Investors and stocks. They are going to try to sell you with their ambition. Just like anything sold it falls short. In this case a lot of other companies are doing far worse. As far as it goes for Tesla can we just not see these mentioned but rather save it until they ACTUALLY meet their goals which will be news. Then after they consistently do then you can post about them failing their goals. News is what is not the norm. They just were threatened with unionizing workers... so of course they fell behind. You can be sure the big three were significantly behind it. Tesla will build more than a few factories in China for the Chinese market. So their American employees better shape up; least China can show it can out perform Americans.
He is an entertainer that specifically uses shock to entertain. He has also pointed out the hypocrisy of the left when it comes to freedom of speech. Sorry to say the obvious but if you don't like it then don't watch. If you don't like to hear someone else talking about it then point out the idiocy of them watching in the first place.
Every time he makes the news he gets more money from more people watching.
First pass a resolution to build out fibre in the rest of the city yourself with an appropriate bond measure.
Create a special utility to manage it. During build out it will be it's own independent company and contractor but will later be turned into a public utility. It will have the power of the city to tear out streets in the middle of the night and to work 24 hours a day in certain circumstances. Use many subcontractors and don't require unions. Use your union guys to inspect the work and maybe work in difficult areas. Build it out one small section at a time per contractor. Let the contractors compete and use the appropriate contractor for each section.
Last invite providers to install trunks into your faciliy at their cost and under your rules. Customers are required to buy their own city approved optical interface equipment per house and to pay a one time $500 hook up fee to have the equipment installed.
The whole thing will be paid off in ten to fifteen years and the city can either keep the money coming in or reduce everyone's bill.
Band aid's can be good but why not think of something more productive like actually triggering an eruption in a controlled manor to relieve pressure. If you have a blister sometimes it's best to prick it with a needle to preserve the skin when you know it's going to keep getting bigger and then rupture.
So you might consider this treatment something akin to shock treatment or lobotomies. It could probably treat all sorts of fear syndromes. I wonder how well it might be able to treat epilepsy or bipolar disorder or even anxiety.
If existing functionality degrades then there is going to be a slam dunk of a class action lawsuit. Better if they released a version 2 of their product but provided a firmware upgrade for version 1 IF people accepted the product version 2 TOS.
Everyday cultured meat could be produced much more efficiently than through corporate farms. The actual product will probably be healthier since it won't be necessary to feed animals an unnatural diet because it's cheaper. Moral vegans will all but disappear but vegetarianism will continue.
Animals will still be slaughtered but only for those willing to pay the premium. Those animals will be raised by high standard small farmers and corporate animal farms will by and large disappear. You will be able to look up the pedigree and health reports on your real steak but will cost like $100. Most striking will be a resurgence of people raising chickens in cities. The oceans will get some time to heal once 90% of the fish eaten is cultured fish meat. Most of the real fish will come from fish farms to limit exposure to sea pollution. All this will happen over the next 70 years.
While bundling sites might work Disney doing it's own thing will actually lead to more piracy. Everything for $40 is the magic price point for streaming. $10 more for sports. If all the content producers are going a la cart then it should be more like $2 for Disney and $5 for HBO originals.
At $5 or even $20 I'm instantly thinking... signup once or twice a year and rip everything I'm interested in to a hard drive or more simply just binge it all in a month. But I'm lazy and tend to just not watch TV anymore if it's not cheap and convenient.
I don't see the fuss over tax money spent on the investigation. It's one person cataloging efforts from interested citizens. It's a mystery that can provide new investigation techniques for future crimes even if it results in nothing.
I would have more of a problem if they found the guy and decided to waste money in prosecuting after all this time.
The FBI "claims" that no other money in the case was ever found other than beside that river ten years later. Not sure if I believe them. But there are many ways to launder money especially involving insurance and fires.
I think it's reasonable he was a woodsman and knew the area. He probably did have googles; and at least light gloves which are not that hard to conceal. Probably had a few well concealed hidden caches near the rivers for changes of clothes and supplies. Maybe an inflatable raft. Hiked to some spot downstream of the river and hid the money before bugging out. I'd hide it in a tree. Probably had an accomplice waiting on the ground in case he hurt himself and to clean up his trail afterward. I can easily see someone taking a few bundles of money and camping out by the river only to be approached and hiding the money in the sand and then thinking the better of it to just leave it.
Disney and a bunch of the other big new content companies should create two new Netflix like companies. It shouldn't be any one production company as it is not good to have 50 major streaming sites.
