Phase 1: Private testing: IE what google is in now
Compile data of every accident or near accident that the drivers saved themselves from by going manual.
Phase 2: Limited beta... IE google gives out 100 cars in the way they do with glass right now, slowly expand until about 5,000 cars are out for a year.
Phase 3: Public beta: This will technically be called release, but this timeframe is really going to be all about collecting massive amount of data, and waiting until autonomous cars are down to about 1% of humans
Phase 4: When we hit actual safety. Manual drive mode will be removed and outlawed. Software updates will become part of the safety inspections required on cars yearly. accident fatalities will drop into the hundreds.
I know long before the terry childs case, I remember my IT teachers explaining that if you took off with passwords etc... to anything they didn't have an account over, the standard response is to hire some rediculously overpriced person who is paid by the hour to gradually break into it, then have the courts foot you the bill. I don't get why this is shocking. The Terry Childs case was a bit of an exception, namely because of his claim that the person who he was under the impression he was supposed to give the information too, was not present. IE childs was not saying he wouldn't give the password unless he was rehired or paid. He was explicitly saying he was going to give the password, but not to the middle manager who was asking him for it. Child's case he could have been screwed either way, giving the admin password to someone who shouldn't have it, makes you liable for the damages they cause... but refusing to give the password, is also a suable offense. If you know who has the rights to the password, and have access, there's no room for debate at all
Far from the present where they are, but there is more of an incentive. It is worth noting a rise in use of unity, web based programs etc... It is far from everywhere, but it is a slow and steady increase.
The year of the psudo-linux home PC has arrived!!!!! Now having a tight match-up between apple and google, while Microsoft kind of fighting to get in the door... Which I kind of find ironic. Of course I have to say, I'm not a huge fan of either of the main competitors, nor the standard of walled gardens, but what I am a fan of, is having 2 competitors with drastically different base OS, giving developers an incentive to develop onto platform independent technologies, which is good for the existence of home-brews, Linux PCs etc...
I think the problem lies in the intentional moronification of the people. They will take the time, fight protests, and ignore the masses when it comes to, ensuring tax cuts of the corporations, billionares etc... they will compensate for it by cutting as much funding etc... to our school systems. We allow banks to pay a barely visible fraction of interests on loans vs student loan debts, and with the rediculously massive price of higher education... we need scholarships... of which a good portion of go to people who have little interest in education, but rather are hoping that they land the tiny 1% chance of going professional in their sporting career.
Well ya see, you need a 3,000 lb car to protect you from getting killed when you get hit by a 2,000 lb car... but now the roads are dangerous from the 3,000 LB cars, we really need to make a 4,000 LB car to protect us.
Well there is a line and it's not quite as distinct as we'd like to say. If a man walks into a bank with a gun, says "give me the money", and then is promptly tackled by an undercover officer... Was it attempted robbery, or just free speach mixed with violating the no fire arms sign at the front door, that doesn't become a crime until he physically gets his hands on the money? There are certainly stages prior to the crime that are in fact incriminating, and worthy of at the very least, investigation. But getting locked in jail should certainly require more than just words.
I would stand behind the police on the grounds that, that facebook message was not enough to make any assessment of the threat. I would not be so lenient on the parents who had more data points than facebook to work with, and if a teacher or such was to have seen it, they should have the kid sent in for a psych evaluation. The false dichotomy of send the kid to prison, or completely ignore it, is where the problem is getting in the way. Yup under our current legal system that is more or less the options the police have, but why the police can't simply report it to the school, or department of mental health as a red flag that needs to be INVESTIGATED I have no idea. Technology, the police state etc... we have more access to information than ever before. Making a decent decision based off of the information available has never been easier, and yet instead, we seem to think that every scenerio needs to either be handled at the first red flag, or dismissed.
