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Here are two articles from Salon magazine detailing all the problems behind the Daikatana release. The first article talks about Romeros' early life and split with Id and the second article talks about the new Ion Storm team including that hot female level designer, playboy centerfold model, and purportedly John Romero's latest significant other, the notorious Stevie Case.

Here are two articles from Salon magazine detailing all the problems behind the Daikatana release. The first article talks about Romeros' early life and split with Id and the second article talks about the new Ion Storm team including that hot female level designer, playboy centerfold model, and purportedly John Romero's latest significant other, the notorious Stevie Case.

The religious right gets it. It's time for geeks to get it. The following is from a salon.com article on how The Christian Coalition does it:

Lack of interest from the mainstream press didn't bother [The Christian Coalition] at all; to the contrary, they routinely barred reporters from their meetings.[...]

At one of those closed meetings, Guy Rodgers delivered a speech to coalition activists that exposed what is still a critical weakness of the religious right. As he explained with a smirk, they relied upon mobilizing a relatively small group of sympathetic voters in elections that most Americans simply ignore.

"In a presidential election, when more voters turn out than in any other election, only 15 percent of eligible voters actually determine the outcome. How can that be? Well, of all the adults 18 and over eligible to vote, only about 60 percent are registered ... Of those registered to vote, in a good turnout, only half go to the polls. That means 30 percent of those eligible are actually voting. So 15 percent determines the outcome in a high-turnout election. In low-turnout elections ... the percentage that determines who wins can be as low as 6 or 7 percent."

Although Rodgers didn't mention presidential primaries, those contests too often attract only a fraction of eligible and registered citizens. "Is this sinking in?" he asked. "We don't have to persuade a majority of Americans to agree with us." Most of them, he said, stay home and watch television.

Sorry this came off as condesending. I feel everyone needs to express themselves somehow. I'm talking about this from a Professional point of view. I am a horrible guitarist and will probably never progress beyond 4 chords because I enjoy the braindead mentality of this type of playing. I would never call myself anything more than an amature with this instrument, but I enjoy it.

The point was making was that what is killing linux is the lack of professionality. I am mainly a Mac user, but it kills me when people tak about switching to the PC because their are so much more in the way of Music apps. As a professional, this is far from the truth. I keep a PC around to pick these apps us, but they do nothing for me except as a creative tool. I love sample based mediums. I hate the idea that todays culture can take the braindead sample based mediums and promote them as High Art.

Check out the article over on salon

www.salon.com/ent/music/feature/2000/03/14/machine soul/index.html

for more on this (Props to my man peters @ pyramid for sending this the other day...and I got the /. html stuff fixed this time...preview clif...preview :)

I'm sorry that it sounded like I was being condecending, I was trying to be real when people are asking for honest opinions as to what needs to be done. It wasn't my intent to insult any musicians out there.

clif

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Salon did a pair of articles on this topic a couple of weeks ago:

• Do they know where you live?
• Where in the world?

The first article is about iCraveTV's effort, and the second talks about Digital Island, who offers the service today and claims a 96% accuracy rate. Both articles are shy on technical details, but mention is made of making arrangements with big ISPs to learn about how their IP address range is distributed geographically.

I suspect that this will prove to be another reason why anonymizing proxies are useful and necessary.

Salon did a pair of articles on this topic a couple of weeks ago:

• Do they know where you live?
• Where in the world?

The first article is about iCraveTV's effort, and the second talks about Digital Island, who offers the service today and claims a 96% accuracy rate. Both articles are shy on technical details, but mention is made of making arrangements with big ISPs to learn about how their IP address range is distributed geographically.

I suspect that this will prove to be another reason why anonymizing proxies are useful and necessary.

Salon did a pair of articles on this topic a couple of weeks ago:

• Do they know where you live?
• Where in the world?

The first article is about iCraveTV's effort, and the second talks about Digital Island, who offers the service today and claims a 96% accuracy rate. Both articles are shy on technical details, but mention is made of making arrangements with big ISPs to learn about how their IP address range is distributed geographically.

I suspect that this will prove to be another reason why anonymizing proxies are useful and necessary.

Background info is available from this Salon article (the second of two parts; the first part gives an overview of Hotline). For the latest news in the case, try here or here.

Hotline is what got me much of my MP3 collection, but the company's actions caused me to think twice. Napster doesn't present such a moral quandry.

You think christening a pig with a dotcom moniker is bad, read the article that Salon had yesterday, "Thoroughly modern eMillie". Perhaps the most amusing -- or disgusting -- is the reference to the legal battle with Apple over the name "iMack".

According to an old salon.com story referenced from the current one being discussed, "David Sobel, general counsel for the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), thinks that the government -- the Federal Trade Commission, to be specific -- is a more appropriate monitor for the Net."

Would that be better or worse? Technically, that is what the government is for but unfortunately, more often than not, the government goes too far. The other public sector route is a non-profit charitable organization like Epic that relies mainly on donations from private foundations and individual donors which means they have to constantly raise money to maintain their research and legal battles. When it comes down to it, I don't see how a private company could make a real profit by not catering to their members as eTrust does. I'm not saying its excusable, just that I don't think there is any 3rd party privacy/security group that could be objective and profitable.

- tokengeekgrrl
"The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions

Katz, you only reproduced part of Jefferson's quote. In the sentences preceding your excerpt, he makes it far more clear that he is speaking of abstract ideas. In fact, here's a larger version of the quote from an essay by John Perry Barlow. (I presume you've read this piece, which I just spent a very profitable few minutes doing.)

Certainly intellectual property needs to be reconceived so it reflects the ease with which "copying" (against which "copyright" protects) may be executed in our digital age. But people who create new information (artistic, for instance) or who add some value to information (perhaps by compiling or reorganizing it) must be paid for their efforts lest they lose incentive. This is not an abstract point. Consider the Feist Supreme Court case wherein a company's database was stolen in its entirety, and the Court ruled that, since facts cannot be copyrighted, the stolen database is not protected by copyright - despite the thousands of hours of work that went into its compilation. Since then, database makers have waged war in Washington, hoping to get from Congress the profit-producing protection that the Court stripped away.

