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Overall, consolidation with virtualization and blades can offer significant help with both space and power and cooling, but awareness of power/cooling requirements and careful planning are essential.

http://searchservervirtualization.techtarget.com/c olumnItem/0,294698,sid94_gci1243507,00.html

Upon the initial migration of the workload from 120 servers, AISO.net achieved a drastic 50-60 percent reduction in power consumption

http://www.mysiriuszone.com/index.php?option=com_d ocman&task=doc_download&gid=1708&Itemid=292

contain such virtualization features. According to Waugh, virtualization boosts overall performance while reducing server room power consumption.

http://www.serverwatch.com/hreviews/article.php/36 39556

It's tempting to say that after long periods of testing, an increasing number of organizations are seeing the benefits of running applications on virtual servers housed in fewer physical boxes: increased resource utilization, faster server implementation, fewer devices to manage, lower management costs, a smaller data center footprint, and lower power and cooling costs.

http://www.serverwatch.com/tutorials/article.php/3 637631

Processor virtualization allows concurrent operating system execution environments to co-exist and share a fixed set of hardware resources. One of its many advantages is that this technology facilitates server consolidation, reducing both operating costs and power consumption.

http://whitepapers.techrepublic.com.com/whitepaper .aspx?docid=289268

"Data center power demands are growing at an unsustainable rate," said Bill Zeitler, senior vice president, IBM Systems and Technology Group. "The most important thing now is utilization of servers through technologies like virtualization."

http://searchdatacenter.techtarget.com/originalCon te

If this was anyone but twitter posting, I'd be asking if he had too much to drink.

Surface [Video] When this Vista tech hits the home market, it is going to be big. Surface makes interaction with the PC a social experience. more open and more casual than the Wii controller.

In the near term, there is Windows Home Server. HP MediaSmart Server Brand name product. No assembly required...

And so we return to reality. Heathkit died in the 'eighties. The home PC market is not a craft market. No one wants to deal with the assembly and configuration issues of systems this complex.

There are already designed-for-Vista systems on the market that upstage the generic XP box. HP TouchSmart IQ770 PC Review. There will be more to come. Products like ATI's CableCARD HDTV Digital Cable Tuner will eventually have an impact. A system that is realistically spec'd for Vista will be realistically spec'd for HD - whether the source is camcorder video, cable, broadcast, ot the net.

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IP laws are not going into the trash so long as audiences expect to see $100 million dollar productions on their 52 inch screen. In the thirties, forties, and fiftues, almost everything in American radio and television was produced by advertising agencies and down to the last detail designed to meet the needs of their mass-market sponsors.

You might want to think about that before you deny creative talents a direct and sustaining source of income.

That's the idea: to prevent the Tivoization of Linux.

And I won't be losing any sleep if Tivo gets in trouble over this; while their products have been pretty good, their patent claims have been outrageous (for the latest example, see here).

I thought Linus said Linux wouldn't be distributed under GPLv3

Tht's what he said with previous drafts of the GPL. But he is pretty pleased with the last GPL3, and he has said that he's not so much against relicensing the kernel under the GPL3, altough it's so hard that it may be technically unfeasible

Just because it isn't generally noticed that an impending destruction of certain civil liberties by an anti-democratic, overpowered lobbying corporate interest is at hand, does not mean that we should sit on our thumbs. Grass-roots movements don't start with the masses; they go to them. Have we forgotten how "power to the people" works already?

