Bush may not know it, but these already exist in the form of SIPRNET, and INTELNET.
SIPRNET
SECRET INTERNET PROTOCOL ROUTER NETWORK
SIPRNET will replace the DSNET-1 during the migration to DISN. It operates at the SECRET Collateral level and can interface with the TROJAN network. It provides higher and selectable data rates at a much lower O&M recurring cost. Inter-site data rates are 512 Kbps and in some cases T-1. Users can connect to the network at selectable data rates that meet the need.
INTELNET
NAVAL INTELLIGENCE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM
The NICS is designed to consolidate Naval Intelligence communications systems. The system has three parts. INTELCAST plan calls for each FOCIC or Facility to consolidate up to 12 different message traffic circuits, including OPINTEL, MUSIC, FIST, and DODIIS through INTELDATA extended in an SCI LAN Extension and Stand Alone capability configuration. The SCI LAN encompasses a full suite of SOCRATES equipment, including workstations, secondary imagery dissemination systems, and a mapping and graphics capability. The Stand Alone capability provides a workstation with tailored data bases specific to unit operational orientation. Stand Alone capabilities are being provided to Guard and Reserve units as well as to certain active, lower-echelon units.
NIPRNET
UNIFORM INTERNET PROTOCOL ROUTER NETWORK
The NIPRNET is the consolidation of several service/agencies networks (AFNET, NAVNET, MILNET) with common protocols and standards. It is a product of the DISN near Term Program, which sought a reduction in cost of operation through interoperability and standardization. Connectivity over high-speed trunking is supported by the NIPRNET. It operates at the unclassified level, while the SIPRNET supports classified networks in a similar manner.
States' Rights was Jeffersonian, Alexander Hamilton and John Marshall were for strong federal government.
Hamilton and Marshall appear to have won out in practice. Federalism's benefit was that no state could unfairly create commerce problems with another state, but the downside is that the Federal government has far overreached it's bounds, largely thanks to Marshall.
quoting from the Smithsonian magazine:
Marshall and Jefferson were adversaries. Jefferson believed in states' rights -- that the colonies who ratified the constitution did so as sovereign states. He wanted the weakest federal government possible. Marshall knew that a federal government without the power to tax, to support a military and to regulate finance was a recipe for anarchy. For 34 years, in decision after decision, McCulloch v. Maryland, Gibbons v. Ogden, he built up the legal power of the Supreme Court and, with it, the power of the federal government. Jefferson and succeeding democratic Presidents were against everything Marshall did, but found themselves helpless before his legal expertise in reading the Constitution.
endquote.
States' Rights was pretty much dissolved by the Civil War, and only lately have there been good arguments for it, such as Oregon and their fight for the right to administer euthanasia.
My employer is still covering TWC cable modem in the same area as you're in...
Granted, there were a few months where my employer put a hold on reimbursement, but now things are back to the norm.
The biggest advantage that I notice is the ability to use the phone-- not being knocked off by casually picking up the phone. Getting those large.iso files is nice, but begin able to hold a conversation while I wait for VoIP to work well, that's something!
Right up til they get sued for not complying with DMCA, which pretty much puts them on notice, either they act when a DMCA complaint is made, or be subject to prosecution as an accomplice. That's why ISPs are so cowed.
So it's really more like, less money now, versus no money after fighting lawsuit and losing.
I checked the dslreports [dslreports.com] message boards expecting to find howls of protests by those cut off from their monopoly broadband providers. Silence....
Gee, people cut off from service are silent. Maybe because they got cut off from their service?
Those radiators are oil coolers. Air cools the cylinders, which are finned like motorcycle cylinders. Oil does the rest of the job, besides lubricating, it soaks up much of the heat. Running the oil through a small radiator makes a large difference in some climates, but is usually unnecessary. Shoot, in Israel (commonly accepted as a pretty hot climate) they run without 'em just fine.
The reasons to add the radiator for oil-cooling are:
exposing the oil to a finned, air cooled radiator cools the oil off faster, leading to a cooler engine, and
having greater oil capacity means that the oil is more resistant to heating up, and adding the oil cooler adds more oil capacity.
And remember, the air-cooling on the VW is the same as it is on air-cooled porsches, a fan on the back of the generator (alternator) driven by a belt off the crankshaft. Pretty darn efficient.
