Because that is the real kicker: The copyright industry believes every infringed copy is a lost sale. Quite a bit of research found that it is actually the other way round: Copyright infringement increases legitimate sales. Hence these more effective practices to reduce copyright infringement should also reduce legitimate business.

Will be interesting to see, especially if this turns out to be happening and the content mafia cannot believe it.

The Australians will either come to their senses of find themselves squarely in the second world in the long run. Some researchers already left the country and a lot more will be thinking about it. It will be interesting to see what will happen.

However, if recent history is any indication, Australians like to get screwed over by their government, hence they keep voting for anti-citizen politicians. Must be some kind of collective masochism going on down under.

... or a lot worse, vote for a Republican.

The US political system is completely screwed with only bad options left for the voters.

Fail.

Actually: Stop having people program C that do not know how to program securely in C. 0-terminated strings are fine in some contexts and not in others. The problem is people that cannot tell which is which.

At the time these utterly stupid laws were made, these ciphers where still somewhat secure against most attackers. The problem is that encryption software and parameters can stay in use for a long time.

Those in power have banded together against their voters....

There is a time-axis. They may have thought about academic problems and may well have changed other things as well.

There are not enough train-drivers to make this a hot research item for a general solution. Self-driving trains exist, although usually local installations or subways or the like or just some modes of operation. For example, at speeds > 160km/h an ICE may not be driven manually anymore and goes to fully automatic as humans cannot do anything worthwhile anymore.

Also, from a perspective of the western world sans US, Amtrack is using historic tech.

You know, why do people go to movies where the only thing they do is watch a movie? Or other things that count as entertainment? Sure, the botters are doing it very, very wrong, because if playing the game does not entertain you, then you should simply stop, but many people are stupid.

Actually, it is the other way round: There are a lot of customers Blizzard wants to keep doing business and hence has decided to get rid off about 1.5% bad apples that really piss off the other ones by breaking the rules of the game. Quite akin to banning people that post offensive content.

The only thing that may be surprising is the size of the wave. But that also makes sense because cheater-tech is usually bought by the cheaters (most cannot code themselves one bit) and if they were to bann often, cheater-tech makers could easily determine what Blizzard does to identify cheaters.

To set a theme. Never mind that the "War on Drugs" has not only been an abysmal failure for nearly a century and that it has excessive damage in addition. These people are evil, but they try to pretend they are the saviors of the human race, hence the abuse of language.

Hence banning mobile phones may be not the cause of the better results. Correlation is not causation. Causation needs specific, strong supporting evidence.

You do not animate - I ignore.

You people have overdone it and are now earning the fruits of your rampant greed and impertinent intrusion. I will go so far as to install firewall rules to get rid of your crap.

They are getting immunity. That protects them against being prosecuted for _crimes_ they have committed. What prison guards do is not a crime as long as they follow their job description. For the police to execute a legally obtained search warrant is not a crime. Doing surgery with proper authorization from the patient or under emergency condition and with the proper authorization to do surgery of the type done is not a crime. None of these things require immunity, just exceptions in the law. Immunity means you can break the law without consequences (often retroactively), not that there is an exception for what you do in the law.

Really, have you even looked up what "rule of law" means? Because you certainly do not understand its meaning.

Indeed. And the law has become a tool of oppression, not of justice.