You will have the very same abilities to surreptitiously monitor and record in real-time the private lives of citizens as you would with any smartphone and most other mobile devices. Data is stored in the cloud and open for government intrusion while providing the theater privacy and security. If you don't bungle your public show feigned concern you shouldn't have anything to worry about from the voters on this issue. Now go back to your hookers and blow and leave your fingers out of it.

Don't believe everything you watch on Fox News. It's only that way right now because the pot-smoking, crazy, hippie, pinko-liberals are running things.

In Minnesota, the yellows tend to be quick, but you are also not expected to stop unless it's safe to do so. If you enter the intersection on yellow, it doesn't matter if it changes red while you're in it. The folks waiting on the green are required to ensure the cross traffic has stopped before proceeding.

Depends. Where does the kid fit within the socioeconomic/racial food-chain?

States are allowed by the U.S. Constitution to be douche bags so long as they do not impinge upon interstate commerce or other federal juridictions. Florida has historically just been a bit douchier than most and this is simply an illustration of that.

Wait... Who were we talking about?

We must resist the products of the second law of thermodynamics. If that requires slapping Timothy around every now and then then that's what must be done.

What a strange euphemism.

Did I miss something? "The Voice," "American Idol," "America's Got Talent?" No statistics, no hardware, not even politics tangential to technology; nothing but a link to a couple paragraphs on a site for addle brained people whose concerns reach no further than the next amusement to distract them from realizing their own mediocrity.

What the hell Timothy? Have you lost your passion? Did you sell out? Fall on your head? ...

Sounds like a point defense system--for when all else fails. The targeting/tracking system need not be limited to the effective range of the laser.

It kind of depends upon what you need. Contests will find puzzle solvers, those that would work reasonably well doing research. Contests however, will not be very effective in finding the "big picture" folks that are needed to develop clean, robust architectures. I suspect they may well select against them. You will also almost certainly limit your applicants to college kids, and/or recent graduates looking to establish themselves not those that have already proven their abilities.

You do realize that the medium by which that content was distributed did not lend itself to near zero expense reproduction right? Analog to analog reproduction is inherently lossy. It costs as much (if not more) to photocopy a book and bind those pages into a new one as it does to just buy a legal distribution of the shelves. A product loses its inherent value the moment everyone that wants one can obtain a copy for near zero cost. For now this issue only troubles intellectual property. Soon it will affect tangible goods as well when what used to require a manufacturer can be had from a digital scan and a matter assembler.

Let the networks die with the rest of the Luddites and their business models. I'll happily continue to consume my niche entertainment streaming a la carte from the likes of Netflix and Amazon. I have no interest in hundreds of channels worth of mass consensus crap. I have even less interest when its for ridiculous sums of money.

So let me get this straight. I can offer the assembled software product A for sale, while giving away the unassembled software product A to whomever wants it. Are you for real? If the person or group who expects to use the software I write has already downloaded and compiled the source-code, or downloaded what someone else has already compiled I no longer have a customer to charge. If given the choice between Product A for a price, or Product A for free which would you choose?

So movie houses, authors, software developers, etc. are going to be contracted directly by you and me? I don't know about you but I really couldn't afford to shoulder the entire production cost for the next installment in the James Bond series. I'd also very much like to avoid taking out a second mortgage to pay my favorite author to pen a new novel for me to read.

BTW, you never did tell me what you do to provide for yourself and family.

Charge whom? If I cannot sell my software, if I cannot charge for access to the source code, to whom do I apply for compensation? The government? Your suggestion would only work for one-off software wherein I am contracted to produce it. Your bullet points do not withstand scrutiny. Surely you can neither be so naive nor obtuse. Free IP only works when there is a necessary value addition that the creator may charge for and is equitable to the development investment.