I'd be more inclined to trust the article if they hadn't claimed the moon is 40 earth diameters away from the earth...
Meh. A simple error in the writeup, which I'm sure is not present in the scientific papers.
http://lunarscience.nasa.gov/?question=3318
Eating people alive? Where's that get fun?
The screams... it's all about the screams. And dinner. Think of it as the psychotic version of dine-in movie theaters.
How much of my own personal money will such a lawsuit cost?
A counter-claim is $0. Why not just counter claim, and be done with it?
DMCA takedown provisions made it so that anybody -- almost ANYBODY -- can "claim" a copyright infringement without ANY evidence, and force other people to remove their "speech" from public view, until they give evidence that it's NOT infringing.
No evidence is needed to provide a counter-notice.
The only reason there's a hold-down time after the counter-notice is to give the (supposed) copyright holder time to file a court case before it's back up.
It's innocent until proven guilty. The person is presumed innocent. The content is blocked until any disputes are settled, as making it available would cause an irrecoverable loss if the copyright holder is right. It's actually pretty sensible, though wasn't intended to have millions of automated take downs issued by non-holders of copyright who claim a 90% miss rate is "good faith". Change the way that's applied against the take-down issuers, and the problems mostly go away.
There's such a thing as a frivolous lawsuit, and lawyers can get in trouble for filing them as well as the organizations paying the lawyers.
In theory, yes. In practice, no. At least not without piles and piles of official warnings.
Yes, it cant be that the science disagrees with your philosophy.
Then present the scientific basis for your position, rather than solely attacking others while not stating your position.
And you and I are among them.
Nope. The more we abolish hydrocarbons, the better I will be. We should have solar on every building, and in every road. At which time we'd have about 4x the amount of power we use. And being locally generated, will have lower cost and better availability. We just have some minor issues about storage, that'll be easy to solve in the time frame of installing the distributed power solution.
but "the internet" is emphatically not close to error free.
Yes, it is. They had a few problems because it was designed as a private network, then expanded to a network of private networks. I was on the Internet before DHCP was "invented". The Internet was very static, and any logs did a good job of identifying a specific person. There was the perception of anonymity, but there was no actual anonymity, and that was known at the time.
Fast forward to today. Security is such an issue because there was no security built into the network. That isn't an "error", that's by design. It was just considered easier to use bad security than design it for private access from mostly dynamic clients.
That and the people building it on 9600 LAN speeds never considered 10 Gbps WAN links, so many of the speed and QoS options are not optimized for today's networks.
There are a lot of things I'd have done differently, if we were building it new today, but what "errors" do you see in the Internet, besides the lack of a crystal ball by those building it?
After Goliath's defeat, giants ceased to command respect. - Freeman Dyson