Well, you knew this post was coming when you read the news. A federal judge has ruled that Katie Evans, who had been suspended from high school for creating a Facebook group calling one of her teachers "the worst teacher I've ever met", can proceed with her suit seeking attorney's fees from her principal for violating her First Amendment rights. Evans, now a journalism student at the University of Florida, is represented in her suit by the ACLU of Florida.
No, the suit is apparently for injunctive relief; the attorneys' fees would be secondary. Which is the main reason the court rejected the qualified immunity defense.
I wonder if a 34-year old landlord would feel the same when they went on vacation and found a similar bullshit policy walking into a "No under 35" sign after dropping some serious coin on a nice vacation spot?
As a 34-year old that would make me ecstatic that I was considered too young for something.
There is a temptation to think that there is some consistent reasoning behind the different courts' rulings -- say, that the student who created a vulgar page mocking his principal (the student was identified in papers only as "J.S.") went too far and crossed a line, while Katie Evans's page complaining about her teacher was clean enough to stay on the safe side of the line, and make her eligible for damages in a First Amendment suit. This, I think, is nonsense, an attempt to put a consistent theory on top of a legal system that does not follow consistent rules from one court ruling to the next.
If you read the opinion, you can easily see it's distinguishable from the J.S. case. I do not know why a non-lawyer has become slashdot's quasi-official legal analyst.
Sure, they can try to kill the pilot in Vegas... but that's a mainland murder and that's a whole lot easier to solve and capture them here. Furthermore, they've got to be here to do that.
Does it really qualify as "murder"? Isn't that just war?
The district denies having activated the camera, so before anyone gets fired for just an accusation they should probably figure out if someone WAS lying. If the student took a picture of themselves say, smoking marijuana, brought the computer to school, and then while hooked up to the network the school saw it, that's a bit more of a grey area.
I am kind of shocked at how few Nintendo defenders there are here, usually (like Apple), the fanatics will defend to the death any move their beloved company does.
Where I'm coming from is that it's mine, it's sitting in my living room.
And before it was in your living room, it was in their factory and they built it the way they wanted to, and when they sold it to you they told you what it would do, and I'm fairly sure "run other OSes" was not part of that communication.
Hmmm a quick internet search reveals they act more like other states' special masters or federal magistrate judges than true judges, and like those positions they are subject to approval by the real judges. Sounds like you could have appealed quite easily.
NOTHING about "distribution" at all. So if he actually did use that term, as you claim, please provide proof. Or consider yourself fully ousted as nothing more than a poor troll, and possibly a shill as well, exactly as NYCL has named you.
If distribution is an element of his alleged violation of the law, and he admits liability, that kind of does mean he's admitting distribution.
If the NYT and Fox News are covering the same story, I want to read the NYT coverage and not Fox News. I don't trust FN, and I do trust NYT (at least I trust them more).
Yep, everyone complains about the NYTimes, and I have issues with some of their coverage over the past few years, but even in its less-good form it's still a good source of news.
Some of the no-names are slightly less than the Sony reader, but not to the extent that I'd be willing to chance it; I picked up the 189 Sony and have been quite happy with it, not as crisp as the kindle but nice and compact and it supports epub.
The trolls are really out in force tonight, on this one. They'll be eating everyone of their nonsensical words when Judge Gertner renders her decision.
Possibly, though I will say the best brief doesn't always win...
+1 seconded. AC is still the best in the series. I love Civ IV, but miss the ability to design my own units. An updated AC for Linux would also be acceptable (low resolution and 256? Colours doesn't look good on a modern widescreen monitor).
Colors didn't look too good on an old-fashioned CRT either. Still one of the greatest games ever made, though.
(apparently he claimed bikers cooked a cat on a grill in his district; even though it wasn't a cat, wasn't in his district, and no bikers were involved)
Well other than those minor details it's a perfectly true statement.
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Well, you knew this post was coming when you read the news. A federal judge has ruled that Katie Evans, who had been suspended from high school for creating a Facebook group calling one of her teachers "the worst teacher I've ever met", can proceed with her suit seeking attorney's fees from her principal for violating her First Amendment rights. Evans, now a journalism student at the University of Florida, is represented in her suit by the ACLU of Florida.
No, the suit is apparently for injunctive relief; the attorneys' fees would be secondary. Which is the main reason the court rejected the qualified immunity defense.
