You could keep the Chromebook and install some form of GNU/Linux on it. I hear Xubuntu works pretty well.

That People article was written in 1980, and the makers of Footloose did read it. See wikipedia.

I'm sorry to say your belief in people's lack of stupidity is flawed.

How about you use the GNU General Public License? It has strong copyleft, which prevents people from distributing closed-source software that uses your library.

Actually, the bill text says "no agency may mandate...", so it ought to cover the DHS and NSA as well.

However, since most (all?) government-induced vulnerabilities so far have been "suggested", rather than "mandated", I'm unsure how effective this bill would be.

MasterCard writes:

Consumers have no recourse if a national currency fails either.

Also, national currencies are mostly digital nowadays. MasterCard themselves do nothing but digital transactions.

Has Hawking not heard of Friendly AI? Strong AI is ridiculously dangerous if you don't give it a proper goal system. It will be invented sooner or later, assuming humanity doesn't destroy itself first. Therefore, we're better off trying to find ways to make it friendly, rather than trying to stop its development.

Most of Java is free software, under the terms of the GNU GPL, and Android Java is also open-source, so how can Google infringe any copyright?

Well, Android Java is not released under the GPL, but rather the incompatible Apache 2.0 license.

For every website where users can upload data, it needs to be distributed.

Slashdot, Github, Google*, all the forums, large and small, you name it.

They're all controlled by relatively few people, and subject to censorship, hardware failure and human madness.

Upside of the centralized system is (usually) fast speeds and comparatively easy maintenance and development.

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Perfect Cell uses Solar Flare

You can't "steal" intellectual "property".

They already made DOA: Dead or Alive . More spiritual licensees include Dwarf Fortress: The Movie and FTL: The Series .

I think the Gimp is sleeping...

One wonder why this guy would travel to America if he knew he could get arrested for his business. Only thing I can think of was that he actually didn't know it was illegal. Relevant law: Title 18,United States Code, Section 2512(l)(b) (sale of an interception device).