Of course... the idea is yes if you catch something like that you should indeed investigate... what people seem to lack is a distinction between investigate and convict... Sounds to me like a simple psych evaluation would more likely than not give an accurate threat assessment, as to whether the kid needs to be kept away from weapons and put into therapy, or simply warned to watch what he says. Also worth noting, in neither situation is the idea "surround him with criminals, ensure that he is completly unhirable afterwards a scenario that is going to lead to a high probability of someone winding up becoming a rehabilitated law abiding citizen. If he wasn't dangerous before getting locked up... the US prison system has a good chance of turning him that way.
first part, pretty accurate, but I know at least some people weren't big fans of the backskatter rays at airports etc... and yup also to the fact that the FBI can get a pretty good detail on your activities from outside of your house etc... But there also certainly is a distinction between A. When there is enough probable cause that it is worth it to put a few men and a van outside of your house... vs on a whim the FBI being able to go "OK how many people in chicago seem to be working on building something in their basement... 600 OK lets check them all out". Much like why there is a distinction between "if the police have probable cause they can get a warrant to wiretap you" vs "everyone is wiretapped, and if you say one of 50 keywords the conversation is going to be flagged, listened to and then possibly escalated".
Having the information yourself is generally not bad... The prism privacy concerns certainly can be a bit scary though... IE you being able to map out your house = cool. Hypothetical future adaptations... say your roomate getting a partial mapping of what you look like naked under a door.... not quite as cool.... Then the FBI having a general mapping of what rooms you go in in your house, how often... what they might skew as "suspicious activity" etc... is a bit closer to troubling. "Umm sir we could see you were in your basement 4 hours a day with a screwdriver in your hands working on something... we need to confirm whether you are adjusting a CB radio, or a pipe bomb.
Well there is the hypothetical future. IE say facial recognition, you are walking drunkenly down the street, some other person who doesn't know you is also walking down the street filming something else (or hell lets make up a hypothetical orwellion the cameras always record now), and you are caught in the background throwing up on a fire hydrant. Facial recognition technology tags you... and puts you up there. 3 weeks later, you have a job interview and part of HR's roll now involves running a quick search of videos you are tagged in, and checking a few things out...
Now admitted, this hypothetical is pretty extreme, pretty improbable, and downright silly in parts not that every piece of it isn't possible within the next decade or so, but that in addition to being possible, the ramification of it also involve at minimum 400 videos involving you getting tagged and uploaded on a monthly basis. The only real danger that exists in that stage, is the obsessive stalkers, actually being able to follow you for miles and years without even violating a restraining order.
I never said the market wants the wii U. The fact that even the Wii is selling better, implies clearly something went horribly wrong in either the design of the marketing of the Wii U. I'm just not following the "well the Wii U flopped, nintendo should instead focus on selling games on it's competitors consoles. Instead I think nintendo should release just enough games to Wii U to keep it afloat, and start focusing on it's next system. In my opinion the WiiU's failure came in it's naming and branding. Honestly with the name, people think it's just a mediocre extension of the wii etc... On hearing the name wii-u, people don't think new console, rather an add on or something to the wii. I agree the wii U is doing poorly and that fact is unlikely to change in the near future. In my opinion that means nintendo should keep enough content for the wii-u to not disgruntle and leave the people who purchased the wii-u feeling like they were ripped off, and devote the rest of things towards making a better next system, to hit sometime in the middle of the PS4 and XboxOne generation.
I'd still have to question the concept that the current market doesn't want that, the WiiU seemed to do it poorly, but it could very well just be that the wii U didn't do it as well as the wii. Nintendo would fall behind in the hardcore market, but in terms of sales, that was irrelevant, a noteworthy portion of the really hardcore market picks up every console as long as one game fits their desires, but where the original wii took home the bacon, was indeed in the casual market. IE people who buy a console and play it every couple of months. Consoles are currently struggling with the PC market, with the lines between the 2 getting blurryer and blurryer, they are having a hard time standing on the same territory, Nintendo is focusing on gimics to try and give itself something that none of it's competition offered. sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Take a look at japanese arcades vs american arcades. In america, arcades stuck to the same shooters + fighting games etc.. that sell well in the home gaming market. In japan, they focused on games that had accessories that would set people back quite a ways. (See table flip games, boxing games, dancing games etc...) American arcades barely dabbled in these styles of games (yeah you'll find 1 dance dance revolution machine in the average arcade, but for the most part, same generic games that are almost identical to the ones on PC or console). As a result, arcades in japan are still hot hangouts, and in america, going out of business like crazy.
