So will NBC or others make all of the video available online immediately after the events? Will someone else?
Seeing the Olympic is an international event you might be able to foreign websites to view streaming video as long as you don't mind it being in your native language.
I thought about buying stock in Microsoft, but this behavior appears to be out of spite rather than a sound business decision.
Microsoft buying Yahoo would only have made sense if they never had MSN in the first place. It is buying a competitor to compete with its own products and if they intend to only shut it down or merge it with MSN, its only going to bleed massive amounts of money from MSFT in the process.
The smartest decision would be to let Yahoo die on its own and focus on more "fresh" markets or ones that is truly their bread and butter like Xbox, Office, and Windows. There is no need for it to dominate a market that is firmly entrenched in Google by aquring Yahoo. If nothing else it only helps Google and people who are short selling MSFT.
There are whole medical labs dedicated to fighting TB and AIDS in southern Africa that wouldn't exist without the Bill&Melinda foundation. How is that hurting anything?
Well this is what he said according to TFA:
Gates' philanthropy for health care for poor countries has won some people's good opinion. The LA Times reported that his foundation spends five to 10% of its money annually and invests the rest, sometimes in companies it suggests cause environmental degradation and illness in the same poor countries.
So basically, he being outed as a Charity basher because he is citing the LA times article that the foundation only spends 10% of its money on actual helping the poor. He doesn't say the organization shouldn't exist... He's pointing out that they aren't doing their best job of giving to the poor because they are investing for a return.
Read the LA Times article and decide for yourself though.
The trick to Poker, the reason why it is so appealing as an Artificial Intelligence benchmark is because it requires the AI to learn a particular players loosness/agressivness when they are likely bluffing etc. This is not only to try to determine what the other players have, but also to try to bluff to the other players what the AI has.
Actually, the trick to winning poker is to play low bets and go long. Sort of like the Dutch book method where your goal is to have a positive income even if its a low income. All you have to do is play ante if you don't have anything and raise if you have something on the first hand. I know there is several theories to this, but its one of the few ways to have a positive income with poker, but of its not a guaranteed way if you don't get anything on the first hand the entire night or raise too much with a low pair.
Most people don't have the knack for it due to emotional issues like the aforementioned bluffing, and if you do play long most people will leave your table because your no fun.
And you might as well be playing the stock market if you put that much thought into the game.
If you guys start stealing text books too just keep in mind that its the lthe little guys who will suffer like the unions who man the presses and the shmoos like me who are paid to put the book together.
More seriously, it appears that this technology is GPS-only and not all folks have GPS-equipped phones. I don't understand GPS all that well and I'm wondering how this tracking software can locate them, do they have to consent to being tracked, etc.
Actually, GPS isn't required to locate you with a cell phones. The technology exists to poll which cell phone towers your phone is polling and make a guesstimate of where you are based on that.
With cell technology, you're not simply talking to one tower at a time because if you were traveling, then as soon as you were out of range of the tower, you would have the call drop. So the cell phones are actively polling the towers as you move to hand you off between the closest (or best signal in some case).
This is how they locate you if you call 911.
The downside is that if you are in a rural area, and have only 1 or even two towers (it takes three to triangulate), then they can't really tell where you are other than somewhere in a radius of the tower. So this technique only works within areas with high cell tower density.
On a side note, you could always lend your cell phone to a girl when she goes to a Chip and Dale club and let the hilarity ensue when your friends show up there.
I would much rather have the engines remotely shut down or idled on a plane in flight, offering at least a chance at an emergency landing, than to have the plane summarily blown out of the sky.
I don't know that much about aerodynamics, but I suspect at 30,000FT that might result in an uncontrolled decent.
It would be more logical to just force the plane into autopilot and bring her in on her own power to the nearest secure location. As it passenger planes don't really "need" a pilot these days and most pilots just are there in case something went wrong and to of course set the autopilot.
