The entertainment industry bought this law specifically to make it guilt by accusation. No trial, no rights. It's an attempt to build the digital middle ages where there are the privileged few and the unwashed masses who must both serve and pay.
Astronomers. My asteroid is bigger than your asteriod. Is not! Is too! Is not! Is too!.....I guess we'll both need grants for a few years to study the question.
When the police don't obey the law, how can they expect anyone else to? If I lived in this jurisdiction I would use this to show an unequal enforcement of the law and get my own charges dismissed. Since the police were acting outside the law, I would go after each police officer personally and privately for the damage to my reputation, loss of creative works and loss of necessary equipment FOR work. Hence also loss of income. I bet the police would settle and apoligize before I take their houses and retirement plans away.
The things that can go wrong with this type of program are too numerous to itemize. When the first student is stalked and killed using these badges, hopefully minds will change.
It's way stupider than big brother. People go on vacation to experience things they won't at home. If you continue to offer them what you know they already like, they won't find anything new. They'll feel disappointed and not want to return. Even though you provided them exactly what you determined they wanted. I don't want a salesbot looking over my shoulder every minute of my vacation and neither will anyone else.
The fact that he could make such a profit tells us the content is over priced to begin with. That he could pay for technology to capture the content, deliver it and still make a profit tells the whole story. The entertainment industry creates copyright infringers by demanding far too much for content. Lower the price, you'll eliminate the infringers. Of course, you can't tell anyone that they are asking too much for something they own, even if it's incredibly easy to steal, like content.
The war on drugs suffers the same problem. When drug laws are strengthened, illicit drugs increase in price due to increased risk. That increases profits, which attracts more violent criminals, so drug violence increases. The converse is also true, decreasing drug penalties decreases drug profits and drives violent criminals out of the market. Violence can't be maintained without plenty of money for people to fight over.
Trying to increase yeilds to meet the demands of what is simply too many people for the world to support is just putting off the inevitable crash of the food supply. Genetically modified crops won't help when tornados rip the crops from the ground and hail damages what's left. Genetically modified crops won't help when there is drought one year and floods the next. We won't know what harm GM crops can do until it happens. It will probably be something no one thought of, but it will kill us anyway. There is far more science we don't know, than what we do.
This doesn't sound like an original idea at all! At best this is an incremental upgrade to a stylus, easily foreseen by earlier 'real' inventions. Eliminate all patents, the system just isn't working. The only people who think the system is working are patent lawyers because they've never been busier! Of course they love the current system, they're all getting rich on it!
Anything in a computer that calls itself 'Secure' isn't. Secure Boot is a false sense of security that will lead people to think they are safe. Secure Boot is Microsoft's Security against competition.
It's the American public rushing out to buy 'luxury' 'designer' goods at prices far beyond their worth. Lose the label envy and you'll solve the problem.
End the nonesense! The drug companies sat on their patents paying dividends and doing no research so when the patents ran out, OOOOOOOPS! Nothing to sell! Patents were supposed to promote research but instead they encourage rent seeking. Lawyers and judges created the mess we have now and we can cure it by taking all their power away.
Do the Chinese not know that putting a heavier weight on a pressure cooker increases the pressure? That the increased pressure increases the likelyhood of an explosion?
The RIAA and other industry groups buy support in both houses with massive political donations. They don't give it freely! They expect legislation that favors them. They bought it and they want their congressional lackies to provide what they paid for. If they don't get it they support another candidate who will give it to them. There is so much corruption in the US system now that it's no wonder the country is falling apart. The government no longer acts in the best interests of the people, but in the best interests of their largest corporate sponsors. One person one vote no longer means anything when legislation can be bought with campaign donations.
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Was there a corn field there?
I'd rather have terrorists.
The entertainment industry bought this law specifically to make it guilt by accusation. No trial, no rights. It's an attempt to build the digital middle ages where there are the privileged few and the unwashed masses who must both serve and pay.
a wedgie!