Linux on rs/6000, as/400 (iSeries), and system/390 (zSeries) is awesome.
Now, buy that nice hardware (better than plain ole Intel boxes) and either run Linux on em with DB2, or AIX, os/400, or z/OS...
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They did more than a few betas of Gobe Productive- the last of the Be line was Gobe Productive 2.0, which handled.doc more smoothly than any other non-MS product I've ever seen.
Worked magificently on BeOS 5 Pro and PE.
Buy the thing now, and you can get the windows and linux version for the same money. use it on win at work (if you suffer like the rest of us) and linux at home.
Apple's typical behavior in this situation (reporting bugs on an illegitimate copy of pre-release software) is _usually_ to quickly contact the bug reporter and get them to sign an NDA, and agree to be a beta-tester.
Your friend could have lucked into being a software tester for Apple, getting legitimately-obtained pre-release software.
Your friend shouldn't have been so quick to presume the bug would be found, even in a pre-release.
It would have been far better for him to have reported it, so that it would have gotten some attention-
Remember, the engineers would rather code it and forget it, but if a few users report the problem, they're forced to devote some time to seeing if it's repeatable, and fixing it.
Sure, Apple ought not to need suggestions and bug/issue reports from regular folks, but they give us that feedback page on their website--- Use it!
It's a real pain when you try and archive things on the web- either through a free web page, or a paid-for one- the server goes down, and the data is lost.
I lost every picture from a friend's wedding because I made the mistake of trusting storage on a server I didn't control.
So I burned the pictures (when I found that I had made a backup) to CD-R. which was fine until the first time they got scratched. So I made another set. which got exposed to heat from sunlight, and ruined the CD-R.
So, I'm left trying to decide-
What is the digital equivalent to printing a photograph on acid-free paper, stored behind UV-filter glass, in a climate-controlled area?
What is the digital equivalent of silver halide photography?
Why are you attempting to raise my ire? what good will it do you, especially if you choose to remain anonymous?
anyhow- I didn't contend that email is a right. It's a service you buy. It's not a privelige, it's not a right, it's a service you contract for.
I also never claimed that I was a lawyer. Did you read your service agreement, or are you tagging on the other person who chose to respond to me? Your comments weren't that original, but thanks for presenting them anyway.
Did you read that when you signed up, or did you just dig it up now?
Is everyone's written the same? Granted, if all you've got is one provider that it's reasonable to get service from (remote locations) then you're sort of screwed into either accepting the terms as presented or not buying the service...
Do you remember the article on Salon a while back? where the author's boyfriend was accused by T-W of trafficking in copyrighted material, and they closed his account over a weekend, and wouldn't reactivate it, or reimburse for the outage?
The only time I've ever had a complete service outage has been when someone digs without calling in first, and clips the wires underground. When this happens, and the outage is more than a day, I have been reimbursed.
But my email and website has been blocked by MAPS- and refused by other ISPs. For no good reason, the site is about chemical and plastics for flexible packaging manufacture. It's near impossible to solve- MAPS says they're trying to tick people off into fixing the problems at the ISP they claim is responsible, the other ISPs shrug and say they're doing as they please-
so much for the notion of a world wide communications system that routes around damage.
Email is a privelige? what are you talking about?!
Email is a service. In most cases, for most people, email is a part of the service you get when you contract with an ISP. The contract is, I give money, they give me internet access, a small bit of hosting, an email address and a mailbox on their server. As long as I fulfill my end of the contract (payment) they must fulfill theirs (service.)
There is no other way to describe it, it's a business agreement. Any intrusion upon that agreement is a breach.
Thanks for taking the time to respond in such detail.
You've enhanced my knowledge of the topic in a way that I was having difficulty achieving through other sources.
That said, I'm still not comfortable with this new legislation, in the way it was proposed, processed, or passed. I remain troubled by it.
I don't like the notion of delay of notification- period. Darn it, if someone has been in my house, rifling through my property, I want to know about it, I want to know what they were looking for, and I want to know before or as such invasion takes place. How can I maintain that my home and effects are secure if it's acceptable for so-called law enforcement to waltz right in without notification? Simply, I cannot. It's similar to trying to resecure a server that's been r00ted, the act has been committed, and you can't tell with any ease what's been accessed, or how secure it is after the fact. So much for the fourth amendment- to my uneducated eye, this seems to be a wider grant of power to the government over free people, where the government neither needs nor deserves such power.
