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December 2, 10:00 am.

SCO (quote : SCOX), in its contiuing string of aquistions and take overs in order to buy up Unix related IP holdings, has bought Goatse.cx, a subsiduary of Portman inc.

Its trademark man with a strecthing anus has now been removed, and now redirects to SCO.com. People who would like to redirect people to goatse must pay SCO a $699 licencing fee, plus an extra $50 for every person redirected.

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Why do we have to keep hearing about that pasty little plain, 13 year old BSD chick? I'm sure she's the hottest thing these guys have seen, but come on!

At least Natalie Portman was worth trolling for, and appears to be above the age of consent. She may have even seen the sun once or twice!

Grits are a corn product.
This link should explain them better then I can. However, it is from the view of southern US cooking.
India and other countries along the more uncomfortable tempriture regions of the world tend to serve more spicy and phisicaly hot foods. They make you sweat, and when you sweat in that climate your body can ditch some heat from the evaporation of the water.
I usually take my hot tea with honey, but I don't usually drink black teas, I drink a lot of herbal mixtures and green teas.
Char is Chinese for tea.

it involves hot grits and my pants ...

I thought that it was common pratice to have at least one Natalie Portman post for every movie review! WHERE'S THE GRITS?

Assuming Natalie has the prerequisite hot grits down her pants, she could use that as a secret weapon. I mean, come on, after all these years with hot grits down her pants, she has to be used to it, but I don't think Kirsten is ready for a shot of steaming, coursely ground corn down her pants.

This one goes out to Natalie!

There really should be a cover charge for this event.
That way they could afford to get Natalie Portman as a guest grits tester.
I suggest the charge be A DOLLAR

I signed up Lars, Jon Katz, Miss Portman, AL Gore and CmdrTaco. (this is a joke, I did not sign up these people)

But you have a good point, ANYONE ANYWHERE could signup on this "legally binding document" and there is really no way to tell who really behind IP 209.272.218.128, they should atleast require a pgp signature (even though this would still have problems) or even better yet, print it out, sign it and have 2 witnesses sign it, and fax it in with 2 forms of photo ID.

I remeber like 2-3 years ago, the Internet has just one big ass "Hoax" no one took anything serious on the Internet, it was more of a "play toy" for geeks and porn haven for preverts and that was it, now we are passing around credit card numbers and "legally binding documents" on the web and just expect it to work on in the real world. I view the real world and the Internet a whole lot differant. These world are just that, too differant and unrelated worlds.

This is one of the times where people would need to be tracked on the Internet, to tell how the really are, but at the same time certain things we do or don't do on the Internet should remain private.

Would pgp keys work in this sisuation? I think the Internet should remain %100 anonymous, unless the user wants to be known (and can also prove that they say who they really are), but when a user does want to prove that they are really who they say there are, there needs to be a sure %100 method of doing this. Maybe goverment issused PGP or simlair? (Sorry I don't know much about pgp, so this probably sounds really fsck stupid)

It's already happened on the message boards at www.grits.com. And honestly, I'm surprised there aren't webpages at www.hotgrits.com or www.hotgrits.org, etc...

I want a pager that will let me find people that have hot grits down their pants!

"Ode to grits"

I guess it's just my perverse imagination coupled with intense Slashdot addiction, but it was funny as hell. (Although I bet the good grits.com people didn't mean their site to be such)

If you're looking for insight into how corporatism and politics work together to control software and technology -- and to potentially stifle free speech and individual choice -- you can't do better. Nor will you find a more textbook-perfect example of dubious, perhaps even unconstitutional, Internet law.

Well, apart from UCITA perhaps.

One reason free music sources proliferated so rapidly was that they often piggy-backed on educational and other sites where music seekers congregated. College students could download music on their schools' sites, in part because the schools believed they were simply neutral, non-liable carriers of content. Since there was no Internet law governing content on Web sites, nobody knew if that was true or not. But it certainly isn't true anymore.

If this is carried out to its full extent then no-one will have a web page hosted in the US unless its for something really inoffensive, like cooking - check out this site. By forcing sites to be legally responsible for their content this law ensures that content will remain minimal - for small organisations like colleges that would be unable to continually monitor the content of student web pages it will be far easier simply not to have these web pages. It's far easier for them to do this than to face repeated lawsuits.

The real point of this law is intimidation. It's main target is not professional pirates, most of whom don't live in the US anyway, or the people who download pirate music, most of whom it'd be very difficult and time-consuming to catch, but smaller bodies which can be easily accused and which cannot effectively fight back given such accusations. This law is just another way of the music industry asserting their control over music - one of the oldest parts of human culture and one of the few things which separate us from animals.

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