One extreme mistake in your quote, after each and every subsection under the clause there is an 'or', fail under any one those conditions and you lose. Hence;
(a) the invention was known or used by others in this country, or patented or described in a printed publication in this or a foreign country , before the invention thereof by the applicant for patent, or,
So publish the idea on the internet and no one can steal it and patent it out from underneath you.
Sure they can apply the idea, but they can not patent it and charge you or others for it (they can of course go back to the originator of the idea seek the patent in the originators name and then charge everybody else)
How can you abandon an idea, the concept is ludicrous, about the closest would be releasing the idea into the public domain but again that kills all future patents.
So blog it or slashdot it and prior art is locked in.
So a good lesson in legislation watch out for the 'or'/'and' at the end, they have real impact.
The problem with that is it makes absolutely no sense. In order to defend your public infrastructure, you must publicly implement systems that will protect against all know attacks, hence every other country can copy them.
If you launch a successful attack upon another county, chances are that attack can be readily mimicked and launched against your own public infrastructure. If you attempt to establish a defence against that attack you are back to square one.
Most attacks on the internet, have targeted everybody and have not been very specific, only the brute force attacks using botnets have been specifically targeted.
Most countries who want to run totally secure critical networks run them with an airgap, wishful thinking or public boasting does not tend to fill that gap.
The reality is you either defend (only creating attack methods to test and improve defences) or you are a criminal working for criminal organisations and attack. The whole concept of the US Air Force Cyber Command is pretty idiotic, it really needs to be a civilian agency because what you most want to protect is public and private infrastructure. For the military, if it doesn't absolutely need to be connected to the internet, then don't bloody connect it.
What M$ needs are people that know, understand and that can defend the needs of the end user. The catch is, they either leave or get fired. M$ doesn't want to hear why some stupid idea that they forecast will make millions, will annoy a whole lot of customers and driving them away and end up costing millions instead
Representing the customers view point is a lost cause at M$, which is why they struggle so badly in consumer products and lose money and fail when launching new consumer products.
The lost to IPod, they lost to Logitech, they lost to Nintendo and Sony and, they lost to Google and they lost to Yahoo. They lost because they have a real serious disconnect with the customer and because they have a track record for treating the customer with contempt.
The reality in this case is the exact opposite of what is being presented.
Think of the children, a new government agency that will monitor, arrest, prosecute and imprison children for copying a music CD that most parents would think was worthless junk. A new generation of teenagers to flood the prisons and to bloat the profit margins of private corporations that run those prisons.
The RIAA/MPAA has gone after universities, with this legislation how long before they start pursuing high schools and primary schools, don't think so, just think of the extortion opportunities, pay the out of court settlement or your child will spend the next few years in a juvenile detention facility and have the future jeopardised.
Parents paying taxes to protect, music and content that attacks their family values and that treats them and the rest of society with contempt. Parents paying taxes to imprison their own children and that will psychologically damage those children for the rest of their lives. Parents paying taxes to support the lifestyles of drunken drugged up minstrels and parasitical publishing executives that prey on children.
Really there is absolutely not defence for criminalising copyright infringement.
Lower social services leads to higher crime rate. The US is already the leading jailer of it's own citizens, more idiotic knee jerk reactions will only make the situation worse. It costs far more to lock them up and provide free health care, then to pay them a social security benefit and, oh look, provide free health.
The added benefit for the not so bright, is you avoid creating as many victims that criminals have preyed upon to sate their greed.
The difference between a government managed health insurance scheme and the current privatised debacle, no profit being siphoned off, and heavy discounting of the cost of the services provided and no corporations running around with lawyers and excuses to reject claims or to kick people off once they need to make a claim.
Now back to topic. The biggest benefit of the US military hiring bloggers to do their propaganda, it would at least have changed the quality of the US military/. trolls, those military jock straps where pretty pathetic and wrote some really juvenile and puerile comments and it didn't help the US military propaganda cause one little bit.
The catch with the US military trying to hire bloggers for their propaganda, they could only ever get the third rate ones, the highest quality bloggers all oddly enough have strong liberal leaning, towards the truth.
Me thinks you have very little under standing of fractions, I'm getting more like 9/10 of/. is opposed to the corruption of ISO by M$ and the creation of a totally pointless unusable unstandard. When you have read and memorised a 6000 page standard, then you can come back and comment on it's value.
