They might be fully aware of the Constitution -- and of the relative lack of concern, or, perhaps, a sense of urgency, among voters...
I'm not sure if I heard the words "copyright" or "Constitution" at ALL during the debates, or any campaign ad, or so forth -- they just pale in comparison to, say, abortion, gun control, environmental protections, or taxes in terms of opinionated constituences it seems.
Depending on the type of gun and location, owning it can be very illegal -- some cities ban handguns (D.C. comes to mind), some ban long guns (NYC, for instance), certain guns are ALWAYS considered worse than others (automatic weapons, 'natch, plus depends on clip size, et cetera) and ISTR that a Federal law banning firearms possession within a certain radius of a school passed, although it wouldn't surprise me if that had been struck down.
The NRA isn't as strong as you seem to think -- they've had their share of losses. But they do, at least, have a lot of experience trying to press the view that the focus should be on punishing misuse, rather than possession.
Failure to permit, not failure to prevent. Locks that can no longer be opened "legitimately"... this provision is most likely to allow libraries, databases and other archives (that is, anybody that would store documents for the long term) to break such control in the years to come if the only alternative is complete lack of access.
Got an unsupported file format that nobody even writes filters for anymore? Or a dongle-driven program, only the dongle is lost and nobody's manufactured it for years? Or anything like this?
It's a real concern -- with software and hardware changing so rapidly, things break, which theoretically means that libraries and so forth will have difficulties in the years to come making sure that what can be accessed today, will be accessible ten, twenty or fifty-plus years from now.
What part of "primarily designed or produced for" don't you understand?
Debugging tools have the primary purpose of helping to debug code, by stepping through it and monitoring execution. This use is well-established. And, to my knowledge, very few debuggers if any are marketed primarily as a tool against access control; gdb certainly doesn't qualify.
"Fails to permit access because of malfunction..." is just that -- lock broken, so NOBODY can get in until the lock is jimmied. If in a decade or so things like Laserlok become obsolete because NO drive manufactured at the time responds the way Laserlok expects, then it could be bypassed.
Off-hand, I'm not sure that you can do that right now without other cause for suspicion. Drug testing as a condition of participating in team sports caused a controversy by itself, and that's extracurricular; mandatory random tests of every student are a whole different ballgame.
You CAN search the lockers, if I'm not mistaken, because it's school property and the Supreme Court has ruled that there's basically no expectation of privacy there. But the people themselves? Hrm.
Mmm hmm. Glad to know that either you are an expert on, or have a staff to help deal with, such diverse fields as defense contracting, farm subsidies, and international diplomacy. The rest of us mere mortals have other things to do with our lives.
Well, at some point, we should think about establishing a second colony. Right now, Earth is a single point of failure... and we can't rectify the situation without space research, including acceptance of risk.
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Your line about WWII frankly suggests you have no clue what you're talking about.
The most direct provocation for the formal declaration of war by the US was the Japanese suprise attack on the naval base at Pearl Harbor -- 7-Dec-41 if memory serves, which crippled the Pacific fleet.
That the German Unterseeboot U-20 torpedoed and sunk the US ship Lusitania as part of its campaign of unrestricted submarine warfare in 1917 is known to be correct. The US claim that it was NOT carrying war materiel and thus should not have been targetted is, if memory serves, has been disputed. For your info, reporting noted on the PBS site (Lost Liners) suggests that indeed it was NOT smuggling ammunition as the Germans claim.
Well, you can't lock down users or upgrade their firmware.
And they can't really prevent users from saving attachments to disk and running them manually without the equivalents of noexec and read-only, *and* discouraging people from logging in as Adminstrator or giving their regular UID Administrator privs. And if they did THAT, I suspect there would be mucho unhappiness, as folks aren't used to that.
And they don't really provide a chrooted sandbox in which to test executables.
I'm not sure what they CAN do here without causing a hue and cry.
Because it's theft. One wrong does not necessarily excuse another.
It may be unethical to for an aging millionare who hates his family to suddenly start wasting his entire fortune and gambling like mad to make sure no possible heir gets a cent -- but that doesn't make it ethical to rob him to stop the waste.