My best theory on how it happened is that I used the same account and password on lots of web forums, many of which have terrible security.
There is your problem.
I know we are all lazy when it comes to passwords, but you really need to keep different passwords for different things. It doesn't mean you have to keep completely different passwords for everyone forums so my personal rule is to have levels on how much I care about it being breached.
Level 1: Random forums I don't trust or places I don't care if hacked. Level 2: Places I frequent that I trust and have a reputation, but its not going to kill me if my account is breached. Level 3: Stuff I pay money for. Like Online Games, Steam, utility bills, and cell phone plans. Level 4: Money. Banks. Credit cards. And/or anything that is serious business. This also includes email accounts attached to them which I keep completely separate passwords between accounts since it would be dumb to have the same password for your bank as your email. Also I tend to keep different passwords between financial institutions because I don't trust competency of employees and their laptops.
The goal is to never use the same password between the levels so if one is breached the others are not.
So if it is that important to you, then don't use the same passwords on untrusted sites or forums that use unpatched vBulletin or PHPbb. I mean... I don't even trust Slashdot.
And it never hurts to paranoid and change your passwords every 6 months or if you just suspect something. Its not going to cost you anything other than mental exercise if your wrong, but it saves you a whole lot of grief if you are right.
Seriously - what's wrong with wanting e-mail, IM, VoIP or other packets to be ranked as higher priority? So this device the guy is fronting can detect encrypted P2P traffic - is that what is now equal to "gagging the Internet?"
How can you tell if someone is using a secure SSL connection for work related purposes (Email, large file transfers, terminal services) and someone that is using SSL for bit torrent?
And how can you tell the difference between someone downloading the latest torrent of a Linus or BSD distro for their company server for his work and say someone downloading movies?
And for the person downloading movies, how can you tell if they are downloading documentaries for a presentation for their job (or maybe research, media etc) that is completely legal and authorized versus someone who is downloading illegal movies?
And if you can't, why would you take away preference to people not legitimately using P2P even and give it to those who quite possibly are illegally downloading using some old fashion method like FTP?
I'm just saying... If encrypted properly, you can't tell what people are downloading unless you are seeding. So they only solution would be to punish everyone regardless of its legitimacy.
Why is it important to text that you'll be there in 5 minutes anyway? You can also wait 5 minutes.
For some reason, there is a large segment of American Society which is responsible for us being the most productive nation in the world. Somehow this drive to be successful overrides the need for personal safety and happiness. 60 hour work weeks, working on weekends, 24/7 enslavement to work through their Blackberry.
I've never known what causes this behavior since I'm content enough to be a slacker. Its just annoying that our society is now starting to view this as expected behavior.
I suppose in the eyes of a corporation, a few dead employees is a small price to pay as long as everyone is chatting 24/7 regardless of the safety issues.
But thanks to the models of Newton we have a set of relatively simple equations that describe, generally, the way bodies in the universe interact. The model is not perfect, but it is useful.
You are aware that the Newtonian Physics model breaks down when you are talking about traveling close to the speed of light?
Although, most of the time we are dealing with things that aren't traveling so fast, but there are many scenarios in physics that we need a different model for.
I think what the Googlite is advocating is that for very complex systems (like weather systems, financial, blackholes, LHC etc) which do not go well with our standard models, will need (pause for effect) new models.
Why? Because there is so much data that its hard to follow the scientific method because chances are you'll never get the same situation again for repeatable in a lab (like weather conditions) because there is infinite amount of data that could be gathered on these complex systems.
Take the LHC Computing Grid for example. The amount of data gathered from that experiment maybe astronomical and it could be quite possible that once you get to that scale on the atomic level that you can never have exact conditions each time (of course it maybe the opposite but we won't know until they turn the thing on for a run on what happens to matter and energy when you do what they plan on doing).
I am not saying that everyone should throw out the scientific model, but I agree with the article that a new model needs to be created for complex systems. After all... We still don't have a 100% accurate model of weather prediction other than a few days at a time.
