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The FBI collected my fingerprints to verify that I was not a felon before I could teach. The same is true for healthcare workers. Fair enough. I would not want my children in the care of a felon.

However, my fingerprints were not just run against a database, they were added to the database. Now, every fingerprint check is run against my fingerprints. This seems to me a presumption of guilt with no trial, and there is no recourse to have my fingerprints expunged from the system. This is innocuously known as continuous criminal record monitoring.

Hell, gun owners do not yet have their fingerprints stored in the system.

If you think that this is fair and just, then wait until they come around for your fingerprints. This is the slippery slope that reminds me of a saying attributed to Martin Niemöller:

First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Socialist.
Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.

Did we all forget that it is misogynist?

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Chill out troll, you're going to have an aneurysm.

caniuse.com is a pretty rubbish place to get stats,
here, go direct to the source instead: http://gs.statcounter.com/

I'd like to remind you, Firefox is a non-profit charitable organisation with a miniscule amount of funding for how much they have contributed to the open web and privacy!
Remember, they championed web standards compliance and the importance of the W3C and accessibility guidelines at a time when Microsoft wanted to make the web into a proprietary model, a bit like what Google is trying to do now.

And now Mozilla along with Opera are the ones who are championing the latest web standards, especially HTML5, CSS3 and 4, and especially Javascript (EMCAScript) upon which the entire web is built.

I shouldn't need to remind you that Google is a multi-billion dollar spying corp empire who's pumped an enormous amount of marketing power into their reskinned Apple Safari (AppleWebKit) rip-off, and you're comparing goliath to david's little baby kid?!

What I also find amazing is that Microsoft were heavily fined for bundling IE into Windows, but when Google advertises their browser all over Google.com (the window to the web for most people), and bundles Chrome into Android OS or their laptop OS, that's perfectly fine!
Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that Google is one of the biggest bribers... errr, I mean, "lobbyist" to the US Government?

Wake up retard.

'“Forest” writes that she woke up one night while platonically sharing a bed with Appelbaum to find her pants unzipped, his hands in her underwear and touching her vagina.'

The only time a male would share a bed "platonically" with a women is when the male is deceased. At the risk of looking a little paranoid, this is precisely the same way they discredited Assange, having two women come forward with accusations, who turned out later on worked for a CIA front organization.

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I was smoking an e-cig while riding on my hoverboard when my Dell laptop battery exploded in my backpack.

Sorry, I'm not taking any article that says this seriously:

The video-gaming business was a bastion of old-fashioned sexism long before Gjoni came along. [ ... ]

Um, sorry, but I was there, and yes it was. It wasn't rampagingly misogynistic, but it was definitely a male-dominated industry, market, and culture. The number of well-known female game designers could be counted on your fingers. And while there's no intrinsic reason why a woman can't enjoy a game about blasting the crap out of aliens/demons/terrorists, as a group, that's not a genre they have tended to gravitate toward.

Not to mention that the article only focuses on Gjoni and Quinn's relationship and doesn't really go into GamerGate at all.

Why would it? Gjoni made up the whole thing as part of a vicious character assassination. Yes, there's quid-pro-quo corruption in games journalism, but that happens at the managerial level, as Jeff Gerstmann will readily attest, long before Gjoni oozed on to the scene.

Yeah, guy was pissed his girlfriend was fucking around, [ ... ]

So you're just taking Gjoni's word for it? A man with several court-imposed restraining orders against him for willfully spreading falsehoods against Quinn?

The reason why it ended up being a big thing is because of the exposed corruption in gaming journalism, [ ... ]

The statistics conclude otherwise. Sorry, but that fig leaf of plausible deniability dried up and crumbled to dust ages ago: http://www.dailydot.com/opinio...

It's funny you should say this, because (and more interestingly) a former tor developer, who also has a PhD in CompSci, is now the lead researcher for a security firm closely aligned to to the FBI, in fact employing some of the agents responsible for catching DPR and shutting down SilkRoad.

