"Intellectual property" is called property for a reason -- it is protected by legislation from copying, which is akin to stealing. You are stealing potential wealth from people who may chose to sell copies.

That's why it is called property: because taking it (via copy) is stealing, thabks to legislation. Do not devolve into semantics. because it "works around" the word "stealing".

There is no point there you are trying to make.

Most US prisoners are for drug crimes. We have a vigorous debate going on about legalization.

Many (most?) Soviet prisoners were political prisoners. Criticism of that got you added to it.

Your parallel is silly and an obvious nod towards what issues in the US you consider paramount at the moment. At least normal blame America firsters (nice cold war reference there!) tie something the US did as, normally ludicrously, heavily controlling over some other nation. You simply skip that part.

All three of your citation neededs are asinine. Anyone who has been remotely paying attention to these things over the years and decades knows them the same way they know New York is on the east coast. Repeated references to same.

Go do your own homework, see that he is right, and come back and apologize.

Yeesh, what brought that on all of the sudden?

It's already been prognosticated that general household robots will be a massive goldmine for lawyer frauds. The only way around it is a black box, perhaps with video, to show people fucking around and deliberately causing problems.

I always wondered if the rate of slip-and-fall accidents in supermarkets plummeted after security camera installation (even dummy ones.)

Well, they crossed that bridge already with complex nav systems that may distract you. You may be able to sign away your rights, but you still cannot sign away the rights of people you may cream.. They can still aue the company.

While not always bug-free, automotive embedded software is a hell of a lot better than desktop or phone shit. I have done both.

Embedded goes through rigorous testing of every single feature. Software is code reviewed with difference tools and every line poured over. Every path is guaranteed execution in testing. Worst case stack use is capped. Infinite loop failsafes are created.

"Regular", i.e. desktop development, is a yee-haw, flyin' by the seat of your flaming pants endeavor. I have done both. So should most developers as there are some eye opening things which can be easily adopted without slowing the bleeding edge nature.

Having said that, this new system is just an extension of already-existing lane keeping and distance keeping automation.

Also kreetles from Star Wars: Galaxies

Check the fine print to see if they bail on payouts if you are exceeding the speed limit or engage in other behavior they don't like.

tumblr app autoplays gifs, so to speak (previously it just showed a preview and you clicked on it to see it) thus making it useless for two reasons.

First, it eats throuh gigs of data in no time. More importantly, 4g can't keep up with it and the fast scrolling you may want to do. Some clueless ass designed that one in a vacuum.

I've found no matter how "easy" a game is, people will push the limits until they get killed. So whether its original EQ where you need a full group to deal with singleton yard trash, or recent WoW where you destroy stuff that's near-skull level (or even beyond skull level) solo, you are always pushing.

Have you ever had a scientific study of the "rigorous technical car checks"? (We will assume for the sake of argument they are useful in spotting problems.). And make sure the big companies are up to standard and not just bribing the official, who, coincidentally, applies a rigorous standard to tiny and independents, oh, another problen. Get it fixed and I will recheck in a month.

No, that's fraud, and should be treated as such.

I suppose victims of a DNS should just suck it up?

It needs movement, not exercise per se. You want to call walking and keepinh busy "light exercise", that's your business.

People who exercise vigorously then go sit on the couch for six hours in the evening had almost the same heart disease rates.

These "walking workstations" may help you live a lot longer.