Can you cite any examples of a case where a certificate has been subverted in this way?
I don't think he's talking about subversion. He's talking about the fact that anyone with $900 can buy a cert from verisign regardless of their evil intentions.
His point was that since any malware site or someone who just intends to steal your credit card on a legit looking site could in theory buy a legal cert, that rolling your own is just as trust worthy.
A phishing site would have a problem getting a banks cert, but they could even roll their own with something that says "Signed by Verising" and since the person probaly didn't read the address at the top in the first place they most likley wouldn't bother double clicking on the lock on their browser.
Personally, I wouldn't do financial transactions on a company that rolled their own, but I wouldn't mind just using a website that had rolled their own keys.
Nothing will ever be able to defeat the uneducated user.
True, but you can mitigate the damage a single user can do. Its called sandboxing.
If you prevent a user from installing applications that get to do things like put themselves in start up or have the ability to hide themselves from the user or start on their own without user intervention then you've done half the battle right there.
OS X still can do this with admin rights which I fear most people run, but its a start at least.
Of course, a malicious one time application can always wipe the user directory in these situations but that is what backups are for. However, its a lot easier to get rid of that malicious program if you the OS itself won't allow you to create startup programs or allow applications to run in stealth mode.
No, it won't, but it might get them more sales by slowing down the pirates.
What? No one ever bought a game because they couldn't pirate it.
But plenty of people have not bought a game because it difficult to pirate it.
Personally, I don't pirate because I'm well to do and have plenty of money to spend on games. That and the games I prefer are usually small developers and I personally feel that they should continue making games so I buy them.
However, I have not bought games simply because of the copy protection they have used. I just don't have the time or effort to crack my own games for the same reason I won't pirate them, so if I hear that a game (Codemasters I am looking at you) has StarForce, SecuRom, or the like... I won't even consider purchasing or pirating it.
There's no evidence to suggest people died earlier 5,000 or 50,000 years ago -- and there's strong counter evidence for that during historical periods of the last 3-5k years.
I'm not sure where you got that information, but in the middle ages it was recorded by the people of the day (especially the tax keepers and clergy) about mortality. It was indeed higher during 1200s to the 1600s mostly due to disease, famine, and violence.
Yes, you could live to be 80+ years of age, but when you are living in your own filth, covered in fleas and lice, and living with rats then you are going to have a greater chance of dieing young from a communicable disease. There is no if's, ands, or buts about it.
Of course the black death did skew the numbers in 1345 when 1/3 of Europe died almost over night, but god help you if you had a common cold or some simple infection that requires anti-botics today.
Maybe instead of being a great disapointment it has been so successful that we realized it was in our best interest to blend in and not let our presence be known.
I think the point of artificial intelligence is that you only notice its not working correctly.
Its kind of looking for evidence for something by looking for lack of evidence of its polar opposite.
Take one of the cars from DARPA Grand Challenge...
If it does it job and doesn't wreck, its not that spectacular and people aren't impressed.
If it doesn't do its job and wrecks, then only then do people notice and say "Well that AI isn't working."
This may not exactly be on the topic, but I've noticed every Microsoft run website that I try to access with Firefox gives me trouble, even with previous versions of Firefox.
Its not flamebait.
Support.microsoft.com and office.microsoft.com have quirks with pages loading completely that make it painful enough to use IE instead.
Its not like I have to visit those sites that often though.
Or, in other words, you should be smart enough to figure it out.
Not exactly. "Aware" is a better word that "smart". You could have a PHD in financial forecasting or evolutionary biology and still fail to see a person is using you due to emotional feelings.
Simply being aware of your biological limitations doesn't solve the issue either but its a start. It doesn't require any intelligence other willingness to pay attention to yourself and to question your own actions which many in western society see as a character flaw.
