Or maybe theyre just tired of people irresponsibly leaving Kazaa and other like programs open after they get what they want, wasting everyone else's bandwidth.
In all of the talk around here about civil liberties being taken away and encryption backdoors Ive heard little about how such laws would actually work in practice and what the reaction would be.
I dont think that most people around here understand something. THE CONSTITUTION IS NOT GOING TO GO AWAY. Short of a constitutional ammendment repealing all of the ammendments in the bill of rights, your rights are secured. We have the power of checks and balances in this country, one of the most important of those is that the supreme court has the power of judicial review. Let me say that again in case you didnt get it.
THE SUPREME COURT HAS THE POWER OF JUDICIAL REVIEW.
What this means is if both the executive and legislative branches of our government lose their minds and start passing crazy laws, the judicial branch of our government can stop their enforcement if they find these laws to be unconstitutional. From what ive seen in the last 200 or so years in the history books they seem to be pretty good at it. They arent going away either.
A law can be enforced before it is found to be unconstitutional. This is a good and a bad thing. Say they pass this law and we are all arrested tomorrow for using encryption keys the Feds dont like. OH MY GOD WE ARE ALL GOING TO JAIL. This is also when the process of judicial review starts. You should all go read about this.
You think the FBI and the CIA arent watching those they find to be suspicious already? If you do youre pretty naive and a more trusting person than I am. All of that doesnt matter as long as they are unable to use it against you in criminal procedings, which is where judicial review comes in.
I have faith in this system, i learned all about it in school and i have seen it work in practice. If you dont believe me maybe you should start learning some American history.
To me the only issue here is constitutionality of these new laws. If they are unconstitutional i believe that they will be struck down, if they are not then what are all of you complaining about? If you cant tell me what ammendment in the bill of rights a new law on encryption would infringe upon then you have no basis to argue the issue.
This is nice to see but xanim, even with all those new listed features, is still years behind MS Media Player. Its not important that something just play avis anymore. It needs to have support for popular codecs (Divx and such). Ive never seen anybody in their right mind encode something in cinepak if they want it to be less than 1GB for an hour. I admit that iim not familiar with implementing codecs into a piece of software like this, but speasking as a person who has every episode of DS9 encoded on CD in Divx, I would never encode something in cinepak. And until Xanim (or whatever they decide to call it in the future) can play my eps, MS Media Player is still lightyears ahead.
What if they did? Sure i would use it, iff i could get rid of all the crap that they would port with it, i.e. all the sudden we all need the micorsoft sound engine for linux to hear the paperclip talk, microsoft x windows to run office at all because ms is concerned about being able to integrate all of its applications, and of course as ive seen someone speculate before the a microsoft kernel with all kinds of extra ms goodies added in. This would be bad. im all for progress, but jesus christ. why are we all so anxious to get linux where everyone is using it? Say we get everything so everything runs nice and my grandmother can use bitchx, what then? Then everything gets boring and useless and we have to start all over again. Why arent we making it so WE can use it? Applications for linux should be designed with highly competent people who dont care about useless bells and whistles in mind. not morons. This is one step away from AOL being ported to linux, and does ANYONE want that? yes, i am an elitist, and yes this is offtopic. i dont believe in karma.
we also have an aircraft named rivit-joint which, by making use of two other planes, flys into enemy airspace and in a matter of seconds knows everything about every kind of transmition in the area. that includes radar, radio, telephone, and of course television. everything in 2 seconds. this planes existance isnt classified, but it isnt glorified either for obvious reasons. measure, counter-measure. neat idea though.
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Or maybe theyre just tired of people irresponsibly leaving Kazaa and other like programs open after they get what they want, wasting everyone else's bandwidth.
In all of the talk around here about civil liberties being taken away and encryption backdoors Ive heard little about how such laws would actually work in practice and what the reaction would be.
I dont think that most people around here understand something. THE CONSTITUTION IS NOT GOING TO GO AWAY. Short of a constitutional ammendment repealing all of the ammendments in the bill of rights, your rights are secured. We have the power of checks and balances in this country, one of the most important of those is that the supreme court has the power of judicial review. Let me say that again in case you didnt get it.
THE SUPREME COURT HAS THE POWER OF JUDICIAL REVIEW.
What this means is if both the executive and legislative branches of our government lose their minds and start passing crazy laws, the judicial branch of our government can stop their enforcement if they find these laws to be unconstitutional. From what ive seen in the last 200 or so years in the history books they seem to be pretty good at it. They arent going away either.
A law can be enforced before it is found to be unconstitutional. This is a good and a bad thing. Say they pass this law and we are all arrested tomorrow for using encryption keys the Feds dont like. OH MY GOD WE ARE ALL GOING TO JAIL. This is also when the process of judicial review starts. You should all go read about this.
You think the FBI and the CIA arent watching those they find to be suspicious already? If you do youre pretty naive and a more trusting person than I am. All of that doesnt matter as long as they are unable to use it against you in criminal procedings, which is where judicial review comes in.
I have faith in this system, i learned all about it in school and i have seen it work in practice. If you dont believe me maybe you should start learning some American history.
To me the only issue here is constitutionality of these new laws. If they are unconstitutional i believe that they will be struck down, if they are not then what are all of you complaining about? If you cant tell me what ammendment in the bill of rights a new law on encryption would infringe upon then you have no basis to argue the issue.
This is nice to see but xanim, even with all those new listed features, is still years behind MS Media Player. Its not important that something just play avis anymore. It needs to have support for popular codecs (Divx and such). Ive never seen anybody in their right mind encode something in cinepak if they want it to be less than 1GB for an hour. I admit that iim not familiar with implementing codecs into a piece of software like this, but speasking as a person who has every episode of DS9 encoded on CD in Divx, I would never encode something in cinepak. And until Xanim (or whatever they decide to call it in the future) can play my eps, MS Media Player is still lightyears ahead.
skyfish
(dedicated debian user)
What if they did? Sure i would use it, iff i could get rid of all the crap that they would port with it, i.e. all the sudden we all need the micorsoft sound engine for linux to hear the paperclip talk, microsoft x windows to run office at all because ms is concerned about being able to integrate all of its applications, and of course as ive seen someone speculate before the a microsoft kernel with all kinds of extra ms goodies added in. This would be bad. im all for progress, but jesus christ. why are we all so anxious to get linux where everyone is using it? Say we get everything so everything runs nice and my grandmother can use bitchx, what then? Then everything gets boring and useless and we have to start all over again. Why arent we making it so WE can use it? Applications for linux should be designed with highly competent people who dont care about useless bells and whistles in mind. not morons. This is one step away from AOL being ported to linux, and does ANYONE want that? yes, i am an elitist, and yes this is offtopic. i dont believe in karma.
At UCF all apartment complexes around campus here have ethernet. ethernet and digital cable. doesnt get any better.
we also have an aircraft named rivit-joint which, by making use of two other planes, flys into enemy airspace and in a matter of seconds knows everything about every kind of transmition in the area. that includes radar, radio, telephone, and of course television. everything in 2 seconds. this planes existance isnt classified, but it isnt glorified either for obvious reasons. measure, counter-measure. neat idea though.
http://sddt.com/files/librarywire/96wireheadlines/ 08_96/DN96_08_19/DN96_08_19_1b.html
dated august 19, 1996. thats over three years ago.
i had thought that intelligent people would be informed of such a thing and recognize that this is, in fact, very old news.
obviously i was mistaken.
enough said