The Myspace suicide case was a typical demonstration of how technology has far outpace our legal system. As this Assistant U.S. Attorney, cybercrime prosecutor it will required a massive co-operation of the legal system to help solve these lawsuits.

don’t we have enough laws? pretty soon there will just be a list of stuff you CAN do ’cause nothing else will be legal.

I personally think that anyone developing tort for computer technologies must provide evidence of experience in the field of technology. I feel it is doubly true for the judges who hear such cases, IMO should more likely be engineers then lawyers.

It may be my naivety which thinks that engineers could do better then the lawyers but it is a matter of language.
Lawyers speak a language which is made so in part to exalt their position in society as it requires training to understand. Engineering is not understandable to anyone except engineers out of the very nature of the beast.

I believe the bad laws come from either an intentional or unintentional mistranslation of these languages.

1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2. A robot must obey orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

and really, we weren’t “intercepting” your thoughts, they were clearly “stored” in the buffer

Masnick, you’ve been posting like a maniac. Unfortunately now only 8 months into the year, I have filled my annual quota of “dumbass” reads.