Please elaborate. When would you consider him "reformed"? When he's crouched on his broken kneecaps, begging for your forgiveness for sending you a few unsolicited mails?
"This asshole hasn't reformed" sounds a lot like a prohibionist, hardcore drug-warrior or a pro-capital punishment fascist.
"...Reportedly, threats from a Natalie Portman stalker (a crazed, deluded "Star Wars" fan: What are the odds of that?) have caused the gifted 18-year-old to attend when she's done filming "Where the Heart is." The Long Island Lolita Lite has been accepted to Yale, but might now consider Stanford, possibly because the Secret Service agents assigned to Chelsea Clinton are already on the nutcase surveillance job. Apparently, Portman's people freaked when eBay started auctioning a H.S. yearbook with her long-guarded real name..."
I thought that's what social security cards where used for?
You don't need to identify yourself uniquely when you open up a bank account, pay your taxes, get a library card or ask the society to pay for your $20000 surgery?
Why not combine it all in a one ID, let's say a passport or a national driver's license?
And what's wrong with an ID card. If you want to be a fully fledged member of the society, the society has the right to demand that you identify yourself uniquely.
Do terms "eminent domain" and "national security" mean anything to you?
Develop an algorithm that would totally compromise the US crypto. Watch how fast the government would use its right to declare it in its eminent domain and prevent you from publishing it. Freedom of speech has limits even in the USA, no matter how much you'd like to believe otherwise.
And why don't you think that WMA will be the de facto standard in the future? More and more stuff on the Kazaa, for instance, is in Windows Media formats.
P2P filesharing is dead unless it can be made fully anonymous and encrypted.
More and more corporations and universities (like mine) with fat pipes are issuing blanket bans on P2P software - and no, piping it through port 80 will not help since filetrading is still distinguishable from ordinary http traffic.
I think people with all these "slick" looking clothes are just so insecure that they need to look "cool" to feel good about themselves.
That's like still believing that if you have a cell phone you're just being a snob. Wake up. Dressing up in a good style is simply being polite. Just like taking care of your personal hygiene.
He cares about being able to freely discuss crypto concepts with his peers and students. Some of those peers and students may just happen to be overseas.
Semantics. Of course that is exporting.
Thoughts and ideas are not free to disseminate if they are a threat to the national security. That was always the basis behind the government's actions. How has that changed recently?
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Please elaborate. When would you consider him "reformed"? When he's crouched on his broken kneecaps, begging for your forgiveness for sending you a few unsolicited mails?
"This asshole hasn't reformed" sounds a lot like a prohibionist, hardcore drug-warrior or a pro-capital punishment fascist.
Where is the microchip? This sounds just like a typical retarded-release pill.
(the quote is from Austin American-Statesman)
So, what kind of work is that? Inquiring minds wish to know...
Playing a devil's advocate here, but wouldn't that be like a good thing knowing how much the alcohol-related problems cost the society in general.
Withdrawal, shotguns, mayhem?
And why should you not have to register for information that someone worked for? Freeloader.
Why would you expect him to cater to every fringe browser?
I thought his point was to commercialize the internet, that is: make it profitable.
You don't need to identify yourself uniquely when you open up a bank account, pay your taxes, get a library card or ask the society to pay for your $20000 surgery?
Why not combine it all in a one ID, let's say a passport or a national driver's license?
And what's wrong with an ID card. If you want to be a fully fledged member of the society, the society has the right to demand that you identify yourself uniquely.
The hair is everything.
I hope you're not talking about the open sauce?
It's free, it comes with the OS and it works. Do you think Joe Average cares about some fringe ideological issues?
Why would you buy a codec when you get a one for free (WMA) with your OS?
Can you rip quality MP3s with the Media Player? No. It will take some time but after a while all new media will be in WMA.
Develop an algorithm that would totally compromise the US crypto. Watch how fast the government would use its right to declare it in its eminent domain and prevent you from publishing it. Freedom of speech has limits even in the USA, no matter how much you'd like to believe otherwise.
And why don't you think that WMA will be the de facto standard in the future? More and more stuff on the Kazaa, for instance, is in Windows Media formats.
More and more corporations and universities (like mine) with fat pipes are issuing blanket bans on P2P software - and no, piping it through port 80 will not help since filetrading is still distinguishable from ordinary http traffic.
That's like still believing that if you have a cell phone you're just being a snob. Wake up. Dressing up in a good style is simply being polite. Just like taking care of your personal hygiene.
Semantics. Of course that is exporting.
Thoughts and ideas are not free to disseminate if they are a threat to the national security. That was always the basis behind the government's actions. How has that changed recently?
Ah. Yes. The freedom of speech depends on the freedom to export crypto-algorithms out of the USA? Ok...
Before clicking on the links I had absolutely no idea what the poster was talking about - except that it somehow concerned crypto. Let's see:
djb's crypto case
What case?
DOJ said the government would not enforce several portions of the regulations.
What regulations?
Bernstein said in a statement
Who the hell is Bernstein?
Hehheh... that was pretty funny. Good work.