Ummm... it's rather unlikely that there was JUST ONE copy of the sources copied at MSFT. For instance, every software development engineer on the teams most likely have had their own copy on one or more computers... and they use version control software, plus, most likely, backups to secure media, so they should be able to go back and check for differences between iterations.
I'm reminded of the Pentagon Papers case, in which the US Supreme Court found in favor of (if memory serves; might have been the Post, but I don't think so...) the NY Times when the Feds came after it for publishing classified documents provided by Ellsworth (IIRC. CRP Plumbers even tried to burglarize Ellsworth's psychiatrist's office if memory serves...).
Er, our entire income tax system, including the AMT track, is based on arbitrary cutoffs, not continuous functions.
There are thresholds for such things as the earned-income tax credit. If you're a dollar over these thresholds, these credits don't apply to you. And so forth.
And when the AMT comes into play, making another $1 in earned income can cost you more than a $1 in taxes if you've taken numerous deductions.
What was good about it was that it never turned into a really, really hot one, considering all the different times it might have. Considering how much pure hatred, distrust and contempt that Stalin had for the British and Americans, there probably wasn't any way for the Allies and the USSR to be on pleasant terms after WWII.
At least in 1995, older households typically have a LOT more net financial assets, in terms of both mean and median; so calling them poor simply because their income has reduced -- is remarkably disingenuous. Ever hear of saving for retirement?
For households whose head was 65-74, the meedian net financial assets were the HIGHEST of any age group looked at -- $12,500. That's FAR more than the average $4,800 for 45-54, or $249 for 35-44. Keep in mind that while their medical expenses may be higher, they normally are NOT paying for children's educations at that time, nor are their other expenses normally that high.
It would have set a fairly poor precedent, for instance, to have acquiesced to President Hussein's involuntary annexation of Kuwait on the basis of ancient claims -- both in terms of giving the green light to petty dictators settling scores everywhere (and there are a LOT of places one can dispute on the basis of previous ownership...), and in terms of destabilizing the Middle East. Like it or not, anything that significantly raises the price of imported oil hurts our economy in a BIG way.
This means we have to have sufficient ability to, preferably rapidly, deploy forces in multiple places around the world simultaneously to counter fairly large threats (North Korea has an unusually large military, and Seoul is CLOSE to the DMZ. Iraq *had* a very large army before Desert Shield/Storm. We are committed for now to defending Taiwan should China choose to attack. And so forth.).
In addition to our more direct interests, in certain cases perhaps we should intervene on moral grounds (many complain that the US and UN have largely ignored most of the conflicts in Africa -- notably Rwanda).
Remember, when waging war you don't want to merely achieve parity; you want to bring overwhelming force to achieve a favorable peace with as little loss in personnel, materiel and time as possible. The objective of war is peace... This is especially true for a republic in which the people may not have the stomach for a long, bloody war; bringing a carrier group and launching cruise missiles is *pricey*, but that's nothing compared to the potential human costs in terms of a ground assault.
And the more your potential enemies are convinced that you can, and will, bring such tremendous force to bear upon them should you desire, the less likely it is that a remotely rational leader will risk pissing you off.
The President's CIC. While the Congress still can declare war, those troops shouldn't be going anywhere without the President's consent.
And, incidentally, they can go before Congress consents, as well, judging from recent history... Congress can threaten to cut off funding, but by then it's usually a fait accompli and the President can note how horribly poor it looks for the US to back out of a commitment.
Also as a note, many Socialists and others on the Left called for unilateral disarmament plus withdrawal from Europe during the Cold War...
'coz it's remarkably inefficient given human nature.
The vast bulk of the populace are, by nature, looking out for their self-interest -- if you need evidence, you've no doubt read, watched or listened to people asking, "What's in it for me? Why should I vote for you?" and so forth. Any system focusing so much on redistribution of the wealth is generally built around income taxes, which dramatically reduce the incentive to earn more or work harder. It may be noted that a few administrations ago, the US income tax scales were MUCH more skewed towards "soaking the rich" due to '80s-style Democratic class warfare, and likewise the capital gains tax rates were higher; it's not entirely coincidental that the economy wasn't faring nearly as well, either.
