I hope people arn't stupid enough to support this bill. I mean honestly: Define terrorism. Then define "computer crime". Then notice that there is no containment. Ashcroft should go back to school. Why the hell do people want to pick on computer criminals so much?
I don't know if this happens other places or not, but it seems that in columbus, OH you have to pay cash at liquor agencies. The real question is: how will anyone score some herb if there's no cash? Will the dealers start taking paypal?:
To put it plain and simple... this is going WAY too far! If Microsoft would just play nice, I wouldn't mind thier huge monopoly so much, but this is outrageous. There needs to be an organized, massive boycott against thier products until they clean up thier act!
Yeah, it just seems to be the late american theme to blame someone else for all your problems. We're becoming a country of burning straw-men. Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the richeous thing to take responsibility where and when you are responsible?
I agree with your arguement, but not your statement about backdoors being "very helpful in preventing terrorist attacks." I mean, seriously, what terrorist would use software with backdoors? If they had to, they'd write thier own crypto package. This will only affect consumers and perhaps small-time crooks, but certainly not terrorist organizations or the mob.
The truth is, there is NOTHING good about these proposals. Lose-Lose situation.
Well, in this case, you do need to know what you're talking about. The vast majority of americans do not even understand what encryption is or how it works. If they did, they would have a better idea of why laws won't stop criminals and terrorists from using it, but they will have plenty of negative side affects. Voting is one thing, but asking the public for consultation on these matters is stupid. Thats why we have a "representative" democracy.
The reason people are complaining is because backdoors key size limits aren't even a bad solution, they're a NON-SOLUTION. Why the hell would terrorists comply? Only non-criminals would. What criminal would just hand the FBI a key to thier incriminating data?
Backdoors don't work...at all. Probably the only decent solution would be quantum computing and advanced number theory, which the CIA is hard at work with. Even this will probably be overcome, tho. Sometimes you just have to realize that some things suck, and that theres nothing you can do about it.
BTW, do you find it strange that you're whining, bitching, and complaining about people whining, bitching, and complaining? There's nothing wrong with voicing a critisism.
So who cares what they think? Maybe they should vote on issues they're educated about. Do you think making encryption backdoors manditory will make all those terrorists comply and let the FBI look at all thier encrypted data? Of course not. They'll be the only ones with any privacy. In the meantime, we'll be thinking we did something usefull while instead we were just wasting our time. As we're tossing out civil liberties, we might as well do it in a benificial way, instead of a rash and ignorant way. And besides, these americans were polled as to whether they thought it would have stopped the terrorists or not? When the hell did the general public become experts on ANYTHING? Why don't we poll america to see what they think would be the best material to build a fusion reactor? The reason we don't is because the general public is at least 72% nimrods. At least, in the field of physics, encryption technology, and most other things that require a specific education.
Personally, I'm not offended, and I'm not worried about myself, I'm just worried about the average parent's reaction... They're going to be pissed... Not to mention jewish groups. I bet this game gets hammered with critisism...
Although I am an agnostic, you do have a point. You can abstract the causes of these acts beyond religion. Underneath, the common and necesary factor is hate and intolerance. Religious fanatasism may help an individual justify murder, but it need not be present. The individual must, however, be so consumed with hate that, in thier futility and rage, can rationalize attacking innocent strangers over some petty difference. The difference can be nationality, religion, race, etc... Some people are able to hate individuals on the other side of some difference because they have not overcome thier primal instincts to fear that which is different from one's self. The real problem is getting people past this instinct.
Stephen king's official site, as well as some fan sites and his radio station's site, say nothing of this. I would think they would be the first to display the news, probably with some sort of memorial. Man, its just hoax-o-rama right now, isn't it.
I was glued to the TV/computer the first day, and most of the second day too. I realized something the second day, however. Everything I was hearing was speculation. I figure that if I wait a week to really dig into the articles, things will be more coherent and more of the facts will be layed out for me. Once a real breakthrough is made, I'm sure people will be buzzing about it. I havn't stopped watching the news completely, but I'll save the rest of my attention span for something other than pictures of people jumping off of buildings.
Sorry I can't help you out, anonymous coward, but you'll need to find a way to live long being stupid from someone else. You're sadly mistaken about me. Good luck tho, I know its hard for morons like yourself to live past 22. Damn thats old!