"Matt Edman is a cybersecurity expert who worked as a part-time employee at Tor Project, the nonprofit that builds Tor software and maintains the network, almost a decade ago."
"By 2012, Edman was working at Mitre Corporation as a senior cybersecurity engineer assigned to the FBI's Remote Operations Unit, the bureau’s little-known internal team tapped to build or buy custom hacks and malware for spying on potential criminals. With an unparalleled pedigree established from his time inside the Tor Project, Edman became an FBI contractor tasked with hacking Tor as part of Operation Torpedo, a sting against three Dark Net child pornography sites that used Tor to cloak their owners and patrons."

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And she's worried the FBI might try to use her to "infiltrate" Tor. Please, they're already using consultants who probably get paid 3x whatever she's making to actively deanonymize Tor.

She's a tad paranoid if you ask me.

> I personally laud the inclusion of Space Raptor Butt Invasion over more agenda pushing drivel.

You laud a pure agenda driven nomination for not being agenda pushing?

Perhaps you don't know that the author of Space Raptor Butt Invasion has been shitting all over you creeps via twitter. He's even decided to have Zoe Quinn accept his prize on his behalf if he wins.

And then I showed you where it did say that low income white kids were being excluded here, "Jones told CNN. The program is aiming to teach 100,000 low-income non-white teenagers how to write code, and was launched at the 20th Anniversary Essence Festival in New Orleans in 2014."

"Aiming at" minorities is not the same as excluding whites.

Are you saying hating someone because of their race is not racism?

Yes, it's not necessarily racism. Racism implies a power structure. Oppressor/oppressed and all that. I don't believe that it's possible in the United States to be racist against white people. If we lived in a racially neutral society, then maybe you'd have an argument. Here's someone who explains it well:

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For example I think the Linux (POSIX?) file system was written before they invented autocomplete, it's all TLAs like /var/usr/bin/lib/wtf.

In this case it's the file system hierarchy, not the file system. Personally, I think the argument for longer filenames is bogus. Using longer filenames isn't necessarily going to make their purpose any more clear, and for everything outside of the home folder, the novice user should probably not be touching that stuff, any more than they should be poking around in C:\Windows. Being user friendly is not a feature for things that are not intended for casual use. Autocomplete is an even worse argument: I'm not saving any keystrokes by typing /bi[TAB] versus /bin.

However, your example was somewhat poorly chosen in another sense, because while there is no call to make the names longer, at least one major distribution got rid of some of those top-level folders. Fedora likes to move fast and break things anyway, but in this case the historical justification for splitting up the binaries was, well, kind of ridiculous. Thompson and Ritchie created that particular issue a couple years before CP/M inflicted drive letters on us, but forty years later it's still a bug worth fixing. Most of today's code and systems will be pretty hoary in forty years, and I'm not sure I would consider it a virtue if it ran unmodified on my...hmm, well, whatever system exists at that time. One can always use emulation to provide old features, but most of the time I'd rather that not be happening at the OS level.

Given that Windows inherited both 8.3 filenames and drive letters from CP/M, it makes sense to talk about them in the same context. Drive letters are pretty harmless, but having "secret" 8.3 filenames and unremovable folders is probably something that needs to go. Linux definitely doesn't have those kind of problems.

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By Patrick Howell O'Neill - Apr 27, 2016, 4:32pm CT

"How does the U.S. government beat Tor, the anonymity software used by millions of people around the world? By hiring someone with experience on the inside.

A former Tor Project developer created malware for the Federal Bureau of Investigation that allowed agents to unmask users of the anonymity software."

"Matt Edman is a cybersecurity expert who worked as a part-time employee at Tor Project, the nonprofit that builds Tor software and maintains the network, almost a decade ago.

Since then, he's developed potent malware used by law enforcement to unmask Tor users. It's been wielded in multiple investigations by federal law-enforcement and U.S. intelligence agencies in several high-profile cases.

"It has come to our attention that Matt Edman, who worked with the Tor Project until 2009, subsequently was employed by a defense contractor working for the FBI to develop anti-Tor malware," the Tor Project confirmed in a statement after being contacted by the Daily Dot."

Article:
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The Sabu debacle is quite well documented. And I'm not posting as an AC.

Well who the fuck are you, and what proves the FBI is directing Anonymous?