Of course, IIRC we still have oddities like the AMT, which needs to be updated. ISTR a Forbes magazine article a year or so ago, noting real cases of people getting more income taxed at greater than 100% marginal rate when the AMT kicked in -- that is, they would have done better, net, with less earned income and not triggering the AMT. This is, frankly, bizarre.
Hmmm. Being a cynic and all, I'd be tempted to say it doesn't really matter which. In most, probably all, of these cases, we'd get guaranteed gridlock:), and then it's party time on the Street...
But of these, I'd prefer a less-absolutist Browne.
McCain -- No. Posed as if he were taking the high road, basking in overly rosy press that lauded him as if it were the Second Coming, and yet used such constructs as front groups ala Catholic Voter Alert.
Ventura -- Probably not. He hasn't shown that much discretion IMHO; Presidents need to be careful 'bout not gratuitously offending people with pointless remarks.
Aggregate bandwidth requirements would change in an Akamai-like caching server system, at least if not all content is transferred with equal probability, because if clients contact the closest (in terms of links) caching server and the content is still available there, it can deliver it over that shorter distance rather than heading to the server.
If many clients share the same caching server/proxy, and they have similar tastes with regard to what they download, the savings in byte-meters (or whatever unit you choose to use) could be quite significant.
Yes. The word "militia" has already been defined in the U.S. Code. And no, you don't have to be a member of the Armed Forces to be a member; if you're a male within a certain broad age range, or are enlisted in the National Guard, you're pretty much in.
The Senate, IIRC, has a say in almost all (all?) of the appointments that the President tries to fill.
ISTR that certain Senators have been known for putting "holds" on nominations for seats such as Federal judgeships in order to gain leverage; from what I gather, such a hold even blocks a nomination from reaching a confirmation vote until lifted.
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They might be fully aware of the Constitution -- and of the relative lack of concern, or, perhaps, a sense of urgency, among voters...
I'm not sure if I heard the words "copyright" or "Constitution" at ALL during the debates, or any campaign ad, or so forth -- they just pale in comparison to, say, abortion, gun control, environmental protections, or taxes in terms of opinionated constituences it seems.
Depending on the type of gun and location, owning it can be very illegal -- some cities ban handguns (D.C. comes to mind), some ban long guns (NYC, for instance), certain guns are ALWAYS considered worse than others (automatic weapons, 'natch, plus depends on clip size, et cetera) and ISTR that a Federal law banning firearms possession within a certain radius of a school passed, although it wouldn't surprise me if that had been struck down.
The NRA isn't as strong as you seem to think -- they've had their share of losses. But they do, at least, have a lot of experience trying to press the view that the focus should be on punishing misuse, rather than possession.
Failure to permit, not failure to prevent. Locks that can no longer be opened "legitimately"... this provision is most likely to allow libraries, databases and other archives (that is, anybody that would store documents for the long term) to break such control in the years to come if the only alternative is complete lack of access.
Got an unsupported file format that nobody even writes filters for anymore? Or a dongle-driven program, only the dongle is lost and nobody's manufactured it for years? Or anything like this?
It's a real concern -- with software and hardware changing so rapidly, things break, which theoretically means that libraries and so forth will have difficulties in the years to come making sure that what can be accessed today, will be accessible ten, twenty or fifty-plus years from now.
What part of "primarily designed or produced for" don't you understand?
Debugging tools have the primary purpose of helping to debug code, by stepping through it and monitoring execution. This use is well-established. And, to my knowledge, very few debuggers if any are marketed primarily as a tool against access control; gdb certainly doesn't qualify.
Nope. It permits access under Windows.
"Fails to permit access because of malfunction..." is just that -- lock broken, so NOBODY can get in until the lock is jimmied. If in a decade or so things like Laserlok become obsolete because NO drive manufactured at the time responds the way Laserlok expects, then it could be bypassed.
Off-hand, I'm not sure that you can do that right now without other cause for suspicion. Drug testing as a condition of participating in team sports caused a controversy by itself, and that's extracurricular; mandatory random tests of every student are a whole different ballgame.
