I was thinking of making a system that would allow an aged family member to call for help to the other family members by simply shouting, for example if he had a bad fall and couldn't get up. The system would also tell him the time also vocally, could initiate a skype call, etc. I have actually seen a product by a European startup that is designed to do something similar (I believe you knock on a wall..) Such home systems to care for the aged would be hosed.
This article is brain-dead and has an agenda that ignores reality. If the author wants to promote sustainability and reduced consumption, he should have provided information about that, rather than try to rake in unfounded pronouncements on what is physically possible.
First of all, bringing in the magic of compound interest is also stupid and irrelevant because we are talking about current civilization. You can't talk about population at exponential growth in 100 years without talking about the technology we will have a century from now.
Secondly, there is a lot of energy in our environment. Way more than we need. Anyone who says there is no way in the world solar power can do x is just being stupid, 1) because it limits receiving area to a circle 8000 miles wide, instead of considering the surface area of say, an 8000 mile high ribbon as long as the circumference of the Earth's orbit. And 2) because there is lots of other energy available, like all that molten lava under us. To put it simply, he requires solving the problem of a society in 3013 and ignores potential technologies like solar power satellites and alternative fuel generation?
Our technology is not yet at a sufficient level to take advantage of the energy around us, and because our society has grown to take advantage of oil which is easy to get a lot of using relatively low technology, we are having a crunch. The crunch is stimulating us to try to develop new technologies. We may have a decades long energy crunch in our immediate future, but pronouncing things are impossible is just plain dumb.
Elon Musk's actual tweet: "Desire to help Boeing is real & am corresponding w 787 chief engineer. Junod's Esquire article had high fiction content." 3 days ago
All the rest about whoring, nothing if not a PR wiz, it's the wiring and control not the batteries, etc. is all a huge raft of solid bullshit, thanks Slashdot I don't get enough in my day job!!
Look, IANAEE but temperature and voltage control is apparently an integral part of these batteries. Even if the circuit is a 100m away and not inside the battery pack itself, or You can't just say it is the battery he's whoring, etc. Elon Musk has a huge amount of practical experience with this technology and nothing bad can come from offering to talk over their problems with Boeing, as he is doing. Nothing bad except of course, all this crazy dipshit hater stuff, starting apparently with an Esquire article and continuing into slashdot. Probably he could give them an idea of what to look for, or offer an alternate circuit design that is already FAA approved, etc. You'd have to be an idiot to turn down an offer to at least talk. Honestly it is amazing how the crap-fest volume approaches infinity immediately after a rare tweet from Mr. Musk. Who is a guy who actually accomplishes things.
Awesome! So will we have a remake of Rising Sun with China as the antagonist instead of Japan?
Let's see, we can work in say a Chinese router manufacturer, and a major U.S. database manufacturer, which buys the tech for a major software platform like say Java, and tie in purchases of real estate by Chinese cartels under assumed names, and uh, the Chinese military of course, and we can have some hot Chinese or maybe Taiwanese-American engineer at some corporate lab or maybe U.S. university.. it all seems to be pretty realistic. But who will play Sean Connery's role?
Apple P.I.E. (Programmer's Interactive Editor). I wish I could find it somewhere.
google can't understand: "apple p.i.e." "apple ][" software
was it harvard software? I think it came in a faux-leather binder Wang style dedicated word processing hardware.. WriteRoom looks a little like it.. darn my copy seems to have expired.
My Dad has degenerating eyes (only one eye works) but he says if he couldn't read spy novels he doesn't know what he'd do. He is not into technology. He uses a simple hand-held magnifying glass to read large-print novels from the library. We got him a hand-held one with big lens and LED but the brightness startled him (he's in his 80s) and the magnification was inappropriate, or something, can't use it. Though we'll try again maybe. Assistive tools (we've also been trying a new cheap hearing aid but not sure if that's going to work...) are not easy, and not welcomed always by aged people... in other words you could invest money to make a system and find out he/she prefers not to use it. We have a huge screen tv which he can't use, the contrast ratio is not high enough for him to see ordinary tv. I don't have high hopes for him using that with a hand-held camera. I can imagine a 10" android tablet with an extremely light-weight wireless camera, I don't know if there is a high enough resolution one with an android phone that could work.. that would also give him something to call for help if he fell or something. I had an idea to research a diy book reader like what already exists with a big screen and a camera, and things that hold pages down, but maybe getting a really large tablet and using e-books is the best. The big print books from the library are hard-cover thousands of pages monstrosities! If you have any ideas let me know. The obvious answer is not always the best.
