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I know all the CEOs of the world bow to your expertise and slavishly follow your every tidbit of advice, but for the few unfortunates who do not have a direct connection to, and trust in, your infinity wisdom, having a study prove these things may be a step in the right direction in implementing this particular nugget in the workplaces.
Windoze users still fall for the jessicaalbanudes.jpg.exe trick. They don't call it point-and-drool for nothing!
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Religion is the anthropomorphization of reality, that behind it all there's an invisible man pulling invisible strings..
Corollary: Conspiracy theories are the anthropomorphisation of history...
The GPL only exists to fix the insanity that is copyrighted code. Better not code was copyrighted, sure. But since can can be copyrighted, better as much of it as possible is held in common trust, to be shared and used among those who are willing to set their improvements free.
You do not have to be pro-copyright, to be pro-enforcement of the tool that is battling the ills of copyrighted code. When we decide that math was a stupid thing to try to legally magic-wand into products anyway, there will be no GPL to enforce.
Anything that exists as a string og 1 and 0's (or any matrix of formal signs) is information. Not all entertainment is information, but the entertainment which has been codified as information is, unsurprisingly, information.
Don't get me wrong - I am all for improving the justice system, fair laws, etc. etc.
I am just not a fan of trusting either. Especially not the lawmakers - as they are a single point of failure, and easily (and already) bought.
I would rather live in a world where any and all regimes (however legitimate, fair, corrupt or not they may be) will need to secure me, my cooperation and my property before they can listen in on my conversations, check what I do on my computer or strip away my anonymity.
...that is what Moglen et al have been saying all along: don't trust the lawmakers and people in power to make you free. Guarantee your freedoms one by one, by building them - free speech, anonymity, etc. can be engineered!
Nonsense.
"Upon request", as you say. "Courts". Ie. within a legal framework, subject to rights, seizure and eventually your own compliance.
The danger we are trying to avert, is the disappearance of the need for those things. Of course the evildoers can always get a death squad or a court order - but they cannot automatically spy on everyone and aggregate the results, nor keep us from doing and saying what we want.
That, not immunity from due process, is what we are looking for.
Insightful? More like troll - but a couple of other people at least seem to feel the need for a serious answer...
Microsoft is a repeat offender of FUD and EEE tactics. Just to mention the tip of the iceberg.
Facebook owns the largest sociological database in existence, and they are selling its usage to the highest bidder.
Google is trying to take over the web, while have pioneered the FB business model.
Unix: Some say the learning curve is steep, but you only have to climb it once. -- Karl Lehenbauer