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New RedHat Kernel Patch Illegal to Explain to U.S. Users

Posted by timothy on from the please-keep-under-wraps dept.

Russellkhan writes "The Register is running a story about a new RedHat kernel patch that cannot be explained to U.S. citizens or others in the U.S. because of DMCA restrictions. The illegal explanation is hosted at Thefreeworld.net, a site created specifically to deal with these DMCA issues."

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  1. Re:Sound familiar? US Citizens, too! by Insightfill · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    the idea that the US authorities are going to start flying non-US citizens to Cuba to shoot them...

    Actually, with all of the "enemy combatants" running around, I think a bunch of US citizens might be getting carted off to Cuba for the same treatment.

    I could be wrong, but nobody can prove it one way or the other because habeas corpus appears to be missing, too.

    Yeah, I know, off-topic.

  2. Slashdot Editors please read this by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I ask a simple request. I want it so when you click a linked story in slashdot it puts a cookie on your hard drive. After that you are allowed to post a comment in the acompanying thread. That would hopefully cut down on all the fuckin idiots who insist on refusing to read a story and post their idiotic opinions without even having a glimmer of an idea what the story is about.

    1. Re:Slashdot Editors please read this by Rader · · Score: 1, Offtopic

      and if it's slashdotted?

  3. Re:Sound familiar? by Hard_Code · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    We do that a lot. We let our less "civilized" allies, who have no qualms with torture, handle our suspects. Why is this surprising?

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  4. Re:Sound familiar? by lovebyte · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Could someone moderate the parent as Funny instead of Insightful?

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  5. Re:I'd comment, but by Bowdie · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    >Am I the only one who heard Roxette to sing "I'm gonna get blitzed for some sex"?

    I reckon you are yes.

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  6. Re:Canada by Jim+Norton · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Yeah, we got some great bombing practice out of your Presidents' home about 190 years ago!

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  7. Re:It happened on CLINTON's watch! by sqlrob · · Score: 2, Offtopic
    One Nation Under God - Congress is voting to make that part of the pledge a law, also under Bush's watch.

    And every single congress critter (95/100 of the Senate IIRC) that voted for it should be tossed out of office on their ass for violating their oath. How is this upholding the Constitution?

  8. Re:One day... by cscx · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    This is very bad moderation. He is correct.

  9. Re:Sound familiar? by the_2nd_coming · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    your right, in camp delta, the prisoners have BETTER living quarters that the soldures.....

    I have heard a few soldures who are back from Camp delta complain about just such issues.

    BTW, Camp delta conformes to 21 and 22, 25 has NEVER been broken except perhaps while they were being procesed in the begining.

    right now, 70 is being borkern, however, that would be why they are illegal combatants and not POWs.

    the fact is that they are phisicly and mentaly treated no worse than a POW. writing home is the only thng they cannot do and it is sufficient enought as to have queld critics in the UN and the International Red Cross

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