Ja, ja, mein trollz nach "interesting" gemoderaten, mein grosse humor ist nach "insightful" gemoderaten, und mein klassiek filosofy ist nach "-1 troll" gemoderaten... Ich gesnapt nicht!!:( Und ve zegen "Klown", nicht "clown". Danke.
(The Smart is the Mercedes-built minicar you can see zipping around European cities). Practical, easy to park, and completely disappointing sales. Why? Most cars are not bought because they are economical or easy to park. They are bought because they are the meanest, biggest, fastest machines the limited budget will buy. Cars are as much, or more about conspicuous consumption as they are about getting from point A to point B. It's a nice idea, but won't quite work as a "mine's bigger than your's" concept. Perhaps they can steal some ideas from how Smarts are sold here: mainly rented out, plastered with advertising, since people love look at them, but hate the idea of doing the morning commute in them. Make cities smaller, walk more.
Ja, das namen "Kroupware" ist untercompatible mit der "marketing" und "salez". Ve haf zehr lang geflamed unt gechat mit keine success. in Deutsch, "kroup" en "group" ist blinkindentic. Ja, Slashdot namentrollz, genough mit dem "kind und kroup" joken. Ve asken zie einen gutten namen te finden. We zen unterserious. Das winner mit deze bestes namen ist kandidate fur ein Freiexemplar gewinnen. Achtung, frei als in "freies Bier"! Ja, ja. Ist Kool, nein?
... and I was studying to be a poet, driven by dreams of fame and fortune. "Learn Meter", my teacher told me, "understand the rhythm of the soul", he repeated as he hit me over the knuckles with a 2 by 4 when I miscounted my syllables. And now, after ten long years of poet school, I find that I have been replaced by a machine! Not any machine, even, but a mere Pentium 600! Perhaps one day we will be able to meet, my machine opponent and I, for a final match. Yes, the machine has sex, and I have not, but I have drugs, and that is a lot. The crowd will decide: is poetry the expression of my purely human soul, or just (as I always suspected before my teacher beat the idea out of me) a jumble of pretty words?
This is exactly I want and therefore I assume arrogantly that it's what everyone else wants. 30 days is enough to get bored of a movie, and downloading is so much easier than going to the DVD store. Now, perhaps a collaboration with some P2P distribution system so that I can actually profit from that fat line I have. Excellent work, oh Disney. Now perhaps you can go and review that thing about stealing the world's folk histories but trying to copyright Mickey Mouse for infinity. Share and share, it's good for your cultural soul.
Most of the jobs of a hundred years, even 50 years ago have been eliminated by automation. Yet overall employment is greater, not less: 50 years ago, women were not counted as part of the workforce, so unemployment was strictly 50% and higher. Today there are few farmers, welders, book keepers, secretaries, kitchen staff, bricklayers, fishermen, etc. But instead of 90% unemployment we have 5% unemployment, and a universe of new jobs: stock advisers, web site designers, translators, horoscope writers, etc. etc. The huge bulk of human jobs are concerned with serving other humans, and this cannot be eliminated, nor should it. Simply the concept of 'service' shifts over time to more and more abstract forms. But it remains based on the principle that for anything complex you need done, there is probably someone who can do it better and cheaper than you, and all you have to do is find that person and exchange services and money. The fast-food restaurant is, after all, just an outsourced kitchen. So fears of mass unemployment are misplaced and easily countered by the historic record. In fact, as more and more banal jobs are automated, we can expect that the job market becomes more and more intesting, that the global economy becomes more and more vibrant, and that the overall wealth of the human race increases to levels we cannot even imagine today.
