True, but the $1 Indian screeners aren't held to any sort of legal standard, Google gives them a boilerplate list of things to screen because they don't want it on their service and the cost and quality of that is purely a business decision. Then you can take the quick and easy route saying "porn is whatever we decide is porn" even if doesn't perfectly matches what the penal code thinks is porn and they're free to err on the safe side and there's no liability if they happen to let a video that's against their guidelines but not the law slip by. If on the other hand you make this some sort of mandatory prescreening required by the law or the courts to help prevent copyright infringement then censoring speech that is legal under the first amendment would be a pretty blatant violation of the uploader's rights and they could risk liability for screwing it up.

Then you have to equally carefully not censor anything protected by fair use or otherwise by the first amendment, meaning each case would in fact be a little micro-trial. That's not something a $1 screener in India is qualified to do, hell it's not something even a US layman is qualified to do. Maybe a judge is a little excessive but yes, a screening that doesn't amount to censorship would be very very expensive. Of course the MAFIAA are civil organizations and not the government, but I very much doubt you can blackmail Google into making such a system without getting the law involved.

I think you got it backwards, it's the people who write the contracts who'll be making law because they decide what kangaroo court to hear it in. The real law and the real court system will still exist, you've just lost your right to get your contract dispute heard there. This is the rule of law signing off and handing over the reins to the corporations, all that's lacking for a Star Wars moment is thunderous applause.

Linus is primarily a developer, he wants to see the improvements Tivo has done, study them and if they're good enough roll them back into his own project. The GPLv2 fulfills his requirements and then he primarily wants it used - if it's used in locked down tivos, cell phones, tablets, set top boxes, embedded boxes or other appliances that's not a big concern for him, but if all those backed out plus a wave of fud it'd hurt his project. The FSFs agenda of user-modifiable software is not his agenda, he just wants the source code. Apparently that's the common opinion among the core Linux developers, they were pretty unanimously behind Linus on this one.

I prefer a smaller one but my dad has one about that size, but it's bendable because it only has cash, plastic cards and various papers. A rigid 5" screen phone sounds uncomfortably large to me, I've seen some one here with a 4.3" phone and already that is starting to look odd and uncomfortable to hold, like you're talking into a mini-tablet or something. I don't think a phone that size is going to go mainstream at least.

I had a 15.4" 1920x1200 Windows laptop and it was a love/hate relationship because of all the crappy applications that didn't deal with high PPI well. Many people simply gave up and wanted a "normal" screen instead. There's quite a few things to not like about Apple but they didn't just throw the retina display out there, they told the developers to jump and they jumped. Almost all my iPhone/iPad apps are now high PPI-aware and if they're not they get scaled to double size so they look normal. I'd love to have a 4K screen, but only if I can use it without a magnifier glass...

The "should" part is all well and nice, but if your wallet is gone and nobody's seen the thief well then there's no justice for you. The thief knows he got away with it and he doesn't have to face justice. Maybe I'm a pessimist but if there was no law, no police, no justice system of any sort I'm thinking it'd be more like Somalia than Kumbaya land. I think we all know that even in civilized society a lot of guilty men walk free, because they were never convicted or even a suspect. The carrot and whip is the only thing keeping them at bay, and if you believe in God then heaven and hell seems like a bit bigger than jail time. Funny you should mention children, because we have our own little children's version of that. Let me quote:

I guess you'd better hook them young on the belief that someone always knows if they've been naughty or nice. Funny how people think they leave all their "childish" beliefs behind then think exactly the same about Jesus.

The Nazis were stopped because they picked a fight with everyone in sight and bit over more than even they could chew, internal resistance was not a major issue until long after they had lost the critical battles of the war. Had Hitler stopped in May 1941, consolidated his forces and concentrated on blockading the UK while holding against the Soviets - who'd be totally crazy to attack - things would be very different. The US like to play up their part in WWII but the Nazis took 80% of the casualties on the Eastern Front, not the Western. Around ten million Soviet soldiers died in desperate defense of Moscow, Stalingrad and the oil fields to the south as well as an extremely harsh winter, that's what broke the Nazi army. You'd be surprised to know how many like racism as long as they're the superior race, and the inferior were quickly silenced.

Maybe it's different where you live but I don't perceive most religious people as scared. Most of them just want some sort of direction or purpose in life, something that gives meaning beyond eat, sleep, fuck and die. Someone to praise for the good things, pray for help with the bad things, that God has some sort of mission for them here on Earth not just an afterlife. And I don't mean that you have to go out and convert people, but to try living a life without sin and asking for forgiveness for your sins is a mission in itself. It's not that unlike sports, nobody tell me that in the greater meaning of things football "makes sense" - it's just an arbitrary set of rules we've turned into a game. But then we can play by those rules, we have some sort of measuring stick that says this was a good play and this was a bad play. Religion does that for your whole life, my life is now not just different than yours but it's now better than yours.

Science is great but it's also empty, there's nothing in physics or chemistry or biology that give any sort of purpose to life. There's no values, no ethics, it can perfectly describe what a bullet will do if you pull the trigger but there's nothing telling you if you should or shouldn't do it. Okay you can say evolution "wants" you to reproduce but that's not really true, it doesn't care if you don't. Why should it or how could it, it's only a game of numbers. There's humanism but it really only covers your interaction with other human beings and it mostly boils down to reciprocity because nobody wants to be treated as less than average but there's really no penalty for taking advantage of others if you can. Religion tends to be divine both in matters of fact and matters of law, there's no "getting away with murder" with an omniscient God. Seeing human courts sometimes failing miserably, I can see the appeal I just can't buy into the fantasy.

Well, Occam's Razor favor's the simplest explanation...

Evolutionist (courtesy of wikipedia):

Bible literalist / creationist:

Besides, it's a general principle not a scientific fact, sometimes the answer is not the obvious one. You can't use it to say you're right and they're wrong.