I'm still offended that these powers were asked for in the wake of this tragedy- every other time law enforcement has asked for them, they've been turned away, and only by taking advantage of people's fears were they able to get them approved. Bah.
The delay may be an indefinite delay.
If the search was conducted on my house, how am I ever going to know that it wasn't a fishing expedition, and be able to challenge that, because I was never served a warrant detailing what the search was for? Judicial oversight is weakened- and I'm trusting the judge to disallow fishing expeditions, when previously I'd have a warrant, and my own lawyer working to protect my interests. In the future, I won't have the knowledge I need to inspire me to retain a lawyer, because I'll never know that I'm under investigation.
Sections that do not expire include the following:
* Police can sneak into someone's house or office, search the contents, and leave without ever telling the owner. This would be supervised by a court, and the notification of the surreptitious search "may be delayed" indefinitely. (Section 213)
* Any U.S. attorney or state attorney general can order the installation of the FBI's Carnivore surveillance system and record addresses of Web pages visited and e-mail correspondents -- without going to a judge. Previously, there were stiffer legal restrictions on Carnivore and other Internet surveillance techniques. (Section 216)
* Any American "with intent to defraud" who scans in an image of a foreign currency note or e-mails or transmits such an image will go to jail for up to 20 years. (Section 375)
* An accused terrorist who is a foreign citizen and who cannot be deported can be held for an unspecified series of "periods of up to six months" with the attorney general's approval. (Section 412)
* Biometric technology, such as fingerprint readers or iris scanners, will become part of an "integrated entry and exit data system" with the identities of visa holders who hope to enter the U.S. (Section 414)
* Any Internet provider or telephone company must turn over customer information, including phone numbers called -- no court order required -- if the FBI claims the "records sought are relevant to an authorized investigation to protect against international terrorism." The company contacted may not "disclose to any person"
that the FBI is doing an investigation. (Section 505)
* Credit reporting firms like Equifax must disclose to the FBI any information that agents request in connection with a terrorist investigation -- without police needing to seek a court order first. Current law permits this only in espionage cases. (Section 505)
* The current definition of terrorism is radically expanded to include biochemical attacks and computer hacking. Some current computer crimes -- such as hacking a U.S. government system or breaking into and damaging any Internet-connected computer -- are covered. (Section 808)
* A new crime of "cyberterrorism" is added, which covers hacking attempts causing damage "aggregating at least $5,000 in value" in
one year, any damage to medical equipment or "physical injury to any person." Prison terms range between five and 20 years. (Section 814)
* New computer forensics labs will be created to inspect "seized or intercepted computer evidence relating to criminal activity
(including cyberterrorism)" and to train federal agents. (Section 816)
I'm taking my best shot at answering in the same spirit the question was asked- for inspiring debate.
Civil rights are as much about what you can do, as what you cannot.
Thanks to this legislation, you cannot be certain that your home, and any object in it has not been disturbed by law enforcement officials in your absence. Law Enforcement doesn't have to notify you before invading your home and going fishing through your personal property. (This is another chip off of the 4th amendment- before this legislation there'd have been a warrant that would have to be served to me.)
Thanks to this legislation, if you have a guest over to your house, and he uses your telephone, you will never know if your phone has been tapped.
(Please don't tell me about what kind of company I keep- I let people who've had auto accidents outside my house use my telephone.)
Thanks to this legislation, I have no security in my person, house, papers, and effects against search and seizures conducted without a warrant issued under probable cause. I don't believe that law enforcement can determine probable cause, that's for a judge, and this legislation removes the need for a judge to make this determination.
Traditionally, the bar for what's an unreasonable search was easy to understand- with few exceptions, almost any search conducted without a warrant was unreasonable. This bar has now been removed. Warrants had to specify exactly what was to be searched, and law enforcement could not just go fishing and hope to find evidence of a crime, as they now can.
While I don't engage in any behavior I know to be illegal, ignorance of the law is no excuse in court, and without my knowing from notice of a warrant that I'm under suspicion, I cannot live freely with the knowledge that, at any time, I may be under investigation, or hauled in for a crime I did not commit, or an action I did not know was a crime.
