That'd be one Hell of a way to keep speeding in check.
How long before someone posts plans for a portable device for sending out bogus messages?
More to the point, would such a device be illegal? It would probably be an almost required item for terrorists. It would be an effective means of spreading panic. Drive around letting people get all sorts of warnings about various disturbances that never materialize. Human beings can be pretty paranoid, so a lot of folks will, instead of thinking they're being messed with or their device is faulty, will think things are happening that are then being covered up.
Anyone here remember how the US managed to cause the biggest non-nuclear explosion the Soviet Union had ever seen?
The Commies had stolen software for managing oil pipelines. What they didn't know was that the software has been tampered with to throw off oil pressure all along the pipeline.
The result was a massive explosion that shut down oil transfer across the USSR.
We should give up on trying to get Iran to stop building a nuke, and do our best to make sure they blow themselves up before they can harm anyone else. Let them steal vital data, but make sure that data is subtly modified so if they use it, their reactor suffers form a nice bout of China Syndrome while trying to enrich Uranium.
With some reactive intelligence, we could kill off their scientists, cripple their nuclear program, shame and humiliate their leaders and potentially cause major damage to their infrastructure.
We already know right and wrong. Getting a terrorist's "perspective" or hearing interviews with the family of a suicide bomber about how it changed their life is not the kind of tripe we need on the air.
NPR is a bunch of hand wringing nonsense, more interested in trying to guilt us into agreeing to demands than in actually fixing what's wrong with the world.
If NPR were our major news source, the post Sept 11 coverage would have consisted of story after story about how the big, evil Americans had "pushed these poor, defenseless Muslims to acts of violence."
And hiding behind the claim that NPR's liberal content is somehow "intellectual" is an absurd sham. Being liberal does NOT make you "intellectual."
Not only will we (the taxpayers) be footing the bill for broadband, but we'll be on the hook for low end computers as well.
And you KNOW this will just mean an increase in the number of scammers jumping online, hijacking other connections or creating false identities to get their free government subsidized broadband.
And naturally, the prices will go up for the rest of to get marginally better service than the base line 'Slower than dialup" service the government will offer.
The wiretapping issue is a red herring. What the press isn't talking about is the fact that the taps were against terrorists, not US citizens.
And tell me, don't you think the government would have actually gotten a warrant if it weren't for the threat of leaks on the court system that can authorize wiretaps after the fact?
They have three days to get one, but they avoided those judges anyway. What do YOU think is the more likely explanation?
1. The Federal Government is engaging in a massive conspiracy to erode our civil liberties.
2. One or more highly placed judges are being investigated for terrorist ties, and as a result, any investigations have to be kept form their notice.
Which explanation do YOU think is simpler? Which is more likely, a government wide march towards the very ideals we most urgently oppose, or a few corrupt judges?
Don't be snowballed in all of this. Microsoft is being railroaded, because the EU is scared of having an American company producing the software that runs 99% of the West's business operations.
It's all about trying to get a slice of the pie. Once they saw how MS got railroaded by the US on the Monopoly charges, they rubbed their hands with glee and started concocting ways to get their own slice of sweet, sweet Microsoft money.
The bottom line is, as long as MS is selling software in the EU, the EU will be going after MS.
If they stop selling in the EU, the EU will sue them for discrimination, and strum up some charges based on "Anti European" strategies.
It's all about attacking the wealthy, unpopular guy because they know the masses will support them in lock step.
Do you know why Franklin went to France? Because he was a spy. Franklin, one of the so called "Founding Fathers" was one of the biggest proponents of espionage. Show me the evidence that the government has been spying on US citizens and not on foreign terrorists? Got any?
No?
Gee, I wonder why.
The Founding Fathers were wealthy men who were out to find a better deal, a better way to line their pockets. Upon learning that King George would never give them the opportunities they wanted, they went out and MADE their own opportunities. It was the biggest financial gamble in history and they won.
Don't delude yourself for a moment about their motives. They, like the rest of the human race, were motivated by money. Those wonderful checks and balances existed more for the protection of business interests than anything else.
