I find it amusing that the open source crowd shows such great interest in a closed piece of hardware, hardware that is defended by DMCA-supported lawyer jargon and manufactured by "The Great Satan" of digital freedom.
I find it even more amusing that after 5 years under the DMCA, someone still has the cojones to basically thumb his nose at "The Great Satan" of digital freedom.
I think that this only helps further the idea that if the various media/software companies do not provide what the user wants, the user will figure it out for themselves. When the bottom line of company Y starts to really shrink, they will provide the customer with what they want to maintain the revenue stream on related products (think IBM and SUN selling and supporting Linux so that they can keep selling servers).
The article makes it sound like this is to prevent those web pages that make themselves full screen and look just like a desktop, but honestly how often is this tactic even used?
I don't know how often it is (or could be) used, but vnc-java is capable of exactly that. I can't imagine it would be too difficult to trick someone into clicking a link (on their java-enabled browser that allows the page to modify the status bar so you cannot see where the URL leads). If some one has the default windows desktop icons and settings (like most people) it could be very effective.
Graphics cards are a security problem, because they contain their own pool of memory.
MS could just drop support for all video cards that have their own memory in favor of ones with integrated or shared memory (a la i810 family). Then the OS can have direct control over every aspect of the cards memory because it actually resides in main memory.
I had an ancient 4GB Digital drive I got second-hand, in the early 90's; it was already several years old when I got my hands on it, so it was probably pre-90's. It weighed a ton, took up the full space of a 3.5" drive bay, and even had its own little suspension system. I abused that thing to hell and back, carrying it in bookbags, cooking it when the fan on the external case died...the whole nine yards.
I have two Seagate drives, a 1.3GB from 1996 and a 6.4GB from 1997. I have moved something like 7 or 8 times since I purchased them, and I know the movers were not always as gentle as they should have been. The things are still going strong in my firewall/router box.
My laptop is another story. It is 2.5 years old and I am just waiting for the drive to crap out. They just don't make 'em like they used to.
BTW, not sure which ISPs care about NAT, but there are very very large NAT friendly ISP's out there. (Speakeasy for one)
I use BellSouth, and I like their policy. They offer a home networking service that includes a fw/router/gateway and a tech to come out and set everything up for something like $5-$15/month extra. Their attitude is basically, "If you buy it from us we'll support it, otherwise you are on your own." As long as they keep that attitude I they will have a faithful customer in me.
For an answer to that question look to the US Postal Service's largest customers: The US Federal Government and bulk mailers.
Two points:
Check out this site
[prc.gov] and you will see that standard mail (the category that spam
falls into comprised only about 23% of the USPS total revenues.
The biggest single category is still first class mail (i.e.,
letters home to mom and bills the electric/gas/phone company send you),
making up nearly 55% of the USPS revenue in FY2001.
So while 23% is a good chunk of their revenue it certainly does not qualify as most of the revenue. But, junk mail does make up 43% of the mail volume.
yesterday as i went through *35* pieces of junk mail from 3 days i was wondering if the USPS had an opt out from certain mailers form? i doubt it because spam is how they make most of their money.
Two points:
Check out this site and you will see that standard mail (the category that spam falls into comprised only about 23% of the USPS total revenues.
The biggest single category is still first class mail (i.e., letters home to mom and bills the electric/gas/phone company send you), making up nearly 55% of the USPS revenue in FY2001.
So while 23% is a good chunk of their revenue it certainly does not qualify as most of the revenue. But, junk mail does make up 43% of the mail volume.
[What, the list of public/government services that your tax money pays for?]
I don't have a problem with paying taxes. I happily pay mine and know what they go to pay for. I think paying taxes for public services is an effective model to ensure (reasonably) equitable distribution of services.
I am merely stating that most people don't care and are thus unaware of what their taxes actually pay for. So, when someone (in this case not the government) comes along with a proposal to "tax" people with something that is not really a tax, the average person cannot tell the difference.
And besides, is Joe Sixpack who's never heard of P2P networks or even mp3s going allow his ISP to tax him for this?
Sure he will. Joe Sixpack lets himself get taxed for most things he's never heard of or doesn't care about:
Taxes on your phone bill to lower the cost of internet access for schools (whether or not you have children in school)
Property taxes to fund schools and minucipals services (that you may or may not use, if you send your kids to private school or don't have kids)
Health fees at most universities even if the student is already covered by health insurance.