One of our more successful projects in Belgium was to replace humans with kiosks in a cement factory. Previously, three people sat in a dispatching office, assigning loads to lorry drivers. Loading happened for 8 hours per day. We built a system of unbreakable Linux kiosks (cement dust is nasty stuff) that boot from the network and can be unplugged and replaced in a few seconds. The factory now loads 24/24, has doubled their turnover, and the people who used to do the dispatching have been moved to other offices. Now the human cost: another less efficient factory closed, some 50 jobs lost. But the cement factory we automated can compete happily with cheap cement from eastern Europe. Result: perhaps 300 jobs actually saved in total. Improving efficiency has a short term cost and a long term benefit. Automation relieves people from doing boring work and is inevitable as technology makes it possible. Businesses that do not automate when it's possible die, and dead businesses are good for nobody. Lastly, I'll note that working hours in the west have dropped steadily over the last century, while our standard of living has increased. A large part of this equation is the automation of basic tasks that used to require human labour. In a perfect world we can spend 10 hours a week supervising the robots, and 50 hours on our hobbies.
I suspect much more damage is done by people who know the passwords already: unhappy exemployees, crazy wives, blackmailed secretaries.
The only solution I can see is to store nothing confidential on computers. I already do this: all my valuable information is saved onto the memory of my digital camera (32 Mbytes can hold a lot of ASCII documents).
Now, if I can find those bastards that burgled my appartment last month and stole both my digital camera PLUS my backups I held on my MP3 player...!
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Money, power, politics, control, generations.
Whenever there is a source of money or the chance of a source of money, people will try to control it. This is most dramatically seen by the instability of African states where oil or diamonds are discovered.
Secondly, the dispossed young are forever trying to redefine their world while those with money and power are forever trying to stop this happening. Think of the many Latin American dictatorships: old men in the army killing young protesting students.
What is happening to the Net is not unlike a coup d'etat, a modern right-wing hunger for money and power using 'civilized' tools but tools nonetheless: manipulation of language and the media, manipulation of laws and the courts, manipulation of trade and economics.
This is not a new kind of drama. It is the age-old story of revolution and counter-revolution.
Just because we're talking about 'copyright' does not mean the debate is polite, decent, or even restrained. When enough money and power are on the table, there is no big difference between disenfranchising people for arbitrary crimes, and executing people for arbitrary crimes. The end always justifies the means.
We are, IMHO, seeing the exposure of a 'vast right-wing conspiracy': Clinton was right to describe it so, wrong to think he was the target. We are all the the targets.
Luckily America is still a democracy, and there is exactly one way to unroll this movement towards an extremist right-wing state: the ballot box.
Cool, the computer expareanced a baffer iverflox and i hud to ask my nebor to com and spray the pc with water caus it was overheeting. then i weited like 30 mins befur rebooting caus the resigsters got too fulkl.
folks, dont trie this at home!!! killz Winwows.:) Me tryig trollwritng
I beg to disagree. The only reason why the cost of clearing CC transactions is relatively high is that the business is so profitable. It is a pure circular logic: the companies that process credit card transactions spend (and waste) incredible amounts of money simply because they have it. Perhaps a better term would be 'marginal cost'. Given that banks and clearing houses have already spent their budgets on huge teams, massive installations and luxurious developments, the cost of one additional transaction is close to zero. The end-user/business cost of such transactions is determined mainly by the market, and the US is notoriously uncompetitive. In Europe we see direct debits being done for free and credit cards being used for tiny transactions, e.g. paying for parking. Again: technical hurdles there are not. Willingness of the banks to sacrifice their 3% cut on trade is the biggest missing factor, feeble government support (not unrelated) is the second.
The point being that micropayments are _not_ a technical problem but a cultural one. Credit cards are not technically sophisticated but they are widespread. You imagine it's hard to replicate a payments network that does exactly what credit cards do? Easy technically, very hard for business reasons. The real cost of collecting credit card payments is very close to zero, and there are many ways of reducing this still further (e.g. collecting many micropayments into larger chunks for settlement). This is not the issue: the will of financial institutions and governments is. It's like security: the technical aspects all well and good, but social and business aspects are significantly harder to solve.
is it possible that microsoft are paying sco to become 'most hated business ever' so that we stop beating up on the redmond boys? i'm running out of logical alternatives for this story. i mean... does sco really believe that anyone believes that linux belongs to them?