Even so, if the universe is a simulation one would expect to see alert messages such as "Please wait... Loading level 2" or "Undefined pointer at 0xa0123ebf6a78ca2a@20010db8:00000000:0000ff00:00428329"
Honestly where is the invention in this. Why don't companies get a clue that it is negative PR to be patenting obvious things like laying mines for unsuspecting people to stumble over and get sued!
If you aren't interested in things Japanese I wouldn't go for it. It will take a long time to become fluent but the equivalent of a few years in college is enough to be able to get around pretty well. But even if you only learned a small number of verbs, nouns, adjectives, plus learn the two phonetic alphabets (50 characters each) and say 50 common kanji characters you can be very self-independent and expressive, and people will think you are wonderful. Though mainly that is about personality and not language ability, i.e. communicating enthusiasm, humor and interest. There is a term called "nommunication" in Japanese. Nomu means to drink, you can translate the rest! Ikou-ze! (Let's go!)
As much as I want to like Google they really slip up sometimes. Regardless of whether there is a good reason for the latest change, Google has absolutely no qualms about the way it draws large numbers of people to use what is perceived as public infrastructure (it isn't, but Google search being the ubiquitous, number one engine there is a gray area in perceptions of trustworthiness), then drops it (infrastructure services) like a hot potato if the numbers don't meet their definition of "huge". You can't just do something like this and imagine that instantly throwing large numbers of people into confusion, not just about this service but about all Google services, is a morally responsible thing to do. At the very least an email to nonpaying customers as well would have been the right thing to do. And regarding the "costs so little it isn't an issue" argument is specious at best. For someone who has no budget available at all, or who uses self-signed certs for minimal security, suddenly being forced to do anything at all is a use of resources, time=money, which they did not have available. I am not affected by this move and while I have used gmail I do not depend on it, and I have been burned in the past by changes in Google services. So what I'm saying is basically, Google resembles Microsoft. Microsoft does an embrace/extend/extinguish thing where you get drawn in and then can't get out. Google draws you in with sexy services (the bastards!;) well that is okay) but god forbid you actually use the stuff, you have to live in fear and that fear is what Google now thinks is a good reason to pay for services. My impression is that mainly nonprofits, students and people without money lying around use free services so they are being harmed. Also, whatever a cert costs, it may not be much in U.S. terms but Google is global.
Before I knew about this story, in a cab this evening I was asked by a European what I thought about the U.S. I said there is something wrong with it, something fundamentally morally wrong. I mentioned how strident and militaristic the country has become over the past 20 years, how the media is complicit, how nobody ever mentions what seem to be huge numbers of civilians killed in the Iraq war, which in another country would be grounds for a war crimes trial.. and how students get tazed.
I said I thought something has gone wrong, that there is a big moral dilemma. I see this being an American who has lived outside the U.S. for a while. He seemed relieved saying he totally agreed. Then I come home and read about a tasing in an Apple Store.
Casual tazing and ultra-cynical liars in office and on the TV really worries me, the more I think about it the more it worries me. It isn't about export or not. Listen. There is a deep disease in the moral fiber or psychological constitution or socialized norms, whatever you call it, that reflects a ruinous self-negation in the U.S.A., that counterbalances all the wonderful things like slashdot and makers and late night comedians exposing hypocrisy, and summer barbecues and bookstores, oh lots of things. If people had their heads screwed on right the extreme prejudice of cops like this would cause them to be immediately kicked out and hounded mercilessly by the masses who are reading about it online right now. This does not happen because the actions of these officers is an organic result of a major imbalance that is unchecked.
My first idea is that the imbalance is fueled by a power-hungry elite, by a cynical military-industrial-financial complex but to tell you the truth that is bullshit. It is because everyone, all of you, and me, and your families and friends, are all self satisfied consumers of information who, once satisfied in an ADHD kind of sense with having taken in the information, ignores it and will not act on it, because of being media saturated and socialized. People often joke about how far off the conservative edge are both conservatives and liberals in the U.S. but that is because THE NORM IS OFF-BALANCE AND SLIDING. I do not have an answer but I urge you to think about what you can do to find one.
