Probably because just cranking out endangered species would not really solve the problem. Most of them are endangered due to habitat destruction. Yes there are some exceptions like Wolves in North America where over hunting is to blame. There would be no point for example in release a bunch of endangered cats in Asia with no way for them to eek out a living.
Pfft. Spoken like a poor. The whole point of going to these places is so you can make well connected friends who give you cushy fake consulting jobs or finance your political campaign. Its to ensure a steady stream of other peoples money into their pockets into the future.
Start a business, good grief businesses may fail and running a real one takes actual work.
. It would cost $80 billion a year. That's not even a drop in the bucket compared to the value of a well educated populace.
Our primary and secondary education systems should be meeting the objectives of having a well educated population. That is why we have them. If they are failing at that, we need to fix that problem.
The goal of universities really should be offering that something extra to the best of the best and advancing the state of the art in science/philosophy/art etc. The fact that I can't trust someone without BS knows basic algebra is the problem. They answer is not sending everyone to college.
1. What good does it do to get your spawn into an elite college if they're not good enough and they'll just fail out?
Because they probably won't fail out. Do you really think its that much harder to get thru HBS than it is to get a MBA at say AZ State? It might be a little but probably not make or break for most folks. The better schools don't want to have lots of drops outs either, that looks bad too so they have fancy tutoring programs or its already be shown in some cases they just strait up resort to grade inflation. So if anything they might have less chance of failing out. Also consider there are probably fewer 'distractions' and traps to fall into at those places than some big state school campus.
The value of those fancy school is 1) Name recognition 2) The friends monied and politically connected friends you get the opportunity to make. While the quality of the education is undoubtedly pretty good, its probably not all that much better than what you can get at any private college and not even that far above the public ones.
This exists - they are called sexual minorities. The problem is the scheme is working so well that they are running out of alphabet letters. In some cases they are having to switch case already.
I think that is a bit jaded. There are definitely a lot of inter-generational aristocracy out there that have had everything handed to them. There are a lot criminals and cheats just as you say.
There are also a lot people who just won the genetic lottery and are really really smart, driven etc and high achievement comes easily to them. There are also guys and gals who had the big idea and took the risks to make it a reality. In short some people do earn it; but like you I suspect a lot more folks just have their hands in the cookie jar.
There is another important detail. Donating a building and getting special accommodation etc was an open secret. There was no "fraud" about it. Recall the issue with fraud is that the misinformation causes someone or some entity to act against their own interests. Legal definitions aside its about not eroding the trust in society. If I donate a few million to put up the "DarkOx Center for Information Science" with a nod and wink that DarkOx Jr will get accepted next year; the school has a choice they decide its worth accepting a possibly inferior candidate to get the building or they can refuse my donation.
In this case though the schools were getting nothing the consultants were pocketing the money and the schools in a lot of cases were being mislead. They were given faked test scores, faked photos of athletic achievements, told the students in question were going to play this or that sport (usually used to raise the public image of the school) when they had no intention and maybe no ability to do so. So it was pure fraud. The institutions were arguably harmed here, and the sleazy consultants made off with the cash. Also some of the bribes were funneled thru fake charities as well for what appears to be tax evasion.
Nice how you slipped some DNC talking point bullshit in there.
"Obstruction of justice isn't nothing." -> yes it is when there is no evidence of it at all, besides the firing of an FBI director who has been revealed to have gone way way outside his role and excepted norms for a law man over and over again.
"Neither are illegal campaign contributions to shut up former lovers" -> Yeah its just terrible that someone would use his own money to keep a mistress quite to avoid embarassing his family further. Oh yeah when John Edwards did it; that was fine. Face it was not campaign contribution you can't prove that it was without reading Trumps mind; I can prove Cohen has a history of lying and is not reliable whiteness. Wake me up when you look at Cortez's relationship with her PAC and her boyfriends companies, or Warren's fundraising with 1/8th the level of scrutiny. Right you wont because you know they illegally converted other peoples money and ethically you know that is much worse.
"The FBI was investigating Russian interference (which happened, and needed to be ferreted out)" -> No the FBI was running political hit job based on BS shopped around to anyone who would listen by Clinton campaign operatives. If anything needs investigating its that! That is an actual threat to democracy, as opposed to few tens of thousands of dollars in Russian facebook ad buys.
