Go to Best Buy, or Target, or Office Depot, or any other retailer of boxed software for consumers, and see how much will run on anything other than Windows. Hint: NONE.
There is no secret law. There is the law 49 U.S.C. 114(s)(1)(C) which authorizes the TSA to issue regulations that are kept secret.
And how is this not wordplay? You are prevented from doing things which you cannot discover in advance are prevented. Quacks like a secret law to me. -russ
No, you're still not understanding this issue. It is not a fourth amendment issue. It is an EVERY amendment issue. I'm not being searched when I'm being asked to produce identification before I can exercise my constitutional rights. I'm being DENIED my rights if they are conditioned upon presentation of identification. -russ
The Constitution grants me certain rights. Those rights are not conditioned upon the presentation of valid photo identification. Thus, if a government official tries to deny me my rights because I refuse to supply identification, he is violating my constitutional rights. -russ
But, you see, they know that you will steal it, and share the movie with five other people. Thus, they not only expect you to do their distribution, but they also expect you to do their reselling. From their perspective, you're buying an implicit license to make five copies, so really, they're giving you a price which is 1/5th the price of a DVD. By sharing it with your friends, you gain back the 4/5ths of the price in goodwill accruing to you. -russ
The problem is that everyone alive today is the descendent on a *continuous* stream of hundreds of generations of people with an interest in sexual intercourse. Everyone who didn't have that interest didn't reproduce. Sex doesn't just sell, it drives most things that we do. -russ
Okay, but riding in a passenger car means that my right is dependent upon somebody else's right to drive. Walking from California to Washington D.C. is so impractical as to be a denial of the right to petition, bicycling is slightly less impractical, and how do you drive a motor vehicle off public roads and get from California to D.C.? -russ
Where in the Constitution are any of my rights conditioned upon the ability and willingness to present photo identification? I don't have a right to anonymity; you are welcome to yell out my name wherever I go. None of my rights are conditional upon my willingness to identify myself. -russ
The trouble is that the private corporations are claiming that they would be willing to let him fly without picture ID, but the government is preventing them from doing so with a secret law.
If your only mode of travel is to walk from California to the District of Columbia in order to petition your government, then you are *effectively* denied your right to petition. If you have to persuade or pay someone to drive you, you don't have a right to travel to petition the government; you are relying on someone else's right to travel. If I only have a right because someone else has a right, then I don't have that right. -russ
Why would you be any safer if everyone around you had an ID card? What are you going to do, hold it up in front of you as a shield against harm? Why are you safer if you know who you are travelling with? -russ
I did some more research,and Amtrack requires a photo ID. Greyhound does not obviously require a photo id from reading their website. In practice they may have the same secret law requirements; who can say, since it's a secret? -russ
Is there currently any form of travel where you don't have to submit to a "Papers Please" check? You have to have a driver's license to drive. We know about airplanes. If busses and trains also require ID, then how can you travel anonymously? I suppose that most taxi drivers won't check your id, but they'll sure want to check your checkbook before driving you cross-country.
If you can't travel anonymously, then you in fact do not have an independent right to petition your government. -russ
Electric cars give you more torque at zero RPM than any internal combustion engine. If you want to talk about performance, you're talking about electric cars. If you want to talk about enjoyable driving, you're talking about electric. The sooner we get there, the better. And yet there's a place for mass transit; that's why I keep promoting the RUF dual-mode monorail system. Small batteries on streets, and power from the monorail otherwise. -russ
The bridge position is between having no copyright protection for software at all, and having no ability to write free software at all. Manufacturers should be happy that the government grants them a monopoly on software they've written. Using patents to get a monopoly on software OTHER people have written is over-reaching. -russ
It's not just the music division that's screwed up. The original Librie had DRM that would DELETE the books you BOUGHT after 60 days. Everybody has standardized on SD and/or MMC (but since SD is compatible with MMC, they're effectively the same thing) but Sony is still using its memory stick which by the way has DRM built in. This goes across the entire corporation. Sony needs to stop punishing its customers. Best way to make that happen is to not be a customer. -russ
I've run into far too many Debian users who have contempt for anyone who knows less than them that I have to assume it's an integral part of Debian culture. I would never recommend Debian for anyone who isn't an expert. If you like Debian anyway, and want to gain the best parts of Debian, recommend that mere users use Ubuntu. -russ
Security and usability often conflict. Microsoft has always erred in the side of usability, and, well, you can see the results for yourself. Do you have any magic wand to wave, or do you plan to give up usability? -russ
Okay, I'm done reading TFA. The only thing I see to comment on is the Google will NOT introduce a Google PC prediction. That's a no-brainer, because 1) Google has said they won't do that, 2) Google says that it won't be evil, and 3) lying is evil, thus everything Google says is true. Of course, when they *don't* comment, you can't tell, because silence is golden. -russ
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Cool web page! The market quotes seem to be live data -- at least they're accurate for today.
-russ
Go to Best Buy, or Target, or Office Depot, or any other retailer of boxed software for consumers, and see how much will run on anything other than Windows. Hint: NONE.
CompareSoft
our moon teleporter
AHA! I KNEW there was a reason for Google Moon. So have you chosen the location for the moon base station yet?