You CAN search the lockers, if I'm not mistaken, because it's school property and the Supreme Court has ruled that there's basically no expectation of privacy there. But the people themselves? Hrm.
Mmm hmm. Glad to know that either you are an expert on, or have a staff to help deal with, such diverse fields as defense contracting, farm subsidies, and international diplomacy. The rest of us mere mortals have other things to do with our lives.
Well, at some point, we should think about establishing a second colony. Right now, Earth is a single point of failure... and we can't rectify the situation without space research, including acceptance of risk.
Your line about WWII frankly suggests you have no clue what you're talking about.
The most direct provocation for the formal declaration of war by the US was the Japanese suprise attack on the naval base at Pearl Harbor -- 7-Dec-41 if memory serves, which crippled the Pacific fleet.
That the German Unterseeboot U-20 torpedoed and sunk the US ship Lusitania as part of its campaign of unrestricted submarine warfare in 1917 is known to be correct. The US claim that it was NOT carrying war materiel and thus should not have been targetted is, if memory serves, has been disputed. For your info, reporting noted on the PBS site (Lost Liners) suggests that indeed it was NOT smuggling ammunition as the Germans claim.
Bzzt.
Well, you can't lock down users or upgrade their firmware.
And they can't really prevent users from saving attachments to disk and running them manually without the equivalents of noexec and read-only, *and* discouraging people from logging in as Adminstrator or giving their regular UID Administrator privs. And if they did THAT, I suspect there would be mucho unhappiness, as folks aren't used to that.
And they don't really provide a chrooted sandbox in which to test executables.
I'm not sure what they CAN do here without causing a hue and cry.
Because it's theft. One wrong does not necessarily excuse another.
It may be unethical to for an aging millionare who hates his family to suddenly start wasting his entire fortune and gambling like mad to make sure no possible heir gets a cent -- but that doesn't make it ethical to rob him to stop the waste.
Ummm... it's rather unlikely that there was JUST ONE copy of the sources copied at MSFT. For instance, every software development engineer on the teams most likely have had their own copy on one or more computers... and they use version control software, plus, most likely, backups to secure media, so they should be able to go back and check for differences between iterations.
ISTR it was Tactical Studies Rules, oddly enough. But I've not cracked open a TSR product for quite some time...
I'm reminded of the Pentagon Papers case, in which the US Supreme Court found in favor of (if memory serves; might have been the Post, but I don't think so...) the NY Times when the Feds came after it for publishing classified documents provided by Ellsworth (IIRC. CRP Plumbers even tried to burglarize Ellsworth's psychiatrist's office if memory serves...).
Er, our entire income tax system, including the AMT track, is based on arbitrary cutoffs, not continuous functions.
There are thresholds for such things as the earned-income tax credit. If you're a dollar over these thresholds, these credits don't apply to you. And so forth.
And when the AMT comes into play, making another $1 in earned income can cost you more than a $1 in taxes if you've taken numerous deductions.
*shrug*
What was good about it was that it never turned into a really, really hot one, considering all the different times it might have. Considering how much pure hatred, distrust and contempt that Stalin had for the British and Americans, there probably wasn't any way for the Allies and the USSR to be on pleasant terms after WWII.
At least in 1995, older households typically have a LOT more net financial assets, in terms of both mean and median; so calling them poor simply because their income has reduced -- is remarkably disingenuous. Ever hear of saving for retirement?
For households whose head was 65-74, the meedian net financial assets were the HIGHEST of any age group looked at -- $12,500. That's FAR more than the average $4,800 for 45-54, or $249 for 35-44. Keep in mind that while their medical expenses may be higher, they normally are NOT paying for children's educations at that time, nor are their other expenses normally that high.
But thanks for playing.
To help defend our interests.
It would have set a fairly poor precedent, for instance, to have acquiesced to President Hussein's involuntary annexation of Kuwait on the basis of ancient claims -- both in terms of giving the green light to petty dictators settling scores everywhere (and there are a LOT of places one can dispute on the basis of previous ownership...), and in terms of destabilizing the Middle East. Like it or not, anything that significantly raises the price of imported oil hurts our economy in a BIG way.
