So I don't have a mobile phone, now the mind boggles as to how that would be viewed. That I don't exist or that I am guilty of all crimes where a mobile phone was not present.
Rest assured when I do eventually get a phone, I will never be so addicted to it that I am incapable of turning it off when I am not in the mood to receive calls, that I will tend to leave it in the car or at home rather than carry it around, it's primary function will be for me to make calls rather than receive calls and, that I will always pay more attention to the people I am with than to the phone.
Contributions to Linux take many forms. Code-centric people only view contributions to the Linux kernel as contributions to Linux. Far more aware people, take contributions to Linux being amongst the following, contributions to GNU (something you obviously need to look up), contributions to Linux compatible hardware drivers, contributions to Linux documentation, contributions to Linux based graphical users interfaces,
contributions to Linux compatible applications, contributions to graphics design including icons, appearance, fonts, screens savers, layouts, contributions to marketing and promotion, contributions to Linux protecting patents, contributions to service and support, contributions to the Linuc user community, and of course contributions to Linux based distribution without which Linux would not exist as an operating system rather than just a kernel.
Seriously only a real asshat would take all those contributions and treat them as nothing either that or a microtroll. It amazes me that after all these years how people still fail to understand how a community developed product like Linux comes into being, how all contributions small and large are highly regarded (the value being in the sharing) and how contributions of individuals are valued (even those employed by M$, M$ did you create code, those people employed by M$ did).
From your selfish self centred viewpoint, it appears that I must apologise for using Linux whilst not being a good enough coder to contribute to the kernel. So "I am sorry", my coding sucks and my others contributions to Linux are not good enough to appease you. Of course to the rest of the Linux community I say thank you for all the contributions made no matter how great or small.
That is a lie, there were plenty of accelerometer based game controllers that altered the orientation of the output through an infinite range. Any full screen flight simulator, who the orientation of the cockpit view, alters based upon controller motion is exactly that.
This patent just reflects the growing insanity of right for profit performance based government management. The Patent office generates it's income by approving patents, it major cost comes from rejecting inappropriate patents. Under insane right wing thinking, it now puts minimal effort into checking patents and basically just compares them to existing US patent descriptions, using computer almost an automated task and with zero risk to the US patent office for approving bogus patent after bogus patent.
Then add in the litigation benefits of approving bogus patents in the US. Have US patent lawyers via corrupt politicians, actually worked to corrupt the patent office purposefully to allow this corrupt charade to continue.
Hell, I've even heard that eastern Texas courts by default will protect patents no matter how ludicrous in order to promote continued patent litigation in their districts. This automatically forces patent contests in higher and higher courts guarantee more profits for US patent lawyers.
It is likely high time that same penalties start being applied against the US Patent Office for allowing blatantly false patents to continue. In fact corporations should consider taking the US government to court in the WTO for patent and patent litigation corruption.
In true cyberwarfare the realistic core of the problem will be the electronics themselves. You only hack software for cyberespionage, when it actually comes to cyberwarfare the whole idea is to shut system down, whether fixed, mobile, land based, airborne or seaborne. That includes military and or civilian systems.
So exotic and not so exotic particle creation and targeting in order to alter energy states in transistors. Resonant affects and modulations to alter energy levels in circuit pathways. Disruption of structural integrity of micro structures.
If they are talking about cyberwarfare, that were the future is at. Of course it just seems they are confused are really thinking about cyberespionage. It all really boils down to, if it doesn't need to be connected, than don't bloody connect it, always maintain a manual backup and don't be a penny pinching right wing idiot, don't save pennies to risk pounds.
After all those years they still haven't managed to fix all the bugs in it, hmm, now that is truly bad software. Realistically support should only finish once they have fixed 'ALL' the discovered bugs otherwise they should offer a refund for their failure to fix their buggy software after a decade of slap dash efforts. In the interim supply a replacement that was worse, which they had to replace with a pretend new version which was just a major patch up. Seems sensible to buy as old a version of windows software as you can available on the market to get it as free of bugs as possible.