Lessig notwithstanding, corporations will find technological ways to preserve (or create artificial) scarcity of information, since scarcity is what gives something its value. Information and ideas no more long to be free than a pizza longs to be eaten. Certain benevolent and generous creators, like Ben Franklin with his eponymous stove, will decide not to pursue legal protection for new ideas, so they might be freely available to all. Why should others, like musicians whose originality is critically acclaimed, be forced to freely give out the fruits of their labor? I find that absurd, not the scenario you consider absurd.

(And you cannot validly argue that the $15 billion the music industry made last year is evidence that digital music transfers are not harming the music industry; perhaps they would have made $16 billion were it not for the transfers of MP3s that Jack Valenti goofily calls "pilfering.")

If you say ideas cannot be owned, then go a step further: Why can land be owned? Why can pencils be owned? There are people who would argue that neither can be. Some would argue that the only thing that can be owned is your own body (which brings to mind the passages where Hegel, that hideous fraud of a philosopher, talked about owning food only once you have eaten it). And some would go even further, saying that you cannot even own your body - but that it belongs to God or the state or some greater human good.

Clearly we need to carefully reconsider intellectual property in light of technological changes. And we must vigorously work to educate our government about the changes. But that's no reason to discard the system altogether, or to pretend that technology has discarded it for us.

Perhaps the second part of your post will consider these matters.

A. Keiper

PS: No updates on GNU's Boycott Amazon page yet...

Here is the appropriate link, http://www.salon.com/books/it/1999/12/06/indian/in dex.html Technical Sutra. I don't know what happened to it in the above post.

In the Salon Article the spokeswoman for ICANN said, "The corporate and trademark interests won't go with new TLDs until they have protections." WTF excuse me but doesn't ICANN have control over what the TLD are? Can't they just add a TLD and all name servers will get the info? Is there currently a way to block .net addresses because of the TLD? I don't think so, so why should ICANN care if big business doesn't want them to add new TLD without priorty registration for their trademarks? Isn't ICANN independent? Don't they have a duty to the internet as a whole users and companies, or are they now the big business slaves? Well Microsoft doesn't want .suck because microsoft.suck is not good for business even if we let them get it first

Salon has some info from David Horowitz:

"According to Department of Justice figures, in 1993 there were 1.4 million crimes involving interracial violence nationwide. Eighty-five percent of them were committed by blacks against whites. A white is 50 times more likely to be the victim of a violent crime committed by a black person than the other way around."

newer data is available from the gov, specifically table 30, which shows blacks murdered 21,627 whites between 1976 and 1996, while whites murdered 8,344 blacks.

Given the percentage of poulation the two races make up, and the (not so recent?) spate of black on white crime, maybe these computers could be used to track down violent racist criminals. Sad to note the high rate of white crime against Native Americans.

However, all you ever hear about the Internet is how all the young people in America are getting to be zillionaires from it. There was even a recent, creepy, Salon Article about it just today. As Homer Simpson said, "Everyone is getting rich off the Internet and we are being left behind!"

A wise man said, "Just because you don't take an interest in politics, doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you." Well, with all this huge hype, it isn't surprising that politics is taking an interest in the Internet. I jut wish people would stop thinking that everyone gettig rich was a young computer professional. Some of the people getting rich are old corporate lawyers.

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Perhaps the episode was crappy because it was written by those other than the regular staff?

Yes, they seem a lovely pack of jackals and demagogues. Lot's of people are voting for one or the other. In fact, my sister was trying to convince me to become a Republican just the other day <Shudder> "Come on, George W. Bush needs your vote," she said to me, seriously!! <Shudder>. Bleah! And I thought I was convincing her to vote Libertarian... -_-

But there is a solution, and it doesn't involve sitting home on election day! That solution is Harry Browne, Libertarian, a man who is looking out for everyone's rights.

Remember, voting for a candidate who doesn't win may be depressing, but helping to elect a loser is far, far worse!

Vote Browne and send a message to the establishment!

(Incidentally, I've read articles in Forbes magazine that seemed OK, but not only is he out of the race, he was courting the Christian Coalition vote when he was in the race... I think that means, ultimately, filters and censorship under his administration, too.)

She just wanted to do it for kicks and never expected to actually have to get married (most people thought she was a surprising choice.)

In my opinion, the whole thing was a scam, anyway. Since this was always a possibility She didn't even spend one night alone with him.

Hmm... the plot thickens...

Somewhat related to the above

Just Some Guy dun said:

Why, oh why, is everything ludicrous attributed to right-wingers? I am just about as far-right-wing as you can get, and I assure that my core beliefs do not condone censorship in any form. I mean, remember the PMRC (record labeling)? That was Tipper Gore, not Pat Buchanan.

Hate to have to bring some things up to dash the illusion there, but there are some things I do need to bring up in light of your venting...

1). The vast majority of groups pushing censorship, and for that matter a lot of flatly ludicrous stuff, are right-wing--specifically, members of various political groups which are basically run by fundamentalist "Christians" in the US. (For that matter, Israel sees the same thing with ultraorthodox "Jews", and darn near every country with a signifigant Islamic population deals with fundamentalist "Moslems" of the two main denominations of their religion. For THAT matter, as I understand it, India's having the same damn problem with fundamentalist "Sikhs" and fundamentalist "Hindus".)

