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> REP. MARINO: I only have a limited amount of time here and I appreciate your answer. But we have the technology, Google has the technology, we have the brainp
by tkahn6 15y ago
> REP. MARINO: I only have a limited amount of time here and I appreciate your answer. But we have the technology, Google has the technology, we have the brainpower in this country, we certainly can figure it out.
Wow that is infuriating; ignorance masquerading as arrogance.
- missing_cipher 15y agoI heard that. Oh how I wished someone would have stopped him and said "Sir, I'm sorry, but you have no idea what you're talking about. We don't have the technology." Or something. /rage...
- rcthompson 15y agos/appreciate/ignore/g
- r0ll3rb0t 15y agoMy first thought after hearing that was, "wow, we are doomed."
- bgentry 15y ago"Here is why blocking child porn is fairly trivial but blocking copyright infringement is impossible..." Rep. Marino: "wakes up from daydream you nerds are smart, you can figure it out"
- Natsu 15y agoIndeed, that was an incredibly pernicious comment. I can understand how he got into politics. Sadly, even though it was carefully explained to him, data on whether or not something constitutes copyright infringement does not exist. That's not a technical problem. It's not something you can change with a magical computer program. Infringement rests upon whether or not the person has permission to do whatever it is they're doing. That data is simply not available, so there aren't any numbers for Google (or anyone else) to crunch. He can only say it's easy because he doesn't know anything. If he worked in sales, I bet he'd promise customers a time machine, collect a huge bonus, then blame the geeks for failing to deliver.