Just curious is http or https used to upload the spy payload to canonical? And when you purchase, is the purchase actually going to Amazon without going through Canonical's servers, or is Canonical also sent a notification from your spyware of your purchase?
I thought linux was seen as more trustworthy than windows but this hurts it. As someone said, this is exporting a naive young gamer's mentality onto every single person in the world who might find a linux desktop useful. Anybody / any corp/governent with a sniffer and other data to aggregate can make whatever use they want of your private information. As an example imagine someone in a divorce case I could imagine a lawyer being able to obtain info that you were searching for singles sites. Or someone living under an oppressive regime searching for great firewall proxies, or religious sites, or whatever community or product, it is immoral and potentially dangerous for them to use a computer that is constantly reporting their searches to at least two companies (canonical and amazon) at all times.
If you want to stop it, you should get journalist to pick up on it and maybe initiate a government inquiry. I could even see foreign countries' governments getting upset that local queries are sent to U.S. firms without notification! Someone tell the German government they are usually interested in this sort of thing.
Now that we have an unmanned cargo to orbit, I would like to see a bounty for private industry to establish fuel, water and food dumps on the Moon using unmanned landers and remote controlled semi-automatic construction. Surely such an asset would be of use to future projects?
This only works in one flavor of the universe where people vote based on prediction markets. Only Romney diehards would do so, therefore the point is moot.
In the future this might work in a MMORG populated by ADHD maniacs. They have drunk the kool-aid and trapped themselves in a parallel crazy universe where there is no difference between voting for mayor of Tunesville and mousing over a +1 button. Real world, people think between stepping away from computer and driving to the polls.
I have a feeling the world is approaching what he is saying, with asymptote 50-100 years away, but at the moment it seems you screw yourself the deeper you work out the game theory. Or in other words, naive cyber markets are doomed to fall to the army of financial math experts paid oodles to learn how to play real markets, once they notice you. Pray for obscurity...
> People think that Romney's chances have gone up, > so they become more incentivized to support him and > vote for him, and soon his chances actually have gone up
There wouldn't be a blue LED or blue laser then. Not for a long time perhaps. Shunji Nakamura put in a lot of extra effort, when told to give up, and invented the blue led, then after a lot more effort won a landmark suit that gives Japanese inventors rights to compensation for their inventions. Even though it has been seen as unseemly to "grub for money" in Japan.
If everyone shares, who invents? Nobody has to because it is all shared, right? Inventors should get rights to their inventions, and their employers can participate in that to the extent they are spending company time. It would truly be ironic if the country known for inventiveness succeeded during its final slide into obscurity to shoot itself in the head. It will be remembered in infamy as "Pulling a U.S." Doh!
You might be able to organically grow a machine in an environment that required it to be moral to survive. But once it detects loopholes, or is put in an environment that does not have such rules it is likely that a machine capable of organic growth would cease to be moral and instead take advantage of all dimensions of potential behaviors. Perhaps if there was a community of machines that constantly observed each other.. oh wait if they all find a good reason they can still go to war. On the other hand it is possible that a machine might have a better chance at being moral than man, because it logically decides that is the best way to act. Not sure how you could tell on the face of it which kind of machine you've got though. It could evolve its philosophy pretty quickly, like in between sentences.
Google probably has the ability to deal with the problem, if it spent money to write some custom code or pattern matching rule. But it sounds like the judges don't understand the Internet or imagine Google could conceivably do the same thing times the number of people in the world who imagine something is libelous at some time in their lives. I don't get what was wrong with what Google told him to do. Is there no higher court in Australia? Or does Google maybe want to wait a while for the society to change in its favor before testing it.
SImple. They were buying what they thought was a great deal and the cheapest computer around, as this is the only computer christmas present they could buy while thinking it is a real computer.
Slashdot Mirror
I was thinking of making a system that would allow an aged family member to call for help to the other family members by simply shouting, for example if he had a bad fall and couldn't get up. The system would also tell him the time also vocally, could initiate a skype call, etc.
I have actually seen a product by a European startup that is designed to do something similar (I believe you knock on a wall..)
Such home systems to care for the aged would be hosed.
This article is brain-dead and has an agenda that ignores reality. If the author wants to promote sustainability and reduced consumption, he should have provided information about that, rather than try to rake in unfounded pronouncements on what is physically possible.
First of all, bringing in the magic of compound interest is also stupid and irrelevant because we are talking about current civilization. You can't talk about population at exponential growth in 100 years without talking about the technology we will have a century from now.
