It is when those 1s and 0s affect real money, property or life & limb.
I disagree. If my 1s and 0s control a "real world" device which causes a "real wold" crime, I agree. If my 1s and 0s communicate with someone to conspire to commit a real world crime, I agree. But 1s and 0s, in absense of any real world crime, should not be illegal. Contractual agreements consisting entirely of 1s and 0s should be void in the absense of a real world agreement that future and/or past 1s and 0s are binding.
If you use the internet to scam an old woman out of her life savings and she had to eat dog food for the rest of her life, she has been hurt just as bad as if someone committed a "real" crime and stole all the money she hides under her mattress.
You can't use pain to judge whether or not something is a crime.
People need to get out of the mindset that white collar crime isn't a "real" crime.
I'm not saying white collar crime isn't "real" crime, I'm saying 1s and 0s aren't "real" crime.
Wow, you mean people use laws other than the DMCA to bring baseless lawsuits against others? I guess we should repeal these laws, because they are obviously restricting free speech.
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That is the coolest thing I've ever read. Not only was it funny as hell, it's a nearly perfect paraphrase of exactly what happened.
Where in the article does it say that, exactly?
If you don't like cookies to be stored on your comptuer, turn them off.
Then I can't use most of the features of the site.
Would you rather /. logged your IP address?
I guarantee you they already do.
Friends don't let friends use browsers susceptible to this.
This from a site which requires the user to allow tracking information to be stored on the user's hard drive in order to use most of the features.
It is when those 1s and 0s affect real money, property or life & limb.
I disagree. If my 1s and 0s control a "real world" device which causes a "real wold" crime, I agree. If my 1s and 0s communicate with someone to conspire to commit a real world crime, I agree. But 1s and 0s, in absense of any real world crime, should not be illegal. Contractual agreements consisting entirely of 1s and 0s should be void in the absense of a real world agreement that future and/or past 1s and 0s are binding.
Damn... You win... I lose...
If you use the internet to scam an old woman out of her life savings and she had to eat dog food for the rest of her life, she has been hurt just as bad as if someone committed a "real" crime and stole all the money she hides under her mattress.
You can't use pain to judge whether or not something is a crime.
People need to get out of the mindset that white collar crime isn't a "real" crime.
I'm not saying white collar crime isn't "real" crime, I'm saying 1s and 0s aren't "real" crime.
Notch one up for the good guys.
Would that be AOL, the spammers, or the lawyers?
I would pay an extra $50 a year to receive less Spam
For $50 a year I will personally go through all your email and delete the spam. Deal?
So, what do libertarians think about this? Isn't the market supposed to regulate itself?
If it goes over the internet, it shouldn't be illegal. It can however be used as evidence of real world illegal activies.
Even if that's true, what's wrong with the feds finally enforcing laws that have been skirted for years?
It's a waste of taxpayer dollars. Frankly, the people who fall for stupid pyramid schemes deserve to lose their money, as far as I'm concerned.
That it took so long for the Feds to finally realize that crimes on the Internet are no different than those off of it?
Because all the "real" crimes take place in the "real" world.
Wow, you mean people use laws other than the DMCA to bring baseless lawsuits against others? I guess we should repeal these laws, because they are obviously restricting free speech.
Mozilla 1.0 is released, two years after work on it began.
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So, it's definately not a bug... And logging off and on again doesn't work...
Wow, that's really stupid and not funny. Stick to search engines, guys.
If you have something to admit, admit it on April Fools' day.
touché
I wonder how it compares to this.
Sounds like the perfect information to be used by terrorists.
no, GNU's Not Unix.
no, PalmOS isn't unix.
Unix is dead. Linux, on the other hand, isn't unix.
Or did slashdot intentionally pick this article to change the ad server from m.doubleclick.net to m2.doubleclick.net?
Does anyone know if *.doubleclick.net works for mozilla image blocking?