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We are just reviewers,
And the vendors, without fail,
Try to tear down our resistance,
With an avalanche of vapor,
Such are promises.
All lies and jest,
Still we only hear what we need to hear,
And we decide who's best.
...
Lie, lie, lie.
Gosh they vendors, how they lie.
See them cry,
Lie lie lie lie lie lie lie lie lie

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http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/SP-4203/ ch14-3.htm

Stafford and Cernan did agree to include a test on Gemini IX to compare optics and radar by performing a rendezvous from above the target vehicle. In this exercise, the Agena would be over the Sahara Desert, which would simulate the lunar surface, and the crew would try to fly down to it, using both radar and optics

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You could at least credit Andy Tanenbaum if not quote him correctly.

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Standards are crucial. And the best thing about standards is: there are so many to choose from!

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From: "James S. Tyre"
Subject: Service of process by email

"Finally, we turn to the district court's order authorizing service of process on RII by email at email@betrio.com. We acknowledge that we tread upon untrodden ground. The parties cite no authority condoning service of process over the Internet or via email, and our own investigation has unearthed no decisions by the United States Courts of Appeals dealing with service of process by email and only one case anywhere in the federal courts. Despite this dearth of authority, however, we do not labor long in reaching our decision. Considering the facts presented by this case, we conclude not only that service of process by email was proper -- that is, reasonably calculated to apprise RII of the pendency of the action and afford it an opportunity to respond -- but in this case, it was the method of service most likely to reach RII."

Rio Properties, Inc. v. Rio International Interlink, decided yesterday by the Ninth Circuit. Highly fact-specific.
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/data2/circs/9th/0115 466p.pdf

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* Personal service--When the person served is physically handed court papers notifying her that she has been sued, she is said to have been personally served. With almost all lawsuits, the complaint and summons must be personally served unless the defendant agrees to accept service. If the defendant does not agree to accept service and is not personally served, the court cannot take any action in the case, unless the plaintiff can show that personal service was impossible.

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"When faced with an international e-business scofflaw playing hide-and-seek with the federal court, e-mail may be the only means of effecting service of process," the court said. "We acknowledge that we tread upon untrodden ground."

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Then refine this.

It's a fairly painless process, and you can do it in teams.

Of course, the big step will come when you need to get someone to update and maintain what you've created.

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This is a test. This is a test of the emergency IP routing system. If this were an actual emergency this message would be followed by instructions on what to do in the case of an actual emergency.

The ISP's in your area, in voluntary cooperation with federal, state, and local authorities, have developed this system to keep you informed in the event of an emergency. Had this been an actual emergency, you would have been instructed where to surf in your area for official news, information, or instructions.

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Perhaps we'll see certain emergency sites get high-ranking QoS for these reasons.

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• Random politicians, cops, DAs deciding material is Officially Bad and notifying ISPs that they want it blocked. That's got some constitutional problems, but at least it's better than requiring the ISPs to proactively guess what things to block or use a commercial censorware package that's casting a much broader net and not only blocks Bad sites but also blocks any site that might let you evade their blocking mechanism (e.g. SethF's work on censorware blocking Google, Wayback, and anonymizers).
• Web sites being ordered to take down specific pages - again, there are problems, but no technical difficulties and it's based on specific notice.
• ISPs being ordered to block their users' access to URLs that aren't on their site. This is technically difficult, and the legislators don't understand the technical implications. Some ISPs may provide their users with a complete package, browser and all, but the normal ISP configuration never sees the URL - the user types the URL into their browser, their system does a DNS lookup to get the IP address associated with the domain name in the URL, and the user sends IP packets which the ISP's routers forward strictly by IP address. Asking the ISP to block a given URL is similar to asking the Post Office to block mail-order requests for specific books - it requires ripping open any envelopes addressed to specific bookstores to see what's being ordered. Actually it's worse than that - it's more like asking the big mail-sorting centers to block the requests, when they normally don't handle individual envelopes - they deliver mailbags to specific zipcodes after the local post office sorts the envelopes into bags by machine. The only time a real human looks at the address to notice that the envelope is addressed to a bookstore is when something goes wrong with the sorting machine (like ISPs handling bouncemail) or when the destination post office delivers it (equivalent to the URL's web host in the previous case.)

