gorkon280
09-22-2003, 06:20 PM
because it didn’t meet 'industry-wide criteria for proper orders.'
That just sounds weird. I hate when companies try to hide law behind language like that or try to pass off a company policy like it's law. It really could be either of these. It may have to do with encryption, but it could also have to do with processing power. New PPC's are very capable of the calculations necessary to guide, say, a missile. It's very possible that this could be a DHS thing but how are we to know? Have you tried finding these locally in Kenya? How about Isreal? You may be able to get around this by ordering from HP's subsidiary that supports Kenya. Also, and this goes for a majority of the DHS laws/rules....what makes you think a Terrorist is going to use legal channels such as HPShopping.com to buy things that may be used against us. This is just like the fallacy of gun control. If you take away the guns from the law abiding citizens, then only criminals will have them. How about cracking down on the illegal gun trade and leaving card carrying NRA members alone? Same goes with PocketPC's.....if a terrorist wants to use one to guide a missile, it ain't gunna be bought on HPShopping.com! ;)
That just sounds weird. I hate when companies try to hide law behind language like that or try to pass off a company policy like it's law. It really could be either of these. It may have to do with encryption, but it could also have to do with processing power. New PPC's are very capable of the calculations necessary to guide, say, a missile. It's very possible that this could be a DHS thing but how are we to know? Have you tried finding these locally in Kenya? How about Isreal? You may be able to get around this by ordering from HP's subsidiary that supports Kenya. Also, and this goes for a majority of the DHS laws/rules....what makes you think a Terrorist is going to use legal channels such as HPShopping.com to buy things that may be used against us. This is just like the fallacy of gun control. If you take away the guns from the law abiding citizens, then only criminals will have them. How about cracking down on the illegal gun trade and leaving card carrying NRA members alone? Same goes with PocketPC's.....if a terrorist wants to use one to guide a missile, it ain't gunna be bought on HPShopping.com! ;)