I'm excited to see more on this "cartoon-like" zelda stuff I've been hearing for the game cube. I'm going to get a playstation 2, if for nothing else just to use as a DVD player, but I think I'll probably get a gamecube too if the new zelda is as cool as it sounds. Nintendo seems to always come up with the neatest ideas. It doesn't matter which game companies support the game cube, cause the best console games seem to always be made by Nintendo
Yeah, and don't pull stocks out. That would be very cowardly. Of course a bunch of morons are going to panic, sell, and lower your stock values. That dosn't mean you should be one of them. Whether you lose money or not, which is questionable, everyone needs to not sell and support our economy
hmmm, an anonymous coward who calls for genocide. Maybe we could fly a jetliner into a building highly populated with civillian "sand-niggers". I bet you would think that was a grand idea, wouldn't you? We could make it a holy war against islam. Christ, I'm sick you people.
Some people think that there was something about the german people that allowed them to be nazis. An opposing view: I see nazis everyday. They just don't have a hitler. Maybe assholes like you should just kill yourselves and leave us civilized, peace loving people alone.
Names of suspected ``terrorists'' with possible ties to bin Laden's organization were found on the passenger rosters of the hijacked planes, a government source said.
Is this what you're talking about? What does this prove? That were desperate for a scape goat? Who knows who was actually on the plane. Do you think making fake ID's and lying about your identity is beneth a terroist? And check out where the information came from. "a government source", theres some iron-clad evidence. Maybe it was bin laden, maybe it wasn't. I'll wait till real facts come in before I speculate.
All I saw was "bin laden is linked...bin ladin is linked...." and never a "linked by" or "linked because of". Is speculation passed through yahoo now considered almost concrete proof? Scary...
Unfortuneately, No. If we knew who to retaliate against, maybe. But I certainly don't think that we should place ourselves in a state of emotional shock and berievement in order to make a clear and rational desicion with great implications. Its terrible what happened to your girlfriend. I'm sure if it happened to me, I'd be screaming for blood too. Thats why I wouldn't, at my current well-adjusted state, condone the use of my biased logic if I was to be a berieved victim.
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yeah, and we should make jay-walking a capital offense. It's not a question of "what is a crime", but "how severe a crime is"
I hope people arn't stupid enough to support this bill. I mean honestly: Define terrorism. Then define "computer crime". Then notice that there is no containment. Ashcroft should go back to school. Why the hell do people want to pick on computer criminals so much?
Maybe strippers could get a little card swiper attatchment for thier thongs :)
I don't know if this happens other places or not, but it seems that in columbus, OH you have to pay cash at liquor agencies. The real question is: how will anyone score some herb if there's no cash? Will the dealers start taking paypal? :
Yeah, besides that he didn't write this stuff... I like the guy. I don't want to see another slashdot editor flamed as bad as Jon Katz is.
To put it plain and simple... this is going WAY too far! If Microsoft would just play nice, I wouldn't mind thier huge monopoly so much, but this is outrageous. There needs to be an organized, massive boycott against thier products until they clean up thier act!
Yeah, it just seems to be the late american theme to blame someone else for all your problems. We're becoming a country of burning straw-men. Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the richeous thing to take responsibility where and when you are responsible?
I agree with your arguement, but not your statement about backdoors being "very helpful in preventing terrorist attacks." I mean, seriously, what terrorist would use software with backdoors? If they had to, they'd write thier own crypto package. This will only affect consumers and perhaps small-time crooks, but certainly not terrorist organizations or the mob.
The truth is, there is NOTHING good about these proposals. Lose-Lose situation.
Well, in this case, you do need to know what you're talking about. The vast majority of americans do not even understand what encryption is or how it works. If they did, they would have a better idea of why laws won't stop criminals and terrorists from using it, but they will have plenty of negative side affects. Voting is one thing, but asking the public for consultation on these matters is stupid. Thats why we have a "representative" democracy.
The reason people are complaining is because backdoors key size limits aren't even a bad solution, they're a NON-SOLUTION. Why the hell would terrorists comply? Only non-criminals would. What criminal would just hand the FBI a key to thier incriminating data?
Backdoors don't work...at all. Probably the only decent solution would be quantum computing and advanced number theory, which the CIA is hard at work with. Even this will probably be overcome, tho. Sometimes you just have to realize that some things suck, and that theres nothing you can do about it.
BTW, do you find it strange that you're whining, bitching, and complaining about people whining, bitching, and complaining? There's nothing wrong with voicing a critisism.
