Please don't miss the point on the amendments to this bill: by
by requiring that the crew be made as safe as the passengers, the bill prevents the testing of any spacecraft. Passengers can't fly in a craft that has no safety record. How could a crew test a space craft that has no safety record? Obviously, they couldn't.
See
http://www.technorati.com/cosmos/links.html?rank=& url=http://catallarchy.net/blog/archives/2004/10/0 7/uh-oh/
and
http://www.transterrestrial.com/archives/004386.ht ml#004386
IIRC, the only requirement is for some sort of ID, no mention of picture. It was the airlines who insisted on linking ticket and picture ID so that they could prevent a secondary market in tickets.
This is one of the worst problems in American politics, and underappreciated. The Democrats blatantly practiced it for many years; now that control has passed to the Republicans, and they take up the practice, the Democrats suddenly discover gerrymandering as the evil it is. Both sides should end the practice, but because the Republican legislators will now (like the Democrats before them) enjoy the luxury of choosing their voters, they will only (and justly) point out that the Democrats are sore losers. Thus no reform. In worst cases (like North Carolina) the two parties connive together for a comfortable modus vivendi.
If the UK passed law like the RIAA DoS bill, then (1)(b) would be satisfied. It says an access is an offense if "(b) the access he intends to secure is unauthorised."
Since the wording of the present law does not say "unauthorised by the owner or user of the target computer," surely another bill authorizing certain attacks in certain circumstances would constitute the authorization needed under (1)(b).
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Please don't miss the point on the amendments to this bill: by by requiring that the crew be made as safe as the passengers, the bill prevents the testing of any spacecraft. Passengers can't fly in a craft that has no safety record. How could a crew test a space craft that has no safety record? Obviously, they couldn't. See http://www.technorati.com/cosmos/links.html?rank=& url=http://catallarchy.net/blog/archives/2004/10/0 7/uh-oh/
and
http://www.transterrestrial.com/archives/004386.ht ml#004386
IIRC, the only requirement is for some sort of ID, no mention of picture. It was the airlines who insisted on linking ticket and picture ID so that they could prevent a secondary market in tickets.
This is one of the worst problems in American politics, and underappreciated. The Democrats blatantly practiced it for many years; now that control has passed to the Republicans, and they take up the practice, the Democrats suddenly discover gerrymandering as the evil it is. Both sides should end the practice, but because the Republican legislators will now (like the Democrats before them) enjoy the luxury of choosing their voters, they will only (and justly) point out that the Democrats are sore losers. Thus no reform. In worst cases (like North Carolina) the two parties connive together for a comfortable modus vivendi.
If the UK passed law like the RIAA DoS bill, then (1)(b) would be satisfied. It says an access is an offense if "(b) the access he intends to secure is unauthorised."
Since the wording of the present law does not say "unauthorised by the owner or user of the target computer," surely another bill authorizing certain attacks in certain circumstances would constitute the authorization needed under (1)(b).