1. How do you find out about the band in the first place? Fact is, YouTube is the place for a lot of indies to make it big.
2. You haven't visited YouTube in a while, have you? Everybody has their official content there. You can even rent movies there.
Exactly the opposite. They designed their system to comply with the law (delete the data). Now the EFF wants them to do something different (retain the data so they can peruse it). If you've ever worked a a big system you would know that a major requirements change like that cannot be implemented quickly or easily.
What I find most interesting here is the outrage we keep seeing on
No, that's not true. The duty of preservation in a civil lawsuit is entirely different from a search warrant in a criminal investigation. And no, they didn't design the system to comply with the law. If they'd done that, they wouldn't allegedly have so much information that it can't be stored. They should be performing targeted searches related to actual criminal cases and threats to national security, not wholesale data mining on every man, woman, and child in the United States, regardless of how soon they delete it.
he PROBLEM is that they simply collect too much data
Precisely. If they were doing what a legitimate government agency should be doing---targeted investigation of crimes and threats to national security---there wouldn't be a problem.
You guys are thinking too much into this. Any third party you entrust your secret to (bank authorities, lawyers, software etc) is a potential point of breach.
Just keep your information in hard copy (papers, journals etc), put it in a box, lock it up and bury it. Entrust the secret and key to a son/daughter with strict instructions it is not to be opened until you pass away, with the warning that the secrets revealed may destroy the family.
The less people know about it, the more secure it is.
I'd rather trust family who have an interest in protecting your secrets rather than some stranger or worse, impersonal unthinking code. And having a living, thinking secret keeper who can respond to challenges and situations you may not even forsee is far more effective.
I'm going to do this, and all that will be in the capsule will be a note saying, "You have been pwned! Dad has trolled you one final time."
"(2) the permission to destroy the originals (you'll always find a few volunteers)" why? So, the send a copy of me, so what? It's Geekoid2. It's not going to come back and claim my social security benefits.
Of course; if we can build people, we would build more optimized people and not copies. Skin color, hair growth, strength, spectrum off vision would all be customized to the unique properties of that planet.
So your proposal is that we build a genetically-engineered race of super men? And then send them off into space in deep freeze so they can return some day and conquer us? What ever will we call the ship? I think S.S. Botany Bay is already taken, but let me check up on that.
Holy Christopher Columbus! Was it bring your favourite programming language to work month?
Don't worry. The Obama administration has issued an executive order instructing the new vendor to port the system entirely to INTERCAL.
Its so frustrating to hear people on the news talk about how a doctor wouldn't treat them because he didn't take "obamacare".
What that guy probably means is that he bought a policy on the Obamacare exchange, and his doctor wouldn't see him because he doesn't accept that policy.
The optimum committee has no members. -- Norman Augustine
