So Russia?

There is a difference in the kind of crookedness. In China/India, you pay (local) government to stop meddling with your business; in the US you pay (local) government to meddle with your competitors' business.

They already are for tax and other purposes. This ruling basically says that if your company has any ties overseas, the oversees assets now fall under US jurisdiction.

How about cosmonauts? US-centric much!

Why bash Apple or big banks? Whatever these companies are doing is within a legal framework. If you don't like it change the legal framework. Every brand will attempt to protect their product lines and profits and will do whatever they can to do so.

Yeah, you know Google/Microsoft/Apple/Amazon also has Irish offices just to ship out it's US profits as to side-step US taxes and frustrate lawmakers. Big companies are always going to look for the cheapest ways to maximize profits and they'll have an army of lawyers and accountants making sure that whatever they do is entirely legal.

According to the article he didn't even die (yet) while in the Tesla. He was resuscitated and died of his injuries later.

If this smart watch can give me alerts, is waterproof to 10m and is more than just an expensive remote for my phone.

BT won't cut it, I want wifi at least so my phone can act as a base station and I can be hundreds of feet away.

It should also last more than a few hours. 5 days or so should be the minimum.

>> who has lawfully arrested the person

So, who is it that doesn't think that you should be required to identify yourself once YOU'VE ALREADY BEEN ARRESTED FOR SOMETHING?

You guys make it sound like cops are just wandering the city asking people for their "papers" in a german accent.

And if you REALLY don't think that AFTER you've been ARRESTED for committing a crime that the police have no right in the interest of keeping the public safe to know that you have open felony warrants in ten states; well then - you are an extremist.

I've worked for a company that made the machines that makes the burgers for McD. The reason burger flipping is so 'easy' (even though it still requires training to do it consistently and correct) is because some really smart engineers made it possible for them to do so.

The same is true with programming. It's really easy for a burger flipper to make a website (go to a hosting company and select the "Wordpress" option, 5 clicks and $15/mo later you have a really nice looking website). If you want to make adjustments to the size of the burger, you're back to the engineer.

How about instead of giving you a hammer, I give you a toolbox. That's what all of these 'tools' are, they're toolboxes. And unless you got training in the specific tools to use, you will probably and eventually get the job done... poorly. A craftsman will know which tools to use and when to use them.

There is no difference in programming. Everyone can program these days. There are plenty of languages that are easily understood. However when you can buy a toolbox at Home Depot for $300, everyone becomes a craftsman in their own mind.

I wonder if the writer has ever seen the monstrosities programmed in BASIC/VB, COBOL or HyperCard by the resident business manager. People in general have no clue about programming or mathematics. People in general, don't go for higher education. People in general have an IQ of about 100. People in general can't work with a computer when the outline of things changes or the buttons move around. And you want those people to program a math equation that requires 2 years of college math... and they need to place the buttons themselves?

Hell, take things "programmed" in Excel for that matter. I've seen people use 3 columns to do things which could've been written in 1 operation especially when it comes to adding percentages to a value (they'll calculate 4%, then add it's outcome to the source value to get a +4% and then hide the other 2 columns instead of just doing 104%). That will take them 2 hours to complete.

The Web is fine. Plenty of people understand HTML, even without much education. People UNDERSTAND that things within a document need to be described at some point. Plenty of people can even understand basic JavaScript, even without much education.

The reason the web and most of programming in general is so kludgy and broken in many places is because we've let those people that understand HTML and basic JavaScript make websites and entire applications. We have told business managers that they can describe their business in a common and easily understood language and the business manager did describe their business but then they've gotten in way over their head where they themselves can't even understand what they've done. And then those business managers moved on and started claiming they had programming experience and then they went to another company to make ever bigger monstrosities. And REAL programmers get a bad name because programming these days is so easy, anyone can do it.

Peer reviewed. Yeah, right. And just who is reviewing the peers?

Why wouldn't you be allowed to sell sequences of numbers you have received in the mail?

So what's your solution chief.

OTP encryption can't be broken. There are still encrypted WWII messages that aren't broken. The question is, how long will your sensitive information be sensitive. It is physically impossible for something to be perpetually valued (unlike what Disney wants you to believe, if Steamboat Willy loses it's copyright it is not going to break the box office, it is just a historical curiosity).

Within 100 years, Goldman Sachs probably won't be around anymore and all their clients will have died. What numbers are in that account today will be a historical curiosity, even if it were damning the entire company today, when it's broken they'll just put in a formal apology for crimes past. Even so, if it was created today, what bits do you think will be left over within 100 years?

Current encryption (256-1024 bit) with a good key is projected to be good enough for at least several hundred years even if we get to quantum computing between now and then. By then, it will be similar to reverse engineering the Enigma.