OTOH, I the bill's author has a point about “tabloid journalism." The media companies are not doing this out of their desire for public service; they want content of people in their worse moments.

Maybe if you were a 1st responder. In the U.S., there is no general duty to assist.

"for only a few bucks a month" is still more than zero

The "high-speed" stuff is a red herring (side note: ars technica articles re legal issues should always be taken with a grain of salt). The complaint is really about failure to 'deplatform' after repeated cases of illegal use.

Worse, there isn't an institution in Washington with an interest in protecting federalism anymore. And, as one would predict, power has centralized (much to the chagrin of D's nowadays).

A bit off topic, but... it's *not* illegal to decrypt material that you've purchased under the DMCA. It's just illegal to decrypt material you rent (e.g., stream) or to 'traffiic' in decryption devices.

This is one of the reasons copyright owners love streaming services.

I'm sure they would...but cancer cases normally can't qualify b/c lack common facts.

So, the fallback strategy is to try a handful (4-10) of test cases to establish a going rate, then use those data points to settle the rest.

Technically, the electoral college *is* our committee of experts to select the president. Fun fact, each elector is a real person.

The normal argument against the EC is that it's not democratic, not that its members are unqualified.

I agree, so this is just nitpicking...paper ballots arguably violate #2. I can show some the ballot before depositing it into the ballot box.

Vote by mail also makes vote buying trivial.

To be honest, this doesn't sound like something in DARPA's normal wheelhouse. It's not really "defense" nor "advanced."

Are we using DARPA as a slushfund now?

"Mr. Murry...disclosed that the Trump administration 'hasn't actually been using it for the past six months.'" That sounds a whole lot like leaking current intelligence methods. I'd suspend Mr. Murry's clearances for awhile.

Not to mention (according to TFA), "...and a court later secretly blessed it." That is, it wasn't "a raw assertion of executive power...."

It's just switched from being a growth market to a mature market. And, as such, the game becomes how to take market share* away from your competitors.

*arguably, this was always the case. It was just new media taking market share from newspapers, televised sports, movies, etc. Now, new media is also competing against new media.

To each their own, I guess... I sorta prefer scripted games because it might be several months(!) between play sessions. As opposed to open world games, where I've forgotten all of the silly sub-quests and sub-characters during the gap.