If all these "freedoms" Liberals crow about were so important to the Founding Fathers, why were they in a Amendments to the Constitution instead of in the Constitution itself? Could it be because they were a Gasp Afterthought?
The arguments against the Patriot Act tend to be amusing at best, but are generally frustrating. The objectors are a bunch of libertarians getting people into a froth over supposed threats to privacy, as if concealing the fact that you checked "Winnie the Pooh" out of the library is more important than gathering enough information to stop the next WTC bombing before it happens.
News Flash: Our lives have not been negatively impacted by The Patriot Act. Far from it. Anyone else remember the news stories a few weeks ago where the White House revealed that they'd stopped a WTC like terrorist attack?
Oh, wait, because it's a case of national security, and because they didn't want to panic the intended targets, they couldn't release enough details for the media to start frothing at the mouth, so it wasn't heavily reported.
Go ahead and sit there, criticizing the people defending our lives. Enjoy your arm chair crime fighting.
Well, thank you Open Sores.
Thanks to your need to get all your software for free, and your absurd need to have the source code, we now have kits out there that any Tom, Dick or Harry can use to pretend to be someone else.
This has GOT to be great for the Script Kiddies who want to prank call the cute English teacher they all have a crush on.
Let's be blunt here. This is the government telling companies they can't try and be competitive, they can't make deals to offer premium services. This curtails competitive behavior. The nit-wits supporting this bill will be screaming their heads off when the government has to step in to bail out the bankrupt telcos in five years.
Seriously though, I thought you needed some special licenses to put on a fireworks display. Aren't they vulnerable to criminal charges if they light up another firecracker like that over the Texas sky? What about damage from falling debris?
I learned yesterday that my cousin is suicidally depressed. He's so intent on killing himself that he's gone and become an astronaut.
Let's all look at this and think about how much bandwidth could have been saved had he just written "Fark you" instead of encrypting it.
I guess that's another reason to curtail frivolous encryption usage. It bloats the size of the data.
No only will bandwidth be wasted downloading the latest "Survivor" but the file will be 30% larger because some a**hat ran it through PGP before uploading it.
That people who are too cheap to buy software love communistic schemes to cook up a shoddy imitation?
On a related note, is Red Hat trying to look like Windows 95 or Apple 8.0 this week?
Ten to one Skype found the AMD kit just couldn't handle the load of that many calls. Instead of burdening their customers with inferior performance and choppy connections, they decided to restrict those connections to chips that could actually handle it.
Why is there so much fapping over AMD here anyway?
Oh great, another issue for the liberals to get their panties in a knot.
I wonder how long it will take for All Franken to start whining about this on his radio show, annoying both his listeners as he whimpers about what a misuse of technology this is, and what a horrible miscarriage of justice it entails.
And why shouldn't the government monitor network traffic?
Times have changed dramatically. By the time you've gotten a warrant to decrypt a packet, the criminal hiding things in that file could have committed the crime they were orchestrating or discarded that online identity for a new one.
This is an information technology arms race, and your ability to keep your letters to your mistress a secret is trumped by my desire to have the CIA catch the next suicide bomber of airplane hijacker BEFORE they kill me, not after.
All this bellyaching about piracy is absurd. Which is more important, the government using an automated system to decrypt some e-mail, or NOT being murdered in a terrorist attack? Would you rather let a pedophile rape and murder a few kids, so long as your precious e-mail isn't decrypted and read by a computer?
I'm sorry, but your Eric Raymond Slash fiction isn't worth the life of my nephew.
Visit your average bittorrent web site.
How many of those downloads are LEGAL???
The article focused on bittorrent because it's the piracy technology of choice. The valid, legal use of bittorrent probably accounts for less than 1% of the total traffic.
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That'd be one Hell of a way to keep speeding in check.
How long before someone posts plans for a portable device for sending out bogus messages?
More to the point, would such a device be illegal? It would probably be an almost required item for terrorists. It would be an effective means of spreading panic. Drive around letting people get all sorts of warnings about various disturbances that never materialize. Human beings can be pretty paranoid, so a lot of folks will, instead of thinking they're being messed with or their device is faulty, will think things are happening that are then being covered up.
