The ideal gaming platform would be one where not just the game but most of the electronics that have traditionally been in the console are also in the cartridge. Mass production of cartridges would keep that affordable to the end user. The console would effectively just be the power supply and monitor and controller interconnects.
This approach has many benefits including:
* New games could take full advantage of new hardware and general tech advances.
* Games hardware could be custom tailored for each game.
* Owners would never need to upgrade their base console.
* Cartridges would be practically impossible to pirate cost-effectively.

as a user you NEVER HAVE TO GIVE THEM ROOT ACCESS. Ever!

How are you planning on patching your OS without root ? Running software that binds to privileged ports ? Add devices to the system that require drivers ? Partition and/or format an external drive ? Etc, etc.

windows? I have to write to that abortion called the registry that is in the system folder.,

You mean the transactional database with per-user permissions ?

Oops install software? I need to write to system and system32.

No, you don't. Certain applications might require it, but it's not an OS issue.

Look I got me a open door into the system...

No, you don't. Create and modify are different things.

What they did was not illegal though, which is the point. The police investigated for illegal activities that the bulk of them were not involved in.

Those that did break the law are being prosecuted.

The expenses system as it existed was pretty scandalous (claiming for moat cleaning, duck islands, family members as employees etc), but it was not illegal.

I have all the bills I can go to my credit card. If there's a mistake I can contest the charge.

Only seven bills do I pay by cheque: trash pickup (I prepay for the whole year by cheque), natural gas (has $5 service charge for credit card payments), electricity (same $5 service charge), water/wastewater (city won't do recurring credit card billing, so it's not convenient), house payment and loan payment (which I overpay to reduce principal), and of course the credit card.

My credit card company keeps sending me cheques in the mail that apply to the credit card account, but I doubt my gas, electric, or water bill will accept them for automatic recurring bill pay. Or at least, I'd hope my credit card company wouldn't.

Most of my bills would convert a check to an EFT anyway so I wouldn't get the canceled cheque back. My bank doesn't even give me back what canceled cheques do come in anymore: I get reduced single-sided photocopies instead. I couldn't even get a copy of, for example, Krusty the Klown's Cayman Islands Off-Shore Holding Corporation's endorsement stamp.

Predators are controlled from Creech AFB, NV for the combat portion of the flight. Approach and landing are locally controlled. Note: For USAF assets only. As for CIA/other assets, who knows where they are controlled from? Payload information can be downlinked from the Predators/UAVs to local receivers as well as transmitted via satellites to various DCGSs (Distributed Common Ground Stations), and I suspect that's what the bad guys are seeing.

that's the other $22M in "what kind of project costs $32M".

I'm envisioning distributing the hardware among the radar centers proportional to traffic within the radar range area, to maintain locality of information. The important concepts that have received much more research and practical exploration over the years include search spaces and interconnection spaces - what are the possible trajectories, who needs to know and how urgently do they need to know, and at what point should the responsibility be handed off. Between the approaches used in massively multiplayer flight/space simulations, cell phone organization, etc., I'm convinced that a robust yet cost-scalable approach can be done at the quality level required for such a life-critical application. The project started in the 1980s was still based on strongly centralized control because the distributed model had not yet been demonstrated successfully. Just as RAID proved itself, I believe distributed processing is ready for ATC.

When spyware uploads your tax return, there is no way that is an accident, and it is also likely that the spyware didn't get on your system with your permission. Spyware is covered by existing laws because it is trying to do something bad.

P2P software is generally on your system because you wanted it there. When it uploads your tax return, it is most likely an accident. The P2P software is not doing something bad--it's doing exactly what you installed it to do. You just botched the configuration, or didn't realize that there was a need to configure it.

Hence, laws against spyware are not applicable. This law isn't about banning P2P. It's about making sure the people who install P2P software are aware of the consequences, so they can use it safely, which is quite different from what the spyware laws do.