2). For all intents and purposes, there is no functioning left-wing in the United States. The US has literally gone so far to the right (largely because of influence of fundamentalist "Christian" groups, which at one point had pretty much taken over the entire Republican Party apparatus in thirty-four states; they have apparently led to the self-destruction now of a second party [the Reform Party]. It's not all the GOP's fault, though--I'll note that in a minute) that were Richard Nixon to run today on his present political platform, he would be considered a liberal. The most "liberal" parties in the US with any large percentage of voters (the Democratic and Libertarian parties) would be considered right-moderate in most political systems in the industralised world (yes, that includes Canada, too); the largest "conservative" party (the GOP) would be hard-right in nearly any other country's political system, and the second or third-largest "conservative" political party in the US (the US Taxpayer's Party) is, for all intents and purposes, run by extreme far-righters in the US and in fact promotes theocracy as a platform. (The Reform Party, before it basically started destroying itself when Pat Buchanan got considered for nomination, probably fell in between the Republicans and Libertarians; now, for all intents and purposes, the Reform Party will probably end up as two parties, one beign slightly more left-leaning but both still firmly on the right.) One newspaper, which started in the 1800's as a "moderate conservative" paper of the times and has had pretty much the same political bent ever since it started, is now considered one of the hardest-left papers in the US. It would also probably be considered moderate or moderate-left in political spectrums in most industralised countries.

Sad to say, but the political spectrum in the US today is less like other industrialised countries and more like those in which a fair amount of corruption occurs (such as in many "third-world" nations) or which are having very serious problems with fundamentalists trying to subvert the very structure of the government itself (this is certainly true in the US, and in a lot of other places you hear about in the news--like Israel, or Pakistan and India (basically a pissing contest between Muslim fundies and Hindu fundies which could well end up in a nuclear war before it's over with) or Sudan (which is having a rather nasty civil war between Muslim fundies and Christian fundies)).

2a). On a related note, and this is very important to note with anything related to fundy movements in general--most fundy groups, especially so in the US, are basically run by power-hungry individuals. In the US at least (and probably elsewhere--there's real signs of it at least in some ultra-Orthodox communities, and among nations like Iran and Afghanistan especially), many of the people who are members of the various fundy PACs here--and especially the more decidedly active ones--are members of churches that can be described as coercive groups much as Scientology can be described as a coercive group. Many of these groups use various mind-control techniques on their members to not only have them basically allow their minister to think for them, but to specifically "block out" anything that could be averse to what the minister says (these include basically teaching that the people in the church or group are the only ones who are "saved" and that anyone who isn't "saved" is in direct league with Satan; teaching that any doubt is the result of either demonic oppression or (if someone else says it) outright possession and one needs to "pray the doubts out" or have exorcisms performed (often involuntarily); forced confession of "sins" (which have included the involuntary outing of gays in church; most Religious Right groups are homophobic at best and some (like Fred Phelps, or Donald Wildmon, or Kentucky's own Frank Simon) are downright infamous for it); telling members to only do business with "members of like faith" (including printing special directories, like the "Christian Yellow Pages") and to only watch media that is affiliated with the church because all other media sources are "worldly" at best and outright "Satanic" at worst, not to mention businesses; "shepherding" programs and "cell churches" (in most programs, the people are divided into groups of five which, in essence, play "Big Brother" on each other--if someone has doubts, the other members try to work them more into the group, in extreme cases by methods like involuntary exorcisms), and so-called "divine lies" (basically, lying about your goals or at the least being dishonest about them to lure folks in to "win more souls for Christ"--this encompasses everything from "hell house" haunted-houses which are marketed as regular haunted houses for "educational purposes" which in fact are used to make people listen to fundy preaching (and yes, sometimes the doors ARE locked and the people not allowed to leave, so yes, they are in essence forced to listen) to "pep talks" run in high schools by groups that have fundy athletes come in to prosyletise, often on the premise that these are "anti-drug" or "self-esteem" talks (most of the time, these assemblies are mandatory to attend for kids, and often the groups will take innocuous-sounding names like "Athletes Against Drugs" or suchlike to hide their fundy links) to "free pizza parties" held by fundy groups who then hold the kids for hours, not allowing them to leave (it is almost never revealed that the "pizza party" is in fact being run by a fundy group) to "stealth candidates" for political offices (which don't reveal their fundy links till elected)...). Basically, because a lot of these groups ARE essentially Bible-based cults, they can feed their members an amazing amount of horsesheisse and (because they literally have nothing else to "error-check" it with) their followers will swallow it. If anything, most folks involved are to be pitied (the only ones that really deserve hate are probably the leaders who outright manipulate their followers).

There has not been a terrible amount of info on how "Bible-based cults" do manipulate their followers until fairly recently, largely because most folks associate "cults" with "new religions" and most folk haven't wanted to believe that "Christian" groups can and sadly do turn into coercive groups preaching far more of a god of Fear, Hate and Loathing (both of self and others) than a god of love, acceptance, and respect (which is what, at least with those folks whom I've met who I sense actually "get" what Yshua was saying, feel it's supposed to be about anyways). I also expect this is a big reason why most mainstream churches in the US haven't spoken out about "Bible-based cults" except in cases where they've been really extreme (part of this, too, might be because--sadly--coercive tactics are getting into larger and larger denominations; one of the largest fundy denominations in the US, which is in essence a Bible-based cult, was the major source of TV preachers for years and has well over one million members...a recent expose of the "Brownsville Movement" (which is centered at one of the larger churches in the US for this denomination in Pensacola, Florida) using coercive tactics is one of the major exceptions; the Southern Baptists, which have had their entire church head and seminary taken over by the fundamentalist wing of the denomination, are starting to dance close to using coercive tactics though they aren't as bad as the "traditionally" fundy denominations yet); part of that, though, may be because most fundy denominations (and especially those which are basically Bible-based cults) don't have anything to do with most major ecumenical conventions, holding their own separate worldwide conferences because they feel mainstrean Christianity is "lukewarm" at best and outright perverted by Satan at worst).