Standards should be as brief, accurate and stable as possible, in order to be able to cost effectively apply them. This is just a sickening M$=B$ marketing exercise.
You seem to be confusing the nature of the tool. Is taser inc evil for creating a weapon that will be used to torture and punish people, and then creating a marketing campaign to hide the lethality of the device. Was starforce evil for creating a DRM tool that would surreptitiously install a hidden driver that would damage peoples hardware and then creating a marketing campaign to mislead people about the nature of the tool.
So, is google evil for designing and creating software tools to mine peoples private information, collate it for social and political, psychological analysis and selling those tools not only to US government agencies but also foreign autocratic government agencies, when they know those tools will be used to suppress freedom and democracy and then going on to create a marketing campaign to make it somehow acceptable to invade every ones privacy as long as you a making a profit.
So fine the pen is mightier than the sword and, some people might consider a peanut butter and jelly sandwich a lethal weapon. In the defence of unlimited profits, is it really right, to undermine some of the most important principles of free and democratic societies? I know google's answer.
You just have to adapt to the modern market. The never grow up, teenagers for the rest of your life market. Although that is technically a mass media market, buy everything now it and must look good before being good, it still will survive for some time to come before being supplanted with the new independent media market.
So it should eventually shift back to, no matter how good it looks if it don't function right it sucks and the minimalists life style, only have what you need, work to live don't live to work, if you were happy with out it yesterday, chances are you would be happy with out it tomorrow.
That minimalism then reflects in a neat clean interface and keeping it simple and relevant.
It is not the low end market, more accurately it is the 2nd pc ultra portable notebook market. It has to be very economical to handle the high risk of loss and breakage. This is of course what makes it so threatening to M$. Of course the real crazy thing is loading that crappy bit of software M$ doesn't Work, instead of openoffice.org, now that is just pointlessly silly. When a user on the windows version compares what their notebook can do versus a Linux and openoffice.org version, the spreadsheets etc. will end up looking pathetic in comparison.
Now interestingly enough after a bit of further investigation, there are articles and forums all over the web, where the very first posts are all pro scientology, as if part of a complete premeditated plan.
Now of course the biggest error is the misuse of the term 'griefers' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griefers, however, it is clear that the term was not chosen by the scientologists for it's accuracy but for it psychological stigma, to try to create the impression that anonymous is not trying to save people but harm them.
So overall, with the anonymous postings on forums prior to the attack announcing it, the psychological nature of the attack, combined with a concerted 'first post' posting effort on forums and blogs blaming anonymous and defending scientology and finally the misuse of the term griefers for it's psychological stigma. It is pretty obvious the only thing circular about this in the nature of the arse holes who attacked a group of innocent people, of course Co$ (the corporate executives not the believers) just tried to hard and overplayed it.
Of course the benefit of this overplayed hand, is they will have left a trail of evidence all over the web so that it can be tracked down and the culprits prosecuted to the full extent of the law.
The catch with that logic is the anti-Co$ group is very clear about not wanting to attack or harm believers of Scientology, but to prevent harm coming to further victims. Co$ on the other hand has a well documented history of petty vindictive attacks, and having a total disregard for the harm it causes to others.
So based upon past patterns of behaviour, the anti-Co$ anonymous would be very unlikely (discounting no fixed members or control over members) to have attacked a third party, where as Co$ based upon it's history would basically be very likely to do it.
Now of course the nature of the attack itself, a physiological and psychological attack, hmm, does that not sound like a group well versed in psychology and with a pathological hatred for the psychiatric profession and it's patients, and in fact this group claims to be the worlds only true experts in the human mind. Seriously could any one consider this to be the work of a bunch of ill informed, mal adjusted script kiddies, oddly enough, complete with carefully planted evidence in public forums prior to the event.
One thing to bear in mind in the employee, employer relationship. The employee is only an employee during defined working hours, the rest of the time the individual, is there own person. Something that should be clarified under law. So blogging during working hours is tied back to the company but blogging after hours is not.
This is the only thing an employer should clarify, beyond that, there is only the relationship between Cisco and it's customers, an employer might have some concerns over as it would be privileged information gained via that paid employment.
