Monday, March 5, 2012

Machine Law

Machine Law Application is cut and dried.  Simple and easy.  There is a rule stating the law.  The rule is violated.  Action to be taken when violation is identified.  There must always be be opportunity to dispute.  The right to dispute is based on existence of possible grounds for dispute .  It is up to the violator of the rule to determine the viability of disputing applicability.  Risk/Reward analysis.

Machine Law:  Speeding cameras apply the rules regarding vehicle speed.  Violators are identified.  By picture, license plate.  A machine sends a notice of violation.  The recipients pays with a credit card.  It is all a machine process.  Otherwise it can go to offline settlement if the recipient chooses.  Good luck.

Here is another example of machine law:

A new plan from the British government will use closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras at gas stations that will automatically prevent uninsured drivers from filling up their gas tanksthat is, until their vehicle information has been logged in the system.
The Mirror reports that the plan is meant to address the 1.4 million uninsured motorists in Britain and act as a deterrent. That may not sound like a huge number compared with the estimated 13.8 percent of uninsured American motorists, but the 1.4 million figure represents four percent of all U.K. drivers.
The British government decided to make use of the CCTV cameras after hearing a presentation from accounting firm Ernst & Young, which will help implement the new system. And while the proposal comes from the private sector but will be used by the government, it's hard to not immediately think of British author George Orwell's seminal novel "1984."
"The key to this is simplicity. Connecting the existing technology ... is relatively inexpensive and wouldn't be a big information technology program" Ernst & Young partner Graeme Swan told the Telegraph. "There shouldn't be concerns about 'big brother' because there is no new database, no vehicles are tracked and no record is kept. It's simply a new rule of no insurance equals no fuel."

When laws regarding the legal use of money and punishable violations of illegal use are equally cut and dried then machines can apply the rule of law to violations and extract the related fine.  Robo-signing is illegal.  Banks Robo-signed.  Guilty!

The more we structure law and that part of law that relates to money, in a engineered conceptual information system that watches the functions of money and controls its functions to the extent that rights and protections of citizens in the money system are not violated the more efficient will be the system of rule of law.  Application of money system law by machines is a function of the the efficiency of the structure of the information system on a machine.  A computer, its operating system and application programs and their interface with information gathering entities enables machine law.  Perhaps with a human touch like "Have a nice day" at the end of the notification of violation and statement of penalty.

Banksters offering worthless junk, worthless by design, and selling it based on deception, by design, should be readily identified by a well designed system of law and an information system to monitor its application.

No Wiggle Room.

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