"Clinton was impeached (wrongly, of course) for a consensual blowjob" -> No Clinton was impeached for lying under oath. Sure the investigation that lead to that was a bit of farce, but no more so than the farcical partisan investigations into Trump. Briging up Clinton's impeachment is whataboutism at its worst. The only thing it proves is Trumps people are smarted than good'ole boy Bill and know enough to keep at least POTUS out of perjury trap.
Berners-Lee can go shove a sharp object up his ass. Boo hoo I created an open platform and people used it say stuff I don't like. Yeah guess what that is real Democracy pal. Sometimes people don't vote for who you'd like them to either; to friggen bad.
So sick and tired of these 'technocrats' being able to get away with there eletiest garbage. Okay you did something cool 40 years ago. Great, that does not mean you know whats good for the rest of us or are any more clueful about how to address the issues of the day. Learn to make your argument without condescending of FUCK OFF
All of that chaos though mostly comes from being able to dive people into groups. Humans are pretty tribal creatures. "Othering" each other is about as natural as breathing to that end Putnum and others are correct; diversity and inclusion are really not of value to society. They basically reduce our ability to trust one another. Which means rather then a cohesive community we have a population permanently on edge that is easily swayed by the next thing the read online.
You can have Democracy, Multiculturalism, or Free speech; pick any two.
No I think if you want to be safe you have responsibility to protect your self. Get vaccinated your self if you are worried. If you have some immune deficiency than you need to isolate your self.
Its like people with incurable communicable diseases like HIV or even say herpes. Should we lock people who are infected away, no. Should it be criminal to intentionally spread them yes.
I don't think this will accomplish what you think it will. Look at it this way. They are refunding at most the purchase price, probably less in a lot of cases. In the mean time they get to hold your money, and collect the interest / investment revenues. They also get to monetize having you connected however they do that. Maybe is showing ads, maybe its in app purchases that won't be refunded, maybe selling your data whatever..
They are not going to let you disconnect, they are just going to structure the deal financially for them such that it works like whole or most formulations of universal life insurance. They know they are mostly going to have to payout eventually probably even more than they will collect in premiums directly but the deal is structured such that most of the time they will be able generate enough revenue off the capital over time to be profitable.
Nobody should be forced by the government to have something injected into their body or that of their family members full stop. That is basic question of individual liberty that has a clear answer.
Should people choose to get vaccinated yes; did I get my kids vaccinated, absolutely. But I would also support injecting your kind with lead at high velocity before I would support mandatory vaccination.
effectively ends the secondary market; ie gamestop / disk-go-round etc. This has been the wet dream of the publishers for a decade or more. Microsoft is finally making it happen for them.
Sure sites like GOG will still sell discounted older properties but only after obtaining first party licensing ensure a continued revenue stream on old titles.
I don't even blame the companies. I blame the politicos and their moronic desire to constantly attempt to interfere in the market place. Cleveland for example has "block chain incubator."
So if you are starting a business that does anything with a computer at all; you want to get free money and paraded in from of potential investors well you better find away to include block chain somehow even if that isn't the right tool for the job and if you can;'t manage that you need to work into the marketing literature how using blockchain as part of your product is an aspirational goal that you will realize "anytime now" because that is how you get the free handouts. Heck I would do the same!
Taking this a bit further; It underscores why awareness training is really a waste of time at this point. I am not personally involved it it but its one of the services the firm I work at provides to some clients.
There are basically two kinds of computer users at this point. Those who are pretty savvy and won't be easily phished period. The other group is simply untrainable. They will never learn not to be scammed because they are one of the following: stupid (sometimes it really is that simple), proud (being do this to long to lean anything from a CBT attitude / I am to important for this), affected by perverse incentives (sure there is a 99.9% chance this is scam but I am in sales and if I it is a client it might mean a commission for me, if it blows up my computer or gets the company hacked which is way more likely that is other peoples problems).
The fact is at this point there are a lot of phishes that are in fact really good. They are highly targeted, domain fronting is used to make sure no spam filters or firewalls classify the source domain as malicious, it only send malicious content when accessed by they target. The content is tarred to the specific person or organization. Its well researched, includes lots of facts an insider would know but were likely discovered by social media and other opsec leaks. They have borrowed the companies presentation style by cloning press releases etc so it looks like it came from your marketing department. These would fool literally anyone and there is NOTHING you can teach in a click thru awareness program that would allow someone to spot these. Eventually to get something to run at some point they will have hit a OS/mail client/browser generated prompt. However they author will have taken great care to make sure the every aspect of the text they can control on that prompt looks as legit as possible. Even the the point of taking advantage of vulnerabilities in the software around look-a-like unicode characters on certificate orgs end users can't distinguish etc. Oh teach them never to click those pop-up prompts from anything that originated from an external source....ugh good luck with that as soon as HR decides to engage an outside payroll processor or benefits management firm..
