On 2/14/2011 11:07 PM, dickbalaska wrote:
> Warp<war### [at] tagpovrayorg>  wrote:
>
>>    The problem with that is that it's unconstitutional (at least here).
>> The government has no right to stop people from sending or receiving legal
>> information.
>
> And yet they banned radar detectors, which is just a radio; and "made illegal" a
> dish that could receive the unscrambled HBO signal, way back when.
>
Strictly speaking, the former is an attempt to undermine legal 
authority, and the later was reception of content you where *supposed* 
to be paying the company for. Sadly, it never seemed to occur to them 
that the best solution was to encrypt the damn signal in the first 
place, until later. Sort of like if some fool tried sending "secret" 
data, in plain English, over telephone lines, but "encrypted" it as it 
entered the building at its destination, then decrypted it again at the 
telephone. Anyone with an ounce of sense would have gone, "Heh, now.. 
wait a second..."

In any case, one can argue that neither is, technically, "legal 
information".

-- 
void main () {

     if version = "Vista" {
       call slow_by_half();
       call DRM_everything();
     }
     call functional_code();
   }
   else
     call crash_windows();
}

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