  There are technical means that ISPs could use to implement Pennsylvania's orders - they could install proxy servers on all of their connections leaving Pennsylvania, either forcing users to explicitly proxy their browsers, or using transparent proxy servers. Some ISPs do this, to take advantage of caching and reduce their overall bandwidth needs, but except for local ISPs that happen to be entirely within Pennsylvania, most of them didn't build their network to easily keep track of state lines so they can enforce the "Banned in Boston" rules in Boston, "Banned in Philadelphia" rules in Philly, and "Banned in Pittsburgh" rules in Pittsburgh.
  

The Net interprets censorship as damage, and routes around it.
-- John Gilmore (famous quote)

What if censorship is in the router? -- Seth Finkelstein

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See:

SmartFilter's Greatest Evils:
http://sethf.com/anticensorware/smartfilter/greate stevils.php

BESS's Secret LOOPHOLE (censorware vs. privacy & anonymity):
http://sethf.com/anticensorware/bess/loophole.php

The Pre-Slipped Slope - censorware vs the Wayback Machine web archive
http://sethf.com/anticensorware/general/slip.php

All of them, and a few others on http://sethf.com/anticensorware/ , deal with this issue of the technical requirements for the control system.

The short version is that "disable access" arguably entails banning anonymizers/privacy sites, language translation sites, and more, since these all can act as a means of escape from the blinder-box.

Maybe access through these sites doesn't count as "accessible through its service". But I sure wouldn't want to be the ISP facing child-pornography charges over that argument ("You mean you allowed access to this anonymity service, which is used by CHILD MOLESTORS?!")

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See:

SmartFilter's Greatest Evils:
http://sethf.com/anticensorware/smartfilter/greate stevils.php

BESS's Secret LOOPHOLE (censorware vs. privacy & anonymity):
http://sethf.com/anticensorware/bess/loophole.php

The Pre-Slipped Slope - censorware vs the Wayback Machine web archive
http://sethf.com/anticensorware/general/slip.php

All of them, and a few others on http://sethf.com/anticensorware/ , deal with this issue of the technical requirements for the control system.

The short version is that "disable access" arguably entails banning anonymizers/privacy sites, language translation sites, and more, since these all can act as a means of escape from the blinder-box.

Maybe access through these sites doesn't count as "accessible through its service". But I sure wouldn't want to be the ISP facing child-pornography charges over that argument ("You mean you allowed access to this anonymity service, which is used by CHILD MOLESTORS?!")

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See:

SmartFilter's Greatest Evils:
http://sethf.com/anticensorware/smartfilter/greate stevils.php

BESS's Secret LOOPHOLE (censorware vs. privacy & anonymity):
http://sethf.com/anticensorware/bess/loophole.php

The Pre-Slipped Slope - censorware vs the Wayback Machine web archive
http://sethf.com/anticensorware/general/slip.php

All of them, and a few others on http://sethf.com/anticensorware/ , deal with this issue of the technical requirements for the control system.

The short version is that "disable access" arguably entails banning anonymizers/privacy sites, language translation sites, and more, since these all can act as a means of escape from the blinder-box.

Maybe access through these sites doesn't count as "accessible through its service". But I sure wouldn't want to be the ISP facing child-pornography charges over that argument ("You mean you allowed access to this anonymity service, which is used by CHILD MOLESTORS?!")

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See:

SmartFilter's Greatest Evils:
http://sethf.com/anticensorware/smartfilter/greate stevils.php

BESS's Secret LOOPHOLE (censorware vs. privacy & anonymity):
http://sethf.com/anticensorware/bess/loophole.php

The Pre-Slipped Slope - censorware vs the Wayback Machine web archive
http://sethf.com/anticensorware/general/slip.php

All of them, and a few others on http://sethf.com/anticensorware/ , deal with this issue of the technical requirements for the control system.

