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Re:For Texas Instruments, Calculator Hackers Don't Add Up by eru on Thursday October 29, 2009 @02:05PM (#910484)
Why should I worry about "a clear violation of the [US American] Constitution"? I never signed it, and do not even live under its jurisdiction. Why should I care about care about "hundereds of years of American principles"? Do you care about the Abstraction principle (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstraction_principle_%28law%29)? Neither do I.

If you ask me in private, I think that copyright is no longer enforceable, and thus should be done away with. And philosophical, so called intellectual property restricts what I can do with my physical property.

My grandparent post expressed a more guarded opinion. And telling somebody that you broke his cryptosystems (or his key) before going public with it, is at least good manners.

Re:For Texas Instruments, Calculator Hackers Don't Add Up by jrockway on Thursday October 29, 2009 @03:47PM (#910710)
TI, the EFF, the DMCA, and the person that broke the crypto are all in the US. So I assumed that we were discussing the issue with respect to the US.
Re:For Texas Instruments, Calculator Hackers Don't Add Up by eru on Friday October 30, 2009 @05:00AM (#911736)
You started arguing about properties of the universe.
Re:For Texas Instruments, Calculator Hackers Don't Add Up by DougBTX on Friday October 30, 2009 @05:44AM (#911777)
Properties of the universe presumably apply in the US, though I understand that appearances can be deceiving.
Re:For Texas Instruments, Calculator Hackers Don't Add Up by eru on Friday October 30, 2009 @06:14AM (#911803)
Sorry. I am just irritated by people who make it sound like it would be the other way round.

(US laws are not in general properties of the universe, though I understand that appearances can be deceiving.)

Anyway, enough arguing. Let me just say `Hitler' to close this thread by Godwin's law.