Why d'ont you go after the people who download illegal software then?

These could be false flag attacks.. either deliberate or not, we don't know. If we see more of these, the U.S. gov will finally have their excuse to shut down and control the internet.

You may be partly correct, but I don't think it it covers all the possibilities. I am first and foremost a windows user.. I was raised on it, it was "easiest" to get into, and I got to play all the new video games on it.

When I started dabbling in Linux recently I was faced with that dreadful dilemma and the million dollar question of "Hey guys! Which Linux distro is the best?!" .. of course by now I've learned there's no answer to this question and probably never will be.

A lot of people recommended Ubuntu since it's the easiest, has the most support, and an active user base of fanboys.. EVERYBODY was using Ubuntu! I would be stupid not to do the same - I was told.

Well.. for that reason alone I chose not to go ahead with it and went with using Fedora.

In short, Ubuntu to me is the Justin Bieber of Linux distro's.. the new hip thing on the block that everyone loves, which by default I hate.

This is the current problem and the correct solution all in one. I presume society and the current financial infrastructure would do quite well and not explode all in one go if the copyright had a limit on it for saaaaay... 5 years or so. This basically says that if you don't make enough money off of your invention in 5 years to satisfy your greed, then let someone else have a go at it and make a better version of it after that time has elapsed.

I'm sorry.. are you saying the cops can pull anyone over at anytime, just so the driver can prove he is sober? Because this is essentially what you're saying, because it's a privilege to drive, the cops can ask me to verify that I still qualify for that privilege.

Doing this is illegal right now, I don't see why it would be any different when these "sensors" are put inside your car.

I can have a suspended license, could have just murdered someone an hour ago, have had 30 beers, and the cops STILL can't pull me over unless there is a good reason to believe I have done any of these things. So unless I'm swirving all over the road, I can continue to drive.. THOSE are the right he's alluding to - have you so quickly forgotten you have them too?

because they won't have a thermal signature that at all resembles a finger.

Yes, I'm sure every thief out there is perfectly aware of this.

I wonder what all the people will say now, will everyone call Schnews a bunch of conspirary theorists now too? When the G20 in downtown Toronto was here just recently - same thing was brought up and everyone on talk radio and the interwebz got laughed at as conspiracy theorists saying the police are out to get the protesters, so what now?... Is the media a bunch of nuts as well?

Google has created versions of its popular software that block all Iranian government IP addresses from utilizing them

..this is a joke, right? Google single handily crippled and prevented the Iranian government from viewing Cheney's backyard in Google Earth with a simple web browser and a bunch of hard-coded IPs?

This is a bad analogy.

That's like saying "How's all that open platform, not locked to a walled garden Linux working for all the people?!" .. because your local computer store stopped selling Linux distros.

This is a "delivery" problem, not an OS problem. Android is as open as ever, it's Samsung that thinks you should use it according to their rules. I can happily use my HTC with the same Android that's on the Samsung and get my updates just fine, there's nothing wrong with the OS.

I expect the sales of the PS3 to rise in the coming months.

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Number 1: Do the American People deserve to know the truth regarding the ongoing wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Yemen?

Number 2: Could a larger question be how can an army private access so much secret information?

Number 3: Why is the hostility mostly directed at Assange, the publisher, and not at our governments failure to protect classified information?

Number 4: Are we getting our moneys worth of the $80 Billion dollars per year spent on intelligence gathering?

Number 5: Which has resulted in the greatest number of deaths: lying us into war or Wikileaks revelations or the release of the Pentagon Papers?

Number 6: If Assange can be convicted of a crime for publishing information that he did not steal, what does this say about the future of the first amendment and the independence of the internet?

Number 7: Could it be that the real reason for the near universal attacks on Wikileaks is more about secretly maintaining a seriously flawed foreign policy of empire than it is about national security?

Number 8: Is there not a huge difference between releasing secret information to help the enemy in a time of declared war, which is treason, and the releasing of information to expose our government lies that promote secret wars, death and corruption?

Number 9: Was it not once considered patriotic to stand up to our government when it is wrong?

You realize that "U.S. secrets" make up a small amount of the different types of leaks that have been released by WikiLeaks right? You Americans should stop flattering yourselves and realize Assange isn't after any ONE country, there are MANY more countries and governments listed on his website, it's nobody's fault the U.S.'s corruption just happens to be more interesting, and there are more patriots and real heroes in your U.S. gov ranks than most other countries - you should be PROUD to have so many leaks released by so many people with balls and courage, instead of trying to discredit Assange.

....at Guantanamo ;)

The only reason for simulating earth and all of its inhabitants and interactions, is to see what would happen if factor X + Y and introduced into the mix and factor Z removed. Or any combination of those.

I bet they will have hundreds of top sociologists and anthropologists on hand to lend their "expertise" to figure what they can or cannot get away with by manipulating the outcomes of this simulation until they get what they want.

What happens when all money is gone?
What happens when all food is removed?
What happens when there is world war 3?
What happens when people revold?
...now what can we do so we're immune to all of this and any blowback?

Sure, they'll release some research paper on how genocides spread, or how animals migrate from one place to another, etc... but having a "toy" like this would prove to be a loss if you really didn't use it to its full use.

If you don't agree with what I say, just keep in mind this is already happening. You don't think governments and people in power have social engineers that crunch numbers and process data to determine all the possible outcomes of something like going to war in Iraq? You think they didn't have 500-page reports on the possible riots that would take place all around the world, the money lost, gained, lives saved, lost, etc.. etc..

Now imagine all those resources pooled into this one tool, do you REALLY think it's going to be used to determine when the next eclipse is going to be or the gas price of hot dogs in 5 years? I think not.

By "some" he mean "all, in due time."