Re: Microsoft finally acknowledges the security drumbeats

From: Gavin Kerr (gk@quantumlemming.net)
Date: 02/25/02 

From: "Gavin Kerr" <gk@quantumlemming.net>
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 18:42:36 GMT

In article <u1yfa87oj.fsf@usa.net>, "Marty Fouts" <usenet-user@usa.net>
immanentized the Eschaton by saying:

> kashe@rahul.net (Ken Ashe) writes:
>
>> In article <ug03q8jl9.fsf@usa.net>, usenet-user@usa.net says...
>> >
>> >kashe@rahul.net (Ken Ashe) writes:
>> >
>> >> In article <u7kpa405t.fsf@usa.net>, usenet-user@usa.net says...
>> >> >
>> >> >"Dave Korn" <no.spam@my.mailbox.invalid> writes:
>> >> >
>> >> >> "Marty Fouts" <usenet-user@usa.net> wrote in message

[snip...]

>> Dave asked if we were free, under the Constitution, to do anything not
>> explicitly forbidden by law.
>
> Um, no, he asked if the constitution containend anything that could be
> construed to say individuals can do "absolutely anything, until and
> unless explicitly forbidden by law."
>
> That's a different question than your rewording, I think.
>
>> You said, "No." I can't see any way I could be charged with any action
>> not forbidden by law.
>
> That may be true. It's also a different issue. Whether you can or
> cannot be charged for an action in a criminal court is a considerably
> different topic than whether or not the constitution is so written as to
> allow the action if it is not denied.
>
>> Just curious -- is your answer based on his use of the word
>> "explicitly"?
>
> No. It's actually based on an understanding of the social contract and
> the realization that there are no absolute freedoms. The constitution
> doesn't offer absolute freedom.
>

RTFM:

Amendment X

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution,
nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively,
or to the people.

Gav

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