Whenever you surf to an advertising-sponsored site you are paying. I believe the problem with micropayments is the lack of a 'lender of last resort', namely a government backing the scheme. In countries where governments have shown an interest (Finland, Japan,...?) micropayments seem to work just like any other kind of virtual cash. Certainly there is no technical hurdle to overcome: compared with giving someone your credit card and saying 'I trust you to take what I owe you and no more', and sending them a 'cheque' by email (PayPal) or by SMS (a system I wanted to make), it's clear that a payments system does not have to be perfect to succeed, it just needs backing from banks and government. Presumably banks are wary of real micropayments because they make so much money from credit cards, the main alternative. Presumably governments are wary of real micropayments because they see their tax bases being nuked. I don't see either of these fundamentals changing soon. PayPal succeeded because they found a niche that was opening at the time, and were were very good, very lucky, to exploit it fully. But without credit cards in the background, PayPal would never have worked.
In the blue corner we have a web site that appears to sell something of use only to crooks and pedophiles. "Evidence Eliminator" sounds about as decent as "Sperm Washer" or "Easy Hotwire". In the red corner we have a shrill and somewhat incoherent geek with time to waste (and apparently more interested in getting even than getting a job). Both parties tend to long self-justified rants. We feel sympathy for the red corner because he seems to be motivated by morals rather than money. But wait... he just wants his reputation restored, does not care whether people are ripped off by the product. The blue corner are obviously the Bad Boys, the tag team of hate. They like shouting at the crowd more than actually getting down to business. We don't know quite what they're shouting about, but frankly, we can't wait for Red Boy to jump into the ring and smash their stupid heads against the ropes. Only Red Boy seems to lying unconscious on the floor... it's a Knock Out!!! The Slashdot crowd - all ten million of them - have jumped into the ring and are smashing the ref, the Tag Team of Hate, and Red Boy with anything they can get hold of: chairs, empty drink cans,... Later, order returns to the scene. The ref announces a draw, and everyone asks "what the heck was that about?" No-one seems to know, but one of the bikini-clad girls holding the score signs thinks that whatever it was, it wasn't worth breaking a nail over. She looks at her hand glumly. I mean... Jesus!!
You may think you have some control over the reigns of power, but look closely at any political system - an I challenge you to find one on earth that proves me wrong - and you will find a marketplace in which powerful men trade their power. Money, favors, other kinds of power... that is what politics and big business is about. You do not spend money randomly - why you believe so optimistically that those in power do?
The unsurprising truth about most such affairs is that governments rarely spend money because it benefits their constituents, they generally spend it because it benefits their friends, and themselves. How much of Verizon's money went straight back to the people making the decision? 10%? 15%? 20%?
This is what sex is all about. Plus I believe that sex is much more fun than cloning, and children are probably much more fun than clones.
Would you prefer to read the same Slashdot every day? No, the fun comes from the unexpected.
The sci-fi image of cloning ignores two little facts. First, the huge cost of rearing a person compared to the tiny cost of sperm+eggs. Second, that success in one lifetime means nothing for the next. Perhaps Einstein would not have understood email, or would have died from AIDS at 18. Each generation has to adapt slightly to an ever changing world, and this (to come back to my starting point) is what sex is about.
DNA sampling and profiling will be the single most important weapon against physical criminals (as compared to the slimy cyber sort). Scream all you like, but a national registry is inevitable: the promise will be that if you're innocent you have nothing to fear and if you're guilty, you can't escape. Step 1: DNA matching to try to find perpetrators of murders, rapes, etc. Step 2: DNA profiling to try to identify characteristics of perpetrator: gender, height, hair color... Step 3: full-blown facial reconstruction from DNA samples. Expect this around the same time as it becomes possible to _fake_ DNA samples, and smart criminals leave mickey-mouse DNA lying around. Lucky for the honest people, most criminals are stupid. Step 4: replacement of 'standard' tools such as fingerprinting and eye-witness identification (which is really, really unreliable). This seems inevitable. Joe Public has two options: accept it and try to live with it, or fight it and watch it happen anyhow.
