"The country is going downhill quickly due to nothing more then hate. Conservatives hating liberals and liberals hating conservatives. I think there are bigger problems to solve then the government checking to see who called who."
Better still, fix whatever it is that is broken about human nature itself. Overcome oneself, but don't expect a nanny state to do it for you. After all, the state itself is composed of individuals who must all overcome their own human nature.
"...persons on US soil have Constitutional protections, regardless of whether or not the end result is criminal prosecution."
No, they don't. The Constitutional protections only extend to those natural-born or naturalized citizens of the several states. The states themselves must deal with the Fed., which is where the criminal and war powers come into play. Just ask any service-member who actually owns them and what their citizenship is.
As for reporters, they actually enjoy greater protections than soldiers in that regard. Of course, they run a huge risk and sometimes flat-out lose the game; that seems to be the case here.
ISTR back in 1995 CE or thereabouts, when I first "discovered" the 'net. ISTR the first things that I thought of were the lost libraries of Alexandria and Toledo. And Cairo, Memphis, Thebes. Let alone Athens, Rome, Berlin, London, Paris, and the LOC.
Ya know what my hope is? I hope that the 'net "library" cannot be burned nor sacked.
Watch for another line item in your Verizon or SBC bill, mandated by legislature so that it costs them nothing. All taxed, of course, and passed at the last moment as a rider upon something totally unrelated such as a rider upon the interstate commerce and Highway act.
Can you tell that I'm kinda jaded?
A good question, IMHO, but one cannot "buy" a good name except perhaps *only* in financial/legal circles. IMHO, the real question in your 2nd paragraph is one of ethics in general (vis-a-vis the ethos of a narrow segment of society).
So, the question(s) that I am seeing in your second paragraph are this:
Many people will spend whatever it takes to be liked (or at least perceived to be liked), even for ulterior motives. The question of joy vs. sorrow and debt to society can go all the way down to the individual level: What is the individual ethic vs. the society's ethic, even if constrained to financial markets?
IMHO, a society is composed of like-minded individuals within any given generation and nationality, but it is the collective aggregate of the individual's behavior that will form the society. And with a large enough pertubation that behavior might well turn out to be something that nobody likes.
BTW, nice tagline re: Jon Postel
"The Ken Lays of the world didn't get the big bucks from playing by the rules."
Quite true. But they did get almost universal disrespect and revulsion in exchange for those dollars. Was is worth it, and will they ever be able to use and enjoy those dollars as a part of normal society again? Was the trade-off worth it?
"My playing field greatly favors me because I am better at my job than most people."
Yeah, I used to think that too, until I found out why I was being asked to train all the new guys.
For that matter, many people fail to take into account the fact that ethanol has a nearly infinite octane rating. In order to produce comparable power to gasoline, one must increase the compression ratio (racers do this), or increase the size of the engine.
I suspect that increasing the compression for a pure-ethanol engine would make the energy spent vs. energy received ratios (1:1.3) much more favorable for the corn-based ethanols, making it feasible for North America. Perhaps extreme turbocharging could do the trick relatively cheaply, making for a smooth conversion of the national fleet.
My MOTD? Check out the suggested default at Bastille Linux and modify it to suit. On most recent RH-based distros you can cun-n-paste the same msg into/etc/issue and/etc/issue.net (assuming runlevel 3), so all your users see it no matter what. You might want to have your legal department parse it first just to be sure.
"Can there truly be a flawless operating system? Is it possible to design an easy to use, accessible, and reliable application that has no security holes?
I think not, but if you could, you may become richer than Gates himself.
Already been done, and a long time ago at that. The project basically went broke. See about secure Multics here. [pdf warning, but its a great read]
There's nothing subtle about it. You raised the original objection to the use of the term "FUD", and now you want to change that question? Well, OK, but whose definition shall we use for being "smart" or "constructive"? Why should anyone use their definition?
Hang in there while I play the world's smallest fiddle for your impressive arguments.
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OK, let me try again: Can you show me where the civil liberties in the Constitution *do* extend to non-citizens?
Better still, fix whatever it is that is broken about human nature itself. Overcome oneself, but don't expect a nanny state to do it for you. After all, the state itself is composed of individuals who must all overcome their own human nature.
