But with all due respect, you're completely wrong. Apple does has a great deal of say as to who gets to "abuse" their copyright. If a few kids want to play around with it, Apple can allow it by simply not pressing a lawsuit. If Microsoft tries it Apple can then choose to sue. The choice is completely up to Apple. What's more, there is literaly no one who has any legal authority to question Apple's decisions as to who to sue and for how much. Now, what they win is subject to the Courts, but if they decide to let one slide, that does not set a precident.
I can't stress that enough. Deciding not to prosecute a copy right cast does not in any way constitute a forgoance of that copyright. Example, if I rip the Terminator 2 DVD and distribute it to my five best buds in the world and MGM decides that it's really not worth sueing me over five copies of a DVD, that does not mean that MGM no longer has a leg to stand on in suits against online distributors of pirated video.
I love this one quote "some classrooms at Bentley have technology that allows teachers to capture a student's e-mails or instant messages and display them on a large screen for the whole class to see."
Four words for professors who use that....
PGP Plug-in for ICQ
Either that or VNC.... wonder how that would show up on their screen?
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You mean the Political Action Committee - of Multipule Anonymous Netizens?
I'm still waiting for the nanonic clear fingernail paint with radio transmitters so I can type without a keyboard.
do rant { But I'd settle for a wireless split style model with wireless optical mouse from Logitech, if they'd just make the damn things. What's up with that anyhow? You can buy a wireless optical mouse, a wireless keyboard/mouse combo, but no wireless/optical mouse combo.; return 0; }
Will someone PLEASE mod this guy (probably up) for the single most cleverly constructed troll I've seen on/. in recent memory? Congrats my friend!
From the book of Revelation:
(16)
He also forced everyone, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on his right hand or on his forehead,
(17)
so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of his name.
Usualy the religious references are caught by this crowd before this. Congrats on the troll.
Ahem... we here (gestures to a throng of corporate execs) at the first anual DMCA backers convention don't belive that returning copyrighted software should be legal, and thus we are proposing DMCAIITR (Digital Milienium Copyright Act II The Revenge) which will make it illegal for users to return copyrighted software (you might have made an illegal copy of it after you took off the wrapping), bans sending any propritary format document to any person (this encourages piracy of our products), and forbids the instalation of any software on the physical hard disk (this encourages copying as well). Furthermore we have lobbied President Bush to authorize airstrikes on any factory known to be manufacturing CD-Rs.
Yes and no. I am hoping that MS will finaly relized that they sell to TWO markets, the technologicaly literate, and the unwashed masses. If they do realize that I think we'll see a two teired OS, one which is idiot proof, and then a deeper set of functions and controls which allow the more adept to exercise a greater degree of control.
I think it is also relevant to look at the kind of cryptography this has a snowballs chance in hell of hitting. Where did everyone get the baseless idea that all cryptographic schemes are dreamed up in the USA? That is, afterall, the only area that our Congress can pass laws on. Even if you make the import of such cryptograhic programs illegal, how hard will it be to conceal those imports? You're smuggeling something that has almost no physical volume! Are our customs authorities really going to check every digital camera, every cd wallet, every microchip, and every palm pilot to see if it contains an illegal encryption algorythim? I think not. Even if this makes it into law it will probably assume the kind of laughable pointlessness that is ascribed to interstate liquer transport laws. Sure, large companies can't do it, but I garuntee you can buy a fifth of Everclear in damn near every state in the Union... you just have to know where
I think it's worth noting that we (on an individual level) freely and willingly give our personal information to Wal-Mart etc as part of an exchange of data for services. This differs from decreasing checks on the Justice Department by a large and frightened majority, thus agreeing FOR US to make our personal information available to them.
It's also important to note that, last I checked, Wal-Mart lacked the power to lock me away for 50 years.
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could learn martial arts well, with a bunch of buddy's, get onto the plane, kill a few people with some well placed jabs, and take control. Would you be willing to be manacled to prevent this? You can make knives quickly out of many things. Take a stiff plastic or metal box for example. Are you going to make people strip before they get on the plane? I'm sure someone more imaginative than I can come up with scenarios in which even being stripped and manacled would not be enough
Since mantras seem to catch on well here (see far below) repeat this one.
If someone is willing to die to kill me there is very little I can do about it.