MacForensicsLab

http://www.macforensicslab.com/

http://www.macforensicslab.com/mfl_analysis.html

If you are a super criminal you have state protection, See:
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales:

http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/05/ 16/0137205

http://tedscolumn.blogspot.com/2007/05/more-from-d epartment-of-injustice.html

http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9719339-7.html

But if you've got something [below] this insidious, you're just screwed:

http://www.securityfocus.com/cgi-bin/index.cgi?c=a rticlecomments&op=display_comments&ArticleID=11372 &expand_all=true&mode=threaded

You'd need Fred: [site is run off a locked volume - DVD]

http://all.net/

He also has, White Glove Linux, LE is for law enforcement only. [click "prices" on left]

http://all.net/WG/dist/index.html

Fred's, The Man(TM)

"The mere fact of placing a copy on a shared directory in a computer where that copy can be accessed via a P2P service does not amount to distribution," [Judge] Finckenstein wrote. "Before it constitutes distribution, there must be a positive act by the owner of the shared directory, such as sending out the copies or advertising that they are available for copying."

Sounds similar to FreeBSD's GBDE http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/h andbook/disks-encrypting.html which was funded by the DoD as far back as 2001 http://news.com.com/2100-1001-269644.html

I've been watching this since it started, and what continually amazes me is how poorly livejournal is handling this. Over 24 hours into this, there is no announcement. Nothing reassuring users that their journal won't be next. Nothing apologizing for wiping out the incest survivor's livejournal in their witchhunt. Not even something saying "This is business, deal." The only news livejournallers have heard from livejournal came from an outside news source.

Forget the deletions. People were upset, but would have forgotten it quickly if livejournal had just said "We purged some pedophile rings, but some other stuff may have gotten caught in it. If there are any livejournals purged that were genuinely innocent, tell us." People would've bitched, would have said the sky was falling down, that Livejournal had gone down the tubes since Six Apart bought them, but there wouldn't have been this sort of mass hysteria.

Now, I'm anticipating the next great fandom migration will be happening a few years sooner than otherwise, and this makes me grumpy, because migrations are a pain in the ass. And it wouldn't be happening any time soon if Livejournal weren't currently doing their level best to make fandom - a group of people who in my experience pay a great deal of money for their playspace - feel unwelcome.

You're probably right. But...

http://news.com.com/Google+kicks+offline+Web+apps+ into+gear/2100-7345_3-6187596.html

"The initial code is aimed at JavaScript developers who write Ajax-style Web applications. It runs on Internet Explorer on Windows; Firefox on Windows, Mac OS and Linux; and on the Safari Mac OS browser."

See here.

And not just fanfic communities, I've seen adult/fetish communities also suspended, and support sites for survivors of abuse may be at risk (since they list keywords such as "incest" or "rape"...).

LiveJournal has yet to make a statement, but I find the quote from Six Apart's CEO given in the article rather worrying:

"Our decision here was not based on pure legal issues. It was based on what community we want to build and what we think is appropriate within that community and what's not."

Righto, so Six Apart are saying it doesn't matter if it's entirely legal, they're going to start banning journals based on what they think is "appropriate".

"As U.S. airports begin installing face-recognition systems to thwart terrorism in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks, civil rights activists are rushing to decry the technology as ineffective and invasive."

"In the USA Patriot Act, the National Institute of Standards (NIST) is mandated to measure the accuracy of biometric technologies. In accordance with this legislation, NIST, in cooperation with other Government agencies, conducted the Face Recognition Vendor Test 2002. FRVT 2002 Sponsors and Supporters are: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Department of State, Federal Bureau of Investigation, National Institute of Justice, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Transportation Security Administration, ONDCP Counterdrug Technology Assessment Center, United States Customs Service, Department of Energy, Drug Enforcement Administration, Immigration and Naturalization Service, Secret Service, Technical Support Working Group, Australian Customs, Canadian Passport Office, United Kingdom Biometric Working Group. "

<fanboi mode on>

When you use the word "platform" I'm assuming we're talking about the OS itself, i.e. excluding the applications. I'm not very familiar with MS Windows but I think Linux is doing excellent qua performance and stability, witness that it can be used for embedded applications (thanks a lot to FSF's gcc and binutils, methinks), can be used for real-time (with modifications, but I thought they are going to be folded into the mainline kernel), is quite secure (selinux) and most of all is usable for serious computing: how many of the top-500 supercomputers run a kind of Linux (on at least some of the nodes)? At first glance I'd say about 70%. How many run *any* special edition of MS Windows, or other non-unix-like OS? At first glance I'd say 0%. Can you imagine what a boost this is for e.g. HIV and cancer research (paragraph 3 on the page)? Now imagine the real-life effects on society, if research centers were forced to use Microsoft software. To how many CPUs does that scale? Let's not even get started on "Windows for Warships" (for brits and maybe argentinos: listen to their sci-fi radio show -- but I digress).