Taxes on cigarettes to fund public service announcements to quit smoking (and subsidize tobacco farmers when people actually quit and their crops are not longer in demand)
Numerous state and federal taxes on gasoline for road construction and who knows what else
High vehicle registration for highway maintenance (when you either don't use the highways or they aren't maintained well)
Old airport facility charges on airline tickets and the new September 11th fees for improved security
The list goes on and on
Joe sixpack will just see it and think, "Oh well, another tax. The government must know best for me."
In reality very few people will be outraged at this. Especially since it will come along in increments of a few dollars at a time, which is no big deal in a relatively strong economy.
I suppose they'll go back to talking to real life recruiters and finding out...
America's Army was nevery about replacing real life recruiters. Think of it more as a movie trailer. You see it and think, "Wow that looks cool. I think I'll go see the movie." But you still need to go and buy tickets, show ID (for kids trying to go see R movies), and buy candy and popcorn.
All the trailer does is get you interested. I think it is a really great idea overall. Mostly becuase kids now tend to spend more time surfing the net and playing computer games than watching television (making the television ads less effective). Not only that, but all they need to do is develop the game once and post it for unlimited downloads. It is much more cost effective for the Army and allows them to start being noticed by younger children who are not yet interested in military service but will remember the game when they are older.
But, even the best computer game in the world won't replace the recruiter. The potential recruit still needs someone to walk them through the process, show them where to sign and send them off to basic training.
If not, it will make it difficult (impossible) for the different distros to include it if it is not GPL'd.
I realize that this is isn's a strict requirement for all Linux software, but it would be nice to have it included as part of the distro. I guess that in the end, it will be nice to not have to boot back over to windows every time I download something from website where the idiot who made it thinks windows is the only OS.
... I also know that the MS server products that are being used to run it aren't doing half the job that BSD did.
That explains why my hotmail account seems to be about half as fast now. Even when I check from the network at school (avg. ftp download from a fast server ~500kB/s), the latency is just horrible.
Oh well, I only use hotmail to subscribe to the Debian mailing lists 8-). Here's to you MS...
They have huge amounts of hard drive storage and lots of programmers.
now they sell to all big brother agencies... to SPY on americans on a per-lookup action.
That is all well and good. But you do not make even one substantiated statement. Everything you say can be take from you average badly written, set-in-the-present-day sci-fi novel, or the website of most any organization that believes the U.S. gonverment is composed of only people and agencies that are conspiring against the citizenry.
These are my questions:
When did they start doing this for the CIA?
How many programmers do they have?
How much hard disk storage do they have?
Which agencies do they sell to?
What is their website/physical address?
If what you say is true, then I want to write my congressman about it and protest, or whatever.
But please, come with facts. Not this obviously inflamatory, unsubstantiated crap. If you don't want to give the information completely, then why did you post in the first place?
The Red Hat Package Manager system is convienent for those of us who are not very capable at compiling source code and the like
I have to disagree with you there. I started using Linux about 6 months ago as a complete n00b. I started out on RH8.0, just after it came out. After two weeks I was about ready to throw my laptop from a moving train. Then I asked one of my buddies at school what I should do to avoid the depndency mess in Red Hat.
He got me started on Debian. I was a bit leary at first because I'd never heard of it (I only knew about RH in the beginning). So, he helped me install it then he showed me how to use apt-get. I feel so strongly about the simplicity of apt-get over rpm now, that I would feel comfortable recommending it to anyone.
I think it is even easier than installing windoze software at times, becuase if you have the wrong version of a library apt-get can find the correct version in the repository. Try navigating M$'s site for the right version of a DLL, or hunting down a library you need from rpmfind. It is a total waste of time.
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LCD Price Fixing?
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· Score: 1, Interesting
If it was possible to sell 19" LCDs for $250 and still turn a profit, some one would be doing so
In capitalism any one can cut prices and drive down the cost of a product
This is why those crazy people that are giving away operating systems (read: Linux) for FREE are completely undercutting the competition (read: M$)?
I think it has more to do with creating the perception that one product is more valuable than another. The CRT may in fact cost more to manufacture now (as your comment suggests), but whether that is true or not, the manufacturers create the perception that the new product is better.
Existing law prohibits a person or entity conducting business in
the state from e-mailing or causing to be e-mailed documents...