The Sabu debacle is quite well documented. And I'm not posting as an AC.

“The government is seeking legal precedent here,” she said. “There's nothing about the way the government has argued this case that would limit it to this particular case, that would limit it to terrorism investigations, that would limit it to Apple or limit it to these things. That's not what they're aiming for here. It's very clear from the papers. They’re saying the All Writs Act lets them do this or anything like it.”

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It's nice to see people calling bull-shit on the argument that the government isn't seeking a precedent.

I think you're slightly off there. Title II may be the only way to get any Net Neutrality legally enforced at this point, or are you going to get Congress to write up a new law that supports Net Neutrality? (Sorry, that was just hilarious)

Lets give the quote:

Former NSA chief says U.S. can get around encryption with metadata, argues against backdoors

“Before any civil libertarians want to come up to me afterwards and get my autograph,” he explained at a Tuesday panel on national security hosted by the Council on Foreign Relations, “let me tell you how we got around it: Bulk data and metadata [collection].”

Encryption is “a law enforcement issue more than an intelligence issue,” Hayden argued, “because, frankly, intelligence gets to break all sorts of rules, to cheat, to use other paths.”

Law enforcement and intelligence are different functions.

In an interesting article here former CIA and NSA director Michael Hayden claims* to be strongly against backdoors in encryption. It's law enforcement (FBI, DEA, etc) that are pushing for backdoors, not US intelligence (NSA). Hayden's rather chilling rationale is that since the NSA doesn't have to follow any rules, they can do bulk data and metadata collection and largely obviate the need to break encryption.

* Not that you can believe a thing he says, it's still useful to be clear on whether it's law enforcement or an intelligence agency deceiving you.

Start a petition - give the White House ANOTHER one to ignore.

I'm a fan of home automation (a hobby of mine that's increasingly turning into a business). I, and many fellow HA enthusiasts, are firm proponents of the LAN of Things, or even a Separate Network - Controlled By a Hub That is Only Allowed To Connect To the Internet Under Strict Conditions

Like over my cold dead body?

Would you give a warrantee tghat my Washing machine or toaster or heating system will never ever be hacked?

I love technology, a lot more than many slash dotters do.

But nothing has ever been put out to be attached to the interwebz has ever been secure.

And at the tender mercies of people like this:

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There are people out there who fuck with people just because they can - and I'm supposed to give them control of my furnace when I'm on vacation in the winter? Shut that sucker off, pipes break, and they have destroyed my house.

I don't want to have daily mandatory security updates for my refrigerator, or run the risk of some misanthropic sociopath will turn it off for the Lulz. Maybe I pissed off some Slashdotter, so it's time to burst the pipes. Or do you LoT masterminds have insurance against that sort of thing?

Frivolous use of superlatives. Slashdot is getting more and more "amazeballs" Time to move on to a more mature source of information.

Like what? Slashdot is doing a great job of driving away their old core readership, but Soylent is a joke, Reddit is even more full of 'amazeballs' 'totes epic' content, ycombinator is just OK, but their whole site just barely qualifies as barebones. Let's face it, the Buzzfeedification of the Internet has ruined just about everything that once made the Internet great.

The Internet is still a great tool for content distribution (like music, movies, and software), but the signal to noise ration on the Web is so low that it has mostly turned into an enormous pile of faeces with a few bits of corn in it, which are becoming harder and harder to find.

'Steven Universe' fandom is melting down after bullied fanartist attempts suicide

It only seems that way because they can't talk about it.

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Hey if nobody can say anything about it, it really doesn't happen does it.

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Those sick, sexist fucks banned images of women reaching orgasm. Men spewing cum everywhere are fine though, carry on.

I spoke to a computer science professor about 2–3 years ago who said he had noticed a curious thing over the last few years. The students in his classes didn't seem interested--or even willing to--in solving programming problems. They just expected to be able to come in, download this framework and that framework, find a solution to a tricky problem on Stackoverflow (or wherever), and maybe write some really rudimentary code to just glue the bits together. Many of the "old " assignments--implement three different sorting algorithms and compare their properties just seemed totally archaic to his students--why would you ever want to actually write a sorting algorithm? After all, somebody out there has already done it better, and that's nothing you would ever need to do as real programmer.

