That the US constitution works that way doesn't really change the fact that a (small, maybe) loss of sovereignity by the US - some giving up of powers to a supranational organisation - could make the Americans look a lot better (nothing like "we use the UN for our purposes, but disagree to pay our membership fees).
It's hard for me to understand how any decent country could not agree to an international criminal court. But then, I'm European, and I acknowledge there are big differences in political culture between Europe and the USA, which BTW the slashdot debates on the WTC etc. topics have shown me again.
Guess I'll really have to live in the US for a while some day to understand what you people think.
As you can see here, it's not the entire school, just the "after school club". They also say something about why it's not more dangerous than to use wood as a building material.
You're right, and I want to give an example that they are even the default medium of communication in some places.
All university students in Taiwan use BBS for about everything -- asking about classes, holidays, dates, really everything. Every university has at least one BBS and there's a huge community of people having dorm access to the net hanging out there, answering any question one might have. I haven't met a single student in Taiwan that did not use BBS.
Curing cancer would be "close" enough I guess... MUCH closer than little green men, at any rate.
I think it's just that SETI@home came first and managed to become the most famous distributed project. And yes, it's much cooler than cracking a stupid encryption challenge -- you already know beforehand that it CAN be cracked, whereas at SETI there's something to be researched and the result is unknown.
However, if they really have too much processing power and not enough data, SETI should probably tell their users to help a different project and come back later.
I have no idea how to use helium for weapons...
But here's the story about helium supply: In the 1930's, the only country in the world to have a large supply of helium was the USA. But they didn't have much, either. There was a German zeppelin (much like the Hindenburg) given to the US as a reparation for WWI.
The Americans then took 80% of all helium that was available at that time in the world (mostly from other American zeppelins) and filled it into that single zeppelin (I think it was called "ZR-something Los Angeles").
Is Slashdot the Government? No.
Is Slashdot the Military? No.
Is Slashdot a Network? It might qualify as "network of geeks"
Is Slashdot educational? Sometimes.
Is Slashdot a company? It's somehow part of the OSDnetwork which is a COMpany.
Is Slashdot an ORGanization? See "network".
So what is the TLD you think slashdot should have?
(other than CT's favorite slash.dot)
If John isn't coding for someone who demands original code (a school...), then it's not a question of licensing but of politeness at least to write an "I learned a lot about the frobulator encoder from the great work of Bob" into the source.
If John is coding for school, then he might feel forced to steal;-)
A is the obvious answer because if the plane crashes, at least it will be easily identifiable who was on board.
With airline B, how are my children going to sue them for recompensation?
The "sleeper" kind of terrorist can go on both airlines' planes, so 9/11 makes no difference here -- proving who you are before you board a plane is as good an idea now as it was before 9/11.
Proving your identity with an ID card instead of a CC would thus _enhance_ the freedom of many people -- those that choose to pay by cash.
But I don't see why everything should be trackable -- you going on a plane without proof of ID is a lot more dangerous than going on a bus or train. Complete check of everyone on every local bus? Come on... you don't really want that.
Here in Germany, of course you have to show your ID to rent a car (what company would be so fucking stupid as to give you a car without proof of ID?) but you can do so without having a credit card.
But apart from that, the only other thing I use my ID for is to pick up packets from the post office.
The logical thing to happen should be special CD ROM drives to read these crappy CDs. The CDROM manufacturer's won't want to make drives that can't read all CDs, right?
And also, complain to Microsoft that the CD player that comes with Windows can't play that CD.
Try to use the power of Microsoft to tell the record industry you're pissed off.
It's not only about predicting the weather, it's also about predicting POLITICS. And the future of science. How will mankind influence the weather in 100 years? You don't know? Here's a computer that claims it can.
Imagine the US governed by environmentalists. Imagine the whole world changing to hydrogen-powered cars.... all this should be simulated?
"Save them from communism"...?
Do you really belive a USSR occupied Afghanistan would have been worse to the Afghan citizens than the civil war they got instead?
"Do Muslims consider..." is a question which just BEGS for generalization as an answer which is probably WRONG. If you look at "Muslim countries", first you have to separate the secular countries (like Turkey) from those ruled by religious leaders, like Iran.
And have you ever heard of the North Ireland conflict? It is supposed to be a conflict between Protestants and Catholics -- Christians with only tiny differences of opinion. This mixed with some nationalism makes a bloody conflict in which innocent schoolgirls get attacked for walking on the streets. So don't tell me Christians are any better than Muslims.