... Existing law requires unsolicited e-mail advertisements to contain a
heading of "ADV:" or "ADV:ADLT," as specified.
This bill would remove delete these
provisions and would instead prohibit the sending, as
defined, of a person or entity from initiating an
unsolicited commercial e-mail advertisements
advertisement either from California or to a California
electronic mail address. The bill would provide that if any
part of these provisions or their application are held invalid, the
invalidity shall not effect the other provisions or applications that
can still be given effect. The bill would also make
it unlawful for a person to sell or provide a list of e-mail
addresses to be used to initiate the transmission of unsolicited
commercial e-mail advertisements from California or to a California
e-mail address. (The strikethroughs did not come through, but you can see them on the ammended bill at the link above).
So it looks like you can sue someone who spams you from outside CA, but who knows if it will be possible to actually recover the damages.
d) Nothing in this section shall be construed to limit or
restrict the rights of an electronic mail service provider under
Section 230(c)(1) of Title 47 of the United States Code, or any
decision of an electronic mail service provider to permit or to
restrict access to or use of its system, or any exercise of its
editorial function.
This doesn't look like such a good idea to me. It seems to limit the liability of an ISP. They could conceivably say, "We didn't acutally send it. Someone else sent it using our server."
There was a thread a couple of weeks ago where MS was supporting a law that will exempt ISPs from monetary penalties. Washington's current setup holds the ISP liable as well (which is how it should be). It would be nice if more states did that, especially since ISPs have legit operational facilities in the states in which they do business. This makes it easy to go after the ISP, which of course motivates them to stop the spam from coming through.
At least in intelligence, the point of classification is to protect the source. For example, if the enemy knows that by using system X, we are able to gain insight into their operations, they will cease to use system X.
While some things (like out military tactics and battle plans) are not really relevant 25 years after the fact, these documents should still be examined to make sure that they will not divulge a still valid source of valuable intelligence information.
It has happened in the past. Either through publication in the media or release of documents under FOIA, where later we went... OOPS!
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't overclocking good for Intel? When you burn out your chip and then have to buy a new one, isn't that more money for them? What am I missing here?
They are trying to get in good with the environmentalists.
No more overclocking = fewer chips burned out = less need to produce = less waste material
Sorry man, got too many friends who as young men got stuck into a warzone based on a total lie and fabrication, the "tonkin gulf attacks". They got rah rah rahed into it, john wayned. Some got drafted, some just "joined up".
My father was one of those young men (he got drafted). Surprisingly he encourage both my brother and I to join. My brother got out last year, and I am planning to serve until I retire. My father couldn't be happier (partly becuase we had sense enough to not join the Army).
Here's a thought. How about self education about politics and reality. How about doing the research to find out in advance if the people you are working for are really doing the best possible job, not lying to you, not making you go fight in a questionable war based on questionable reasons in advance of being put into a warzone?
Here's another thought. I work for the American people. The military is an instrument of the government's (e.g., the people's) will. I do take the time to educate myself. Sadly, most of the people (the American population) I work for do not.
You can't have it both ways, you want your family to not have the possibilities of finding out about you being captured or hurt, then don't go over there and fight, unless you accept your adult responsibilities of the FULL ramifications of war, not the you get to pick and choose which things apply to you and your family or not, because in the real world, you don't get to pick and chose.
My family is fully aware that I may be captured. If I am, I want them to know. The problem is that the media feels the need to publicize the personal lives and details of the captured soldiers (information that is valuable to an interrogator).
My point is if YOU want to accept a check for military service, accept the responsibility that at this point in time you are in fact, a "mercenary", a soldier for hire. We don't have a draft now.
These are my neighbors too, people not at their normal jobs today a lot of them, reserves, being exploited to the max. I know one guy personal who got called back over a year ago, and for what?
These two statements seem contradictory. Is your friend also not a mercenary? Reservists get paid for their time as well, and they are also not drafted. Seems like he knew, and thus is not being explioted.
Sign up for one reason, to DEFEND THE UNITED STATES WHEN IT'S ATTACKED,swell, hunt down osama, stick to that, but not this other crap,being used and abused for some other questionable reasons based on fabrications and exaggerations. Our own spooks can't even find any connections between osama and saddam, those guys HATE each other. British spooks, the same thing.