But in truth, once you start asking "Why am I doing this?" you see how stupid you can be sometimes.
Of course telling people that love is a chemical that can be synthesized makes you unpopular with the ladies, but I've gotten out of unhealthy relationships with that mentality.
I'm not sure if this was something from a Buddhist monk, but I always took it to heart:
"The first step to having free will is to admit you have none"
The point is that if you ignore your instincts(or 300 years of evolutionary programming) you will never over come it. You first must become aware of your limitations and natural impulses so that you can deal with them.
If you become aware of such things then you are able to take a 3rd person view of yourself when such natural instincts arise and then are better able to deal with the situation with a clear head.
Our education system is far from perfect but guys like this certainly do not help make it better.
So instead of just banning him from college or high school graduation, we make him a ward of the state costing us more tax money than he would have flipping burgers?
And when he does get out of jail, do you think hanging out with rapists, drug addicts, and murders is going to make him turn into a model citizen?
If we only focused more effort into catching true identity thieves who actually have stolen money and caused untold suffering on thousands of people than someone who cheated.
It stopped being a "business" as soon as they accepted tax payer money. IMO they are free to do as they please as soon as they give the money back.
The funny thing about telcos and cable companies is they are de facto monopolies that are allowed by the FCC and DoJ. Its about a socialistic as you can get other than the fact these companies are publicly traded.
13th Floor and The Matrix? Tombstone and Wyatt Earp?
The list goes on and on, but Hollywood does this all the time and no one calls them out on "plagiarism".
I'm not saying they could have done better, but making something suspiciously similar but different enough to avoid copyright and trademark violations is not a big deal.
Its funny if nothing else... Like the Wilhelm scream which I actually heard in the latest Indiana Jones movie. That's more of an ongoing joke than plagiarism though.
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So will NBC or others make all of the video available online immediately after the events? Will someone else?
Seeing the Olympic is an international event you might be able to foreign websites to view streaming video as long as you don't mind it being in your native language.
You know, people might have said this was a ridiculous waste of time a couple years ago cuz you might as well just do it all in real life.
Considering the increasing costs of driving and airline tickets, teleconferencing is going to get real popular real soon for many people.
I thought about buying stock in Microsoft, but this behavior appears to be out of spite rather than a sound business decision.
Microsoft buying Yahoo would only have made sense if they never had MSN in the first place. It is buying a competitor to compete with its own products and if they intend to only shut it down or merge it with MSN, its only going to bleed massive amounts of money from MSFT in the process.
The smartest decision would be to let Yahoo die on its own and focus on more "fresh" markets or ones that is truly their bread and butter like Xbox, Office, and Windows. There is no need for it to dominate a market that is firmly entrenched in Google by aquring Yahoo. If nothing else it only helps Google and people who are short selling MSFT.
There are whole medical labs dedicated to fighting TB and AIDS in southern Africa that wouldn't exist without the Bill&Melinda foundation. How is that hurting anything?
Well this is what he said according to TFA:
So basically, he being outed as a Charity basher because he is citing the LA times article that the foundation only spends 10% of its money on actual helping the poor. He doesn't say the organization shouldn't exist... He's pointing out that they aren't doing their best job of giving to the poor because they are investing for a return.
Read the LA Times article and decide for yourself though.
The trick to Poker, the reason why it is so appealing as an Artificial Intelligence benchmark is because it requires the AI to learn a particular players loosness/agressivness when they are likely bluffing etc. This is not only to try to determine what the other players have, but also to try to bluff to the other players what the AI has.
Actually, the trick to winning poker is to play low bets and go long. Sort of like the Dutch book method where your goal is to have a positive income even if its a low income. All you have to do is play ante if you don't have anything and raise if you have something on the first hand. I know there is several theories to this, but its one of the few ways to have a positive income with poker, but of its not a guaranteed way if you don't get anything on the first hand the entire night or raise too much with a low pair.
