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> Patents started out as a 20 year protection on mechanical mechanisms or chemical processes as long as what was protected was publicly documented in full. 1) Patents are not an Am…

One has to wonder who the customers this is setup to appease. If something is later found, corporate customers have litigation options - so more likely this is for nation-states.

The more slow-moving government will get involved, the more industry will be pulled towards open source where there is no need to get government approval. Sure - it won't be easy a…

"I think you're missing the point." Ditto. I know exactly what you're saying - tree's take long time to grow, the world is complex and subtly nuanced, once we lose that it's gone, …

No, Easter island wouldn't have had taro, chickens, goats, pigs WITHOUT the polynesian humans bringing them.

Capitalism may also offer answers. For example, as tree supply diminishes, each tree will become more valuable (assuming wood demand stays stable) thereby incentivizing tree farmer…

"Going to be interesting watching this one play out." I suspect, access of "14,000 highly confidential and proprietary files shortly before his resignation" will play a major role …

"It is, however, sad to think that this technology could be set back a few years because of Levandowski's actions." I am less concerned about one piece of technology and more conce…

What concerns me is that we are going to see more and more of this in the coming years - corporations concerned over ex-employees taking their knowledge with them and taking legal …

There is a difference between weakened and backdoored. Weakened is along the lines what you're saying - that likely others than just the governments can easily access, whereas back…

"wants to regulate cryptography"??? - I suggest it's already in place. For example, if you wish to create crypto software or hardware (or in some cases even simply importing a cryp…

Given free market indicators such as Bitcoin marketcap and the recent rise of Monero vs zcash - perhaps absolute privacy is not what the market values?

government subsidies cause distortions. Somehow providing basic income to incentivize people to live more in rural areas would only cause those currently living in rural areas to b…

That's ridiculous. The Wright Brothers changed the world. On par if not exceeding today's equivalent of Marc Andreesen (Netscape), Bill Gates (Microsoft), Brin&Page (Google) - and …

The reason you will lose that bet is the "any country". In some less developed countries, inflation is out of control (govt sees money printing as the only solution) bitcoin as mea…

If not ID is required then why (and how do they enforce): "The maximum for unregistered clients is 5'000 CHF/EUR per day" https://www.bitcoinsuisse.ch/en/explanation/#p1_4

I suspect that selling iTunes credit or pre-paid phone codes requires adhering to all kinds of rules and agreements set by the corporations (Apple, phone corps). You can't simply b…

Why are the default rules not provided? fw-daemon/rules.go references "/var/lib/sgfw/sgfw_rules" yet nowhere to be found.

> I suspect we centralized trust at the encouragement of folks like the NSA and similar ilk. In the mid-90's, CA certs were put into Netscape Navigator (IE joined later) in order t…

> lacks features such as per process rules. You have to do hacks like assign rules to users From a practical standpoint, I find it hard to imagine that the cost of added complexity…

> Still doesn't make any sense to me. Whether a CA performs a DNS query in order to do domain validation via email, http or to check a CAA record doesn't matter. Brush up on CA cer…

> I'm not sure I follow. My point is that if you're arguing that a DNS query is some kind of added complexity, then I have bad news for you, because DNS queries are already a part …

> CAs already rely on DNS for domain validation Not all - only a subset of certs issued > If the CA fails to follow the whitelist, it's not worse than a CA that does not implement …

Yeah - in theory, but in reality the browsers are reluctant because of all the other sites that a CA has issued certs for - no browser wants to be singled out for blocking some oth…

There's too many paying entities to appease - not just hundreds of CA's but various browser vendors as well. Either MUSTs will be changed to SHOULDs - or fragmentation of the CA/Br…