Basically you have to have effective technical controls on this one. DLP, EDR software, isolated client networks using tools like ISE to control access to other resources, solid least privilege implementation both on clients and network resources, outbound SSL/TLS proxying (without exception), defenses against lateral movement like unique administrative and support passwords and client isolation on networks. This is the only answer that might save a larger organization for a targeted phishing campaign. In 2019 user training is a wasted effort.
The thing is those certain elements can be done better and worse. Bully Scholarship Ed is still the best thing they have ever done IMHO. There is repetition, classes you must attend, even chores but never feels tedious. They found the right balance of "a day in the life" and real action.
What do you normally use rent-a-wreck or something? I rent a lot cars traveling for business and with very few exceptions the cars I get from Enterprise are fairly new, virtually never more than 3 years old, with impeccably cleaned interiors.
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Honestly I think recycling is the wrong focus. Recycling is often energy intensive process with frequently very mixed results to produce raw materials that than have to be turned into something useful again via manufacturing which is often another energy intensive process. Both operations likely produce their own wastes and byproducts.
If we want get serious about protecting the environment at least where electronics, batteries and machinery are concerned, we need to focus elsewhere. Specifically we need to work on lengthening the service life of products. We need to look at reuse and re-manufacturing.
It probably is a bespoke solution though. I am sure the original software was modeled on an existing paper process. Said paper process probably had a lot embedded rules; which are defined by local statue.
This is one of those cases where there is probably quite a bit of nity-girty that most people don't realize. Its one of those cases where yes there is probably some off the shelf animal that might meet there needs but it probably also requires a army of consultants to customize and develop rules for. Not cheap.
The alternative is to realize that the data volume is only so big. There are only so many residents, only so many land parcels, etc... Is a big volume sure but probably not something that a good DBA and handful of develops can't implement from scratch + copy of MSSQL server or Postgres almost as easily as deploying some giant all encompassing solution from SAP or Oracle.
Compact Cassette was not the worst format. 8-Track will probably forever hold that crown. Cassette could even be pretty good if you had high quality heads and transport that had modes for running the high quality Cr tape nobody used and you did.
That said cassette was reasonably durable for home and office use. The biggest threat to them were high-temps which made them kinda suck for car audio, unless you never parked out doors or took your cassettes with you.
So on to the nostalgia angle? I can put a USB stick in compact cassette shaped container for you if it will make feel better. I am sure we could use some digital audio filters to create the effect of poor frequency response and slight stretches at random positions for random intervals; so you can enjoy that 'warm' sound. Maybe some folks are really dead set on waiting while it rewinds and not having a easy way to seek to the content they want? Not sure how to simulate that misery using technology; maybe some of our DRM implementing buddies can make suggestions there.
Neither of these is a rational argument against blockchain for this use case. Here, blockchain proves that the picture is the same picture registered by the individual at a particular date and time before passing through however many hands. Nothing more, nothing less. That's nine tenths of any proof of authorship process: proving that you possessed it first.
But Block chain adds essentially nothing here; over asymmetric cryptographic signature. With just a signature generated using a private key, anyone with the authors public key can verify authorship. As to if something is the original? Block chain lets you verify you got your copy from Bob who bought it from Ted the artist. Trouble is if Alice says she also got her copy from Bob who's is the original? Sure you claim might be stronger since Bob asserted he transferred the original to you and that's recorded in the chain but we really don't know that he did not have a fake created and slipped in the old frame; whilst delivering the original to Alice.
This was my first thought as well. It seems to me extending to the PCIe bus to all kinds of untrusted hot plugged devices has bad idea written all over it. USB 2.x we "permissive" enough in terms of memory access.
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Probably because just cranking out endangered species would not really solve the problem. Most of them are endangered due to habitat destruction. Yes there are some exceptions like Wolves in North America where over hunting is to blame. There would be no point for example in release a bunch of endangered cats in Asia with no way for them to eek out a living.
