That's fine if the segregation is a choice at game start: 'For people who prefer to use third party software, use this server'. But considering that cheaters do spoil the game experience for those who aren't using aimbots or wallhacks or w/e, just putting them in a fence with no other penalties seems like a far too light penalty if they get caught.

Not so sure its about 'exploiting' the American Indians, I expect they will be using a similar loophole to what all the IP companies are doing with assigning their crappy patents to some tribe to avoid IPR fast-track reviews. Then have a revenue share, so they extort other companies being patent trolls, the victims can't resolve the issue quickly, and the 'sovereign' tribes get millions of dollars for their help in doing an end run around the law.

Imho either get rid of their sovereign immunity, or have them as the sovereign be responsible for policing their IP laws i.e. the US shouldn't enforce any patents assigned to other sovereigns, who are free to ban non-payers from their land :)

I was expecting some article to say that we're sims in a world that has people playing Sims ... maybe SimCity will also add features for *their* sims to play a game controlling a city too! Either that, or an article about how the entire internet is somehow a giant computer spanning the entire world, and hence we all live within it.

Instead, its just about people using computers to mimic older technologies and displace them; because the 'mimicking' version is actually better and offers features beyond those present in the original.

There are lots of things that people shouldn't be doing, but do them anyway. The fact is that there will be people using the new iPhones while driving, whether you like it or not.

Personally, I sometimes use my phone (Android) for navigation, and ofc. if I haven't already started it beforehand then I need to unlock phone & setup nav while driving. Or I might call up someone and talk, which imho isn't so bad as long as I'm keeping eyes on the road - I use Ok Google to call up people instead of looking & dialing. I do try to wait for red signals if I need to look at the screen (e.g. it couldn't understand the name of the person to call).

Its very unlikely the cheap cars will only have 1 network or that it will be segregrated in a different way (for good or bad) than the higher end models. Almost all car manufacturers address nearly the entire spectrum from entry level to super luxury, and tend to favor standardization to control R&D and maintenance costs. The chief differences between 'high end' and 'cheap' are the quality of materials used for upholstery etc., engine performance, more expensive alternatives of some components, space age materials etc. ... all of which are hardware with actual unavoidable cost for it. But the basic nuts & bolts, and I assume the ECM as well, doesn't really vary between models.

No one 'has to' sell services to people, but companies that withdraw services are now acting as a judge of content instead of just being a common carrier and leaving it to courts to rule on such things - you know, the people who can actually define 'racism' or w/e is the term du jour being misused in media and random internet posts.

Companies are quick to overreact based on perceived negative PR, thanks to overzealous media that loves to gang up on anyone who doesn't follow their groupthink. But as this becomes more prevalent, you'll end up with a net dominated by whatever opinions big media wants to push and not much else.

https://prism-break.org/en/

Came across this link ages back and bookmarked it - reading your comment, I figured you may find it useful for alternatives to the tech goliaths that everyone uses.

What's your definitions of these? Are they the exact same definitions everyone else uses to rant about anyone they don't like? Esp. with 'racism', its become a good excuse to get upset for a lot of people who have no understanding of the actual meaning of the term.

So, how're you going to stop what you say are 'assaults on human beings' (somehow conducted thru the net - what is it, e-terrorism for the couch terrorists?) without affecting all the other people getting accused unfairly? If you or major internet companies don't have the resources to judge each case, then why should you be responsible for doing so instead of letting a court handle it?

Indicating PhD studies could be a way for someone to show they have done research in academia which is usually not a staple for Masters students. As for causing confusion, its not his fault that other people are dumb if he properly mentioned it was studies and not a degree.

> Women's greater average ability in the communication stakes means that their code is probably better documented, right? And the SCM commits better written up. And their release notes better.

So you're arguing that women are different from men in some ways, and using that as part of your argument that GP is some sort of bigot?

As for pair programming, just because it exists doesn't mean its followed in the majority of positions so how does that invalidate the idea of programming is solo work.

You could've gone for Funny, but it had to get drowned out in a useful post :-)

Don't all current cars have the same problems with particulate emissions from tire and brake dust? Its not like Prof Kelly is suggesting that electric cars raise this amount, they probably do a better job of controlling it with less random speeding and braking that humans are wont to do.

Its just another case of someone who had to make some speech during his 15 minutes in the spotlight, and decided to quibble to show off his knowledge instead of just giving strong support to a good initiative. If there was some magical way to get rid of these emissions, he would've complained about something else like the pollution caused at the point of electricity generation etc.

Of course, news outlets will seize such comments to indicate how this solution isn't good enough, and then probably other vested interests will cry about how its a great economic impact without much gain blah blah. If it results in the plan getting shelved or pared down, the same prof will then give interviews about how lamentable it was and not realize his own role in the media confusing the public.

Yes, of course the ideal condition is to have zero cars on the road for no pollution at all. But this is clearly not realistic. As for reducing the number of cars, he doesn't have any solutions to it other than standard snippets like 'we should improve public transport'. Public transport can progress orthogonally with emissions control, and is only tangentially related to improving technology for private vehicles.

How much data do your websites have, and approximate number of people and other entities who might be interested in downloading it? Setting aside the point that you don't distinguish between public vs private data, or the method of consumption (web surfing vs scraping to sell to others); just try to calculate the bandwidth requirements if LinkedIn or any highly popular site were to actually do this.

> They're left without internet for days until this is fixed.

These are days which they will spend complaining about service, and some will be shopping around for other providers. If a significant fraction jump ship, the ISP is going to get a sudden motivation boost to start reading up on basic security practices that are essential in a highly connected world.

This is the first time I'm hearing of BrickerBot, but did the author release any news that this is a clever strike against the diabolical surveillance capabilities of intelligence agencies? It seems like a response by someone tired of armies of DDOS bots crowding the internet and a lack of action by popular ISPs to secure their own devices.

Sure, in future (or even at present) many governments will classify this as 'terrorism', as punishments are much easier to sell to public under terrorism laws regardless of actual intent or magnitude of the crime. But even so, it will remain far easier for black hats to actually effect positive change in getting rid of botnets - white hats who actually report bugs are quite likely to be just ignored, with a small chance of actually getting charged for intrusion instead. Think of the recent story of the 'hacker' who used Firebug to get cheaper train fare or something in Belarus or w/e ... the company just ended up calling the cops on him! Having such actions subject to stronger anti-terrorism laws, and as usual without proper exemptions for responsible reporting, will only end up with responsible white hat types having a harder time in fixing or reporting major issues that they come across.