Sorry, see, the 4th amendment of the constitution, assures us that we cannot be searched without probable cause. What if our friend here, happens to have some narcotics in his bag, now, that is his right to choose to break this law, however, if he were to be caught at work with a little pot, they would arrest him, and send him to jail. Well of course the evidence would not be admissable in court, because it was obtained without a search warrant, thus violating the 4th amendment. Furthermore, any person caught breaking a law in this way, would be found innocent, because it is a violation of the constitution. We wouldn't be able to jail even a terrorist entering with a bomb, because he would find protection under the 4th amendment, (the trial might go to the supreme court) however, anything found in these searches is completely inadmissable in a court of law. I do like the idea of having fun with the searches though. (stated in an earlier post)
-"unauthorized" computer access a terrorist act
with the word unauthorized as broad as it is, this means sending personal email from work where that is "unauthorized" is now a terrorist act, and based on that the FBI can now survail anything and everything you do, without a warrant.
(thats one, there are others but that stands out to me as the scariest one)
I disagree.
I feel that the powers of the FBI are in need of expansion, and that is fine. However the piggy-backs on this bill are hideous. The FBI can now monitor your "unauthorized" computer access any time it wants. As Finegold tried to state, the way the bill reads, you can now be prosecuted as a terrorist for sending personal emails from work, because "unauthorized" computer access is a "terrorist act" that allows the FBI to survail everything you do. Thats a bit overreaching.
I personally am very concerned with this new legislation. However, as soon as they begin to enforce this horrid disgrace of a law, it will bring a lawsuit, and it will go to the Supreme Court, and the law will be repealed. I do still believe the constitution will be upheld. Hopefully, the SSSCA will die before it gets to the point of requiring lawsuits to kill it, as we have seen, in purely technical fields apparently, the constitution does not apply, but, I do not believe this law will pass judicial review.
I say, forget the injunction to stop the release, no one is going to buy XP anyway. Microsoft is about to shoot themselves in the foot with the change in their licensing. (In my house there are 5 computers, if I were going to upgrade them to XP (I'm not, but if I were going to) it would cost me $1000, because under the new scheme you HAVE to buy a new CD for each computer. There is no way the American public is going to buy this, even if you have 2 computers, the cost to upgrade to WinXP is horrid ($400). So I say let Microsoft release XP, and lets get a bunch of Linux junkies to capitalize on this opportunity to show the strengths of Linux/Unix (Price not being the smallest amongst them).
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Sorry, see, the 4th amendment of the constitution, assures us that we cannot be searched without probable cause. What if our friend here, happens to have some narcotics in his bag, now, that is his right to choose to break this law, however, if he were to be caught at work with a little pot, they would arrest him, and send him to jail. Well of course the evidence would not be admissable in court, because it was obtained without a search warrant, thus violating the 4th amendment. Furthermore, any person caught breaking a law in this way, would be found innocent, because it is a violation of the constitution. We wouldn't be able to jail even a terrorist entering with a bomb, because he would find protection under the 4th amendment, (the trial might go to the supreme court) however, anything found in these searches is completely inadmissable in a court of law. I do like the idea of having fun with the searches though. (stated in an earlier post)
-"unauthorized" computer access a terrorist act
with the word unauthorized as broad as it is, this means sending personal email from work where that is "unauthorized" is now a terrorist act, and based on that the FBI can now survail anything and everything you do, without a warrant.
(thats one, there are others but that stands out to me as the scariest one)
I disagree.
I feel that the powers of the FBI are in need of expansion, and that is fine. However the piggy-backs on this bill are hideous. The FBI can now monitor your "unauthorized" computer access any time it wants. As Finegold tried to state, the way the bill reads, you can now be prosecuted as a terrorist for sending personal emails from work, because "unauthorized" computer access is a "terrorist act" that allows the FBI to survail everything you do. Thats a bit overreaching.
I personally am very concerned with this new legislation. However, as soon as they begin to enforce this horrid disgrace of a law, it will bring a lawsuit, and it will go to the Supreme Court, and the law will be repealed. I do still believe the constitution will be upheld. Hopefully, the SSSCA will die before it gets to the point of requiring lawsuits to kill it, as we have seen, in purely technical fields apparently, the constitution does not apply, but, I do not believe this law will pass judicial review.
I say, forget the injunction to stop the release, no one is going to buy XP anyway. Microsoft is about to shoot themselves in the foot with the change in their licensing. (In my house there are 5 computers, if I were going to upgrade them to XP (I'm not, but if I were going to) it would cost me $1000, because under the new scheme you HAVE to buy a new CD for each computer. There is no way the American public is going to buy this, even if you have 2 computers, the cost to upgrade to WinXP is horrid ($400). So I say let Microsoft release XP, and lets get a bunch of Linux junkies to capitalize on this opportunity to show the strengths of Linux/Unix (Price not being the smallest amongst them).