-russ
Poor doggie!
Now you're either lying our just plain stupid.
You're cute when you're lying AND stupid! Existance proof that it's possible to be both.
-russ
Hasn't Verisign demonstrated that they are evil? Why should they get a contract renewal?
-russ
There is no secret law. There is the law 49 U.S.C. 114(s)(1)(C) which authorizes the TSA to issue regulations that are kept secret.
And how is this not wordplay? You are prevented from doing things which you cannot discover in advance are prevented. Quacks like a secret law to me.
-russ
No, you're still not understanding this issue. It is not a fourth amendment issue. It is an EVERY amendment issue. I'm not being searched when I'm being asked to produce identification before I can exercise my constitutional rights. I'm being DENIED my rights if they are conditioned upon presentation of identification.
-russ
The Constitution grants me certain rights. Those rights are not conditioned upon the presentation of valid photo identification. Thus, if a government official tries to deny me my rights because I refuse to supply identification, he is violating my constitutional rights.
-russ
But, you see, they know that you will steal it, and share the movie with five other people. Thus, they not only expect you to do their distribution, but they also expect you to do their reselling. From their perspective, you're buying an implicit license to make five copies, so really, they're giving you a price which is 1/5th the price of a DVD. By sharing it with your friends, you gain back the 4/5ths of the price in goodwill accruing to you.
-russ
The problem is that everyone alive today is the descendent on a *continuous* stream of hundreds of generations of people with an interest in sexual intercourse. Everyone who didn't have that interest didn't reproduce. Sex doesn't just sell, it drives most things that we do.
-russ
Okay, but riding in a passenger car means that my right is dependent upon somebody else's right to drive. Walking from California to Washington D.C. is so impractical as to be a denial of the right to petition, bicycling is slightly less impractical, and how do you drive a motor vehicle off public roads and get from California to D.C.?
-russ
If the second is guaranteed, I cannot be required to identify myself to exercise it.
-russ
Where in the Constitution are any of my rights conditioned upon the ability and willingness to present photo identification? I don't have a right to anonymity; you are welcome to yell out my name wherever I go. None of my rights are conditional upon my willingness to identify myself.
-russ
The trouble is that the private corporations are claiming that they would be willing to let him fly without picture ID, but the government is preventing them from doing so with a secret law.
If your only mode of travel is to walk from California to the District of Columbia in order to petition your government, then you are *effectively* denied your right to petition. If you have to persuade or pay someone to drive you, you don't have a right to travel to petition the government; you are relying on someone else's right to travel. If I only have a right because someone else has a right, then I don't have that right.
-russ
Why would you be any safer if everyone around you had an ID card? What are you going to do, hold it up in front of you as a shield against harm? Why are you safer if you know who you are travelling with?
-russ
I did some more research,and Amtrack requires a photo ID. Greyhound does not obviously require a photo id from reading their website. In practice they may have the same secret law requirements; who can say, since it's a secret?
-russ
Is there currently any form of travel where you don't have to submit to a "Papers Please" check? You have to have a driver's license to drive. We know about airplanes. If busses and trains also require ID, then how can you travel anonymously? I suppose that most taxi drivers won't check your id, but they'll sure want to check your checkbook before driving you cross-country.
If you can't travel anonymously, then you in fact do not have an independent right to petition your government.
-russ
Electric cars give you more torque at zero RPM than any internal combustion engine. If you want to talk about performance, you're talking about electric cars. If you want to talk about enjoyable driving, you're talking about electric. The sooner we get there, the better. And yet there's a place for mass transit; that's why I keep promoting the RUF dual-mode monorail system. Small batteries on streets, and power from the monorail otherwise.
-russ
The bridge position is between having no copyright protection for software at all, and having no ability to write free software at all. Manufacturers should be happy that the government grants them a monopoly on software they've written. Using patents to get a monopoly on software OTHER people have written is over-reaching.
-russ
It's not just the music division that's screwed up. The original Librie had DRM that would DELETE the books you BOUGHT after 60 days. Everybody has standardized on SD and/or MMC (but since SD is compatible with MMC, they're effectively the same thing) but Sony is still using its memory stick which by the way has DRM built in. This goes across the entire corporation. Sony needs to stop punishing its customers. Best way to make that happen is to not be a customer.
-russ
Sorry; English is my first language.
-russ
I've run into far too many Debian users who have contempt for anyone who knows less than them that I have to assume it's an integral part of Debian culture. I would never recommend Debian for anyone who isn't an expert. If you like Debian anyway, and want to gain the best parts of Debian, recommend that mere users use Ubuntu.
-russ
Security and usability often conflict. Microsoft has always erred in the side of usability, and, well, you can see the results for yourself. Do you have any magic wand to wave, or do you plan to give up usability?
-russ
Okay, I'm done reading TFA. The only thing I see to comment on is the Google will NOT introduce a Google PC prediction. That's a no-brainer, because 1) Google has said they won't do that, 2) Google says that it won't be evil, and 3) lying is evil, thus everything Google says is true. Of course, when they *don't* comment, you can't tell, because silence is golden.
-russ