Comment Re:You are being shortsighted (Score 1) 306
Is there software to do that?
Is there software to do that?
It's all about 'unfortunate' stuff that keeps on strolling around the interweb 15 years later. It's about careers and marriages. Of course it will not prevent anyone from saving the images and keeping them for future reference, but how do you decide now who will be the president in 2030? This could prevent a lot of shame because we won't value a shameful picture of someone who has yet to become famous.
This list contains many flaws. The single biggest one being its source. Its conclusion is clearly subjective. Most of the items in your list are meant to scare econonoobs/laymen, just taking a look at the first five points:
#1: Absolute values don't have any meaning by themselves. This number could mean anything.
#2: The repay rate is arbitrary and meaningles, there is no realistic case here, just scary-sounding math.
#3: See #2.
#4: See #1.
#5: See #1.
#6: This one ignores inflation and more importantly, the expansion of the US economy, which is the collateral that this borrowing is based on. This is like saying "my 1980 mortgage was 150,000 and now it's over 500,000". Yeah, the house is different too you know..
These kind of collapse blogs just try to scare the shit out of people using their ignorance to sell them complete crap. Trouble with nerds is that while they are very knowledgeable about computing, they sometimes get convinced that it's the same in other areas as well.
I do agree that there are some differences between the lists (e.g. it's trivially easy nowadays to copy music, whereas copying a hairstyle requires more effort and a skilled craftsperson to do the work each time). But even in cases of very close analogy (photographers claim they need protection for prints of their work; meanwhile the fashion industry has found a way to stay relevant without protection, even though they are just selling a style/look/etc. that others can and to copy).
I understand your point. But the fashion industry is selling that carefully created style/look/etc. through clothing, fragrances, etc. So your observation (some things are copied more easily then others) still holds, and this fact explains the difference. Easy. (one other thing that follows from the 'sell something by creating a style/look/image' is that one needs protection from somebody copying your stuff and using your marketing expenses to munch of off you. This protection against fake branded clothing/jewelry/fragrances is very real.
Does that look like a car to you?
If [...] was a good solution it would already be in use.
Now hold on...no wait, never mind my work here is done.
I see that you have a hard time appreciating the future value of knowledge or information.
No, it's because I appreciate the future value of knowledge that I believe in public libraries and that speculators should stay away from library sales.
I'm sure I'll get hammered for this, but what the heck. Future value means that if the book results in a higher education leading to higher income, it's OK to pay a bit more for it. In the end, you want to intervene in a market, and I don't. I'll let this rest now, in the knowledge that arbitrage is legal and we will not have more market intervention in the near future in the Western world.
"And remember: Evil will always prevail, because Good is dumb." -- Spaceballs