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Running a Website from Your Prison Cell
Eh-Wire writes "Although prisoners Internet access is highly restricted, this hasn't prevented many inmates from getting around the restrictions with the judicious use of phone and snail-mail privileges to network with friends, relatives, activists, and associates to provide content to their websites. Some use their websites to badger witnesses and prosecuters, while others plead their case or phish for pen-pals. Some have successfully challenged their convictions through their websites, which complicates efforts by authorities to silence them. Websites domiciled outside of the respective jurisdictions further complicate the issue. Yahoo News has additional commentary on this controversial subject."
...I guess to any slashdotter, NO Internet access would be cruel and unusual punishment.
What? Are we giving prisoners fat pipes into their cells now? Does that include rackmounting and cooling too?
If they were in there for possession, I've no problem.
If they were in there for 9 years for fraudulently forging return headers for your spam empire, on the other hand...
All I know is that if i were them I would DOWNLOAD EVERYTHING...
;)
What's the worse the could do to me?
What's the worst they could do to my neighbor?
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the strongest word is still the word "free"
A historian named Herodotus tells of a thief who was to be executed. As he was taken away he made a bargain with the king: in one year he would teach the king's favorite horse to surf the internet. The other prisoners watched the thief explaining FireFox to the horse and laughed. "You will not succeed," they told him. "No one can."
To which the thief replied, "I have a year, and who knows what might happen in that time. The king might die. The horse might die. I might die. And perhaps the horse will learn to post on Slashdot.
Yet again, Slashdot gets my hopes up with a headline that looks like it'll be a "how-to" article.
...pack a' smokes for a mod point.
Criminals of society being allowed to sit in a dark room on the internet all day, 365 days a year, while the rest of the world goes on around them!!!!??!?
Thats not how I'd describe criminals in prison... its how I'd describe Slashdot readers.
There's nothing Intelligent about Intelligent Design.
2 minutes? 5 seconds would be enough!
Inmate 00343: "Can you turn around, HUH?"
Inmate 87632: "It ain't my fault the room is 8 feet by 6 feet"
Inmate 00343: "Just look at the wall, will ya"
Inmate 87632: "Okay"
Inmate 00343: *whispers* "Oh yeah, that's what I was looking for, nice big tits"
Inmate 87632: *peaks over his shoulder at the laptop screen*
Inmate 00343: "HEY, WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT WET STUFF ON THE BACK OF MY NECK???"
Inmate 87632: *shrugs shoulders* "I think a bird crapped on you"
Seriously, what do inmates need computers for. You know they are just going to make knives with the RAM DIMMS.
Inmate 00343: *boots the laptop*
Inmate 87632: "You looking for porn again?"
Inmate 00343: "No, just going to read sla... HEY, the BIOS test only shows 128 megs, we had 256 megs"
Inmate 87632: *starts sweating* "What do you mean, it was always 128, you know how slow the laptop is"
Man, I love the adventures of Inmate 00343!!
Rosco: "If brains were gunpowder, Enos couldn't blow his nose."
Prisoners should be glad they stay alive. They are scum and worthy of a bullet to the back of the head, never mind the pleasantries of prison buggery. And to host a web site? For their own defense? Surely that's constitutional excess.
What I think should be done is that they should be taken out to the desert. Just as you say. Make them exercise, drink water, and eat cold meals. Major felons should be forced to build tent cities, and then tear them down. Then we make them eat a cold meal again! And finally, more buggery.
Harsh? Probably. But when I see common criminals roaming free, I think: Damn, that's a fiiiine suit!!!
Someone wake me when you can run a women's prison cell from your website. Now that will be interesting...
I think that they're in there for slashdotting servers.. =p
-Alex. http://bit.ly/1iVPtfA