It is the responsibility of the people and the government to correct this. Military members take an oath to follow orders. That is what we have to do. If our superiors are wrong, we can question them. If they give an illegal order, we don't follow it. But neither of those apply in this case. The use of military force has been approved by congress (the representatives of the people).
If information is being fabricated, then those in the know have an ethical responsibility to bring it out. It is the people's responsibility, not the military's, to deal with and punish the bad choices of our elected officials. The military can certainly offer its opinion, but in the end the civilians have the final say. I believe it was designed that way on purpose.
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They recommend working around the problem by underclocking the processor to run at 800 MHz instead of its default 900 MHz or 1 GHz
I just want to see them recommend this AFTER they start incorporating their new patented anti-clock speed changing technology into all of their chips.
(The parent was funny, but Insightful???)
I was actually going for funny. I was totally amazed anyone could actually see my comment as "Insightful." Oh well.
I find it amusing that the open source crowd shows such great interest in a closed piece of hardware, hardware that is defended by DMCA-supported lawyer jargon and manufactured by "The Great Satan" of digital freedom.
I find it even more amusing that after 5 years under the DMCA, someone still has the cojones to basically thumb his nose at "The Great Satan" of digital freedom.
I think that this only helps further the idea that if the various media/software companies do not provide what the user wants, the user will figure it out for themselves. When the bottom line of company Y starts to really shrink, they will provide the customer with what they want to maintain the revenue stream on related products (think IBM and SUN selling and supporting Linux so that they can keep selling servers).
The article makes it sound like this is to prevent those web pages that make themselves full screen and look just like a desktop, but honestly how often is this tactic even used?
I don't know how often it is (or could be) used, but vnc-java is capable of exactly that. I can't imagine it would be too difficult to trick someone into clicking a link (on their java-enabled browser that allows the page to modify the status bar so you cannot see where the URL leads). If some one has the default windows desktop icons and settings (like most people) it could be very effective.
Graphics cards are a security problem, because they contain their own pool of memory.
MS could just drop support for all video cards that have their own memory in favor of ones with integrated or shared memory (a la i810 family). Then the OS can have direct control over every aspect of the cards memory because it actually resides in main memory.
I had an ancient 4GB Digital drive I got second-hand, in the early 90's; it was already several years old when I got my hands on it, so it was probably pre-90's. It weighed a ton, took up the full space of a 3.5" drive bay, and even had its own little suspension system. I abused that thing to hell and back, carrying it in bookbags, cooking it when the fan on the external case died...the whole nine yards.
I have two Seagate drives, a 1.3GB from 1996 and a 6.4GB from 1997. I have moved something like 7 or 8 times since I purchased them, and I know the movers were not always as gentle as they should have been. The things are still going strong in my firewall/router box.
My laptop is another story. It is 2.5 years old and I am just waiting for the drive to crap out. They just don't make 'em like they used to.
The downside is that access times have tracked closer to a linear function.
Too bad it is practically a horizontal line.
just my $.02 CAD (or $.0170 US)
Isn't that a bit optimistic for an exchange rate?
First post and the site is already gone?
BTW, not sure which ISPs care about NAT, but there are very very large NAT friendly ISP's out there. (Speakeasy for one)
I use BellSouth, and I like their policy. They offer a home networking service that includes a fw/router/gateway and a tech to come out and set everything up for something like $5-$15/month extra. Their attitude is basically, "If you buy it from us we'll support it, otherwise you are on your own." As long as they keep that attitude I they will have a faithful customer in me.
For an answer to that question look to the US Postal Service's largest customers: The US Federal Government and bulk mailers.
Two points:
So while 23% is a good chunk of their revenue it certainly does not qualify as most of the revenue. But, junk mail does make up 43% of the mail volume.
yesterday as i went through *35* pieces of junk mail from 3 days i was wondering if the USPS had an opt out from certain mailers form? i doubt it because spam is how they make most of their money.
Two points:
So while 23% is a good chunk of their revenue it certainly does not qualify as most of the revenue. But, junk mail does make up 43% of the mail volume.
[What, the list of public/government services that your tax money pays for?]
I don't have a problem with paying taxes. I happily pay mine and know what they go to pay for. I think paying taxes for public services is an effective model to ensure (reasonably) equitable distribution of services.
I am merely stating that most people don't care and are thus unaware of what their taxes actually pay for. So, when someone (in this case not the government) comes along with a proposal to "tax" people with something that is not really a tax, the average person cannot tell the difference.
