Re:Patent protection?
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Cracking GSM
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Except law-abiding citizens have legitimate uses for guns, ie. shooting non law-abiding citizens who have invaded their home.
I can't possibly think of a reason a normal citizen would have legitimate reason to break the encryption on GSM.
The issue of Gun Control would be mor akin to the issue of just encryption, where there are tons of reasons law-abiding citizens would need to encrypt things, mainly to keep their sensitive information away from the non law-abiding citizens (or anyone that might have nefarious intentions).
That said, I agree that patent laws shouldn't be used in this manner, something outlawing specifically something like "the deliberate interception of communications without concent or authority to do so" would be more appropriate. Something to this effect might already exist, but I'm not a lawyer or anything:)
I'm a big fan of the Zaurus. While I love my Palm III to death, you're kind of limited by the available software. It seems to me that the Zaurus is perfect for the admin on the go. What else gives you ssh in such a small package?:)
And had we destroyed their government and simply left without doing anything else, you would be complaining that we weren't helping the people. Why are we there? Because Iraq could use some food and some semblance of order while a new government is built. You don't go around deposing governments and then saying "Oh, hey... you guys, you there in Iraq... build a government. We'll just be on our way." The responsibility lies with us to pick up the slack until the government is in place and can fully take care of its citizens.
While tear gas may technically be against chemical weapons treaties, if I were a citizen of a country facing military action by the United States I would much prefer getting teargassed to getting shot, as the latter is actually designed to be lethal. Now, it is true that tear gas can sometimes be lethal, as in the case of the Russian hostage crisis a while back, I would rather take my chances with that than a bullet in the chest.
> Actually, I'd advocate no building permits. If you own land, you should be allowed to do anything you like with it, as long as you don't endanger lives or harm the property of others (and perhaps a handful of other things).
Unfortunatly, as proven by numerous warning labels on all sorts or products, if you let someone do something stupid, they will probably end up dead. Not that I think that the whole survival of the fittest (smartest) thing wouldn't aid society greatly, but it is technically the responsibility of the government to protect the dumbasses from themselves.
I really like the nice medium point ones, I think its like a g500 or something. The bigger point makes it really glide across the paper, it makes taking notes so much easier than dragging a pencil or fine point pen across the paper.
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Except law-abiding citizens have legitimate uses for guns, ie. shooting non law-abiding citizens who have invaded their home.
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I can't possibly think of a reason a normal citizen would have legitimate reason to break the encryption on GSM.
The issue of Gun Control would be mor akin to the issue of just encryption, where there are tons of reasons law-abiding citizens would need to encrypt things, mainly to keep their sensitive information away from the non law-abiding citizens (or anyone that might have nefarious intentions).
That said, I agree that patent laws shouldn't be used in this manner, something outlawing specifically something like "the deliberate interception of communications without concent or authority to do so" would be more appropriate. Something to this effect might already exist, but I'm not a lawyer or anything
I wouldn't want to ACTUALLY do that, now would I? ;)
Like this :)
I'm a big fan of the Zaurus. While I love my Palm III to death, you're kind of limited by the available software. It seems to me that the Zaurus is perfect for the admin on the go. What else gives you ssh in such a small package? :)
And had we destroyed their government and simply left without doing anything else, you would be complaining that we weren't helping the people. Why are we there? Because Iraq could use some food and some semblance of order while a new government is built. You don't go around deposing governments and then saying "Oh, hey... you guys, you there in Iraq... build a government. We'll just be on our way." The responsibility lies with us to pick up the slack until the government is in place and can fully take care of its citizens.
While tear gas may technically be against chemical weapons treaties, if I were a citizen of a country facing military action by the United States I would much prefer getting teargassed to getting shot, as the latter is actually designed to be lethal. Now, it is true that tear gas can sometimes be lethal, as in the case of the Russian hostage crisis a while back, I would rather take my chances with that than a bullet in the chest.
Unfortunatly, as proven by numerous warning labels on all sorts or products, if you let someone do something stupid, they will probably end up dead. Not that I think that the whole survival of the fittest (smartest) thing wouldn't aid society greatly, but it is technically the responsibility of the government to protect the dumbasses from themselves.
Well, they did plant trees so they could march in the shade...
I really like the nice medium point ones, I think its like a g500 or something. The bigger point makes it really glide across the paper, it makes taking notes so much easier than dragging a pencil or fine point pen across the paper.
muahahahaha! I say we build some sort of diffuser and give UB a campus wide strobe effect >:D
As a student in the CS dept at RIT, the ones in bldg 70 work fine :)
I think this is the quarter that IT is in the bombshelter, iirc we'll all be one big happy family in bldg 70.