No, they don't. The Constitutional protections only extend to those natural-born or naturalized citizens of the several states. The states themselves must deal with the Fed., which is where the criminal and war powers come into play. Just ask any service-member who actually owns them and what their citizenship is.
As for reporters, they actually enjoy greater protections than soldiers in that regard. Of course, they run a huge risk and sometimes flat-out lose the game; that seems to be the case here.
Yeah, but its the nature of the business.
ISTR back in 1995 CE or thereabouts, when I first "discovered" the 'net. ISTR the first things that I thought of were the lost libraries of Alexandria and Toledo. And Cairo, Memphis, Thebes. Let alone Athens, Rome, Berlin, London, Paris, and the LOC. Ya know what my hope is? I hope that the 'net "library" cannot be burned nor sacked.
Watch for another line item in your Verizon or SBC bill, mandated by legislature so that it costs them nothing. All taxed, of course, and passed at the last moment as a rider upon something totally unrelated such as a rider upon the interstate commerce and Highway act. Can you tell that I'm kinda jaded?
A good question, IMHO, but one cannot "buy" a good name except perhaps *only* in financial/legal circles. IMHO, the real question in your 2nd paragraph is one of ethics in general (vis-a-vis the ethos of a narrow segment of society).
So, the question(s) that I am seeing in your second paragraph are this:
Many people will spend whatever it takes to be liked (or at least perceived to be liked), even for ulterior motives. The question of joy vs. sorrow and debt to society can go all the way down to the individual level: What is the individual ethic vs. the society's ethic, even if constrained to financial markets? IMHO, a society is composed of like-minded individuals within any given generation and nationality, but it is the collective aggregate of the individual's behavior that will form the society. And with a large enough pertubation that behavior might well turn out to be something that nobody likes. BTW, nice tagline re: Jon Postel
Not necessarily. Personally, I'm much more comfortable with an honest failure than a crooked success.
Quite true. But they did get almost universal disrespect and revulsion in exchange for those dollars. Was is worth it, and will they ever be able to use and enjoy those dollars as a part of normal society again?
Was the trade-off worth it?
IMHO it's a pretty sad day when a bare minimum of societal/public ethics needs to be legislated.
"My playing field greatly favors me because I am better at my job than most people." Yeah, I used to think that too, until I found out why I was being asked to train all the new guys.
For that matter, many people fail to take into account the fact that ethanol has a nearly infinite octane rating. In order to produce comparable power to gasoline, one must increase the compression ratio (racers do this), or increase the size of the engine.
I suspect that increasing the compression for a pure-ethanol engine would make the energy spent vs. energy received ratios (1:1.3) much more favorable for the corn-based ethanols, making it feasible for North America. Perhaps extreme turbocharging could do the trick relatively cheaply, making for a smooth conversion of the national fleet.
Much like this?
Buy stock in chair companies. Else, take up plastering in Redmond, WA.
This step is critically important.
monitors individual appliances/outlets, but easy to hack for entire circuits.
No.
In my eperience, a good education and resume get you in the door, but good worker habits get you further.
I would argue that their ego is directly tied to their market share. Bummer.
My MOTD? Check out the suggested default at Bastille Linux and modify it to suit. On most recent RH-based distros you can cun-n-paste the same msg into /etc/issue and /etc/issue.net (assuming runlevel 3), so all your users see it no matter what. You might want to have your legal department parse it first just to be sure.
Somebody mod this guy + "insightful" re: drive-by shouting match. Hey, it happens every so often.
Is it possible to design an easy to use, accessible, and reliable application that has no security holes?
I think not, but if you could, you may become richer than Gates himself.
Already been done, and a long time ago at that. The project basically went broke. See about secure Multics here.
[pdf warning, but its a great read]
Don't worry; I'll probably remember even if you forget. As far as peaking, it probably did.
WTF!!?? must... get... coffee.... Ow, my EYES!
There's nothing subtle about it. You raised the original objection to the use of the term "FUD", and now you want to change that question? Well, OK, but whose definition shall we use for being "smart" or "constructive"? Why should anyone use their definition? Hang in there while I play the world's smallest fiddle for your impressive arguments.