Unfortunately, the US not only allows it, you are practically forced to do so in several situations, like obtaining such triffles as health insurance. (by forced, I mean you are not given the option not to) Insurers require that you sign away your "constitutionally guaranteed right" to court trial in the event of a dispute between you and the insurer.
I agree that having this guy's thesis as common public knowledge is bad.
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Plus, I would get really pissed if for some reason, a terrorist cut a long haul fiber line and I couldn't call my girlfriend in Japan.
But this stuff already is common knowlege, or at least public domain. I live near a sleepy little town that has the distinction of being the major landing point for trans-Pacific telco cables. "Everyone knows" where the cables and switch bunkers are (not that many 3-story buildings in a 12,000 pop. area). Heck, you can even walk right up to one of the exposed cables on the beach.
We know this, being up on such issues, but the average music buyer does not. Jane Q. Public expects that what she buys IS a CD and will work in any player/drive she owns. Instead she ends up with a shiny, high-tech coaster.
Another related problem is that real CD's usually aren't labeled as such on the outside of the jewel box. You can't be sure it's the real deal until you've taken it home and opened the package. I've checked my own collection and none have a CD logo on the outside. It's invariably on the inside and/or on the disc itself.
Perhaps it's more a cynical acceptance of today's legal chichanery. Facts are irrelevant. Justice and Right are obsolete. Corporate law has largely become a game for the lawyers involved, where the side with the best lawyers win.
Using SCO's own twisted logic, wouldn't SCO itself be responsible for "exporting" banned code to these countries by making its distros available on their FTP servers?
SCO is far more culpable than merely having an available FTP server. As Caldera, they actively assisted in the development of SMP in Linux, making them, not IBM, responsible for this so-called "terrorist code".
Somebody sic Ashcroft on these guys!
Almost anything will burn if you supply oxygen at a high enough of a concentration/pressure. I remember a college lab were we made a test rocket engine out of a cylinder of acrylic with a hole bored down the center and hooked up to an oxygen tank. I know its sounds odd, but it does work. This seems of be using the same principles with a different fuel/oxidizer.
Personally, I've found Vernor Vinge's novella True Names and it's afterword by Marvin Minski to be a help in understanding The Matrix. The driving idea is that inside the Matrix or Vinge's "Other Plane" you perceive the programming constructs as metaphors. Hence, the red pill is your perception of a tracer/disconnection program, the kung-fu fights are a metaphor for an electronic battle between two entities in the system, etc.
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Except the US pressured Austrialia to adopt the DCMA as part of a trade treaty.
...is it the kind that gets dragged behind the boat?
Unfortunately, the US not only allows it, you are practically forced to do so in several situations, like obtaining such triffles as health insurance. (by forced, I mean you are not given the option not to) Insurers require that you sign away your "constitutionally guaranteed right" to court trial in the event of a dispute between you and the insurer.
We know this, being up on such issues, but the average music buyer does not. Jane Q. Public expects that what she buys IS a CD and will work in any player/drive she owns. Instead she ends up with a shiny, high-tech coaster.
Another related problem is that real CD's usually aren't labeled as such on the outside of the jewel box. You can't be sure it's the real deal until you've taken it home and opened the package. I've checked my own collection and none have a CD logo on the outside. It's invariably on the inside and/or on the disc itself.
Perhaps it's more a cynical acceptance of today's legal chichanery. Facts are irrelevant. Justice and Right are obsolete. Corporate law has largely become a game for the lawyers involved, where the side with the best lawyers win.
Using SCO's own twisted logic, wouldn't SCO itself be responsible for "exporting" banned code to these countries by making its distros available on their FTP servers? SCO is far more culpable than merely having an available FTP server. As Caldera, they actively assisted in the development of SMP in Linux, making them, not IBM, responsible for this so-called "terrorist code". Somebody sic Ashcroft on these guys!
Almost anything will burn if you supply oxygen at a high enough of a concentration/pressure. I remember a college lab were we made a test rocket engine out of a cylinder of acrylic with a hole bored down the center and hooked up to an oxygen tank. I know its sounds odd, but it does work. This seems of be using the same principles with a different fuel/oxidizer.
Geeky trivia: Zion's population (250,000) is the same as Babylon 5's.
Personally, I've found Vernor Vinge's novella True Names and it's afterword by Marvin Minski to be a help in understanding The Matrix. The driving idea is that inside the Matrix or Vinge's "Other Plane" you perceive the programming constructs as metaphors. Hence, the red pill is your perception of a tracer/disconnection program, the kung-fu fights are a metaphor for an electronic battle between two entities in the system, etc.