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Media Organizations Join Forces to Fight Canadian Ruling
csaila writes "Some of the world's big media outlets (including CBC, CNN, Guardian, The Globe and Mail, The New York Times, Reuters, and -- as well as Amazon, AOL, Google and Yahoo) are appealing a Canadian court ruling threatening both free speech and the Net. The ruling stems from a former UN employee who successfully sued the Washington Post in Ontario for libel, arguing that because the Post's Web site carried the story. his reputation had been "damaged" in that province."
Slashdot was not working half an hour ago...Was it slashdotted? Haha! Thats way too funny. Can anyone confirm this is what happened?
10th March 2005 11:50am
Washington, USA - just for shits and giggles, a major US website was taken off the air by an extremely annoying user 'The_Fire_Horse'
Slashdot is a major tech focused website focusing on gay rights and filthy GNU hippy software. It was a single post from the mentally unbalance user which caused CmdrTacos outrageously patchy perl code to go into an infinite loop taking down all the slashdot servers and the GNU/Coffee Machine.
Taco immediately contacted his supplier, SCO Unix and they had the problem fixed in no time(they uninstalled Linux, installed Windows ME and charged taco another $699 fee per machine).
The offending post was actually a backdoor command using by the recently sacked Micheal who used to reboot slashdot when people made fun of him:
"RUN:COMMAND:INFINITE_LOOP"
Nerds in basements all around the world went without any information source for several hours, but the offending backdoor command is said to have now been closed.
Read it.