The professor was somewhat alarmed by this, but not totally in disaster mode, because it was probably true that MOST of his students would never need to write a sorting algorithm. Most of his students would never need to implement an algorithm that draws a circle, etc. But still--this was computer science--not community college.

The writer here seems to fall squarely into this class of learner. Honestly, the first thing this article made me think of was that awful Barbie learns programming book where Barbie gets some other people to write the code for a program she designed, thereby becoming a real computer programmer. Maybe the book wasn't that far off the mark after all...

They don't.

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Sure she wasn't worried about retaliation.

I mean it's not like officers of large publishers didn't have a vitriolic reaction to Beale taking away their toy.

Oh wait they did

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a big part of what we use language for is identifying group membership (ie: ebonics)

Just a point of order: ebonics refers to black language, or is abused to mean the study of black culture (ebony + ics). It doesn't relate to group membership of just any group, particularly not pasty white British people :)

In context, it means group membership of those who self-identify with a group that speaks a historically black dialect. Where I come from, white people who associate with such groups are called by a word that literally means "suppliers of hairpieces".

Sorry about that. I didn't format them correctly.

Treating Pedophiles: Therapy Can Work, But It's a Challenge
It's time to reconsider how we treat pedophiles
Pessimism about pedophilia

Keyboard and mouse flat out destroys controllers when it comes to competitive play.

So then how do you explain the story about controller-wiedling Titanfall players beating keyboard/mouse players?

What I want to know is why Kivimaki got a slap on the wrist.

This guy was a member of Lizard Squad. He's responsible for heaps of economic damage - not the least of which includes DDoSing services to take them down - along with credit card fraud, botnet creation/operation, not to mention all of the data he stole from the targets he hacked. And none of that includes the even more serious crimes such as swatting an Illinois family, which put them at great physical risk, and then for good measure committed identity fraud as well in order to wreck their financial situation.

Kivimaki is a serious threat to other people, and the fact that he's not spending a long, long time in a jail cell blows my mind. If you can commit this much crime and cause this much suffering, what does it take to get a black hat punished?

Flamebait, eh?... Good Lord....

I have been following news, somewhat.
I know Snowden has leaked a lot of intelligence materials and as far as I remember, it was mostly about (mostly illegal) surveillance, which, as such, doesn't qualify as "terrible act" in my books.

But torture, eh? He did make statements about it, but it was a fucking senate report: WTF did he "leak" about torture?
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And, oh, I live in Germany. And, nope, I don't care about Merkel being spied on. Considering what a pathetic motherfucker our previous chancellor was, I even feel a bit safer, if an ally keeps an eye on them.

James Comey (head of the FBI) has pretty much said he wants all encryption outlawed. Having personally read a ton of emails that were not mine just for fun in college (via packet sniffer), including some very personal ones (though most not - I also scooped up numerous passwords but never used them... can't say that's true for the other kids that did the same, though), I'd say this is a terrible idea. Let's all go back to party lines, too, because you'll never know who's listening and therefore everyone is more secure.

  Incidentally, I learned never to send any private or personal information via email because I learned about and how to use packet sniffers. I would never sext or send personal info via text, either - only fools trust their phone company security (at least in America). Now that the America FREEDOM Act has passed, can't trust Skype or VoIP either, because those are all permitted to be dragnet vacuumed up now (FREEDOM for what? more government snooping it seems) and companies like Microsoft are protected from liability for letting the NSA scoop them up.

Not sure why I didn't see it in the summary.

"I challenge you to find me some Men's Rights Activists who are doxing."

So, lemme tell you how this kind of shit plays out.

First, I google:
mra dox
Then I just link random shit.
Second, in each case, you claim "No True MRA Would Dox".
Third (optional), you make personal attacks on me if you can*

In some cases you'll be correct, of course- MRA has become a slur in a whole bunch of circles. It's just pretty much a catch-all, as the misuse at the top demonstrates, and it's a bogeyman- like, "you can't believe this, because some MRAs believe that".

Here's a case of reddit users trying to (and incorrectly) doxxing some woman unrelated to some trollish feminist:
http://www.dailydot.com/crime/...

