Usenix Takes Stand Against ATA and SSSCA

Davin writes: "The Usenix Board of Directors has emailed all Usenix members, suggesting that they contact their Representatives to oppose ATA and SSSCA." And I've said it before, but lick a stamp. Representatives aren't tapped into the wired quite yet (Hello ... Navi)

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I'm not sure if this is..

[OblongPlatypus]

..off topic or not, so I'll let the moderators decide. (If you didn't get Taco's reference, please refrain from moderating.)

Will there ever be a sequel to Serial Experiments Lain? There were some rumors about a year ago, but since then I haven't heard anything. Anyone have any word at all?

Re:Humm.

[Brenna]

I was thinking of investing in a company that makes toenail clippers. Everytime you fly you lose yours, they've got to be making a lot of money right now.

Re:I Hate Anime

[Phunky Monkey]

I apologize for for this off-topic post, but it seems that even in posts that even remotely reference anime, a few retards crawl out of their holes and spew forth unintelligent stupidity. If you're not interested in the yelling at of idiots, the read no further.

The reality is, that a good number of very mature and professional people enjoy a good number of anime titles. I believe the people you speak of are the ones that like anime just because it is animated and from japan and for no oher reason. But, then again, these people are simply collectors like anyone else that collects anything. Stamps, cars, model trains, anime... it's all the same. There are, on the other hand, people (myself included) that enjoy the content of a small group of anime titles. I can think of no less than 5 of the best anime titles that are all about things like cyberspace, privacy rights, and other topics which are discussed daily here on the slashing dot (the one referenced in this post, Serial Experiments: Lain, is all about real/wired world convergeance). Maybe you two should take a look at what's being referenced before spewing uninformed stupidity all over the forums. I assure you, that even if you don't like it, you'll have some grasp about why, and be able to post intelligently about it (this means not making insulting statements about general groups of people with a certain like/dislike).

Re:ATA?

[einhverfr]

Yeah, well I have an ATA CD-RW drive on Linux and cdrecord doens't support ATAPI devices. The problem with SCSI is that it is expensive...

Also, according to the Software RAID Howto, ATA hardware is fairly unsuitable for RAID. Problem is, no one has told Congress that ATA makes for bad RAIDs... ;)

Re:McCarthyism

[G Neric]

McCarthy did some fucked-up stuff

McCarthy may have done some fucked-up stuff, but in so doing he hurt the anti-Communist movement more than the Communists.

William F. Buckley issued a challenge years ago WRT the Hollywood blacklists: try and find a single "injured" person who was not a socialist... nobody has ever answered the challenge because there are none. So for all the cries of "witchhunt", the Red Scare was accurately targetted. You may think that Communists should not be persecuted, OK, but I think they should, and the Red Scare didn't persecute anyone who was not.

Many of tactics of the worst sorts of zealots like McCarthy were theoretically dangerous and were rightfully rebuked, but they never led to any actual loss of liberty except for those who were sympathetic to the Soviet Union and wanted the same Orwellian freedoms for the rest of us.

Today, the way the word "McCarthyist" gets used is itself an example of McCarthyism: smearing someone by applying a negative label. Every time I hear someone use the term, I say back, "I have in my hand a list of known McCarthyists!"
Of course, most are too uneducated to get the reference, let alone the irony.