Most people don't have the knack for it due to emotional issues like the aforementioned bluffing, and if you do play long most people will leave your table because your no fun.
And you might as well be playing the stock market if you put that much thought into the game.
If you guys start stealing text books too just keep in mind that its the lthe little guys who will suffer like the unions who man the presses and the shmoos like me who are paid to put the book together.
Wow. Robots have actually unionized?
More seriously, it appears that this technology is GPS-only and not all folks have GPS-equipped phones. I don't understand GPS all that well and I'm wondering how this tracking software can locate them, do they have to consent to being tracked, etc.
Actually, GPS isn't required to locate you with a cell phones. The technology exists to poll which cell phone towers your phone is polling and make a guesstimate of where you are based on that.
With cell technology, you're not simply talking to one tower at a time because if you were traveling, then as soon as you were out of range of the tower, you would have the call drop. So the cell phones are actively polling the towers as you move to hand you off between the closest (or best signal in some case).
This is how they locate you if you call 911.
The downside is that if you are in a rural area, and have only 1 or even two towers (it takes three to triangulate), then they can't really tell where you are other than somewhere in a radius of the tower. So this technique only works within areas with high cell tower density.
On a side note, you could always lend your cell phone to a girl when she goes to a Chip and Dale club and let the hilarity ensue when your friends show up there.
I would much rather have the engines remotely shut down or idled on a plane in flight, offering at least a chance at an emergency landing, than to have the plane summarily blown out of the sky.
I don't know that much about aerodynamics, but I suspect at 30,000FT that might result in an uncontrolled decent.
It would be more logical to just force the plane into autopilot and bring her in on her own power to the nearest secure location. As it passenger planes don't really "need" a pilot these days and most pilots just are there in case something went wrong and to of course set the autopilot.
My best theory on how it happened is that I used the same account and password on lots of web forums, many of which have terrible security.
There is your problem.
I know we are all lazy when it comes to passwords, but you really need to keep different passwords for different things. It doesn't mean you have to keep completely different passwords for everyone forums so my personal rule is to have levels on how much I care about it being breached.
Level 1: Random forums I don't trust or places I don't care if hacked.
Level 2: Places I frequent that I trust and have a reputation, but its not going to kill me if my account is breached.
Level 3: Stuff I pay money for. Like Online Games, Steam, utility bills, and cell phone plans.
Level 4: Money. Banks. Credit cards. And/or anything that is serious business. This also includes email accounts attached to them which I keep completely separate passwords between accounts since it would be dumb to have the same password for your bank as your email. Also I tend to keep different passwords between financial institutions because I don't trust competency of employees and their laptops.
The goal is to never use the same password between the levels so if one is breached the others are not.
So if it is that important to you, then don't use the same passwords on untrusted sites or forums that use unpatched vBulletin or PHPbb. I mean... I don't even trust Slashdot.
And it never hurts to paranoid and change your passwords every 6 months or if you just suspect something. Its not going to cost you anything other than mental exercise if your wrong, but it saves you a whole lot of grief if you are right.
Seriously - what's wrong with wanting e-mail, IM, VoIP or other packets to be ranked as higher priority? So this device the guy is fronting can detect encrypted P2P traffic - is that what is now equal to "gagging the Internet?"
How can you tell if someone is using a secure SSL connection for work related purposes (Email, large file transfers, terminal services) and someone that is using SSL for bit torrent?
And how can you tell the difference between someone downloading the latest torrent of a Linus or BSD distro for their company server for his work and say someone downloading movies?
And for the person downloading movies, how can you tell if they are downloading documentaries for a presentation for their job (or maybe research, media etc) that is completely legal and authorized versus someone who is downloading illegal movies?
And if you can't, why would you take away preference to people not legitimately using P2P even and give it to those who quite possibly are illegally downloading using some old fashion method like FTP?
I'm just saying... If encrypted properly, you can't tell what people are downloading unless you are seeding. So they only solution would be to punish everyone regardless of its legitimacy.