Well, I won't argue with you, you got burned by Apple on that one.
Can you think of other companies that have given you a better support experience?
I've had bad experiences at the hands of Dell, Gateway, and basically anytime I haven't bought parts and assembled my own machine- but you can't do that with a laptop.
IBM has given me good service, but then, if I want MacOS, I can only run 8.1 through an emulator.
Apple remains a little rough on service, and in spite of that they get top marks in being the best at customer support.
The hinges on powerbooks from the wallstreet models til now are prone to failure, the ibook seems more sturdy. The repair costs are obscene. If you're out of warranty at all, it's game over. (an iMac belonging to a friend of mine died at 14 months, two months out of warranty.) Even under AppleCare, the extended warranty, there are some things Apple refuses to deal with.
I think people expect more from Apple than they do from IBM or the other manufacturers of computers. Apple has a strong loyalty among it's customers, who are surprised when Apple treats them coldly, as customers, instead of with generosity. It doesn't help them any that they used to have free phone support and were more lenient- and if they could afford to be, I'd say that they ought to move back to that practice.
My best answer in situations like these has been to be persistant and insistant on a good outcome for me, and to carry insurance on the computer, so that even if the warranty leaves me out cold, I'm not taking a huge loss on the machine.
Have you given any thought to either picking up a dead 5300 for cheap on ebay and fixing yours with parts from it? or selling yours?
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Bush may not know it, but these already exist in the form of SIPRNET, and INTELNET.
SIPRNET
SECRET INTERNET PROTOCOL ROUTER NETWORK
SIPRNET will replace the DSNET-1 during the migration to DISN. It operates at the SECRET Collateral level and can interface with the TROJAN network. It provides higher and selectable data rates at a much lower O&M recurring cost. Inter-site data rates are 512 Kbps and in some cases T-1. Users can connect to the network at selectable data rates that meet the need.
INTELNET
NAVAL INTELLIGENCE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM
The NICS is designed to consolidate Naval Intelligence communications systems. The system has three parts. INTELCAST plan calls for each FOCIC or Facility to consolidate up to 12 different message traffic circuits, including OPINTEL, MUSIC, FIST, and DODIIS through INTELDATA extended in an SCI LAN Extension and Stand Alone capability configuration. The SCI LAN encompasses a full suite of SOCRATES equipment, including workstations, secondary imagery dissemination systems, and a mapping and graphics capability. The Stand Alone capability provides a workstation with tailored data bases specific to unit operational orientation. Stand Alone capabilities are being provided to Guard and Reserve units as well as to certain active, lower-echelon units.
NIPRNET
UNIFORM INTERNET PROTOCOL ROUTER NETWORK
The NIPRNET is the consolidation of several service/agencies networks (AFNET, NAVNET, MILNET) with common protocols and standards. It is a product of the DISN near Term Program, which sought a reduction in cost of operation through interoperability and standardization. Connectivity over high-speed trunking is supported by the NIPRNET. It operates at the unclassified level, while the SIPRNET supports classified networks in a similar manner.
You mean SIPRNET, NIPRNET, and INTELNET ?
They've had these for a while.
States' Rights was Jeffersonian, Alexander Hamilton and John Marshall were for strong federal government.
Hamilton and Marshall appear to have won out in practice. Federalism's benefit was that no state could unfairly create commerce problems with another state, but the downside is that the Federal government has far overreached it's bounds, largely thanks to Marshall.
quoting from the Smithsonian magazine:
Marshall and Jefferson were adversaries. Jefferson believed in states' rights -- that the colonies who ratified the constitution did so as sovereign states. He wanted the weakest federal government possible. Marshall knew that a federal government without the power to tax, to support a military and to regulate finance was a recipe for anarchy. For 34 years, in decision after decision, McCulloch v. Maryland, Gibbons v. Ogden, he built up the legal power of the Supreme Court and, with it, the power of the federal government. Jefferson and succeeding democratic Presidents were against everything Marshall did, but found themselves helpless before his legal expertise in reading the Constitution.
endquote.
States' Rights was pretty much dissolved by the Civil War, and only lately have there been good arguments for it, such as Oregon and their fight for the right to administer euthanasia.