They ask for open internal discussion and when they get it they fire people. He expressed his views after being invited to do so privately within the company. TLDR: men and women are different. And that Google company should not be extreme right or left on any issue.
The correct thing to do would have been to rationally disagree. All he did was express his thoughts.There was no proof he took any action of discrimination. He was in fact pointing out discrimination he sees his company doing and they turn around and prove him right.
Google is all about image. The communists in China should hire Google to run their country for them. I have a feeling they fired him and gave him a big paycheck to leave quietly; not to sue them or talk publicly.
What happens when people on certain routes know about the false markings and get use to them. And then unconscious cross a real bump at too high a speed.... possibly causing an accident.... people react to these things without knowing. All speedbump markings will get edited from the minds eye as they will be meaningless.
Hmm that may or may not be a speed bump. Russian roulette anyone?
The problem you not only need "security" but it also needs to be updateable. There is no foolproof software and or complex protocol proofs. There are all sorts of assumptions made which change all the time compounded by implementation errors and outright bugs. It may all be based on logic but you can't guarantee what makes sense today will make sense in twenty years.
So you have to be able to update software and complex digital hardware. That is simply impractical. You can write a law saying pi=3 but that doesn't make it so. By it's very nature it would require some level of all software and hardware being open source such that the security routines and how they work could be changed. Not going to happen.
Everyone though that OSI model would go beyond layer 3. That there would be standard dynamic libraries for end to end encryption and that programmers wouldn't need to be that involves in the minutia of the design. Instead what we got was a role your own and linking to available static libraries idiocy. And https.... nuf said.
I think what is needed is that governments should require programmers both to guarantee a specific lifetime guarantee for where there should be minimums depending on the software. The software should be bonded by an insurance/review company (which will have the code) for that period of time. Programmers and publishers need to be liable for the quality of their products where money is exchanged. There needs to be minimum standards and review.
It was the first but that doesn't mean it should stay on top. There is no value to it other than what we give it in our minds. There is no reason to stay with it as it does have problems. Both groups should stop using the name "bitcoin". There is room and a need for multiple digital currencies.
Bitcoin is simply not good for consumer transactions. If you can wait 15 minutes to an hour to complete transactions like stock purchases use to take in 1901 then it's viable. If I am dealing in large amounts of money then I prefer bitcoin and can wait.
If you earn money in a country then you should be required to pay a special tax to remove it from that country. New laws need to be adopted such that shifting money tax free through IP licensing and other such loop holes are closed.
Simple. That requires a business presence. I do have issue with countries declaring a business presence and imposing their regulations were non exists. For example an advertising agency taking money for ads in the German language does does not give the country of Germany domain over such a company.
Countries are free to sensor the internet from their citizens and to fine (regulate) client companies in their own country and according to their own laws to the best of their ability. By example US punitive restrictions on trade with certain countries.
It's questionable the Russians did anything. What was done could have been done by a handful of 15 yearolds. The real story in all this is the people in positions of power that we trust to run government don't have a clue about security and don't take it seriously enough. Lax security.
Stop blaming others when your using the equivalent of Roman locks and wax seals for security.
Cost has been one of the issues for why I haven't purchased the Oculus or the Vibe.
Heck I just upgraded my PC to Ryzen to get it up to snuff for playing VR among other things. I invested in a new large monitor with FreeSync so I am committed for now to AMD. I currently have an rx480 just for a mid range card until Vega is available which I expect to be just under par with nVidias best offerings but at a far better price point. Only after that did I expect to go VR.
The market is still young so I am still waiting for the killer app/game. But I do want to eventually do some development of my own simple apps at some point. $400 makes it practically a done deal for that purpose even with a lesser video card.
I also loved the stand up appeal of the Vibe and it's tracking I feel is superior.
And for Oculus specifically it's purchase by Facebook left a sour taste in my mouth. If Facebook had no intention of doing bad things then it's CEO should have created a separate company completely separate from Facebook for investment sort of like Google did with Alphabet. I have long considered Oculus the Facebook Rift in my mind. I hate Facebook with a passion and it likely where all the AOL people migrated to before AOL fell.
But as I said $400 makes it compelling enough. I have a feeling this is actually market analysis to see if they should invest in mass production to bring the cost of the headset down. For which I would argue YES but that they should actually come out with a new model with slightly better specs and mass produce both. They need a low, middle, and high tier product with clear upgrade paths. $200, $400, and $600. And they need to subsidize $200 in game purchases in their store with new system purchases. Also the whole "beta" model of VR games in continual development needs to stop. It's either a complete game for it's price or it's not. That's why versions and sequels of games exist. And stop doing these exclusive deals and spend the money on development. They should be developing the wireless technology to enable people to set up a mobile small tent in their backyard/garage/patio for more interactive space while the computer stays in the house.