I'll also note (this is a personal aside, based on my own observations of having grown up in a family of raving fundies and having seen far more than I like of the internals of the Religious Right and fundamentalist groups in the US) that--probably because many of these folks have literally been in these groups for generations (I know of three-generation households in the group I walked away from; also, many of the younger especially are literally isolated from the outside world from birth all the way through college (fundies push homeschooling in large part so that kids CAN be isolated and not see anything that could spur them to walk away; there is now even a college being set up specifically for fundy-homeschooled kids to train them to be "political leaders for Christians", homeschooled kids being perfect fodder because they have literally been raised and brainwashed in Bible-based cults from birth), partly because walkaways from groups one has been raised in are EXTREMELY rare (pretty much most kids walk away when their parents do, or if they are forced out of their homes due to "irreconcilable differences" like the kid discovering he's gay; there are literally no statistics on kids walking away on their own (with no help from parents or exit counselors) from groups they were raised in because it is so rare), and partly because this is all they know as a result...a large percentage of those involved in Bible-based cults and in groups like the FRC are, to put none too fine a term on it, control-freaks. This is probably because the only real model they have IS the preacher, who basically uses coercive tactics (and a hell of a lot of FUD) to keep his flock "in line" and not questioning the preacher--this is especially true of folks who have been raised in such groups for generations--and so they basically take the whole "coercive-tactics"/"control-freak" thing to ALL walks of life. Literally everything from politics (a big part of why fundies want a theocracy here has to do with Control and Power over others; again, this is probably an extension of how their own ministers and deacons use Power and Control to keep the flock in line, along with the major "us versus them" mindset in such groups) to parenting (a lot of fundy parents will homeschool kids specifically to keep a maximum amount of Control and Power over them--this is also why they push so much for censorship initiatives to "protect the children", and a lot of fundies won't allow their kids to attend non-Christian colleges or allow them to attend schools with coed dorms or alcohol on campus [yes, I've had experience with this; the fact Beloit College had coed dorms and alcohol on campus pretty much shot all hell out of any chance I had of going there, even without money concerns]). Basically, to put a fine point on it, many of them are control-freaks by basis of being in groups that are run by control-freaks who use coercive tactics, and they have no other model to use (either by model of literally not knowing any better, or by model of literally being so brainwashed that pretty much they have nothing else to go by).

A good starter for exploring the mindset of which I'm talking on is here. It's a page for walkaways, specifically from Bible-based cults, run by a person who was formerly involved in one (he walked away, and now actually runs a "fight-the-right" group largely because of his experiences in the coercive group); it gives you a lot of perspective on where they're coming from, if you've never been misfortunate enough to have experienced Fundie Hell for yourself. (I honestly don't recommend the latter for anyone, especially not kids and other living things. It can screw you up for life, seriously. Look at me. ;)

2b). As another aside--this is probably not widely known by folks, but there are a lot of businesses in the US--many of them Fortune 500 companies, yet--that not only are affiliated with the Right Wing in the US, but are in fact members and actually supportive of it. An enlightening--and scary page--for starters is here--this is a page featuring info on the Coalition for National Policy, which is essentially a secretive, invite-only think-tank for the Religious Right in the United States. It features a membership list that includes, among others, many members of the Coors family, a (former) Presidential candidate, and a number of representatives to US and state legislatures. There's also a good link here that talks about the CNP and a lot more of the big names in the Religious Right...

For more starters...both the Coors family (yep, as in Coors Breweries) and the Waltons (yep, as in Sam's Wholesale/Wal-Mart--as in, before Sam Walton died, one of the single richest individuals on the planet, worth more than Bill Gates, and only surpassed by the Sultan of Brunei; the Waltons collectively are still in the top 100 of the richest people on the planet) are heavily involved with the Religious Right, outright subsidizing them and being sympathetic to concerns (to give examples--the Coors family supported Amendment 2 in Colorado, which would have rescinded civil-rights laws that included sexual orientation; the Waltons have made it a policy not to carry albums with "Tipper-stickers", refused to carry heavy-metal magazines for a long time, and refuse to provide "morning-after" contraceptives even though they will provide Viagra). Needless to say, these are two of the biggest companies in the US. Another interesting one is AmWay--AmWay in and of itself has been accused of using coercive tactics with its sales representatives, but is also run by fundamentalists with links to the CNP and AmWay has been known to bankroll fundy groups in past. Not even home shopping is immune--as it turns out, the person who owns Home Shopping Club, Home Shopping Network (the off-hours version of HSC that shows up on a lot of "Christian" TV stations and also used to show up on the "Family Channel") and PAX TV is a major bankroller of the Religious Right (more on that below).

For even more shockers...a lot of times, Religious Right groups deal in a fair bit of "cloaking". The Arthur S. DeMoss foundation (a Religious Right group that pushes "Christian Reconstructionism", has actually endorsed Christian Identity groups on occasion, and pretty much is a major funding source for the Religious Right; it was founded by the widow of a Religious Right supporter who happened to be a multi-millionaire) hides most of its nastier stuff by not only doing innocuous-sounding adverts for adoption and "Power for Living" (basically a book which hawks fundamentalist Christianity), but has sympathetic multi-million-dollar stars like the woman from "Children of a Lesser God" and Jeff Gordon (great...have NASCAR drivers hawking fundamentalism to the kiddies...Jeff Gordon, probably more than anyone in NASCAR short of the Pettys, is seen as particularly "kid-friendly" and as a general, All-American "Wheaties"-box boy) and NFL stars hawking for them. (Knowing that group, I'm almost willing to bet that either a) they might not have been too forthcoming with these folks other than that they were a group promoting a book about "Christian living", or b) a hell of a lot of people in show-business need a good expose like there has been with Scientologists in Hollywood...more info on the Arthur S. Demoss Foundation here and here [thank you Google...it seems that Pathfinder is not wanting to behave well].) The Family Channel, until recently, was owned by the same folks who brought you Pat Robertson and the 700 Club--it was renamed from the "Christian Broadcasting Network" to make it sound like it offered "family-friendly" programming and to hide its links to the Religious Right (as Pat Robertson and the Christian Coalition had started to get a rather bad name). In fact, the Family Channel was sold to FOX, which does have some links to the right in the US (though not as bad as, say, Coors).