Secondly, there is a lot of energy in our environment. Way more than we need. Anyone who says there is no way in the world solar power can do x is just being stupid, 1) because it limits receiving area to a circle 8000 miles wide, instead of considering the surface area of say, an 8000 mile high ribbon as long as the circumference of the Earth's orbit. And 2) because there is lots of other energy available, like all that molten lava under us. To put it simply, he requires solving the problem of a society in 3013 and ignores potential technologies like solar power satellites and alternative fuel generation?
Our technology is not yet at a sufficient level to take advantage of the energy around us, and because our society has grown to take advantage of oil which is easy to get a lot of using relatively low technology, we are having a crunch. The crunch is stimulating us to try to develop new technologies. We may have a decades long energy crunch in our immediate future, but pronouncing things are impossible is just plain dumb.
Elon Musk's actual tweet: "Desire to help Boeing is real & am corresponding w 787 chief engineer. Junod's Esquire article had high fiction content." 3 days ago
All the rest about whoring, nothing if not a PR wiz, it's the wiring and control not the batteries, etc. is all a huge raft of solid bullshit, thanks Slashdot I don't get enough in my day job!!
Look, IANAEE but temperature and voltage control is apparently an integral part of these batteries. Even if the circuit is a 100m away and not inside the battery pack itself, or You can't just say it is the battery he's whoring, etc. Elon Musk has a huge amount of practical experience with this technology and nothing bad can come from offering to talk over their problems with Boeing, as he is doing. Nothing bad except of course, all this crazy dipshit hater stuff, starting apparently with an Esquire article and continuing into slashdot. Probably he could give them an idea of what to look for, or offer an alternate circuit design that is already FAA approved, etc. You'd have to be an idiot to turn down an offer to at least talk. Honestly it is amazing how the crap-fest volume approaches infinity immediately after a rare tweet from Mr. Musk. Who is a guy who actually accomplishes things.
Awesome! So will we have a remake of Rising Sun with China as the antagonist instead of Japan?
Let's see, we can work in say a Chinese router manufacturer, and a major U.S. database manufacturer, which buys the tech for a major software platform like say Java, and tie in purchases of real estate by Chinese cartels under assumed names, and uh, the Chinese military of course, and we can have some hot Chinese or maybe Taiwanese-American engineer at some corporate lab or maybe U.S. university.. it all seems to be pretty realistic. But who will play Sean Connery's role?
Apple P.I.E. (Programmer's Interactive Editor). I wish I could find it somewhere.
google can't understand: "apple p.i.e." "apple ][" software
was it harvard software? I think it came in a faux-leather binder
Wang style dedicated word processing hardware.. WriteRoom looks a little like it.. darn my copy seems to have expired.
Granted there are a lot of cables going every which way over there. But a lot of the connectivity seems to go via British holdings up to Miami eventually. Or is Venezuela a connectivity powerhouse I didn't know about? I don't see them using their troposphere scattering to Europe but then again, maybe they will just run a shell game on mega? The links are:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECFS_(cable_system)
http://www.submarinecablemap.com/
http://www.indexmundi.com/antigua_and_barbuda/telephone_system.html
http://www.globalcaribbean.net/pages/en/network-system/route-description.php?lang=EN
My Dad has degenerating eyes (only one eye works) but he says if he couldn't read spy novels he doesn't know what he'd do. He is not into technology. He uses a simple hand-held magnifying glass to read large-print novels from the library. We got him a hand-held one with big lens and LED but the brightness startled him (he's in his 80s) and the magnification was inappropriate, or something, can't use it. Though we'll try again maybe. Assistive tools (we've also been trying a new cheap hearing aid but not sure if that's going to work...) are not easy, and not welcomed always by aged people... in other words you could invest money to make a system and find out he/she prefers not to use it.
We have a huge screen tv which he can't use, the contrast ratio is not high enough for him to see ordinary tv. I don't have high hopes for him using that with a hand-held camera.
I can imagine a 10" android tablet with an extremely light-weight wireless camera, I don't know if there is a high enough resolution one with an android phone that could work.. that would also give him something to call for help if he fell or something.
I had an idea to research a diy book reader like what already exists with a big screen and a camera, and things that hold pages down, but maybe getting a really large tablet and using e-books is the best. The big print books from the library are hard-cover thousands of pages monstrosities!
If you have any ideas let me know. The obvious answer is not always the best.