Why is it important to text that you'll be there in 5 minutes anyway? You can also wait 5 minutes.
For some reason, there is a large segment of American Society which is responsible for us being the most productive nation in the world. Somehow this drive to be successful overrides the need for personal safety and happiness. 60 hour work weeks, working on weekends, 24/7 enslavement to work through their Blackberry.
I've never known what causes this behavior since I'm content enough to be a slacker. Its just annoying that our society is now starting to view this as expected behavior.
I suppose in the eyes of a corporation, a few dead employees is a small price to pay as long as everyone is chatting 24/7 regardless of the safety issues.
But thanks to the models of Newton we have a set of relatively simple equations that describe, generally, the way bodies in the universe interact. The model is not perfect, but it is useful.
You are aware that the Newtonian Physics model breaks down when you are talking about traveling close to the speed of light?
Although, most of the time we are dealing with things that aren't traveling so fast, but there are many scenarios in physics that we need a different model for.
I think what the Googlite is advocating is that for very complex systems (like weather systems, financial, blackholes, LHC etc) which do not go well with our standard models, will need (pause for effect) new models.
Why? Because there is so much data that its hard to follow the scientific method because chances are you'll never get the same situation again for repeatable in a lab (like weather conditions) because there is infinite amount of data that could be gathered on these complex systems.
Take the LHC Computing Grid for example. The amount of data gathered from that experiment maybe astronomical and it could be quite possible that once you get to that scale on the atomic level that you can never have exact conditions each time (of course it maybe the opposite but we won't know until they turn the thing on for a run on what happens to matter and energy when you do what they plan on doing).
I am not saying that everyone should throw out the scientific model, but I agree with the article that a new model needs to be created for complex systems. After all... We still don't have a 100% accurate model of weather prediction other than a few days at a time.
You are naive, ignorant, short sighted, and have an offensive disregard for the natural world.
Give it a few hundred million years... Of course Crete might be under water, covered in ice, or a big hole where a volcano exploded by then.
Can you cite any examples of a case where a certificate has been subverted in this way?
I don't think he's talking about subversion. He's talking about the fact that anyone with $900 can buy a cert from verisign regardless of their evil intentions.
His point was that since any malware site or someone who just intends to steal your credit card on a legit looking site could in theory buy a legal cert, that rolling your own is just as trust worthy.
A phishing site would have a problem getting a banks cert, but they could even roll their own with something that says "Signed by Verising" and since the person probaly didn't read the address at the top in the first place they most likley wouldn't bother double clicking on the lock on their browser.
Personally, I wouldn't do financial transactions on a company that rolled their own, but I wouldn't mind just using a website that had rolled their own keys.
Nothing will ever be able to defeat the uneducated user.
True, but you can mitigate the damage a single user can do. Its called sandboxing.
If you prevent a user from installing applications that get to do things like put themselves in start up or have the ability to hide themselves from the user or start on their own without user intervention then you've done half the battle right there.
OS X still can do this with admin rights which I fear most people run, but its a start at least.
Of course, a malicious one time application can always wipe the user directory in these situations but that is what backups are for. However, its a lot easier to get rid of that malicious program if you the OS itself won't allow you to create startup programs or allow applications to run in stealth mode.
I would have gone into Economics.
Or maybe Forestry...
If I had only known the IT world would turn into what it is now, I'd do something else. Too much politics... To much hype...
No, it won't, but it might get them more sales by slowing down the pirates.
What? No one ever bought a game because they couldn't pirate it.
But plenty of people have not bought a game because it difficult to pirate it.
Personally, I don't pirate because I'm well to do and have plenty of money to spend on games. That and the games I prefer are usually small developers and I personally feel that they should continue making games so I buy them.
