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Top Web Businesses Oppose Utah Spyware Law
theodp writes "According to MediaPost.com: 'Some of the Web's leading content and technology providers have taken action to lobby against Utah's controversial Spyware Control Act, which is awaiting the governor's signature. Web publishers and businesses including AOL, Amazon, Cnet, eBay, Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo! signed a letter to the bill's sponsors arguing that the bill could create serious repercussions for the entire online community. The parties to the letter warned that the bill could interfere with computer security and would also impair the delivery of local, targeted ads'."
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Let's say you're sitting at a Starbucks, drinking some coffee. You hear a song over the speakers you happen to like. All you have to do is call out: "Could I get this on a CD, please?" They burn you the CD. On your way out (or right then) you pick it up... It works perfectly together...
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Sometimes I feel that eventually MS and IBM will come to legal blows (more than likely due to SCO being a puppet of MS) - Do you think that this will eventually happen, and if so, who do you feel will win based on a) legal prowess and b) technology patents.
Also, what's your take on the SCO brouhaha?
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Ok, when I see "UT" in a headline, I read "Unreal Tournament." Is it that hard to add the extra two letters to make "Utah"?
This is the big one.
Micro$oft's reign stops here.
Let's say you're sitting at a Starbucks, drinking some coffee. You hear a song over the speakers you happen to like. All you have to do is call out: "Could I get this on a CD, please?"
You, sir, have just written the most succinct analogy of the Slashdot mentality I have ever read.
They should all download and intsall STFU 1.0 from our buddy Mike Anderer.
A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing. Emo Philips
What did Sen. John Kerry know and when did he know it about a plot to assassinate pro-Vietnam war U.S. Senators hatched at a November 1971 Kansas City meeting of the group Vietnam Veterans Against America?
According to presidential biographer Douglas Brinkley, that's the question Sen. Kerry needs to answer. If it turns out that the likely Democratic presidential nominee knew of the treasonous plan, Brinkley says he had an obligation to go to the authorities.
"The question is: did Kerry quit [VVAW] before Kansas City or did he quit after Kansas City," Brinkley told WABC Radio's Steve Malzberg. "If he quit after Kansas City, that means he clearly knew about this assassination plot against the Senators and never went to the authorities."
Kerry says he submitted his official letter of resignation to the VVAW just days before the critical Kansas City confab. But two Vietnam veterans who attended the session told the New York Sun on Friday that they remember Kerry was there.
Meanwhile copies of Kerry's resignation letter are nowhere to be found.
Brinkley, whose book "Tour of Duty" chronicles Kerry's Vietnam war exploits, said that the former Navy Lieutenant had an obligation to warn authorities about the frightening plan, telling Malzberg, "Clearly his critics would say, if he had known about it why didn't he report it."
Once put to a vote, the death plot went down to defeat, with Kerry voting in the majority, according to the two witnesses who say he was there.
However, Kerry officials in Florida have recently invited the assassination plan's author, Scott Camil, to join the Senator's campaign, the Sun report claimed.
Brinkley described Camil as "a hothead Vietnam vet who wanted to bring down the U.S. government."
"I'm a little shocked that the Kerry campaign would want him actively working with them in Florida," he told Malzberg.
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You articulate the argument well, but I think it's a flawed argument. How often does artillery come into play in a coup? There are lots of reasons a government might hesitate to shell its own towns.
By the time there is a serious enough divide to cause an uprising, the government and military will also be somewhat divided.
Look at the Vietnam war. Weren't normal rifles more useful to the Vietnamese than artillery?
If the citizens need parity with the military, it's not in artillery but in c3i - encrypted radios, mapping and map-sharing systems, etc. But these systems would need a complete rethink to become more peer-to-peer and less dependant on centralized command.
As for your point about training, I think it applies even more strongly to ordinary military rifles. I think a small group of trained soldiers can win over a large group of untrained people with the same equipment. That was probably equally true in 1776.