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Testing ISP Censorship
ryants writes "As part of a research project, Christian Ahlert ran an interesting experiment. He posted John Stuart Mill's On Liberty, which is clearly in the public domain, on different ISPs. He then sent the ISPs phony copyright violation notices. The results are troubling, with ISPs "acting as judge, jury and private investigator at the same time.""
Off Topic Warning: Speaking of statistics! What are the chances that /.er 9391080 and 9391081 would post adjacent comments at exactly the same time (minute) on the same thread? check parent)
This one gang kept wanting me to join cause I'm pretty good with a bo staff.
Off Topic Warning: Speaking of statistics! (at least in my post) What are the chances that /.er 9391080 and 9391081 would post adjacent comments at exactly the same time (minute) on the same thread? check parent)
This one gang kept wanting me to join cause I'm pretty good with a bo staff.
My point was that it was anti-climatic and could....err...SHOULD have been avoided by just doing a little more work. OK...here's a better analogy. You spend all year to prepare for a triatholon. You start the race, complete 80% of the race, and then hop on a motorcycle to take you to the finish line. lol...ok back to working on my homework...
From what I can see, they seem to stand for anything anti-Bush (without question). And fringe?? They have some massive numbers on their side. They can raise 20 million in a few days notice from donations.
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Just because it CAN be done, doesn't mean it should!
someone has already mentioned drag races, but what about olympic athletes that spend 4 years training for a 9.78 second race? (or just shoot some 'roids but thats another article...) and yes I did read the reply, but I wanted to post something gosh darnit. Harley
I called the police and told them that my wife was trying to kill our daughter (just to see what would happen). When the police came to our house, my wife was cutting the roast for dinner, the police saw the knife and shot her dead. Stupid, stupid, people. Glad I'm not stupid.