You can engineer against anything. At least up to a 50 years lifespan. It's only after 50 years when the rebar is rusting that you have to worry. In other words only old structures are potentially dangerous but then that's why such things are rebuilt.
There is nothing stronger than a tube in the ground. Far more secure during a 12.0 earthquake than any overpass. Your far more likely to die from being trampled in an earthquake than from a tunnel collapse. We are not talking about mine shafts but rather oversized concrete tubes. A tube could split in half and move 3 inches and still be perfectly fine and usable.
The bigger issue is structures on the surface and ground stability during and after the evacuation. If they are drilling in rock or underneath rock then it should be much of an effect. But I can see Musk digging tunnels underneath other tunnels.
The "youthful vibe" is good for new companies and growth. And youthful doesn't necessarily equate to the age of people but rather to lifestyle. Alcohol and people not having segregated ranks is good for growth. People that drink are willing to do more for less. Same thing for fraternizing. If your going to have relationships within the company then it should require mandatory disclosure and counseling covering issues such as breaking up without unreasonably affecting your ability to work and produce. A "living/giving culture" rather than a "retirement" oriented culture.
If I were investing in such companies I would bail if a company wanted to change too quickly. Maybe I could see it happening over 15 years or so like it did with Microsoft. Anything quicker is going to like shooting yourself in the foot. Most of the successful tech companies that successfully transitioned did so by actually advocating match making and marriage.
Long distance calls are as cheap as local ones so all it takes is buying a calling card or an organization willing to set up an at cost dial in card for prisoners.
And there needs to seriously be a shamming program for administrators and bureaucrats that advocate stupid things like gauging prisoners.
A fridge is an efficient machine for a smaller amount of work. A fridge works via a compressor motor that isn't on all the time which actually generates more external heat than it internally cools when used inside a room. Compressor motors as such are not designed for continuous operation but even if they were compressors are not designed to remove that much generated heat continuously. such a compressor would be huge and likely many times the size of the space it was trying to cool and would require an order of magnitude more power to operate and hence the room it operated in would be like an oven.
The reason a fridge is efficient for cooling food is that that box is insulated and so the compressor does not need to be on most of the time.
Brexit isn't a foregone conclusion. It's also two years of negotiations. There should also be negotiations to stay. At the end of the negotiations there should be another referendum or maybe even two or three until there is a significant majority.
Chief among issues is immigration. Call it racist all you want but a country does not feel like a country if it can't control it's own borders. Furthermore the richer nations really do need to contribute more for the border protection in the eastern nations.
There is also opportunity to change the current way the EU does business (high handed) specifically in it's regulations and how nations might choose to opt out. The way I see it "most" regulations should take 10 or more years or say three elections so that opposition can be organized to reverse course.
Furthermore banking needs to change. Stop the bailouts that make certain people rich. Just declare bankruptcy already and get good people into Greece and Italy to rebuild something sane. Bankruptcy should always be on the table and almost automatic to insure that the people investing money are doing so on sound business principles rather than just a promise from the EU to guarantee their money.
I've speculated on all sorts of things in the past. Primarily it's a movable spy satellite system. Both direct observation from the platform and deployment on micro satellites that are much harder to track. The drone can sit up there until it runs out of resources/fuel. It can also adjust it's orbit on demand.
There are militaries the world over that track both commercial and government spy satellites that will save and hide their movement until a times when the satellites no longer have direct line of sight or are in other such blind spots. The X37b can do custom spying on demand. It can also be deployed to pick up telemetry from other satellites and possibly even to jam them.
It's essentially flaw is the more it catches on. It's will be trivial to infect home users and eventually copy the stream only to re transmit it to the pirates later. The watermark essentially becomes worthless.
A hacker subscribes to the service and finds a flaw to copy the stream. He then uploads a stream grabber to a botnet of thousands of subscribers.
Alternatively someone can use stolen credit cards and subscribe for more than a year before simply using a video camera pointed to a screen and simply capturing audio with a microphone if they have to.
Blocking torrents? If it could have been done it already would have. All it takes is one site that lists known good magnetic links. One can even publish magnet lists as torrents themselves and simply sign them.
