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  1. Re:Nothing New by Lord+Kano · · Score: 0 · on Student Faces Expulsion for Blog Post

    This is nothing new. Most schools, even in areas that are highly "liberal," try to control their students' thoughts and actions to the point of extreme.

    I think you meant ESPECIALLY in areas that are highly "liberal".

    Evan Coyne Maloney details a case where a student on a liberal campus was theatened with expulsion for "hate speech" because they didn't like the "Ellen" series finale.

    LK

  2. And Why Would They Be Expected To? by Guncrazy · · Score: 4, Interesting · on U.S. Kids Don't Understand First Amendment
    After all, American public schools:

    ...Ban the display of the Confederate flag.

    ...ban pictures of guns.

    ... dissent on widely held scientific theories.

    ...write speech codes that severely penalize students for voicing their opinions.

    ...and a legion of similar examples.

    If the American judiciary can't understand the First Amendment, how the hell are America's students supposed to?

  3. Re:Hypocrite by FatRatBastard · · Score: 1 · on Hackers Take Aim at Republicans
    Yes. Crimethinc. Known idiot...

    Sterling use of that dizzying intellect of yours, apparently your noggin busted a fuze halfway down the article and you just gave up reading.
    The point of the electronic demonstrations isn't to take down a site, according to Ricardo Dominguez, co-founder of the Electronic Disturbance Theater, or EDT, which is releasing a FloodNet program of its own. Unlike hackers' denial-of-service attacks, which often hijack computers against their users' will, EDT's JavaScript-based software depends on how many people use the program. "It's a way to let people around the world gather and let their presence be felt," Dominguez said.

    Not that he would mind if a Republican server just happened to crash along the way. In 2002, at the EDT's direction, 43,000 people flooded the site of the World Economic Forum during its meeting in New York. The organization's website went offline for several hours following the demonstration.
    Now I suspect Wired got 43K people mixed up with 43K individual IP addresses/machines, but I also highly doubt that this was the work of one lone nut.

    Silly conservative trapped in a corner ignoring all parts of the message but the literal terminology used? ....

    Here it comes...

    Until you can provide me with proof that "the left" or, at least a large majority of "the left" engages in this, you are wrong..

    Bingo... oh, wait a minute... you're just being absurd again, right? But I digress...

    You're right, No-one on
    the left ever tried to quell opposing views. (here's an especially egregious list). And that was five minutes of Googling. Sure, I could just as easily have come up with a list as long as your arm of pinheads on the right partaking in similar activities, but this wasn't about the GRWC and their nefarious doings (que spooky laughter), and it wasn't about Anna Nichole Smith's ass either, which is why my post was devoid of that topic too. Its also not the VRWC who have been bleating the last four years about the "crushing of dissent" in this country (which hit a fever pitch when Ashcroft became the AG). So let's recap: Left bleating about censorship, left trying to stifle opposing views. Hypocrisy.

    'm still leaning towards Rall... but there's still a Janeane-esque quality to it.

    Yes, yes. You're very clever. I don't know hardly anything about either of them, but I know Garafolo is annoying. You're very very clever, congratulations.

    They both love to babble on about "equality" and how evil/racist people on the right are, but have no problem calling a black person "Nigger" or "House Slave" if they don't like their politics.

    "Remember kids, the 'N word' is a bad, bad word... unless I'm using it to make my point."
  4. Re:infinite monkeys by FireBreathingDog · · Score: 3, Insightful · on Armoring Spam Against Anti-Spam Filters
    It's much easier than that to defeat Bayesian filtering. Ever \/\/0|\|D3R why you're getting so much spam with obfuscated words? Or why you're getting so much spam where the text content is contained primarily in images rather than plaintext? Those things bypass Bayesian filters, that's why!

    Bayesian filters rely on words. That means it is dependent upon word breaks and certain spellings. Well, spammers have been avoiding word breaks (either by removing spaces or introducing unnecessary ones) and obvious "spam words" by mangling the word or introducing "1337"-type spelling.

    And Bayesian filters can't parse graphics, so a lot of spammers are careful to put words likely to trigger spam filters into graphics.

    BTW, this article explains why there will never be a filtering-based solution to solving spam until SMTP itself is made more secure.

  5. Re:How much press will it get, though? by FireBreathingDog · · Score: 1 · on Gore Vidal Savages Electronic Voting

    They are. Even noted leftists Walter Cronkite and Camille Paglia admit it.

  6. Re:Hmph... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on New Anti-Swap CDs Hit Shelves

    Read more about corrupted CDs here

  7. Re:Hmm by FireBreathingDog · · Score: 1 · on Crippled CD Deemed Defective In France

    Let's not forget, these corrupted discs ARE NOT CDs!!!

  8. sounds like this robot is smarter than by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait · on Robots!
    these protesters

    http://brain-terminal.com/video/nyc-2003-02-15/qui cktime-hq.html

  9. Re:A Day in the Life of a Geek? by overunderunderdone · · Score: 2, Interesting · on Are Video Blogs Ready For Prime Time?

    The only blogs to make it into the mainstream - i.e. attract a wider audience than their network of friends - will have a tabloid interest - nudity, offensiveness, extreme views, or some other rally call.

    This is largely true but I would add that just being offensive or having extreme views is insufficient. The thing about popular bloggers like Glenn Reynolds (who probably just attracted a million viewers today - the "story" on MSNBC was one of his two blogs) is that they are actually expressing informed views on topics they have some expertise on - Glenn for instance isn't just some wacko spouting off about politics, he is a law professor that teaches constitutional law spouting off about politics - and that makes a big difference. The democratization of the media obviously results in a vast increase in the amount of dreck but among that dreck there are also some gems and they will tend to rise to the top & as they do they will be refined.

    I tend think that the democratization of video will not (for the most part) be anything like "blogging" since even amateur video takes time and forethought and the appeal of blogging is for writers and amateur (and professional) thinkers & pundits to get out their thoughts quickly in an informal format. Bloggers may occasionally use video and will likely link to those that do as fodder for their blogs but very little of it would properly be called "video blogging". As an example of what I'm talking about I'm sure Glenn is thinking about "video" and "blogging" because of this little sarcastic man-on-the-street interview/documentary a conservative blogger did at the Peace march in NYC - it was amateurish but also pretty funny and fairly well done.

  10. Favorites, listed by Category by superyooser · · Score: 2, Interesting · on Your Take On(line) Reality?
    I set a few buttons in my Mozilla PrefBar as links for my most frequently-visited sites.
  11. Re:RTFP people by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Sun Releases Open Source XACML Language
    Why should peple have to rewrite their security implementations just because SUN came up with a new, unnecessry markup.

    One could just as easily say, "Why should developers and integrators write many different security interfaces for many different implementations?"

    If we eliminate all the time spent re-inventing the wheel, we'll have more time to focus on building the next killer app...

    Your argument makes about as much sense to me as this one.