Windows 2000 is The Borg!

[David Rouse]

Dimitrij Klingbeil wrote:

To hell the law! How many licensed copies of W2K+XP are in use? How many
unlicensed are? Do you really think that a federal law will be effective
unless you're going to attach a goddamn CIA agent to every man everywhere
in the world. As with the hardware, you'll always be able to assemble a
working PC by buying each card/component separately even if (and this tends
to be true nowadays) the components have been made not within the country
you live in just because it is more profitable for those companies to
assemble different parts at different locations and sell them without
worrying about who buys them and what for he uses them. Modern hardware is
far too complicated to be easily tampered with, so there is no point in
attempting to reverse-engineer e.g. an NVidia gfx card. Did you know that a
law exists (Sorry, I forgot in which jurisdiction) that requires a hacker
to set some sort of 'i am a hacker' flag during login to the ISP. Now tell
me, what use will be of this law. It's obvious, a law is far not everything
and there is a vast difference between things allowed and those done. As
for your 'note to spammers', do you think someone using an open-relay
server in Ho-Chi-Mingh City (or wherever) will care about a Washington
State Resident?

Having all this said, I apologize for the language used, I just had to
comment on the omnipotence of law and what it appears to me.

Politicans pass these silly laws so the can look like they're doing
something without really addressing the problem. Law enforcement loves
them because it gives them something to bludgeon people with to make
them toe the line.

US out of North America, nobody for president on '04.

Dave