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Investors and stocks. They are going to try to sell you with their ambition. Just like anything sold it falls short. In this case a lot of other companies are doing far worse. As far as it goes for Tesla can we just not see these mentioned but rather save it until they ACTUALLY meet their goals which will be news. Then after they consistently do then you can post about them failing their goals. News is what is not the norm. They just were threatened with unionizing workers... so of course they fell behind. You can be sure the big three were significantly behind it. Tesla will build more than a few factories in China for the Chinese market. So their American employees better shape up; least China can show it can out perform Americans.
Stupid. Stupid. Stupid.
You just converted all the white hackers into black.
He is an entertainer that specifically uses shock to entertain. He has also pointed out the hypocrisy of the left when it comes to freedom of speech. Sorry to say the obvious but if you don't like it then don't watch. If you don't like to hear someone else talking about it then point out the idiocy of them watching in the first place.
Every time he makes the news he gets more money from more people watching.
First pass a resolution to build out fibre in the rest of the city yourself with an appropriate bond measure.
Create a special utility to manage it. During build out it will be it's own independent company and contractor but will later be turned into a public utility. It will have the power of the city to tear out streets in the middle of the night and to work 24 hours a day in certain circumstances. Use many subcontractors and don't require unions. Use your union guys to inspect the work and maybe work in difficult areas. Build it out one small section at a time per contractor. Let the contractors compete and use the appropriate contractor for each section.
Last invite providers to install trunks into your faciliy at their cost and under your rules. Customers are required to buy their own city approved optical interface equipment per house and to pay a one time $500 hook up fee to have the equipment installed.
The whole thing will be paid off in ten to fifteen years and the city can either keep the money coming in or reduce everyone's bill.
Band aid's can be good but why not think of something more productive like actually triggering an eruption in a controlled manor to relieve pressure. If you have a blister sometimes it's best to prick it with a needle to preserve the skin when you know it's going to keep getting bigger and then rupture.
So you might consider this treatment something akin to shock treatment or lobotomies. It could probably treat all sorts of fear syndromes. I wonder how well it might be able to treat epilepsy or bipolar disorder or even anxiety.
If existing functionality degrades then there is going to be a slam dunk of a class action lawsuit. Better if they released a version 2 of their product but provided a firmware upgrade for version 1 IF people accepted the product version 2 TOS.
Everyday cultured meat could be produced much more efficiently than through corporate farms. The actual product will probably be healthier since it won't be necessary to feed animals an unnatural diet because it's cheaper. Moral vegans will all but disappear but vegetarianism will continue.
Animals will still be slaughtered but only for those willing to pay the premium. Those animals will be raised by high standard small farmers and corporate animal farms will by and large disappear. You will be able to look up the pedigree and health reports on your real steak but will cost like $100. Most striking will be a resurgence of people raising chickens in cities. The oceans will get some time to heal once 90% of the fish eaten is cultured fish meat. Most of the real fish will come from fish farms to limit exposure to sea pollution. All this will happen over the next 70 years.
While bundling sites might work Disney doing it's own thing will actually lead to more piracy. Everything for $40 is the magic price point for streaming. $10 more for sports. If all the content producers are going a la cart then it should be more like $2 for Disney and $5 for HBO originals.
At $5 or even $20 I'm instantly thinking... signup once or twice a year and rip everything I'm interested in to a hard drive or more simply just binge it all in a month. But I'm lazy and tend to just not watch TV anymore if it's not cheap and convenient.
I don't see the fuss over tax money spent on the investigation. It's one person cataloging efforts from interested citizens. It's a mystery that can provide new investigation techniques for future crimes even if it results in nothing.
I would have more of a problem if they found the guy and decided to waste money in prosecuting after all this time.
The FBI "claims" that no other money in the case was ever found other than beside that river ten years later. Not sure if I believe them. But there are many ways to launder money especially involving insurance and fires.
I think it's reasonable he was a woodsman and knew the area. He probably did have googles; and at least light gloves which are not that hard to conceal. Probably had a few well concealed hidden caches near the rivers for changes of clothes and supplies. Maybe an inflatable raft. Hiked to some spot downstream of the river and hid the money before bugging out. I'd hide it in a tree. Probably had an accomplice waiting on the ground in case he hurt himself and to clean up his trail afterward. I can easily see someone taking a few bundles of money and camping out by the river only to be approached and hiding the money in the sand and then thinking the better of it to just leave it.
Disney and a bunch of the other big new content companies should create two new Netflix like companies. It shouldn't be any one production company as it is not good to have 50 major streaming sites.