Not to be defeatist, but that is a very very powerfull force. Yes, if you really want to spend 10 years of your life in a tibetan monistary becoming a total bad ass you could probably hijack a jet with martial arts. Or you could cut a knife out of a stiff plastic box with your teeth. I suppose, with adequate training you could even take over a plane with nothing more than a package of peanuts and a complimentary beverage.
But that's not likely to happen. I know what many of you are thinking, they took over the planes with knives? I'm an active student of the martial arts. A knife is FAR more dangerous inside of 10 feet than a gun is. It's about as deadly inside of 20 feet. Now, at 30,000 feet I'd much rather have a knife on my side than a gun, because one stray shot and the plane has a new skylight. Point being, any research by any amature and you'll realize that knives are the single most effective tool aside from a bomb for hijacking an aircraft.
So here's where I'm going with this. Damn your civil liberties, at least on an aircraft. No, people don't need to be shackled, and they don't need to be treated like they are in a state prison, but our airport security is pathetic. I did a risk assessment on commercial airtravel four years ago. I discovered that 3 out of 4 times airport security won't recognise a -=handgrenade=- going through an x-ray machine. So no, we don't need to do rectal cavity searches. Anyone who tells you that is an alarmist and probably not the brighest bulb on the tree, but we do need to enforce the security protocols that have always been there. That, and can someone please tell me who thought that having knife blades under four inches was allowable? Yeesh.... how deep is your neck anyhow?
This reminds me of one of my profs. He's a conspiricy theorist because "it makes life more fun." Dude... didn't you know? The plane that hit the pentagon was flown by Jimmy Hoffa and Elvis!
No it is not as far as I know, true. Fires have been reported on the National Mall including the OLD Executive Office Building (which is easily confused by those not familiar with Washington's building names with the White House).
I've heard that the WTC has collapsed from several sources and that the Pentagon has undergone a similar structural failure as well. any confirmation on these? Images?
I'd argue that this is an ESSENTIAL part of the game. Ok, well not really, but stick with me here. Most games where this kind of thing happens are games wherein the developers have tried to create an immersive world with a real society and (psudo)culture. That is to say, players are supposed to interact with each other etc. Now then, a game can NEVER be completely interactive. There will always be limitations of the interface, assumptions not covered, etc.
Players buying accounts, selling items, all of that, introduces the element of corruption into the game. What's more important, in my opinion, is garunteeing the authentisity of the commodoties in the game.
Example: I'm playing "Diablo IX: Diablo Comes back for some more because he's a masochist." I've reached level 97 and have recently picked up a "Tactical Thermonuclear Weapon +12" on the Fourth Level of Hell by kicking the crap out of a Tax Accountant. Now, Tactical Thermonuclear Weapons aren't terribly common in the Diablo IX universe, let alone +12 ones, and I'm allready armed with a Mighty Spork so I decide to sell the damn thing to help cover my ISP costs for the month. When I sitck the Tac Nuke up on Ebay, however, I discover that there's no market for Tac Nukes because someone's developed a crack that allows them to create any item instantaniously. This sucks. All my effort is for naught. I can't even sell this thing for cash because there's no way to garuntee that I'm selling a legitimate Tac Nuke. Even hard core gamers who don't want hacked weapons won't buy it from me because there's no way to garuntee that isn't not illegit.
That's my question. Why can't we work out a way to ensure the authenticity of the items in a game. If we can do that, why can't we develop a way to either disable or destroy inauthentic items?
Diamonds are the best example of this. Diamonds are actualy only slightly rarer than Quartz(SiO2). Because DeBeers owns the vast majority of the worlds diamond mines, however, the flow of the gems is reduced and they are thus valuable.
So are you gonna tell me that Ender's Game was about technology? I'd argue that it's more of a sociological commentary or perhaps an exporation of the child psyche. Many things... but not technology bases sci-fi.
And there lies the problem. We can scream and moan and protest all we want, but it won't matter one damn bit unless we become politically active. Why do the corporations so often get their way? Because they make huge campaign contributions?
Yes, that is exactly why. Afterall, corporations don't vote. Statistics, which I can't find right now but I'm sure someone else has a link to, indicate that most elections are decided by a very small portion of the populace which are not party loyal in any sence of the word and which are easily swayed by ads, debates, images, etc. So money is and will (for the forseeable future) the be one of if not THE determining factor in our nations elections.