However, I have not bought games simply because of the copy protection they have used. I just don't have the time or effort to crack my own games for the same reason I won't pirate them, so if I hear that a game (Codemasters I am looking at you) has StarForce, SecuRom, or the like... I won't even consider purchasing or pirating it.
There's no evidence to suggest people died earlier 5,000 or 50,000 years ago -- and there's strong counter evidence for that during historical periods of the last 3-5k years.
I'm not sure where you got that information, but in the middle ages it was recorded by the people of the day (especially the tax keepers and clergy) about mortality. It was indeed higher during 1200s to the 1600s mostly due to disease, famine, and violence.
Yes, you could live to be 80+ years of age, but when you are living in your own filth, covered in fleas and lice, and living with rats then you are going to have a greater chance of dieing young from a communicable disease. There is no if's, ands, or buts about it.
Of course the black death did skew the numbers in 1345 when 1/3 of Europe died almost over night, but god help you if you had a common cold or some simple infection that requires anti-botics today.
Maybe instead of being a great disapointment it has been so successful that we realized it was in our best interest to blend in and not let our presence be known.
I think the point of artificial intelligence is that you only notice its not working correctly.
Its kind of looking for evidence for something by looking for lack of evidence of its polar opposite.
Take one of the cars from DARPA Grand Challenge...
If it does it job and doesn't wreck, its not that spectacular and people aren't impressed.
If it doesn't do its job and wrecks, then only then do people notice and say "Well that AI isn't working."
This may not exactly be on the topic, but I've noticed every Microsoft run website that I try to access with Firefox gives me trouble, even with previous versions of Firefox.
Its not flamebait.
Support.microsoft.com and office.microsoft.com have quirks with pages loading completely that make it painful enough to use IE instead.
Its not like I have to visit those sites that often though.
Or, in other words, you should be smart enough to figure it out.
Not exactly. "Aware" is a better word that "smart". You could have a PHD in financial forecasting or evolutionary biology and still fail to see a person is using you due to emotional feelings.
Simply being aware of your biological limitations doesn't solve the issue either but its a start. It doesn't require any intelligence other willingness to pay attention to yourself and to question your own actions which many in western society see as a character flaw.
But in truth, once you start asking "Why am I doing this?" you see how stupid you can be sometimes.
Of course telling people that love is a chemical that can be synthesized makes you unpopular with the ladies, but I've gotten out of unhealthy relationships with that mentality.
They should be smart enough to figure it out.
I'm not sure if this was something from a Buddhist monk, but I always took it to heart:
"The first step to having free will is to admit you have none"
The point is that if you ignore your instincts(or 300 years of evolutionary programming) you will never over come it. You first must become aware of your limitations and natural impulses so that you can deal with them.
If you become aware of such things then you are able to take a 3rd person view of yourself when such natural instincts arise and then are better able to deal with the situation with a clear head.
Our education system is far from perfect but guys like this certainly do not help make it better.
So instead of just banning him from college or high school graduation, we make him a ward of the state costing us more tax money than he would have flipping burgers?
And when he does get out of jail, do you think hanging out with rapists, drug addicts, and murders is going to make him turn into a model citizen?
If we only focused more effort into catching true identity thieves who actually have stolen money and caused untold suffering on thousands of people than someone who cheated.
It stopped being a "business" as soon as they accepted tax payer money. IMO they are free to do as they please as soon as they give the money back.
The funny thing about telcos and cable companies is they are de facto monopolies that are allowed by the FCC and DoJ. Its about a socialistic as you can get other than the fact these companies are publicly traded.
13th Floor and The Matrix?
Tombstone and Wyatt Earp?
The list goes on and on, but Hollywood does this all the time and no one calls them out on "plagiarism".
I'm not saying they could have done better, but making something suspiciously similar but different enough to avoid copyright and trademark violations is not a big deal.
Its funny if nothing else... Like the Wilhelm scream which I actually heard in the latest Indiana Jones movie. That's more of an ongoing joke than plagiarism though.