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"... Really the police try to protect the banks - and everything else is secondary ...."

SUBURBAN MONASTERY DEATH POEM
by d.a.levy
http://www.thing.net/~grist/l&...

the first sentence was more a fishing for attention...

but I think one part of your statement is arguable; "their website was DDoSed, which is against the law" is at least in Germany not as clear as it seems. Sure, we have laws that can be used against DDoS attacks (mostly 303b "Computersabotage" of the criminal code) but in 2006 a court (on state-level) ruled that a "virtual sit-in" [i.e. DDoS] at lufthansa.de was legitimate (see here, not the best source but it was mostly covered in German)

So the right to protest should be weighed against the service disruption of the target.

Check out this website for artistic inspiration, or maybe just something to waste time with.

http://www.thing.net/~pomaga/macClassics/

It's a good thing Slashdot doesn't have this problem.

This is not the first time that Dow Chmeicals is victim of an hoax on this matter. In 2002, the activist group RTMark did a hoax site dowethicals.com where they were talking about Bhopal. You can see the press release they did at the time. After that Verizon cut the connectivity of their hosting provider thing.net without any warning, and obviously Dow was behind.

What is the ID Sniper Rifle?

To put it short, the idea is to implant a GPS microchip in the body of a human being, using a high-powered sniper rifle as the long distance injector. The microchip will enter the body and stay there, causing no internal damage, and only a very small amount of physical pain to the target. It will feel like a mosquito bite, lasting a fraction of a second.

At the same time, a digital camcorder with a zoom lens fitted within the scope will take a high-resolution picture of the target. This picture will be stored on a memory card for later image-analysis. GPS microchip technology is already being used for tracking millions of pets in various countries, and the logical solution is to use it on humans as well, when the situation demands it.

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Projectiles witht the ability to "phone home" are in our near future. How long can we expect to wait until something like the ID Sniper Rifle really exists?

Check out Boeskov's account of the weapons fair- crazy! http://events.thing.net/Boeskov_text.html

I never really understood the pricing for a lot of art, I mean I can understand why a really nice picture might be worth a couple hundred dollars -- prints cost money, mounting them costs money and the artists needs to make some money on it. I could easily see paying a couple hundred or more for a picture I really like. Some of these though are ridiculous. Like this print, it says retail price $1200!!! Besides the fact that I can't imagine anybody actually wanting to own that picture I just don't understand where that value comes from. Anybody could make a picture of a Windows XP dialog box saying something like that... it's not even an original idea! Things like that are put up on the web all the time! This one's just as bad and it's $2000.

That's ridiculous.

I never really understood the pricing for a lot of art, I mean I can understand why a really nice picture might be worth a couple hundred dollars -- prints cost money, mounting them costs money and the artists needs to make some money on it. I could easily see paying a couple hundred or more for a picture I really like. Some of these though are ridiculous. Like this print, it says retail price $1200!!! Besides the fact that I can't imagine anybody actually wanting to own that picture I just don't understand where that value comes from. Anybody could make a picture of a Windows XP dialog box saying something like that... it's not even an original idea! Things like that are put up on the web all the time! This one's just as bad and it's $2000.

That's ridiculous.

Feel like defending the right to parody, free speech, etc? Grab your Paypal and push that loading bar to the right.

like solaris, check this out

With the large number of blackhats likely to be in the population of those pissed-off about the way things have been going, I'm surprised that the RIAA and its major members still have intact web prescence. Not that I'm advocating or condoning civil disobedience as a means of political action. Oh, and I'm also surprised to see that the MPAA site is up.

If you want to support the ToyWar, there are always beautiful lullabies you can buy. I did, they put me in a restful slumber.

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isn't this a variant on the FloodNet java app which is drifting about?

From: http://www.thing.net/~rdom/ecd/floodnet.html

"See The Zapatista Tactical FloodNet for a discussion of FloodNet's functionality, interactivity, philosophy, and as a form of conceptual art."


Basically, if you run the java app on your system it regularly sends enough stuff to the remote site to overload it if sufficient people get involved, but not enough to hose your link.

There were some rumours the DoD were crashing it as some sort of counter-electronic-terrorism thing.

Dwayne