Only in marble were Aristotle, Plato & Caesar white. They be brown just like JC himself!

I try to not judge what everyone else wants by what I want, but to each his own.

I guess you don't have a car equipped with an air bag? You know the airbag computer in every car is programmed to save data related to the deployment of its airbag. That means that every new car and those built for years have a system to monitor and record your activities.

I don't know how those GPS I see on the dash boards of every mini van and commuter car work but I wouldn't be surprised to find out that they already call home and upload trip data to be analyzed by the software vendor.

So competition is a bad thing?

Fleet of large expensive vehicles have these already, expensive proprietary systems too I bet. This could be cheap enough for small vehicles (like the volt) or even smaller like a fork lift or lawn maintenance equipment.

This would be great for people who have to manage a large number of vehicles. Not only do you know where all of your fleet is at any one time but you know who and how the miles are being put on them. Could save millions.

Only if you find a way that does not involve requiring the user to do anything. "Auto something thingy", hey you're the IT guy figure it out.

Finally an intelligent comment, I knew I'd find one if I looked long enough. Bravo!

Anyone able to make a significant contribution to or use of files on SF already knows how to find and use a proxy let alone move a few miles (or a few blocks) to the next country not under the ban. Its mock security, reality TV for the network news shows.

I believe you have an extremely elegant solution to the problem or at least a decent attack vector for which to disassemble this "law". I doubt how easy it will be as the people you would have to convince don't seem to have much of a grasp on logic. Look at the list, China is open and Cuba is banned, this alone is mind boggling and an indication of the minds you are about to come against.

Might as well move the servers, will the last one out of the USA please turn out the lights?

Look up what a proxy server is. This makes no sense at all.

The US gov't does not do the blocking, they expect the people who think they live in the what they tell you is the most free country on the planet. Those claimers of ultimate freedom expect the American public to do as they are told and get this work for free removing the freedoms of others. That's what's ridiculous.

And do you what to know what happens if you don't follow orders?

  The Largest Street Gang In America

Thank you for posting this link. The Largest Street Gang In America I've heard a few of these stories but they all seem to just go away and I now know why, there was even a large one in my city. I'm going to modify an old saying for a new age. It goes something like this "If you go into a restaurant once and get bad service its the servers fault, if it happens again its the managements fault." I believe people, for the most part do what they are told or at least do what's expected of them. This abuse of police power happens too much to be a cop problem, its management!

as posted above, Kent State, May 4, l970 is a good example, what was the Guard told to shoot down unarmed students? I'm sure you were right with "some terrorists are attacking " INSERT NAME "and threaten the American way of life." At the time of the Kent St. massacre America was fighting another illegal war (according to that piece of paper, The Constitution.) and the war was secretly escalating when Nixon had promised to end it. So why not turn the Guard into a death squad and while you're at it how about some illegal wiretaps a la Watergate? How is this different from any other despot?

Kent State? May 4th 1970 Ohio National Guard from over 300 feet away fires into a crowd of unarmed students killing four, one student is shot in the back and one student not involved it the protest is killed from a stray bullet. Courts said the Guard was justified killing the unarmed and distant students and not even an apology was issued.

What a bunch of self serving crap. He's an expert in selling other peoples information and often without their permission.

Chilling isn't it? We are truly seen as peasants by these organizations. They'll sell out any Joe for a pitiful $30.

By the nature of the document it was intended for use by other than the company and it was distributed outside of the company. Its only a company secret for as long as they keep it that way, did someone break a law to get it? This is a price list not a delicate national security document some slick salesman likely left this behind with a bunch of secret contracts and a list of secret golf tee times. The law is being used to save face by someone who can afford it, you know what they say, money buys anything. If you can afford to go to court you can own it.

Constitution says copyright is for a limited time, currently copyrights do not expire. Who's breaking the law here?

And without registration its pretty hard to prove who owns what without a huge expensive fight.

We are also in a copyright black hole where the future has been extended out to infinity to prevent entropy from dissolving Hollywood or at least that' how the MPAA describes its constitutional duty for repaying its debit for a "limited monopoly".