Key phrase to keep in mind when thinking about your idea: Extinction-Level Event
Dropping asteroids into Earth's gravity well intentionally is a incredibly bad idea.
Total PITA.
I see what you did there... but I really wish I hadn't.
And that is probably why they refused. If they heard the case they'd have to make a ruling which would apply across the entire country. By refusing to hear it they can contain the "damage" to just Illinois.
Given that the U.S. civil war started in 1861 that would be a really safe assumption.
I don't see an answer to the problem other than DRM. But how do you maintain DRM without punishing the legal users? Computers were designed for the ultimate in information freedom, and while they excel at playing, editing, and transferring musics and other media there is a domain mismatch when it comes to maintaining rights. No one has a right to music unless they pay for it.
Human history disagrees with you.
For a more humorous counterpoint I refer you to an artist who also disagrees with you. Dan Bull
I don't get why people are trying SO DAMN HARD to make it okay.
Guilt and possibly shame. If it wasn't necessary or useful then they mutilated their son(s) for no reason, or they were mutilated for no reason. It's really simple if you think about it. They are simply protecting their self image.
You might want to check out a program called Checkride. It is an open source program developed in Lazarus. It is basically a preconfigured portable VNC and stunnel package. To use you configure it to connect to your computer and give it to the person you are trying to help. The executable you send them starts VNC server and then connects to your computer via stunnel. Your PC then starts VNC viewer on your side and connects to their desktop via the secure stunnel connection.
I use Deluge on both Windows and Linux. It seems to work exactly the same on both.
And how is that functionally different from a phone number? I don't see what you are trying to convey here. Domain names in DNS ultimately resolve to a number. It is almost impossible to completely eliminate in our current internet (and I suspect any future version) the need to know the address of the entity you are trying to contact. Adding layers of indirection might hide this from the end user, but it still exists. At some point your voip devices will need to know where the other voip device can be reached.
It won't. No matter what, your computer/browser/phone/etc. will need to know how to get to the data/page/person/whatever you requested. As for phones, just how many John Smiths (just as an example) do you suppose there are in the world? How will this hypothetical phone system tell which John Smith you wanted? (Blood Samples? DNA? Photo Recognition?) I suppose one could assign everyone in the world some sort of GUID. But that would just be basically the same system we have now. Sure, it might be that in the future you don't need to dial each of his phone numbers individually. But your VOIP system would still need to know how to contact those devices.
Another good option is an old thin client. I use a re-purposed Neoware Thinclient for this. It runs embedded pfsense. Supports all sorts of functionality unavailable on most consumer-grade routers. As an added bonus it has no moving parts and is completely silent.
I've had the misfortune of using it. It is truely horrible.
Because the law should only apply to people you like? If law is not applied fairly to everyone it is worthless. I don't care anything about Dotcom. I do care that the government faithfully follows the laws that it enforces. This is a fairly basic concept.
No it was the old people. Just different old people.
"Ninety percent of baseball is half mental." -- Yogi Berra