The short version is that "disable access" arguably entails banning anonymizers/privacy sites, language translation sites, and more, since these all can act as a means of escape from the blinder-box.

Maybe access through these sites doesn't count as "accessible through its service". But I sure wouldn't want to be the ISP facing child-pornography charges over that argument ("You mean you allowed access to this anonymity service, which is used by CHILD MOLESTORS?!")

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See:

SmartFilter's Greatest Evils:
http://sethf.com/anticensorware/smartfilter/greate stevils.php

BESS's Secret LOOPHOLE (censorware vs. privacy & anonymity):
http://sethf.com/anticensorware/bess/loophole.php

The Pre-Slipped Slope - censorware vs the Wayback Machine web archive
http://sethf.com/anticensorware/general/slip.php

All of them, and a few others on http://sethf.com/anticensorware/ , deal with this issue of the technical requirements for the control system.

The short version is that "disable access" arguably entails banning anonymizers/privacy sites, language translation sites, and more, since these all can act as a means of escape from the blinder-box.

Maybe access through these sites doesn't count as "accessible through its service". But I sure wouldn't want to be the ISP facing child-pornography charges over that argument ("You mean you allowed access to this anonymity service, which is used by CHILD MOLESTORS?!")

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See:

SmartFilter's Greatest Evils:
http://sethf.com/anticensorware/smartfilter/greate stevils.php

BESS's Secret LOOPHOLE (censorware vs. privacy & anonymity):
http://sethf.com/anticensorware/bess/loophole.php

The Pre-Slipped Slope - censorware vs the Wayback Machine web archive
http://sethf.com/anticensorware/general/slip.php

All of them, and a few others on http://sethf.com/anticensorware/ , deal with this issue of the technical requirements for the control system.

The short version is that "disable access" arguably entails banning anonymizers/privacy sites, language translation sites, and more, since these all can act as a means of escape from the blinder-box.

Maybe access through these sites doesn't count as "accessible through its service". But I sure wouldn't want to be the ISP facing child-pornography charges over that argument ("You mean you allowed access to this anonymity service, which is used by CHILD MOLESTORS?!")

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``The French Disease'' is what the Italians of the 16th century called syphilis; the French, naturally, called it the Italian Disease, or the Disease of Naples

Really. Because there's times I'm very, very, happy not to be using Windows, such as when the latest Outlook or Word infection is going around.

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ICANNWatch

(which is also covering this story)

Note the michael posting articles on that site is A. Michael Froomkin, not Slashdot's Michael Sims

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ICANN and Antitrust, by A. Michael Froomkin and Mark A. Lemley :

The small take-up is hardly surprising, given that the alternate roots suffer from a classic network effect, and that a registration in an alternate root is of relatively little value in the absence of a critical mass of fellow users who can access that root. The existence of this network effect, coupled with ICANN's control over the dominant root, makes ICANN's exclusive deal particularly effective. By denying alternate roots the right to participate in running gTLDs in the legacy root, ICANN keeps those alternate roots marginalized, and makes it far less likely that they will ever achieve that critical mass. The foreclosure in question here is not substantial in percentage terms simply because ICANN's control is so complete.

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5. Restrictions on Access or Use. To the extent that the Chief Executive Officer, in consultation with the General Counsel of the Corporation, determines that compliance with any request for records necessarily involves issues of confidentiality, privilege, or privacy of a nature which require limitation of or conditions on the Director's access or use of the requested records, the Chief Executive Officer shall advise the requesting Director of the issues which require the restrictions and the nature of any proposed restrictions on access or use. Similarly, if permitting an inspection of the Corporation's properties necessarily involves such issues, the Chief Executive Officer shall advise the requesting Director in writing of any restrictions on access to the Corporation's properties. If the Director accepts the restrictions by countersigning the statement concerning limitations, the records shall be made available to the Director or the inspection scheduled as soon as possible.

