Then the publishing corporations should just sue all the libraries in the world for lost profits from books not being sold.

I think they meant it to be "We own our code, not you."

A friend of mine suggested such an idea to me 15 years ago. This is what I told him.

You run it inside an x86 interpreter which simulates the CPU all the way through the decryption. Then you snapshot the decrypted code and rebuild the app without the decryption and substitute the decrypted code. Now it's just a plain app. If it tries to "detect it's environment" (read the clock, etc), the simulator just tells it whatever it wants to hear. It cannot know it's being simulated, it's just code.

I'm not even sure there's a me in THIS universe.

Yup, it did get sorted out. The money got sorted into the pockets of the corporations. That's the plan and it's working efficiently.

Just as the NSA complains about Apple and Google using effective encryption and how it stops them from fighting "terrorism", in the near future they will whine that can't fight terrorism if the TV manufacturers don't put this monitoring technology in their TV's.

Consider a propane-powered generator (or maybe you can convert yours). Doesn't go stale.

"Don't you dare serve the people, you shall only serve the corporations!"

They say that the person chooses the next in sequence by the name of the game, but that may not be why. Perhaps when they lose they choose the pattern that beats the pattern they just used. It still results in the same sequence, R>P>S, but for a different reason.

What if computers were shipped with the Secure Boot disabled, and then a BIOS setting would allow it to be enabled? Then Linux users could use it normally, and Windows users could switch it on. You would have no option to disable it once it was enabled so it would remain "secure" for the Windows folks.

Well I (and I think most people) don't want to get rid of corporations, I just want to get rid of my government being run by corporations. Would it destroy our economy to have our representatives beholden solely to the citizens that elected them?

...who have forgotten how to make phone calls because they only use their cell phones for txting.

Those kids might grow up to be book buyers!

...just add virus to make him mobile.

Once the LHC makes a black hole that swallows the earth, I'm sure there'll be plenty of lawsuits!