(Laws | Contracts) are just a set of rules that may have been codified in a sloppy fashion which allows a number of implicit logic errors to slip through as there is no formal testing.

I have worked in areas related to encoding acts of legislation and regulation into chunks of DSL for processing by a rule engine. It was easier than I expected, but was not without challenges.

When compared to normal business process automation, at least laws have a specific definition(s) for every term already defined as well as specific outcomes; whereas the agony of throwing BAs at interpreting a business function that is poorly defined and without any specific outcomes can be a nightmare.

Imagine the first inroads are as supplementary tools to identify legal loopholes and gaps(the implicit logic errors when the rules are combined).

In terms of writing contracts, this has already been heavily automated; remember EDI, umm, trading systems, electronic purchasing?

Judiciary bodies already use software that highlight variations in sentencing whilst guiding judges and magistrates on a range of factors that determined previous sentence ranges(precedents).

You are being disingenuous, the "merely advise" is in fact a two year time limit for member states to put the change into legislation.

Sounds alot like vinyl to me, and I only just chucked out the old turntables!

But apart from sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh-water system, and public health what services have google ever provided?

If I owned a hardware store and advertised hammers by displaying the use of the hammer in breaking into a house/safe whatever, then maybe there would be some not unexpected bad blood from people who experienced some damage from hammer wielding thieves, or were even just worried about the possibility.

Whether the recipient seemed like they deserved such treatment because they did bad things to kittens is moot, being seen to promote illegal activities as a positive use of your product is just a bit silly, even if you vehemently disagree with said law.

Arguing about the pros and cons of banning hammers in a particular store because in some cases the use is wrong but seems justified seems even sillier to me.

Piracy is much better than the alternative, using the alternative happily. Making a feel-good story out of giving to people what they have already taken that they cannot pay for must be such a cool result for a middlemanaging doublespeak specialist!

The B-Ark now has a destination!

Wikileaks have succeeded where all others have failed, simply by burying everyone in 91,000 documents looking for easter eggs!

Really, the amount of time spent trying to get a name out those docs before they died of old age, even with such helpful categorisation would surely be enough to completely disable any real activity.

It seems to be spin however tenuously tied to the truth to destroy the validity of Wikileaks and any info they receive that they then release which is in some way embarrassing.

Queensland is NOT part of Australia, and any sort of intelligence fled during the Joh Bjelke-Petersen years when he kept telling everyone "d d d dont you worry bout that now!" in response to any questions from the media. Intelligent design is just the usual Queensland double speak dialect for being told to do and believe what you are told or face the consequences of just what happens with that there banjo.

i-everything will get tacky soon enough, just like e-everything and as did blue-everything.

Spose it would be a problem if most people made a note of what happened to jenny, and her phone number...

At least that would be more interesting than the trite drivel that comes up as most highlighted now, but then again the most of anything tends to be pretty lame.

Not so sure, reading with progressive glasses makes people move their heads instead of using their eyes as anything off centre is blurry due to the vertical variable lens strength, so neither the tracking or the projection onto the glasses would not work well in this instance.