Why do issues involving senior citizens, such as Social Security and Medicare, get constant attention? Because senior citizens vote.
Well... yes and no. You need to differentiate the AARP (interest group) from RBOC (Regional Bell Operating Companies -- a Political Action Committie).
Point being, some issues are pertinant to large numbers of voters (social security) and thus can easily be backed by an interest group (uses voting power to sway congress). Other issues aren't important to lots of people, but they are important to either rich or powerfull (or both) people. These people don't constitute a useful voting block, but their money can sway that important small percent I was taking about earlier. Thus, they use their money to buy congressional influence.
Point being (yes, there is a point) Slashdot and the OpenSociety movement (as you call it) is uniquly poised to do BOTH. Sure, we're not as large a voting block as the AARP, but we are large. On the flip side, most people with the degree of technical literacy that visits and actualy grasps Slashdot regualary are in a position to demand a heafty salary. Both of these represent political capital which can be turned to our advantage. Of course, this requires that someone actualy stop typing and do something about all this, which I for one am not about to do, primarily because I have a pirated DVD to watch:-)
[Note to any law enforcement types or corporate flunkies reading this, the above sentence is a joke. Please don't send the SWAT teams after me and impound my POS 486]
While theUnited States Constitution makes no provisions for or against the existance of copyright that does not mean it is not legitimate law (general reference, not disputing your point). Remember that The Congress shall have Power... To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.
The Courts have taken this to mean (especialy under the 14th ammendment) that the Congress can make pretty much whatever law it wants provided that it doesn't abridge any specific or implied freedom as determined by the court. Furthermore, I find it highly unlikely that this Court is going to strike down Copyright as unconstitutional.
I actualy disagree with the point I'm about to make... but your logic is flawed so I'm going to point it out to you.
Don't think "theft" of the digital property. Think "theft" of the rights to distribute that property. Once someone else has given the property away you no longer have the exclusive right to distribute do you? Unauthorized copies are moving around. That's how it's "theft."
I suppose the starwars-as-instrument-of-world-dominion scenario plausible, but it attributes a level of cleverness the missile defense advocates that is to me implausible. There is plenty of historical precedent for people undertaking absurd projects out narcissistic confidence their own infallibility.
There you go.... think of missile defence as the high tech equivilient of the Maginoit Line:-)
Bullshit. Since R. M. Nixon official banned production of and research into biological weapons in the United States in 1972 (73?) USAMRID (US Army Medidical Reasearch for Infectious Diseases -- Pronounced You-Sam-Rid) has been the nations epicenter for research into Biological weapons prevention. Of course, only the army works on it. While both the CDC and USAMRID have the facilities to work with dangerous bugs, only USAMRID has the clout necessary and the internal connections to get their findings listened to.
Now, I don't know how we do it today. But MAD requires the famous "three Cs"
[1] Capability
[2] Communication
[3] Credibility
[Part 1] I must first develop the ability to launch a second strike. That includes development of weapons that can reach you and the ability to protect those weapons from your first strike. Nuclear Missile Subs (Boomers) are a good example of this. The missiles can reach their targets and they are hard to find/destroy
[Part 2] I must communicate my willingness to use these weapons against you. That is to say that I can't deploy my subs in secret. See Dr Strangelove ("Vy didn't you tell ze vorld eh?"). If no one knows I have a deterrant it's of no use is it?
[Part 3] I must be credibile in my williness to retailiate. Dr Strangelove is good here again. The Doomsday Bomb is designed to work without human intervention, thus eliminating the need for a human to make the decision to end the world. Same holds true for subs. While I don't know how the system works, if it were up to me to design I'd incorporate a "dead mans switch." It would not be the broadcast of a launch order, but rather the failure to broadcast a "don't launch order" that would send the missiles flying. That way the total and utter destruction of my nation would not be beneficial to the agressor. Rather, it would only serve to ENSURE his demise.
