Of course it is, but the Bush Admin will dispute that, it'll have to work its way through the court system, and there's the question of whether Congress has the will to make them.
The Bush admin are masters of stonewalling and delaying tactics. I'd be pleasantly stunned if this happens.
You *know* they're going to appeal this to the federal appeals court, and if they lose that one the Supreme Court will take quite a while to make a ruling, and there's a certain chance that the Supremes will make some bullshit ruling about how the EFF doesn't have standing rather than rule on the actual crime.
That could depend on who is elected President in '08. Recall that Justice pulled the experienced lawyers off the Microsoft case after Bush took office, and one could expect another Republican president to similarly ignore what MS does.
Positive liberties are explicitly granted to the people by the government, for example the government granting the people the privilege to vote, rather than the people inherently having a right to vote. Since the US Constitution was written from the standpoint of the people granting the government certain powers, you can see why a strict Constitutionalist like Paul is against that.
Negative liberties are those inherent to people that are free from interference, for example the liberty to build one's house on unclaimed land, or the liberty to travel freely and not have to present papers to some government functionary.
You've got it exactly backwards, and unfortunately many folks have a hard time understanding Constitutional logic. Including our Congressweasels and the Supreme Court.
If you've got data on only one computer, don't bother with a NAS and get a USB (or Firewire, which would be better since FW doesn't hog the CPU) hard drive. SyncBack isn't a bad free backup program for Windows, but the free version can't copy open files.
Even if you've got two or three computers, a good external HD will be cheaper and probably more reliable than a NAS box, simply because there are fewer parts to break on a USB drive than a NAS, which is typically a power supply, network card, some RAM, an OS in ROM, drive controller, and one or more hard drives. The only thing you won't get from an external HD is RAID, but you can fake that with software if you get more than one per computer, and RAID only means that the data's still accessible if one drive dies (assuming you're not stupid enough to use RAID 0), so it's probably not important for you.
If your data is valuable, burn the most important stuff to DVD periodically and stick it in a bank's safe-deposit box.
Next, I'd like to be able to add locations that aren't in the database yet, for example new housing developments. My house is over a year old and its street and address aren't locatable by anybody's mapping website yet. It's a bit inconvenient when I'm trying to have a friend over who hasn't visited my house yet.
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I've had more than one person tell me that the Constitution's protections *shouldn't* apply to non-citizens.
Bah.
There are a few areas in Missouri which are that bad. McDonald County in Southwest Missouri comes to mind, and the Boot-heel.
I'm going to drop in a prophylactic Godwin and note that Herr Schickelgruber was very good for the German economy.
Until the massive bombing raids, anyway.
LA LA LA I CAN'T HEAR YOU
...since pretty much all of Earth's helium results from alpha decay of radioactive metals.
That only applies if your neighbor isn't into that.
Ah, I see some cowardly conservative mod has used the (-1, Overrated) ploy.
Taco, it'd sure be nice if you'd make overrated and underrated meta-moddable or just do away with them entirely.
Of course it is, but the Bush Admin will dispute that, it'll have to work its way through the court system, and there's the question of whether Congress has the will to make them.
If you click on the cached copy, you can usually see the answers on that site.
The Bush admin are masters of stonewalling and delaying tactics. I'd be pleasantly stunned if this happens.
You *know* they're going to appeal this to the federal appeals court, and if they lose that one the Supreme Court will take quite a while to make a ruling, and there's a certain chance that the Supremes will make some bullshit ruling about how the EFF doesn't have standing rather than rule on the actual crime.
That could depend on who is elected President in '08. Recall that Justice pulled the experienced lawyers off the Microsoft case after Bush took office, and one could expect another Republican president to similarly ignore what MS does.
No, it carried three in that big permanently-attached pod under its belly, in addition to a couple on pylons under the wings.
Obligatory Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_liberty
Positive liberties are explicitly granted to the people by the government, for example the government granting the people the privilege to vote, rather than the people inherently having a right to vote. Since the US Constitution was written from the standpoint of the people granting the government certain powers, you can see why a strict Constitutionalist like Paul is against that.
Negative liberties are those inherent to people that are free from interference, for example the liberty to build one's house on unclaimed land, or the liberty to travel freely and not have to present papers to some government functionary.
Kuro5hin.org is famous for its trolls, and gods know it can use some more story submissions.
You can kill a person with pretty much anything, which is why the government refers to those as less lethal weapons.
If you have a Relativistic Space Mouse going through your solar system, you don't want it pooping toward any of your planets.
I'd recommend NPP (No Pet Peeves) Angband at http://members.cox.net/nppangband/
It's like Vanilla Angband but with additions like quests and some removed annoyances. Really a lot better, IMO.
They're not as cleanly split as in Doom, but there are definite levels, and they even have names and different map names.
Maybe you didn't see "periodically". Try reading for comprehension.
If you've got data on only one computer, don't bother with a NAS and get a USB (or Firewire, which would be better since FW doesn't hog the CPU) hard drive. SyncBack isn't a bad free backup program for Windows, but the free version can't copy open files.
Even if you've got two or three computers, a good external HD will be cheaper and probably more reliable than a NAS box, simply because there are fewer parts to break on a USB drive than a NAS, which is typically a power supply, network card, some RAM, an OS in ROM, drive controller, and one or more hard drives. The only thing you won't get from an external HD is RAID, but you can fake that with software if you get more than one per computer, and RAID only means that the data's still accessible if one drive dies (assuming you're not stupid enough to use RAID 0), so it's probably not important for you.
If your data is valuable, burn the most important stuff to DVD periodically and stick it in a bank's safe-deposit box.
Yes, I can, but you missed the word "inconvenient". Most of my friends are nerds who are likely to check out Google Maps for an address first.
Next, I'd like to be able to add locations that aren't in the database yet, for example new housing developments. My house is over a year old and its street and address aren't locatable by anybody's mapping website yet. It's a bit inconvenient when I'm trying to have a friend over who hasn't visited my house yet.