After Pearl Harbor the US of A a-bombed two entire cities full of civilians. Never before (except for a few german cities carpeted by brits and yanks) has such an atrocity been commited by a democratic state.
Well, the sad thing is - this will be at least as hard as the computer to get inside every home. Quantum crypto is very hardware-dependant. You cant just write a 2-liner in perl and accomplish quantum-encryption.
[The opinions expressed herein are my own, and have no legal or scientific proof behind them, so they might be wrong, although I personally believe them correct]
But the worst thing, in my opinion, is not that Zenon lost, or that those CoS freaks won, but that this proved, once and for all, that a crazed cult can, if influential enough in for example the US, change (at least the interpretation of) the constitutional law of a small country, i.e. Sweden in this case.
(This means, of course, that at least Sweden is no more than a US protectorate, and that Swedish law is, after due process, inferior to US law even on swedish soil)
Earlier any document that was posted to the government was a public document, following the so called "offentlighetsprincipen", the "public document principle", or something. This was a powerful weapon against many forms of corruption, since you could easily, by paying for the paper-copier, get copies of any official documents.
This was (and is still, although not interpreted the same) written in the swedish constitution)
But now these papers are no more public than secret military documents, if they are copyrighted and the owner of these rights don't want them published.
This means that I can, if I have written them myself, prevent any governmental documents from being public. I can send mail to any governmental institution and prevent anyone from screening my interaction with the powers that be.
This might not seem as a large change, for those of you who never had any "offentlighetsprincip", but I find it to be a change for the worse.
//Martin
This means that I can send papers to any government official
First of all: A tool is seldom illegal. It is more often the use of it that is.
Guns are outlawed in some countries to some people. For example in sweden you are not allowed to own a gun if you don't own a license.
Drugs are outlawed allmost everywhere.
These are exceptions, though, and it is my belief that these exceptions should be as few as possible, ideally none at all.
_But_ is napster as dangerous as drugs? Is it lethal to people who use it? Does it promote whole chains of burglary-violence-medical costs for the society? This is true for a lot of illegal drugs, and still there is debate whether they shouldn't be legal.
Secondly: - I believe it was William Gibson who said it - it is not a natural right for businesses to charge money for recordings. The concept has not existed for more than about 70 years. Why is everyone so excited about the possibity that it might end?
I can understand that those who make millions out of recordings are upset, but it is not some kind of assault on people's constitutional rights.
Thirdly: I couldn't care less if all recording-industries went bancrupt and no artists could be millionaires anymore. Almost all the music I listen to is made by people who haven't made millions off of records anyhow, and in this new age their followers will probably be happy to use the internet to distribute their music. People will still make music just because they want to, not because it makes them millionaires.
There is in fact no less than two promising (in my opinion) systems for cubase-like midi-editing for linux.
Jazz - a non-open source, non-free project with most of the functionality I look for (I have only worked with cubase earlier) and even some nice sampler-like qualities (editing and playing samples in various ways)
kooBase(Brahms) - an open-source, free cubase-like sequencer that has reached some maturity (0.97). I haven't tried the latest versions, but it looked promising (and I am willing to forgive a lot if the software is os).
I wouldn't raise my kid to be your kind of christian if you held a gun to my head.
I would also pity myself if I couldn't raise my child so that he/she has the intelligence to distinguish him/her-self between good and bad behaviour.
If you don't trust your kids with information, do you really expect them to grow up to be knowledgeable and intelligent individuals?
You have to help your kids to handle information, not censor them so that they never learn.
And about the way Gnutella will spread illegal information, like mp3's for example, why is that so bad? Why should the net be more controlled than the "real" world? I have allways been able to buy illegal information, and even materials, by mail. I have allways been able to buy drugs in the street. The net shouldn't be more heavily controlled just because it can!
Slashdot Mirror
Or...
"When good penguins go bad"
There is a bit of difference between disliking Israel and disliking jews.
