Virginia is indeed a state, officially named the Commonwealth of Virginia.
With no electronics/firmware in the equipment, the DMCA would be irrelevant.
With post-purchase ToS agreements they already have your money. If they don't have to show you their terms until after the deal is made, then you don't have to show them yours either.
Just so. I've yet to hear someone complain that their iPhone could be slightly slimmer if only Apple were willing to cut the battery life in half.
Electronics and firmware are what enables the problem. With the DMCA making it worse.
Inkjet cartridges for example. Electronics get added for the sole purpose of ensuring that ONLY the printer manufacturer's cartridges will work with the printer. This can and has been reverse-engineered, but DMCA claims are used to prevent this.
The same thing happened with John Deere equipment. Electronics added just to prevent farmers from fixing it.
Car windows have come with built-in antennas and defrosting elements for several decades. Auto makers could follow the printer/device industry lead, and tie you to expensive branded replacement windows, oil and air filters, tires etc. But it'll require electronics to make it happen.
There's also the matter of "Terms of Service" that you only get to see after you've opened a software or inkjet package. Not only after the transaction is concluded, but after it's too late to return the item.
If they can do this, then it follows that you can too. "By allowing the installation to continue, the software vendor agrees to the following terms...."
Wikipedia: Governor of Virginia: Duties:
At the beginning of every regular session, he or she must report the state of the Commonwealth to the Virginia General Assembly (both the House of Delegates and the Senate). He or she must convene the legislature when two-thirds of each house calls for a special session. The governor must ensure that the laws of the Commonwealth are faithfully executed by either signing, or allowing it to come into law, or vetoing, not allowing it to become law. They are responsible for the safety of the state, as they serve as commander-in-chief of the Virginia Militia.
....They are the commander-in-chief of Commonwealth wankers, responsible for faithful gatekeeping of porn...
Those all have same leftist, corporatist, globalist agendaAs opposed to the more common rightist corporatist, globalist agenda?
in which chaos and "pushing the limits" is used as a toolThat would be alt-rightist.
I'd wager that for the first ten or so years autonomous vehicles are on the road most countries will have laws saying a licensed driver must be in the driver seat at all times.Well, sure. But that ten years started a few years ago.
As such is this union arguing that getting paid to do less work is a bad thing?Even if it's another ten years until fully autonomous vehicles, it'll be over quickly. If they're going to fight it, they won't want to wait until the autonomous trucks are on the lot.
Drones? Too many airspace restrictionsThe FAA already publishes a database of airspace restrictions. Drones from manufacturers like DJI already import and honor it. It will however prevent drone deliveries to those living near airports. And in Washington DC.
The actual iPhone threat - according to the San Bernardino District Attorney - was that if Apple didn't let him in, it could be "used as a weapon to introduce a lying-dormant cyber pathogen."
Given that it's private companies collecting these license plate records by the billions, they can sell them to private customers too. Say, political campaigns, reporters and talk-show hosts.
Think of how both parties used research firm Fusion GPS to conduct opposition research about Trump, and how once the dossier was leaked to reporters it became a major scandal.
Once the licence plate databases become the focus of a similar scandal, THEN you'll see legislation to protect privacy.
I hope that Amazon's grocery delivery service takes off - with autonomous vehicles and drone delivery making it practical - and that UPS competes.
The FBI will demand encryption backdoors on the vehicles and drones, to check for contraband and terrorism. That backdoor will eventually be leaked. Hackers will gain control of grocery delivery fleets, in the air and on the ground.
It'll be the best damned food fight EVER!
Public service announcement: The obstruction of justice statute states that it's a felony to alter, damage or remove something so it can't be used as evidence in an investigation or proceeding. If "fingerprint disabled" is your phone's normal state, that may be OK. Disabling it on the fly when the police ask you to unlock it may be a felony.
Nipples are said to be as unique as fingerprints.
Most people keep those covered, so they should be secure. We can use the same readers built into phones.
The icons may have to change, but I'll leave that to others. Having read that "the only truly intuitive user interface is the nipple," I'm not allowed to work on UI design any more.
Let's reserve your alternatives for two-factor authentication.
Imagine the guidelines they'd be quickly revising today if Google Glass had taken off.
...and global stereotypes...It's not that bad. We do understand that most of you didn't vote for him.
There were so many things I could have added to that post but didn't.
It's amazing how Obama still gets more done than Trump's team.
All that's going to happen is the military will ban or "issue guidance" on using fitness trackers in and around military and civilian contractors under its authority.Well. Until someone uses the metadata to link the bases to nearby red light districts. THEN you'll see a knee-jerk reaction.
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It sounds like a variation on the "atheism is a religion" claim. Evangelists who insist that a lack of religious belief is in itself religious belief.