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  1. Re:Luxury! by KeepBreathing · · Score: 1 · on Dilbert's Ultimate House

    A hole in the ground eh? Perhaps the designer of the Dilbert house could take a page or two from this guy.

  2. Re:A hole.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Reading Slashdot From Strange Locations

    He's more interested in camping in his hole with his AK-47 than reading slashdot.org :
    http://www.cp-tel.net/pasqualy/hole/bushmannva.jpg

    What kind of enemy is he waiting for !?!

  3. A hole.... by Himring · · Score: 2, Funny · on Reading Slashdot From Strange Locations

    This guy does it from a hole in the ground he dug (an epic adventure; a hole, in the ground, in a galaxy, far, far, away...).

    The Hole

  4. The sky is falling!!! by kma · · Score: 2, Informative · on DOJ Already Monitoring Cable Internet Traffic

    I don't understand the level of panic I'm seeing in most of the replies to this article. Have any of you folks actually read the legislation? Most of it consists of running "sed -e s/phone/phone, voice or internet" on existing laws. E.g., the ability to obtain IP address/name pairs from cable companies is analogous to the ability to map phone numbers to names. We're not exactly shredding the Bill of Rights, here.

    There is a real tension between civil liberties and physical safety, no matter what Ben Franklin said; we have enemies who want to slaughter us wholesale, and the freedoms available to them in this country are enabling them to do so. In this context, the USA Patriot Act is a reasonable compromise, despite the newspeak name. The freedoms it sacrifices are non-essential (yes, there is such a thing), and yet it has a fighting chance of being effective. It represents a sweet-spot in the freedom/safety trade-off.

    Even if it were the piece of totalitarian toilet paper some would have us believe, it at least has a sunset clause. I.e., on Dec. 31, 2005, the USA Patriot Act ceases to be the law of the land. Not quite what you'd expect from a fascist power-grab.

    I suspect the most hyperbolic complaints about this piece of legislation come from people who are upset about the general erosion of civil liberties underway. If you fall into this category, your energy is wasted on the USA Patriot Act. Executive orders allowing military tribunals and spying on lawyers are massively more troubling than the FBI being able to find out whose machine is at 65.12.14.153; if you don't understand why, I'm afraid you've been spending too much time on slashdot.

  5. Re:Franklin (Whoops) by __aasfhc1949 · · Score: 1 · on Civil Liberties And The New Reality

    Hello:

    Made a mistake on the quote: from http://www.cp-tel.net/miller/BilLee/quotes/Frankli n.html, Franklin says "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." [Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759.]

  6. Re:DeCSS by CaptainTylor · · Score: 1 · on EFF Appeals 2600 Decision

    "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759.

    Thanks to Google and http://www.cp-tel.net/miller/BilLee/quotes/Frankli n.html for the quote whose exact wording I can never remember.