So you're saying Microsoft needs to play a more political game, keep an eye on government, and be prepared to respond and manipulate as needed? You're saying they've not done a 'good enough' job of that in China?
How disappointing.
> withdraw (troops, DATA or spies) surreptitiously, especially from a dangerous position
The term is commonly used in info sec.
OK, but it's an odd neologism.
All told, CyberESI was able to identify and acquire more than 700 files — totaling 762 MB total size — that were exfiltrated from IAI’s network during the compromise.
I guess you could "exfiltrate" files that you put on there
If infiltrating is putting your own stuff in, then exfiltrating would be taking your own stuff out, logically. But language isn't always logical, sure.
It requires no intellect, and certainly no "morality" of any kind. It is a natural predator and prey relationship. And all attempts to regulate it have been quite farcical at best. Can't expect much different when sociopathy is the dominant trait of those we support.
Examples of cooperative ecosystems abound. Indeed, things veer into "sociopathy" when resources are constrained, which is an odd word choice following your 'no "morality" of any kind'. If it's all amoral, how do you gauge a sociopath? (Asking for a cereal killer).
such as the massive & ongoing civil rights violations/infringements that most people agree are wrong, regardless of what political stripe they self-identify as.
But I think that's wrong.
You and I may not agree with this, but I think that MOST people are quite happy to trade-away their civil liberties for the illusion of security. Particularly those who are convinced that since they "do nothing wrong", they have nothing to fear from such violations.
It's a very sad commentary on our democratic peers, but unfortunately, factual, and consistent with pretty much everything else that's gone on since 9/11, (and more-or-less, since the McCarthy era - with regard to "communists").
We're not going to unite in this country. Period. It's like Morpheus said, in The Matrix: "Most people are not ready to be unplugged from the system, and will fight to protect it." Cliche, but true.
It appears you do not know any pre-schoolers.
Except my four, when they were preschoolers, not very long ago.
Right. Because kids from a family too poor to afford a single computer will have tons of books to read. Good point.
Because libraries don't exist?
Nope, you misunderstand what the loophole was. It's utterly irrelevant whether or not it's easy to copy the music out.
You need to forget "plain English" and what "makes sense". We're dealing with the law and legalese. You need to think like a computer running into odd code. If a programmer writes "int Two=3;" then you'll get "Two+2=5". You need to obey the definition you're given, even if it clashes with what you think it should mean. You can't just assume Two+2 is supposed to be 4 when the code (or the law) says something different.
This law has a definitions section, and we are concerned with with three key pieces. I'll trim it to the critical bits.
A "digital musical recording" is a material object [...blah blah...]
A "digital musical recording" does not include a material object [...blah blah blah..] in which one or more computer programs are fixed
Therefore, according to the law, MP3 files on a computer hard drive are not "digital musical recordings".
A "digital audio copied recording" is a reproduction in a digital recording format of a digital musical recording [...blah blah...]
Therefore, according to the law, an MP3 player that copies an MP3 off of a computer is not creating a "digital audio copied recording".
A "digital audio recording device" is any machine or device [...blah blah...] making a digital audio copied recording
Therefore an MP3 player copying MP3's off a computer is not a "digital audio recording device".
The law only applies to "digital audio recording devices", therefore nothing in the law applies to MP3 players. Unfortunately this shitty law does seem to apply to a car audio system copying music off of CDs. Unless the judge gets "creative" in interpreting the law, it seems to me that car manufacturers are going to have to pay damages for every unit produced so far, are going to have to implement DRM on these car audio systems (preventing them from loading any song that's flagged as already being a copy), and are going to have to pay royalties to the RIAA for each future unit sold.
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drugs are increasingly being tested on homeless, destitute and mentally ill people
This is an outrage and a waste. We must switch to testing on the successful and the smart, who have nothing else to contribute anyway!
Second, it turns out many human trials are being run by doctors who have had their licenses revoked for drug addiction, malpractice and worse
Sure, malpractice, drug addiction and, especially, the unspecified "worse" are known to cause people to quickly forget all the training they've ever received in the medical school, and all the practice they got before losing their license.
You've been Berkeley'ed!