And besides, is Joe Sixpack who's never heard of P2P networks or even mp3s going allow his ISP to tax him for this?
Sure he will. Joe Sixpack lets himself get taxed for most things he's never heard of or doesn't care about:
Joe sixpack will just see it and think, "Oh well, another tax. The government must know best for me."
In reality very few people will be outraged at this. Especially since it will come along in increments of a few dollars at a time, which is no big deal in a relatively strong economy.
I think this is good. It will give user a theme they can identify with (especially if all the mozilla derivatives follow the convention).
But I guess they already had a theme going with fantasy creatures to begin with. I wonder where it will go.
I suppose they'll go back to talking to real life recruiters and finding out...
America's Army was nevery about replacing real life recruiters. Think of it more as a movie trailer. You see it and think, "Wow that looks cool. I think I'll go see the movie." But you still need to go and buy tickets, show ID (for kids trying to go see R movies), and buy candy and popcorn.
All the trailer does is get you interested. I think it is a really great idea overall. Mostly becuase kids now tend to spend more time surfing the net and playing computer games than watching television (making the television ads less effective). Not only that, but all they need to do is develop the game once and post it for unlimited downloads. It is much more cost effective for the Army and allows them to start being noticed by younger children who are not yet interested in military service but will remember the game when they are older.
But, even the best computer game in the world won't replace the recruiter. The potential recruit still needs someone to walk them through the process, show them where to sign and send them off to basic training.
If not, it will make it difficult (impossible) for the different distros to include it if it is not GPL'd.
I realize that this is isn's a strict requirement for all Linux software, but it would be nice to have it included as part of the distro. I guess that in the end, it will be nice to not have to boot back over to windows every time I download something from website where the idiot who made it thinks windows is the only OS.
That explains why my hotmail account seems to be about half as fast now. Even when I check from the network at school (avg. ftp download from a fast server ~500kB/s), the latency is just horrible.
Oh well, I only use hotmail to subscribe to the Debian mailing lists 8-). Here's to you MS...
They first started doing it for the CIA.
They have huge amounts of hard drive storage and lots of programmers.
now they sell to all big brother agencies... to SPY on americans on a per-lookup action.
That is all well and good. But you do not make even one substantiated statement. Everything you say can be take from you average badly written, set-in-the-present-day sci-fi novel, or the website of most any organization that believes the U.S. gonverment is composed of only people and agencies that are conspiring against the citizenry.
These are my questions:
If what you say is true, then I want to write my congressman about it and protest, or whatever.
But please, come with facts. Not this obviously inflamatory, unsubstantiated crap. If you don't want to give the information completely, then why did you post in the first place?
The Red Hat Package Manager system is convienent for those of us who are not very capable at compiling source code and the like
I have to disagree with you there. I started using Linux about 6 months ago as a complete n00b. I started out on RH8.0, just after it came out. After two weeks I was about ready to throw my laptop from a moving train. Then I asked one of my buddies at school what I should do to avoid the depndency mess in Red Hat.
He got me started on Debian. I was a bit leary at first because I'd never heard of it (I only knew about RH in the beginning). So, he helped me install it then he showed me how to use apt-get. I feel so strongly about the simplicity of apt-get over rpm now, that I would feel comfortable recommending it to anyone.
I think it is even easier than installing windoze software at times, becuase if you have the wrong version of a library apt-get can find the correct version in the repository. Try navigating M$'s site for the right version of a DLL, or hunting down a library you need from rpmfind. It is a total waste of time.
If it was possible to sell 19" LCDs for $250 and still turn a profit, some one would be doing so
In capitalism any one can cut prices and drive down the cost of a product
This is why those crazy people that are giving away operating systems (read: Linux) for FREE are completely undercutting the competition (read: M$)?
I think it has more to do with creating the perception that one product is more valuable than another. The CRT may in fact cost more to manufacture now (as your comment suggests), but whether that is true or not, the manufacturers create the perception that the new product is better.
Existing law prohibits a person or entity conducting business in the state from e-mailing or causing to be e-mailed documents ...
This bill would remove delete these provisions and would instead prohibit the sending, as defined, of a person or entity from initiating an unsolicited commercial e-mail advertisements advertisement either from California or to a California electronic mail address. The bill would provide that if any part of these provisions or their application are held invalid, the invalidity shall not effect the other provisions or applications that can still be given effect. The bill would also make it unlawful for a person to sell or provide a list of e-mail addresses to be used to initiate the transmission of unsolicited commercial e-mail advertisements from California or to a California e-mail address. (The strikethroughs did not come through, but you can see them on the ammended bill at the link above).