Even worse when it is not simple tax evasion but the proceeds of crime. Swiss banks profiting based upon the suffering of others, from Despotic leaders, to organised and of course including your typical everyday bribe taking politician.
The Swiss economy is basically subsidised by victims from the rest of world.
Ha Ha with the XP and Vista blue screen, surely everybody knows by now that a default install launches a service that monitors the system for an OS lockup and if it functions, auto reboots, hence no blue screen, or in reality before you can see it the system reboots. Now only M$ in it's infinite lack of wisdom could consider that for the end user of a PC that somehow, random auto reboots are more functional than BSODs, of course for B$ marketing purposes everyone can guess M$'s reasoning, blue screen definite OS crash, reboot hmm, power failure, accidentally hit the switch, hardware fault etc. typical M$=B$.
Well based upon some scientology celebrities behaviour it is clear, that there is an even more secret bunch of wacky lies beyond the already wacky lies that have spread out over the internet. You know they kind of silly crap, where they are superior beings to the rest of humanity, considerably higher than the run of the mill believers/victims of scientology (which entitles them to exploit and make use of them), and who in turn are way above the rest of us, the non believers.
Let alone the more active questioners the SPs who seek to free the scientology victims from their psychological exploitation, which are, well, demonised, and are subject to monitoring, attack and destruction because they threaten the revenues of the Co$. This last part tends to be really indicative of no belief system other than of course, God is Greed.
The easiest way of removing the burden of the existing Co$ upon it's believers is to help those believers create a New Church that frees them from the financial burden and exploitation of the existing corporation. Are Co$ as a religion in terms of taxation law entitled to protection of copyright and the profits derived from that copyright protection or by definition are all of it's members legally entitled to free access to and the ability to copy and redistribute those works, as they technically own those rights as recognised believers.
Well in a modern society that is no longer true. The modern social society establishes itself as a net to provide care and support for all of it's members in the event they need assistance. To absolutely clarify of the issue, a modern society does not consider children to be a possession of the parents, they are not chattel to be bought and traded, once born they a mini citizens with the same rights of care and protection as other citizens, just as you an adult would not wish to be forcibly left under the control of irresponsible or violent people so a child is also entitled to that same opportunity.
So when a society takes on that more humane and social role, it should also consider the burdens placed upon the rest of society, especially when people who are genuinely unfit to raise children are allowed to get in that position. Once you are provided with the protection of a social welfare net and all of it's support services you are bound by the reasonable rules of that social welfare net. You absolutely do not have the right, to reproduce children and then treat them in any manner you wish.
So genetics and overpopulation being what they both definably are, society is forced to wake up to itself and consider the difference between the freedom of an individual and the burdens of the next generation, the next individual, they do not have freedom of choice of genetics or choice over the excesses of their parents. Children are not pets, they are citizens with limited rights and limited only in their expression of their control and not in the right to care and protection.
Well then perhaps the next time, they can auction off the rights to the root domains, the highest bidder gets it and charges the maximum the market can pay. The highest bidder can also look for other ways to maximise their returns, weekly rentals on the most popular domains, immediate foreclosure on domain names if the fee isn't paid on time and the auctioning of those domain name.
The guaranteed quickest way of getting other countries to create their own root servers and only mirror those entries from other countries that adhere to some sort of reasonable international rules and via accepted treaties.
You obviously do not really appreciate the Machiavellian nature of modern corporations, do they deceive each other, the board, the shareholders, the investors and often themselves, absolutely. Does not the saying, don't kill the message bearer mean anything to you at all, surely you do appreciate that putting forward a message that is counter to the pot at the end of the rainbow of unlimited corporate profit will and does kill corporate executive careers.
The absolute biggest no no is of course to produce facts that run counter to the distorted vision of a CEO who is more concerned about his own ego than the quality of the products his company produces.
Now I wont bother to explain to you why all sorts of software which makes direct calls to hardware can generate all sorts of faults when they interact, perhaps you can convince someone else on slashdot to do that for you.
The sheer silly nonsense of deregulating what is an essential service. Quite simply if governments want modern telecommunications infrastructure, they are simply going to have to bite the public, create a government funded and regulated infrastructure and basically leaving the existing telecoms stranded with an cheap previous millennium network.
