How about ownership. I own my computers at home, so I get to decide how my kids use them. My employer owns the computers at work, so it decides how they are used.
If the government owns the network infrastructure, that means the government can control the network. However, keep in mind that even filtered internet access is better than none. The real problem is with a government that (tries)/(is permitted) to restrict what the public can see/read/hear.
Only the Saudis can do anything about what their government does. Other countries could refuse to buy oil from Saudi Arabia until it improves civil liberties,...yep...and pigs could fly.
Don't complain about the filtering companies serving a corrupt government when we are (nearly) all supporting that same government.
SLS was my first Linux Distro (Does anyone remember SLS?). Slackware was next, but I eventually moved to RedHat. Back when I ran slackware, upgrading meant reinstalling (probably not the case anymore). RedHat could be upgraded.
If I could remember them, I'm sure I'd have fond memories of slackware.
Actually, you're wrong. The law will favor poor people as long as the lawyers can sue someone who is rich. The goal is to annoy the wealthy person into paying the lawyer to leave them alone. The great thing about it is there doesn't have to be any basis in reality.
The only wealthy people the law favors is lawyers.
Actually, the reports I've seen described them as local (ie Afghan) employees of the UN agency. When all the non-local relief workers left, they kept working.
Will it work behind my IP Masquerading Linux box - Adelphia has only allowed me 1 IP address...Maybe now that Comcast bought my cable they'll give me a few more...
I read the FAQ on their site, but there was one important question that went unanswered:
If I buy a Replay4000, and Replay goes under, will I still be able to use it, or will it go dead when it can't get schedule updates from the Replay server?
> plus if the feds don't have anything on their
> database, an i.d. like this will not stop
> anybody getting on a plane.
I think you've missed the point: Not having anything in the database, or having information that doesn't fit with the person carrying ID will be sufficient reason to detain you.
Why does everyone assume that just because normal, law-abiding American citizens will be forced to use crippled encryption, that terrorists will just go along.
How is the government going to force criminals to stop using encryption. The criminals can encrypt their messages using the encryption that they already have access to, or they can pay someone to write an app for them to use.
They can even hide the encrypted messages in image files so we wouldn't even know that there were encrypted messages being transmitted.
FBI GUY 1: So, has the terrorist sent any plans to his terrorist friends yet?
FBI GUY 2: Nope, he just keeps emailing them pictures of naked women.
I just told someone I'd pull their network connection if they didn't patch their box & it got their attention.
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A hell of a lot less would buy all the hate out of me.
I heard on the radio that the average annual income in Afghanistan is $100 (US$). I wonder what $10/per person could do. CIA (www.cia.gov) says that Afghanistan has 25,838,797 people, so that would be about $260million.
The bizarre irony is if Iraq had been completely conquered during the Gulf War, the US would have rebuilt the entire country. Iraq would probably have the best standard of living of any country in the Mideast.
I would go so far as to say the "perfect" collapse of the building would be less than the ideal in the minds of the terrorists.
For the most possible damage, destruction, blood, etc. you wouldn't want the buildings to collapse. You'd be better off not crashing deep into the core. A shallow crash, weakening one side, but not the other, would cause the building to fall over on one side. Far more destructive.
Actually, I used to build things, and my older brother used to smash them. I can't remember ever smashing anything myself. I'd only dismantle something when it was time to build something else.
Well, there were times when one lego spaceship/car/creature attacked/ran into/attacked some other spaceship/car/creature & then there would be some damage. However, I never became Godzilla destroying the homes of lego people with badly dubbed voices.
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How about ownership. I own my computers at home, so I get to decide how my kids use them. My employer owns the computers at work, so it decides how they are used.
If the government owns the network infrastructure, that means the government can control the network. However, keep in mind that even filtered internet access is better than none. The real problem is with a government that (tries)/(is permitted) to restrict what the public can see/read/hear.
Only the Saudis can do anything about what their government does. Other countries could refuse to buy oil from Saudi Arabia until it improves civil liberties,...yep...and pigs could fly.