PAX TV, which is a TV network set up by a fundamentalist (again, using the exact same canard that the "Family Channel" did in its Pat Robertson days--as a purveyor of "family-friendly entertainment" which conveniently neglects to mention its links to the Religious Right) and which is largely carried on "Christian" TV stations, is heavily bankrolled by Home Shopping Club and Home Shopping Network (which--not exactly coincidentially--also showed on the Family Channel on off-hours and shows on a lot of "Christian" TV stations in off-hours) and--even worse--is also owned 20 percent by CBS and NBC was planning to buy 32 percent in PAX TV (this would be over 400 million dollars). More info here, and more info on PAX here...for that matter, the very head of Focus on the Family (which spawned off Family Research Council as a lobbying wing), James Dobson, makes a rather healthy living selling parenting books promoting "tough love" and "discipline".

Even besides all THAT, a lot of the major Religious Right groups get a lot of funding from members, and many of them can actually get it tax-free (by either setting up separate "political" wings when the heat from the IRS gets too much, or by setting it up with roughly the same tax exemptions a church would get). There are also local businesses...as one guide has advised, if you want to boycott teh Religious Right you almost have to look through one of the directories made for the Religious Right or avoid every business with an ichthus-fish on it...and besides all THAT, Religious Right groups are increasingly going stealth or relying on certain "code words" within the community like "Family", "Heritage", or names confusingly similar to existing groups (one anti-abortion "counseling center" actually named themselves "PPC, Inc." and based themselves in the same building as the local Planned Parenthood office; a legal group that bankrolls and supports lawsuits friendly to Religious Right causes is named "American Center for Law and Justice"; a really amazing number of Religious Right groups use "Family" or "Heritage" or "Christian Life Center" (in the case of churches) because these are actual code words in the fundamentalist community for fundy-friendly causes).

Needless to say, unfortunately, the Religious Right isn't exactly hurting for money and, short of ALL of their members walking away combined with a massive economic crash that disrupts nearly the entire worldwide financial system to the point that it forces us to go back to barter or most of their members walking away combined with a massive boycott of ANYTHING the Religious Right has their fingers in, they aren't going to be hurting for money anytime soon. :P

2c). Media that isn't tied with the Religious Right somehow is often basically bullied into submission. As noted above, a lot of folks in fundy groups have a very "us versus them" viewpoint to begin with--they literally believe they are fighting Satan and all of us not in a fundy group are practicing Satanists as a direct result. :P If ANYTHING is reported whatsoever that is in the LEAST critical of the Religious Right, they will protest (even if they don't read the paper or watch non-"Christian" TV because it might be "Satanically influenced") because, in essence, they will be informed about it and told to raise forty kinds of hell over it. And they will. In droves. (A Pensacola paper found this out when they basically exposed the "Brownsville Movement" as a Bible-based cult; "20/20" did an expose of the "Brownsville Movement" and likewise were damn near pilloried (of course, most fundies were already boycotting anything relating to Disney because {horror!} they dared give equal rights to gay couples for benefits and had a "gay Day" there, but that's beside the point)...my family raged for days about the expose because "Oh god, they make us all out to be cultists or something" (I hate to inform them, but, well, if the shoe fits...I'd think instead of ranting at ABC maybe you should do some serious soul-searching on whether the chuch is doing the Right Thing or not, but then again, I walked away and I dare to be sensible about the whole thing instead of getting my panties in a wad)...read your newspaper's editorials everytime someone dares suggest that the Religious Right and theocracy or even putting the Ten Commandments in schools might possibly not be the be-all, end-all to the world's problems to get an idea of just WHAT kinds of cain they do raise.) Burger King and Pepsi, among others, have literally been bullied out of running certain adverts or sponsoring programs because of letter-writing campaigns by the American Family Association (a hard-line Religious Right lobbying group which has some decidedly homophobic tendencies); many ABC affiliates were likewise bullied into not carrying "NYPD Blue" during its first two seasons for the same reason.

3). Now, to a direct point I was going to mention--hate to break it to you, but the PMRC is by no bloody means liberal. Tipper Gore (and Al Gore) are (as noted above) right-moderate AT MOST; the other co-founder, oddly enough, just happens to be Elizabeth Dole, wifey of Bob Dole and onetime candidate for the 2000 GOP nomination for President. One of the founding members was Susan Baker (wife of Former Secretary of State James A. Baker III (R)).

More to the point, though, the PMRC has many a link to Religious Right groups. First off, they have carried advertising in PMRC literature for "Back In Control Training Center" and other "training centers"; Back In Control was basically an inpatient program run by two former LAPD officers which was advertised to "de-metal" or "de-punk" kids, which was in effect a brainwashing center with links to the Religious Right and which has claimed, among other things, that Wiccans are Satanists and that the Magen David (the Jewish star) is a Satanic symbol and that if kids are wearing "gothy" or "metal" clothing this is a sure sign of Satan-worship. Back In Control has also worked with a lot of police departments and schools, and (ObSlashdot) is one of the groups that is directly responsible for kids being harassed and worse after Columbine for wearing "goth" clothing. (More info here,here (in passing, but in direct relation to how Back In Control Training Center has been heavily promoted by the PMRC), and here.)

Also, they've promoted and used material from Bob Larson Ministries; for those who aren't aware, Bob Larson is a "foamin' fundy" radio preacher who, among other things, promotes censorship and the whole Religious Right agenda. Among other things, he's called peace symbols and the Nike swoosh Satanic symbols (no, I'm not making this up) as well as the good old canard about the Magen David supposedly being a Satanic symbol. More info here (or the newer version here--the "Bob Larson Fan Site"--trust me, the kinds of horsesheisse Larson spews is the kind that must be seen for itself to be believed), and a lovely expose in a British Columbia Christian mag here. Yes, the PMRC actually promoted material from this nut :P

Incidentially, you can confirm all the info above by getting a copy of the book "50 Ways To Fight Censorship" by Dave Marsh (head of Rock and Rap Confidential, and the guy who coined the phrase "rock and roll" incidentially). It's out of print, but most better libraries do have a copy, and if you can't find it there, there are all manner of online bookstores who could probably scare up a copy for you.