This is also the very first google response, and I'd never heard of it until this moment. The second is literally from a subreddit called "against men's rights", which seems to have some data that you are more than welcome to pick apart (a subreddit with such a hateful title likely has plenty of unsubstantiated stuff, but it's a pretty long post- I bet some of it is real, right?).

Oh, the third response is AVFM justifying the doxxing that they admit to doing. That good enough? AVFM is an MRA website, right?

Now, for the first link (or any, really), you could go with:
1) "We don't know that these are MRAs"
2) "Technically, they didn't dox her, because they found the wrong chick (or other technicality)"
3) "They didn't act like the kind of MRA that I follow, so they don't count"
4) "Ok, but in this case, it was justified"

But it all misses the point (even if one or more is correct for any given case). The point is, you know full well that if you post some really well phrased, interesting, or extreme position in the gender war, a legion of anonymous people with entire skeletons to pick have a real chance of shitting all over you. Maybe you get a few bad emails, maybe you get some scary snail mail, or maybe you get SWATted, who knows, right?

*bonus points for my core point IF- you identify as "MRA" or "feminist" and already opened my username in new tab.... you know, just to check. Can't be too sure who is on what side of what is apparently a damned war, right?

MS probably spends more on political lobbying, advertising, and marketing than they spend on research.

For extraordinarily small values of probably. Lobbying is measured in millions, unlike the billions for research. And for whatever it's worth, Google spends more on lobbying than Microsoft does. Or anybody else.

The US State Department recruited Hollywood to boost “anti-Russian messaging“.
Sony pirated multiple books about hacking, while aggressively campaigning against piracy.
Emails reveal concerns in the US over the secrecy of the TPP talks.
The leaks included a draft of the international VOD and DHE agreement between SONY and Google
Sony received nearly $48 million in tax breaks in 2011 and 2012 after donating to New York Governor Cuomo.
Ben Affleck demanded PBS program “Finding Your Roots” hide his slave-owning ancestor.
Sony changed the Snowden film press release to remove “illegal spying” from the description of NSA’s activities
Sony cameras are used as a part of the guidance system for Israeli rockets bombing Gaza
Sony Chiefs met with David Cameron ahead of the Scottish referendum
Corrupt product placement practices used in Dr. Oz show

I really hope that slashdot doesn't become another place of pro-government propaganda, as that really pisses me off. The information was already out there, but their republishing obviously did us a favor (us that care about government accountability or knowing the truth anyway). We already have enough media outlets against information out there, let's keep this one useful.
I would never know the above facts if it wasn't for them, as 1. I believed the propaganda that it was mostly employee information and didn't feel comfortable downloading it and reading, and 2. it would be too much work for me to look into the e-mails.
Now that I know these stuff I feel like someone more informed than before. I hope the Slashdot community stops being against information.

By the way, since I haven't seen here a link to their press release, with the leaks, here it is.

If people want to monkey with Wikipedia, have at it. We're told over and over again that Wikipedia is not a suitable reference; however the references on the page can sometime be useful.

And then there's http://www.dailydot.com/lol/am...

The person in the story inserted a little fake factoid into an otherwise proper article. This little factoid ended up very quickly
    - cited in a lesson plan by a Taiwanese English professor
    - cited in a book about Jews and Jesus
    - cited in innumerable blog posts and book reports, as well as a piece by blogger Hanny Hernandez, who speculated that Amelia Bedelia’s tendency toward malapropisms was inspired by Parish’s experiences in Cameroon, as “several messages can be
      misinterpreted between a Cameroonian maid who is serving an American family.” One blogger even speculated that Amelia Bedelia wasn’t a maid, but a slave.
    - cited in the Amelia Bedelia entry on the website TV Tropes and Idioms, and Peggy Parish’s Find-A-Grave page
    - cited by Mr. Amelia Bedelia himself: Herman Parish, Peggy’s nephew and author of the books after his aunt passed away in 1988, who apparently told a reporter from the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier that his aunt based “the lead character on a French colonial
      maid in Cameroon.”

