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Eavesblogging the Internet Law Program
Last week the Berkman Center held their second annual Internet Law Program, an intensive course in (surprise) internet law and developments. You probably didn't spend the time/money to attend, but the topics covered are interesting enough (to me anyway) to check it out even second-hand. Dan Gillmor attended and posted his notes: Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, Day 4, Day 5 part 1 and Day 5 part 2. Donna Wentworth was there, trying to record the seminar in real-time; hopefully she's learned her lesson. There is tons of interesting stuff in there - it's worth your time to read through if you have any interest in the subject matter at all.
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screw the CLiT... stupid bastards.
living under a bridge is fun...
Bananna!
USian Pie
A long, long time ago I can still remember How the trollers used to make me smile And I knew if I had to boast That I could try to get first post And maybe I'd be happy for a while But moderators made me shiver With every minus they'd deliver DoS scripts couldn't stop it They scored them all "Offtopic" I know that it's cheap crack they smoke And meta-moderation's broke At first I thought it was a joke The day that trolltalk died
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Bye, bye, MEEPTy, OOG, and Grits guy Drove the Cruiser like some loser who starts posts with a *sigh*
Those Steve Woston posts that we all knew were a lie Wonder what became of girls petrified? What became of girls petrified?
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Did you write a bunch of Perl? And did it make you want to hurl Feces at the Wall? Can you believe these lame-ass polls? Do you post big stretched-out assholes? Can you make the goatse.cx link not show? Well I know you think that Siggy sucked Will the real Bruce Perens please stand up? The bots don't have a clue. Man, I dig those trolls from Shoe! I was a rabid Free Speech advocate With a Red Hat T-shirt and a Free Beer gut
Bought my Sony laptop working Pizza Hut The day that trolltalk died
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It's been two years since the IPO And LNUX sinks to all-time lows But that's not how it used to be When Spiral showed how it was done Trolling as Jon Erikson Who worked for NPO Technologies Oh and while they tried to filter posts Somebody rooted Slashdot's host "Crack Slashdot? That's absurd!" Better go change your password While JonKatz wrote a Hellmouth book By using posts he simply took And we flamed him till he was cooked The day that trolltalk died And we were singin....
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10 grams. Inchfan. Didn't log out. Goddamn The mods will find the sid real soon, man
You can't hide if you aren't AC Your bud (George here) tried BSD A dead Streetlawyer's tips were free And WIPO helped letsriot turn Nazi 70 made his percents up While 80md warned "liberals suck" The moon does not exist It's just a liberal myth Oh and as Taco tried to take a nap We forced him to invoke bitchslaps Do you recall the flood of crap The day that trolltalk died? We started singin....
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Oh and then we were wearing out "All your base" And started posting monospace
The better for our penis birds So come on, be a zealot, be a dick You don't think Anne Marie's a chick? Because lying's all we do about HURD So go and push for BSD And say GPL isn't free Slow down, cowboy! The limit Is one post every minute Now tell the right wing facist slime Infringing on Your Rights Online That they can't censor all the time The day that trolltalk died
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I met a troll they called The Rev And asked him if CD BREAK HEAD He said, "That's old. Get over it." And with all the courage I could muster "Imagine what a Beowulf cluster...." But it wasn't worth the trouble to submit The karma caps are just plain jive And everyone's moved to K5 The steelcage has grown rusted And Geekizoid is busted
The three sites I don't see for weeks Segfault, kernel, Comp-u-geek Code is not art. This ain't Freshmeat The day that trolltalk died
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- poopbot: because even your grandmother can use lunix
Is it me or do the AC's seem more entertaining than the content today?
On second thought, I'll put the crack away and read about Internet Law since Micheal doesn't seemed too convienced that anyone cares. =P
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Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish. - Euripides
BReakin du law BReakin du law BReakin du law.. YEA MAN!
that was a very good link on linux and internet law but it does not focus enough on some of the deeper aspects of the topic such as how it will affect windows
In other news, the Bunko Society for Paint Dehydration announced their latest seminar on watching paint dry. They announced it on the Internet, so it could be reported by Slashdot.
Really, this is pretty miserable stuff, even for a slow news day. Notes from a seminar on law...spanning multiple days?
AC's got the first two posts of this article.
AC's are teh rox0rs!!!
BSD is dead.
how now brown cow?
Excellent info, highly recommended.
Link is offtopic. It's another one of those anti-open source manifestoes.
Wasn't it hilarious when that one nigger got hit in the face by the cop? Only bad thing is now we have those fat ass gorilla women all over the TV acting pissed off.
how is that a troll? Just because the article claims that "Open Source licenses have not (yet) been validated by a court of law"?
FSF knows that, and even makes that claim on the their page. Hell, the VA Linux annual report mentions that open source licensing may be a liability!
This is wonderful information. I'm sure I'll be modded as redundant, but this is great for those of us with our heads buried in code and no time to grep the rest of the world.
"God fights on the side with the best artillery." - Napoleon, Marshal of France - speaking truth to power
if you expect to be modded as redundant (which you are), you should consider posting without the +1 bonus.
