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Comment The road to hell is paved with good intentions (Score 5, Insightful) 305

I'm sure Google will start with removing truly fake news, but they will quickly slide into removing anything that reflects badly on Google or the people they support. They have already proven to put ideology first.

Modern journalism is about covering the important stories... with a pillow until they stop moving.

Comment Re:Again??? (Score 1) 577

At no point that he said women are biologically unsuited, inferior, or otherwise unable to do programming jobs. He said that women have biological differences that on average make them choose to go into other fields.

Do you oppose freedom of choice? Do you want society to start forcing women to go into programming?

Comment How exactly will they break steam? (Score 2) 412

How will Microsoft pull this off? Steam downloads and installs applications. Is MS going to make downloading things outside of the Win Store difficult? Make installing applications difficult? I don't see either of things things flying with anyone who sells software meant to run on windows.

Comment Re:It was not political. (Score 1) 326

Drive down any highway in the United States. If the Speed Limit is 70 mph, the troopers aren't pulling over every car going 71 mph and up. They are pulling over whom they choose to pull over; sometimes its the guy going 85, sometimes its the car going 71 and "happens" to be driven by a minority.

Police departments throughout the United States don't have a history of profiling or racism through selective application of the law. What happened to Swartz is no different; just at a higher level.

Comment Free flow of information is paramount. (Score 1) 1862

I wonder how many people here who believe in the freedom of information think that freedom should not apply to the information a 3D printer requires to make a high capacity magazine?

After all, It would be a bit hypocritical to insist that digital technology (or even the VCR) has legal uses and should not be banned, while insisting 3d printed firearm parts should be banned. And if you can print your own Magazine, why even bother banning the magazine at all?

If you truly want information to be free, this will include the ability to download an make an entire gun, let alone a high capacity magazine.

As 3D printing becomes the norm, attempting to ban physical objects which have the potential for illegal purposes becomes moot. Its all information in the end.

Even if you outlaw 3d printed firearms, and put DRM on every single 3d printer, how long until someone jail breaks their 3D printer?

It is not the object that commits the crime, but the person. Much like jail-breaking my devices should not be a crime, nor should printing my own gun parts. Eventually laws will have to be changed that emphasize the actions performed by a person, and not the tools they carry.

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