Farber, Neumann, and Weinstein Call for End to ICANN

lapse writes: "PFIR's latest policy statement calls for bringing an end to ICANN. Without assigning blame, it calls for immediate action, and suggests some possible paths forward. Let's hope that this clear statement from such a respected trio will lead to better times ahead for Internet policy management." Salon also has an interview with Karl Auerbach about his lawsuit against ICANN.

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WE LOVE ICANN!!!

[Crusty Old Socks Man]

That's all that keeps the internet from total anarchy! Something that cannot be allowed! Keep the ICANN, get rid of Farber, Neumann, and Weinstein!

its tuesday

[Anonymous Coward]

its time to troll
linux sucks
microsoft rules
you are a loser
penis birds love you
have a look up my ass
and just eat my shit.
love billy troll
xxx

Re:Take it easy

[linzeal]

Give it to microsoft. They will take care of it and make me feel safe knowing that the crazy open source zealots will not attempt to subvert american spirit and innovation by pointing Microsoft's Website at a competitor's website
editor's note:The reason microsoft's website link is pointing at goatse.cx is that they both are asshole widening in their own special olympic sort of way.

Urgent Linux news (not a troll, check the proofs!)

[Anonymous Coward]

I would like to bring to the attention of my fellow Slashdot readers some troubling news: Linux is being used by Al Qaeda, Abu Sayyaf, and other terrorist organizations with equally cool sounding names as an affordable and powerful tool for purposes of recruitment, passing coded messages regarding planned terrorist operations, and other insidious purposes. I will attempt to show some of the more obvious proofs I have discovered to back up my arguments.

• The presence of an Islamic calendar (cal-islam.elc) as included with the xemacs package. This calendar is likely being used for determining significant dates (such as September 11) for terrorist attacks.
• The word "terror" is mentioned several times in the Linux kernel source code (svr4.c in the abi/svr4 directory). This file was written by Mike "Jagdis" whose name itself is an obvious Islamic reference to terrorism.
• The phrase, "terrorist act" is actually present in drivers/char/ip2main.c.
• There are several references to the WTC buildings, again in the Linux kernel source code (in the drivers/scsi directory).
• The freetype code includes the file internal/tterrors.h -- an obvious reference to "international terrorism".
• Various files in drivers/char and drivers/scsi refer to "religious disputes" and "religious issues" (likely, the issues between God fearing American christians and evil Islamic terror mongers).
• The word "plane" (a reference to the tragic airplane hijackings of September 11th) appears in several places in the drivers/char/drm directory.
• Various references to the words "evil", "destroy", "bomb", "warrior", and "hate" scattered in places too numerous to mention.
• The word "hijack" appears in Documentation/kernel-docs.txt, and "hijacking" in drivers/char/ChangeLog, which is also an obvious suggestion for future attacks.
• The file fs/jffs/intrep.c contains the phrase, "Might as well commit suicide", which is an obvious suggestion to would-be terrorists to commit suicide bombings.
• One of the maintainers goes by the name, "Andreas Bombe", with the e-mail address, andreas.bombe@munich.netsurf.de. Obviously this is a hidden message indicating the next target for terrorist bombings is some place in Munich, Germany.
• Take a look at the book cover of ``Professional Linux Programming'' and decide for yourself which of the 15 authors has obvious terrorist links.

I am sure I have only scratched the surface of this disturbing conspiracy. I strongly urge the Slashdot readership to support American companies such as Microsoft who only hire patriotic American citizens and to boycott any company which is involved with Linux (as they are directly supporting terrorists). I sincerely hope the CIA or FBI can look into the actions of open source developers. People like Linus Torvalds should be taken into custody and have all assets seized.

Act now before it is too late!