Once again, Wikipedia can be a useful overview of a subject and a launch-pad for further research. But after all these years of Wikipedia hoaxes (and Wikipedia maintains a list of hoaxes; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W...), the mantra must be "trust but verify".

Because, in Wikipedia's own words:

Misinformation on Wikipedia misleads readers, causing them to make errors with real consequences, including hurt feelings, public embarrassment, reprints of books, lost points on school assignments, and other costs. With some articles, like medical topics, they could lead to injury or death.

You count nothing because:
(pick one)
A) you dont know how to count
B) you never tried
C) you are willfully ignorant and just ignore the multiple examples each year

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They are half a world away from the States. Why not let European countries, who are practically next door, take care of them?

"Here are the countries most concerned about ISIS" http://www.dailydot.com/politi... (Google Trends)
linked from summery link http://www.dailydot.com/tags/i... listing any news story they printed over ISIS.

"It is worth pointing out, however, that Brazil’s outsized interest most likely stems not from a concern with the terrorist group but from a fascination with the 27-year-old actress Ísis Valverde, who appears under the country's "related searches."

They are half a world away from the States. Why not let European countries, who are practically next door, take care of them?

"Here are the countries most concerned about ISIS" http://www.dailydot.com/politi... (Google Trends)
linked from summery link http://www.dailydot.com/tags/i... listing any news story they printed over ISIS.

"It is worth pointing out, however, that Brazil’s outsized interest most likely stems not from a concern with the terrorist group but from a fascination with the 27-year-old actress Ísis Valverde, who appears under the country's "related searches."

http://www.newser.com/story/19... http://www.dailydot.com/techno... http://www.newser.com/story/18... http://www.newser.com/story/20...

I know, right? He "looks" like the sort of guy who uses his "autistic spectrum disorder" as an excuse when called on being a jerk, shouts homophobic epithets on Xbox Live and who is an example of the Internet Fuckwad Theory.

Personally I think the neckbeard appearance is how guys like him show conformity with their community. He probably wears some kind of fedora, or cape, or something. In 30 years time he'll look like Alan Cox, or RMS, probably.

Wasn't there some "Famedgod" a member of Anonymous who claimed responsibility for the Sony DDOS? Yep:

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they were dropped

lack of evidence?

i haven't been following closely, does anyone know why those charges went away?

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He was asked if Google received detailed information from Chrome users that other browsers do not receive and, if it did, whether there was a danger that federal authorities would track said data.

"If you're concerned, for whatever reason, you do not wish to be tracked by federal and state authorities, my strong recommendation is to use incognito mode, and that's what people do,"

The word "password" is not in the text anywhere.

I saw nothing in it that gives the school district any authority whatsoever to do such a thing. It makes the bullying illegal, and gives the school the ability to support the victim. But it does not even mention giving school administrators access to private social media accounts of the accused.

It's just a bit long and I did skim in places, please feel free to correct me if you see it in there. But I don't see any provision that is even suggestive of what is being claimed in the aritcle.

I saw this when it was in the firehose yesterday, and I didn't just skim over the text of the actual law. Your analysis is correct. We already have ways to deal with this - call the cops. Cases like http://www.slate.com/articles/...>Rehtaeh Parsons, where the cops initially did nothing, and the resulting backlash anonymous threatening, then revealing the identities of the perps, forced the prosecutors to charge and convict some of them.

There ws actually no need for a "cyber-bullying" law - harassment is illegal no matter the means employed. But I guess legislators are like the patent office - add the words "on the Internet" and it's somehow different.

Actually, it is unconstitutional to have laws enacted in ways other than the constitution proscribes.[...].

Can the US government with absolutely no legislative act making a change but by board or panel constituted under it- constitutionally declare pot illegal.[...]

Everything you say after the last sentence I quoted is a straw man.

Reclassifying ISPs under Title II is not a legislative act. On the contrary, it depends on the legislative Act known as Title II.

Here is a common-language explanation of the legality of using Title II to classify communications company as "common carriers".

You seem to think that classifying communications companies requires a legislative act when it does not. It simply requires a vote by the FCC and a reclassification of ISPs as common carriers under Title II would have consequences but the enactment of new legislation is not one of them.