Anyone here remember how the US managed to cause the biggest non-nuclear explosion the Soviet Union had ever seen? The Commies had stolen software for managing oil pipelines. What they didn't know was that the software has been tampered with to throw off oil pressure all along the pipeline. The result was a massive explosion that shut down oil transfer across the USSR. We should give up on trying to get Iran to stop building a nuke, and do our best to make sure they blow themselves up before they can harm anyone else. Let them steal vital data, but make sure that data is subtly modified so if they use it, their reactor suffers form a nice bout of China Syndrome while trying to enrich Uranium. With some reactive intelligence, we could kill off their scientists, cripple their nuclear program, shame and humiliate their leaders and potentially cause major damage to their infrastructure.
We already know right and wrong. Getting a terrorist's "perspective" or hearing interviews with the family of a suicide bomber about how it changed their life is not the kind of tripe we need on the air.
NPR is a bunch of hand wringing nonsense, more interested in trying to guilt us into agreeing to demands than in actually fixing what's wrong with the world.
If NPR were our major news source, the post Sept 11 coverage would have consisted of story after story about how the big, evil Americans had "pushed these poor, defenseless Muslims to acts of violence."
And hiding behind the claim that NPR's liberal content is somehow "intellectual" is an absurd sham. Being liberal does NOT make you "intellectual."
Not only will we (the taxpayers) be footing the bill for broadband, but we'll be on the hook for low end computers as well.
And you KNOW this will just mean an increase in the number of scammers jumping online, hijacking other connections or creating false identities to get their free government subsidized broadband.
And naturally, the prices will go up for the rest of to get marginally better service than the base line 'Slower than dialup" service the government will offer.
This is just another reason to vote Republican.
Feh. Sleep? More caffeine. :)
The wiretapping issue is a red herring. What the press isn't talking about is the fact that the taps were against terrorists, not US citizens.
And tell me, don't you think the government would have actually gotten a warrant if it weren't for the threat of leaks on the court system that can authorize wiretaps after the fact?
They have three days to get one, but they avoided those judges anyway. What do YOU think is the more likely explanation?
1. The Federal Government is engaging in a massive conspiracy to erode our civil liberties.
2. One or more highly placed judges are being investigated for terrorist ties, and as a result, any investigations have to be kept form their notice.
Which explanation do YOU think is simpler? Which is more likely, a government wide march towards the very ideals we most urgently oppose, or a few corrupt judges?
Of course, Franklin was the first real US spy. WHy do you think he went to France? Hint, it wasn't for the cheese.
Don't be snowballed in all of this. Microsoft is being railroaded, because the EU is scared of having an American company producing the software that runs 99% of the West's business operations. It's all about trying to get a slice of the pie. Once they saw how MS got railroaded by the US on the Monopoly charges, they rubbed their hands with glee and started concocting ways to get their own slice of sweet, sweet Microsoft money. The bottom line is, as long as MS is selling software in the EU, the EU will be going after MS. If they stop selling in the EU, the EU will sue them for discrimination, and strum up some charges based on "Anti European" strategies. It's all about attacking the wealthy, unpopular guy because they know the masses will support them in lock step.
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Why???
Oh, right, because a bunch of conspiracy theorists are convinces that Bush won because someone cheated in the election.
The Patriot act and the war powers of the President seem insufficient to the task of keeping us safe. They clearly need to be expanded.
Well, with that you came CLOSE to making sense and using logic over Liberal Fear Mongering.
Close. Keep working on it though. You might grow a brain yet.
Oh, wait, it's a Microsoft backed format, so the OSS crowd will consider it "teh evi1" without giving a second glance or trying to implement it.
Do you know why Franklin went to France? Because he was a spy. Franklin, one of the so called "Founding Fathers" was one of the biggest proponents of espionage. Show me the evidence that the government has been spying on US citizens and not on foreign terrorists? Got any?
No?
Gee, I wonder why.
The Founding Fathers were wealthy men who were out to find a better deal, a better way to line their pockets. Upon learning that King George would never give them the opportunities they wanted, they went out and MADE their own opportunities. It was the biggest financial gamble in history and they won.
Don't delude yourself for a moment about their motives. They, like the rest of the human race, were motivated by money. Those wonderful checks and balances existed more for the protection of business interests than anything else.