Considering I had to look up what CPUSA is, I don't think so.
However, I wonder if my LP.org, or more specifically LPNC.org could arrange such a lecture-
probably not due to funds, but then, neither could CPUSA (which I'm pretty sure that Benkler, Moglen and Lessig have no affiliation with.)
dang it, the one weekend I go out of town, Lessig, Moglen, and Benkler come to lecture! Lousy lousy lousy- I wanted to be there!
Yes, this bypasses the 5th Amendment.
You think this matters? They practically retired the 4th Amendment a few weeks ago, under the name USA PATRIOT.
My employer is still covering TWC cable modem in the same area as you're in...
.iso files is nice, but begin able to hold a conversation while I wait for VoIP to work well, that's something!
Granted, there were a few months where my employer put a hold on reimbursement, but now things are back to the norm.
The biggest advantage that I notice is the ability to use the phone-- not being knocked off by casually picking up the phone. Getting those large
Right up til they get sued for not complying with DMCA, which pretty much puts them on notice, either they act when a DMCA complaint is made, or be subject to prosecution as an accomplice. That's why ISPs are so cowed.
So it's really more like, less money now, versus no money after fighting lawsuit and losing.
Gee, people cut off from service are silent. Maybe because they got cut off from their service?
You never owned an air-cooled VW, did you?
Those radiators are oil coolers. Air cools the cylinders, which are finned like motorcycle cylinders. Oil does the rest of the job, besides lubricating, it soaks up much of the heat. Running the oil through a small radiator makes a large difference in some climates, but is usually unnecessary. Shoot, in Israel (commonly accepted as a pretty hot climate) they run without 'em just fine.
The reasons to add the radiator for oil-cooling are:
exposing the oil to a finned, air cooled radiator cools the oil off faster, leading to a cooler engine, and
having greater oil capacity means that the oil is more resistant to heating up, and adding the oil cooler adds more oil capacity.
And remember, the air-cooling on the VW is the same as it is on air-cooled porsches, a fan on the back of the generator (alternator) driven by a belt off the crankshaft. Pretty darn efficient.
DB2 on linux has great performance.
/390 (zSeries) is awesome.
...
Linux on rs/6000, as/400 (iSeries), and system
Now, buy that nice hardware (better than plain ole Intel boxes) and either run Linux on em with DB2, or AIX, os/400, or z/OS
They did more than a few betas of Gobe Productive- the last of the Be line was Gobe Productive 2.0, which handled .doc more smoothly than any other non-MS product I've ever seen.
Worked magificently on BeOS 5 Pro and PE.
Buy the thing now, and you can get the windows and linux version for the same money. use it on win at work (if you suffer like the rest of us) and linux at home.
Apple's typical behavior in this situation (reporting bugs on an illegitimate copy of pre-release software) is _usually_ to quickly contact the bug reporter and get them to sign an NDA, and agree to be a beta-tester.
Your friend could have lucked into being a software tester for Apple, getting legitimately-obtained pre-release software.
Your friend shouldn't have been so quick to presume the bug would be found, even in a pre-release.
It would have been far better for him to have reported it, so that it would have gotten some attention-
Remember, the engineers would rather code it and forget it, but if a few users report the problem, they're forced to devote some time to seeing if it's repeatable, and fixing it.
Sure, Apple ought not to need suggestions and bug/issue reports from regular folks, but they give us that feedback page on their website--- Use it!
It's a real pain when you try and archive things on the web- either through a free web page, or a paid-for one- the server goes down, and the data is lost.
I lost every picture from a friend's wedding because I made the mistake of trusting storage on a server I didn't control.
So I burned the pictures (when I found that I had made a backup) to CD-R. which was fine until the first time they got scratched. So I made another set. which got exposed to heat from sunlight, and ruined the CD-R.
So, I'm left trying to decide-
What is the digital equivalent to printing a photograph on acid-free paper, stored behind UV-filter glass, in a climate-controlled area?
What is the digital equivalent of silver halide photography?
Why are you attempting to raise my ire? what good will it do you, especially if you choose to remain anonymous?
anyhow- I didn't contend that email is a right. It's a service you buy. It's not a privelige, it's not a right, it's a service you contract for.