Give me $450K and I'll start my own business.
Pfft. Spoken like a poor. The whole point of going to these places is so you can make well connected friends who give you cushy fake consulting jobs or finance your political campaign. Its to ensure a steady stream of other peoples money into their pockets into the future.
Start a business, good grief businesses may fail and running a real one takes actual work.
. It would cost $80 billion a year. That's not even a drop in the bucket compared to the value of a well educated populace.
Our primary and secondary education systems should be meeting the objectives of having a well educated population. That is why we have them. If they are failing at that, we need to fix that problem.
The goal of universities really should be offering that something extra to the best of the best and advancing the state of the art in science/philosophy/art etc. The fact that I can't trust someone without BS knows basic algebra is the problem. They answer is not sending everyone to college.
1. What good does it do to get your spawn into an elite college if they're not good enough and they'll just fail out?
Because they probably won't fail out. Do you really think its that much harder to get thru HBS than it is to get a MBA at say AZ State? It might be a little but probably not make or break for most folks. The better schools don't want to have lots of drops outs either, that looks bad too so they have fancy tutoring programs or its already be shown in some cases they just strait up resort to grade inflation. So if anything they might have less chance of failing out. Also consider there are probably fewer 'distractions' and traps to fall into at those places than some big state school campus.
The value of those fancy school is 1) Name recognition 2) The friends monied and politically connected friends you get the opportunity to make. While the quality of the education is undoubtedly pretty good, its probably not all that much better than what you can get at any private college and not even that far above the public ones.
This exists - they are called sexual minorities. The problem is the scheme is working so well that they are running out of alphabet letters. In some cases they are having to switch case already.
I think that is a bit jaded. There are definitely a lot of inter-generational aristocracy out there that have had everything handed to them. There are a lot criminals and cheats just as you say.
There are also a lot people who just won the genetic lottery and are really really smart, driven etc and high achievement comes easily to them. There are also guys and gals who had the big idea and took the risks to make it a reality. In short some people do earn it; but like you I suspect a lot more folks just have their hands in the cookie jar.
There is another important detail. Donating a building and getting special accommodation etc was an open secret. There was no "fraud" about it. Recall the issue with fraud is that the misinformation causes someone or some entity to act against their own interests. Legal definitions aside its about not eroding the trust in society. If I donate a few million to put up the "DarkOx Center for Information Science" with a nod and wink that DarkOx Jr will get accepted next year; the school has a choice they decide its worth accepting a possibly inferior candidate to get the building or they can refuse my donation.
In this case though the schools were getting nothing the consultants were pocketing the money and the schools in a lot of cases were being mislead. They were given faked test scores, faked photos of athletic achievements, told the students in question were going to play this or that sport (usually used to raise the public image of the school) when they had no intention and maybe no ability to do so. So it was pure fraud. The institutions were arguably harmed here, and the sleazy consultants made off with the cash. Also some of the bribes were funneled thru fake charities as well for what appears to be tax evasion.
Nice how you slipped some DNC talking point bullshit in there.
"Obstruction of justice isn't nothing." -> yes it is when there is no evidence of it at all, besides the firing of an FBI director who has been revealed to have gone way way outside his role and excepted norms for a law man over and over again.
"Neither are illegal campaign contributions to shut up former lovers" -> Yeah its just terrible that someone would use his own money to keep a mistress quite to avoid embarassing his family further. Oh yeah when John Edwards did it; that was fine. Face it was not campaign contribution you can't prove that it was without reading Trumps mind; I can prove Cohen has a history of lying and is not reliable whiteness. Wake me up when you look at Cortez's relationship with her PAC and her boyfriends companies, or Warren's fundraising with 1/8th the level of scrutiny. Right you wont because you know they illegally converted other peoples money and ethically you know that is much worse.
"The FBI was investigating Russian interference (which happened, and needed to be ferreted out)" -> No the FBI was running political hit job based on BS shopped around to anyone who would listen by Clinton campaign operatives. If anything needs investigating its that! That is an actual threat to democracy, as opposed to few tens of thousands of dollars in Russian facebook ad buys.
"Clinton was impeached (wrongly, of course) for a consensual blowjob" -> No Clinton was impeached for lying under oath. Sure the investigation that lead to that was a bit of farce, but no more so than the farcical partisan investigations into Trump. Briging up Clinton's impeachment is whataboutism at its worst. The only thing it proves is Trumps people are smarted than good'ole boy Bill and know enough to keep at least POTUS out of perjury trap.
