If they didn't want to have legal problems they should have pointed it at Amazon.com or Walmart
So they point it at amazon.com and it buys some drugs from some seller that managed to get them listed, using a code name that the bot just happens to hit at random. What now? (Actually, since magic mushroom spores are legal in large portions of the US I'm a little curious if they can be found on amazon.com, but not curious enough to actually search for them and screw up the already terrible suggestions)
If they had made a gun that randomly shoots moving objects
The problem with all these gun bot scenarios is that in all of these examples, the gun bot is harming someone else. If a corporation shot someone else, it would not be arrested for murder, but it WOULD be sued for the damage it caused.
In this case, the drug bot generally harms no one, and might violate criminal law - if the law says that unintentionally buying drugs is illegal.
Here's a question to really beat your brain on: what if the bot found a hitman and bought a contract, then filled in its owner's address in the "delivery" form. Would this be [assisted] suicide?
Good thing my car stays in a locked server rack in a room with a security guard posted at the door requiring a finger print and an RFID card to access.
Given that the bankruptcy is mostly due to the lawsuit demanding that Aereo pay them a bajillion dollars, they'd basically be paying that money to themselves. If they turn down a $1 billion dollar offer for the gear, then they don't get a billion dollars, because there's no other way they're going to get this money legit.
Personally I think the first post is the most insightful for once: they'll create a front company, put in an offer to buy the gear for $1 or whatever, reject everything else, kill off Aereo, then open CBSeo at ten times the price and half the features then when everyone quits they'll whine about piracy until the feds pass new laws giving the government more power. Wins all around! (except for us little people, but who cares about us little people?)
Because your choice is to live in the middle of nowhere, where you can have whatever trees you want and enjoy blistering fast dialup speeds, or you can live in the city where you have zero trees, or you can live in suburbia where you can do whatever the real owners of the land tell you to do.
Echoing previous suggestions may influence a person here or there to plant an extra tree
Sorry, my subdivision bylaws say there is to be exactly one tree in my backyard, no more no less. If my house doesn't fit the cookiecutter mold, it might make my neighbors' less valuable if mine is worse or more taxable if mine is better.
Fact is, even the government hasn't got a clue who you are, other than the fact that you've got a card from them with a photo and a name printed on it. You probably got that card by showing them some other card with a photo and a name printed on it. That card, you probably got because you convinced your electric company and the library that your name really WAS Bobba Fett. They probably didn't care too much as long as they got paid and the books came back.
Welcome to what awaits the internet post-neutrality: more of the same, only online, and with fewer scrolling banners letting you know it's the other guy's fault.
How are you going to afford to run it? When production is automated and labor costs $0, goods will cost the price of raw materials plus the CEO's pay plus shareholder dividends.
BZZT. As the cost of labor approaches zero, the cost of goods approach the raw materials plus operating costs plus the CEO's pay plus the stockholders' dividends.
While this particular bug is endemic to IT, let's be honest: over the centuries, how many non-IT companies have decided that DIVERSIFICATION was the latest fad and abandoned doing their one thing well and crashed and burned doing lots of things not-so-great?
Now back up a second there and consider proprietary software. Imagine if you bought Microsoft Office for your company and a year later Microsoft comes along and starts threatening you with patent infringement lawsuits over your use of their patents. I can't imagine that a court would stand for that at all without at least a fine print "requires additional patent license" and even then there's fitness requirements that the court would have at least a little discussion on.
Why would it be different for something given to you for free with explicit permission to use and give away? If the patent holder wants to provide a reference implementation to licensors, they can do so with a license tied to their patent, but it should not be the GPL.
There's already a generic name. The government, in all its benevolence, has been permitting drug holders to "lock in" their expiring drugs and prevent generics from being marketed for a certain period after it expires. There are even drug companies that pay other companies not to produce their drug so they can continue to sell the brand name (at an inflated cost to ensure there's a profit even after these payments).
I urge you to join me in voting “no” on H.R. 4681, the intelligence reauthorization bill, when it comes before the House today.
Thank you for posting the bill number, since neither slashdot nor the hill thought we should be able to look it up and see who voted for this bullshit.
It appears in the Senate it was passed by voice vote by a bunch of cowards that did not want their name attached to the bill.
Our company had looked at putting together the Pi and a few pieces to build a device we could sell to our customers but we had the issue of configuring each device individually, which at the point we abandoned it meant hooking up a keyboard and tv and editing configuration files. If we could have mounted the device over USB it would have simplified configuration, we could have written a program that could be run on a PC by an end user to set up networking in cases where dhcp isn't possible.
At the price it was at the time it was released, it really was something special. It wasn't a supercomputer but for people that wanted something cheap that was effectively a throwaway computer, there wasn't anything like it.. People have fought it all the way, complaining that they can get this soekris board for $400, or that Intel board for $200, or an arudino that can't run Linux.
Now, years later, the Raspberry Pi "killers" have finally caught up in the price field, Like the Banana Pi if you can get one, or this Odroid-C1. Raspberry will have to step up its game or face irrelevance.
The government has always claimed that they can show up and take anything that I give to anyone else without any kind of warrant or subpoena, unless the person I gave the item to has the balls to go to the mat for me over it.
Email on a cloud provider server? That's taking candy from a baby, they've probably already cashed their check from the NSA.
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Did your driving test cover that?
So they point it at amazon.com and it buys some drugs from some seller that managed to get them listed, using a code name that the bot just happens to hit at random. What now? (Actually, since magic mushroom spores are legal in large portions of the US I'm a little curious if they can be found on amazon.com, but not curious enough to actually search for them and screw up the already terrible suggestions)
The problem with all these gun bot scenarios is that in all of these examples, the gun bot is harming someone else. If a corporation shot someone else, it would not be arrested for murder, but it WOULD be sued for the damage it caused.
