Cultural relativism is pretty much complete bullshit. It can be used to justify oppressing people "because it's the cultural norm", especially when those norms are being generated by a tyrant or dictator.
It does contain a kernel of truth though. If you are going to the effort of building your own cellphone jammer, so you don't have to listen to other people's shit in public, don't. Build a tazer instead.
but clueless users will write the password on a post it note, and probably burn a plaintext CD copy to leave lying around. Government agencies will be worse.
Are you ignorant or just playing devils advocate? All the reasons you "cast aside" can't just be ignored. There will always be false positives, and it will always cost the tax payer money.
First off, what is so sacred about legality? The law is not set in stone, it's constantly being updated, and varies wildly from location to location. I believe all knowledge to be ultimately good, and censorship will necessarily trample on that. It's digital book burning plain and simple.
Information about illegal Drug, bomb construction, racism all blurs into legitimate subjects because there are no real boundaries. That's why the law making process is difficult, and why censorship will always have side effects and is never acceptable.
Well not in the least bit idiotic actually. It's up to me as a user to choose where a url opens, especially since we are all using the tabbed paradigm now.
And what are the appropriate uses of filters? I assert that there are none. For an adult, the filter is your decision to look or not look at particular resources, and to turn a blind eye when something offends.
For children, the filters belong on the local computer administered by the parent if at all, according to the parents wishes.
Oh, and what the hell does "US of China" mean? I think you were looking for "The democratic people's republic of America".
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...and all the guns have been replaced with walkie-talkies!
It belongs in a museum
Cultural relativism is pretty much complete bullshit. It can be used to justify oppressing people "because it's the cultural norm", especially when those norms are being generated by a tyrant or dictator.
are just car/gadget ads.
Your emergency services comment is somewhere between stale and a clichéd.
It does contain a kernel of truth though. If you are going to the effort of building your own cellphone jammer, so you don't have to listen to other people's shit in public, don't.
Build a tazer instead.
More specifically:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End-to-end_auditable_voting_systems
Using encryption, exactly what you asked for can be done.
I suggest you start your reading by looking at blind signatures.
Of course, it won't be implemented correctly, but e-voting is mathematically possible.
What utter rubbish. There isn't much that causes more physical harm and dependence than heroin.
Oh if only they had chosen the 30th of October for anti-piracy day.
http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/countdown
So valuing something devalues it?
You must be using a newfangled quantum valuation system.
was gained.
It would have been interesting to see the outcome in court, but like the rhetorical question at the end states, I doubt they'll be the last to try.
Well shit, I didn't read TFA as you can see. They are extending it to PAYG as well.
A mobile phone is one piece of tech I can do without, and the UK is a country I'll soon be able to do without once the loose ends are tied.
1. Buy a PAYG phone
2. Don't bother registering it
3. Buy top-ups using cash
4. Anonymity
Irrelevant in the grand scheme of things. The most powerful vote you have is indeed to leave.
but clueless users will write the password on a post it note, and probably burn a plaintext CD copy to leave lying around.
Government agencies will be worse.
Are you ignorant or just playing devils advocate?
All the reasons you "cast aside" can't just be ignored. There will always be false positives, and it will always cost the tax payer money.
First off, what is so sacred about legality? The law is not set in stone, it's constantly being updated, and varies wildly from location to location. I believe all knowledge to be ultimately good, and censorship will necessarily trample on that. It's digital book burning plain and simple.
Information about illegal Drug, bomb construction, racism all blurs into legitimate subjects because there are no real boundaries. That's why the law making process is difficult, and why censorship will always have side effects and is never acceptable.
Well not in the least bit idiotic actually.
It's up to me as a user to choose where a url opens, especially since we are all using the tabbed paradigm now.
Are there degrees of strictness?
If you claim your code is HTML 4.01 or XHTML 1.0 or whatever, then it either is or it isn't.
RSS feed of torrents for all platforms:
http://borft.student.utwente.nl/~mike/oo/bt.rss
It's euphemistic. Actually there are only four countries in the world that don't claim to be democratic.
And what are the appropriate uses of filters?
I assert that there are none. For an adult, the filter is your decision to look or not look at particular resources, and to turn a blind eye when something offends.
For children, the filters belong on the local computer administered by the parent if at all, according to the parents wishes.
Oh, and what the hell does "US of China" mean? I think you were looking for "The democratic people's republic of America".
Wasn't that the idea behind P3P
You'll be able to tell if your web traffic has been snooped by the authorities because all your lolcats will arrive dead!
Can parents detain their kids for 42 days without trial?
Force them to hand over encryption keys?
Waterboarding?
Obviously these parental powers need to be enshrined in law.