<fanboi mode off/>

Of course that doesn't imply Linux is also a good desktop platform but I can't at the moment think of any OS feature that is specific for desktop use and that Linux can't provide. I may be a fanboi but yes, I'd say "Linux is better than MS Windows" (njaa njaa njaa etc.; penile length etc.).

Now how this translates to "has the best applications" is a completely different matter, for which technical excellence is much less important than inertia, portability of existing software, existing market share, and marketing (Microsoft marketing budget for Windows XP was $ 1 000 000 000 BTW; I'd say that compensates a lot).

Oops, sorry, I forgot the link for that blockquote above about the cost of cooking oil being affected by bio-diesel. Linky here:

http://news.com.com/Biodiesel+to+drive+up+the+pric e+of+cooking+oil/2100-11389_3-6114425.html

And here is the tinyurl for it:

http://tinyurl.com/esxef

That Michael Kanellos article in Cnet was dated 2006/9/12 and was entitled, "Biodiesel to drive up the price of cooking oil".

See what we put together last year, grading tech votes:
http://news.com.com/2009-1040-6131719.html

IE never skipped a version. IE 1.0 came with the Windows 95 Plus! Pack.

Screenshots of IE versions 1-7

Mod parent -1, Wrong. That study not only 1) says the number of patents is 283, not 235, but 2) isn't talking about just Microsoft patents, that study was talking about all software patents, and 3) that study came out 3 years ago.

http://news.com.com/Group+Linux+potentially+infrin ges+283+patents/2100-7344_3-5291403.html

1. The number #1 : Toma ya!
2. The woman's defence!
3. Clever students women with brilliant teeth!
4. 29% are women!, 2003.
5. Dangerous! Women in Black-White!
6. women as web-designers!
7. women in IT more than men because of cheap salaries!

The HP Sojourn (a rebadged Mistubushi Pedion) explored this corner of the design space in the very late 1990s, just about 10 years ago. I've owned a few of them. Fantastically thin at 0.72 inches (just 0.02 inches thicker than the claimed thickness of the new Intel device), with a then state-of-the-art 2 or 6 GB 9 mm disk drive and Pentium II 233 MMX processor with 64 MB of main memory. Very nice display, too. 2 PCMCIA slots, one USB 1.1 port, but no network interface. Excellent support under Linux including sleep and hibernation modes. To achieve such a slim form factor, the keyboard was chicklet-style (not unlike the HP calculators) which really didn't appeal to the power user. It was marketed to executives with the even-then astronomical pricetag of USD 6k. I bought my first one used at USD 1.5k (they were really bad at holding their value); currently you see them on eBay for under USD 200.

These are really, really thin. With full-sized keyboards and 12.1 inch displays. Slimmer than many padfolios. I never understood why that part of the design space wasn't more fully populated, as it's such an obvious (to me) win to have a really light, really thin, computer with a full-sized display and keyboard. Perhaps we're coming back to it.

Ron Paul also won the highest score on CNET's 2006 technology voting scorecard:
http://news.com.com/2009-1040-6131719.html

Canada because that is where Keith Henson had to flee. I guess I just thought that a joke about a "Thommy gun" where the subject is known to be litigious has certain paralels with a joke about a "Cruise missile" where the subject is known to be litigious.

In your case I guess it would be seeking political assylum in New Zealand because of your unconventional views about sheep.