Still even the intended recipients will have to know where they look. They can't just apply their own de-stegano-crypt program to all of the alt.* hierarchy. So they have to have a couple of secrets around their communications system, meaning the FBI would only have to spy that out once.
Is there any chance besides being FORCED to give up your private key to a government agency?
Of course that doesn't solve the security problem, because one server with all the world's public keys in it will be too large a temptation not to get exploited.
Or maybe you really add a "master" key - meaning you have to close the source, and one week later someone finds the master key and encryption is suddenly worthless.
Which brings us to the point -- encryption with a backdoor is the same as no encryption. Or, say, as safe as ROT13.
This doesn't help... the whole point about modern cryptography is to NOT hide the process. Many people will KNOW the process to crypt something, so once one of them talks / is caught the complicated process helps you nothing.
Also you will have to meet someone else IN PERSON to exchange the new "crypt scheme", unlike the wossname key exchange where you can exchange new keys for a known procedure in public and with people sniffing.
So I don't see any advantage to your "multiple encoding".
Oh, that's still rather ethical compared to withholding food from people that don't have money, or killing people that happen to be soldiers of a different country.
This is not really a question of ethics. You could easily say all of Capitalism is ethically wrong...
The question is more if copyright is useful. I happen to believe professional book writing mostly exists because of copyright. Since I think it's good that people write books and earn money from that, and I don't see a different way to pay these people, I support copyright on books.
Oh, so you think it should be legal to print books without paying to the author? I just copy his manuscript and print it 100000 times. This doesn't stop him from reading it, just 100000 other people gain that ability.
What do you suggest book authors should live on?
If they don't own their "intellectual property" because it's not a physical object that can be owned (in your definition), please suggest a different model that allows people to make a living from writing books.
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That the US constitution works that way doesn't really change the fact that a (small, maybe) loss of sovereignity by the US - some giving up of powers to a supranational organisation - could make the Americans look a lot better (nothing like "we use the UN for our purposes, but disagree to pay our membership fees).
It's hard for me to understand how any decent country could not agree to an international criminal court. But then, I'm European, and I acknowledge there are big differences in political culture between Europe and the USA, which BTW the slashdot debates on the WTC etc. topics have shown me again.
Guess I'll really have to live in the US for a while some day to understand what you people think.
As you can see here, it's not the entire school, just the "after school club". They also say something about why it's not more dangerous than to use wood as a building material.
You're right, and I want to give an example that they are even the default medium of communication in some places.
All university students in Taiwan use BBS for about everything -- asking about classes, holidays, dates, really everything. Every university has at least one BBS and there's a huge community of people having dorm access to the net hanging out there, answering any question one might have. I haven't met a single student in Taiwan that did not use BBS.
Sure, these are _telnet_ BBS's, and not dialup.
Curing cancer would be "close" enough I guess... MUCH closer than little green men, at any rate.
I think it's just that SETI@home came first and managed to become the most famous distributed project. And yes, it's much cooler than cracking a stupid encryption challenge -- you already know beforehand that it CAN be cracked, whereas at SETI there's something to be researched and the result is unknown.
However, if they really have too much processing power and not enough data, SETI should probably tell their users to help a different project and come back later.
I have no idea how to use helium for weapons...
But here's the story about helium supply: In the 1930's, the only country in the world to have a large supply of helium was the USA. But they didn't have much, either. There was a German zeppelin (much like the Hindenburg) given to the US as a reparation for WWI.
The Americans then took 80% of all helium that was available at that time in the world (mostly from other American zeppelins) and filled it into that single zeppelin (I think it was called "ZR-something Los Angeles").
Isn't it extermely funny that this gets moderated as "informative"?
So what is the right TLD for slashdot?
Is Slashdot the Government? No.
Is Slashdot the Military? No.
Is Slashdot a Network? It might qualify as "network of geeks"
Is Slashdot educational? Sometimes.
Is Slashdot a company? It's somehow part of the OSDnetwork which is a COMpany.
Is Slashdot an ORGanization? See "network".
So what is the TLD you think slashdot should have?
(other than CT's favorite slash.dot)
I think someone pays him for making the experiment if the oldest of all holy wars is still being fought.
Does the EULA allow you that? (To give your used computer with its old Win & Office to charity, while you go and buy a new WinXP box)
Or would using your gift be piracy from the charity people?