In this case, the drug bot generally harms no one, and might violate criminal law - if the law says that unintentionally buying drugs is illegal.
Here's a question to really beat your brain on: what if the bot found a hitman and bought a contract, then filled in its owner's address in the "delivery" form. Would this be [assisted] suicide?
You need an -ism to describe privately owned means of destruction.
requires physical access to the car.
Good thing my car stays in a locked server rack in a room with a security guard posted at the door requiring a finger print and an RFID card to access.
Hey! That sounds like my daily commute! Thanks Forbes dude, you've sold me!
A Consumer's opinions OUGHT to be the authority on that consumer's consumption.
Given that the bankruptcy is mostly due to the lawsuit demanding that Aereo pay them a bajillion dollars, they'd basically be paying that money to themselves. If they turn down a $1 billion dollar offer for the gear, then they don't get a billion dollars, because there's no other way they're going to get this money legit.
Personally I think the first post is the most insightful for once: they'll create a front company, put in an offer to buy the gear for $1 or whatever, reject everything else, kill off Aereo, then open CBSeo at ten times the price and half the features then when everyone quits they'll whine about piracy until the feds pass new laws giving the government more power. Wins all around! (except for us little people, but who cares about us little people?)
Because your choice is to live in the middle of nowhere, where you can have whatever trees you want and enjoy blistering fast dialup speeds, or you can live in the city where you have zero trees, or you can live in suburbia where you can do whatever the real owners of the land tell you to do.
Sorry, my subdivision bylaws say there is to be exactly one tree in my backyard, no more no less. If my house doesn't fit the cookiecutter mold, it might make my neighbors' less valuable if mine is worse or more taxable if mine is better.
Shame I'm out of mod points.
Fact is, even the government hasn't got a clue who you are, other than the fact that you've got a card from them with a photo and a name printed on it. You probably got that card by showing them some other card with a photo and a name printed on it. That card, you probably got because you convinced your electric company and the library that your name really WAS Bobba Fett. They probably didn't care too much as long as they got paid and the books came back.
False dichotomy.
The hack was obviously not a publicity stunt.
Turning the hack into a promotion for a shitty movie that wants to be Inglourius Basterds but can't pull it off? Well, when life gives you lemons...
Welcome to what awaits the internet post-neutrality: more of the same, only online, and with fewer scrolling banners letting you know it's the other guy's fault.
How are you going to afford to run it? When production is automated and labor costs $0, goods will cost the price of raw materials plus the CEO's pay plus shareholder dividends.
So we are supposed to believe that Google does not have some bot crawling as much of Tor as possible?
With the right key and cipher, it could be an encrypted message to pick up milk and eggs on the way home from the store.
have very low-cost consumer goods
BZZT. As the cost of labor approaches zero, the cost of goods approach the raw materials plus operating costs plus the CEO's pay plus the stockholders' dividends.
While this particular bug is endemic to IT, let's be honest: over the centuries, how many non-IT companies have decided that DIVERSIFICATION was the latest fad and abandoned doing their one thing well and crashed and burned doing lots of things not-so-great?
it would make absolute sense
Now back up a second there and consider proprietary software. Imagine if you bought Microsoft Office for your company and a year later Microsoft comes along and starts threatening you with patent infringement lawsuits over your use of their patents. I can't imagine that a court would stand for that at all without at least a fine print "requires additional patent license" and even then there's fitness requirements that the court would have at least a little discussion on.
Why would it be different for something given to you for free with explicit permission to use and give away? If the patent holder wants to provide a reference implementation to licensors, they can do so with a license tied to their patent, but it should not be the GPL.
There's already a generic
There's already a generic name. The government, in all its benevolence, has been permitting drug holders to "lock in" their expiring drugs and prevent generics from being marketed for a certain period after it expires. There are even drug companies that pay other companies not to produce their drug so they can continue to sell the brand name (at an inflated cost to ensure there's a profit even after these payments).
It's gonna be abused.
The Republicans are absolutely certain they're going to win it in 2016 so it will be them who get to abuse it.
Big Government is only bad when Republicans aren't in control.
Thank you for posting the bill number, since neither slashdot nor the hill thought we should be able to look it up and see who voted for this bullshit.
It appears in the Senate it was passed by voice vote by a bunch of cowards that did not want their name attached to the bill.
I'm still not sold on BGP. Someone give me a sign!
No, seriously. Show me a photo with text in it. Adventure with the Windmills was pretty damn good, but I want to see what this will do to actual text.
Our company had looked at putting together the Pi and a few pieces to build a device we could sell to our customers but we had the issue of configuring each device individually, which at the point we abandoned it meant hooking up a keyboard and tv and editing configuration files. If we could have mounted the device over USB it would have simplified configuration, we could have written a program that could be run on a PC by an end user to set up networking in cases where dhcp isn't possible.
At the price it was at the time it was released, it really was something special. It wasn't a supercomputer but for people that wanted something cheap that was effectively a throwaway computer, there wasn't anything like it.. People have fought it all the way, complaining that they can get this soekris board for $400, or that Intel board for $200, or an arudino that can't run Linux.
Now, years later, the Raspberry Pi "killers" have finally caught up in the price field, Like the Banana Pi if you can get one, or this Odroid-C1. Raspberry will have to step up its game or face irrelevance.
The government has always claimed that they can show up and take anything that I give to anyone else without any kind of warrant or subpoena, unless the person I gave the item to has the balls to go to the mat for me over it.
Email on a cloud provider server? That's taking candy from a baby, they've probably already cashed their check from the NSA.