Anyway, greetings from Sydney :)

Novell is trying to make a statement... Novell joins EFF for patent reform .

History, repeat thyself. Honestly, there's a legitimate point to that. If the advertised specs say that it can display "millions of colors", then there's a reasonable expectation that a given pixel will be able to represent over 1 million colors (most likely 16MiColors, but who's counting?). Yeah, this might seem a little silly, but if you can't deliver then don't promise it.

I can imagine a graphics geek being pretty legitimately pissed about seeing gradients where he shouldn't, in the same way that if they advertised a 128-bit FPU, a programmer might be a little annoyed to find that it was really "32-bit but we cleverly fake the rest".

Maybe what the kernel developers have said about it?

You mean other than Linus (who, by the way, is now "pretty pleased" about the newest draft because his concerns were addressed)? Cite sources like I just did.

Maybe MySQL's abstinence from adopting it?

That's better. Actually mentioning "MySQL" was enough to lead me to this, which does back up your claim. You should note, however, that according to that article MySQL doesn't actually have any particular philosophical disagreement with the GPLv3 itself.

Maybe the fact that I haven't read about or heard of anyone who works with Linux commercially in any way who wants to touch it with an 18 foot pole, but I in fact have read large amounts about companies saying exactly the opposite?

Which companies?

Again, I don't say what you want to hear, and I don't support the standard groupthink, so I'm a troll, I'm on your foes list, and it is insisted that I shut the fuck up.

No, you failed to back up your claim, which is the hallmark of a troll (along with insulting your audience, which you also did -- and which you failed to acknowledge now). That's why you got put on my "foes" list, and that's why I told you to "shut the fuck up" -- it seemed very unlikely that you had anything constructive to say, because you presented yourself so poorly.

You said you don't see a lot in support of my argument; I'm seeing that the only thing you really have in support of yours is your attempt to silence me.

What argument am I trying to support? If you re-read what I wrote, you'll see that I never actually disputed the truthfulness of your claim; the only argument I'm trying to make is that your failure to provide any basis for it (not to mention your confrontational attitude) isn't useful.

http://www.freepress.net/docs/mb_telco_lies.pdf
http://news.com.com/2100-1033_3-5166813.html
http://www.utopianet.org/what/metronet.html

Palo Alto, CA had a successful trial of FTTH, but stopped it: http://www.cpau.com/fiber/trial/ftindex.html

Hard to believe the summariser is not aware of the thoughts of Chairman Gates:

Gates shed some light on his own hard-nosed business philosophy. "Although about 3 million computers get sold every year in China, but people don't pay for the software," he said. "Someday they will, though. As long as they are going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade."

(article).

This has been accurately compared to "drug dealer tactics" by an astute Brazilian (another market at great risk of Microslop exploitation).

Ya know what? Fuck you Gates and the demon you rode in on.

Original CNET Article..

Normally, I wouldn't comment, but it seemed to me you were heaping a bit of undue scorn on the AC poster. The 80-core prototype processor was covered previously on Slashdot.

ArsTechnica has good coverage, and you can find more at C|Net. Incidentally, the AC was right -- simply googling for "Intel 80 core processor" yields plenty of results. (Googling for "Intel 80 core processor Slashdot" will find the Slashdot article to which I provided the link.) Instead of ripping on the guy for being passive-aggressive, maybe you should stop and research before posting a comment insinuating that the AC poster is just spreading FUD. This story was covered well enough recently that a hyperlink citation shouldn't have been strictly necessary.

Well, for one, Intel's biggest instruction set change in 5 years: SSE4 extensions, an updated to Intel's SIMD instruction set.

I know. I'm not all the excited, either. :)

Amit Klein has reported a vulnerability in Microsoft Windows, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to the WebDAV XML Message Handler not limiting the number of attributes that can be specified in an XML element. This can be exploited through Internet Information Services by sending a specially crafted WebDAV PROPFIND request.

