The solution is to "accidentally" dial the wrong number several times for every one time you dial the correct one. Eventually there will be enough complaints about the system and the data itself will be such complete worthless junk that they'll have to do something about it.

And by something I mean probably ban people from dialing the wrong number.

Not quite, Xerox would have won, and Apple and MS would probably be relegated to some minor role the way that Boreland was.

I thought common practice was to arrest them on terrorism charges and hold them until they're no longer interesting.

Generally fan art is derivative and not to mention a trademark violation. That hasn't changed recently nor would I expect it to any time soon. Anybody creating such works really ought to have an attorney on retainer as it's generally a matter of time before one is going to get a cease and desist letter.

Now, some of it is going to be fair use, and that's why one ought to have an attorney if one is going to engage in such things, or just plan to pull the work and hope not to get sued.

The main difference is that it's no longer just the intellectual elites that need concern themselves with it. People on slashdot do as well.

One of the very serious problems with life in the US, and I suspect the UK as well, is that one is not allowed to plead ignorance even though one would have to be a highly skilled attorney to know where the line is. Often times they don't even know until the courts rule.

It's not clearly copied. The only things about it that are in common are the general location and the subject. Everything about it is incredibly unoriginal. Selective coloring is kind of cool, but it's not really justification for granting protection. Neither is cutting away the sky. Sure, it was kind of a dickhead move creating an image that he knew might be confused for somebody elses work, but the two images shouldn't be considered the same for copyright images.

Of course this is the UK and it's somewhat different over there.

I see so you're an expert in art? I've studied photography pretty seriously for years, and I can tell you that there's a lot more that goes on than just capturing what you see. Seeing it is a talent that requires a lot of study, but most photographers, even most nature photographers and some photojournalists, stage the photos. Just because the medium requires a click at the end does not suggest that any less work went into the photo than a comparable painting.

The truly talented can end up going months between inception and creation.

Then again, you're a troll, so who gives a damn what you think.

There can be a fine line at times. In practice unless two images are so similar that even the photographers can't tell them apart there isn't an issue.

In that case there is an argument to be made for protecting photographers against slavish recreations, but that isn't something that is covered under current copyright law. And I also don't believe that it's common enough to even bother commencing a debate. Such cases are virtually always the result of formulaic creation and lacking in originality.

If you bothered to read any of my posts, there's a damn good reason why they would crack the security rather than doing a PIT maneuver. The reasons are, it's safer, more dependable, you can better control the situation and fewer witnesses.

No, it's not and you're being incredibly obtuse.

There are any number of ways in which you could screw with map data to trick a car into going somewhere it isn't supposed to go. Those sensors, they only have a range as far as they can detect which is typically not as far as you seem to think. Pretty much as soon as you can't see in front of you the sensor isn't going to do much better. If you program the map to not recognize the highway that's outside of that radius, the sensors aren't going to save you. If you tell the sensors that the road is one way or that it's a one way street a couple blocks down, the sensor isn't going to pick that up.

The point is that there's plenty of precedence for these kind of sneaky attacks against computer systems, I see absolutely no reason to believe that the computer systems in an autonomous car are going to be special in that regards.