They ask for open internal discussion and when they get it they fire people. He expressed his views after being invited to do so privately within the company. TLDR: men and women are different. And that Google company should not be extreme right or left on any issue.
The correct thing to do would have been to rationally disagree. All he did was express his thoughts.There was no proof he took any action of discrimination. He was in fact pointing out discrimination he sees his company doing and they turn around and prove him right.
Google is all about image. The communists in China should hire Google to run their country for them. I have a feeling they fired him and gave him a big paycheck to leave quietly; not to sue them or talk publicly.
What happens when people on certain routes know about the false markings and get use to them. And then unconscious cross a real bump at too high a speed.... possibly causing an accident.... people react to these things without knowing. All speedbump markings will get edited from the minds eye as they will be meaningless.
Hmm that may or may not be a speed bump. Russian roulette anyone?
The problem you not only need "security" but it also needs to be updateable. There is no foolproof software and or complex protocol proofs. There are all sorts of assumptions made which change all the time compounded by implementation errors and outright bugs. It may all be based on logic but you can't guarantee what makes sense today will make sense in twenty years.
So you have to be able to update software and complex digital hardware. That is simply impractical. You can write a law saying pi=3 but that doesn't make it so. By it's very nature it would require some level of all software and hardware being open source such that the security routines and how they work could be changed. Not going to happen.
Everyone though that OSI model would go beyond layer 3. That there would be standard dynamic libraries for end to end encryption and that programmers wouldn't need to be that involves in the minutia of the design. Instead what we got was a role your own and linking to available static libraries idiocy. And https.... nuf said.
I think what is needed is that governments should require programmers both to guarantee a specific lifetime guarantee for where there should be minimums depending on the software. The software should be bonded by an insurance/review company (which will have the code) for that period of time. Programmers and publishers need to be liable for the quality of their products where money is exchanged. There needs to be minimum standards and review.
It was the first but that doesn't mean it should stay on top. There is no value to it other than what we give it in our minds. There is no reason to stay with it as it does have problems. Both groups should stop using the name "bitcoin". There is room and a need for multiple digital currencies.
Bitcoin is simply not good for consumer transactions. If you can wait 15 minutes to an hour to complete transactions like stock purchases use to take in 1901 then it's viable. If I am dealing in large amounts of money then I prefer bitcoin and can wait.
If you earn money in a country then you should be required to pay a special tax to remove it from that country. New laws need to be adopted such that shifting money tax free through IP licensing and other such loop holes are closed.
Simple. That requires a business presence. I do have issue with countries declaring a business presence and imposing their regulations were non exists. For example an advertising agency taking money for ads in the German language does does not give the country of Germany domain over such a company.
Countries are free to sensor the internet from their citizens and to fine (regulate) client companies in their own country and according to their own laws to the best of their ability. By example US punitive restrictions on trade with certain countries.
It's questionable the Russians did anything. What was done could have been done by a handful of 15 yearolds. The real story in all this is the people in positions of power that we trust to run government don't have a clue about security and don't take it seriously enough. Lax security.
Stop blaming others when your using the equivalent of Roman locks and wax seals for security.
Cost has been one of the issues for why I haven't purchased the Oculus or the Vibe.
Heck I just upgraded my PC to Ryzen to get it up to snuff for playing VR among other things. I invested in a new large monitor with FreeSync so I am committed for now to AMD. I currently have an rx480 just for a mid range card until Vega is available which I expect to be just under par with nVidias best offerings but at a far better price point. Only after that did I expect to go VR.
The market is still young so I am still waiting for the killer app/game. But I do want to eventually do some development of my own simple apps at some point. $400 makes it practically a done deal for that purpose even with a lesser video card.
I also loved the stand up appeal of the Vibe and it's tracking I feel is superior.
And for Oculus specifically it's purchase by Facebook left a sour taste in my mouth. If Facebook had no intention of doing bad things then it's CEO should have created a separate company completely separate from Facebook for investment sort of like Google did with Alphabet. I have long considered Oculus the Facebook Rift in my mind. I hate Facebook with a passion and it likely where all the AOL people migrated to before AOL fell.