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But with all due respect, you're completely wrong. Apple does has a great deal of say as to who gets to "abuse" their copyright. If a few kids want to play around with it, Apple can allow it by simply not pressing a lawsuit. If Microsoft tries it Apple can then choose to sue. The choice is completely up to Apple. What's more, there is literaly no one who has any legal authority to question Apple's decisions as to who to sue and for how much. Now, what they win is subject to the Courts, but if they decide to let one slide, that does not set a precident.
I can't stress that enough. Deciding not to prosecute a copy right cast does not in any way constitute a forgoance of that copyright. Example, if I rip the Terminator 2 DVD and distribute it to my five best buds in the world and MGM decides that it's really not worth sueing me over five copies of a DVD, that does not mean that MGM no longer has a leg to stand on in suits against online distributors of pirated video.
I love this one quote "some classrooms at Bentley have technology that allows teachers to capture a student's e-mails or instant messages and display them on a large screen for the whole class to see."
Four words for professors who use that....
PGP Plug-in for ICQ
Either that or VNC.... wonder how that would show up on their screen?
You mean the Political Action Committee - of Multipule Anonymous Netizens?
I'm still waiting for the nanonic clear fingernail paint with radio transmitters so I can type without a keyboard.
do rant
{
But I'd settle for a wireless split style model with wireless optical mouse from Logitech, if they'd just make the damn things. What's up with that anyhow? You can buy a wireless optical mouse, a wireless keyboard/mouse combo, but no wireless/optical mouse combo.;
return 0;
}
Will someone PLEASE mod this guy (probably up) for the single most cleverly constructed troll I've seen on /. in recent memory? Congrats my friend!
From the book of Revelation:
(16)
He also forced everyone, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on his right hand or on his forehead,
(17)
so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of his name.
Usualy the religious references are caught by this crowd before this. Congrats on the troll.
-=Enter DMCA Mode=-
Ahem... we here (gestures to a throng of corporate execs) at the first anual DMCA backers convention don't belive that returning copyrighted software should be legal, and thus we are proposing DMCAIITR (Digital Milienium Copyright Act II The Revenge) which will make it illegal for users to return copyrighted software (you might have made an illegal copy of it after you took off the wrapping), bans sending any propritary format document to any person (this encourages piracy of our products), and forbids the instalation of any software on the physical hard disk (this encourages copying as well). Furthermore we have lobbied President Bush to authorize airstrikes on any factory known to be manufacturing CD-Rs.
Thank you.
-=Exit DMCA Mode=-
Yes and no. I am hoping that MS will finaly relized that they sell to TWO markets, the technologicaly literate, and the unwashed masses. If they do realize that I think we'll see a two teired OS, one which is idiot proof, and then a deeper set of functions and controls which allow the more adept to exercise a greater degree of control.
I think it is also relevant to look at the kind of cryptography this has a snowballs chance in hell of hitting. Where did everyone get the baseless idea that all cryptographic schemes are dreamed up in the USA? That is, afterall, the only area that our Congress can pass laws on. Even if you make the import of such cryptograhic programs illegal, how hard will it be to conceal those imports? You're smuggeling something that has almost no physical volume! Are our customs authorities really going to check every digital camera, every cd wallet, every microchip, and every palm pilot to see if it contains an illegal encryption algorythim? I think not. Even if this makes it into law it will probably assume the kind of laughable pointlessness that is ascribed to interstate liquer transport laws. Sure, large companies can't do it, but I garuntee you can buy a fifth of Everclear in damn near every state in the Union... you just have to know where
I think it's worth noting that we (on an individual level) freely and willingly give our personal information to Wal-Mart etc as part of an exchange of data for services. This differs from decreasing checks on the Justice Department by a large and frightened majority, thus agreeing FOR US to make our personal information available to them.
It's also important to note that, last I checked, Wal-Mart lacked the power to lock me away for 50 years.
Self Censorship. Discuss.
could learn martial arts well, with a bunch of buddy's, get onto the plane, kill a few people with some well placed jabs, and take control. Would you be willing to be manacled to prevent this? You can make knives quickly out of many things. Take a stiff plastic or metal box for example. Are you going to make people strip before they get on the plane? I'm sure someone more imaginative than I can come up with scenarios in which even being stripped and manacled would not be enough
Since mantras seem to catch on well here (see far below) repeat this one.
If someone is willing to die to kill me there is very little I can do about it.
