels all chased each other to the bottom seeking higher ratings (That reality crap is very popular, as are pseudo-docs like Ancient Aliens and Most Haunted) to keep the cash coming in. The BBC followed shortly after out of a concern of becoming irrelivent - fear that it could become 'that snobby producer' that no-one watches because it's full of boring programs about some medieval king that no-one cares about any more. So they started making reality crap too, trying to up ratings to maintain their status as a british institution rather than just to get the money coming. They have at least managed to resist the temptation of the pseudo-doc.
Great idea, with one flaw: No plausable deniability. You'd have to include some form of public-key auth, otherwise your own weapon will be used against you. Eventually it will be discovered, and then... you just killed your entire semiconductor industry for the next decade.
If there were a total war like WWII, one where the existance of the US were seriously under threat, none of those forces would matter: They'd get out the nukes. The US nuclear arsenal is less than it used to be, but it's still enough to obliterate every major city in whatever hostile region threatens them. The US doesn't need a navy to defend their own lands any more - they need it to defend their interests overseas. Trade routes, allies depending upon them. Things like that.
I imagine there are environmental concerns too. Some of those materials are sure to be toxic, and even though I am sure the military could easily pull a few strings and get an exception it would look bad to the public if they had to keep doing that.
Conventional motors require elaborate gearing which occupies space, makes noise and increases maintainance requirements.
You start off by reminding us that HPV is a sexually transmitted disease. This is true, but why does it matter? Just by bringing up this fact you seem to be implying that STIs are somehow special: That it's ok for the government to spend money and mandating vaccinations to fight smallpox or polio (And I'm going to assume things like MMR that are already manditory and common, as I've not seen anyone object to those on religious grounds) and yet STIs are somehow special? To an atheist like me, it looks a lot like you are implying that the STIs are a natural consequence of sin and the government has no place defending people against god's natural punishment.
Seriously. This is architecture stuff. You can't just write a backdoor into a chip that easily. You can't write censorship in, because there would be no way to update the censorlist. The most you could do is provide a code injection backdoor (If you see byte sequence xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, jump to the following byte), but with no way to disable it they would just weaken their own defence when it inevitably leaked.
They still like to pretend they are communist to some extent. It's a national pride thing. Regardless, economic and political systems are not that closely linked: It's quite possible for a communist country to allow a great deal of political freedom, or a capitalist country to be as oppressive as any country can be.
They are interfacing to the retina. With appropriate interfacing, you might be able to keep all that processing capability intact. You'd just need a way to stimulate the photoreceptor cells and nothing else. Like, say, a sufficiently high resolution biocompatible OLED display.* Not much good against neural damage, but great if the fault is in the optical part of the eye. There's no reason it couldn't work, just engineering challenges to overcome.
* A literal retinal display. May be trademark issues.
It's quite possible for atheists to hate the religion, even if they don't hate the God. The religion is very much a real thing, with an army of believers to give it power. I used to be indifferent to religion myself, until I read of how Christians were opposing vaccination against HPV* on the grounds that it could encourage people to sin. The more I learned, the more the hate grew. But hate is not a bad thing, it can be a powerful force for reform and a drive to fight that which should be fought. *Still in the early trial stage back then
Please, don't quote the line. You know the one. The one with three comparatives. It's too predictable.
It's worse than that (From the pro-act site). The act is written on the assumption that file sharing means a website that can be blocked. This is a true politicians law: To them, the internet *is* the web. All very well, in theory - trackers are of little use if you can't access the website with .torrent files, and using usenet without an indexer is an exercise in spam-induced pain. But, already, TPB has moved from .torrent files to magnet links, and other sites are expected to follow. Links are just text. Which can be emailed, IMed, posted on social networking sites. There is no containing links, word of electronic mouth will spread them far too quickly.
Labour, conservative, libdem, it makes no difference: All the major parties support stricter copyright control. Same situation in the US.
I doubt it'll do much, if anything, to deter pirates. They are an adaptive lot, and see any efforts to stop them as just a challenge to be overcome.
I imagine you'd want something less block-devicey. It'd be horribly inefficient otherwise.
If you want to suffer a search engine, try hunting down drivers for something a few years obsolete. Lots of sites all claiming to have them, right after this ad-laden download page... which always takes you to the site search engine, so it can tell you they don't actually have it, even though the very product name and VEN/DEV IDs are on the page when google goes a-indexin'. Oh, but it will link to you too manner of partner sites so you can repeat the experience a hundred times before finally buying a new one.
When some of that proposed legislation can be a thousand pages or more? Small-print A4 pages, too. Well, small-print Letter for American laws, I imagine.
Could, but then you run into the same reason the US doesn't like being so dependant upon oil imports from the middle east. It's bad long-term policy to be that dependant for something as vital as energy. Makes a country vulnerable - if the world stopped selling oil to the US, they could bring the country to it's knees without fireing a shot. In the same way I don't imagine Iran would wish to be in a situation where a trade embargo could make the lights go out and industry grind to a halt.
Why is the decay an issue? Uranium isn't that radioactive that it would interfere with electronics, and any oppressive regime worth worrying about should be willing to shorten a few technician-lives through insufficient shielding.