First off I really get sick of the "well nintendo's system might come in last, so they will go 3rd party". First off if history is anything to go by, that ain't going to happen. Nintendo is as determined and as stuborn as sega. Contrary to popular thought, sega didn't go down after 1 system failure. Sega had 1 success, and a huge series of failures. Genisis, Success, gamegear, failure, segaCD failure, 32x failure, Saturn Failure, Dreamcast, not quite a failure, but not particularly profitable, not enough to pull sega out of it's financial crisis it hit form the previous failures. Nintendo on the other hand, has pretty much profited on every system (possibly with the exception of the virtualboy). Even the systems that failed to overtake the competition, such as the N64 and the gamecube, were profitable. If say the WiiU tanks, and say performs on par with the sega saturn, nintendo is not going to just go 3rd party, it doesn't suit them. Look at sega right now. I don't know why, but them turning 3rd party had a pretty negative impact on their games. People who found it worth it to buy a dreamcast just for the handful of great sega titles, don't even find modern sega titles worth picking up
Advertising is essential for that company, and the middleman always profits, Targeted ads have saved most companies money, and average users annoyance, by not spending as much money on not flooding people with ads for things they are unlikely to consider. Unless you are assuming a utopian society in which nobody needs to spend money on advertising, the idea that the companies advertising costs are tacked onto you, while true, a company making those ads more effective is giving the company the option to LOWER their price for their item, rather than raise it.
Not necessarily, I agree that Reveille should have the rights to make you take down the video etc..., I would fully disagree, if lets say your video did add something to it, in the case of a lets play etc... there is almost always some of it's own content (IE the player commenting on the game, giving advice, etc..., at the very least there is the players playing of the game, the choices he made within the game, etc...). Now lets say someone made a video of the office, added in his own voice commentary etc... Lets say he MST3Ked it, or maybe he opens the video with a 2 minute speach on why he likes the show, and then Reveille used that video in the DVD extra features of their next release. Ignoring the very blurry line of where fair use begins and piracy begins, Reveille should have the rights to shut down the video, determining that the protected content is the only thing of worth in the video. However they also counter that claim if they then use that clip for themselves.
Lets take it a step further, and do what anti piracy advocates try to do... and compare it to physical objects, but instead of a car, I'm going to keep it half digital with a phone. Lets say someone jailbreaks an iphone, and creates their own super awesome app for it. Now lets say the silly laws that outlaw jailbreaking passed, and apple obtained the right to shut down the phones, fine they followed the law however corrupt and stupid of one it is... Now apple then ceases the code, takes the app, and integrates it into their next iphone, giving no credit or compensation to it's creator". Does "well the code was worthless without the phone, and it is illegal for him to use it". Give apple the right to call the code their own?
This is a good measure for high tech solutions, but why not also take it further. create new honeywords... put them on post it notes under people's keyboards etc...
I'd say it is clearly more regional, but yes the places in which the "celebration of street crime/being a thug" occours, is often in areas in which there are high concentrations of African Americans. Of course there is the problem of when location is ignored and stupid assumptions are made. IE the white kid who grew up in the projects with a deadbeat dad, is considerably more likely to wind up in a gang or around violence than a black kid who grew up in a suburbs with wealthy parents etc... Of course in this case, both are irrelevant. Stupid accidents are stupid accidents, Playing with dangerous things, such as explosives (or mundane objects that will convert into explosives), or minor weapons without propor supervision, deserves a slap on the wrist, something to set in a note that you need to take care next time, and then move on. Neither of these kids deserved the book thrown at them.
