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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.
palladium shit is coming our way...
I hope they fine the GNAA $1 billion dollars!
Oh I'm sorry; the correct answer was "No."
Do you realize you are arguing over news from a blog, noobs!
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.
I don't know how to install anti-virus on my home computer. Is there a Debian AV package?
it may be blatant karma-whoring, but this link needs more attention ;-)
They call the Iraqi terrorists, then what is the US! When they have killed over 100.000 civilians! Saddam wouldn't have been able to do so much damage if he ruled for several lifetimes... Look beyond the propaganda machine and maybe you'll understand that you're a citizen in a country responsible for mass murder.
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"
Oh I forgot, you cannot say anything anti-american under the bush administration, heck they probbaly modded me down themselves! damn censorship! :-) How many FCC people are on /. modding down comments? *adjust tinfoil hat*
laugh.
#hostfile 0.0.0.0 primidi.com 0.0.0.0 www.primidi.com 0.0.0.0 radio.weblogs.com
you're a citizen in a country responsible for mass murder
One man's mass murder is another man's ethnic cleansing... it all gets defined by the victor. Don't get mad just because my country happens to be better at securing its interests than your country. Remember that, historically speaking, America is the relatively new kid on the block. The rest of the world had plenty of time to get their shit together and they failed.
We're not doing anything different from any other country in the history of civilization. We're just doing it better.
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.
The U.S. Tortures (abu ghraib)
The U.S. uses WMD (napalm, cluster bombs, DU)
The U.S. Executes unarmed, injured civillians (seen the news today?)
The U.S. Holds thousands in concentration camps (Gitmo etc.)
The U.S commits genocice (100,000 civilian deaths)
All while calling Iraqi resistance fighters "terrorists"
All while the rest of the world is laughing at you, and scared of you - in equal measures.
For every day it spends in Iraq, the U.S will suffer a decade of insecurity at the hands of these "terrorists"
The U.S didn't deserve 9/11, but by god it does now, after raining down 1000 9/11's upon Iraq, be thankful that the people you are so BRAVELY fighting are not capable of fighting back in your back yard.
The U.S will be its own undoing. you won't need any "terrorists" for that, mark my words.
you didn't do it better than the nazis my friend but you have got on to a good start. 100,000 in 2 years isn't bad. just 5,900,000 to go until you're equal. then you've got another 1.4 billion muslims to kill until your "security" can be guaranteed. I hope this makes you proud that some day you can have ANOTHER U.S genocide notched on your belt.
learn history. there's a few important lessons to learn. just because the "new kid on the block" has little history if its own - it wouldn't hurt to learn from the mistakes of others.
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.
However, "On March 21, 2000, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration lacks the authority to regulate tobacco. Therefore, FDA no longer maintains its Children and Tobacco Website." (from here)
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.