Berners-Lee can go shove a sharp object up his ass. Boo hoo I created an open platform and people used it say stuff I don't like. Yeah guess what that is real Democracy pal. Sometimes people don't vote for who you'd like them to either; to friggen bad.
So sick and tired of these 'technocrats' being able to get away with there eletiest garbage. Okay you did something cool 40 years ago. Great, that does not mean you know whats good for the rest of us or are any more clueful about how to address the issues of the day. Learn to make your argument without condescending of FUCK OFF
All of that chaos though mostly comes from being able to dive people into groups. Humans are pretty tribal creatures. "Othering" each other is about as natural as breathing to that end Putnum and others are correct; diversity and inclusion are really not of value to society. They basically reduce our ability to trust one another. Which means rather then a cohesive community we have a population permanently on edge that is easily swayed by the next thing the read online.
You can have Democracy, Multiculturalism, or Free speech; pick any two.
Remember, there is a legal difference between "shall" and "will"; and lawyers are a necessary evil, just like politicians are.
Yes and that is handled just fine in technical documents. Go read and internet RFC.
In fact we probably should be using something like structured english to write laws.
Not that it would really be that hard to do in the US either. This talk was from a few years ago but it was fascinating..
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No I think if you want to be safe you have responsibility to protect your self. Get vaccinated your self if you are worried. If you have some immune deficiency than you need to isolate your self.
Its like people with incurable communicable diseases like HIV or even say herpes. Should we lock people who are infected away, no. Should it be criminal to intentionally spread them yes.
I don't think this will accomplish what you think it will. Look at it this way. They are refunding at most the purchase price, probably less in a lot of cases. In the mean time they get to hold your money, and collect the interest / investment revenues. They also get to monetize having you connected however they do that. Maybe is showing ads, maybe its in app purchases that won't be refunded, maybe selling your data whatever..
They are not going to let you disconnect, they are just going to structure the deal financially for them such that it works like whole or most formulations of universal life insurance. They know they are mostly going to have to payout eventually probably even more than they will collect in premiums directly but the deal is structured such that most of the time they will be able generate enough revenue off the capital over time to be profitable.
FUCK YOU YOU STALINIST.
Nobody should be forced by the government to have something injected into their body or that of their family members full stop. That is basic question of individual liberty that has a clear answer.
Should people choose to get vaccinated yes; did I get my kids vaccinated, absolutely. But I would also support injecting your kind with lead at high velocity before I would support mandatory vaccination.
effectively ends the secondary market; ie gamestop / disk-go-round etc. This has been the wet dream of the publishers for a decade or more. Microsoft is finally making it happen for them.
Sure sites like GOG will still sell discounted older properties but only after obtaining first party licensing ensure a continued revenue stream on old titles.
I don't even blame the companies. I blame the politicos and their moronic desire to constantly attempt to interfere in the market place. Cleveland for example has "block chain incubator."
So if you are starting a business that does anything with a computer at all; you want to get free money and paraded in from of potential investors well you better find away to include block chain somehow even if that isn't the right tool for the job and if you can;'t manage that you need to work into the marketing literature how using blockchain as part of your product is an aspirational goal that you will realize "anytime now" because that is how you get the free handouts. Heck I would do the same!
Taking this a bit further; It underscores why awareness training is really a waste of time at this point. I am not personally involved it it but its one of the services the firm I work at provides to some clients.
There are basically two kinds of computer users at this point. Those who are pretty savvy and won't be easily phished period. The other group is simply untrainable. They will never learn not to be scammed because they are one of the following: stupid (sometimes it really is that simple), proud (being do this to long to lean anything from a CBT attitude / I am to important for this), affected by perverse incentives (sure there is a 99.9% chance this is scam but I am in sales and if I it is a client it might mean a commission for me, if it blows up my computer or gets the company hacked which is way more likely that is other peoples problems).