Oh, and if you wondered whether the PMRC still has links to the Religious Right...the answer, darling, is an emphatic yes. The present head, one Barbara Wyatt, just happens (ironically) to also sit on the board of Focus on the Family (!)...more info here (again, thank you Google; the more recent version is here, btw), and here.

And BTW, just for the record--I don't have an agenda, other than being a walkaway from a Bible-based cult who really does not the US to descend into a theocracy (I lived under one for all intents and purposes for 25 years of my life; trust me, it sucks, and it will suck twenty times worse if they can get their theocracy nationwide) and who knows all too well both the mindset these folks operate under and the real danger (to freedom and, ultimately, to the psyches of both their memberships and those who are family to them) these groups ultimately present. In essence, I don't want the rest of y'all on Slashdot to have to put up with what I had to put up with for 25 years of my life, and an especially hellish thirteen years after I walked away and I had to live in a household of which the majority of people were raving fundies (and the rest of my family was, slowly but steadily, being assimilated by the Bible-Based Cult Of Borg). It sucks. Bigtime. :P (I note this because, when I made a little post exposing the agenda of the Family Research Council, I was accused of having an agenda. Sorry, I've got no more of an agenda than a kid who's been abused has in getting the abuse to stop. :P)

Another of MacLeod's books, "Cassini Division" is indeed available in the states here. It takes place in the same world with the same characters. I'm not sure about the order of the series but there aren't any real spoilers in the books at all. A review of the Cassini division can be found on Salon .

I disagree. It is the responsability to verify (and in the case of REUTERS, proofread) any articles for accuracy. If they decide to trust REUTERS implicitly, they are betting their reputation on that trust -- which is why you so rarely (ever?) see respectable newspapers print raw REUTERS stories.

Could you ever imagine a newspaper running a raw REUTERS/AP article on their front page? Not only is the english at an almost pre-literate level (spelling and grammar is routinely atrocious), but as we've all noticed the factual elements leave alot to be desired. Not to mention any analysis. Shudder.

Everytime I read some online news, and think to myself "my gawd this is poorly written," I look at the top of the story, and it is almost always a wire news story -- and most often REUTERS. You've done this too.

On a related note, have you ever read a Newspaper story of something you were [tangentially] involved in? They always (well, I used to live in a smallish town, so the bar for "news" was pretty low) emphasize the "wrong" points. It's kinda sobering to extend this to news in general -- it's all wrong, at some level.

But I agree. It's very rare that I see decent tech news. The Register, wired (but a shadow of its former self), and the always interesting salon (with a much nicer URL now that they dropped the "mag" suffix) seem to do the best jobs. YMMV

Salon has an article on political web sites.

Not to rain on the parade, but most of those people making their "independent" films have only one thing to say: Big media, hire me. Try reading this article from Salon (relevant quotes:)

Most of the independent films being made in America right now will not have a future. They will not be accepted at Sundance. They will not be the objects of a bidding war. They will not receive theatrical distribution in the U.S. They will not play around the world. Many of them won't even end up on cable and video. They will just sit there, collecting dust and debt, while their makers try to figure out what went wrong.

...What went wrong is that there have been too many magazine articles about independent filmmakers who became millionaires, and too many people who believed everything they read.

...What saddens me is that these imitations aren't all coming from studios, from mini-majors, or from the production divisions of quasi-independent distributors -- they're coming from actual independent filmmakers. This was unimaginable only a few years ago, when there was no canon of successful independent films to look up to. But now, people are withdrawing their life savings and maxing out their credit cards to make movies that look like other movies. My wife, Sam Maser, is a festival programmer, and she sees more imitations of Kevin Smith and Quentin Tarantino every month than you can imagine.

(And does anybody care that the most recent golden independent, The Blair Witch Project, spent $2 million between Sundance and release fixing the soundtrack so you could make out what the actors were saying? Not counting the reshooting and special effects.)

As for "independent musicians"... Here are some facts from the inside. I'm a musician. I've been recording music at home for twenty years and I've never spent money in a studio. Making music is a major part of my life; if somebody wanted to release (ie, manufacture and distribute -- I do my own graphic design) CDs of music I've done I'd be fine with that, but I'm exploring areas that until recently had no commercial potential, and, really, I'm doing it despite the Old Paradigm music industry ways, not because of them. I won't release anything unless it's really good (I'm a merciless critic of my own creations).

My ability to make professional-quality recordings without signing over my rights to the recording majors has exploded. Over the last few years I've been able to put together equipment that allows me (or anybody else) to make high-quality digital multitrack recordings and burn them to a CD that I can play just about anywhere, costing less than 1/500th what it would have cost me ten years ago (assuming I could even afford it). Awesome! We have a thousand times as many ways to manipulate sounds as the Beatles did, better recording technology, and ten thousand times as many places (studios) to do it in. This is great!

Unfortunately, the same thing that happened to independent film has happened to independent music (and comics, too, if anybody cares). A few surprising successes, the majors swoop in to try to grab some market, then the guys with dollar signs in their eyes start showing up and imitating. Nothing wrong with that, but there are only so many slots (clubs, nights, opportunities to play) and people who think they're gonna get rich tend not to care about paying big money to get their 1 in 1000 chance of getting signed. (Something like Microsoft paying $$ to lock you into Windows. ...You should have seen what happened to Seattle when grunge hit. It was nasty.)

