Everyone knows that regulation are burdensome and a net drain on the economy. If people cannot trust their banks, it just means they will live with the consequences of their decisions. Weak men who cannot calculate risk should not have money anyways. I for one look forward to a return of wildcat banks, massive fraud, and increased market panics.
The Tory government policies are very unfortunate, pigheadedly ignoring basic math and reasoning. Backdoors do not work.
Several issues come to mind. Where is the City in this? I can't imagine all the financial infrastructure in the UK will be happy about weaker controls over security. What would Lloyds or Coutts say regarding government mandated backdoors?
UK has set a stronger policy of government support of the private sector with cybersecurity as well. They would be giving that up. NCSC and other governmental organizations and regulators have been remarkably effective at promoting a new path forward for the British economy. This places all their good work in jeopardy.
I must expect Labour will make hay of this as well. The Tories will be destroying good jobs. Britain cannot afford many more tech positions or firms leaving for the US or Canada.
I logged in after more than a decade to say this:
MLK didn't write the Constitution.
Four words: Fediverse e.g. Mastodon.
The reason is simple: most users of Web browsers are illiterate, not just technically but sociopolitically and otherwise. They don't recognize the value in choosing Firefox for the same reasons they failed to see the value in not voting for Donald Trump. There's no use trying to educate them, either, because they are immensely short-sighted and will always take the shortest apparently easiest route to their objective even if it's not the wisest one.
You can just take those hotgrits and gnu it, you insensitive clod.
Think space elevator....
The very fact that giant multinational corporations - who routinely do evil against citizens until they're caught - are supporting this new Foundation is proof enough that in fact it won't "fix the Web" at all, and will instead make it worse. That other corporate-backed entity in which Berners-Lee has had a hand, the W3C, has for decades now been responsible for reshaping HTML and the Web to be profoundly more friendly to corporate motives and agendas than those of citizens. Before 2000, it was easily possible to experience Web content in a fashion of personal preference; in 2019, most blogs and information sites are now constrained to formats over which citizens have very little control. The difference is entirely due to how the language of the Web has evolved to benefit corporations more than citizens.
Tim Berners-Lee has had a hand in all of that evolution. Berners-Lee is a hypocrite who is only just now worried about how this perversion of the Web will affect his legacy and how he is perceived in the future. He's trying to retcon his actions and participation of the past two decades to benefit his posthumous image.
By extension, the court also ruled against Naruto himself (herself?). The court had the leeway to ignore the humans' role in initiating the defense of Naruto's rights (as a person), as is commonly done for humans defending other humans incapable of defending themselves for whatever reason. The court failed to do so here because the ruling was just as much a determination that Naruto was not a person as it was a decision against the humans involved. Had the court actually deemed Naruto to BE a person, the ruling would have been in his favor.
Since the USPTO has no authority to judge personhood and issue rulings about it, the decision ultimately rests with courts and not the USPTO. The USPTO is overstepping its authority by implying that they have such authority.
This issue rests entirely upon how we define personhood: any entity that we recognize as a "person" is allowed all the rights associated with it. Centuries ago, dark-skinned peoples were not considered persons, and would not have been allowed copyrights.
Fast forward to this new millennium, and dark-skinned people can now establish copyrights, but Naruto the macaque couldn't establish his personhood and an associated right to own copyright; Naruto is still not a person. Courts have also ruled against those trying to establish personhood for other primates. Most recently great apes were demonstrated to pass a false-belief test, indicating they possess at least a rudimentary theory of mind, but I doubt even that will sway our hard-hearted xenophobic courts.
I'm not hopeful that a court will be willing to grant any AI the rights of personhood, including the right to establish copyrights, when even our closest genetic cousins with obvious rudimentary sentience can't pass muster.
I once got so sick of replacing the non-replaceable battery in my Norelco razor that I took the Black and Decker flashlight that I never used (from one of those "kits" that I described) and made it the basis of modding the razor to give it a replaceable battery. I grafted the razor head and motor assembly into the body of the flashlight (JB Weld is awesome), and was then able to power it with a 3.6V NiMH Versapak battery. It actually made the razor more effective as a bonus from the higher RPMs. I enjoyed that for several years until I dismantled it for reasons I can't recall. I'm tempted to try something like that again with my electric toothbrush, but B&D has turned its back on the entire Versapak ecosystem, so I'll have to choose a different host for the body snatch.
When you make your mark in the world, watch out for guys with erasers. -- The Wall Street Journal