Not to be defeatist, but that is a very very powerfull force. Yes, if you really want to spend 10 years of your life in a tibetan monistary becoming a total bad ass you could probably hijack a jet with martial arts. Or you could cut a knife out of a stiff plastic box with your teeth. I suppose, with adequate training you could even take over a plane with nothing more than a package of peanuts and a complimentary beverage.
But that's not likely to happen. I know what many of you are thinking, they took over the planes with knives? I'm an active student of the martial arts. A knife is FAR more dangerous inside of 10 feet than a gun is. It's about as deadly inside of 20 feet. Now, at 30,000 feet I'd much rather have a knife on my side than a gun, because one stray shot and the plane has a new skylight. Point being, any research by any amature and you'll realize that knives are the single most effective tool aside from a bomb for hijacking an aircraft.
So here's where I'm going with this. Damn your civil liberties, at least on an aircraft. No, people don't need to be shackled, and they don't need to be treated like they are in a state prison, but our airport security is pathetic. I did a risk assessment on commercial airtravel four years ago. I discovered that 3 out of 4 times airport security won't recognise a -=handgrenade=- going through an x-ray machine. So no, we don't need to do rectal cavity searches. Anyone who tells you that is an alarmist and probably not the brighest bulb on the tree, but we do need to enforce the security protocols that have always been there. That, and can someone please tell me who thought that having knife blades under four inches was allowable? Yeesh.... how deep is your neck anyhow?
This reminds me of one of my profs. He's a conspiricy theorist because "it makes life more fun." Dude... didn't you know? The plane that hit the pentagon was flown by Jimmy Hoffa and Elvis!
Yeesh... some people...
No it is not as far as I know, true. Fires have been reported on the National Mall including the OLD Executive Office Building (which is easily confused by those not familiar with Washington's building names with the White House).
I've heard that the WTC has collapsed from several sources and that the Pentagon has undergone a similar structural failure as well. any confirmation on these? Images?
I'd argue that this is an ESSENTIAL part of the game. Ok, well not really, but stick with me here. Most games where this kind of thing happens are games wherein the developers have tried to create an immersive world with a real society and (psudo)culture. That is to say, players are supposed to interact with each other etc. Now then, a game can NEVER be completely interactive. There will always be limitations of the interface, assumptions not covered, etc.
Players buying accounts, selling items, all of that, introduces the element of corruption into the game. What's more important, in my opinion, is garunteeing the authentisity of the commodoties in the game.
Example: I'm playing "Diablo IX: Diablo Comes back for some more because he's a masochist." I've reached level 97 and have recently picked up a "Tactical Thermonuclear Weapon +12" on the Fourth Level of Hell by kicking the crap out of a Tax Accountant. Now, Tactical Thermonuclear Weapons aren't terribly common in the Diablo IX universe, let alone +12 ones, and I'm allready armed with a Mighty Spork so I decide to sell the damn thing to help cover my ISP costs for the month. When I sitck the Tac Nuke up on Ebay, however, I discover that there's no market for Tac Nukes because someone's developed a crack that allows them to create any item instantaniously. This sucks. All my effort is for naught. I can't even sell this thing for cash because there's no way to garuntee that I'm selling a legitimate Tac Nuke. Even hard core gamers who don't want hacked weapons won't buy it from me because there's no way to garuntee that isn't not illegit.
That's my question. Why can't we work out a way to ensure the authenticity of the items in a game. If we can do that, why can't we develop a way to either disable or destroy inauthentic items?
Diamonds are the best example of this. Diamonds are actualy only slightly rarer than Quartz(SiO2). Because DeBeers owns the vast majority of the worlds diamond mines, however, the flow of the gems is reduced and they are thus valuable.
So are you gonna tell me that Ender's Game was about technology? I'd argue that it's more of a sociological commentary or perhaps an exporation of the child psyche. Many things... but not technology bases sci-fi.
You're both wrong. Black hole or not, what happens when the jet is standing STILL. Hmmmm... that could be BAD.
And there lies the problem. We can scream and moan and protest all we want, but it won't matter one damn bit unless we become politically active. Why do the corporations so often get their way? Because they make huge campaign contributions?