The last few months I have been doing some research into the trolling phenomenon on slashdot.org. In order to do this as thoroughly as possible, I have written both normal and troll posts, 1st posts, etc., both logged in and anonymously, and I have found these rather shocking results:
More moderator points are being used to mod posts down than up. Furthermore, when modding a post up, every moderator seems to follow previous moderators in their choices, even when it's not a particularly interesting or clever post [slashdot.org]. There are a LOT more +5 posts than +3 or +4.
Logged in people are modded down faster than anonymous cowards. Presumably these Nazi Moderators think it's more important to burn a user's existing karma, to silence that individual for the future, than to use the moderation system for what it's meant for : identifying "good" and "bad" posts (Notice how nearly all oppressive governments in the past and present do the same thing : marking individuals as bad and untrustworthy because they have conflicting opinions, instead of engaging in a public discussion about these opinions)
Once you have a karma of -4 or -5, your posts have a score of -1 by default. When this is the case, no-one bothers to mod you down anymore. This means a logged in user can keep on trolling as much as he (or she) likes, without risking a ban to post on slashdot. When trolling as an anonymous user, every post starts at score 0, and you will be modded down to -1 ON EVERY POST. When you are modded down a certain number of times in 24 hour, you cannot post anymore from your current IP for a day or so. So, for successful trolling, ALWAYS log in.
A lot of the modded down posts are actually quite clever [slashdot.org], funny [slashdot.org], etc., and they are only modded down because they are offtopic. Now, on a news site like slashdot, where the number of different topics of discussion can be counted on 1 hand, I must say I quite like the distraction these posts offer. But no, when the topic is yet another minor version change of the Linux kernel [slashdot.org], they only expect ooohs and aaahs about this great feat of engineering. Look at the moderation done in this thread [slashdot.org] to see what I mean. Digging deep into the history of slashdot, I found this poll [slashdot.org], which clearly indicates the vast majority does NOT want the moderation we have here today. 'nuff said. Feel free to use this information to your advantage. I thank you for your time. Fucker.
Why isn't this on slashdot yet??
Isn't it significant? Doesn't anyone know?
I don't get how so much trivial irrevelant things get submitted here but the big ones go right over everyone's head.
July 10, 2002 -- Wacko Jacko says he's no freako.
Michael Jackson yesterday lashed out at accusations that he's a gay child molester who bleaches his skin so he won't look black, saying they're part of a "conspiracy" to "turn the public against him."
"I was called a freak, a homosexual, a child molester. That I bleach my skin. Everything to turn the public against me," Jackson said before a packed house at the Rev. Al Sharpton's Harlem headquarters. "It was a complete conspiracy."
In 1993, Jackson was accused in a lawsuit of molesting a 13-year-old boy. The child was one of the many young pals, including Macaulay Culkin and Emmanuel Lewis, the self-proclaimed King of Pop entertained at his bizarro fun-park ranch, Neverland, in California.
Jackson settled the suit, reportedly for $15 million to $24 million.
Yesterday, the usually reclusive Jackson continued a wild, high-profile attack he started Saturday, when he threw down the gauntlet to his record-label boss, Tommy Mottola of Sony, calling the exec was a racist.
Jacko - whose face has been changed drastically by plastic surgery - launched a diatribe as he explained why he is the industry's newest black activist.
"I know my race. I just look in the mirror. I know I'm black," Jackson said, as hundreds exploded in cheers.
"We are all brothers and sisters - no matter what color we are."
Wearing a black jacket and pants, Jacko said the music industry turned on him "overnight" after he displaced white artists as the planet's No. 1-selling artist.
Music moguls "are liars. They manipulate our history books. You must know that," he said, as the crowd cheered him on. "If you go to the bookstore at the corner, you won't see one black face. You'll see Elvis Presley and the Rolling Stones."
He claimed the industry attack on him began after "I broke Elvis' record and the Beatles' record" in sales.
The Harlem meeting - at which Sharpton and lawyer Johnnie Cochran said they would take on the music industry for taking advantage of minority artists - drew hundreds of Sharpton supporters and dozens of white teens eager to see Jackson.
Jackson, who was pumping his fist in the air as Sharpton yelled, "No justice, no peace," spent much of the two-hour meeting blowing kisses to fans and even giving a thumbs-up to one who screamed, "I love you, Michael!"
Sharpton, who stood shoulder to shoulder with Jackson, said he wants to meet with music-industry heads to discuss properly compensating minority artists.
Sharpton also praised Jackson for appearing at yesterday's meeting.
"Michael is no wacko," he said. "He's still an icon."
When asked if he wanted to meet with Mottola about racism, Sharpton said, "Yes, but it's not limited to one company. I want to reach out to all of them."
On a weird note, I wonder what was up with this guy? Apparent suicide? Did he kill himself because he felt morally wrong for the mass copyright infringement people are undertaking using a program he helped to develop or because his AOL-TimeWarner stock is near junk status now? One has to wonder why a 25 year old would commit suicide.. that's usually something disgruntled kids in high school do.
what kind of stoopid cunt would tru to log that in realtime. dumb bitch servers her write!!!!!!!
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