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Petitioner KARL AUERBACH ("Petitioner" or "Auerbach") is a resident of Santa Cruz, California and is a member in good standing of the California State Bar. Auerbach is, and at all times relevant to this Petition has been, a duly selected member of ICANN's Board of Directors,

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I wonder if Michael Sims is moderating? Here's that link again about Michael Sims acting like a child.

Auerbach contends, simply enough, that the code section means what it says: that as a Director of ICANN, he has the absolute right (at any reasonable time) to inspect, and to copy, any and all of ICANN's corporate records. Of course, Auerbach has not asked to see them all, only a small amount, but both by its actions and in its words, ICANN, primarily through Lynn, contends that it can impose not only "reasonable time" restraints on Auerbach's rights, but also substantive restrictions on his right. In acting on its contentions, ICANN has denied Auerbach his legal right to inspect and copy ICANN records. Indeed, in denying Auerbach the right to inspect and copy records as he sees fit, ICANN has acted contrary to its own Bylaws, as well as S 6334. As quoted in paragraph 5 above, Article V, Section 21 of the ICANN Bylaws provides that "[e]very Director shall have the right at any reasonable time to inspect and copy all books, records and documents of every kind ...." California Corporations Code 5231(a), which also governs the conduct of California Nonprofit Public Benefit Corporations such as ICANN, provides: A director shall perform the duties of a director, including duties as a member of any committee of the board upon which the director may serve, in good faith, in a manner such director believes to be in the best interests of the corporation and with such care, including reasonable inquiry, as an ordinarily prudent person in a like position would use under similar circumstances.

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Last time I saw something like that, is when this one dude owned a domain with a bunch of friends, then the guy that "volunteered" to do the webpage, and the site became a huge success, until the "webmaster" hijacked the site, and it hasn't existed since.

Too bad it wasn't a corporation where you can get the law on yourside (because the guy that started it all WAS a lawyer).

Your Rights Online, indeed.

Windows (in the context of software) is an arbitrary name

A "windowing system" obviously has meaning in connection with a GUI. In fact, that's the point of "Windows" - i.e., this is a windowing system for PC machines (like the windowing systems which existed for other types of machines). Hence it's not arbitrary in connection with that type of software.

Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer.

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However, naming something Windows was a bad idea (again, for trademark law)

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It states:

Definitions of Electronic Signature

The E-Sign Act contains the following definition for an electronic signature: "an electronic sound, symbol, or process, attached to or logically associated with a contract or other record and executed or adopted by a person with the intent to sign the record." Further, an electronic record is "a contract or other record created, generated, sent, communicated, received, or stored by electronic means."

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Jeez, I wonder what his wife thinks of all this?

Mann met Betty in 1984. At the time, his then-crude wearable system required him to "metallicize" his hair with a special silvery paint so it would conduct electricity. He admits his circle of friends at that time had gotten a little small, with many people put off by his technological persona.

"When I first met the person who was later to become my wife, I had already committed myself to being a cyborg, having modified myself into that way of existence," Mann recalls. "But she accepted me for what I was at a time when I was probably the only one on the planet living this kind of life."

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It might be a good idea to pitch in and help out Mandrake, but it is surely not a good idea to contribute anything to Slashdot, especially when they employ such shady characters as Michael Sims

I have called the tech support at Mandrake, and found it to be acceptable. What is not acceptable however, is the behavior of Michael Sims

http://sethf.com/freespeech/censorware/essays/cens orwareorg.php

Use them to record the truth about Slashdot Editor Michael Sims.

Now we have a great browser we can use to read the truth about Slashdot editor Michael Sims.

Grumble, grumble - To Michael Sims: I know it's an interesting article, and it's not censorship that all my recent anticensorware reports, as well as Jonathan Wallace's research have been rejected, maybe because of What Happened To The Censorware Project (censorware.org)

But isn't it just a little absurd to be reposting two-year old editorials as "News", while good research ends up trashed suspiciously because of grudges?

