Cybercrime Treaty Signed

lam0r writes: "I can't find a newslink for this, but CNN had on their news ticker that 37 nations, including the United States, had signed a treaty designed to make tracking and prosecuting 'hackers' easier and more efficient. What exactly is defined as 'hacker' is something I haven't been able to find out. ... Why was the public not made aware of this until it was done? Anyone know more about this item than me?" This is the Cybercrime Treaty, which was signed today by 30 nations and which we have posted about before. This analysis is probably the best so far - it might be a little out of date since the treaty has been revised once or twice since it was written, but the basics are still the same.

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Don't you see?

[NewspaperSpoon]

You need all these protections from yourself.

If you don't embody the perfect holiness of the ravenous churchgoing mass consumer you should be scrutinized.

If you don't exspouse your love and utter devotion to this current administration, you should be scrutinized.

These things should permeate from your very pores if you were truly an American.

Thank you for all the money and flags, now please sit down and shut up.

A Topical Essay

[goingware]

Is This the America I Love?.

I loved America for what it stood for.

I was told that things like political persecution, detainment without trial, and beating of prisoners were things that happened in other countries, that they would never happen in America. I was told that we fought the American Revolution and wrote the Constitution specifically to ensure such things would never again happen in America.

Re:Wow. Now that is blatant.

[ballpeen]

Soon I will begin to physically flog myself, I must be soooo stupid, since 90% of what I read on slashdot I don't understand. Maybe it's 'cause I'm not a geek programmer.

What it is is, ALL OF SLASHDOT is bait for about four people like me, who take ALL OF THE OTHER COMMENTS SERIOUSLY and go off like idiot kneejerk monkees... Right?

Like:

>Contrary to what the ...RIAA would have you believe

Unless Moby and Lenny Kravitz have mysteriously tipped the scales, until at least a few years ago, most of the money made by the "major labels", the main "members" of the RIAA, came from artists signed BEFORE 1980. I forget the percentages, but they were overwhelming. Well into the '90s. And it makes sense. How many generations are now buying Zeppelin albums - three...four? Soooooo, what the hell is the RIAA representing NOW, fronting for. Indie dance labels? The DJ vinyl market? New music doesn't need the major label path, the distribution end's dead... The RIAA is most likely fronting for intellectual property rights grabs too outrageous for other parts of their members' corporate families to try for, because they're a falling star, have nothing to lose. Giving the RIAA credibility as a music representative if it's not ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY is giving them legitimacy, helping in their, um, EVIL cause... Not that I have anything against Rod Stewart. Carly Simon?...

>Large sections of the population have a negative view of techies

Large sections of the population don't know that email address contain an @ sign followed by letters a dot and more letters. And Web addresses end in those .letter things too. They must be confused about the DotCom revolution.

>when big corporations will pull their heads out of their asses and start to actually listen to their customers for a change

What are they doing now? Making billions and billions of dollars by ACCIDENT. By pissing off their customers. By creating advertising and publicity campaigns that're totally out of tune with the customers they don't listen to that they are promoting themselves out of business?

I don't feel like flogging...actually.

Re:Wow. Now that is blatant.

[AntiNorm]

who take ALL OF THE OTHER COMMENTS SERIOUSLY and go off like idiot kneejerk monkees...

I specifically said that I wasn't taking the comment seriously. In fact, in case you didn't read my comment, I *explicitly* stated that I knew it was sarcasm. And now *you're* the one talking about kneejerk monkees? (What do the Monkees have to do with this anyway...)