Three things to consider: First, this policy still requires a review before cryptogoodies can be exported. It does not specify that every product that is reviewsed will pass. They may very well approve web browsers and NT while not approving PGP, encrypted file systems or IPSec implementations.
Second, the text of the bill indicates that software designed for end-users will be more readily approved. This indicates a bias against products that will protect whole networks and provide a secure infrastructure; insuring that secure communications will remain the exception rather than the default.
Third, the timing of this decree is obviously designed to kill the SAFE bill. The SAFE bill not only goes further in liberating crypto exports, but also carries the force of law. Repealing a law is a large affair, requiring a vote of congress and thus allowing the public time to lobby, cuss and complain. This decree does not dismantle the export regs, and they can be tightened to previous standards with a stroke of a pen and no opportunity for public comment.
Do not let this kill SAFE! Lobby your congresscritter!
Hmm, a quick viewing of the thirty or so messages at the top level shows only two that support AOL's action, and only a couple more that even say bad things about Microsoft.
Perhaps you, and the many others who stereotype Slashdot's readers should take an objective look at the responses.
Yes, Slashdot and the open source community have more than their share of Bill Bashers, but I think you mis-used the word "most". "Most" of the postings have criticized AOL's behavior.
I think that "most" of us appreciate the irony in seeing such tactics applied to Microsoft, but do not approve of them.
The book encourages you to weigh daily in order to determine an overall gain/loss trend, and emphasises that you should ignore the day-to-day fluctuations. It also calls for picking a rational target weight and using the data to adjust your caloric intake to prevent wandering off of that weight.
One of the key points of the book is that for some of us the "Stop eating, I've had enough" switch is calibrated too high, so we have to implement some manual control.
If making rational decisions based on hard data to make minor adjustments to my diet constitutes an eating disorder, then consider me disorderly.
Perhaps daily weighings are a symptom of eating disorders, rather than a cause?
At the risk of sounding like a Jenny Craig commercial...
I stumbled across this page a few months ago (somebody had linked to his definition of "hacker"), decided to give it a whirl and have been losing weight easily for three months now. Two more months to target weight.
I think his key tip is that you should continue weighing yourself every day AFTER you reach your target weight, so you can go on a mini-diet if required before things get out of hand.
I hope you didn't send that in... the current issue had several of those damnable loose cards that offered a year's subscription for just $12.
Like you, I subscribed early on and then let my suscription lapse. Now I buy about one out of three issues when I see an article I like. At $12, I may as well save money and subscribe.
No more porn for those of you with a better half:-/
Hmph. If this is the case, consider acquiring a better better half!:-)
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I have to agree that filtering content just because its viewpoint is different from yours is bad; sort of the technical equivalent of putting your hands over your ears and humming. I never filter on this basis, personally.
I do, however, filter on topic. I read Slashdot in order to get the latest technical news; I really don't want to be bothered by the latest round of Microsoft bashing. The mechanism is really much like choosing which Usenet groups, or mailing lists to subscribe to. Your view point (carried to an extreme, I admit) suggests that we should subscribe to every newsgroup and mailing list to make sure that we aren't "filtering" anyone elses viewpoint.
I will continue to choose which topics I see on this web site, for the same reasons I pick and choose which web sites I view. I don't think this makes me a narrow-minded person...
Clearly, this is a Battlestar Galactica reference and not a tribute to the Microsoft of coffee pushers. See, the last release was "Apollo", and he was Starbuck's buddy on the Battlestar...
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Second, the text of the bill indicates that software designed for end-users will be more readily approved. This indicates a bias against products that will protect whole networks and provide a secure infrastructure; insuring that secure communications will remain the exception rather than the default.
Third, the timing of this decree is obviously designed to kill the SAFE bill. The SAFE bill not only goes further in liberating crypto exports, but also carries the force of law. Repealing a law is a large affair, requiring a vote of congress and thus allowing the public time to lobby, cuss and complain. This decree does not dismantle the export regs, and they can be tightened to previous standards with a stroke of a pen and no opportunity for public comment.
Do not let this kill SAFE! Lobby your congresscritter!
Perhaps you, and the many others who stereotype Slashdot's readers should take an objective look at the responses.
Yes, Slashdot and the open source community have more than their share of Bill Bashers, but I think you mis-used the word "most". "Most" of the postings have criticized AOL's behavior.
I think that "most" of us appreciate the irony in seeing such tactics applied to Microsoft, but do not approve of them.
One of the key points of the book is that for some of us the "Stop eating, I've had enough" switch is calibrated too high, so we have to implement some manual control.
If making rational decisions based on hard data to make minor adjustments to my diet constitutes an eating disorder, then consider me disorderly.
Perhaps daily weighings are a symptom of eating disorders, rather than a cause?
I stumbled across this page a few months ago (somebody had linked to his definition of "hacker"), decided to give it a whirl and have been losing weight easily for three months now. Two more months to target weight.
I think his key tip is that you should continue weighing yourself every day AFTER you reach your target weight, so you can go on a mini-diet if required before things get out of hand.
Like you, I subscribed early on and then let my suscription lapse. Now I buy about one out of three issues when I see an article I like. At $12, I may as well save money and subscribe.
Hmph. If this is the case, consider acquiring a better better half! :-)
I do, however, filter on topic. I read Slashdot in order to get the latest technical news; I really don't want to be bothered by the latest round of Microsoft bashing. The mechanism is really much like choosing which Usenet groups, or mailing lists to subscribe to. Your view point (carried to an extreme, I admit) suggests that we should subscribe to every newsgroup and mailing list to make sure that we aren't "filtering" anyone elses viewpoint.
I will continue to choose which topics I see on this web site, for the same reasons I pick and choose which web sites I view. I don't think this makes me a narrow-minded person...
Clearly, this is a Battlestar Galactica reference and not a tribute to the Microsoft of coffee pushers. See, the last release was "Apollo", and he was Starbuck's buddy on the Battlestar...