It will eventually happen but in the US (and likely some other countries) only after a collapsing copper network has caused the US to fall far behind other nations and has cost the economy more that what a new fibre network would cost at this time.
Lets not forget the other likely issue, did the OS cause the video driver to crash. Did windows vista DRM cause the video drivers to crash. So while M$ might have logged those kind of crashes via their fault reporting tool, is the fault reporting tool as able to fulfil it's function when the OS directly causes a crash, hence does a huge number of vista crashes caused by the OS directly never even get logged.
Now of course the other interesting point, while all the crashes are going on, M$ is busy bull shitting eveyone that Vista is the most stable windows operating system ever, and that customers are exaggerating or even outright lying when they say vista crashes, 1,663,746 logged crashes and they specifically want to keep secret the time period for that number of crashes, hmm, likely one day would be more than sufficient for statistical analysis.
Typical infrastructure lie. Do you know, factualy, that electrical power supply is far more expensive not only to supply but also to power. Water services are also far more expensive to provide and also the cost of supplying the water. Public roads of course are an order of magnitude more expensive and that excludes the cost of the land used.
So of all the services FTTH is the cheapest to provide and supply. The only thing holding it back is the existing inflated value of the copper network, with the telcos valuing it in the billions to justify their share prices, and make no mistake, they will lie, cheat, steal and corrupt to protect that copper network for as long as possible.
It will only be replaced when fault rates start to have a severe economic impact upon the overall economy, and why will fault rates rise, why naturally enough, why spend money on maintaining the copper if you are going to replace it with fibre.
No for the country size lie, oddly enough smaller countries, also have lower populations and smaller economies, hence they have significantly less money to spend on infrastructure projects.
We you censor freedom and democracy, you are evil by definition in countries that believe in freedom and democracy. Greed is no excuse, is certainly does define why Google is doing it but of course greed is evil.
Once and for all the google "do no evil" is long dead, they edited it to "You can make money without doing evil" http://www.google.com.au/corporate/tenthings.html which of course is marketdroid speak for 'you can make more by being evil' of course sneaking in the edit whilst the googlites still troll 'do no evil' is, well, evil.
There is always a difference between doing a little and doing a lot of evil. Which is worse the consumer earning a minimum wage buying at Wallmart, or Wallmart buying the products overseas where the workers are exploited with an even lower minimum wage.
By your reasoning of course people who use google search are equally supporting the suppression of freedom and democracy in China and other autocratic countries, so, I will take you advice to heart and will no longer use any google services until the stop supplying monitoring software to dictators and stop censoring people seeking democracy.
It is now becoming really obvious why google has all those lobbyists on the payroll, they wanted to ensure they could continue to invade every ones privacy, ew, proctology inc by definition.
Actually they can and are losing, they are being exposed as a blatant corrupt corporation, willing to destroy any business, government organisation, international standard, or individuals in order to maintain and extend their monopoly.
This overt criminal behaviour will force regulators to come down hard on M$ where and when ever they can.
It also makes it impossible for governments or government departments to recommend M$ software with out being also being seen as corrupt.
Yet again M$ is doing more damage to itself then FOSS ever could.
Create it and they will come, waiting for them to come achieves not much at all. So a simple model is to stream all the various government houses, congress senate etc. at state and federal level. When ever a vote is taken on any issue allow registered members of the electorate to also vote. That electoral vote wont decide the issue it will record the publics opinion rather than some politicians opinion of what the public opinion is.
Next up is registered forums covering each of the various aspects to government where the electorate cat put forward and discuss ideas as is bill etc. is submitted.
The catch for the US in the presidential administration which is basically done behind closed doors, rather than most other countries where the administration might discuss it behind closed doors but they still have to present it for approval and review by the rest of the applicable level of government. Kind of leaves out any spot for public discussion except after the fact.
This of course does not stop future US presidents from creating a public forum where ideas and decisions are presented for public discussion with registered citizens, misbehave on that forum and there could be serious repercussions.
Would it work from day one, of course not, it will take years and a lot of promotion to get into the general public mind map and then to become something of real workable value.
