The flaw in this case is in the application of law. Take for example, to use the slashdot favoured car analogy, a criminal drives up to a bank, leaves the vehicle enters the bank and demands money at gunpoint, then leaves the bank and drives off in the car and the legal process than attempts to prosecute him for a traffic offence to cover the bank robbery. So the error is in not completely separating the computer and network issues ie basic network traffic offences entailing a penalty structure similar to road rules, from the crime associated with the network traffic offence. As in the case of the bank robbery, the bank robbery is completely separate from the traffic offences committed on the way to the bank or leaving it.

So in the case of computers a network traffic offence, with a typical fine and then the offence that resulted from the network traffic offence treated separately. So invasion of privacy, copyright infringement ( a civil matter), theft of resources (based on the value of resources), identity theft et al. and B$ charges about securing the site or possible maybe finding other incursions, nothing what so ever to do with the claimed charges (nobody tries to make the bank robber pay for a better safe or security guards).

Network traffic offences should be minor stuff, typically covered by fines (as a percentage of annual income to ensure equal penalty). With any crimes associated with the event separated out and directly prosecuted, thus avoiding tying say invasion of privacy with say an attempt to steal a million dollars, they are not one the in the same and should not be treated as such. It would be like charging every who speeds as a potential bank robber because bank robbers drove to the bank and sped away from the bank.

The obvious immediate change in the system required is that prosecutors should no longer be allowed to referred to the sentence in any way. They merely prosecute the claimed crimes and should they prove their case's, the judge and jury decide the penalty as relates to each crime that was effectively prosecuted. Also to ensure the guilty does not go free (people tend to forget that part when an innocent person is penalised) that the prosecution always be required to prove guilt regardless of plea. Ensuring the guilty do not get away with crimes is the whole point of the legal justice system and they must prove that when a crime was committed that the guilty party be prosecuted and steps taken to prevent them from committing further crimes. Greed has corrupted the system.

The problem with writing extremely complex rules to more accurately define particular crimes, is they allow lawyers to distort those interpretations and the guilty go free. So you attempt to assign a value to the harm as defining the penalty and they immediately then grossly distort the claims of harm to inflate the case. Attempt to use number of criminal acts and again thanks to the nature of computers, then can grossly distort the number of criminal acts and inflate the case.

The core problem seems to be the basic implementation of principles of justice. The public expects justice to be neutral and be applied fairly and equally. The adversarial system and idiotic performance quota distorts justice from being fair and equal, to an assumption guilt regardless of constitutional intent and that intent being a direct result of people using the justice system to persecute people and falsely prosecute them.

Every claim by the prosecution must be proven, the defendant should only offer no contest and only plea at the end of the prosecutorial case once all evidence has been submitted for judicial review and the defendant has been forced to publicly sit through and that all parties can see justice prevail, in it's investigation and proper prosecution. Confessions and guilty pleas have always been an anathema to public justice especially when combined with legalised torture as in the case of the US in-Justice System (still no prosecutions for that high crime).

The forget that the public who in point of fact do retain ownership of it, only sell control and the control can be taken back. In the case of any select point, it can be retained as public park (a standard joke in the commercial development world, manufacture land, no problem, all you need is a box of matches, you'll figure it out).

Truth is the majority always makes the rules, a corrupt minority just gets away with what the majority lets them get away with, up until the majority stops them from doing so. The illusion that the minority control anything, is just that an illusion, keeping in mind they do readily and perversely enough preferably resort to extremes of violence to sustain that illusion (it's their nature).

Perhaps, just maybe perhaps, something that is inherently broken should be broken. As a means by which to increase the prices of commodities, not to the benefit of producers or to the benefit of end consumers purely to create an artificial point by which disgusting individuals can insert themselves into the transaction and claim that price increase as profit for doing nothing other than speculating and seeking purposefully manipulate the price. It ain't stupid to try to eliminate the current commodities pricing scam.

