No way - once we realize the bacterial version are self aware, we can start an eukaryote version that the single celled bacterial networks can have an arms race against!

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Sell admission.

Profit!

You are aware that Interpol regularly handles arrest warrants issued to detain criminals who have committed a crime in only a single country.

Interpol is not an international police organization, it is a framework to allow national police organizations to work together across international boundaries.

If a person were to rob a bank in the US, and flee to Mexico, the US will put out an Interpol warrant (more accurately, the US will issue an arrest warrant, which is then passed on to Interpol, who communicates that warrant to all member nations), and when/if the person shows up in Mexico, Mexico will then arrest them under the Interpol warrant, in order to handle extradition processes. Mexico cannot simply arrest people on a US arrest warrant... that's why they then send it to Interpol who distributes the warrant in an internationally-aware manner that other countries recognize as valid.

So again: Country A cannot legitimately just issue an arrest warrant valid in Country B. Interpol allows Country A to get international recognition of their warrant in such a way that Country B will consider it valid in their borders. There is absolutely no requirement that the crime have occurred in multiple countries, nor that the purported criminal have committed crimes in anything more than just one country.

... but filing in small claims court still costs a non-significant amount of money. Last I checked, $25 in the state of Washington. What happens when a company crosses the line and defrauds a million people of $20? The company just made $20,000,000 dollars, and no one is going to sue, because even in small claims, it's $25 to sue to get even a default judgement of $20, with a net loss of $5 for anyone who wants to sue. And even if everyone did sue in small claims court, the small claims court would be a) clogged with cases, and b) made out like a bandit with $25,000,000 in revenue.

Class action suits are less about benefiting individual consumers, because their damages are usually relatively low, and widely spread out. Class action suits are usually about collecting up a bunch of people who have been wronged a little and getting the company to pay for being dicks.

While this is accurate to say, it's like saying that he's one of the justices that is a human being. All justices, judges, and magistrates accept that corporations are legal persons. This is neither surprising, nor debatable, and is a fundamental part of Common Law tradition. Why are corporations people? Because otherwise, they couldn't own property, and could not be sued.

Let's have a hypothetical. Let's say that corporations are not people in our new world. Alice, Bob, and Charlie are working together in a Corporation, ACME. Now, ACME is not a person, so someone has to own all the assets that would otherwise belong communally to ACME, and the three decide that Alice should be the person of record for ownership of materials. Now, someone has to run the company and be on the line for any legal messes, and the three decide that Bob shall do the actual operations of the company, and direct Charlie in his work, while Alice just sits at home, and collects a paycheck just for not walking away with the money and property. Now, Bob tells Charlie to dump some toxic waste in Derick's yard. Derick is upset, and goes to sue ACME in court, however, since ACME is not a person, he cannot sue ACME. So, he has to sue the people responsible for the toxic waste dumping. Well, obviously, he'd like to go after Alice, with the deep pockets, but she had no hand in causing the harm. Bob would also be a nice choice, because as the director, he has a reasonable salary, and it was his policies that directed Charlie to dump the toxic waste. Except that Bob only ever told Charlie in verbal communication that was never recorded to dump the toxic waste in Derick's yard. Leaving the only person that Derick can sue as Charlie, who is really just a lowly employee with no salary, and no real power. Derick sues and throws Charlie into bankruptcy with the tort finding, while Alice continues to maintain all the company assets that have not been touched, and Bob continues to direct the company however he sees fit with no accountability for his actions.

Last thing I heard is that part of his money was returned to him.

Besides, I somehow doubt that all of his money has been seized. Every halfway decent crook can squirrel some money away from the feds, I highly doubt that of all the crooks he couldn't.

But does it have to be in behalf of Kimmy? Of all the poor bastards that got into the crosshairs of the US copyright mafia? I really start to wonder if that guy just has too much luck or whether something else is going on.

Moving every thing to /usr to make the filesystem more sane.

Meaning that the system no longer supports /usr in a separate filesystem: http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/separate-usr-is-broken.

Of course, you can still use /usr in a separate filesystem from / if you boot with an initrd, but you now almost need half an operating system (busybox, rescue shell and utilities, perhaps support for lvm and/or RAID) just to boot your real operating system.

Why would you want /usr on a separate filesytem? Perhaps you want it in LVM, so you can resize it easily if necessary (maybe to make room for installing a new desktop environment, for example), but don't want you root file system in LVM. Perhaps you want to periodically fsck /usr on boot, and fall into single-user mode if it fails. Perhaps you want /usr (which is a read-mainly file system) on a small SSD, and all other file systems (which are written to more frequently) on spinning disk storage. Perhaps you want to mount /usr over NFS. Not that I can still see many people doing this but it seems a pity to prevent something that has worked fine in the past - and in these days of "running applications in the cloud" it seems Linux will no longer run applications in the local network (ie. NFS-mounted /usr).

Seriously, read the level of professionalism and maturity on that page. This is the level or maturity to which Linux slowly seems to be sinking. As a long-time Linux user and supporter I find this deeply disappointing.

And what's the reason for all this? Because the udev developers can't wipe their own a{r|s}es, put their house in order, and properly sort out which files go where (or at least sort out what needs to be done to mount any necessary non-root filesystems, mount them, and then continue with any programs/scripts which use them). Instead, all of that gets pushed out to initrd (ie. oh no it's hard, let's give it to someone else to do). Seriously, they're like a bunch of 8-year-olds bragging to their friends that they won't clean their bedrooms, even when mummy thinks they should.

I have to actually LOOK at the road I'm driving on? I can't simply go down the flooded road 'cause my navi says it's all right?

What's next? First they want me to pay attention to the traffic, now this! Driving sure gets more complicated every day.

I was CISO. I guess there's little room on top of that unless you allow them to replace your brains with a BA major.

I wrote some of my best code drunk. The comments, otoh, weren't too useful...