So, what are the stats for how much it costs the govenment to keep a person for a year? Let's be conservative and say $25,000 USD.
Now lets multiply that by the number of people who have put an mp3 up for download. How much will it cost the government to fully institute this plan?
Wasn't there a case recently where a man was sent to jail for tracking his significant-other's whereabouts by using a GPS-enabled cell phone placed in the trunk of her car? So this is legal for the police but not for everyone?
... if someone analyzed the security of the nation and then published a report citing specific weaknesses, stating that it would be easy to bomb location X or infiltrate power station Y? What if they provided specific instructions on just how to do it?
Is it that so different than someone exposing security holes in an operating system that many people use for storing personal and business information and mission-critical or medical applications?
(my opinion) Critical security problems should be reported to Microsoft first, to allow them a chance to repair the issue, before it is released publicly. And this should not be a matter of law or policy - in either case of Microsoft or national security - just pure common sense.
- NCDave
This sounds similar to Project 2501, originally developed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Its traversals of the net spawned something far more complex, possibly on the verge on being sentient.
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So, what are the stats for how much it costs the govenment to keep a person for a year? Let's be conservative and say $25,000 USD. Now lets multiply that by the number of people who have put an mp3 up for download. How much will it cost the government to fully institute this plan?
Wasn't there a case recently where a man was sent to jail for tracking his significant-other's whereabouts by using a GPS-enabled cell phone placed in the trunk of her car? So this is legal for the police but not for everyone?
... if someone analyzed the security of the nation and then published a report citing specific weaknesses, stating that it would be easy to bomb location X or infiltrate power station Y? What if they provided specific instructions on just how to do it? Is it that so different than someone exposing security holes in an operating system that many people use for storing personal and business information and mission-critical or medical applications? (my opinion) Critical security problems should be reported to Microsoft first, to allow them a chance to repair the issue, before it is released publicly. And this should not be a matter of law or policy - in either case of Microsoft or national security - just pure common sense. - NCDave
This sounds similar to Project 2501, originally developed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Its traversals of the net spawned something far more complex, possibly on the verge on being sentient.
For more information, see Project 2501 .