Hey, man, I'm kinda glad I don't know shit about formula one. I mean, watching those damn buggies doing the streets of Monaco like some 20th century video game... been there, done that, prefer to watch paint dry and speculate about the nature of reality. Man, I've seen dung beetles that're more exciting than F1. Let's see... Schumacher might win? Nerve, danger, challenge? Nope, perfect round, perfect round, perfect round... zzzzz. Unless something goes Kaboom! or the girls pop off their T's, it's just seriously braindead bread for the masses. Now gotta get back to trolling Slashdot. _That'_s serious entertainment.
Watching silly men go Vrmmm vrmmm vrmmm vrmmm until one hits the crowd and explodes?
The best part of Formula One is the girls who shake the champagne. Maybe we can just dispense with the loud noisy machines and just have girls opening large bottles of champagne. Playboy in Space? Gotta be cheaper and more fun.
Vrmmm vrmmm vrmmmm... Nope, just does not do it for me.
Clearly only a prison sentence will teach these serialoffenders a lesson. This is not about a frustrated public taking what they want because there is no legal avenue to getting it, nor is it about a seriously tilted market in which the producers have created a monopoly intended solely to preserve their profits, nor is it about the influence of big business on government so that laws can be made to measure, the wealth of the commons assigned to those with the biggest pockets, and the cultural heritage of the world straight-jacketed into mediocre and tasteless 'norms' that aim to not offend, not to please. No, this is about hardened criminals gratuitously connecting their hacker-built insecured hardware boxes to the pirate super-highway and committing offenses so serious, so henious, that prison is, as I said, the only suitable offense. I thought that prohibition and the "war" on "drugs" would have taught us something about criminalization of large sectors of society. Guantanomo Bay is too good for these bastards, the law-makers.
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Ja, ja, mein trollz nach "interesting" gemoderaten, mein grosse humor ist nach "insightful" gemoderaten, und mein klassiek filosofy ist nach "-1 troll" gemoderaten... Ich gesnapt nicht!! :(
Und ve zegen "Klown", nicht "clown". Danke.
(The Smart is the Mercedes-built minicar you can see zipping around European cities).
Practical, easy to park, and completely disappointing sales.
Why? Most cars are not bought because they are economical or easy to park. They are bought because they are the meanest, biggest, fastest machines the limited budget will buy. Cars are as much, or more about conspicuous consumption as they are about getting from point A to point B.
It's a nice idea, but won't quite work as a "mine's bigger than your's" concept.
Perhaps they can steal some ideas from how Smarts are sold here: mainly rented out, plastered with advertising, since people love look at them, but hate the idea of doing the morning commute in them.
Make cities smaller, walk more.
Ja, das namen "Kroupware" ist untercompatible mit der "marketing" und "salez". Ve haf zehr lang geflamed unt gechat mit keine success. in Deutsch, "kroup" en "group" ist blinkindentic.
Ja, Slashdot namentrollz, genough mit dem "kind und kroup" joken. Ve asken zie einen gutten namen te finden. We zen unterserious. Das winner mit deze bestes namen ist kandidate fur ein Freiexemplar gewinnen. Achtung, frei als in "freies Bier"! Ja, ja. Ist Kool, nein?
... and I was studying to be a poet, driven by dreams of fame and fortune. "Learn Meter", my teacher told me, "understand the rhythm of the soul", he repeated as he hit me over the knuckles with a 2 by 4 when I miscounted my syllables. And now, after ten long years of poet school, I find that I have been replaced by a machine! Not any machine, even, but a mere Pentium 600!
Perhaps one day we will be able to meet, my machine opponent and I, for a final match. Yes, the machine has sex, and I have not, but I have drugs, and that is a lot. The crowd will decide: is poetry the expression of my purely human soul, or just (as I always suspected before my teacher beat the idea out of me) a jumble of pretty words?
