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- Freed

Particularly seeing as how the 1960s semi-humorous "how to build a nuke" textfiles were actually found in Afghanistan, which tells you something about the odds that 11th-century minds are gonna be able to build 20th-century weapons, I thought this was a great idea.

Then I remembered what happened to the guy who set up BonsaiKitten... oops.

So very true. Homeschooling solves the problem.

Yes, if your force your kid's world view to be a proper subset of your world view, then you will be guaranteed to be compatible. Never mind if your kid turns out to be an intellectual bonsai kitten.

It's that no federal agency will ever be able to sensibly prosecute the Bonsai Kitten in the near future. PETA be damned.

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Scratch that, somehow I don't think that the government would be restrained by mere hypocracy. If anything that seems to be an insentive in its actions.

I don't think we should ever talk about interesting things to do with cats without talking about the amazing Bonzai Kitties

This isn't a troll! Its just that the very thought of the sound that a cat would make as you tried to shove it into a blender would be...interesting. And it is therefore worth mentioning.

Revolution = Drastic (and usually sudden) change. It doesn't imply better or worse. A revolutionary new fashion design would be for everyone to start wearing aluminum foil helmets. Definately not a forward step in fashion, but revolutionary nonetheless.

If you think that's not nice, have a look at Bonsai Kittens.

Try raising a Bonsai Kitten You'll get attention from every animal lover in the office!

Same site also hosts a petition to shutdown Bonsai Kitten - signed by 10,495 people as of 07:39GMT 29jul2001. No doubt you'll recall that Bonsai Kitten has been debunked long time ago as nothing but a tasteless joke.

My point? General population are sheep, hence the term sheeple (sp?). They can be made to believe anything you want (as Mr. Goebels could confirm to you, were he not long time dead). Big copyright holders (who have designed and financed the adoption of DMCA and its ilk) have huge coffers dedicated to exactly that, and their PR machines are doing a great job. Right now there are few to no efforts to get the attention of the general population to the unfairness and imbalance of DMCA and derivatives. You don't agree? Pray tell, then, how many anti-DMCA ads have you seen on prime time TV? On prominent billboards? Mainstream radiostations? Mainstream newspapers?

All this hoopla in the geek "community" is nothing but preaching to the choir: we mostly know and understand how bad this law is but we don't have a proper lobby and we don't wield the power of a real voting bloc. Hence the legislature can afford to ignore us.



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I imagine that tomorrow morning the FBI will break down your /. cult doors and haul off all your cats while screaming PETA members spray you with water cannons. Remember what happened to the Bonsai Kitten plant!

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Am I the only one that doesn't think this post should be taken at face value? To believe that this is really the tech in question, you have to believe one of these things:

• This VA/Slashdot employee didn't have/couldn't get a /. username and thus needed to post as an AC.
• This person had an account, but posted as an AC (on a message that could have come from nobody else) and then signed her name.

Does anyone want to buy some Man Beef or a Bonsai Kitten kit?

Greg

Next thing you know, we'll also have square cats.. oh, wait..

A friend of mine came along this site, which fits well in the line of wicked sites like Alex Chiu's and the Time Cube's. Could anyone give his/ her view on this? Is this real? (If yes, it's very cruel of course.)

Some people on the 'net (like Alex and this Time Cube figure and then this site) can make you really doubt who or what is _really_ behind the scenes, and what they are trying to reach.

It's... It's...

That reminds me of this.

A member of a StarCraft clan was dealt a search warrant and is under investigation for 'tampering.' This is not a free speech suppression case. It's not a hate case.

Sounds a bit naive, no? Do you expect that if someone in this country is trying to suppress speech with the aid of police force, that they charge you with "undesirable expression of speech"?

But regardless of whether this case involves the First Amendment or not, this and many, many other stories leave the same questions open. Did the incident require the involvement of police? Did it require confiscation of equipment -- even equipment that has nothing to do with the network -- and the "related articles" (in billn's story), whatever those were?

Apparently not, because the actions they were initially going to take involved just a meeting with their RD and someone from ResNet or the academic IT. Something tells me that in the process of planning this meeting, someone in IT or ResLife called Campus Security to ask a quick question, and Campus Security decided to bust it open and take over. (Note that they haven't even let IT look at the box, and I really doubt that campus security has better computer experts than IT.) Apparently busting "hackers" makes college rentacops (remember, these departments are usually staffed with people who couldnt even get jobs as transit cops) look good.