I also never claimed that I was a lawyer. Did you read your service agreement, or are you tagging on the other person who chose to respond to me? Your comments weren't that original, but thanks for presenting them anyway.
Did you read that when you signed up, or did you just dig it up now?
Is everyone's written the same? Granted, if all you've got is one provider that it's reasonable to get service from (remote locations) then you're sort of screwed into either accepting the terms as presented or not buying the service...
Do you remember the article on Salon a while back? where the author's boyfriend was accused by T-W of trafficking in copyrighted material, and they closed his account over a weekend, and wouldn't reactivate it, or reimburse for the outage?
The only time I've ever had a complete service outage has been when someone digs without calling in first, and clips the wires underground. When this happens, and the outage is more than a day, I have been reimbursed.
But my email and website has been blocked by MAPS- and refused by other ISPs. For no good reason, the site is about chemical and plastics for flexible packaging manufacture. It's near impossible to solve- MAPS says they're trying to tick people off into fixing the problems at the ISP they claim is responsible, the other ISPs shrug and say they're doing as they please-
so much for the notion of a world wide communications system that routes around damage.
Email is a privelige? what are you talking about?!
Email is a service. In most cases, for most people, email is a part of the service you get when you contract with an ISP. The contract is, I give money, they give me internet access, a small bit of hosting, an email address and a mailbox on their server. As long as I fulfill my end of the contract (payment) they must fulfill theirs (service.)
There is no other way to describe it, it's a business agreement. Any intrusion upon that agreement is a breach.
Thanks for taking the time to respond in such detail.
You've enhanced my knowledge of the topic in a way that I was having difficulty achieving through other sources.
That said, I'm still not comfortable with this new legislation, in the way it was proposed, processed, or passed. I remain troubled by it.
I don't like the notion of delay of notification- period. Darn it, if someone has been in my house, rifling through my property, I want to know about it, I want to know what they were looking for, and I want to know before or as such invasion takes place. How can I maintain that my home and effects are secure if it's acceptable for so-called law enforcement to waltz right in without notification? Simply, I cannot. It's similar to trying to resecure a server that's been r00ted, the act has been committed, and you can't tell with any ease what's been accessed, or how secure it is after the fact. So much for the fourth amendment- to my uneducated eye, this seems to be a wider grant of power to the government over free people, where the government neither needs nor deserves such power.
I'm still offended that these powers were asked for in the wake of this tragedy- every other time law enforcement has asked for them, they've been turned away, and only by taking advantage of people's fears were they able to get them approved. Bah.
Thanks for your good reply.
The delay may be an indefinite delay.
If the search was conducted on my house, how am I ever going to know that it wasn't a fishing expedition, and be able to challenge that, because I was never served a warrant detailing what the search was for? Judicial oversight is weakened- and I'm trusting the judge to disallow fishing expeditions, when previously I'd have a warrant, and my own lawyer working to protect my interests. In the future, I won't have the knowledge I need to inspire me to retain a lawyer, because I'll never know that I'm under investigation.
Sections that do not expire include the following:
* Police can sneak into someone's house or office, search the contents, and leave without ever telling the owner. This would be supervised by a court, and the notification of the surreptitious search "may be delayed" indefinitely. (Section 213)
* Any U.S. attorney or state attorney general can order the installation of the FBI's Carnivore surveillance system and record addresses of Web pages visited and e-mail correspondents -- without going to a judge. Previously, there were stiffer legal restrictions on Carnivore and other Internet surveillance techniques. (Section 216)
* Any American "with intent to defraud" who scans in an image of a foreign currency note or e-mails or transmits such an image will go to jail for up to 20 years. (Section 375)
* An accused terrorist who is a foreign citizen and who cannot be deported can be held for an unspecified series of "periods of up to six months" with the attorney general's approval. (Section 412)
* Biometric technology, such as fingerprint readers or iris scanners, will become part of an "integrated entry and exit data system" with the identities of visa holders who hope to enter the U.S. (Section 414)
* Any Internet provider or telephone company must turn over customer information, including phone numbers called -- no court order required -- if the FBI claims the "records sought are relevant to an authorized investigation to protect against international terrorism." The company contacted may not "disclose to any person"
that the FBI is doing an investigation. (Section 505)
* Credit reporting firms like Equifax must disclose to the FBI any information that agents request in connection with a terrorist investigation -- without police needing to seek a court order first. Current law permits this only in espionage cases. (Section 505)
* The current definition of terrorism is radically expanded to include biochemical attacks and computer hacking. Some current computer crimes -- such as hacking a U.S. government system or breaking into and damaging any Internet-connected computer -- are covered. (Section 808)
* A new crime of "cyberterrorism" is added, which covers hacking attempts causing damage "aggregating at least $5,000 in value" in
one year, any damage to medical equipment or "physical injury to any person." Prison terms range between five and 20 years. (Section 814)
* New computer forensics labs will be created to inspect "seized or intercepted computer evidence relating to criminal activity
(including cyberterrorism)" and to train federal agents. (Section 816)
I'm taking my best shot at answering in the same spirit the question was asked- for inspiring debate.