This is exactly I want and therefore I assume arrogantly that it's what everyone else wants. 30 days is enough to get bored of a movie, and downloading is so much easier than going to the DVD store.
Now, perhaps a collaboration with some P2P distribution system so that I can actually profit from that fat line I have.
Excellent work, oh Disney. Now perhaps you can go and review that thing about stealing the world's folk histories but trying to copyright Mickey Mouse for infinity. Share and share, it's good for your cultural soul.
Most of the jobs of a hundred years, even 50 years ago have been eliminated by automation. Yet overall employment is greater, not less: 50 years ago, women were not counted as part of the workforce, so unemployment was strictly 50% and higher.
Today there are few farmers, welders, book keepers, secretaries, kitchen staff, bricklayers, fishermen, etc. But instead of 90% unemployment we have 5% unemployment, and a universe of new jobs: stock advisers, web site designers, translators, horoscope writers, etc. etc.
The huge bulk of human jobs are concerned with serving other humans, and this cannot be eliminated, nor should it. Simply the concept of 'service' shifts over time to more and more abstract forms. But it remains based on the principle that for anything complex you need done, there is probably someone who can do it better and cheaper than you, and all you have to do is find that person and exchange services and money.
The fast-food restaurant is, after all, just an outsourced kitchen.
So fears of mass unemployment are misplaced and easily countered by the historic record. In fact, as more and more banal jobs are automated, we can expect that the job market becomes more and more intesting, that the global economy becomes more and more vibrant, and that the overall wealth of the human race increases to levels we cannot even imagine today.
One of our more successful projects in Belgium was to replace humans with kiosks in a cement factory. Previously, three people sat in a dispatching office, assigning loads to lorry drivers. Loading happened for 8 hours per day. We built a system of unbreakable Linux kiosks (cement dust is nasty stuff) that boot from the network and can be unplugged and replaced in a few seconds. The factory now loads 24/24, has doubled their turnover, and the people who used to do the dispatching have been moved to other offices.
Now the human cost: another less efficient factory closed, some 50 jobs lost. But the cement factory we automated can compete happily with cheap cement from eastern Europe. Result: perhaps 300 jobs actually saved in total.
Improving efficiency has a short term cost and a long term benefit. Automation relieves people from doing boring work and is inevitable as technology makes it possible.
Businesses that do not automate when it's possible die, and dead businesses are good for nobody.
Lastly, I'll note that working hours in the west have dropped steadily over the last century, while our standard of living has increased. A large part of this equation is the automation of basic tasks that used to require human labour.
In a perfect world we can spend 10 hours a week supervising the robots, and 50 hours on our hobbies.
I suspect much more damage is done by people who know the passwords already: unhappy exemployees, crazy wives, blackmailed secretaries.
The only solution I can see is to store nothing confidential on computers. I already do this: all my valuable information is saved onto the memory of my digital camera (32 Mbytes can hold a lot of ASCII documents).
Now, if I can find those bastards that burgled my appartment last month and stole both my digital camera PLUS my backups I held on my MP3 player...!
Money, power, politics, control, generations.
Whenever there is a source of money or the chance of a source of money, people will try to control it. This is most dramatically seen by the instability of African states where oil or diamonds are discovered.
Secondly, the dispossed young are forever trying to redefine their world while those with money and power are forever trying to stop this happening. Think of the many Latin American dictatorships: old men in the army killing young protesting students.
What is happening to the Net is not unlike a coup d'etat, a modern right-wing hunger for money and power using 'civilized' tools but tools nonetheless: manipulation of language and the media, manipulation of laws and the courts, manipulation of trade and economics.
This is not a new kind of drama. It is the age-old story of revolution and counter-revolution.
Just because we're talking about 'copyright' does not mean the debate is polite, decent, or even restrained. When enough money and power are on the table, there is no big difference between disenfranchising people for arbitrary crimes, and executing people for arbitrary crimes. The end always justifies the means.
We are, IMHO, seeing the exposure of a 'vast right-wing conspiracy': Clinton was right to describe it so, wrong to think he was the target. We are all the the targets.
