Posted on 02/20/2009 6:01:36 AM PST by rabscuttle385
In other news, Republican minority status in Congress is predicted to last until at least 2020.
I’m certain that these politicians will have their home computers tapped as well. /sarc
PING!
They don’t call it the stupid party for nothing!
With Republicans like this, who needs Democrats?
This has *nothing* to do with the Social Conservative agenda. This is globalism, pure and simple.
Just about the republicans start to head toward the right path, someone jumps out front and craps on the trail.
Australia is already moving to this form of Internet censorship ostensibly to prevent access to child pornography, but already the government is adding to the list of objectionable sites and could easily declare sites like this to contain objectionable hate speech. read article here
I never liked Corynyn. He promoted the Real ID Act along at the same time, more breaks for illegals.Legislation rules these days, if you want to push a P.O.S. that no one wants, just mention, “it’s for the childrun” !
guilty before innocent.
Stupid party in action.
Hey, I didn’t say it was the good side of it! But yes, using state authority to ‘protect’ children is clearly a leaning of the social conservative (rather than libertarian) end of the Republican tent. Almost by definition they are the ones more inclined to use state power to enforce morality. In this case, massive state intrusion to prospectively stop some crimes. You can’t tell me this is a civil libertarian propensity!
If folks had any idea how easy it is to spoof a MAC addy, they would know what a silly waste of time this whole idea is- Therefore, it must have another, more nefarious purpose.
I notice it’s Republicans doing this.
Gee, sure sounds like they got the right message from their drubbing, huh? /sarc
Those deck chairs sure are crooked. I must go straighten them!
/mark
Exactly right!
It’s garbage like this that prevents me from ever being a republican.
They claim to be for limited government, yet they jump at the chance to implement ‘big brother’ type policies such as this one.
“If folks had any idea how easy it is to spoof a MAC addy, they would know what a silly waste of time this whole idea is- Therefore, it must have another, more nefarious purpose.”
I have 17 hotspots within range from my living room. Two of them use WAP encryption, nine use WEP encryption, the remaining six are open. How hard do they think it would be for me to use one of those other hotspots... Should i ever do anythign that nefarious. And how in the heck do they think they are going to get all of these router retrofitted with this software or replaced. Who am I kidding they would probably make it a requirement for all ISP to knock you offline unless you upgrade your router...
Don’t put anything past them.
“If folks had any idea how easy it is to spoof a MAC addy, they would know what a silly waste of time this whole idea is-”
That wouldn’t solve the problem, would it?
If you have to log in to the ISP to get access then they still know who you are.
So if you have an unsecured wireless router because you don’t know what you’re doing, you are breaking the law.
But talk about unfunded mandates! Most wireless hotspots are simply standard store-bought wireless routers with hot-spot software in them. They cannot hold two years worth of data.
But now I see a market, a wireless router with hot spot software and a terabyte hard drive. These things already exist as media servers, so it’s just a software tweak to turn them into compliant hot spots. Still, it’s money businesses and libraries shouldn’t have to spend.
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