So essentially it sounds to me like the Quadro QRS 250G "Detector" device sold a few decades back http://skepdic.com/quadro.html . Of which even after they were proven to be just an antenna, hooked to a box filled with dead ants. Many schools found it worth it to keep them for detecting drugs because the security theatre aspect, if the students think a machine can detect drugs... they will be afraid to bring drugs.
While I agree quite a few games with older graphics are often better games. People don't tend to spend the luxury price for an alienware PC to play world of goo. That being said I do believe if valve can manage to push things foward with the "steambox" idea, we could wind up with an unprecidented future generation of games with linux compatibility.
True, but in my opinion they are doing the oposite of what is intended there... prevention to keep rates from increasing:
Tell people they are sending out authorities to crack down on it (whether you actually are or not is irrelevant, if the purpose is to discourage attemts)
Ways to get people into trouble if possible, without lowering the rates of people trying
announce that you are not going to get people in trouble, but then do so anyway
Fully agreed there, There is absolutely no justification for torturing someone period, but there isn't even logic for any kind of punishment AFTER the option to change your ways is gone. Many christians describe hell as god punishing his children, he doesn't want to do it any more than a parent wants to put their child in time out, or spank them etc... But this explanation of course completely ignores the detail of which, a parent does it so that the child learns it is OK and can do it right the next time. Christian theology does not have re-incarnation, there is no next time... just meaningless torture. In the event that the god of the bible existed... and I got to heaven, and due to some loophole I was given a choice... I would chose hell over an eternity worshiping a monster like the christian god. Personally if evidence were presented of his existance... I would be wanting a team to figure out how to kill it. If the bible is accurate, he is not truely omnipotent, He lost a battle over a technological disadvantage (Judges 1:19), and according to many beliefs, Satan stood along gods side, knew all of his abilities, capabilities etc... and still considered it worth a shot to attempt to overtake heaven. Again pretending to believe most of the stories as true... If I were a great evil powerful being, and I wanted all of the world subserviant to me... I would claim there are no limits to my power, that I have no weakness, etc.... Heck look at North Korea's leadership, it's exactly what they do as well.
Umm... a threat I got from my cable company saying a report from HBO puts one strike on my account... leads me to believe the opposite. They almost certainly do have a team sniffing torrents and issuing complaints with internet service providers.
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Phase 1: Private testing: IE what google is in now Compile data of every accident or near accident that the drivers saved themselves from by going manual.
Phase 2: Limited beta... IE google gives out 100 cars in the way they do with glass right now, slowly expand until about 5,000 cars are out for a year.
Phase 3: Public beta: This will technically be called release, but this timeframe is really going to be all about collecting massive amount of data, and waiting until autonomous cars are down to about 1% of humans
Phase 4: When we hit actual safety. Manual drive mode will be removed and outlawed. Software updates will become part of the safety inspections required on cars yearly. accident fatalities will drop into the hundreds.
I know long before the terry childs case, I remember my IT teachers explaining that if you took off with passwords etc... to anything they didn't have an account over, the standard response is to hire some rediculously overpriced person who is paid by the hour to gradually break into it, then have the courts foot you the bill. I don't get why this is shocking. The Terry Childs case was a bit of an exception, namely because of his claim that the person who he was under the impression he was supposed to give the information too, was not present. IE childs was not saying he wouldn't give the password unless he was rehired or paid. He was explicitly saying he was going to give the password, but not to the middle manager who was asking him for it. Child's case he could have been screwed either way, giving the admin password to someone who shouldn't have it, makes you liable for the damages they cause... but refusing to give the password, is also a suable offense. If you know who has the rights to the password, and have access, there's no room for debate at all
Have you never heard of systems that are encrypted? There's no shortage of things that don't give solid means to reset them without loss of data.