But as I said $400 makes it compelling enough. I have a feeling this is actually market analysis to see if they should invest in mass production to bring the cost of the headset down. For which I would argue YES but that they should actually come out with a new model with slightly better specs and mass produce both. They need a low, middle, and high tier product with clear upgrade paths. $200, $400, and $600. And they need to subsidize $200 in game purchases in their store with new system purchases. Also the whole "beta" model of VR games in continual development needs to stop. It's either a complete game for it's price or it's not. That's why versions and sequels of games exist. And stop doing these exclusive deals and spend the money on development. They should be developing the wireless technology to enable people to set up a mobile small tent in their backyard/garage/patio for more interactive space while the computer stays in the house.
You can engineer against anything. At least up to a 50 years lifespan. It's only after 50 years when the rebar is rusting that you have to worry. In other words only old structures are potentially dangerous but then that's why such things are rebuilt.
There is nothing stronger than a tube in the ground. Far more secure during a 12.0 earthquake than any overpass. Your far more likely to die from being trampled in an earthquake than from a tunnel collapse. We are not talking about mine shafts but rather oversized concrete tubes. A tube could split in half and move 3 inches and still be perfectly fine and usable.
The bigger issue is structures on the surface and ground stability during and after the evacuation. If they are drilling in rock or underneath rock then it should be much of an effect. But I can see Musk digging tunnels underneath other tunnels.
The "youthful vibe" is good for new companies and growth. And youthful doesn't necessarily equate to the age of people but rather to lifestyle. Alcohol and people not having segregated ranks is good for growth. People that drink are willing to do more for less. Same thing for fraternizing. If your going to have relationships within the company then it should require mandatory disclosure and counseling covering issues such as breaking up without unreasonably affecting your ability to work and produce. A "living/giving culture" rather than a "retirement" oriented culture.
If I were investing in such companies I would bail if a company wanted to change too quickly. Maybe I could see it happening over 15 years or so like it did with Microsoft. Anything quicker is going to like shooting yourself in the foot. Most of the successful tech companies that successfully transitioned did so by actually advocating match making and marriage.
Long distance calls are as cheap as local ones so all it takes is buying a calling card or an organization willing to set up an at cost dial in card for prisoners.
And there needs to seriously be a shamming program for administrators and bureaucrats that advocate stupid things like gauging prisoners.
A fridge is an efficient machine for a smaller amount of work. A fridge works via a compressor motor that isn't on all the time which actually generates more external heat than it internally cools when used inside a room. Compressor motors as such are not designed for continuous operation but even if they were compressors are not designed to remove that much generated heat continuously. such a compressor would be huge and likely many times the size of the space it was trying to cool and would require an order of magnitude more power to operate and hence the room it operated in would be like an oven.
The reason a fridge is efficient for cooling food is that that box is insulated and so the compressor does not need to be on most of the time.
Brexit isn't a foregone conclusion. It's also two years of negotiations. There should also be negotiations to stay. At the end of the negotiations there should be another referendum or maybe even two or three until there is a significant majority.
Chief among issues is immigration. Call it racist all you want but a country does not feel like a country if it can't control it's own borders. Furthermore the richer nations really do need to contribute more for the border protection in the eastern nations.
There is also opportunity to change the current way the EU does business (high handed) specifically in it's regulations and how nations might choose to opt out. The way I see it "most" regulations should take 10 or more years or say three elections so that opposition can be organized to reverse course.
Furthermore banking needs to change. Stop the bailouts that make certain people rich. Just declare bankruptcy already and get good people into Greece and Italy to rebuild something sane. Bankruptcy should always be on the table and almost automatic to insure that the people investing money are doing so on sound business principles rather than just a promise from the EU to guarantee their money.
I've speculated on all sorts of things in the past. Primarily it's a movable spy satellite system. Both direct observation from the platform and deployment on micro satellites that are much harder to track. The drone can sit up there until it runs out of resources/fuel. It can also adjust it's orbit on demand.
There are militaries the world over that track both commercial and government spy satellites that will save and hide their movement until a times when the satellites no longer have direct line of sight or are in other such blind spots. The X37b can do custom spying on demand. It can also be deployed to pick up telemetry from other satellites and possibly even to jam them.
It's essentially flaw is the more it catches on. It's will be trivial to infect home users and eventually copy the stream only to re transmit it to the pirates later. The watermark essentially becomes worthless.
A hacker subscribes to the service and finds a flaw to copy the stream. He then uploads a stream grabber to a botnet of thousands of subscribers.
Alternatively someone can use stolen credit cards and subscribe for more than a year before simply using a video camera pointed to a screen and simply capturing audio with a microphone if they have to.
Blocking torrents? If it could have been done it already would have. All it takes is one site that lists known good magnetic links. One can even publish magnet lists as torrents themselves and simply sign them.