Trouble is, if there are 100,000 bands out there, most of which are copycats, how will anybody know you're original? Web pages may be an infinitely-growable resource. But the human attention span isn't, and neither is bandwidth. MP3.com is great as a repository of work that you want people to hear, provided you can direct them there (instead of being link number 5,271,009 at the bottom of a search engine return).

"... the other case aims to prevent people from using DeCSS, a program that can unscramble encrypted digital video disks (DVD) and let people copy them...."

This is what is happening with the entire DeCSS trial and media saturation; They don't understand it, yet they report as if they do. In the above statement from the Salon reporter, DeCSS is classified as a "program that can unscramble and copy dvds". As most ./'ers know, this is _almost_ the case.

The media either, A: Doesn't understand the purpose of the DeCSS code (to enable playback of DVD's) or B: Understands what the DeCSS software is meant to do, yet reports on it the way it does, because it makes for a better story. Blame it on the evil 'hackers', they want to steal things, and copy DVD's all over the world.

End of my pointless rant.
Ben Brewer
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He was six cars back when Kennedy was assassinated and then promoted under President Lyndon Johnson? Is he the missing link to the conspiracy theories?

Not involved in any way with the arrest of Joh Johansen? Didn't even suggest he was a "pirate?"

Sounds like a gangster to me!

"Take this man for a ride to the lake and give him some new shoes!"

Spread the meme indeed! Very interesting... and scary.

Thanks for the link.

If a person can get that kind of control over a computer, he/she can do anything with it.

Maybe someday large corporations will use the deterrent effects of "Black IC" to scare people away from attacking their computers. (I mean real Black IC alà Shadowrun and Cyberpunk.) Till then, I'm not expecting to hear about fewer attacks in the future, but more of them (and more damaging and more "interesting," too.)

Just to pick some points out of order...

"But trying to boycott the MPAA is fighting a lost cause, unless a _lot_ of people are willing to make what is effectively a major sacrifice, even if it doesn't sound like it."

While I'm not sure that I disagree with you, you make it sound like a lost cause. Maybe with some serious grassroots drum-banging we _could_ get enough people to make such a sacrifice. Did you read C. Scott Anian's article in Salon last week? The guy is standing on Manhattan street corners handing out flyers to people in the street. There's someone who truly believes, and is trying to change things!

"There is a limit to what popular action can accomplish in the face of monopolies or deeply entrenched industry-wide practices."

I'd say there's a limit to what popular action can accomplish at a given level of discomfort. Popular action was behind the end of segregation in the US, the independence of India, and so forth. HOWEVER, tempting as it may be, this issue isn't comparable to those ones, and the benefits of winning this battle aren't nearly enough to justify getting people up in arms, rioting in the streets, etc. It just ain't gonna happen.

But the point still remains: Why bother with moral outrage at all, if you're not going to try to do something about it? Maybe a boycott of the MPAA isn't the right answer (although I know of some people who have sworn off supporting them at all, at _least_ until this issue is resolved), but I can't see how enthusiastically (and apparently blindly--I have a strong suspicion that the people most hyped about Star Wars are the ones who weren't old enough to remember it the first time 'round, but that's another story) buying into the hype surrounding the next LucasBlockbuster(tm) is anything but the wrong answer.

So here's a possible answer, at the end of all of this rambling. Maybe we (as /., as /.ers) should refuse to do articles about the Next Big MPAA project. In other words, refuse to give their hype more support, because hype breeds tickets sales, money, and a reason for the industry to not change their behaviour.

I can really understand concern about this change -- there are already reporters such as Andrew Leonard over on Salon (who has been a good friend to open source) who believe that at least the appearance of editorial independence has been permanently compromised.

But I can understand some other things as well. Slashdot has always basically been the web site that Rob and Jeff and friends have kept going with bailing wire and Perl for similarly minded crazies. As one of those crazies, I have always tried to be a little grateful to the guys for letting the rest of us come in and play too.

It is very easy for the average slashdotter (many of whom are students) to urge: "Don't touch that Evil Money -- stay pure and poor, just like the good old days!!!" I know no better way to kill something that to try to prevent it from changing. Some of the most pathetic "sights" on the net are those whining that USENET, or GOPHER or whatever is just not what it was and is being "ruined" by all the changes that the newbies bring (I have lived through the imminent death of USENET about three times now) that we need to ACT NOW! to "save" it. Anything you can save by keeping it fron changing is only good for taxidermy.

Slashdot (along with the grits, MEEPTs, firsts, and Natalie Portman) continues to evolve, and the bridge crew here has to evolve as well and make the best lives for themselves that they can -- and that is what we are talking about here. Jeff and Rob and so forth risked their own resources and time to get this thing started, and it is up to them and their buisiness partners to work things out the best they can. So cut them (just a little) slack, OK?

And at the end of the day, the future of Slashdot is not really up to them, it it up to us. If Slashdot ceases to be independent, we'll know fast enough -- things generally aren't that subtle. The slash tarball is available, there are more than one or two Perl hackers around and we haven't run out of bandwith or IP addresses yet. If it is time to move on, we will find somewhere to go, or build it ourselves, in good open source fashion. Just like many of us moved from USENET to here.