Far from the present where they are, but there is more of an incentive. It is worth noting a rise in use of unity, web based programs etc... It is far from everywhere, but it is a slow and steady increase.
The year of the psudo-linux home PC has arrived!!!!! Now having a tight match-up between apple and google, while Microsoft kind of fighting to get in the door... Which I kind of find ironic. Of course I have to say, I'm not a huge fan of either of the main competitors, nor the standard of walled gardens, but what I am a fan of, is having 2 competitors with drastically different base OS, giving developers an incentive to develop onto platform independent technologies, which is good for the existence of home-brews, Linux PCs etc...
I think the problem lies in the intentional moronification of the people. They will take the time, fight protests, and ignore the masses when it comes to, ensuring tax cuts of the corporations, billionares etc... they will compensate for it by cutting as much funding etc... to our school systems. We allow banks to pay a barely visible fraction of interests on loans vs student loan debts, and with the rediculously massive price of higher education... we need scholarships... of which a good portion of go to people who have little interest in education, but rather are hoping that they land the tiny 1% chance of going professional in their sporting career.
Well ya see, you need a 3,000 lb car to protect you from getting killed when you get hit by a 2,000 lb car... but now the roads are dangerous from the 3,000 LB cars, we really need to make a 4,000 LB car to protect us.
Well there is a line and it's not quite as distinct as we'd like to say. If a man walks into a bank with a gun, says "give me the money", and then is promptly tackled by an undercover officer... Was it attempted robbery, or just free speach mixed with violating the no fire arms sign at the front door, that doesn't become a crime until he physically gets his hands on the money? There are certainly stages prior to the crime that are in fact incriminating, and worthy of at the very least, investigation. But getting locked in jail should certainly require more than just words.
I would stand behind the police on the grounds that, that facebook message was not enough to make any assessment of the threat. I would not be so lenient on the parents who had more data points than facebook to work with, and if a teacher or such was to have seen it, they should have the kid sent in for a psych evaluation. The false dichotomy of send the kid to prison, or completely ignore it, is where the problem is getting in the way. Yup under our current legal system that is more or less the options the police have, but why the police can't simply report it to the school, or department of mental health as a red flag that needs to be INVESTIGATED I have no idea. Technology, the police state etc... we have more access to information than ever before. Making a decent decision based off of the information available has never been easier, and yet instead, we seem to think that every scenerio needs to either be handled at the first red flag, or dismissed.
Of course... the idea is yes if you catch something like that you should indeed investigate... what people seem to lack is a distinction between investigate and convict... Sounds to me like a simple psych evaluation would more likely than not give an accurate threat assessment, as to whether the kid needs to be kept away from weapons and put into therapy, or simply warned to watch what he says. Also worth noting, in neither situation is the idea "surround him with criminals, ensure that he is completly unhirable afterwards a scenario that is going to lead to a high probability of someone winding up becoming a rehabilitated law abiding citizen. If he wasn't dangerous before getting locked up... the US prison system has a good chance of turning him that way.
first part, pretty accurate, but I know at least some people weren't big fans of the backskatter rays at airports etc... and yup also to the fact that the FBI can get a pretty good detail on your activities from outside of your house etc... But there also certainly is a distinction between A. When there is enough probable cause that it is worth it to put a few men and a van outside of your house... vs on a whim the FBI being able to go "OK how many people in chicago seem to be working on building something in their basement... 600 OK lets check them all out". Much like why there is a distinction between "if the police have probable cause they can get a warrant to wiretap you" vs "everyone is wiretapped, and if you say one of 50 keywords the conversation is going to be flagged, listened to and then possibly escalated".
