The problem with your argument is that the possession of arms is a constitutional right. Driving a car is a privilege not a right.
When you remove people constitutional rights they have to already have done something (due process you know) or it's unconstitutional. Privacy is a constitutional right. Requiring a license to use encryption because you may or may not be a terrorist is unconstitutional. This is not rocket science you know. Arguing for the government to take away people constitutional rights without due process on the 2nd amendment and vigorously arguing for them to preserve those rights on the 1st amendment is at the very least hypocritical. If you don't like certain rights granted by the constitution then argue for a constitutional convention to take away those rights.
This judge is not clueless
Judge Alsup writes code
Quote from this judge from this same case before the appeal I believe I have done, and still do, a significant amount of programming in other languages. I've written blocks of code like rangeCheck a hundred times before. I could do it, you could do it. The idea that someone would copy that when they could do it themselves just as fast, it was an accident. There's no way you could say that was speeding them along to the marketplace. You're one of the best lawyers in America, how could you even make that kind of argument?
The elephant in the room that everyone seems to ignore is how easy it is to get a warrant from a Judge these days. The bar is so low that an ant could step right over it without touching it.
it seems that these documents were leaked from a prestigious law firm no? So that being the case it seems that you would be better served to hire them to deal with hiding your money. Now I'm not sure that the people that used this law firm "did the paperwork" themselves. And so there is a financial barrier to entry obviously
They had a vibrant community around their products when they were open but since they came out with a new closed system they have basically been abandoned by the community. Good luck to them.
Fedora and Arch and just about every other Linux distro are NIH solutions including Android. If you are not using Slackware then you are using NIH solutions. What's your point? SystemD is a NIH solution, Wayland is a NIH solution, Pulse Audio is a NIH solution, Gnome and KDE are NIH solutions. I could go on and on. Your argument that people should not innovate to suit their own needs and use cases is moronic at best. The NIH excuse is tired and beaten to death. trying to use NIH to justify your hate for Canonical is quite adolescent at best. Grow the fuck up. - smh
Software patents should be outlawed. The US Supreme Court seems to take a dim view on software patents. Code that allows text to render before images is not innovation. Telling you that I own any code you write that enables a specific feature such as that is not innovation its extortion...legalized extortion. Software patents for simple features like that should have never been applied for and should have never been granted. Microsoft abuses patents on software in an effort to stifle open-source in the marketplace. They have even warned that this is the method they will use against Linux and they have been executing that plan for a while now. It's not just Android it's any device that runs Linux. They have been using fat patents against Linux device makers for a while now. Companies like the NAS maker Buffalo which uses Linux on their devices and have nothing to do with Android has to pay up.
When you see state laws like this that propagate throughout the states and usually supported by Republican politicians throughout the states you can attribute it to ALEC ALEC is a forum where conservative politicians and big business and interest groups rub together and create legislation (model legislation) for the benefit of those big businesses and interest groups.
they confiscated almost all modern guns from the people. The people won't stand for making most guns illegal to own and confiscation of their guns in the USA. Now, in Australia if you are rich or politically connected that doesn't apply to you. So do we make rules that the common man can't own something but the politicians, politically connected, and the rich won't have a problem owning due to their vast resources?
those solutions do not help when a creature enters your house and threatens your family...sorry. And having the Gestapo coming to your house to check your guns or your encryption or whatever else is not a desirable solution.
You really don't need the NRA to whip up fear and paranoia. When you have the current president and the leading Democratic contender mentioning Australia's "gun control" as a model to follow and many other politicians from a specific political party holding up Japan as a model for America when it comes to "gun control" then you can see the "paranoia" is quite justified without the need to invoke the NRA boogyman.
Eventually once they figure out how to program in the increased complexity that extreme customizations bring then the humans will once again be replaced by robots. Nothing to see here.
While I'm on Apple's side in this one. The argument that this is against the constitution is, well...arguable.
The constitution says: "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects,[a] against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized"
So we need a sworn court order which, to be fair, has been attained
Well the only examples I've ever seen where there is no government is Somalia, Waziristan, Afghanistan and the like. Basically what the anti-goverment people fail to forget is that there is a thing called human nature and with the lack of government you have a warlord society.
If roads and bridges were built based on market needs then only big cities would have roads and bridges.
While I agree with the majority of your post I would note that it's not just Hillary Clinton calling for back doors. All the republican candidates are too with one notable exception. Rand Paul.
As far as the TSA thing goes. It's important to note that in America, optics matters more than reality. We are a society of drama and optics. You can generally thank the for-profit news media for that where their concern is about ratings not reality. So when something happens and you see the CNN and Fox news talking heads and pundits calling for the government to do more to protect us from "The Muslims", the government reacts because optics matters not reality.
I distinctly remember when there was a big broohaha over the orphans coming over the southern border and pundits and opposition party officials were calling for the President to visit the border and claiming the President doesn't care because he didn't visit the border as if him visiting the border during that time was going to make a shred of difference. However people didn't care about the reality of the situation they cared about the optics of the President visiting the border and that was it.
North Korea = Authoritarian paradise.
Somalia = Libertarian paradise.
While I agree that this law is moronic and brought to you by the bed wetters of America the fact still remains, a land of little to no government will look like Somalia or Afghanistan.
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THIS^^
The problem with your argument is that the possession of arms is a constitutional right. Driving a car is a privilege not a right.