Successful exploitation causes the WebDAV XML Message Handler to consume all CPU resources for a period of time.

And Coca-Cola has blood on its hands for creating Fanta, and IBM has blood on its hands for manufacturing the computers and systems used to process individuals held in Nazi concentration camps http://news.com.com/2009-1082-269157.html The U.S. doesn't even have the excuse of being under the control of a Fascist dictator at the time; just good old American corporate greed.

Try contoling the Metadata with a tool that even Microsoft provides for free. http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/help/HA011400341 033.aspx It can happen with .pdf as well: http://news.com.com/U.S.+military+security+defeate d+by+copy+and+paste/2100-1002_3-5694982.html Not sure about .odf

Is the timing of the leak related to this?

Jail time a comin', courtesy Gonzales.

major player has threatened Microsoft with their patent portfolio

The Inquirer has an article about this.

Is it a commercial success? We shall see. The ME II tag looks like it's beginning to stick. Another new client OS in 2009 makes the comparison even more pointed. Testimonials like these can't help vista.

The Apple vs eMachines dispute was a more straightforward trade dress case than Apple vs Microsoft. It comes from some portions of the Lanham Act that allow trademark-like protections for distinctive design elements of a product.

If you take a look at the eOne, it's pretty blatantly iMac-like; I kinda wonder what their lawyers were thinking when they green-lit that.

At any rate, that suit, like most things that Apple seems to get involved in, was eventually settled out of court, and no precedent resulted. But we can infer that eMachines didn't feel like they were winning, because the eOne disappeared quickly afterwards. (It didn't help that the thing never sold well, either, or that it was offered exclusively through Circuit City.)

I agree. And furthermore, can we use the Supreme Court decision in favor of Microsoft against them in this kind of case?

Since the "Master disk" software is "only a set of instructions, a blueprint" of the patent-infringing software, couldn't it be argued that the "patent-infringing software" is still only a set of instructions and that no patent is infringed until the computer executes (without prior consent) the particular instructions that then create the patent-infringing circumstances?

Ok, maybe the whole "without prior consent" thing wouldn't fly. But is there something that I don't see that could be used?

With them recently arguing something like that, then picking on the biggest community in opposition to software patents altogether, is Microsoft just looking to invalidate software patentability?

The IPPA would insert a new prohibition: actions that were "intended to consist of" distribution.

(from http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9719339-7.html)

In other news, the Attorney General announced that "suspicion of resisting arrest" will be added to America's criminal law under the Interstate Commerce clause of the Constitution.

"We feel," he said, "that police should have the power to act to detain an individual based on their well-founded suspicions that the individual might resist the lawful actions of police in detaining them."

When asked about the use of the Interstate Commerce clause, he replied, "Obviously, if an individual is going to resist arrest they may do so by crossing state lines. The Constitution is very clear on this. In fact, the President has the power acting in his capacity as Commander in Chief to use the National Guard to detain such individuals. Furthermore, anyone who attempts to avoid arrest on suspicion is obviously guilty of resisting arrest, so we don't feel that it will be necessary, or indeed possible, for this to be tested in the courts. And if anyone attempts to do so, we will simply change the charges against them to something else, like filling out a form."

As soon as congress passes the magical and majestic Intellectual Property Protection Act of 2007.

1. Criminalize "attempting" to infringe copyright.
2. Create a new crime of life imprisonment for using pirated software.
3. Permit more wiretaps for piracy investigations.
4. Increase penalties for violating the Digital Millennium Copyright Act's anti-circumvention regulations.
5. Add penalties for "intended" copyright crimes.

and my favorite,

6. Require Homeland Security to alert the Recording Industry Association of America.

http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9719339-7.html

Here is one: http://news.com.com/Investor+outlines+SCO-Microsof t+link/2100-7344_3-6124125.html.