The law is for data mining, fishing expeditions, trial by innuendo and guilt by association.
All that will happen, is people will add in random multiple internet connection attempts at random intervals within broad ranges of likely address hits, to confuse the record of their internet access and to flood out ISP databases.
It would add negligible additional traffic to seek out tens of thousands random web sites each day and not waiting for download content before moving on, just registering the connection.
Again with the silly word play, 100% of accidents are caused by people with eyes, completely and utterly meaningless as "the eyes" were not the cause of the accident. Just as maleness was not the cause of the accident. However distraction at critical junctures do cause accidents, whether it be billboards, mobile phones, passenger interactions etc.
A global trading currency is more the least worst currency of the ones available ie. what is better than the euro and still acceptable to large number of countries.
Gold is a failure ie it ends up stockpiled and can never be used, whilst it has many uses. Any rare metal will still be subject to high fluctuations due to market manipulations.
In today'c currency trading terms, the euro would only really be a token global trading currency, with computers direct exchange in currencies between trading partners can more readily be calculated on cross markets, just using the euro as a cross market indicator.
So it would not be the same as the to be rejected US dollar global trading currency, more of a light version.
The 'investment' buys up all the means of production, basically excluding the rest of the market, the majority from gaining access and basically driving them to working in poverty.
The more hoarded all the means of production become, the more isolated the majority of people become from protecting or supporting it. The majority have no means of ever gaining access to it nor do they have any investment in it. The simple fact is, their only way for majority to gain any access to the now totally hoarded ( and priced out of their reach) means of production, is to eliminate the minority and redistribute it and let the cycle turn over again.
Stupid is as stupid does and there is nothing like greed to promote stupidity ie. it's the next generation's problem as long as the current one can wallow like the ignorant pigs they are.
The big punishment will be the immediate replacement of the US dollar as a global trading currency. Likely to be replaced with the Euro, once done, it will never be undone and the Republican's will pay a massive price for basically crippling the value of many of the US rich and greedies, capital assets.
So massive trading or more specifically dumping of the US dollar and US debt, for a short period, creating global economic instability, for a few months, followed by extended economic instability for the US for a decade or more, something the US will never recover from.
From a global perspective, whilst there is initial loses (that loss defined by their current holding of US dollars and debt), many regions will significantly prosper at the US's expense, paying off loans on a collapsed US dollar and, gaining significant competitive advantage over the US economy for a significant period.
The question is how great was the foreign interest in getting the US to default and permanently weaken the US economy, how much was spent on lobbyists and campaign contributions to get the US government to put the economic gun to it's own head and pull the trigger.
So will the GOP immediately kill the US dollar as a global trading currency or not (after this little political game they have certainly shortened it's life by a lot).
Once it is public, it is public. For use older folk, prior to the internet many embarrassing moments are long dead and forgotten, no phone cameras, no internet, and no need to adapt immaturity to to permanent public internet record.
The was no privacy invasion, immature people had foolishly given their privacy away without a seconds thought and once done you don't get it back, ever. You can of course stop releasing private information but what you have released you can never get back and the more you try, the worse the problem becomes.
Now the only problem they face, is if they added information to that facebook data, that was gathered from another source, that the students had a reasonable expectation to be relatively private ie that chose not to add that information to their facebook page.
Do not consider digital communications from your perspective, consider them from the technologically inept's perspective, not to be discriminatory let's just say the sub 110, that's nominally 75%.
The KISS principle has to apply to security. Of course Google has yet to make any great claims about keeping your content private from their professional marketdroids and psychologically targeted advertising or from government intrusion or from for profit rentals and buys or from their own staff and management (some of whom lack the maturity to deal with it).
The whole issue, seems to be how to management a main account with many sub-accounts, with access to the main or sub-accounts easily managed by the user and importantly those sub-accounts being invisible from a external viewpoint so as not to appear exclusionary or two faced.