Even so, if the universe is a simulation one would expect to see alert messages such as "Please wait... Loading level 2" or "Undefined pointer at 0xa0123ebf6a78ca2a@20010db8:00000000:0000ff00:00428329"
Honestly where is the invention in this.
Why don't companies get a clue that it is negative PR to be patenting obvious things like laying mines for unsuspecting people to stumble over and get sued!
If you aren't interested in things Japanese I wouldn't go for it. It will take a long time to become fluent but the equivalent of a few years in college is enough to be able to get around pretty well. But even if you only learned a small number of verbs, nouns, adjectives, plus learn the two phonetic alphabets (50 characters each) and say 50 common kanji characters you can be very self-independent and expressive, and people will think you are wonderful. Though mainly that is about personality and not language ability, i.e. communicating enthusiasm, humor and interest. There is a term called "nommunication" in Japanese. Nomu means to drink, you can translate the rest! Ikou-ze! (Let's go!)
This is so it can act as a filter/router he says. There is a use case someone wanted something like this just recently on /.
As much as I want to like Google they really slip up sometimes. ;) well that is okay) but god forbid you actually use the stuff, you have to live in fear and that fear is what Google now thinks is a good reason to pay for services. My impression is that mainly nonprofits, students and people without money lying around use free services so they are being harmed. Also, whatever a cert costs, it may not be much in U.S. terms but Google is global.
Regardless of whether there is a good reason for the latest change, Google has absolutely no qualms about the way it draws large numbers of people to use what is perceived as public infrastructure (it isn't, but Google search being the ubiquitous, number one engine there is a gray area in perceptions of trustworthiness), then drops it (infrastructure services) like a hot potato if the numbers don't meet their definition of "huge".
You can't just do something like this and imagine that instantly throwing large numbers of people into confusion, not just about this service but about all Google services, is a morally responsible thing to do. At the very least an email to nonpaying customers as well would have been the right thing to do.
And regarding the "costs so little it isn't an issue" argument is specious at best. For someone who has no budget available at all, or who uses self-signed certs for minimal security, suddenly being forced to do anything at all is a use of resources, time=money, which they did not have available.
I am not affected by this move and while I have used gmail I do not depend on it, and I have been burned in the past by changes in Google services.
So what I'm saying is basically, Google resembles Microsoft. Microsoft does an embrace/extend/extinguish thing where you get drawn in and then can't get out. Google draws you in with sexy services (the bastards!
Before I knew about this story, in a cab this evening I was asked by a European what I thought about the U.S. I said there is something wrong with it, something fundamentally morally wrong. I mentioned how strident and militaristic the country has become over the past 20 years, how the media is complicit, how nobody ever mentions what seem to be huge numbers of civilians killed in the Iraq war, which in another country would be grounds for a war crimes trial.. and how students get tazed.
I said I thought something has gone wrong, that there is a big moral dilemma. I see this being an American who has lived outside the U.S. for a while. He seemed relieved saying he totally agreed. Then I come home and read about a tasing in an Apple Store.
Casual tazing and ultra-cynical liars in office and on the TV really worries me, the more I think about it the more it worries me. It isn't about export or not. Listen. There is a deep disease in the moral fiber or psychological constitution or socialized norms, whatever you call it, that reflects a ruinous self-negation in the U.S.A., that counterbalances all the wonderful things like slashdot and makers and late night comedians exposing hypocrisy, and summer barbecues and bookstores, oh lots of things. If people had their heads screwed on right the extreme prejudice of cops like this would cause them to be immediately kicked out and hounded mercilessly by the masses who are reading about it online right now. This does not happen because the actions of these officers is an organic result of a major imbalance that is unchecked.
My first idea is that the imbalance is fueled by a power-hungry elite, by a cynical military-industrial-financial complex but to tell you the truth that is bullshit. It is because everyone, all of you, and me, and your families and friends, are all self satisfied consumers of information who, once satisfied in an ADHD kind of sense with having taken in the information, ignores it and will not act on it, because of being media saturated and socialized. People often joke about how far off the conservative edge are both conservatives and liberals in the U.S. but that is because THE NORM IS OFF-BALANCE AND SLIDING. I do not have an answer but I urge you to think about what you can do to find one.
xrandr to rotate screen (nvidia/linux)
Tires+caltrops=hot day in the sun
Just curious is http or https used to upload the spy payload to canonical?