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This shouldnt really need an explanation
After Pearl Harbor the US of A a-bombed two entire cities full of civilians. Never before (except for a few german cities carpeted by brits and yanks) has such an atrocity been commited by a democratic state.
Well, the sad thing is - this will be at least as hard as the computer to get inside every home. Quantum crypto is very hardware-dependant. You cant just write a 2-liner in perl and accomplish quantum-encryption.
some bad formatting at the end there...
sorry
[The opinions expressed herein are my own, and have no legal or scientific proof behind them, so they might be wrong, although I personally believe them correct]
//Martin
This means that I can send papers to any government official
But the worst thing, in my opinion, is not that Zenon lost, or that those CoS freaks won, but that this proved, once and for all, that a crazed cult can, if influential enough in for example the US, change (at least the interpretation of) the constitutional law of a small country, i.e. Sweden in this case.
(This means, of course, that at least Sweden is no more than a US protectorate, and that Swedish law is, after due process, inferior to US law even on swedish soil)
Earlier any document that was posted to the government was a public document, following the so called "offentlighetsprincipen", the "public document principle", or something. This was a powerful weapon against many forms of corruption, since you could easily, by paying for the paper-copier, get copies of any official documents.
This was (and is still, although not interpreted the same) written in the swedish constitution)
But now these papers are no more public than secret military documents, if they are copyrighted and the owner of these rights don't want them published.
This means that I can, if I have written them myself, prevent any governmental documents from being public. I can send mail to any governmental institution and prevent anyone from screening my interaction with the powers that be.
This might not seem as a large change, for those of you who never had any "offentlighetsprincip", but I find it to be a change for the worse.
First of all: A tool is seldom illegal. It is more often the use of it that is.
Guns are outlawed in some countries to some people. For example in sweden you are not allowed to own a gun if you don't own a license.
Drugs are outlawed allmost everywhere.
These are exceptions, though, and it is my belief that these exceptions should be as few as possible, ideally none at all.
_But_ is napster as dangerous as drugs? Is it lethal to people who use it? Does it promote whole chains of burglary-violence-medical costs for the society? This is true for a lot of illegal drugs, and still there is debate whether they shouldn't be legal.
Secondly: - I believe it was William Gibson who said it - it is not a natural right for businesses to charge money for recordings. The concept has not existed for more than about 70 years. Why is everyone so excited about the possibity that it might end?
I can understand that those who make millions out of recordings are upset, but it is not some kind of assault on people's constitutional rights.
Thirdly: I couldn't care less if all recording-industries went bancrupt and no artists could be millionaires anymore. Almost all the music I listen to is made by people who haven't made millions off of records anyhow, and in this new age their followers will probably be happy to use the internet to distribute their music. People will still make music just because they want to, not because it makes them millionaires.
So there.
There is in fact no less than two promising (in my opinion) systems for cubase-like midi-editing for linux.
Jazz - a non-open source, non-free project with most of the functionality I look for (I have only worked with cubase earlier) and even some nice sampler-like qualities (editing and playing samples in various ways)
kooBase(Brahms) - an open-source, free cubase-like sequencer that has reached some maturity (0.97). I haven't tried the latest versions, but it looked promising (and I am willing to forgive a lot if the software is os).
I wouldn't raise my kid to be your kind of christian if you held a gun to my head.
I would also pity myself if I couldn't raise my child so that he/she has the intelligence to distinguish him/her-self between good and bad behaviour.
If you don't trust your kids with information, do you really expect them to grow up to be knowledgeable and intelligent individuals?
You have to help your kids to handle information, not censor them so that they never learn.
And about the way Gnutella will spread illegal information, like mp3's for example, why is that so bad? Why should the net be more controlled than the "real" world? I have allways been able to buy illegal information, and even materials, by mail. I have allways been able to buy drugs in the street. The net shouldn't be more heavily controlled just because it can!