If all these "freedoms" Liberals crow about were so important to the Founding Fathers, why were they in a Amendments to the Constitution instead of in the Constitution itself? Could it be because they were a Gasp Afterthought?
Sooo, people who read terrorist propaganda need to be protected. Riiiiight.
The arguments against the Patriot Act tend to be amusing at best, but are generally frustrating. The objectors are a bunch of libertarians getting people into a froth over supposed threats to privacy, as if concealing the fact that you checked "Winnie the Pooh" out of the library is more important than gathering enough information to stop the next WTC bombing before it happens. News Flash: Our lives have not been negatively impacted by The Patriot Act. Far from it. Anyone else remember the news stories a few weeks ago where the White House revealed that they'd stopped a WTC like terrorist attack? Oh, wait, because it's a case of national security, and because they didn't want to panic the intended targets, they couldn't release enough details for the media to start frothing at the mouth, so it wasn't heavily reported. Go ahead and sit there, criticizing the people defending our lives. Enjoy your arm chair crime fighting.
Well, thank you Open Sores. Thanks to your need to get all your software for free, and your absurd need to have the source code, we now have kits out there that any Tom, Dick or Harry can use to pretend to be someone else. This has GOT to be great for the Script Kiddies who want to prank call the cute English teacher they all have a crush on.
Let's be blunt here. This is the government telling companies they can't try and be competitive, they can't make deals to offer premium services. This curtails competitive behavior. The nit-wits supporting this bill will be screaming their heads off when the government has to step in to bail out the bankrupt telcos in five years.
Seriously though, I thought you needed some special licenses to put on a fireworks display. Aren't they vulnerable to criminal charges if they light up another firecracker like that over the Texas sky? What about damage from falling debris?
I learned yesterday that my cousin is suicidally depressed. He's so intent on killing himself that he's gone and become an astronaut.
Let's all look at this and think about how much bandwidth could have been saved had he just written "Fark you" instead of encrypting it.
I guess that's another reason to curtail frivolous encryption usage. It bloats the size of the data.
No only will bandwidth be wasted downloading the latest "Survivor" but the file will be 30% larger because some a**hat ran it through PGP before uploading it.
That people who are too cheap to buy software love communistic schemes to cook up a shoddy imitation? On a related note, is Red Hat trying to look like Windows 95 or Apple 8.0 this week?
Ten to one Skype found the AMD kit just couldn't handle the load of that many calls. Instead of burdening their customers with inferior performance and choppy connections, they decided to restrict those connections to chips that could actually handle it. Why is there so much fapping over AMD here anyway?
Oh great, another issue for the liberals to get their panties in a knot.
I wonder how long it will take for All Franken to start whining about this on his radio show, annoying both his listeners as he whimpers about what a misuse of technology this is, and what a horrible miscarriage of justice it entails.
What's the course called, "Terrorist and hacker training 204"?
What about public domain files? What about the Creative Commons?
Well, if bittorrent traffic on files of that kind amounted to more than 1% of bittorrent traffic, you'd have a point.
Face it, we're talking about a technology used largely for piracy that has a handful of legal uses that aren't really used all that often.
And why shouldn't the government monitor network traffic? Times have changed dramatically. By the time you've gotten a warrant to decrypt a packet, the criminal hiding things in that file could have committed the crime they were orchestrating or discarded that online identity for a new one. This is an information technology arms race, and your ability to keep your letters to your mistress a secret is trumped by my desire to have the CIA catch the next suicide bomber of airplane hijacker BEFORE they kill me, not after. All this bellyaching about piracy is absurd. Which is more important, the government using an automated system to decrypt some e-mail, or NOT being murdered in a terrorist attack? Would you rather let a pedophile rape and murder a few kids, so long as your precious e-mail isn't decrypted and read by a computer? I'm sorry, but your Eric Raymond Slash fiction isn't worth the life of my nephew.
Visit your average bittorrent web site. How many of those downloads are LEGAL??? The article focused on bittorrent because it's the piracy technology of choice. The valid, legal use of bittorrent probably accounts for less than 1% of the total traffic.