I think the US Government is just jealous of China. As the article says in the last paragraph, The United States eased its restrictions on exports of products containing encryption earlier this month, despite the fears of security agencies that it could help criminals. Ms. Barshefsky, could I ask you to please talk to the security agencies and the rest of the Executive branch and explain to your own government why 'restricting information over the Internet is futile'? It'd be much appreciated.

U.S. to China: Change Crypto Regs: She [Trade Representative Charlene Barshefsky] said her U.S. negotiators have repeatedly pressed China authorities to reform these rules and also dismissed Chinese efforts to restrict information over the Internet as futile. LOL! When the US wants to restrict encryption and regulate the Internet, it's for the protection of our children, only a matter of the right censorware, importent for the preservation of right-thinking society, etc. etc. When the Chinese want to restrict encryption and regulate the Internet, it's "futile".

Wondering why I'm so down on UCITA? Try reading a UCITA introduction. "All you ever wanted to know about the
Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act (UCITA) is contained here."
Or just read an overview of the problems; and please understand that overview does not exaggerate in the slightest.

(Wondering why you have to 'edit this page' before it will work? When you post a new message, the TEXTAREA's name is 'text'. When you edit a message, the TEXTAREA's name is 'body'. I just picked one. It would be nice if those were named the same thing.)

Macintosh Users: I think you can at least try it out, but I can make no guarentees.

Please do try this out; I need people to test it. I'm sorry you have to register to do so, but I can't do anything about that. Your information will not be used for anything except your post.

Want to try out the Add Link To Page? If you are using Internet Explorer 4+ (tested only on IBM, sorry, that's all I got), drag that link to your links bar, join this site, post a message on the discussion board, then select 'Edit This Page', open another browser window, highlight some text, and click the link you dragged up to your link bar. (You can also use bookmarks.) If everything works as well for you as it does for me, you should see that link, along with the text you selected, (eventually) appear in your posting box.

That was sample output from Add Link To Page.

BlogThis! and Manila That I've said before that Manila needs a link tool. Others have said that copying and pasting URLs and page titles into edit windows is the slowest part of weblogging in Manila.