Masked Email Activist Can Stay Anonymous

Mitchell writes "The NewStandard is reporting that a Texas judge ruled in favor of an anonymous political activist who used a Yahoo! email account to notify the press and to potential voters about the wasteful spending practices of Texas politician Jimmy Cokinos. Cokinos lost relection, and tried to nail "recall_carl01" with a defamation lawsuit, but a judge threw out the bid since the emailed critiques weren't defamatory."

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[Lindsay Lohan]

FB: It seems that Sun Microsystems wants to release Java source code. Do you think that a language such as Java could spread more if it were covered by the GPL?
RMS: I think that's a secondary question. Whether a particular programming language becomes more or less popular is just a technical issue.

While I greatly respect RMS, this is the type of hyper-philosophical response that makes him seem a little out of touch with developers.

Programming languages are chosen for a myriad of reasons, technical being one. Many of the managed-code environments are being chosen for ubiquity, marketing appeals to management, and ease-of-use.

Re:Not 100% true.

[Anonymous Coward]

HAHAHA you first post karma whore: YOU FUCKING DOUBLE FAILED IT.

Re:Not 100% true.

[winkydink]

pssst.... They realized the rms interview article was a dup and removed it before non-subscribers could see it.

Re:Not 100% true.

[Anonymous Coward]

You are a karma whore. I hope you get assraped in the moderation.

Yours sincerely,
Another k-whore.

Re:Not 100% true.

[Lindsay Lohan]

You are a karma whore

Naw, just a whore.

Thanks, though.

Re:Not 100% true.

[Anonymous Coward]

Oh... my... goodness... You should ask for your subscription money back, that's the most embarassing thing I think I've ever seen on /.

Re:Not 100% true.

[grub]

You can turn that on and off for messages. I'm a subscriber and have it disabled, but turned it on for this post.

Re:Not 100% true.

[Anonymous Coward]

not to mention that Lindsey replied to a subscriber-only viewable story that never made it to the front page.

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[Anonymous Coward]

I find Windows XP Home Edition really cool.

It is the most powerful operating-system for Pee Cees. It looks not as gay as Mac OS X by Steve B10 Jobs and has 1,0000,0000 times more softwares that the Linus-operating-system.

Plus, it comes with every Pee Cee for free. People who have grown acusstomt to paying RatHat 699 $$$ or more can hardly beleive this when I consult them with my proffesional Internet- and Network-Service-Center-Bureau.

Wehn I have a new customer, I take him to the back-room to show him the "alternative" to XP Home, which is Suse Linux 9.0.
I have set-up an old Pentium 133Hz and a small monochrome monitor to show teh customer what Linux looks and feels like.

I have it set-up so it runs a fullscreen-Flash-splash-screen on the KDE3.3beta-desktop. It takes 13 min until the mouse cursor responds.

The customer will them make a sound like: "BAH!"

Then I tell them: "See, this is how it is if we let the communists make software."
Then we have a good laugh, wich is psycologicallish valuable for the customer-relatively.

I always tell them:
"Windows XP Home Edition is all you can do to embiggen the producationality of your human resourcers and empower to leverage the outcome-bottomlime of your stickholder ... plus even more!"

My customers usually are like: "OMG!"

You should really try it one day; it has a very nice light-reddish color theme to hit your tastes.

Thank you!

Your site is missing...

[Anonymous Coward]

... a titfuck section.

I know Lindsay likes titfucks as much as the next girl. Why deprive her of her right to do it in public?

Obligatory

[Anonymous Coward]

Slashdot sucks!