I had my own share of geek-profiling in college, so I can't say that the bias isn't there. I hear even at MIT they are cracking down on undesired expression and other innocent tomfoolery by their brightest.

And I also know that what holds for the people who work for college police also holds for those who work for college IT: they tend to suck at it. I wouldn't be surprised if they left a no-password login as the default on their main server; hell, at my college, plenty of administrators' desktops were wide open on the campus network -- as in 'I can mount that drive, and if i hit delete, it will work.' (Hmm -- so thats how much the new building is going to cost!) And in my last job, we routinely got reports of 'hacking attempts' because someone running a jumpy network filter would catch someone pinging them.

As for BfD, one wonders why the hell they would want to post their own clan site on a server theyre not supposed to have access to. I dont suppose that the campus cops have thought about that -- at this point, with this press, they need to bring this guy 'down' to look good, regardless of how much it fscks this kid over.

I can't get the Stater's story (site is down?) so I can't argue the merits of the offical version (undoubtedly written by a green journalism student with an AOL-based knowledge of computers, if that). But billn, for his assurance that he knows the true motives behind this blip in the campus police log, doesn't have much to say about any of this in his rebuttal. It reads objectively enough, but to assume that what the campus cops say (or even what academic IT says) is necessarily the truth is an icy footing.

-- Keith "I used to be a journalism student too, but then i wised up" Tyler

Personally, I don't think any computer game should be played for anything besides "fun". I'd hate to play Quake for something more serious, like a new kidney or to rescue kittens from impending harm! :)

Although we are going to use 6 cubes for the project, we only plan to stuff kittens into 3 of them. The remainders will be used for communications electronics.

Launch your kittens into low-orbit.

The US is on a role to censor all that it can nowadays presenting the notion that things which are not under direct control of government are somehow threatening to the well being of the US.

The CIA posted a speech by Louis Tenet, their director about one of the threates facing the US' superpower status, which went like this:

Mr. Chairman, we are in a race with technology itself. We are creating relations with the private sector and academia to help us keep pace with ever-changing technology. Last year I established the Information Operations Center within CIA to bring together our best and brightest to ensure that we had a strategy for dealing with the cyber threat.

This is part of the same government the is getting its servers defaced every other month, and not because their clueless, but rather because they use these istances to push for more power and funding.

Along with partners in the Departments of Justice, Energy, and Defense we will work diligently to protect critical US information assets. Let me also say that we must view our space systems and capabilities as part of the same critical infrastructure that needs protection.

Speech can be found here

Here's a solution for this threat, DON'T POST CLASSIFIED MATERIALS ONLINE, which they don't so what exactly is this threat? Someone DDoS'ing a webserver? 15 years ago when they only had the SIPRNET amongst themselves this wasn't an issue, they still use SIPRNET but now its an issue?

Violence will always be violence and will always exist and whether video games, movies, music promotes it is never truly known, all we hear about are studies, and polls which claim this is the case, violence is fueled by games, music, etc. I never took any polls asking me questions, have you? Where are they getting their information from? has anyone took a quick look to think about this, who exactly is it thats answering these questions, and who gave them the right to decide for the majority of the people?

Lacking the control they would love to have, the government will attempt to control as much as they can while they'll turn around and their explanation will be "Its for your own good", well to be honest I'm more concerned about getting better funding for schools, building housing for those in need, drug rehabilitation vs. incarceration. Not for my tax dollars to be spent by political bigwigs chasing the people at Bonsai Kitten because they think its immoral. Why haven't they done anything to sites like Defacation Vacation which posts pictures of women getting raped, killed, etc? Surely a life of a human would supercede a kitten?

The same government is claiming that Cuba is our worse enemy, are you serious? Cuba? Give me a break Uncle Scam, Cuba is so crippled the only threat they could pose is if they stopped smuggling Cigars to those in Politics under the table.

We can't forget the Osama Bin Laden incident where he's using crypto and stenography. Whats next are they going to go after Spam Mimmic for jumbling up words?

anyways enough rambling I have better things to do

Bonsai Kitten eaten by carnivore. How long until the webmasters update their site to take advantage of this wonderful new Kitticulture Technique?

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"Bloody RIAA. They can't keep the genie in the bottle. New technology allows people to get there hands on loadsa music."


Genie in the bottle? More like cat in the bottle!