The sticking point on violating the licence, is you haven't violated the licence till they prove you have and they can not really take away the licence with out refunding your money. However they have to prove he violated the licence prior to distribution of the product. He just needs to substantiate that he observed the activity, understood it's process and coded out a way of minimise the player effort required in boring repetitious activities, he could also argue that in minimise the boring repetitious activities, he is actually improving the quality of play and thus assisting Vivendi Activision Blizzard (the spirit of Blizzard is long dead and buried in corporate boardroom greed) in retaining players. Vivendi Activision Blizzard would argue, we want a lot of boring repititous tasks that will take the players many many months to complete (sort of like drone factory production work) to squeeze those extra months of fees out of the player.
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(a) the invention was known or used by others in this country, or patented or described in a printed publication in this or a foreign country , before the invention thereof by the applicant for patent, or,
So publish the idea on the internet and no one can steal it and patent it out from underneath you.
Sure they can apply the idea, but they can not patent it and charge you or others for it (they can of course go back to the originator of the idea seek the patent in the originators name and then charge everybody else)
How can you abandon an idea, the concept is ludicrous, about the closest would be releasing the idea into the public domain but again that kills all future patents.
So blog it or slashdot it and prior art is locked in.
So a good lesson in legislation watch out for the 'or'/'and' at the end, they have real impact.
If you launch a successful attack upon another county, chances are that attack can be readily mimicked and launched against your own public infrastructure. If you attempt to establish a defence against that attack you are back to square one.
Most attacks on the internet, have targeted everybody and have not been very specific, only the brute force attacks using botnets have been specifically targeted.
Most countries who want to run totally secure critical networks run them with an airgap, wishful thinking or public boasting does not tend to fill that gap.
The reality is you either defend (only creating attack methods to test and improve defences) or you are a criminal working for criminal organisations and attack. The whole concept of the US Air Force Cyber Command is pretty idiotic, it really needs to be a civilian agency because what you most want to protect is public and private infrastructure. For the military, if it doesn't absolutely need to be connected to the internet, then don't bloody connect it.
Representing the customers view point is a lost cause at M$, which is why they struggle so badly in consumer products and lose money and fail when launching new consumer products.
The lost to IPod, they lost to Logitech, they lost to Nintendo and Sony and, they lost to Google and they lost to Yahoo. They lost because they have a real serious disconnect with the customer and because they have a track record for treating the customer with contempt.
Think of the children, a new government agency that will monitor, arrest, prosecute and imprison children for copying a music CD that most parents would think was worthless junk. A new generation of teenagers to flood the prisons and to bloat the profit margins of private corporations that run those prisons.
The RIAA/MPAA has gone after universities, with this legislation how long before they start pursuing high schools and primary schools, don't think so, just think of the extortion opportunities, pay the out of court settlement or your child will spend the next few years in a juvenile detention facility and have the future jeopardised.
Parents paying taxes to protect, music and content that attacks their family values and that treats them and the rest of society with contempt. Parents paying taxes to imprison their own children and that will psychologically damage those children for the rest of their lives. Parents paying taxes to support the lifestyles of drunken drugged up minstrels and parasitical publishing executives that prey on children.
Really there is absolutely not defence for criminalising copyright infringement.
The added benefit for the not so bright, is you avoid creating as many victims that criminals have preyed upon to sate their greed.
The difference between a government managed health insurance scheme and the current privatised debacle, no profit being siphoned off, and heavy discounting of the cost of the services provided and no corporations running around with lawyers and excuses to reject claims or to kick people off once they need to make a claim.
Now back to topic. The biggest benefit of the US military hiring bloggers to do their propaganda, it would at least have changed the quality of the US military /. trolls, those military jock straps where pretty pathetic and wrote some really juvenile and puerile comments and it didn't help the US military propaganda cause one little bit.
The catch with the US military trying to hire bloggers for their propaganda, they could only ever get the third rate ones, the highest quality bloggers all oddly enough have strong liberal leaning, towards the truth.
Standards should be as brief, accurate and stable as possible, in order to be able to cost effectively apply them. This is just a sickening M$=B$ marketing exercise.
At least in Australia it looks like OOXML is dead http://www.standards.org.au/downloads/080331_Aust_maintains_abstain_position_on_OOXML.pdf as it has been rejected by the Australian Government.
So, is google evil for designing and creating software tools to mine peoples private information, collate it for social and political, psychological analysis and selling those tools not only to US government agencies but also foreign autocratic government agencies, when they know those tools will be used to suppress freedom and democracy and then going on to create a marketing campaign to make it somehow acceptable to invade every ones privacy as long as you a making a profit.