So how your multiple pages appear to the user, say with large background watermarks to indicate which group, versus the visitor where it appears as the users main page rather than a sub-exclusionary page. The users home page being their most used page, rather than the public one that's intended to create a positive impression on strangers, employers etc.
Now they need to add, "How to create a well formed maintained public page to create a good impression on employers", automatic tools to keep that page looking active but still properly within the context of the impression your trying to create (or at least the impression marketdroids have convinced you, that you need to promote) and of course a separate public family page.
The catch is, when you put in those controls, exclusions and limitations to communications, you will also limit openness and that openness drives growth, all part of the need to access what 'might be' important and the need to respond 'just in case'.
With 32,708 deaths on US roads last year, word games won't solve the problem.
Obviously analysing the cause of every accident and endeavouring to eliminate the greatest causes by percentage will have the greatest impact upon reducing road tolls.
The the current generation of youth addicted to cell phones and texting, in fact taking priority over every other activity (they will practically stop anything they are doing to answer the phone and their use has to be actively banned to prevent this occurring).
Whilst the telecom and their marketdroids benefit by this action, this distraction at critical moments whilst driving causes problems, problem that lead to death and debilitating injury. Obviously ensuring people remain as focused as possible upon driving will reduce car accidents. Perhaps greater personal liability for causing an accident is warranted, some time cooling your lead foot in a low security detention facility (something that insurance won't cover). Perhaps further reductions to speed limits. Perhaps subsidised taxi's. Perhaps expanded, safer and cleaner public transport. Perhaps, lateral thinking, like easier access to 'quality' high density housing to promote foot traffic.
Just because we allowed previous generations of children to be exposed to the manipulative and destructive exploitations of paedophile marketing executives, doesn't mean we need to keep up the practice. Besides now we have a real opportunity to fix the problem, with the passive mass media idiot box losing to the interactive internet, we have the opportunity to make it a much more psychologically healthy experience for children.
Let's not forget the biggest trouble makers, politicians and lobbyists all skulking about in the background distorting all the purchasing decisions and then blaming government agencies for those faults.
So corporations via lobbyists, set it all up for making maximum profits via corrupted politicians and then market the benefits of privatisation, the root cause of most of the failures.
Instead of an in house evolving system growing over generations, digital no different to analogue solution evolution, there is the big bullshit push for the external privatised one hit solution that never exists, that funky magic box solution that will do every ones job for them. The only job it does of course is pay the corporate executives bonuses, pay the lobbyists and pay the politicians, those asshats making the decisions but taking zero responsibility for them (hint - any politician saying government is bad, is the shit head making it bad).
You also have to take into account a modernising society where non-internet services are being abandoned in favour of providing those services by the internet.
You have access to government agencies for applications and fee paying. Researching insurance, paying for policies and making claims all on line. A whole range of banking and investment options and research all now being driven by internet access. Education and research unaccredited and accredited, all needing internet access.
Then there is shopping, whether it be tech related or just groceries (after a debilitating car accident, something as simple as ordering groceries and having them delivered, including alcohol was a great relief).
If you are having problems controlling the nature of your internet access, then consider something like https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/stumbleupon/ which will keep you amused and distracted randomly browsing the internet.
The reality is taking a Luddite attitude to the internet will leave you further and further behind the eight ball as time goes on. You can of course switch from broadband to narrow band and read a book instead.
Well then they should accept the reality of how best to handle it. Basically the internet as an adults only communication space and that a complete separate internet is required for minors. A different addressing system and protocol which does not require much rework of websites to be accessible.
With a children's only internet you do not block sites (with IPv6 an impossible nightmare) you allow sites on. Basically initially all schools connected together with communications between minors being monitored and all adult and child users registered ie a completely non-anonymous internet to supervising authorities. Commercial access would be strictly regulated and marketing would be strictly controlled and subject to psychological review not for sick bastards to ensure it will manipulate children choices but to ensure it is safe and non damaging.