I wonder if a 34-year old landlord would feel the same when they went on vacation and found a similar bullshit policy walking into a "No under 35" sign after dropping some serious coin on a nice vacation spot?
As a 34-year old that would make me ecstatic that I was considered too young for something.
Agreed.
There is a temptation to think that there is some consistent reasoning behind the different courts' rulings -- say, that the student who created a vulgar page mocking his principal (the student was identified in papers only as "J.S.") went too far and crossed a line, while Katie Evans's page complaining about her teacher was clean enough to stay on the safe side of the line, and make her eligible for damages in a First Amendment suit. This, I think, is nonsense, an attempt to put a consistent theory on top of a legal system that does not follow consistent rules from one court ruling to the next.
If you read the opinion, you can easily see it's distinguishable from the J.S. case. I do not know why a non-lawyer has become slashdot's quasi-official legal analyst.
I can see cell phones with the computing power of todays desktops in the next 5-10 years from this.
I can see cell phones with the computing power of todays desktops in the next 5-10 years WITHOUT this.
The sad thing is that the ruling might make it illegal to even cite one book or article in another without asking for the permission first.
No, it mightn't.
Sure, they can try to kill the pilot in Vegas... but that's a mainland murder and that's a whole lot easier to solve and capture them here. Furthermore, they've got to be here to do that.
Does it really qualify as "murder"? Isn't that just war?
The district denies having activated the camera, so before anyone gets fired for just an accusation they should probably figure out if someone WAS lying. If the student took a picture of themselves say, smoking marijuana, brought the computer to school, and then while hooked up to the network the school saw it, that's a bit more of a grey area.
(a) Not a civilian target. He hit the IRS, a despised Federal Agency.
Civilian means non-military.
And I can't blame him for his choice.
I can. Because I'm not a sociopath.
I am kind of shocked at how few Nintendo defenders there are here, usually (like Apple), the fanatics will defend to the death any move their beloved company does.
Where I'm coming from is that it's mine, it's sitting in my living room.
And before it was in your living room, it was in their factory and they built it the way they wanted to, and when they sold it to you they told you what it would do, and I'm fairly sure "run other OSes" was not part of that communication.
Hmmm a quick internet search reveals they act more like other states' special masters or federal magistrate judges than true judges, and like those positions they are subject to approval by the real judges. Sounds like you could have appealed quite easily.
NOTHING about "distribution" at all. So if he actually did use that term, as you claim, please provide proof. Or consider yourself fully ousted as nothing more than a poor troll, and possibly a shill as well, exactly as NYCL has named you.
If distribution is an element of his alleged violation of the law, and he admits liability, that kind of does mean he's admitting distribution.
Still not really following you, if you're talking about an administrative matter then I don't think you can conflate judges and "commissioners."
If the NYT and Fox News are covering the same story, I want to read the NYT coverage and not Fox News. I don't trust FN, and I do trust NYT (at least I trust them more).
Yep, everyone complains about the NYTimes, and I have issues with some of their coverage over the past few years, but even in its less-good form it's still a good source of news.
Uhh...huh? What commissioner are you talking about?
Some of the no-names are slightly less than the Sony reader, but not to the extent that I'd be willing to chance it; I picked up the 189 Sony and have been quite happy with it, not as crisp as the kindle but nice and compact and it supports epub.
I'm in law school and I know this to be a fact.
How do you know it?
The trolls are really out in force tonight, on this one. They'll be eating everyone of their nonsensical words when Judge Gertner renders her decision.
Possibly, though I will say the best brief doesn't always win...
+1 seconded. AC is still the best in the series. I love Civ IV, but miss the ability to design my own units. An updated AC for Linux would also be acceptable (low resolution and 256? Colours doesn't look good on a modern widescreen monitor).
Colors didn't look too good on an old-fashioned CRT either. Still one of the greatest games ever made, though.
Eh, with a long life and a suitably well-stocked ship, I don't know if it's a big deal.
I think you're thinking of neutrinos.
All you have to do is navigate around the hydrogen atoms.
(apparently he claimed bikers cooked a cat on a grill in his district; even though it wasn't a cat, wasn't in his district, and no bikers were involved)
Well other than those minor details it's a perfectly true statement.
Jesus christ, what a pussy. How in the hell did he ever make it through grade school?
Actually if I had a family and someone slipped a threatening note under our door I'd take it pretty damn seriously.