So fine the pen is mightier than the sword and, some people might consider a peanut butter and jelly sandwich a lethal weapon. In the defence of unlimited profits, is it really right, to undermine some of the most important principles of free and democratic societies? I know google's answer.
So it should eventually shift back to, no matter how good it looks if it don't function right it sucks and the minimalists life style, only have what you need, work to live don't live to work, if you were happy with out it yesterday, chances are you would be happy with out it tomorrow.
That minimalism then reflects in a neat clean interface and keeping it simple and relevant.
It is not the low end market, more accurately it is the 2nd pc ultra portable notebook market. It has to be very economical to handle the high risk of loss and breakage. This is of course what makes it so threatening to M$. Of course the real crazy thing is loading that crappy bit of software M$ doesn't Work, instead of openoffice.org, now that is just pointlessly silly. When a user on the windows version compares what their notebook can do versus a Linux and openoffice.org version, the spreadsheets etc. will end up looking pathetic in comparison.
Now of course the biggest error is the misuse of the term 'griefers' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griefers, however, it is clear that the term was not chosen by the scientologists for it's accuracy but for it psychological stigma, to try to create the impression that anonymous is not trying to save people but harm them.
So overall, with the anonymous postings on forums prior to the attack announcing it, the psychological nature of the attack, combined with a concerted 'first post' posting effort on forums and blogs blaming anonymous and defending scientology and finally the misuse of the term griefers for it's psychological stigma. It is pretty obvious the only thing circular about this in the nature of the arse holes who attacked a group of innocent people, of course Co$ (the corporate executives not the believers) just tried to hard and overplayed it.
Of course the benefit of this overplayed hand, is they will have left a trail of evidence all over the web so that it can be tracked down and the culprits prosecuted to the full extent of the law.
So based upon past patterns of behaviour, the anti-Co$ anonymous would be very unlikely (discounting no fixed members or control over members) to have attacked a third party, where as Co$ based upon it's history would basically be very likely to do it.
Now of course the nature of the attack itself, a physiological and psychological attack, hmm, does that not sound like a group well versed in psychology and with a pathological hatred for the psychiatric profession and it's patients, and in fact this group claims to be the worlds only true experts in the human mind. Seriously could any one consider this to be the work of a bunch of ill informed, mal adjusted script kiddies, oddly enough, complete with carefully planted evidence in public forums prior to the event.
This is the only thing an employer should clarify, beyond that, there is only the relationship between Cisco and it's customers, an employer might have some concerns over as it would be privileged information gained via that paid employment.
The Swiss economy is basically subsidised by victims from the rest of world.
Ha Ha with the XP and Vista blue screen, surely everybody knows by now that a default install launches a service that monitors the system for an OS lockup and if it functions, auto reboots, hence no blue screen, or in reality before you can see it the system reboots. Now only M$ in it's infinite lack of wisdom could consider that for the end user of a PC that somehow, random auto reboots are more functional than BSODs, of course for B$ marketing purposes everyone can guess M$'s reasoning, blue screen definite OS crash, reboot hmm, power failure, accidentally hit the switch, hardware fault etc. typical M$=B$.
Let alone the more active questioners the SPs who seek to free the scientology victims from their psychological exploitation, which are, well, demonised, and are subject to monitoring, attack and destruction because they threaten the revenues of the Co$. This last part tends to be really indicative of no belief system other than of course, God is Greed.
The easiest way of removing the burden of the existing Co$ upon it's believers is to help those believers create a New Church that frees them from the financial burden and exploitation of the existing corporation. Are Co$ as a religion in terms of taxation law entitled to protection of copyright and the profits derived from that copyright protection or by definition are all of it's members legally entitled to free access to and the ability to copy and redistribute those works, as they technically own those rights as recognised believers.
So when a society takes on that more humane and social role, it should also consider the burdens placed upon the rest of society, especially when people who are genuinely unfit to raise children are allowed to get in that position. Once you are provided with the protection of a social welfare net and all of it's support services you are bound by the reasonable rules of that social welfare net. You absolutely do not have the right, to reproduce children and then treat them in any manner you wish.