Astronomers. My asteroid is bigger than your asteriod. Is not! Is too! Is not! Is too!.....I guess we'll both need grants for a few years to study the question.
When the police don't obey the law, how can they expect anyone else to? If I lived in this jurisdiction I would use this to show an unequal enforcement of the law and get my own charges dismissed. Since the police were acting outside the law, I would go after each police officer personally and privately for the damage to my reputation, loss of creative works and loss of necessary equipment FOR work. Hence also loss of income. I bet the police would settle and apoligize before I take their houses and retirement plans away.
The things that can go wrong with this type of program are too numerous to itemize. When the first student is stalked and killed using these badges, hopefully minds will change.
I'd be rather surprised if someone else couldn't.
It's way stupider than big brother. People go on vacation to experience things they won't at home. If you continue to offer them what you know they already like, they won't find anything new. They'll feel disappointed and not want to return. Even though you provided them exactly what you determined they wanted. I don't want a salesbot looking over my shoulder every minute of my vacation and neither will anyone else.
How soon they forget.
We have one and we don't use the touch features for exactly that reason. They are a great idea until you are sitting in front of one with no mouse.
The fact that he could make such a profit tells us the content is over priced to begin with. That he could pay for technology to capture the content, deliver it and still make a profit tells the whole story. The entertainment industry creates copyright infringers by demanding far too much for content. Lower the price, you'll eliminate the infringers. Of course, you can't tell anyone that they are asking too much for something they own, even if it's incredibly easy to steal, like content. The war on drugs suffers the same problem. When drug laws are strengthened, illicit drugs increase in price due to increased risk. That increases profits, which attracts more violent criminals, so drug violence increases. The converse is also true, decreasing drug penalties decreases drug profits and drives violent criminals out of the market. Violence can't be maintained without plenty of money for people to fight over.
Zero terrorist plots foiled.
I'll bet the military will spend a billion dollars before realizing nothing is ever going to work, except the BSOD.
Trying to increase yeilds to meet the demands of what is simply too many people for the world to support is just putting off the inevitable crash of the food supply. Genetically modified crops won't help when tornados rip the crops from the ground and hail damages what's left. Genetically modified crops won't help when there is drought one year and floods the next. We won't know what harm GM crops can do until it happens. It will probably be something no one thought of, but it will kill us anyway. There is far more science we don't know, than what we do.
Although if it's a common name it might not be trade marked either.
If everyone in Ireland is a first cousin with everyone else, that would explain this! It's so sad when cousins marry. It's sadder when they breed.
This doesn't sound like an original idea at all! At best this is an incremental upgrade to a stylus, easily foreseen by earlier 'real' inventions. Eliminate all patents, the system just isn't working. The only people who think the system is working are patent lawyers because they've never been busier! Of course they love the current system, they're all getting rich on it!
or wants to!
Anything in a computer that calls itself 'Secure' isn't. Secure Boot is a false sense of security that will lead people to think they are safe. Secure Boot is Microsoft's Security against competition.
It's the American public rushing out to buy 'luxury' 'designer' goods at prices far beyond their worth. Lose the label envy and you'll solve the problem.
you do have to be European to know, in advance, which way the wind blows.
End the nonesense! The drug companies sat on their patents paying dividends and doing no research so when the patents ran out, OOOOOOOPS! Nothing to sell! Patents were supposed to promote research but instead they encourage rent seeking. Lawyers and judges created the mess we have now and we can cure it by taking all their power away.
Do the Chinese not know that putting a heavier weight on a pressure cooker increases the pressure? That the increased pressure increases the likelyhood of an explosion?
The RIAA and other industry groups buy support in both houses with massive political donations. They don't give it freely! They expect legislation that favors them. They bought it and they want their congressional lackies to provide what they paid for. If they don't get it they support another candidate who will give it to them. There is so much corruption in the US system now that it's no wonder the country is falling apart. The government no longer acts in the best interests of the people, but in the best interests of their largest corporate sponsors. One person one vote no longer means anything when legislation can be bought with campaign donations.