This means we have to have sufficient ability to, preferably rapidly, deploy forces in multiple places around the world simultaneously to counter fairly large threats (North Korea has an unusually large military, and Seoul is CLOSE to the DMZ. Iraq *had* a very large army before Desert Shield/Storm. We are committed for now to defending Taiwan should China choose to attack. And so forth.).
In addition to our more direct interests, in certain cases perhaps we should intervene on moral grounds (many complain that the US and UN have largely ignored most of the conflicts in Africa -- notably Rwanda).
Remember, when waging war you don't want to merely achieve parity; you want to bring overwhelming force to achieve a favorable peace with as little loss in personnel, materiel and time as possible. The objective of war is peace... This is especially true for a republic in which the people may not have the stomach for a long, bloody war; bringing a carrier group and launching cruise missiles is *pricey*, but that's nothing compared to the potential human costs in terms of a ground assault.
And the more your potential enemies are convinced that you can, and will, bring such tremendous force to bear upon them should you desire, the less likely it is that a remotely rational leader will risk pissing you off.
Thank Cthulhu.
He's not a deity; he's just an ancient, very powerful, magical, enormous vaguely cephalopodish humanoid from outer space.
:)
The President's CIC. While the Congress still can declare war, those troops shouldn't be going anywhere without the President's consent.
And, incidentally, they can go before Congress consents, as well, judging from recent history... Congress can threaten to cut off funding, but by then it's usually a fait accompli and the President can note how horribly poor it looks for the US to back out of a commitment.
Also as a note, many Socialists and others on the Left called for unilateral disarmament plus withdrawal from Europe during the Cold War...
'coz it's remarkably inefficient given human nature.
The vast bulk of the populace are, by nature, looking out for their self-interest -- if you need evidence, you've no doubt read, watched or listened to people asking, "What's in it for me? Why should I vote for you?" and so forth. Any system focusing so much on redistribution of the wealth is generally built around income taxes, which dramatically reduce the incentive to earn more or work harder. It may be noted that a few administrations ago, the US income tax scales were MUCH more skewed towards "soaking the rich" due to '80s-style Democratic class warfare, and likewise the capital gains tax rates were higher; it's not entirely coincidental that the economy wasn't faring nearly as well, either.
Of course, IIRC we still have oddities like the AMT, which needs to be updated. ISTR a Forbes magazine article a year or so ago, noting real cases of people getting more income taxed at greater than 100% marginal rate when the AMT kicked in -- that is, they would have done better, net, with less earned income and not triggering the AMT. This is, frankly, bizarre.
*chuckle*
:), and then it's party time on the Street...
Hmmm. Being a cynic and all, I'd be tempted to say it doesn't really matter which. In most, probably all, of these cases, we'd get guaranteed gridlock
But of these, I'd prefer a less-absolutist Browne.
McCain -- No. Posed as if he were taking the high road, basking in overly rosy press that lauded him as if it were the Second Coming, and yet used such constructs as front groups ala Catholic Voter Alert.
Ventura -- Probably not. He hasn't shown that much discretion IMHO; Presidents need to be careful 'bout not gratuitously offending people with pointless remarks.
Aggregate bandwidth requirements would change in an Akamai-like caching server system, at least if not all content is transferred with equal probability, because if clients contact the closest (in terms of links) caching server and the content is still available there, it can deliver it over that shorter distance rather than heading to the server.
If many clients share the same caching server/proxy, and they have similar tastes with regard to what they download, the savings in byte-meters (or whatever unit you choose to use) could be quite significant.
Yes. The word "militia" has already been defined in the U.S. Code. And no, you don't have to be a member of the Armed Forces to be a member; if you're a male within a certain broad age range, or are enlisted in the National Guard, you're pretty much in.
The Senate, IIRC, has a say in almost all (all?) of the appointments that the President tries to fill.
ISTR that certain Senators have been known for putting "holds" on nominations for seats such as Federal judgeships in order to gain leverage; from what I gather, such a hold even blocks a nomination from reaching a confirmation vote until lifted.