If John isn't coding for someone who demands original code (a school...), then it's not a question of licensing but of politeness at least to write an "I learned a lot about the frobulator encoder from the great work of Bob" into the source.
;-)
If John is coding for school, then he might feel forced to steal
A is the obvious answer because if the plane crashes, at least it will be easily identifiable who was on board.
With airline B, how are my children going to sue them for recompensation?
The "sleeper" kind of terrorist can go on both airlines' planes, so 9/11 makes no difference here -- proving who you are before you board a plane is as good an idea now as it was before 9/11.
Proving your identity with an ID card instead of a CC would thus _enhance_ the freedom of many people -- those that choose to pay by cash.
But I don't see why everything should be trackable -- you going on a plane without proof of ID is a lot more dangerous than going on a bus or train. Complete check of everyone on every local bus? Come on... you don't really want that.
Here in Germany, of course you have to show your ID to rent a car (what company would be so fucking stupid as to give you a car without proof of ID?) but you can do so without having a credit card.
But apart from that, the only other thing I use my ID for is to pick up packets from the post office.
The logical thing to happen should be special CD ROM drives to read these crappy CDs. The CDROM manufacturer's won't want to make drives that can't read all CDs, right?
And also, complain to Microsoft that the CD player that comes with Windows can't play that CD.
Try to use the power of Microsoft to tell the record industry you're pissed off.
... is the CD that automatically self-destructs after you've listened to it.
It's not only about predicting the weather, it's also about predicting POLITICS. And the future of science. How will mankind influence the weather in 100 years? You don't know? Here's a computer that claims it can.
Imagine the US governed by environmentalists. Imagine the whole world changing to hydrogen-powered cars.... all this should be simulated?
"Save them from communism" ...?
Do you really belive a USSR occupied Afghanistan would have been worse to the Afghan citizens than the civil war they got instead?
"Do Muslims consider..." is a question which just BEGS for generalization as an answer which is probably WRONG. If you look at "Muslim countries", first you have to separate the secular countries (like Turkey) from those ruled by religious leaders, like Iran.
And have you ever heard of the North Ireland conflict? It is supposed to be a conflict between Protestants and Catholics -- Christians with only tiny differences of opinion. This mixed with some nationalism makes a bloody conflict in which innocent schoolgirls get attacked for walking on the streets. So don't tell me Christians are any better than Muslims.
Still even the intended recipients will have to know where they look. They can't just apply their own de-stegano-crypt program to all of the alt.* hierarchy. So they have to have a couple of secrets around their communications system, meaning the FBI would only have to spy that out once.
Is there any chance besides being FORCED to give up your private key to a government agency?
Of course that doesn't solve the security problem, because one server with all the world's public keys in it will be too large a temptation not to get exploited.
Or maybe you really add a "master" key - meaning you have to close the source, and one week later someone finds the master key and encryption is suddenly worthless.
Which brings us to the point -- encryption with a backdoor is the same as no encryption. Or, say, as safe as ROT13.
This doesn't help... the whole point about modern cryptography is to NOT hide the process. Many people will KNOW the process to crypt something, so once one of them talks / is caught the complicated process helps you nothing.
Also you will have to meet someone else IN PERSON to exchange the new "crypt scheme", unlike the wossname key exchange where you can exchange new keys for a known procedure in public and with people sniffing.
So I don't see any advantage to your "multiple encoding".
Still that only means you can search them for weapons more thoroughly, not bar them from entering a plane or an airport.
They will still be able to let someone else who isn't on the watchlist smuggle the weapons through the controls for them.
He says he thinks anything representable in a bitstream can't be owned, by principle.
To me that means he says sharing files is ok.
Oh, that's still rather ethical compared to withholding food from people that don't have money, or killing people that happen to be soldiers of a different country.
This is not really a question of ethics. You could easily say all of Capitalism is ethically wrong...
The question is more if copyright is useful. I happen to believe professional book writing mostly exists because of copyright. Since I think it's good that people write books and earn money from that, and I don't see a different way to pay these people, I support copyright on books.
Oh, so you think it should be legal to print books without paying to the author? I just copy his manuscript and print it 100000 times. This doesn't stop him from reading it, just 100000 other people gain that ability.
What do you suggest book authors should live on? If they don't own their "intellectual property" because it's not a physical object that can be owned (in your definition), please suggest a different model that allows people to make a living from writing books.