I can really understand concern about this change -- there are already reporters such as Andrew Leonard over on Salon (who has been a good friend to open source) who believe that at least the appearance of editorial independence has been permanently compromised.
But I can understand some other things as well. Slashdot has always basically been the web site that Rob and Jeff and friends have kept going with bailing wire and Perl for similarly minded crazies. As one of those crazies, I have always tried to be a little grateful to the guys for letting the rest of us come in and play too.
It is very easy for the average slashdotter (many of whom are students) to urge: "Don't touch that Evil Money -- stay pure and poor, just like the good old days!!!" I know no better way to kill something that to try to prevent it from changing. Some of the most pathetic "sights" on the net are those whining that USENET, or GOPHER or whatever is just not what it was and is being "ruined" by all the changes that the newbies bring (I have lived through the imminent death of USENET about three times now) that we need to ACT NOW! to "save" it. Anything you can save by keeping it fron changing is only good for taxidermy.
Slashdot (along with the grits, MEEPTs, firsts, and Natalie Portman) continues to evolve, and the bridge crew here has to evolve as well and make the best lives for themselves that they can -- and that is what we are talking about here. Jeff and Rob and so forth risked their own resources and time to get this thing started, and it is up to them and their buisiness partners to work things out the best they can. So cut them (just a little) slack, OK?
And at the end of the day, the future of Slashdot is not really up to them, it it up to us. If Slashdot ceases to be independent, we'll know fast enough -- things generally aren't that subtle. The slash tarball is available, there are more than one or two Perl hackers around and we haven't run out of bandwith or IP addresses yet. If it is time to move on, we will find somewhere to go, or build it ourselves, in good open source fashion. Just like many of us moved from USENET to here.

There's an article in Salon today that pretty much sums it up for me. This sort of bullshit is just icing on the cake to what this article has to say -- I just thought it would take longer for Slashdot to show signs of being completely owned. I mean, this is depressing. A mere day after Rob promises that Slashdot will stay independant, we start seeing fscking press releases from VA/Andover. This is the very basis of what worried me when Slashdot got bought.

I know that it's Rob's ball and he can do what he wants with it, but I feel like /. is moving farther and farther away from being something special.

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Salon did an interview with Rob yesterday at LinuxWorld. They talk about VA Linux. Check it out here:

http://w ww.salon.com/tech/log/2000/02/03/slashdot/index.ht ml?CP=SAL&DN=110

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It's subtitled: "VA Linux purchases Andover.net, corporate parent to Slashdot. Will the "news for nerds" site maintain its editorial independence?" and basically sees the development as being negative for the independence of Slashdot.

It's subtitled: "VA Linux purchases Andover.net, corporate parent to Slashdot. Will the "news for nerds" site maintain its editorial independence?" and basically sees the development as being negative for the independence of Slashdot.

Here's a Salon.com Article that mentions the same point I raised, about Rob saying he didn't want to be bought by a Linux company. I think it says he specifically turned down an offer from VA. But I read it a few hours ago...
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clueless newbies, eh? you'd be surprised. read this article that was in today's Salon.

I do get pissed though when the press and mac advocates try to frame the company as a friendlier one. I recall what they did to Radius et al when Mac gave licenseing a shot. That was plainly immoral and for that alone, I'd try to avoid giving them my $.

BTW, here's the Salon article which was written by a woman not a "he" as people have mistakenly posted. I have kept an open mind from day one, trying to judge Mac on its merits. Many of my gripes are petty things like to full screen maximize button or some silly interface thing that IMHO I think MS does better. In the end, I can do what I want with a windows box. I just can't do it all on a Mac. Whether it's playing Counter-Strike online or digitizing my Hi-8 tapes for my webpage, MSwin98se has been working great for me. Everytime MS does something that ticks me off, it seems it's recitfied in the next service pack or IE update. It's a shame Mac's poor buisness practices have left us with a lack of software for Mac users.

I just wish Mac user's wouldn't show so much loyalty. It can't be healthy for vigorous innovation. But I suppose there is much dissension in Mac forums. I haven't look in a while. In the meantime, I'm getting used to BEOS 4.5(I can't wait for R.5) and looking to justify the hours I've spent playing with Caldera's linux (I can't).

Thanks again for your point of view, it certainly made more sense then the profanity-filled pro-Mac post that inspired my initial post. Ed

Salon: Technical Sutra

I happen to know that Microsoft actively recruits in India:

MS: India Development Center

This is not because Micros~1 is engaging in charity work, it is because it wants access to excellent human resources. I've read a few people saying something about "poor villagers not needing Internet access," but according to that Salon article one way for a person to improve life for him/herself and his/her family is to get into technology.

Anyway, I just wanted to point out that India is very important in computer technology. (A former computer of mine was from an Indian company, and wasn't Hotmail owned or run by an Indian before Microsoft gobbled it up?)

Anyway, I had an Indian professor who was a huge UNIX fan (he thought Linux was cool because it was more like UNIX than MS-Windows.) Come to think of it, most of my professors have been Indian, which says something about the country right there.

Dissing the King

See how effective that is? It tears apart the lies posted on the site and shows the dangers of Nazi's hiding their ideology behind a benevolent guise.

Incidentally, when Nazi's do thing like this, how will a censorship campaign hurt them? The whole point of this exercise was for the Nazi's to fool people into thinking this was a legitimate Web site. What a censorship campaign will do will just make sites like this more prevalent, because the racist thugs who would rather be open with their racism will have to resort to similar tactics.

Oh please note that this site contains forged documents that were originally created by our own FBI, back when Hoover was trying to get Martin Luther King to commit suicide. I still don't understand how giving power to government, which is what helped create a man like J. Edgar Hoover, is going to help prevent racism from flourishing.

Here is an interesting story on salon.com.

Apparently, some white supremacist group called "Stormfront" registered martinlutherking.org, and made it look like an educational site. Of course, it's actually an anti-King site.

Unbelieveable. They actually called him "an America-hating Communist".

The Mac OS has always been limited to 31 character filenames. This is, I believe, derived from a limitation in HFS, the Mac OS file system. HFS+, which debuted with Mac OS 8.1 offers support for 255 character file names. However, the OS has not been updated to support 255 characters, due to legacy OS and application issues.

The collapsible directories *have* been there -- I suspect he's talking more about this method being the default, rather than the freeform/gridded icon layout that is currently the default with the Mac OS.

Where Tog I believe missed the mark (or perhaps he did mention this, I don't recall) and the Salon article certainly did, is that the old-style Finder is still present in Mac OS. The NeXT-style browser is simply the default, and offers a new option. From what I can tell, the NeXT-style is oriented at newer users.

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