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SCO Chair's Anti-Porn Act Advances In Utah
iptables -A FORWARD writes "Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. of Utah reportedly plans to sign a resolution urging Congress to enact the Internet Community Ports Act. The ICPA proposes that online content be divided by port, rather like TVs have channels with adult and family content, so that certain internet ports will be 'clean' — so-called Community Ports — and others will be 'dirty.' Thus, they hope to remove objectionable content from port 80 and require that it be moved elsewhere (port 666 was already taken by Doom, sorry), so that people could more easily block objectionable content, or have their ISPs do the blocking for them. This concept is being pushed by the CP80 group, which is chaired by Ralph Yarro, who also chairs the SCO Group. That probably explains why they didn't choose to adopt RFC 3514, instead."
666 is Doom, but how about 69?
No, Only SCO would think that the state government of Utah controls the world.
Anybody else would laugh - how the hell do they think that they can make this work, when most of the people in that industry AREN'T IN UTAH!
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This is about as enforceable as the .xxx TLD. No matter what you do, you're not going to be able segregate the pr0n from other content. Unless you're SCO, I guess, then maybe you could sue those who don't comply by claiming that your intellectual property is on port 80, therefore you own all of the content on port 80 -- millions of lines of HTML!
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"There is this assumption that you can't control it (the Internet)," Yarro said. "It's a toaster, we made it, we can fix it. ... We can solve the Internet pornography problem tomorrow if we decided to."
Stupid legislators. It's not a fricking toaster, that's rediculous.
It's a series of tubes.
I thought we got that straight a few months ago!
It's better to vote for what you want and not get it than to vote for what you don't want and get it.
- E. Debs
Now all we need is to figure out a way to get Yarro to open Firefox in the bathtub.
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Only SCO would think that the state government of Utah controls the world.
Well Utah USED TO control the world, until IBM stole it!
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I know, my mind is still boggling over the sheer idiocy of RFC 3514. I mean, honestly, do you REALLY believe hackers are going to mark their packets as malicious?
My sig can beat up your sig.
(I know it's not valid. It's a joke, son. Laugh.)
My sig can beat up your sig.
Hehe... you said penetration... hehe...
My sig can beat up your sig.
If they don't, then they are out of compliance with the spec. Besides, one of these days someone is going to use it as a legal defense. "Your Honor, the prosecution alleges that my client's DoS attack was intended to bring their systems down, but as you can see in this packet trace, he had the evil bit set. As RFC 3514 requires that firewalls drop all packets with the evil bit set, my client could not have possibly meant for these packets to actually get through."
I have seen the future, and it is inconvenient.
I for one welcome our content categorizing overlords. I look forward to getting a cushy government job in the new Ministry of Internet Content Categorization, where I will be paid big bucks to consider content before it is put online so that I can ensure that it is assigned its appropriate port number. For example, this idea could be assigned to Port 0, Dumbass Suggestions.
Life needs more saving throws.
yeah, but I kinda like Mormon porn.
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All your ports are belung to Utah
I was going to make a hardcore double penetration input-in-the-output-port joke, but then I started thinking about how many networking geeks would jump all over the joke based on the fact that double penetrating the pron port would cause a tcp/ip collision, and therefore no penetration would occur, and I gave it up as a lost cause.
ad logicam Claiming a proposition is false because it was presented as the conclusion of a fallacious argument.