The time and effort spent in creation should be rewarded, but not the same as a physical artifact. Code is easily changed and modified and so the development costs are lower in most cases. This difference should change the rules on the patents provided.

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I would want a self-driving car! I believe the safety benefits outweigh the risk. During tricky intersections and other hazardous areas I would take control; however, I am confident that in routine driving the self-driving car would actually be a better driver than me.

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Turing could see the horizon coming, “nevertheless I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted.”

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For our project we implemented a wallabag application server. We were successfully able to run a wallabag instance on a Digital Ocean droplet. Our team decided to work with wallabag because it is a very useful service. Wallabag is a simple to use online web archive open source application. What trade-offs are you making when […]

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From the readings, what exactly is Net Neutrality? Net Neutrality is the idea that ISPs should not have the ability to provide preferential treatment for any content. This neutrality would be for all legal web sites and prevent ISP involvement in speed regulating.   Explain in your own words the arguments for and against Net Neutrality. […]

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When powerful corporations are controlling the money to politicians, their voice becomes more powerful. Finally, ethically corporations do not have responsibility like people, so it is harder to penalize them other than fines.

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In Brad Smith’s letter he says, “Hackers used the Internet to attack the company and its freedom of expression. Yet Microsoft and Google used the same Internet to defend freedom of expression by making the film available online.” Cloud computing helps the power of the internet, this power gives more features to people who want to use if for good or bad.

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There should be no intentional degradation to encryption for the purposes of the government. Giving access to the government in a world of driven and smart hackers will eventually give the keys to the very people they are trying to stop. This power would be too powerful, even for the government.

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Particularly in computer science students learn to learn different languages. I see this as the most important skill! Understanding the underpinnings of languages and being able to comprehend brand new languages in an invaluable skill.

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Manning is a traitor. Why am I so bold with my first statement? It is because in the clearest sense she betrayed her countries trust.

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