Don't complain about the filtering companies serving a corrupt government when we are (nearly) all supporting that same government.
Yes, but if we can get the government to do the "right" thing, it will happen faster.
Actually, usually people don't care about better, just cheaper.
SLS was my first Linux Distro (Does anyone remember SLS?). Slackware was next, but I eventually moved to RedHat. Back when I ran slackware, upgrading meant reinstalling (probably not the case anymore). RedHat could be upgraded.
If I could remember them, I'm sure I'd have fond memories of slackware.
Actually, you're wrong. The law will favor poor people as long as the lawyers can sue someone who is rich. The goal is to annoy the wealthy person into paying the lawyer to leave them alone. The great thing about it is there doesn't have to be any basis in reality.
The only wealthy people the law favors is lawyers.
> Actually developing websites that run well on
> MSIE, Lynx, Netscape and so on can be, to put it
> mildly demanding...
Solution: Design websites to be compatible with a published HTML standard.
I thought this was a failure of the weapon system, not a mistake in the targeting. Who are you going to courtmartial? The missle? It's already dead.
Actually, the reports I've seen described them as local (ie Afghan) employees of the UN agency. When all the non-local relief workers left, they kept working.
Actually, another question just occured to me:
Will it work behind my IP Masquerading Linux box - Adelphia has only allowed me 1 IP address...Maybe now that Comcast bought my cable they'll give me a few more...
I read the FAQ on their site, but there was one important question that went unanswered:
If I buy a Replay4000, and Replay goes under, will I still be able to use it, or will it go dead when it can't get schedule updates from the Replay server?
> plus if the feds don't have anything on their
> database, an i.d. like this will not stop
> anybody getting on a plane.
I think you've missed the point: Not having anything in the database, or having information that doesn't fit with the person carrying ID will be sufficient reason to detain you.
Why does everyone assume that just because normal, law-abiding American citizens will be forced to use crippled encryption, that terrorists will just go along.
How is the government going to force criminals to stop using encryption. The criminals can encrypt their messages using the encryption that they already have access to, or they can pay someone to write an app for them to use.
They can even hide the encrypted messages in image files so we wouldn't even know that there were encrypted messages being transmitted.
FBI GUY 1: So, has the terrorist sent any plans to his terrorist friends yet?
FBI GUY 2: Nope, he just keeps emailing them pictures of naked women.
FBI GUY 1: Cool, did you save any?
How will the US government convince terrorists to use crippled encryption?
I just told someone I'd pull their network connection if they didn't patch their box & it got their attention.
A hell of a lot less would buy all the hate out of me.
I heard on the radio that the average annual income in Afghanistan is $100 (US$). I wonder what $10/per person could do. CIA (www.cia.gov) says that Afghanistan has 25,838,797 people, so that would be about $260million.
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The bizarre irony is if Iraq had been completely conquered during the Gulf War, the US would have rebuilt the entire country. Iraq would probably have the best standard of living of any country in the Mideast.
Some pages have replaced their normal ads with ads for the Red Cross...I can't remember where I've seen it.
Right now I'm seeing an ad for RLX servers.
Now you can add the US to that list.
Wow. I never noticed that until I read that & tried it.
I guess I'm a slow mouser.
I would go so far as to say the "perfect" collapse of the building would be less than the ideal in the minds of the terrorists.
For the most possible damage, destruction, blood, etc. you wouldn't want the buildings to collapse. You'd be better off not crashing deep into the core. A shallow crash, weakening one side, but not the other, would cause the building to fall over on one side. Far more destructive.
You obviously aren't involved in tech support. Most of my users wouldn't be able to master the skill necessary to click together two 4x2 bricks.
Actually, I used to build things, and my older brother used to smash them. I can't remember ever smashing anything myself. I'd only dismantle something when it was time to build something else.
Well, there were times when one lego spaceship/car/creature attacked/ran into/attacked some other spaceship/car/creature & then there would be some damage. However, I never became Godzilla destroying the homes of lego people with badly dubbed voices.
So is GFS 4.1 available anywhere?
They can't pirate the source.