When you remove people constitutional rights they have to already have done something (due process you know) or it's unconstitutional. Privacy is a constitutional right. Requiring a license to use encryption because you may or may not be a terrorist is unconstitutional. This is not rocket science you know. Arguing for the government to take away people constitutional rights without due process on the 2nd amendment and vigorously arguing for them to preserve those rights on the 1st amendment is at the very least hypocritical. If you don't like certain rights granted by the constitution then argue for a constitutional convention to take away those rights.
because no one is petitioning the government to investigate them like they did with the family of the boy that visited the gorilla in his habitat.
Voyager is barely interstellar let alone intergalactic. I doubt it will ever make it to intergalactic space in the lifetime of our solar system
Judge Alsup writes code
Quote from this judge from this same case before the appeal I believe
I have done, and still do, a significant amount of programming in other languages. I've written blocks of code like rangeCheck a hundred times before. I could do it, you could do it. The idea that someone would copy that when they could do it themselves just as fast, it was an accident. There's no way you could say that was speeding them along to the marketplace. You're one of the best lawyers in America, how could you even make that kind of argument?
"breaks the law"
[citation needed]
The elephant in the room that everyone seems to ignore is how easy it is to get a warrant from a Judge these days. The bar is so low that an ant could step right over it without touching it.
it seems that these documents were leaked from a prestigious law firm no? So that being the case it seems that you would be better served to hire them to deal with hiding your money. Now I'm not sure that the people that used this law firm "did the paperwork" themselves. And so there is a financial barrier to entry obviously
so your arguement falls flat on its face hard
They had a vibrant community around their products when they were open but since they came out with a new closed system they have basically been abandoned by the community. Good luck to them.
Fedora and Arch and just about every other Linux distro are NIH solutions including Android. If you are not using Slackware then you are using NIH solutions. What's your point? SystemD is a NIH solution, Wayland is a NIH solution, Pulse Audio is a NIH solution, Gnome and KDE are NIH solutions. I could go on and on. Your argument that people should not innovate to suit their own needs and use cases is moronic at best. The NIH excuse is tired and beaten to death. trying to use NIH to justify your hate for Canonical is quite adolescent at best. Grow the fuck up. - smh
This is why we can't have nice things. This government regulation is stifling companies and killing jobs.
Software patents should be outlawed. The US Supreme Court seems to take a dim view on software patents. Code that allows text to render before images is not innovation. Telling you that I own any code you write that enables a specific feature such as that is not innovation its extortion...legalized extortion. Software patents for simple features like that should have never been applied for and should have never been granted. Microsoft abuses patents on software in an effort to stifle open-source in the marketplace. They have even warned that this is the method they will use against Linux and they have been executing that plan for a while now. It's not just Android it's any device that runs Linux. They have been using fat patents against Linux device makers for a while now. Companies like the NAS maker Buffalo which uses Linux on their devices and have nothing to do with Android has to pay up.
When you see state laws like this that propagate throughout the states and usually supported by Republican politicians throughout the states you can attribute it to ALEC ALEC is a forum where conservative politicians and big business and interest groups rub together and create legislation (model legislation) for the benefit of those big businesses and interest groups.
they confiscated almost all modern guns from the people. The people won't stand for making most guns illegal to own and confiscation of their guns in the USA. Now, in Australia if you are rich or politically connected that doesn't apply to you. So do we make rules that the common man can't own something but the politicians, politically connected, and the rich won't have a problem owning due to their vast resources?
those solutions do not help when a creature enters your house and threatens your family...sorry. And having the Gestapo coming to your house to check your guns or your encryption or whatever else is not a desirable solution.
You really don't need the NRA to whip up fear and paranoia. When you have the current president and the leading Democratic contender mentioning Australia's "gun control" as a model to follow and many other politicians from a specific political party holding up Japan as a model for America when it comes to "gun control" then you can see the "paranoia" is quite justified without the need to invoke the NRA boogyman.
Eventually once they figure out how to program in the increased complexity that extreme customizations bring then the humans will once again be replaced by robots. Nothing to see here.
While I'm on Apple's side in this one. The argument that this is against the constitution is, well...arguable.
The constitution says:
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects,[a] against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized"
So we need a sworn court order which, to be fair, has been attained
Maybe I'm missing something here?
link is broken.
and don't forget dRonin which is a fork of TauLabs which is a fork of Openpilot.
So this is the end of open source firmware on basically any device with a radio
So you like the idea the corporations are people? yet when the fuck up they don't get thrown in jail.
Well the only examples I've ever seen where there is no government is Somalia, Waziristan, Afghanistan and the like. Basically what the anti-goverment people fail to forget is that there is a thing called human nature and with the lack of government you have a warlord society.
If roads and bridges were built based on market needs then only big cities would have roads and bridges.
While I agree with the majority of your post I would note that it's not just Hillary Clinton calling for back doors. All the republican candidates are too with one notable exception. Rand Paul.
As far as the TSA thing goes. It's important to note that in America, optics matters more than reality. We are a society of drama and optics. You can generally thank the for-profit news media for that where their concern is about ratings not reality. So when something happens and you see the CNN and Fox news talking heads and pundits calling for the government to do more to protect us from "The Muslims", the government reacts because optics matters not reality.
I distinctly remember when there was a big broohaha over the orphans coming over the southern border and pundits and opposition party officials were calling for the President to visit the border and claiming the President doesn't care because he didn't visit the border as if him visiting the border during that time was going to make a shred of difference. However people didn't care about the reality of the situation they cared about the optics of the President visiting the border and that was it.
North Korea = Authoritarian paradise.
Somalia = Libertarian paradise.
While I agree that this law is moronic and brought to you by the bed wetters of America the fact still remains, a land of little to no government will look like Somalia or Afghanistan.