Of course corporate interests want to block a minors only internet because they would no longer be able to target them with manipulative advertising or content, to drive their choices through destructive peer pressure, to subject children to damaging psychological manipulations. We really need to be protecting children from the worst paedophiles of all, marketing executives.
We produce enough food, is hardly a sound reason to continue reproducing to the point were we do not produce enough food. At the moment with by far the majority having a bare minimum of access to the resources we exploit and produce, those resources are already being stretched to their limits.
So any judgements should be based upon an equitable share, we all gain pretty much equal access to the resources of the planet, defining what limits need to be put in place to ensure long term livability for human society. Basing decisions on the majority basically living in poverty with only limited access to resources and even then still stealing from future generations to feed the greed of a tiny minority, is pretty much the insanity of psychopaths.
It's not like there's a shortage of humans and some reasonable population controls should not be put in place. Numbers and quality are all reasonable considerations, just because those concepts were abused by a bunch of psychopaths in one war does not end their importance in solving a real existing and growing problem (we do not have enough when the vast majority, billions, live in poverty just barely hand to mouth, whilst a tiny majority wallow in wasteful polluting luxury).
Why is a licence to breed and raise future citizens such a challenging idea, those future generations obviously have a right of protection from bad parenting and if you accept the spirit or soul a reasonably healthy and competitive carcass in which to exist (able, agile, socially adept and intellectually capable).
Time for reality. Most of the 'artists' pretty much suck and are one hit wonders, if not for a ton of advertising and a shit load of PR=B$, industry wide collusion and mass media tie ups with the publishers, would not sell a track or attack any kind of audience.
I should think as a American you should be happy that police are finally changing their focus from drug users to home break ins and car thefts.
You should be cheering the end of easy arrests for drugs and the efforts to pursue crimes with innocent victims.
Most people are sick of home break ins, car thefts and even muggings as being treated like nothing by the police and the victims generally having no hope of seeing justice, if this study is positive sign of a true change of focus, then it is about time.
It's called Public Relations http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_relations, the US was better at telling lies for profit PR=B$, well, at least until the internet reared it's ugly head (the truth can be pretty much that way versus the comfortable lie).
Corrupt corporations are simply trying to drive politics via campaign donations, gifts, cheap loans et al, to keep profits that wouldn't exist with out already corrupted laws. Want to protect your IP, than piss off and keep it too yourself.
More specifically greed driven corrupt mining corporations think because it is in international waters, they can mine without paying license fees and avoid any of those pesky pollution controls.
Delusional of course, no laws restricting their activities means also no laws protecting their activities. Of course leaving a trail of mining wastes drifting through the water column and taken by currents hundreds, even thousands of kilometres into other nations waters, means some real conflicts will likely evolve. Especially considering the coverage of Exclusive Economic Zone http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exclusive_economic_zone and the interpretation of the pollution of those resources.
I think you don't really get it. The law professors don't give a crap an about music linking sites, they care about political speech sites.
Don't think it affects political speech, please wait 6 months after a complaint is filed, after spending thousands on lawyers and legal fees, to prove in court that you web site did not have infringing music, a paragraph from a book, plagiarised, shared an idea etc. etc and was only about politics and is original work. Oh yes, than rinse and repeat was the case is dropped as the new case is filed. You think for a second that corrupt corporations via insane right wing politics wont seek to pull that crap on every popular web site that challenges their bull shit.
Of course what they really fear is people sharing their music collection, with only one person listening to each licensed track at a time. With an average of around 4 minutes (gees, all this crap over four bloody minutes) per track, that means that 360 people per day could listen to that track, while the licensed owner of the track is not listening to it.
Personally all music largely dies and most people are just vainly listening to it trying to recapture lost memories. Better to let the old greed driven crap die and let new open, creative commons music take it's place.
Slashdot Mirror
So I don't have a mobile phone, now the mind boggles as to how that would be viewed. That I don't exist or that I am guilty of all crimes where a mobile phone was not present.