So genetics and overpopulation being what they both definably are, society is forced to wake up to itself and consider the difference between the freedom of an individual and the burdens of the next generation, the next individual, they do not have freedom of choice of genetics or choice over the excesses of their parents. Children are not pets, they are citizens with limited rights and limited only in their expression of their control and not in the right to care and protection.
The guaranteed quickest way of getting other countries to create their own root servers and only mirror those entries from other countries that adhere to some sort of reasonable international rules and via accepted treaties.
The absolute biggest no no is of course to produce facts that run counter to the distorted vision of a CEO who is more concerned about his own ego than the quality of the products his company produces.
Now I wont bother to explain to you why all sorts of software which makes direct calls to hardware can generate all sorts of faults when they interact, perhaps you can convince someone else on slashdot to do that for you.
It will eventually happen but in the US (and likely some other countries) only after a collapsing copper network has caused the US to fall far behind other nations and has cost the economy more that what a new fibre network would cost at this time.
Now of course the other interesting point, while all the crashes are going on, M$ is busy bull shitting eveyone that Vista is the most stable windows operating system ever, and that customers are exaggerating or even outright lying when they say vista crashes, 1,663,746 logged crashes and they specifically want to keep secret the time period for that number of crashes, hmm, likely one day would be more than sufficient for statistical analysis.
So of all the services FTTH is the cheapest to provide and supply. The only thing holding it back is the existing inflated value of the copper network, with the telcos valuing it in the billions to justify their share prices, and make no mistake, they will lie, cheat, steal and corrupt to protect that copper network for as long as possible.
It will only be replaced when fault rates start to have a severe economic impact upon the overall economy, and why will fault rates rise, why naturally enough, why spend money on maintaining the copper if you are going to replace it with fibre.
No for the country size lie, oddly enough smaller countries, also have lower populations and smaller economies, hence they have significantly less money to spend on infrastructure projects.
Once and for all the google "do no evil" is long dead, they edited it to "You can make money without doing evil" http://www.google.com.au/corporate/tenthings.html which of course is marketdroid speak for 'you can make more by being evil' of course sneaking in the edit whilst the googlites still troll 'do no evil' is, well, evil.
There is always a difference between doing a little and doing a lot of evil. Which is worse the consumer earning a minimum wage buying at Wallmart, or Wallmart buying the products overseas where the workers are exploited with an even lower minimum wage.
By your reasoning of course people who use google search are equally supporting the suppression of freedom and democracy in China and other autocratic countries, so, I will take you advice to heart and will no longer use any google services until the stop supplying monitoring software to dictators and stop censoring people seeking democracy.
It is now becoming really obvious why google has all those lobbyists on the payroll, they wanted to ensure they could continue to invade every ones privacy, ew, proctology inc by definition.
This overt criminal behaviour will force regulators to come down hard on M$ where and when ever they can.
It also makes it impossible for governments or government departments to recommend M$ software with out being also being seen as corrupt.
Yet again M$ is doing more damage to itself then FOSS ever could.
Next up is registered forums covering each of the various aspects to government where the electorate cat put forward and discuss ideas as is bill etc. is submitted.
The catch for the US in the presidential administration which is basically done behind closed doors, rather than most other countries where the administration might discuss it behind closed doors but they still have to present it for approval and review by the rest of the applicable level of government. Kind of leaves out any spot for public discussion except after the fact.
This of course does not stop future US presidents from creating a public forum where ideas and decisions are presented for public discussion with registered citizens, misbehave on that forum and there could be serious repercussions.
Would it work from day one, of course not, it will take years and a lot of promotion to get into the general public mind map and then to become something of real workable value.
The sticking point on violating the licence, is you haven't violated the licence till they prove you have and they can not really take away the licence with out refunding your money. However they have to prove he violated the licence prior to distribution of the product. He just needs to substantiate that he observed the activity, understood it's process and coded out a way of minimise the player effort required in boring repetitious activities, he could also argue that in minimise the boring repetitious activities, he is actually improving the quality of play and thus assisting Vivendi Activision Blizzard (the spirit of Blizzard is long dead and buried in corporate boardroom greed) in retaining players. Vivendi Activision Blizzard would argue, we want a lot of boring repititous tasks that will take the players many many months to complete (sort of like drone factory production work) to squeeze those extra months of fees out of the player.