How about I come by your home and leave a brick on the floor, is it really so hard to just put it in the trash if you don't want it? The point is, it is a theft of your time and effort.
And if you aren't allowed into their home, you can just toss it through a window.
If you operate a movie theatre, you can't check passports on the door and only allow citizens of a specific country to enter.
True, but you can be pretty certain that someone coming in to your movie theater is physically located in your country. It's also a reasonable assumption that it's legal for them to be there.
You can't stop someone sending physical media across borders, although the north koreans keep trying.
Maybe you can't achieve perfect enforcement, but I would guess that every country in the world has laws about what physical items can be brought into or sent out from that country.
Refusing to sell content to someone based on their location or nationality should be illegal as it's discrimination. Similarly, trying to carve the world up into arbitrary areas so you can enforce exclusive distributors in each area is anti-competitive and should also be illegal.
I agree that that's a great ideal. The problem is, under who's jurisdiction? For example, the United States has very little control over what companies do in other countries (openly, anyway; I'm sure there's plenty of military and economic threats being passed around back channels), nor can the United States force companies from other countries to sell in the United States. You would need either an international treaty, which the media companies would never allow, or a world government with this kind of authority, which the UN is unlikely to get any time soon.
Ubuntu hacked a Motorola Atrix so it ran Android when you used it like a phone, but plug it into a dock and suddenly it became a full blown Linux desktop.
Ubuntu hacked...? I seem to recall that being a feature that was implemented by Motorola.
Would be fun to observe people waving their hands in complex patterns detected by a built-in watch motion sensor to unlock things.
Wow, I think you just implemented wizard spells with a somatic component. Add in voice recognition and the need to have your phone with you, and you've got verbal and material components too.
When I do a Google search for "Pacifist Enlistment Options" I get nothing back. Please help me out and point me to where I can enlist but specify that I don't want to be subject to orders that will help kill people.
If by "enlist" you mean becoming an enlisted soldier, then you probably don't have much choice in the matter. If you just mean joining the military, then if you have a college degree in some science or engineering field, you can become an officer and work at someplace like a Navy research lab. There probably isn't much need for computer scientists or physicists in Afghanistan, so you most likely won't be deployed to a combat zone.
It's not like he has to produce a new build or approve a new patch every 47 seconds to keep the world from exploding.
Is this the next season of 24?
The hardest part of climbing the ladder of success is getting through the crowd at the bottom.