Rest assured when I do eventually get a phone, I will never be so addicted to it that I am incapable of turning it off when I am not in the mood to receive calls, that I will tend to leave it in the car or at home rather than carry it around, it's primary function will be for me to make calls rather than receive calls and, that I will always pay more attention to the people I am with than to the phone.
Contributions to Linux take many forms. Code-centric people only view contributions to the Linux kernel as contributions to Linux. Far more aware people, take contributions to Linux being amongst the following,
contributions to GNU (something you obviously need to look up),
contributions to Linux compatible hardware drivers,
contributions to Linux documentation,
contributions to Linux based graphical users interfaces,
contributions to Linux compatible applications,
contributions to graphics design including icons, appearance, fonts, screens savers, layouts,
contributions to marketing and promotion,
contributions to Linux protecting patents,
contributions to service and support,
contributions to the Linuc user community,
and of course contributions to Linux based distribution without which Linux would not exist as an operating system rather than just a kernel.
Seriously only a real asshat would take all those contributions and treat them as nothing either that or a microtroll. It amazes me that after all these years how people still fail to understand how a community developed product like Linux comes into being, how all contributions small and large are highly regarded (the value being in the sharing) and how contributions of individuals are valued (even those employed by M$, M$ did you create code, those people employed by M$ did).
From your selfish self centred viewpoint, it appears that I must apologise for using Linux whilst not being a good enough coder to contribute to the kernel. So "I am sorry", my coding sucks and my others contributions to Linux are not good enough to appease you. Of course to the rest of the Linux community I say thank you for all the contributions made no matter how great or small.
That is a lie, there were plenty of accelerometer based game controllers that altered the orientation of the output through an infinite range. Any full screen flight simulator, who the orientation of the cockpit view, alters based upon controller motion is exactly that.
This patent just reflects the growing insanity of right for profit performance based government management. The Patent office generates it's income by approving patents, it major cost comes from rejecting inappropriate patents. Under insane right wing thinking, it now puts minimal effort into checking patents and basically just compares them to existing US patent descriptions, using computer almost an automated task and with zero risk to the US patent office for approving bogus patent after bogus patent.
Then add in the litigation benefits of approving bogus patents in the US. Have US patent lawyers via corrupt politicians, actually worked to corrupt the patent office purposefully to allow this corrupt charade to continue.
Hell, I've even heard that eastern Texas courts by default will protect patents no matter how ludicrous in order to promote continued patent litigation in their districts. This automatically forces patent contests in higher and higher courts guarantee more profits for US patent lawyers.
It is likely high time that same penalties start being applied against the US Patent Office for allowing blatantly false patents to continue. In fact corporations should consider taking the US government to court in the WTO for patent and patent litigation corruption.
In true cyberwarfare the realistic core of the problem will be the electronics themselves. You only hack software for cyberespionage, when it actually comes to cyberwarfare the whole idea is to shut system down, whether fixed, mobile, land based, airborne or seaborne. That includes military and or civilian systems.
So exotic and not so exotic particle creation and targeting in order to alter energy states in transistors. Resonant affects and modulations to alter energy levels in circuit pathways. Disruption of structural integrity of micro structures.
If they are talking about cyberwarfare, that were the future is at. Of course it just seems they are confused are really thinking about cyberespionage. It all really boils down to, if it doesn't need to be connected, than don't bloody connect it, always maintain a manual backup and don't be a penny pinching right wing idiot, don't save pennies to risk pounds.
Is it any wonder IBM sold it's hard disk drive business years ago. Although it seems to have taken them a bit longer to make their solid state drive through than they originally expected. Some interesting stuff here https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/storagevirtualization/entry/1m_iops_from_flash_actions?lang=en.
