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FCC Claims Regulatory Power Over Home Computers
Pointing to Assistant Professor of Law Susan Crawford's blog, iman1003 writes "The FCC has filed a brief where it claims regulatory power over all instrumentalities, facilities, and apparatus 'associated with the overall circuit of messages sent and received' via all interstate radio and wire communication according to a blog published by Susan Crawford. The blog can be found here and the brief here (in PDF format). Kind of scary if you ask me." Ars Technica has good commentary on this, also referencing Crawford's findings.
Don't expect the world to hold your hand everytime your president has problems with telling right from wrong. hell i don't expect other countries to remove tony blair for me i and others will do it at the next election. This is the direction that your fellow citizens wants to take it is up to you to sort them out not us.
Saying Apple is better than MS is like saying Botulism is better than rabies.
it may be blatant karma-whoring, but this link needs more attention ;-)
Dubya doesn't care about the budget defecits because he's not going to have to be the one to deal with them down the road. Kinda sad, but there's a disincentive to be long term focused.
Hell, he didn't care about it four years ago. Too busy doing whatever the hell he does.
"We returned the General to El Salvador, or maybe Guatemala, it's difficult to tell from 10,000 feet"
Come on, folks! We're all grown ups. Don't bash other operating systems because you don't agree with the ideology behind it.
Windows is a perfectly adequate operating system. It does everything most of its users want, just as linux does for its users. You really make linux/OSS users look like a bunch of primadonna assholes saying stuff like that. There are tons of perfectly capable computer programmers/operators (some most likely better than you, I'd wager) using Windows.
For all the security leaks in Windows, I've been using it since version 2, and I've never been compromised. No trojans, no leaky firewalls, no buggy software. Maybe I had good luck? Maybe. Either way, from where I'm sitting, your opinion is highly flawed.
Sure we heard this freeBsd thing is used by authors of those, so we have decided to BAN ALL USE FREEBSD OUTSIDE GOVERMENT ORGANIZATIONS!
Emacs is good operating system, but it has one flaw: Its text editor could be better.
How do you figure?
I think you've got to accept that tobacco is either a food or a drug? It's at the very least a conduit for the intake of chemicals for the reactions they produce in your body, in other words a medical device, which the FDA also regulates. What reasoning says that the FDA should NOT be in charge of tobacco and tobacco products?
Never confuse volume with power.
Of course they do. I am also convinced that American voters by and large are knee-jerk single issue numbskulls that don't deserve to make decisions for the country.
HOWEVER, those who vote define the policy. That's how the system works, and backing out of the process just empowers the numbskulls more. Every dissident non-voter is as complicit in our current choice of government as those who voted out of fear for a society in which they're protected from the horrors of "gay marriage" and "partial-birth abortion", not realizing what they are really signing over.
Trouble making decisions? Just flip for it.
No, those who vote choose representatives. Those representatives define the policy. And their policy is never to do any of the things they promise to do. And why should they? Really, there's no reason why they should. They're in the seat of power, and no matter how flagrantly they lie and abuse their power, it's almost certain they won't be removed.
Voting is the process in which people trade their power to affect the world for the "token" power of choosing representatives to betray them. In the words of Mr. Shatner, I can't get behind that.