And when you purchase, is the purchase actually going to Amazon without going through Canonical's servers, or is Canonical also sent a notification from your spyware of your purchase?
I thought linux was seen as more trustworthy than windows but this hurts it. As someone said, this is exporting a naive young gamer's mentality onto every single person in the world who might find a linux desktop useful. Anybody / any corp/governent with a sniffer and other data to aggregate can make whatever use they want of your private information. As an example imagine someone in a divorce case I could imagine a lawyer being able to obtain info that you were searching for singles sites. Or someone living under an oppressive regime searching for great firewall proxies, or religious sites, or whatever community or product, it is immoral and potentially dangerous for them to use a computer that is constantly reporting their searches to at least two companies (canonical and amazon) at all times.
If you want to stop it, you should get journalist to pick up on it and maybe initiate a government inquiry. I could even see foreign countries' governments getting upset that local queries are sent to U.S. firms without notification! Someone tell the German government they are usually interested in this sort of thing.
Now that we have an unmanned cargo to orbit, I would like to see a bounty for private industry to establish fuel, water and food dumps on the Moon using unmanned landers and remote controlled semi-automatic construction. Surely such an asset would be of use to future projects?
Obviously it should be written in perl (ducks)
This only works in one flavor of the universe where people vote based on prediction markets.
Only Romney diehards would do so, therefore the point is moot.
In the future this might work in a MMORG populated by ADHD maniacs. They have drunk the kool-aid and trapped themselves in a parallel crazy universe where there is no difference between voting for mayor of Tunesville and mousing over a +1 button. Real world, people think between stepping away from computer and driving to the polls.
I have a feeling the world is approaching what he is saying, with asymptote 50-100 years away, but at the moment it seems you screw yourself the deeper you work out the game theory. Or in other words, naive cyber markets are doomed to fall to the army of financial math experts paid oodles to learn how to play real markets, once they notice you. Pray for obscurity...
> People think that Romney's chances have gone up,
> so they become more incentivized to support him and
> vote for him, and soon his chances actually have gone up
There wouldn't be a blue LED or blue laser then. Not for a long time perhaps.
Shunji Nakamura put in a lot of extra effort, when told to give up, and invented the blue led, then after a lot more effort won a landmark suit that gives Japanese inventors rights to compensation for their inventions. Even though it has been seen as unseemly to "grub for money" in Japan.
If everyone shares, who invents? Nobody has to because it is all shared, right? Inventors should get rights to their inventions, and their employers can participate in that to the extent they are spending company time. It would truly be ironic if the country known for inventiveness succeeded during its final slide into obscurity to shoot itself in the head. It will be remembered in infamy as "Pulling a U.S." Doh!
What if that is a common name somewhere?
You might be able to organically grow a machine in an environment that required it to be moral to survive.
But once it detects loopholes, or is put in an environment that does not have such rules it is likely that a machine capable of organic growth would cease to be moral and instead take advantage of all dimensions of potential behaviors.
Perhaps if there was a community of machines that constantly observed each other.. oh wait if they all find a good reason they can still go to war.
On the other hand it is possible that a machine might have a better chance at being moral than man, because it logically decides that is the best way to act. Not sure how you could tell on the face of it which kind of machine you've got though. It could evolve its philosophy pretty quickly, like in between sentences.
I was interested in looking around.. how about these?
PC Engines ALIX 1D is $110
http://www.wezm.net/technical/2011/12/openwrt-on-alix/
http://www.pcengines.ch/order1.php?c=4
LyconSys MRT150N mini-vpn-router is 99 EUR on Amazon Germany
http://www.lyconsys.com/index.php/en/products/minivpnrouters
http://www.amazon.de/Mini-VPN-Router-MRT150N-WLAN-150-MBit/dp/B0040G9F8I/ref=cm_pdp_imgs_itm_title_1/279-9174569-5637012
Google probably has the ability to deal with the problem, if it spent money to write some custom code or pattern matching rule. But it sounds like the judges don't understand the Internet or imagine Google could conceivably do the same thing times the number of people in the world who imagine something is libelous at some time in their lives. I don't get what was wrong with what Google told him to do. Is there no higher court in Australia? Or does Google maybe want to wait a while for the society to change in its favor before testing it.
SImple. They were buying what they thought was a great deal and the cheapest computer around, as this is the only computer christmas present they could buy while thinking it is a real computer.