After all those years they still haven't managed to fix all the bugs in it, hmm, now that is truly bad software. Realistically support should only finish once they have fixed 'ALL' the discovered bugs otherwise they should offer a refund for their failure to fix their buggy software after a decade of slap dash efforts. In the interim supply a replacement that was worse, which they had to replace with a pretend new version which was just a major patch up. Seems sensible to buy as old a version of windows software as you can available on the market to get it as free of bugs as possible.
The law is for data mining, fishing expeditions, trial by innuendo and guilt by association.
All that will happen, is people will add in random multiple internet connection attempts at random intervals within broad ranges of likely address hits, to confuse the record of their internet access and to flood out ISP databases.
It would add negligible additional traffic to seek out tens of thousands random web sites each day and not waiting for download content before moving on, just registering the connection.
Again with the silly word play, 100% of accidents are caused by people with eyes, completely and utterly meaningless as "the eyes" were not the cause of the accident. Just as maleness was not the cause of the accident. However distraction at critical junctures do cause accidents, whether it be billboards, mobile phones, passenger interactions etc.
A global trading currency is more the least worst currency of the ones available ie. what is better than the euro and still acceptable to large number of countries.
Gold is a failure ie it ends up stockpiled and can never be used, whilst it has many uses. Any rare metal will still be subject to high fluctuations due to market manipulations.
In today'c currency trading terms, the euro would only really be a token global trading currency, with computers direct exchange in currencies between trading partners can more readily be calculated on cross markets, just using the euro as a cross market indicator.
So it would not be the same as the to be rejected US dollar global trading currency, more of a light version.
The 'investment' buys up all the means of production, basically excluding the rest of the market, the majority from gaining access and basically driving them to working in poverty.
The more hoarded all the means of production become, the more isolated the majority of people become from protecting or supporting it. The majority have no means of ever gaining access to it nor do they have any investment in it. The simple fact is, their only way for majority to gain any access to the now totally hoarded ( and priced out of their reach) means of production, is to eliminate the minority and redistribute it and let the cycle turn over again.
Stupid is as stupid does and there is nothing like greed to promote stupidity ie. it's the next generation's problem as long as the current one can wallow like the ignorant pigs they are.
The big punishment will be the immediate replacement of the US dollar as a global trading currency. Likely to be replaced with the Euro, once done, it will never be undone and the Republican's will pay a massive price for basically crippling the value of many of the US rich and greedies, capital assets.
So massive trading or more specifically dumping of the US dollar and US debt, for a short period, creating global economic instability, for a few months, followed by extended economic instability for the US for a decade or more, something the US will never recover from.
From a global perspective, whilst there is initial loses (that loss defined by their current holding of US dollars and debt), many regions will significantly prosper at the US's expense, paying off loans on a collapsed US dollar and, gaining significant competitive advantage over the US economy for a significant period.
The question is how great was the foreign interest in getting the US to default and permanently weaken the US economy, how much was spent on lobbyists and campaign contributions to get the US government to put the economic gun to it's own head and pull the trigger.
So will the GOP immediately kill the US dollar as a global trading currency or not (after this little political game they have certainly shortened it's life by a lot).
Once it is public, it is public. For use older folk, prior to the internet many embarrassing moments are long dead and forgotten, no phone cameras, no internet, and no need to adapt immaturity to to permanent public internet record.
The was no privacy invasion, immature people had foolishly given their privacy away without a seconds thought and once done you don't get it back, ever. You can of course stop releasing private information but what you have released you can never get back and the more you try, the worse the problem becomes.
Now the only problem they face, is if they added information to that facebook data, that was gathered from another source, that the students had a reasonable expectation to be relatively private ie that chose not to add that information to their facebook page.
Do not consider digital communications from your perspective, consider them from the technologically inept's perspective, not to be discriminatory let's just say the sub 110, that's nominally 75%.
The KISS principle has to apply to security. Of course Google has yet to make any great claims about keeping your content private from their professional marketdroids and psychologically targeted advertising or from government intrusion or from for profit rentals and buys or from their own staff and management (some of whom lack the maturity to deal with it).