Civil rights are as much about what you can do, as what you cannot.
Thanks to this legislation, you cannot be certain that your home, and any object in it has not been disturbed by law enforcement officials in your absence. Law Enforcement doesn't have to notify you before invading your home and going fishing through your personal property. (This is another chip off of the 4th amendment- before this legislation there'd have been a warrant that would have to be served to me.)
Thanks to this legislation, if you have a guest over to your house, and he uses your telephone, you will never know if your phone has been tapped.
(Please don't tell me about what kind of company I keep- I let people who've had auto accidents outside my house use my telephone.)
Thanks to this legislation, I have no security in my person, house, papers, and effects against search and seizures conducted without a warrant issued under probable cause. I don't believe that law enforcement can determine probable cause, that's for a judge, and this legislation removes the need for a judge to make this determination.
Traditionally, the bar for what's an unreasonable search was easy to understand- with few exceptions, almost any search conducted without a warrant was unreasonable. This bar has now been removed. Warrants had to specify exactly what was to be searched, and law enforcement could not just go fishing and hope to find evidence of a crime, as they now can.
While I don't engage in any behavior I know to be illegal, ignorance of the law is no excuse in court, and without my knowing from notice of a warrant that I'm under suspicion, I cannot live freely with the knowledge that, at any time, I may be under investigation, or hauled in for a crime I did not commit, or an action I did not know was a crime.
Except that IBM has done this before- IBM designed and manufactured the powerbook 2400.
IBM licensed the MacOS around 1996.
IBM build PowerPC boxes, and wanted to build a common hardware reference platform that AIX and Mac OS could run on equally well.
Only the first ever amounted to a product that people could buy, but never say never...
Well, I won't argue with you, you got burned by Apple on that one.
Can you think of other companies that have given you a better support experience?
I've had bad experiences at the hands of Dell, Gateway, and basically anytime I haven't bought parts and assembled my own machine- but you can't do that with a laptop.
IBM has given me good service, but then, if I want MacOS, I can only run 8.1 through an emulator.
Apple remains a little rough on service, and in spite of that they get top marks in being the best at customer support.
The hinges on powerbooks from the wallstreet models til now are prone to failure, the ibook seems more sturdy. The repair costs are obscene. If you're out of warranty at all, it's game over. (an iMac belonging to a friend of mine died at 14 months, two months out of warranty.) Even under AppleCare, the extended warranty, there are some things Apple refuses to deal with.
I think people expect more from Apple than they do from IBM or the other manufacturers of computers. Apple has a strong loyalty among it's customers, who are surprised when Apple treats them coldly, as customers, instead of with generosity. It doesn't help them any that they used to have free phone support and were more lenient- and if they could afford to be, I'd say that they ought to move back to that practice.
My best answer in situations like these has been to be persistant and insistant on a good outcome for me, and to carry insurance on the computer, so that even if the warranty leaves me out cold, I'm not taking a huge loss on the machine.
Have you given any thought to either picking up a dead 5300 for cheap on ebay and fixing yours with parts from it? or selling yours?
Victor Marks
victor AT ripal dot co dot il
Their offer to repair your 5300 for 8 years after your original purchase didn't help?
Their offer to give you a big discount on a new Powerbook if you sent them the 5300 didn't help?
I don't know what kind of warranties you normally get on products, but the whole 5300 fiasco was handled pretty darn well, if you ask me.
In fact, people were buying up 5300s just to get the discount on the new PowerBooks.
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