So it looks like you can sue someone who spams you from outside CA, but who knows if it will be possible to actually recover the damages.
d) Nothing in this section shall be construed to limit or restrict the rights of an electronic mail service provider under Section 230(c)(1) of Title 47 of the United States Code, or any decision of an electronic mail service provider to permit or to restrict access to or use of its system, or any exercise of its editorial function.
This doesn't look like such a good idea to me. It seems to limit the liability of an ISP. They could conceivably say, "We didn't acutally send it. Someone else sent it using our server."
There was a thread a couple of weeks ago where MS was supporting a law that will exempt ISPs from monetary penalties. Washington's current setup holds the ISP liable as well (which is how it should be). It would be nice if more states did that, especially since ISPs have legit operational facilities in the states in which they do business. This makes it easy to go after the ISP, which of course motivates them to stop the spam from coming through.
At least in intelligence, the point of classification is to protect the source. For example, if the enemy knows that by using system X, we are able to gain insight into their operations, they will cease to use system X.
... OOPS!
While some things (like out military tactics and battle plans) are not really relevant 25 years after the fact, these documents should still be examined to make sure that they will not divulge a still valid source of valuable intelligence information.
It has happened in the past. Either through publication in the media or release of documents under FOIA, where later we went
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't overclocking good for Intel? When you burn out your chip and then have to buy a new one, isn't that more money for them? What am I missing here?
They are trying to get in good with the environmentalists.
No more overclocking = fewer chips burned out = less need to produce = less waste material
Oh, wait...
Sorry man, got too many friends who as young men got stuck into a warzone based on a total lie and fabrication, the "tonkin gulf attacks". They got rah rah rahed into it, john wayned. Some got drafted, some just "joined up".
My father was one of those young men (he got drafted). Surprisingly he encourage both my brother and I to join. My brother got out last year, and I am planning to serve until I retire. My father couldn't be happier (partly becuase we had sense enough to not join the Army).
Here's a thought. How about self education about politics and reality. How about doing the research to find out in advance if the people you are working for are really doing the best possible job, not lying to you, not making you go fight in a questionable war based on questionable reasons in advance of being put into a warzone?
Here's another thought. I work for the American people. The military is an instrument of the government's (e.g., the people's) will. I do take the time to educate myself. Sadly, most of the people (the American population) I work for do not.
You can't have it both ways, you want your family to not have the possibilities of finding out about you being captured or hurt, then don't go over there and fight, unless you accept your adult responsibilities of the FULL ramifications of war, not the you get to pick and choose which things apply to you and your family or not, because in the real world, you don't get to pick and chose.
My family is fully aware that I may be captured. If I am, I want them to know. The problem is that the media feels the need to publicize the personal lives and details of the captured soldiers (information that is valuable to an interrogator).
My point is if YOU want to accept a check for military service, accept the responsibility that at this point in time you are in fact, a "mercenary", a soldier for hire. We don't have a draft now.
These are my neighbors too, people not at their normal jobs today a lot of them, reserves, being exploited to the max. I know one guy personal who got called back over a year ago, and for what?
These two statements seem contradictory. Is your friend also not a mercenary? Reservists get paid for their time as well, and they are also not drafted. Seems like he knew, and thus is not being explioted.
Sign up for one reason, to DEFEND THE UNITED STATES WHEN IT'S ATTACKED,swell, hunt down osama, stick to that, but not this other crap,being used and abused for some other questionable reasons based on fabrications and exaggerations. Our own spooks can't even find any connections between osama and saddam, those guys HATE each other. British spooks, the same thing.
It is the responsibility of the people and the government to correct this. Military members take an oath to follow orders. That is what we have to do. If our superiors are wrong, we can question them. If they give an illegal order, we don't follow it. But neither of those apply in this case. The use of military force has been approved by congress (the representatives of the people).
If information is being fabricated, then those in the know have an ethical responsibility to bring it out. It is the people's responsibility, not the military's, to deal with and punish the bad choices of our elected officials. The military can certainly offer its opinion, but in the end the civilians have the final say. I believe it was designed that way on purpose.