You got this wrong... the court (judge) should adhere to the strict letter of the law. Legislators should just make sure they word things properly. It's the juries job through Jury Nullification to interpret the intent/justice of the law.

When a jury shows a history of dismissing a case, it nullifies the law. This is how "common law" rulings are built. Future cases get lost because the lawyers show the case history

“The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.” - Lincoln
He isn't wrong.

And here I go thinking it was an acronym SWAG (Stuff We All Get). That's what I get for listening to Michael Scott.

It doesn't matter how dumb a kid is.... They're the target audience. After 17, life gets real damn busy. First you have four years of building debt, then you have a lifetime of trying to dig your way out of the hole.

It's the 13-17s that have so much free time that they literally can't find a way to fill the boredom. That's ad watching time.... you know... Google's only real product.

Gotta check the legal fine print on this one. Haven't most positions been retitled from "Programmer" to something else a while back? It's easy enough to talk around the skills and call the job something else.

My pfSense firewall has an alias (group of IPs) that it routes via VPN. Originally it was only my OrangePi torrent server, but with the new legislation, I've moved my phone and PC into the group. My 6 Rokus go out unprotected, but I have to imagine for security Netflix and Hulu use HTTPs for all their control signaling, so short of throttling by the ISP, I don't see them being rewarded for trying to read that data.

Even if they decide they don't have a use for it, why the hell would they crash it into the ocean. I really don't see why they wouldn't just mothball the bitch and maintain it in orbit.

Best case, it's there if they need it for something. Worst case, it's a valuable study into how an unmaintained craft holds up.

I do also like one of the previous ideas about shuttling it over to the moon. I just question how much energy it would need to overcome earths gravity and break free from it's orbit. It is a bit massive.

This will fail... they'll just file a subsidiary law firm in the favorable jurisdiction and then file from their new HQ. The only truly viable solution is to reform IP law, and that is an undertaking that no politician will go near.... unless its to give their backers even more control.

Setting up the load balancing VPN made a drastic improvement in p2p file transfers. The router is beefy though. I had an i5-650 ITX system that was a home theater until I replaced it with an Amlogic S905X Kodi box. The hardware decoding for h.265 was proving to be a requirement.

In any case, I had a perfectly good PC and needed a router. I dropped in a dual port Gigabit NIC and installed pfSense on an 8gb SSD (pulled from an HP multifunction printer). The system actually maintains 5 VPN connections. There are the 4 for PIA, then a 5th to a private OpenVPN server that serves as a bridge for my family to make sharing between each other very easy (albeit slow due to upload limitations on each end).

They already have laws that enable the police to address Cell phone drivers... they just NEVER enforce it.... It's called "reckless driving".

For Texas:
Sec. 545.401. RECKLESS DRIVING; OFFENSE. (a) A person commits an offense if the person drives a vehicle in wilful or wanton disregard for the safety of persons or property.(b) An offense under this section is a misdemeanor punishable by:
(1) a fine not to exceed $200;
(2) confinement in county jail for not more than 30 days; or
(3) both the fine and the confinement.

I would say that using a cell phone while driving is a clear "wilful or wanton disregard for the safety of persons or property".

With PIA I can pay annually with a Walmart giftcard I paid cash for... so "billing" isn't really an issue. As for options, my router runs the VPN, so all the quick shutdown stuff they like to promote don't really apply. I have 4 of the 5 sessions load-balanced on the router to 4 different datacenters. The 5th I reserve for my cell phone if I ever need public wifi. The load-balancing is really nice. It allows my p2p client to not be bottlenecked by a single VPN session.

PIA installed on a pfSense firewall. Then the wifi router can be put in AP mode and the tiny CPU won't bottleneck your wifi.

Interesting... This could make the wife very happy. Thanks for sharing.

So some $20 bucks between Hulu/Netflix covers 95% of my needs. Hulu has most of the major networks content. Netflix has been making some great original content you can't get with cable anyways.

CBS is the most annoying obstacle, and they can go fuck themselves. They would get my money if they'd partner with Hulu like everyone else. Hell, if CBS would just make a free Roku app that displayed ads like the OTA channel, that would be fine. But no, I'll never pay for just one channel that broadcasts their media free OTA.

HBO is a "premium" channel no matter how you look at it, so it doesn't count in this argument.

ESPN / NFL is what's really holding the cord cutting masses at bay. Americans just NEED their live sports. I have to wonder how high the stacks of money would grow if Sunday Ticket had a cheaper "select your team" streaming option that let you pick just one team, and you get all of their games.

What a LOT of people forget, are the stupid cable boxes they want to rent you. They'll give you basically free TV, but want to charge you $7-$20 for each additional TV decoder box.

Right now, I have unlimited Internet. But when Spectrums FCC deal for buying Time Warner runs out and they put data caps in place, I'll probably have to pay for TV to get the free unlimited Internet. At that point, I'll have "Cable TV", but I won't get any cable boxes for it.

My ScanSnap works just fine on my Mint install. There is a small add-on daemon you can install to run the push button if you want that convenience back.