The whole issue, seems to be how to management a main account with many sub-accounts, with access to the main or sub-accounts easily managed by the user and importantly those sub-accounts being invisible from a external viewpoint so as not to appear exclusionary or two faced.
So how your multiple pages appear to the user, say with large background watermarks to indicate which group, versus the visitor where it appears as the users main page rather than a sub-exclusionary page. The users home page being their most used page, rather than the public one that's intended to create a positive impression on strangers, employers etc.
Now they need to add, "How to create a well formed maintained public page to create a good impression on employers", automatic tools to keep that page looking active but still properly within the context of the impression your trying to create (or at least the impression marketdroids have convinced you, that you need to promote) and of course a separate public family page.
The catch is, when you put in those controls, exclusions and limitations to communications, you will also limit openness and that openness drives growth, all part of the need to access what 'might be' important and the need to respond 'just in case'.
With 32,708 deaths on US roads last year, word games won't solve the problem.
Obviously analysing the cause of every accident and endeavouring to eliminate the greatest causes by percentage will have the greatest impact upon reducing road tolls.
The the current generation of youth addicted to cell phones and texting, in fact taking priority over every other activity (they will practically stop anything they are doing to answer the phone and their use has to be actively banned to prevent this occurring).
Whilst the telecom and their marketdroids benefit by this action, this distraction at critical moments whilst driving causes problems, problem that lead to death and debilitating injury. Obviously ensuring people remain as focused as possible upon driving will reduce car accidents. Perhaps greater personal liability for causing an accident is warranted, some time cooling your lead foot in a low security detention facility (something that insurance won't cover). Perhaps further reductions to speed limits. Perhaps subsidised taxi's. Perhaps expanded, safer and cleaner public transport. Perhaps, lateral thinking, like easier access to 'quality' high density housing to promote foot traffic.
Just because we allowed previous generations of children to be exposed to the manipulative and destructive exploitations of paedophile marketing executives, doesn't mean we need to keep up the practice. Besides now we have a real opportunity to fix the problem, with the passive mass media idiot box losing to the interactive internet, we have the opportunity to make it a much more psychologically healthy experience for children.
Let's not forget the biggest trouble makers, politicians and lobbyists all skulking about in the background distorting all the purchasing decisions and then blaming government agencies for those faults.
So corporations via lobbyists, set it all up for making maximum profits via corrupted politicians and then market the benefits of privatisation, the root cause of most of the failures.
Instead of an in house evolving system growing over generations, digital no different to analogue solution evolution, there is the big bullshit push for the external privatised one hit solution that never exists, that funky magic box solution that will do every ones job for them. The only job it does of course is pay the corporate executives bonuses, pay the lobbyists and pay the politicians, those asshats making the decisions but taking zero responsibility for them (hint - any politician saying government is bad, is the shit head making it bad).
You also have to take into account a modernising society where non-internet services are being abandoned in favour of providing those services by the internet.
You have access to government agencies for applications and fee paying. Researching insurance, paying for policies and making claims all on line. A whole range of banking and investment options and research all now being driven by internet access. Education and research unaccredited and accredited, all needing internet access.
Then there is shopping, whether it be tech related or just groceries (after a debilitating car accident, something as simple as ordering groceries and having them delivered, including alcohol was a great relief).
If you are having problems controlling the nature of your internet access, then consider something like https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/stumbleupon/ which will keep you amused and distracted randomly browsing the internet.
The reality is taking a Luddite attitude to the internet will leave you further and further behind the eight ball as time goes on. You can of course switch from broadband to narrow band and read a book instead.
Well then they should accept the reality of how best to handle it. Basically the internet as an adults only communication space and that a complete separate internet is required for minors. A different addressing system and protocol which does not require much rework of websites to be accessible.
With a children's only internet you do not block sites (with IPv6 an impossible nightmare) you allow sites on. Basically initially all schools connected together with communications between minors being monitored and all adult and child users registered ie a completely non-anonymous internet to supervising authorities. Commercial access would be strictly regulated and marketing would be strictly controlled and subject to psychological review not for sick bastards to ensure it will manipulate children choices but to ensure it is safe and non damaging.
