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SOPA Protests 'Poisoned the Well,' Says Congressional Staffer
Techdirt has a story about statements from Congressional staffer Stephanie Moore, who had some interesting — and somewhat insulting — things to say about the 'net-wide protests against the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). "Netizens poisoned the well, and as a result the reliability of the internet is at risk," she said. Moore went on, "Congress was criticized for not being tech savvy, but from a lot of the comments we got it became clear that the people who were calling us did not understand the bill any better than we did." The article also points out comments from Steve Metalitz, a lawyer who represents members of the entertainment industry: "Most countries in the world already have this option at their disposal to deal with this problem. If site blocking broke the internet, then the internet would already be broken."
I'm not American, but I do agree - I thought the point was that the government already has the power to do exactly what SOPA is "for" - it just removed due process requirements to do it.
"It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him." - Tolkien
The "device" is a large wad of cash and cheques which is shoved repeatedly into either the subjects hand or pockets. Other side effects of this treatment include: a deranged mindset, inability to distinguish fantasy from reality, and voluminous stools emerging from both digestive orifices.
May the Maths Be with you!
From the title on her LinkedIn page, she most likely represents the establishment position.
She's not IN Congress. She's a staffer. Call her boss.
Adding thousands and thousands of null routes to a home router would bring it to its knees. Most households can't afford a full blown Cisco router. The burden of processing the null routes would have to go to the ISP, whose systems could handle an extraordinarily large routing table. Once that happens, you'd have to add static routes on either side of the bad route to bypass it. VPN would still bypass it, but it would certainly be non-trivial for most users and would greatly increase the amount of total traffic required by the internet at large, as the pathing is no longer efficient by design but rather being bounced around the world. So yeah, it would break things.
Basements are not common in Texas, fyi.
A witty saying proves you are wittier than the next guy.
She's not IN Congress. She's a staffer. Call her boss.
In a company, it is common for the secretary to handle more of the day-to-day business than the CEO.
In Congress, it is like that with the staffers. They have tremendous influence over that Congressperson's activities. Often, things go through the staff before they would ever arrive at the Congressperson's desk. They do the nitty-gritty legislative work more than the elected officials do. Mostly this is because of the sheer volume of laws that are created. It is too much for any one person to sort through. A dumb staffer with anti-American beliefs is a real problem. The elected officials rely far too heavily on them.
You place it in your huge, flat, ranch house. Houses are seriously huge in some parts of Texas.