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Oregon Supreme Court Declines To Hear Schwartz Case

Posted by timothy on from the merry-christmas dept.

merlyn writes "The Oregon Supreme Court declined to hear my case, leaving standing the unfavorable decision of the Oregon Appeals Court as the final authority on this eight-year-long case, well known to many sysadmin and Perl hacker alike. Details at my fors-announce posting." If you're not sure what that means, you probably want to read at least this site which offers a straightforwardly partisan look at the complicated case of Intel vs. Schwartz as well as Schwartz's own page; it's a strange world where programmers and sysadmins can be convicted for seemingly innocent activities.

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  1. Re:What is the case about? by GigsVT · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    hippies and guns, both of which keep authority in the wrong hands.

    Guns keep authority in the hands of citizens. You are saying that is the wrong hands?

    Were you just trolling or what?

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  2. Some useful info by sasha328 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    It seems that this guy stole some PERL scripts and password files using a hole in IIS using FrontPage from some news website. Here is a link I found while going through the not very helpful links in this thread.
    I hope people don't confuse the security flaws in IIS with code theft. Code theft is "stealing" regardless of how you got to it.

  3. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Comment removed based on user account deletion

  4. Re:Seemingly innocent activities? by Futurepower(tm) · · Score: 1, Offtopic


    "The truth is that violence is violence, no matter who commits and no matter who suffers as a result."

    Agreed. Also, very few Americans understand how violent is their government. The U.S. government has bombed 14 countries in a little over 30 years, killing more than 2,000,000 people directly, and destroying the lives of millions more.

    It is interesting to note that Brazil is a country about the same size as the United States. Brazil is also a nation of immigrants, from the same mostly European countries. How many countries has Brazil bombed in the last 30 years? None, nada, zero. So, it is possible for Europeans to live in the world without killing. The method of relating to other people used by the U.S. government is not the only way.

    I've gathered links from news agencies and other online sources about this: What should be the Response to Violence?

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  5. lspci by atif_ghaffar · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    tux:~ # lspci
    00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-751 [Irongate] System Controller (rev 23)
    00:01.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-751 [Irongate] AGP Bridge (rev 01)
    00:07.0 ISA bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-756 [Viper] ISA (rev 01)
    00:07.1 IDE interface: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-756 [Viper] IDE (rev 03)
    00:07.3 Bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-756 [Viper] ACPI (rev 03)
    00:07.4 USB Controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-756 [Viper] USB (rev 06)
    00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905B 100BaseTX [Cyclone] (rev 30)
    00:0c.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt848 TV with DMA push (rev 12)
    01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Riva TnT2 [NV5] (rev 11)