Maybe MS doesn't support it directly

but... http://tomshardware.co.uk/2005/09/09/windows_in_yo ur_pocket/ or http://www.sureboot.com/ or http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-6346-592 8902.html

Here's the reason you can't install Windows directly on the USB drive... turns out its all to do with pageable kernels (that OSX and Linux don't support)

With all of the information people are throwing out there about themselves, they deserve to have it used against them in any shape form or fashion. If you want to be the moron who posts everything about yourself on YouTube, MySpace, Facebook and all those other sites, you have nothing but yourself to blame. They fired me for using drugs! If you're the moron with a picture of you happily holding a bong on MySpace and expected no one but friends to see it, you shot your own self in the foot. Its amazing the level of stupidity some people can get to then come back around and point the finger at everyone but themselves. On other notes... Information pertaining to just about anything on the planet is already readily available. Court records, financial information... All this misuse/abuse of information is made possible by the same people bitching who often turn their cheeks when future misuse in the making is present. You didn't say nothing then... Why bother bitching now... YOU GAVE AWAY YOUR RIGHTS TO PRIVACY BY NOT ACTING BEFORE WHY BITCH ABOUT IT NOW?

Dude--he made $646.6 MILLION dollars last year *AND* he probably won't be paying any of it back or going to jail for that back-dating thing.

He's walking on sunshine.

But if it makes you feel better, go ahead and reprint this for free.

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Hmmm, so should we believe the last line of the page, or the second to last line of the page?

Fuck it...

Why I love patents and copyrights

By Michael Kanellos
http://news.com.com/Why+I+love+patents+and+copyrig hts/2010-1008_3-6182429.html

Story last modified Thu May 10 04:00:02 PDT 2007


Keith Richards in a near-death experience. Does TV get any better?

Ocean Tomo, a Chicago-based company that holds auctions for patents, copyrights and other intellectual property, will put a gem on the block in its next auction taking place in London on June 1: film footage of the Rolling Stones guitarist getting electrocuted during a U.S. concert in 1965.

"The Stones do not currently have this footage themselves; this particular piece of film lasts 10 minutes, with the electrocution scene occurring at the close, and lasting approximately a full minute," the catalog for the auction states.

The footage is part of a collection of film that is owned by Mark and Colleen Hayward and is being sold as a single lot. Other footage in the lot includes an early film of The Beatles playing in Blackpool, England, and some shots of Paul McCartney in 1966 yukking it up on a Learjet owned by Frank Sinatra.

TV stations pay around $3,000 to broadcast about 30 seconds of footage from the Hayward collection.

The Haywards will also auction off a collection of photos of rock stars over the decades: The Clash, AC/DC and The Moody Blues. You'd have to go to the Konocti Boat Harbor to see some of those acts today.

It won't be all celebrity memorabilia at the intellectual property auction. Most of the lots involve chemicals (a formula for flexographic printing from Meat/Westvaco), wireless communications, medical devices (customized bone implants--a patent with a $200,000-plus value), green technologies (an efficient way to incinerate waste from our pals at KusuKusu Industry), or electronics (anyone care for a gas composition sensor from Accentus?).

Despite early skepticism, the open auction concept for intellectual property is clearly gaining steam. In the company's April auction in Chicago, $11.4 million worth of intellectual property was sold, including two lots that went for $3 million and $2.8 million each.

Although it's not a really popular sentiment these days, I think patents, trademarks and copyrights are simply fantastic and a primary, necessary driver of the world economy. Without them, the rapid pace of technological innovation around the world would slow to a crawl. And frankly, without them, most open-source projects would rapidly wither away: without an intellectual property behemoth like Microsoft to fight, what would be the point?

Why all the frothy sentiment? Intellectual property provides one of the most dependable means toward wea

There is a lot of talk about getting rid of patent trolls, but little consensus as to what a patent troll is. Very few companies will say "yes: we're patent trolls." At best, they're willing to tolerate being called patent trolls.