Grumble, grumble - To Michael Sims: I know it's an interesting article, and it's not censorship that all my recent anticensorware reports, as well as Jonathan Wallace's research have been rejected, maybe because of What Happened To The Censorware Project (censorware.org)

But isn't it just a little absurd to be reposting two-year old editorials as "News", while good research ends up trashed suspiciously because of grudges?

Grievance & Contract Division

of the

National Writer's Union

Well worth it.

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On March 14, 2001, BountyQuest announced that while no one had uncovered the prior art that would invalidate Amazon's 1-click patent , a few were able to surface information that could make the patent more difficult to enforce A pyhrric victory? Perhaps, but one that has called attention to the exponential growth in overly-broad and often questionable patents.

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On reflection, they seem to have the right idea. What Slashdot is doing seems doubly alienating. First, you're selling the audience to advertisers with big annoying ads. Then, you're selling the audience the ability to escape the big annoying ads for a fee. Of course, if this works, you make money off both ends. But if it doesn't work, you anger both the audience and the advertisers, who get a feeling that they are being played-off against one another, and neither deriving any benefit from the transaction.

Look, bluntly, I wouldn't pay Slashdot to have ad-free pages. It's just not worth it. People really can give up Slashdot, if it becomes too annoying. I would pay, gladly, a similar amount to do something like Kuro5hin.org is doing - advertise to fellow community members in an affordable way (I would gloriously, with a big smile, pay that sort of money to run a Slashdot text ad about What Happened To The Censorware Project (censorware.org))

However, as one reader points out:

The problem that I see is that under this model, those who contribute to slashdot the most, and make the site what it is, are forced to pay the most.'

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I've wondered who gets the task of monitoring this stuff. Can you imagine what it must be like to have your job being to read Slashot? (officially, I mean, not counting all the people who make it their job de facto ...)

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Maybe it was just the excitement of finding something new and interesting on the Internet, but I don't think the Slashdot of late holds a candle to what it was three years ago.

I would say things took a turn for the worse when Michael came on board. And we all know about Michael's tendency toward censorship, don't we?

The editors (or self-proclaimed authors (I wouldn't call them authors, because I tend to think an author should have at least a rudimentary command of grammar and spelling, which these guys don't.)) began to become heavy handed with their moderation of user comments. This was shown during the Great Karma Burn of 2002. What the Karma Burn proved was that the users of Slashdot were dissatisfied with the way Slashdot was being run, and the editors were arrogant enough to basically say "So what." Also, the infamous Bitch Slap capability demonstrates the editors' heavy handedness.

Use my material for content. Censor what does not fit your world view. Punish me for being honest. And now ask me to pay for it.

It reminds me of buying a Nike tee-shirt with the swoosh on it. I pay for the honor of advertising for Nike. I just won't do it.

The Game of Diplomacy has a history long pre-dating computer games.

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This classic problem of game theory sheds light on many of the problems that have plagued ethical and political philosophers throughout history. It addresses that class of situations in which there is a fundamental conflict between what is a rational choice for an individual member of a group and for the group as a whole. It helps us understand how such dilemmas can be resolved for the greater good.

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But you and I would still be able to legally purchase machines that weren't, and software developers would be able to continue developing for them.

Note there will always be an underground, always some illegal sub-rosa work-around for a very few people who are dedicated hobbyists.

But the outcome will be 99.99% of the population is locked into the cartel system. Too many peolpe seem to think that if there is 0.01% difference, well, that'll be them and who cares about the rest? The problem is that it's going to be very lonely and risky place to be.

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There's always going to be DRM free hardware, there's always going to be Open Source ...

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... but the important message is that they want to decide for themselves how to do it.

But the result, for users, is the same whether it arises from government-bad mandate, or business-good voluntary cartel-like association.

Think about outcomes. Think about effects. That's my point.

It's really silly to be cheering that they don't want Congress to be involved in the serious effort of fleecing the users!

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