The fact is at this point there are a lot of phishes that are in fact really good. They are highly targeted, domain fronting is used to make sure no spam filters or firewalls classify the source domain as malicious, it only send malicious content when accessed by they target. The content is tarred to the specific person or organization. Its well researched, includes lots of facts an insider would know but were likely discovered by social media and other opsec leaks. They have borrowed the companies presentation style by cloning press releases etc so it looks like it came from your marketing department. These would fool literally anyone and there is NOTHING you can teach in a click thru awareness program that would allow someone to spot these. Eventually to get something to run at some point they will have hit a OS/mail client/browser generated prompt. However they author will have taken great care to make sure the every aspect of the text they can control on that prompt looks as legit as possible. Even the the point of taking advantage of vulnerabilities in the software around look-a-like unicode characters on certificate orgs end users can't distinguish etc. Oh teach them never to click those pop-up prompts from anything that originated from an external source....ugh good luck with that as soon as HR decides to engage an outside payroll processor or benefits management firm..
Basically you have to have effective technical controls on this one. DLP, EDR software, isolated client networks using tools like ISE to control access to other resources, solid least privilege implementation both on clients and network resources, outbound SSL/TLS proxying (without exception), defenses against lateral movement like unique administrative and support passwords and client isolation on networks. This is the only answer that might save a larger organization for a targeted phishing campaign. In 2019 user training is a wasted effort.
The thing is those certain elements can be done better and worse. Bully Scholarship Ed is still the best thing they have ever done IMHO. There is repetition, classes you must attend, even chores but never feels tedious. They found the right balance of "a day in the life" and real action.
What do you normally use rent-a-wreck or something? I rent a lot cars traveling for business and with very few exceptions the cars I get from Enterprise are fairly new, virtually never more than 3 years old, with impeccably cleaned interiors.
all refuse should be recycled as much as possible because we cant survive by turning the planet in to a dump
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Honestly I think recycling is the wrong focus. Recycling is often energy intensive process with frequently very mixed results to produce raw materials that than have to be turned into something useful again via manufacturing which is often another energy intensive process. Both operations likely produce their own wastes and byproducts.
If we want get serious about protecting the environment at least where electronics, batteries and machinery are concerned, we need to focus elsewhere. Specifically we need to work on lengthening the service life of products. We need to look at reuse and re-manufacturing.
It probably is a bespoke solution though. I am sure the original software was modeled on an existing paper process. Said paper process probably had a lot embedded rules; which are defined by local statue.
This is one of those cases where there is probably quite a bit of nity-girty that most people don't realize. Its one of those cases where yes there is probably some off the shelf animal that might meet there needs but it probably also requires a army of consultants to customize and develop rules for. Not cheap.
The alternative is to realize that the data volume is only so big. There are only so many residents, only so many land parcels, etc... Is a big volume sure but probably not something that a good DBA and handful of develops can't implement from scratch + copy of MSSQL server or Postgres almost as easily as deploying some giant all encompassing solution from SAP or Oracle.
Compact Cassette was not the worst format. 8-Track will probably forever hold that crown. Cassette could even be pretty good if you had high quality heads and transport that had modes for running the high quality Cr tape nobody used and you did.
That said cassette was reasonably durable for home and office use. The biggest threat to them were high-temps which made them kinda suck for car audio, unless you never parked out doors or took your cassettes with you.
So on to the nostalgia angle? I can put a USB stick in compact cassette shaped container for you if it will make feel better. I am sure we could use some digital audio filters to create the effect of poor frequency response and slight stretches at random positions for random intervals; so you can enjoy that 'warm' sound. Maybe some folks are really dead set on waiting while it rewinds and not having a easy way to seek to the content they want? Not sure how to simulate that misery using technology; maybe some of our DRM implementing buddies can make suggestions there.
Neither of these is a rational argument against blockchain for this use case. Here, blockchain proves that the picture is the same picture registered by the individual at a particular date and time before passing through however many hands. Nothing more, nothing less. That's nine tenths of any proof of authorship process: proving that you possessed it first.
But Block chain adds essentially nothing here; over asymmetric cryptographic signature. With just a signature generated using a private key, anyone with the authors public key can verify authorship. As to if something is the original? Block chain lets you verify you got your copy from Bob who bought it from Ted the artist. Trouble is if Alice says she also got her copy from Bob who's is the original? Sure you claim might be stronger since Bob asserted he transferred the original to you and that's recorded in the chain but we really don't know that he did not have a fake created and slipped in the old frame; whilst delivering the original to Alice.
This was my first thought as well. It seems to me extending to the PCIe bus to all kinds of untrusted hot plugged devices has bad idea written all over it. USB 2.x we "permissive" enough in terms of memory access.