I wonder if they had to flip the Moon over halfway during the process... I know I can't get good results when I forget.

I don't think copyright should last any longer than 25 years or until the death of the creator. Whichever is longer. I don't believe people should be getting enriched long after the original creator has died. Copyright wasn't originally intended for that, It was intended to protect people from getting their work stolen, usually by large companies.

I also don't think ISPs should be included in the cost here. They aren't the ones with something to protect yet the cost is being thrown to them. Ofcourse as a business they will just pass it onto customers, so in the end it is just a tax on customers by corporations. I am sure there is going to be a lot of hush hush going on, but I bet people will start getting enraged when they find out they are paying to be spied upon.

The minister of communications must be an idiot if he actually believes what he says. This would actually benefit the creative economy? You know... them going after some of the people who aren't paying customers to begin with. Ofcourse there is the other side of the market they risk alienating as well. The people who download and later make a purchase because they liked it. They might become afraid to download something and then not purchase something, therefore reducing profits. What will they blame when that happens? As you mentioned before there is another useful group as well. The ones too poor to afford it but able to provide good word about it. Word of mouth and online reviews can go a long way to increase sales when a product is good. Corporations can't seem to factor that into their profit estimates, but somehow can make up imaginary losses. Many people these days don't tend to buy something on a whim. They realize there is just too much garbage out there and have usually been screwed at least once before.

Google could initiate said prosecution still if he used the data to commit a crime. They for sure have grounds for a civil case.

Exactly. The United States allows itself to get pushed further and further behind everyone else technologically all because of greed. Eventually it will get to the point where developing countries will just roll by the US.

You, like this article, seem to confuse laziness with efficiency. Why do more work than you have to? If I can use a calculator faster than I do the math in my head or on paper, what is the problem? It allows for someone to do a higher volume of work with a lesser chance of errors.

If you couldn't Google something, can you imagine the time it would take to go through books to find your answer? Besides, being able to store large amounts of information does not make you smart. If that was the case, computers really would have already taken over the world... It is not about how much you can store, it is knowing what to do with the information when you have it.

Just tell them to make sure they waterproof it first.

"Meanwhile, how do I know if I'm alreadt pwned?"

When your computer wears the colors of the Machines and attempts to hack government computers to launch nuclear weapons.

Also forgot the mention the ability to record your voice and have it as audio or be translated to text similar to speech to text software.

Getting ahead of yourself there. First you need to be able to identify all the cancer cells and then know the person won't die instantly if you did "beam" them out. It would do wonders for moving cargo that is for sure. But don't forget the energy consumption as well.

I thought that was the early appearance of the creative use of sea shells?

oops post fail lol

what it was supposed to be:

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Computer: "Initiating Auto-Destruct.. Please wait for programs to shut down safely."
Picard: "Initiate auto-destruct sequence!"
Computer: "Initiating Auto-Destruct.. Please wait for programs to shut down safely."
Riker: "The Borg are right, resistance really is futile..."

Added to post by Sloppy Computer: "Initiating Auto-Destruct.. Please wait for programs to shut down safely." Picard: "Initiate auto-destruct sequence!" Computer: "Initiating Auto-Destruct.. Please wait for programs to shut down safely." Riker: "The Borg are right, resistance really is futile..."

Maybe Steve Jobs stumbled onto a Time ship and steals technology from the future? The IPad is just his inferior interpretation of what is available.

Well, not quite so. If you watch, it is used more than just for reading, and seemed to support wireless capability to load data as referenced in the series. Many cases it was used to play music or to initialize some other program. Even in Deep Space Nine it was referenced as being used for games as well.

Surprised that some group out there hasn't taken upon itself to broadcast a consistent calculation of Pi out into space. That way we will finally get an alien invasion scenario just to get us to stop.