Not saying there is evidence it has happened. Saying it is a great idea and should have happened.

Have you ever retired a riddle by mistake?

Basis Peak, if they ever get the notification software, is a good start, but it needs voice recognition.

Of course, I suppose, if you had a Pebble, you could just program it to bring up voice rec on your smart phone and use your bluetooth headset.

Then of course you wouldn't need weather to decide when to leave work (or IF it is worthwhile to leave work at all, I've had a couple of times when it simply wasn't worthwhile to leave work before midnight).

Told kid about nano-cam dust today. He's only 4 years old, so he didn't know about them yet, and I'm trying to teach him basic hygiene. I explained for that for nearly a a hundred years we have all lived in an environment where other peoples' cameras are always in our homes. We track them in, on our shoes. The AC intake blows them in. The servers the cameras send video too, aren't owned by people who are practicing subterfuge. It's not like they snuck "spy" dust onto our porches in the hopes we'd track them in. It just happens; it's an inevitable consequence of the stuff blowing around everywhere.

My great grandparents complained about it. They thought they had a reasonable expectation of privacy in their homes, because nanotech was new. They didn't see the dust, so they didn't know it was there. In the absence of sensual confirmation, the default expectation (at least to the layman) was that it wasn't there. That was naive, but my grandparents didn't work with nanotech or even use consumer models themselves, so perhaps their ignorance could be forgiven. (Just as my own ignorance of hyperspace can perhaps be forgiven, since I'm not a miner.)

My grandparents, though, grew up with the stuff, though it was still a bit expensive, so it wasn't totally ubiquitous yet. By their time, almost everyone at least knew about it, and if in a gathering of any five people you were to say "nobody sees me inside my home," chances were there would have been a few guffaws and someone would likely point out that the statement was likely incorrect. Sometimes the stuff got innocently tracked into your house, and sometimes it was manipulated into getting there, through subterfuge. The law and social norms lagged, though, and people debated privacy a lot.

By the time their children (my parents) grew up, though, it was all over. Everyone knew about nano-cam dust, and unless you did a rad-flash a few minutes earlier, fucking in your own bed was just as public as doing it in Times Square.

And now my kid knows too. It's just something everyone is expected to know about and deal with. If I were to write a story about it, I think I would set the story in the time of my grandparents, back when society was truly conflicted and in the midst of change. I bet those were interesting times.

The government gave the monopolies to help the citizens because when taxis first came around they crowded the streets. Now the government can remove the monopoly because the taxi companies been abusing it. Again, to help the citizens. There is no duplicity here. They don't owe anything to the taxis that bought into their protected industry

"There are ALWAYS a queue of 20+ cabs" That only happens in airports and maybe the 2 blocks where the bars are. Most of the world it is impossible to get a cabbie at a reasonable time.

Agreed. Taxi's let uber enter the market simply by being terrible. Ever need a pick up in any city besides Manhattan from a taxi? Forget it. Uber got to my suburban Southern California house in 2 minutes. With just a few clicks. Not an hour which what happens when you call a taxi.

If you were going to ask a "someone" how they meant to define "derived work", you would ask Congress, not the author(s) of one out of a million contracts which happen to make use of that term.

You're right that it's upsetting that (mostly) people who don't really work with copyright would end up answering it, but that's the nature of law, or at least until you start electing[/appointing/etc] authors. (Cynic: or until those people start funding election campaigns.)

It's only after you have determined that something is a derived work, that you go study licenses. Until that point, licenses are irrelevant.

Free will is not an easy app to code.

My own lying eyes aren't cleared for this evidence, so I'm going to have to go with the CIA.

In general it will still be cheaper to pay overtime than hire more workers. Especially in areas where overtime only comes during certain times of the year. It is still a good thing thou because we don't need to pity-the-poor-billionaires and a little wealth adjustment is fine, it will also help the economy as a whole by making more people have the ability to spend more.

And this has happened in every industry invented within 30 years.

Not freely. Restaurants and daycares are regulated by the state, using laws written by larger businesses. They are limited in their ability to compete. Not sure about bicycle shops, but there is a reason why the price is going up, and it isn't because the technology has really changed in the last 75 years or so. Startup costs will prevent businesses from being opened, unless they are extremely minimal.

This is your reminder all these formulas are useless because they rely on assumptions in the math. You can just as easily "proof" the opposite.