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Ethics in Scientific Research
call -151 writes: "There is an interesting NYT article `When Science Inadvertently Aids an Enemy' discussing how some of the "encryption should be free for everyone" attitudes are changing with the WTC attacks. The article makes some interesting points and it is good to see discussions like these in more of the mainstream, even if the tone has definitely changed recently." Well, the questions are being asked again, but most of the researchers dealing with these issues have already answered the questions for themselves.
Just remember the average slashdotters sense of ethics never advanced beyond 2 years of age. "Give me what I want or I'll throw a fit" seems to be the common thread on any given article.
i took a nice dump in my toilet!
I appreciate your opinion,
but it's very difficult
to read
your post when
you make it look like a
haiku,
but it isn't.
Immediately ban all technology that can aid the enemy! Let's go back to the fucking stone age.
What the hell is this stupid postercomment compression filter?
Answer to and discussion thereof here.
first premptive STFU, KATZ! post!
Encryption cannot be used by children to kill other children.
It's good to see you've got yourself a hobby, and are keeping yourself busy.
No, the Allies used fire in Dresden. Hitler used poison gas. You could make the argument that poison gas should be outlawed.
WTF does that mean?
All "science" has been and can be used for bad things.
Go back to playing with your legos.
Marshmallow.
It couldn't possibly hurt us.
Unless....
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.
Much more productive than posting on /. !
At least this guy's not moderating. (We've got the "editors" to do that job for us!)
Marshmallow makes a great incendary device. Next!
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
- someday it might even be used to make tiny robots that would lodge in people's brains and make them truly love Big Brother.
Well, they'd have to. That show fucking sucked.I wonder if that means that beer already contains microscopic black helicopers, because beer (and inbreeding) are the only explanations for it's popularity right now, and I'd hate to think that I could get that drunk.
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.
Human conception was found to be ultimately fatal in 100% of the cases studied.
You never really know how close to the edge you can go until you fall off.
unless .... you mix then with nitroglicerine to make plastique explosives, I remember seeing the recipe once in a 1980's BBS textfile.
Pathman, Free (as in GPL) 3D Pac Man
actually i do moderate
and i roll in feces
i don't know
i kind'a like it
perhaps
it is encryption
where the information is
encoded in the formatting
remember burmashave?
rob:-]
haiku, haiku, haiku.
gesundheit!
Chips Ahoy! is not/cannot be used for evil!
No, it's "Guns don't kill people, bullets kill people."
Don't forget the Sta-Puft Marshmallow Man!
Uh, poison gas is outlawed. And the Nazis killed most of the people in the camps by shooting them or starving them.
But not by burning them.
So get over wanting to live in the woods and be technologically backwards. I doubt you could argue that modern medicine hasn't helped alleviate, sometimes completely cure, disease which would otherwise run rampant throughout the world (polio, small pox, measles, etc). -cavemanf16
You're preaching to the converted, Rev.
I'm just saying that it's ridiculous to blame Fire for the deaths of thousands of Jews at the hands of the Nazis. Analogies need to be rooted in some sort of truth, and pulling "Nazis used fire to kill" out of one's ass doesn't make any point at all.
You can choke on them. Or be crushed under a metric ton of them.
>>Well, it'll kill you.
It would be a great honor for me to lay down my life in the service of this country.
Or do you propose we lay down our arms and allow attacks on innocent people to continue?
>>No legion could destroy the entire world.
Whose legion are you referring to? Is this another "Great Satan" reference? Good God, man, this country did NOTHING to deserve cowardly attacks on innocent civlians.
I'm sick and tired of all the anti-US sentiment being expressed - this country has the force and ability to conquer many hostile nations - instead we choose to live and let live - yet our innocent civilians get attacked in the process.
>>Soon, a bunch of terrorists can. They have >>insane leaders.
I agree. That is why they must be hunted down and killed, along with all who support their activities.
The bottom line for every country on this planet right now: You are either with us in this fight, or against us.
It is a grave mistake to underestimate the resolve of the United States, and the people who live within it.
Islamic radicals are not the only peoples willing to fight a "holy war" - the whole world will soon learn this...
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I have heard that this is the favorite brand of pedophiles. Children have been brainwashed for years that these cookies contain more chocolate. This makes them more vulnerable to snack-food related bribery when these cookies are used.
Clearly, for the children, we need to ban cookies. And chief among cookies is Chips Ahoy(tm), the devil's brand.
Try again.
(As a side note, a virgin Jerry Falwell was coerced into performing sexual acts with his mother, in an outhouse, by Chips-Ahoy related temptation. It's true, I read it in Hustler.)
Politicians argue with each other, lie, and occasionally start wars. Bin Laden butchers thousands of innocent, unarmed people within hours. There is no comparison, and to compare Bush to Bin Laden in any context is just shameful.
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