What makes a patent troll? Does a company that develops a new technology but licenses it because it does not have the capital or market position to exploit the technology count as a patent troll? What about IBM? They produce products, but they license their patents for use by others in products that don't compete with IBM's products. Does that make IBM a patent troll? Would they have to be making competing products to be on morally solid ground?

There are definitely companies out that abuse the patent system (e.g., by filing continuation applications or requests for reexamination during which the applicants try to stretch the claims of their patents to read on subsequent innovations). But this author has a point that distinguishing the bad guys from the good guys is not easy. Many companies out there see themselves as just legitimately trying to leverage their full rights. Is that significantly different from consumers trying to maximize their rights as consumers by engaging in activities that aren't clearly legal (e.g., using direct music and movie clips for new works without seeking permission, creating libraries of MP3s and copying them to multiple systems, etc.).

Activities that push the limits of the law create risk. Patent applicants pay significant fees and must spend a lot of time in their efforts, resulting in a guaranteed loss. Certain uses of a patent can raise anti-trust concerns or result in loss of the patent. Consumers pushing the boundaries of "fair use" often play a lottery in which the winner loses a nasty law suit. And there is always the risk that Congress or the courts may react by changing the law or interpretation of the law to minimize questionable activities.

But those who are engaged in those activities probably believe that all they are doing is playing by a valid interpretation of the rules.

you beat enemies of free speech: religious fundamentalists, retarded ip laws, oppressive governments, etc. with more free speech

the only reason anyone would oppose free speech is if what they have to say would suffer if it had more scrutiny

scientologists have legions of zombie lawyers attacking anyone who infringes on their "intellectual property" and "religious principles" simply because if that crap got out in more general circulation, they would be revealed as the fascist ufo wackjobs they are

same with oppressive governments, same with ip lawyer whores

and so, in the spirit of the recent dmca take down notice on digg for a stupid numer, i would like to serve and support keith and attack the immoral, yet somehow, incredibly, legal basis for arresting him by serving his cause: posting stuff the church of scientology does not want posted

the digg number fiasco prompted wordwide press coverage. this should to:

it is the exact same issue

expand the digg number revolution folks. use everything that was used in the digg number fiasco and make it used again. weidl it as a weapon agains tthose who wish to censor in the name of fascist religious fundamentalism and corporate greed. let this revolution continue! let them fear us, not us fear them!

i will respond to this comment with another comment with text the church of scientology does not want known

slashdot may get attacked by me doing this, slashdot has been forced to remove comments before. i may be attacked too. i don't care, because i know i am in the right, and i know this is important, and i know i have support

the proper response to my post of the sensitive scientology information? post it some more yourself. post it and post it some more.

post it more, post it more, post it more. post it everywhere. post it a million times

scientology has legions of aggressive fanatical laywers, but we, who love free speech are yet legion more

i support free speech, do you? did the recent imbroglio over that stupid number on digg stoke your righteous indignation at censorship in the name of corporate idiocy? well this man was just arrested in the name of religious fundamentalism. you should be stoked at this too. it is the exact same thing. let's make the revolution over the digg number a permanent fixture on the internet. let's band together and in the same of social justice fight these censoring fascist assholes

the proper response to keith being arrested is bomb post every and all sensitive church of scientology material any of us can find. the more the material makes those fascist assholes squeal, the more it should be disseminated. digg, slashdot, fark, every and all sites you can find. bomb post away, bomb away, bomb away

this is important folks. if a man can be arrested for making a dumb joke on a newsgroup, any of us can. so all of us should band together and prove the futility of what scientology thinks they are doing: when someone is arrested for simply criticizing their stupid church then us on the internet will respond by hurting them where they hurt the most: the mass public airing of that which they deem so personal and sensitive

dear church of scientology and your legal whores: fuck you you fascist censoring pricks

this is war

fire away