Having the information yourself is generally not bad... The prism privacy concerns certainly can be a bit scary though... IE you being able to map out your house = cool. Hypothetical future adaptations... say your roomate getting a partial mapping of what you look like naked under a door.... not quite as cool.... Then the FBI having a general mapping of what rooms you go in in your house, how often... what they might skew as "suspicious activity" etc... is a bit closer to troubling. "Umm sir we could see you were in your basement 4 hours a day with a screwdriver in your hands working on something... we need to confirm whether you are adjusting a CB radio, or a pipe bomb.
Now admitted, this hypothetical is pretty extreme, pretty improbable, and downright silly in parts not that every piece of it isn't possible within the next decade or so, but that in addition to being possible, the ramification of it also involve at minimum 400 videos involving you getting tagged and uploaded on a monthly basis. The only real danger that exists in that stage, is the obsessive stalkers, actually being able to follow you for miles and years without even violating a restraining order.
I never said the market wants the wii U. The fact that even the Wii is selling better, implies clearly something went horribly wrong in either the design of the marketing of the Wii U. I'm just not following the "well the Wii U flopped, nintendo should instead focus on selling games on it's competitors consoles. Instead I think nintendo should release just enough games to Wii U to keep it afloat, and start focusing on it's next system. In my opinion the WiiU's failure came in it's naming and branding. Honestly with the name, people think it's just a mediocre extension of the wii etc... On hearing the name wii-u, people don't think new console, rather an add on or something to the wii. I agree the wii U is doing poorly and that fact is unlikely to change in the near future. In my opinion that means nintendo should keep enough content for the wii-u to not disgruntle and leave the people who purchased the wii-u feeling like they were ripped off, and devote the rest of things towards making a better next system, to hit sometime in the middle of the PS4 and XboxOne generation.
I'd still have to question the concept that the current market doesn't want that, the WiiU seemed to do it poorly, but it could very well just be that the wii U didn't do it as well as the wii. Nintendo would fall behind in the hardcore market, but in terms of sales, that was irrelevant, a noteworthy portion of the really hardcore market picks up every console as long as one game fits their desires, but where the original wii took home the bacon, was indeed in the casual market. IE people who buy a console and play it every couple of months. Consoles are currently struggling with the PC market, with the lines between the 2 getting blurryer and blurryer, they are having a hard time standing on the same territory, Nintendo is focusing on gimics to try and give itself something that none of it's competition offered. sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Take a look at japanese arcades vs american arcades. In america, arcades stuck to the same shooters + fighting games etc.. that sell well in the home gaming market. In japan, they focused on games that had accessories that would set people back quite a ways. (See table flip games, boxing games, dancing games etc...) American arcades barely dabbled in these styles of games (yeah you'll find 1 dance dance revolution machine in the average arcade, but for the most part, same generic games that are almost identical to the ones on PC or console). As a result, arcades in japan are still hot hangouts, and in america, going out of business like crazy.
First off I really get sick of the "well nintendo's system might come in last, so they will go 3rd party". First off if history is anything to go by, that ain't going to happen. Nintendo is as determined and as stuborn as sega. Contrary to popular thought, sega didn't go down after 1 system failure. Sega had 1 success, and a huge series of failures. Genisis, Success, gamegear, failure, segaCD failure, 32x failure, Saturn Failure, Dreamcast, not quite a failure, but not particularly profitable, not enough to pull sega out of it's financial crisis it hit form the previous failures. Nintendo on the other hand, has pretty much profited on every system (possibly with the exception of the virtualboy). Even the systems that failed to overtake the competition, such as the N64 and the gamecube, were profitable. If say the WiiU tanks, and say performs on par with the sega saturn, nintendo is not going to just go 3rd party, it doesn't suit them. Look at sega right now. I don't know why, but them turning 3rd party had a pretty negative impact on their games. People who found it worth it to buy a dreamcast just for the handful of great sega titles, don't even find modern sega titles worth picking up
Advertising is essential for that company, and the middleman always profits, Targeted ads have saved most companies money, and average users annoyance, by not spending as much money on not flooding people with ads for things they are unlikely to consider. Unless you are assuming a utopian society in which nobody needs to spend money on advertising, the idea that the companies advertising costs are tacked onto you, while true, a company making those ads more effective is giving the company the option to LOWER their price for their item, rather than raise it.