Of course corporate interests want to block a minors only internet because they would no longer be able to target them with manipulative advertising or content, to drive their choices through destructive peer pressure, to subject children to damaging psychological manipulations. We really need to be protecting children from the worst paedophiles of all, marketing executives.
We produce enough food, is hardly a sound reason to continue reproducing to the point were we do not produce enough food. At the moment with by far the majority having a bare minimum of access to the resources we exploit and produce, those resources are already being stretched to their limits.
So any judgements should be based upon an equitable share, we all gain pretty much equal access to the resources of the planet, defining what limits need to be put in place to ensure long term livability for human society. Basing decisions on the majority basically living in poverty with only limited access to resources and even then still stealing from future generations to feed the greed of a tiny minority, is pretty much the insanity of psychopaths.
It's not like there's a shortage of humans and some reasonable population controls should not be put in place. Numbers and quality are all reasonable considerations, just because those concepts were abused by a bunch of psychopaths in one war does not end their importance in solving a real existing and growing problem (we do not have enough when the vast majority, billions, live in poverty just barely hand to mouth, whilst a tiny majority wallow in wasteful polluting luxury).
Why is a licence to breed and raise future citizens such a challenging idea, those future generations obviously have a right of protection from bad parenting and if you accept the spirit or soul a reasonably healthy and competitive carcass in which to exist (able, agile, socially adept and intellectually capable).
Time for reality. Most of the 'artists' pretty much suck and are one hit wonders, if not for a ton of advertising and a shit load of PR=B$, industry wide collusion and mass media tie ups with the publishers, would not sell a track or attack any kind of audience.
I should think as a American you should be happy that police are finally changing their focus from drug users to home break ins and car thefts.
You should be cheering the end of easy arrests for drugs and the efforts to pursue crimes with innocent victims.
Most people are sick of home break ins, car thefts and even muggings as being treated like nothing by the police and the victims generally having no hope of seeing justice, if this study is positive sign of a true change of focus, then it is about time.
It's called Public Relations http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_relations, the US was better at telling lies for profit PR=B$, well, at least until the internet reared it's ugly head (the truth can be pretty much that way versus the comfortable lie).
Corrupt corporations are simply trying to drive politics via campaign donations, gifts, cheap loans et al, to keep profits that wouldn't exist with out already corrupted laws. Want to protect your IP, than piss off and keep it too yourself.
More specifically greed driven corrupt mining corporations think because it is in international waters, they can mine without paying license fees and avoid any of those pesky pollution controls.
Delusional of course, no laws restricting their activities means also no laws protecting their activities. Of course leaving a trail of mining wastes drifting through the water column and taken by currents hundreds, even thousands of kilometres into other nations waters, means some real conflicts will likely evolve. Especially considering the coverage of Exclusive Economic Zone http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exclusive_economic_zone and the interpretation of the pollution of those resources.
I think you don't really get it. The law professors don't give a crap an about music linking sites, they care about political speech sites.
Don't think it affects political speech, please wait 6 months after a complaint is filed, after spending thousands on lawyers and legal fees, to prove in court that you web site did not have infringing music, a paragraph from a book, plagiarised, shared an idea etc. etc and was only about politics and is original work. Oh yes, than rinse and repeat was the case is dropped as the new case is filed. You think for a second that corrupt corporations via insane right wing politics wont seek to pull that crap on every popular web site that challenges their bull shit.
Of course what they really fear is people sharing their music collection, with only one person listening to each licensed track at a time. With an average of around 4 minutes (gees, all this crap over four bloody minutes) per track, that means that 360 people per day could listen to that track, while the licensed owner of the track is not listening to it.
Personally all music largely dies and most people are just vainly listening to it trying to recapture lost memories. Better to let the old greed driven crap die and let new open, creative commons music take it's place.