So who cares what they think? Maybe they should vote on issues they're educated about. Do you think making encryption backdoors manditory will make all those terrorists comply and let the FBI look at all thier encrypted data? Of course not. They'll be the only ones with any privacy. In the meantime, we'll be thinking we did something usefull while instead we were just wasting our time. As we're tossing out civil liberties, we might as well do it in a benificial way, instead of a rash and ignorant way. And besides, these americans were polled as to whether they thought it would have stopped the terrorists or not? When the hell did the general public become experts on ANYTHING? Why don't we poll america to see what they think would be the best material to build a fusion reactor? The reason we don't is because the general public is at least 72% nimrods. At least, in the field of physics, encryption technology, and most other things that require a specific education.
Personally, I'm not offended, and I'm not worried about myself, I'm just worried about the average parent's reaction... They're going to be pissed... Not to mention jewish groups. I bet this game gets hammered with critisism...
yeah, but cops are a little more important than religions. I've been getting along fine without one for a long time!
Although I am an agnostic, you do have a point. You can abstract the causes of these acts beyond religion. Underneath, the common and necesary factor is hate and intolerance. Religious fanatasism may help an individual justify murder, but it need not be present. The individual must, however, be so consumed with hate that, in thier futility and rage, can rationalize attacking innocent strangers over some petty difference. The difference can be nationality, religion, race, etc... Some people are able to hate individuals on the other side of some difference because they have not overcome thier primal instincts to fear that which is different from one's self. The real problem is getting people past this instinct.
Stephen king's official site, as well as some fan sites and his radio station's site, say nothing of this. I would think they would be the first to display the news, probably with some sort of memorial. Man, its just hoax-o-rama right now, isn't it.
I was glued to the TV/computer the first day, and most of the second day too. I realized something the second day, however. Everything I was hearing was speculation. I figure that if I wait a week to really dig into the articles, things will be more coherent and more of the facts will be layed out for me. Once a real breakthrough is made, I'm sure people will be buzzing about it. I havn't stopped watching the news completely, but I'll save the rest of my attention span for something other than pictures of people jumping off of buildings.
uhh.. this was offtopic?
Sorry I can't help you out, anonymous coward, but you'll need to find a way to live long being stupid from someone else. You're sadly mistaken about me. Good luck tho, I know its hard for morons like yourself to live past 22. Damn thats old!
I'm excited to see more on this "cartoon-like" zelda stuff I've been hearing for the game cube. I'm going to get a playstation 2, if for nothing else just to use as a DVD player, but I think I'll probably get a gamecube too if the new zelda is as cool as it sounds. Nintendo seems to always come up with the neatest ideas. It doesn't matter which game companies support the game cube, cause the best console games seem to always be made by Nintendo
who really needs to look at this... go rent faces of death or something. I've been overwhelmed with sick people today... how depraved
Yeah, and don't pull stocks out. That would be very cowardly. Of course a bunch of morons are going to panic, sell, and lower your stock values. That dosn't mean you should be one of them. Whether you lose money or not, which is questionable, everyone needs to not sell and support our economy
hmmm, an anonymous coward who calls for genocide. Maybe we could fly a jetliner into a building highly populated with civillian "sand-niggers". I bet you would think that was a grand idea, wouldn't you? We could make it a holy war against islam. Christ, I'm sick you people.
Some people think that there was something about the german people that allowed them to be nazis. An opposing view: I see nazis everyday. They just don't have a hitler. Maybe assholes like you should just kill yourselves and leave us civilized, peace loving people alone.
Names of suspected ``terrorists'' with possible ties to bin Laden's organization were found on the passenger rosters of the hijacked planes, a government source said.
Is this what you're talking about? What does this prove? That were desperate for a scape goat? Who knows who was actually on the plane. Do you think making fake ID's and lying about your identity is beneth a terroist? And check out where the information came from. "a government source", theres some iron-clad evidence. Maybe it was bin laden, maybe it wasn't. I'll wait till real facts come in before I speculate.
All I saw was "bin laden is linked...bin ladin is linked...." and never a "linked by" or "linked because of". Is speculation passed through yahoo now considered almost concrete proof? Scary...
Unfortuneately, No. If we knew who to retaliate against, maybe. But I certainly don't think that we should place ourselves in a state of emotional shock and berievement in order to make a clear and rational desicion with great implications. Its terrible what happened to your girlfriend. I'm sure if it happened to me, I'd be screaming for blood too. Thats why I wouldn't, at my current well-adjusted state, condone the use of my biased logic if I was to be a berieved victim.