Lets take it a step further, and do what anti piracy advocates try to do... and compare it to physical objects, but instead of a car, I'm going to keep it half digital with a phone. Lets say someone jailbreaks an iphone, and creates their own super awesome app for it. Now lets say the silly laws that outlaw jailbreaking passed, and apple obtained the right to shut down the phones, fine they followed the law however corrupt and stupid of one it is... Now apple then ceases the code, takes the app, and integrates it into their next iphone, giving no credit or compensation to it's creator". Does "well the code was worthless without the phone, and it is illegal for him to use it". Give apple the right to call the code their own?
This is a good measure for high tech solutions, but why not also take it further. create new honeywords... put them on post it notes under people's keyboards etc...
I'd say it is clearly more regional, but yes the places in which the "celebration of street crime/being a thug" occours, is often in areas in which there are high concentrations of African Americans. Of course there is the problem of when location is ignored and stupid assumptions are made. IE the white kid who grew up in the projects with a deadbeat dad, is considerably more likely to wind up in a gang or around violence than a black kid who grew up in a suburbs with wealthy parents etc... Of course in this case, both are irrelevant. Stupid accidents are stupid accidents, Playing with dangerous things, such as explosives (or mundane objects that will convert into explosives), or minor weapons without propor supervision, deserves a slap on the wrist, something to set in a note that you need to take care next time, and then move on. Neither of these kids deserved the book thrown at them.
So essentially it sounds to me like the Quadro QRS 250G "Detector" device sold a few decades back http://skepdic.com/quadro.html . Of which even after they were proven to be just an antenna, hooked to a box filled with dead ants. Many schools found it worth it to keep them for detecting drugs because the security theatre aspect, if the students think a machine can detect drugs... they will be afraid to bring drugs.
While I agree quite a few games with older graphics are often better games. People don't tend to spend the luxury price for an alienware PC to play world of goo. That being said I do believe if valve can manage to push things foward with the "steambox" idea, we could wind up with an unprecidented future generation of games with linux compatibility.
Tell people they are sending out authorities to crack down on it (whether you actually are or not is irrelevant, if the purpose is to discourage attemts)
Ways to get people into trouble if possible, without lowering the rates of people trying
announce that you are not going to get people in trouble, but then do so anyway
Fully agreed there, There is absolutely no justification for torturing someone period, but there isn't even logic for any kind of punishment AFTER the option to change your ways is gone. Many christians describe hell as god punishing his children, he doesn't want to do it any more than a parent wants to put their child in time out, or spank them etc... But this explanation of course completely ignores the detail of which, a parent does it so that the child learns it is OK and can do it right the next time. Christian theology does not have re-incarnation, there is no next time... just meaningless torture. In the event that the god of the bible existed... and I got to heaven, and due to some loophole I was given a choice... I would chose hell over an eternity worshiping a monster like the christian god. Personally if evidence were presented of his existance... I would be wanting a team to figure out how to kill it. If the bible is accurate, he is not truely omnipotent, He lost a battle over a technological disadvantage (Judges 1:19), and according to many beliefs, Satan stood along gods side, knew all of his abilities, capabilities etc... and still considered it worth a shot to attempt to overtake heaven. Again pretending to believe most of the stories as true... If I were a great evil powerful being, and I wanted all of the world subserviant to me... I would claim there are no limits to my power, that I have no weakness, etc.... Heck look at North Korea's leadership, it's exactly what they do as well.
Umm... a threat I got from my cable company saying a report from HBO puts one strike on my account... leads me to believe the opposite. They almost certainly do have a team sniffing torrents and issuing complaints with internet service providers.