Luckily America is still a democracy, and there is exactly one way to unroll this movement towards an extremist right-wing state: the ballot box.
Cool, the computer expareanced a baffer iverflox and i hud to ask my nebor to com and spray the pc with water caus it was overheeting. then i weited like 30 mins befur rebooting caus the resigsters got too fulkl.
:) Me tryig trollwritng
folks, dont trie this at home!!! killz Winwows.
I beg to disagree. The only reason why the cost of clearing CC transactions is relatively high is that the business is so profitable. It is a pure circular logic: the companies that process credit card transactions spend (and waste) incredible amounts of money simply because they have it. Perhaps a better term would be 'marginal cost'. Given that banks and clearing houses have already spent their budgets on huge teams, massive installations and luxurious developments, the cost of one additional transaction is close to zero.
The end-user/business cost of such transactions is determined mainly by the market, and the US is notoriously uncompetitive.
In Europe we see direct debits being done for free and credit cards being used for tiny transactions, e.g. paying for parking.
Again: technical hurdles there are not. Willingness of the banks to sacrifice their 3% cut on trade is the biggest missing factor, feeble government support (not unrelated) is the second.
The point being that micropayments are _not_ a technical problem but a cultural one. Credit cards are not technically sophisticated but they are widespread. You imagine it's hard to replicate a payments network that does exactly what credit cards do? Easy technically, very hard for business reasons.
The real cost of collecting credit card payments is very close to zero, and there are many ways of reducing this still further (e.g. collecting many micropayments into larger chunks for settlement). This is not the issue: the will of financial institutions and governments is.
It's like security: the technical aspects all well and good, but social and business aspects are significantly harder to solve.
is it possible that microsoft are paying sco to become 'most hated business ever' so that we stop beating up on the redmond boys? i'm running out of logical alternatives for this story. i mean... does sco really believe that anyone believes that linux belongs to them?
Whenever you surf to an advertising-sponsored site you are paying.
I believe the problem with micropayments is the lack of a 'lender of last resort', namely a government backing the scheme. In countries where governments have shown an interest (Finland, Japan,...?) micropayments seem to work just like any other kind of virtual cash.
Certainly there is no technical hurdle to overcome: compared with giving someone your credit card and saying 'I trust you to take what I owe you and no more', and sending them a 'cheque' by email (PayPal) or by SMS (a system I wanted to make), it's clear that a payments system does not have to be perfect to succeed, it just needs backing from banks and government.
Presumably banks are wary of real micropayments because they make so much money from credit cards, the main alternative.
Presumably governments are wary of real micropayments because they see their tax bases being nuked.
I don't see either of these fundamentals changing soon.
PayPal succeeded because they found a niche that was opening at the time, and were were very good, very lucky, to exploit it fully. But without credit cards in the background, PayPal would never have worked.
is OK, but the real winner for the adult industry has got to be HSBC's rival Cl1t system. So much more to the point...
In the blue corner we have a web site that appears to sell something of use only to crooks and pedophiles. "Evidence Eliminator" sounds about as decent as "Sperm Washer" or "Easy Hotwire".
In the red corner we have a shrill and somewhat incoherent geek with time to waste (and apparently more interested in getting even than getting a job).
Both parties tend to long self-justified rants. We feel sympathy for the red corner because he seems to be motivated by morals rather than money. But wait... he just wants his reputation restored, does not care whether people are ripped off by the product.
The blue corner are obviously the Bad Boys, the tag team of hate. They like shouting at the crowd more than actually getting down to business. We don't know quite what they're shouting about, but frankly, we can't wait for Red Boy to jump into the ring and smash their stupid heads against the ropes.
Only Red Boy seems to lying unconscious on the floor... it's a Knock Out!!! The Slashdot crowd - all ten million of them - have jumped into the ring and are smashing the ref, the Tag Team of Hate, and Red Boy with anything they can get hold of: chairs, empty drink cans,...