:-)
Yes, that is exactly why. Afterall, corporations don't vote. Statistics, which I can't find right now but I'm sure someone else has a link to, indicate that most elections are decided by a very small portion of the populace which are not party loyal in any sence of the word and which are easily swayed by ads, debates, images, etc. So money is and will (for the forseeable future) the be one of if not THE determining factor in our nations elections.
Why do issues involving senior citizens, such as Social Security and Medicare, get constant attention? Because senior citizens vote.
Well... yes and no. You need to differentiate the AARP (interest group) from RBOC (Regional Bell Operating Companies -- a Political Action Committie).
Point being, some issues are pertinant to large numbers of voters (social security) and thus can easily be backed by an interest group (uses voting power to sway congress). Other issues aren't important to lots of people, but they are important to either rich or powerfull (or both) people. These people don't constitute a useful voting block, but their money can sway that important small percent I was taking about earlier. Thus, they use their money to buy congressional influence.
Point being (yes, there is a point) Slashdot and the OpenSociety movement (as you call it) is uniquly poised to do BOTH. Sure, we're not as large a voting block as the AARP, but we are large. On the flip side, most people with the degree of technical literacy that visits and actualy grasps Slashdot regualary are in a position to demand a heafty salary. Both of these represent political capital which can be turned to our advantage. Of course, this requires that someone actualy stop typing and do something about all this, which I for one am not about to do, primarily because I have a pirated DVD to watch
[Note to any law enforcement types or corporate flunkies reading this, the above sentence is a joke. Please don't send the SWAT teams after me and impound my POS 486]
While theUnited States Constitution makes no provisions for or against the existance of copyright that does not mean it is not legitimate law (general reference, not disputing your point). Remember that The Congress shall have Power... To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.
The Courts have taken this to mean (especialy under the 14th ammendment) that the Congress can make pretty much whatever law it wants provided that it doesn't abridge any specific or implied freedom as determined by the court. Furthermore, I find it highly unlikely that this Court is going to strike down Copyright as unconstitutional.
I actualy disagree with the point I'm about to make... but your logic is flawed so I'm going to point it out to you.
Don't think "theft" of the digital property. Think "theft" of the rights to distribute that property. Once someone else has given the property away you no longer have the exclusive right to distribute do you? Unauthorized copies are moving around. That's how it's "theft."
I suppose the starwars-as-instrument-of-world-dominion scenario plausible, but it attributes a level of cleverness the missile defense advocates that is to me implausible. There is plenty of historical precedent for people undertaking absurd projects out narcissistic confidence their own infallibility.
:-)
There you go.... think of missile defence as the high tech equivilient of the Maginoit Line
This has been another useless post from....
Bullshit. Since R. M. Nixon official banned production of and research into biological weapons in the United States in 1972 (73?) USAMRID (US Army Medidical Reasearch for Infectious Diseases -- Pronounced You-Sam-Rid) has been the nations epicenter for research into Biological weapons prevention. Of course, only the army works on it. While both the CDC and USAMRID have the facilities to work with dangerous bugs, only USAMRID has the clout necessary and the internal connections to get their findings listened to.
This has been another useless post from....
Oops... should have previewed. And the problem with that limited range is... ?what again?
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And the problem with that limited range is...
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Now, I don't know how we do it today. But MAD requires the famous "three Cs"
[1] Capability
[2] Communication
[3] Credibility
[Part 1] I must first develop the ability to launch a second strike. That includes development of weapons that can reach you and the ability to protect those weapons from your first strike. Nuclear Missile Subs (Boomers) are a good example of this. The missiles can reach their targets and they are hard to find/destroy
[Part 2] I must communicate my willingness to use these weapons against you. That is to say that I can't deploy my subs in secret. See Dr Strangelove ("Vy didn't you tell ze vorld eh?"). If no one knows I have a deterrant it's of no use is it?
[Part 3] I must be credibile in my williness to retailiate. Dr Strangelove is good here again. The Doomsday Bomb is designed to work without human intervention, thus eliminating the need for a human to make the decision to end the world. Same holds true for subs. While I don't know how the system works, if it were up to me to design I'd incorporate a "dead mans switch." It would not be the broadcast of a launch order, but rather the failure to broadcast a "don't launch order" that would send the missiles flying. That way the total and utter destruction of my nation would not be beneficial to the agressor. Rather, it would only serve to ENSURE his demise.
This has been another useless post from....