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Shocker: Despicable Conduct From Disney
An Anonymous Coward writes: "Phil Lelyveld, (email) a Vice President for Disney, has written to the FCC to tell them to ignore Digital Consumer's comments on the Broadcast Flag issue. The Broadcast Flag is an inter-industry conspiracy to turn over the keys to general-purpose computing to Hollywood studio execs -- under this proposal, no one will be able to ship digital television technology (like DVD recorders and FireWire) without Hollywood's permission. Lelyveld wrote to the FCC -- who are taking comments on the proposal -- without mentioning his day-job, to tell them that Digital Consumer, a civil liberties groups with more than 40,000 members, is nothing more than a "two dot.com millionaires" working to create a world "where we are all artist/waiters." Joined the EFF Yet? (or is it time to renew?) Update: 12/06 14:55 GMT by M : Lelyveld is not a lawyer. Here's a summary of his background.
It's just chrisd... he seems incapable of going more than a few weeks at a time without utterly embarassing himself.
Well, I used to think that michael was a dumbass. Perhaps there is a competition at /.HQ for most bone headed story?
So far as I (and several others) can tell, this isn't News For Nerds. It's publishing unsubstantiated rants from an AC.
To top it off, you have set this stupid lawyer (is there any other kind) up for a massive slashdotting of his email server. Chris, I'd worry about liability exposure. Larry doesn't have the cash lying around to bail your sorry ass out, and I'm sure he'll hang you out to dry when this attorney sues VA for illegal denial of service.
Really, if you wanted to quit, just say so. If you are too tired, don't post a story. This could be one of the most shoddy pieces to go up in a long time. Christ, do you even know what 'editor' means? You guys seem to think it means 'crap sifter'. No, at least take a minute to look at the story and see if it seems bogus. It used to be you needed to have two sources to put something damning into print in a reputable newspaper. Apparantly, online, you need zero.
How about these for headlines:
Shocker: Slashdot 'Editor' Does Competent Job
Shocker: Slashdot Posts Yet Another Inflammatory Story
Shocker: Slashdot 'Editor' Fired For Sheer Idiocy
Shocker: Average Age of Slashdot Editor Revealed to be Fourteen
There was a bit of a hiccup when this story first came out. I got the static page a few times. Please, please, please tell me that someone cracked the byzantine Slashdot vault and posted this. Honestly, I'd have more respect for you for having a security hole than for posting this tripe on purpose.
Jesus was all right but his disciples were thick and ordinary. -John Lennon
> Bush: "Iraq has weapons of mass destruction!"
...
/.)
> Sane people: "Proof?"
Bush: Well, we have this spy in this facility who has access to this information...
*gunshots heard from direction of Iraq*
Bush: Well, we have located this site...
*sound of moving vans starting heard*
Bush: Look, I can't tell you because that would endanger our sources! Besides, we sold him some of them.
Skeptics, ostriches, and people who jumped on the peacenik bandwagon: Yeah. Right, whatever. You're lying, you have to be lying, because a man who invaded his next door country and stonewalls the UN at every opportunity is to be trusted over you! You're just continuing Daddy's war!
Bush: But I...
Skeptics, ostriches, and bandwagon riders: No war!No war!No war!No war!
Bush: So go chant at Iraq. Or Osama. Is the chief of police a crimemonger?! Am I at fault, just for pointing this out and suggesting maybe something ought to be done about it?
Skeptics, ostriches, and bandwagon riders: YES!
At first I thought to post this anonymously, but screw it.
Commiting karmic suicide*,
SomeGuyFromCA
(*: by posting an unpopular yet honest opinion on
Skeptics, ostriches, and bandwagon riders: You can't possibly think that way! No right minded individual could possibly think that way, because that upsets my worldview that everyone thinks just like me! You must be a troll!
if the answer isn't violence, neither is your silence / freedom of expression doesn't make it alright