Later, order returns to the scene. The ref announces a draw, and everyone asks "what the heck was that about?" No-one seems to know, but one of the bikini-clad girls holding the score signs thinks that whatever it was, it wasn't worth breaking a nail over. She looks at her hand glumly.
I mean... Jesus!!
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You may think you have some control over the reigns of power, but look closely at any political system - an I challenge you to find one on earth that proves me wrong - and you will find a marketplace in which powerful men trade their power. Money, favors, other kinds of power... that is what politics and big business is about.
You do not spend money randomly - why you believe so optimistically that those in power do?
It's "sell out your friends", not "sell your friends out". Now fuck the hell off and stop whining. Jeez.
The unsurprising truth about most such affairs is that governments rarely spend money because it benefits their constituents, they generally spend it because it benefits their friends, and themselves. How much of Verizon's money went straight back to the people making the decision? 10%? 15%? 20%?
This is what sex is all about. Plus I believe that sex is much more fun than cloning, and children are probably much more fun than clones.
Would you prefer to read the same Slashdot every day? No, the fun comes from the unexpected.
The sci-fi image of cloning ignores two little facts. First, the huge cost of rearing a person compared to the tiny cost of sperm+eggs. Second, that success in one lifetime means nothing for the next. Perhaps Einstein would not have understood email, or would have died from AIDS at 18. Each generation has to adapt slightly to an ever changing world, and this (to come back to my starting point) is what sex is about.
DNA sampling and profiling will be the single most important weapon against physical criminals (as compared to the slimy cyber sort). Scream all you like, but a national registry is inevitable: the promise will be that if you're innocent you have nothing to fear and if you're guilty, you can't escape.
Step 1: DNA matching to try to find perpetrators of murders, rapes, etc.
Step 2: DNA profiling to try to identify characteristics of perpetrator: gender, height, hair color...
Step 3: full-blown facial reconstruction from DNA samples. Expect this around the same time as it becomes possible to _fake_ DNA samples, and smart criminals leave mickey-mouse DNA lying around. Lucky for the honest people, most criminals are stupid.
Step 4: replacement of 'standard' tools such as fingerprinting and eye-witness identification (which is really, really unreliable).
This seems inevitable. Joe Public has two options: accept it and try to live with it, or fight it and watch it happen anyhow.
Hey, man, I'm kinda glad I don't know shit about formula one. I mean, watching those damn buggies doing the streets of Monaco like some 20th century video game... been there, done that, prefer to watch paint dry and speculate about the nature of reality. Man, I've seen dung beetles that're more exciting than F1. Let's see... Schumacher might win? Nerve, danger, challenge? Nope, perfect round, perfect round, perfect round... zzzzz. Unless something goes Kaboom! or the girls pop off their T's, it's just seriously braindead bread for the masses.
Now gotta get back to trolling Slashdot. _That'_s serious entertainment.
Watching silly men go Vrmmm vrmmm vrmmm vrmmm until one hits the crowd and explodes?
The best part of Formula One is the girls who shake the champagne. Maybe we can just dispense with the loud noisy machines and just have girls opening large bottles of champagne. Playboy in Space? Gotta be cheaper and more fun.
Vrmmm vrmmm vrmmmm... Nope, just does not do it for me.
Clearly only a prison sentence will teach these serialoffenders a lesson.
This is not about a frustrated public taking what they want because there is no legal avenue to getting it, nor is it about a seriously tilted market in which the producers have created a monopoly intended solely to preserve their profits, nor is it about the influence of big business on government so that laws can be made to measure, the wealth of the commons assigned to those with the biggest pockets, and the cultural heritage of the world straight-jacketed into mediocre and tasteless 'norms' that aim to not offend, not to please.
No, this is about hardened criminals gratuitously connecting their hacker-built insecured hardware boxes to the pirate super-highway and committing offenses so serious, so henious, that prison is, as I said, the only suitable offense.
I thought that prohibition and the "war" on "drugs" would have taught us something about criminalization of large sectors of society.
Guantanomo Bay is too good for these bastards, the law-makers.