How about prove in a court of law, beyond a reasonable doubt that the dog was triggered by a specific drug and not by the scent of yesterdays hamburger purchased at a drive through or purposefully triggered by law enforcement seeking to keep up quotas by guessing who is guilty and who is not. Now that would be interesting witness testimony woof woof.

So your response, trial of public opinion driven by the Wall Street Journal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/..., owned by the Fox not-News blatant propagandists. Pointless links to Fox not-News as a source of truth are pointless links.

This just reflects the current problem. Trades need to be slowed down and the tax about trades needs to be increased to kerb negative behaviour. Once in they need to stand for 24 hours. Transfer need to occur over 7 days, so once bought can not be sold until a week has passed and vice versa. Want a sounder fiscal market, slow it right down and start charging enough in stamp duties to cover the losses generated by a corrupted market, user pays, they play, the general taxpayer should not be the one paying, only the players should pay.

Of course the focus should not be on war crimes but on copyright and copyright is not bound to the media it was produced on. Copyright is tied to the content and that copyright does not transfer with the media it must be specifically assigned else it follows the normal path of transfer of assets of deceased estate. You can own the paper it was written on but that in no way imply that you own the contents. Every nutter focused on the war crimes aspect and completely ignored copyright rules.

So what is the average individual budget of a typical corrupt politician and who funds it, the tax payer or those corporations and what do the corporations expect in return.

Humanity has been around for quite some time. Proportionately democracy and rule by elders is the dominant socio-political structure, as a percentage greater than 99%. So egalitarian structures are the norm up until the genetic mutation for psychopathy turned up, bringing about monarchy and homicidal maniacs who brutally killed all those that disagreed. Aristocracy inevitably meets it fate when it becomes unacceptably abusive and keep in mind it's power was stripped away when it was at it's hight and they met various ends, axes, guillotines and firing squads. In various region where autocratic governments have slide into modern autocracies, they pretty uniformly come to a vary gruesome end. So middle class is in fact the norm, and the genetic mutation of psychopathy and it's socio-political form, monarchy, is the rarity and always comes to an end.

You can not hide anything on a fibre optic network, photons most definitely are not free. You can of course hides all sorts of stuff in other places, the electrical grid, fresh water supply pipework and digital radio transmissions and of course what ever is left over of the copper phone network. Anything that can conduct an electric signal can conduct all sorts of hidden stuff at varying frequencies.

Most likely they want to keep on talking to the stuff they have managed to hide in networks all over the world, as well as criminally insert new stuff. The problem is they still feel they own the whole world and demand full spectrum dominance. In the end, it might be their cables that just end up being cut. Fuck with things enough and simply cutting the cable will be the solution everyone reaches for.

Keep being dicks and the undersea cable will start having accidents all over the place.

Reverse osmosis desalination plants, the most efficient kind run at about 25% efficiency and as such the waste water simply has a 25% higher salt content and this waste water can be discharged at depth to have less impact. This outfall would simply diffuse into surrounding water in low habitation zones.

Also the electric car has one huge manufacturing advantage. It is very easy to extend the factory to start producing domestic solar power kits, complete versions. The primary part of which is not the solar panel but the battery, inverter and control systems. So the panel can be conventionally outsourced and the rest of the kit assembled and ready for sale and installation. Right now is the right time for a retail complete ready to install kit by skilled trained franchise dealers. Part of that kit of course connector for the car, power incoming and outgoing. The car and the home power supply will work well together to minimise cost of some very expensive parts.

Included in that is the sell value of the property and seven years is the appropriate return period, due to typical contract length. Not to forget of course, starting rent, day 1 year 1, is not finishing rent day 365 year 7. Then there are major tax breaks including asset depreciation, which wipes of total construction investment over the investment life of the property. Added to that likely significant appreciate in subdividing a major parcel of land. Of course he could just be really patient, move in the bogans, wait for the others out, demolish the low cost housing and build a movie studio.