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Comment Re:One fix for this crap, (Score 1) 111

Yeah I've thought about that too. In metaphorical terms, a personal "digital lockbox" with very-fine-grained controls on who exactly gets what.

The problem is this: once you're data is out there how do you control it? At best you could control one, maybe two hops from your lockbox. After that it's in the world, where anyone and everyone can get at it, with no say at all on your part....

IMO that's the real issue here.

Comment Re: Different (Score 1) 72

That's the thing, that day will never arrive. It is absolutely astonishing to me how so many people seem to have become little more than sci-fi futurists, and the absolute horse sh*t that flys out of their mouths. Technology is useful, hyperbole and fantasy, not so much.

FTFY.

Comment Re:It makes sense (Score 1) 904

The military doesn't need to be at the forefront of social change. There is nothing wrong with the military lagging, and by doing so in minimizes internal disruption. Heck, greater society is still fighting bathroom policy, the military has other stuff to occupy its time.

If nothing else, this.

Of course, the notion that government departments have something better to do with their time hardly starts here....

Comment Re:overhauling the USPTO is a better solution imo (Score 1) 387

Agree with you both.

Unfortunately, we seem to have made "never enough time to do it right, plenty of time to do it over" the overarching mantra of... well... everything.

I still haven't been given a reasonable response to the question "why does it have to become a law before it can be declared unconstitutional?" Seems to to me that question should be considered before bothering the pres to get out his pen....

Whatever happened to doing homework before class? Whatever happened to due diligence? Are these just more lies taught to us in childhood?

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