Ranting on the web is hardly the only way of dealing with stress. There's so much more to do, workout, play a game, ride your bike, etc. You don't have to get even to relieve stress. If his friend was attacked in the newspaper write a followup article to it. In our university paper friends of mine were involved in a similar situation (probably liberlous as well) and simply wrote back replies which were published.
What a pile of mealy mouthed new age sewage!!
Why should a person have to relieve their "stress" only in supposedly "healthy" (and ineffective, IMO) ways like "workout, play a game, ride your bike" etc?? What's wrong with ordinary outrage and anger!! Are you one of those creeps that think that everyone who gets ticked off because they are being shat upon should just "get anger management therapy" and "get over it"??? What a recipe for a breakdown!!
I could work out until I was blue, but it would do absolutely nothing toward educating others about what an idiot you are! So I rant, and I get even. Part of relieving anger stress is venting it appropriately - this doesn't mean swallowing it and going for a bike ride. It means taking steps to shed light on the cause, and trying to stop it, i.e. ranting and getting even!
Also, most high school papers are run by the "in" clique, and therefore they wouldn't publish a rebuttal, or followup. They don't have to, and if it's detrimental to their power base they won't. So your solution is idiotic. University papers are only a little less biased. The net, however, is a free medium.
What this kid got viciously whacked for was expressing his opinion of the teachers and students who were harassing him and his friends. He flamed them in print, that's it! He didn't use a gun, or a bomb, but has been treated as badly as Mitnick for a lot less reason!
If he posted real threats, that's different. But calling people "sluts" or incompetent, fascist, stupid, or drunks is not a threat. Flaming != threatening.
So put those pop psychology books away and learn about how real people deal with anger before you give yourself an ulcer.
PS: When will this thing get a spell check utility in it? I don't always catch my typos with "preview".
Now, before you start moaning about clueless users and cablemodems; if most people get cable modems just to surf the web, they could ask their ISP to put them behind a firewall that blocks most ports, thus avoiding individual configuration responsiblity.
Grrrrr. The ISPs (like @home) that sell cable modem service don't have their users behind a firewall. We have cable, and our limited firewall (on our machines) is constantly logging port scans and attempted inbound traffic to our machine. What's worse is that the @home network is generating some of the port access attempts (NNTP, of all things, to weird ports.)
The worst part is that they imply that they are secure, and that they won't allow inbound traffic (i.e. unrequested) like telnets, etc. In some ways it's the worst of both worlds for JoeUser. I'm glad I have enough clue to keep casual crap out.
Not a bad redux of the issue. The problem is that extremists never listen to reason, and that what has made the pro-choice people so vehement is the perceived need to counter the draconian, busybody, sanctimonious prattle of the religious "pro-life" fanatics.
By me, abortion availability is a neccessary evil. If I was dictator, I say "Yeah, you can have an abortion, but you must take this 5-year NorPlant implant too, and removing it for anything other than life threatening circumstances (or failure of the device) will bar you from ever getting another abortion...". But I'm not.
Back on topic, I know of a number of "religious" (but hate filled) sites that I would love to see go away. However, I can't countenance yanking someone's account because some script kiddies objected. On the bright side, they can always get a new ISP, and then host their web site on a different web hosting server (one with a clue!)
>>No. They want you under their thumb even if all you do is look at their web site or play their games:
> > This Agreement is a legally binding contract between you ("You") > > and Apogee Software Ltd., a/k/a 3D Realms, ("Apogee") regarding > > your access to and use of its web site (the "Site"), as well as your > > use of Apogee's various games (collectively, the "Property"), the > > information contained therein and its copyright and trademark > > policies. By accessing the Property, you agree to the terms and > > conditions as outlined in this legal notice.
Also note:
Trademark Use
You may use the Marks on a web site, on bulletin boards, in chat rooms to discuss or promote Apogee's games and/or products. [But not to criticize?? Bullshit!! Read about the whole environmental, product liability, and lemon laws history. Guess where you're headed...]
You may use the Marks as metatags or as key terms in a search engine. [But not if they're critical, eh twits?? Your site sucks.]
You may not use the Marks in banner advertisements or other internet advertising mediums. [Eeeeew! Who'd want to advertise garbage games]
You are not allowed to vary the spelling, add or delete hyphens (even for normal hyphenation at the end of a line of text), make one word two, or use a possessive or plural form of the Marks. [Now that's plain stupid, bad publishing, and bad style. What idiots. If I want to parody your crap as "Duke Pukem", I can and will.]
You may not use the Marks in a derogatory or defamatory manner, or in any negative context. Such use will terminate your license to use the Marks. [HAHAHAHA! Ever hear of free speach, shitheads?? I don't need a license to talk about what I think of your product or policies. Ever hear of SLAPP suits and laws against them?? Want to watch your assets get eaten up by lawyers as you harass the press and individuals and they get EFF, ACLU and a whole lot of expensive alphabet soup on your case?? You've laid the track, here comes the train!!]
You may not use the Marks as part of any third party products, services or trade name, without Apogee's express written permission. [Oh yeah?? Anybody want to sell "Duke Nukem Sucks" bumperstickers????]
You may not use the Marks in a manner that is likely to cause confusion with, dilute or damage the reputation or image of Apogee or any of its products. [Like this post?? Good luck. Your name and reputation are now mud, and I don't mean MUDs]
The Marks, or any portion thereof, may not be used by you or any third party as a domain name or as part of or incorporated in to a domain name. If you learn of such unauthorized use, please inform us. However, [Oh yeah?? Anybody want to buy DukeNukemSucks.com?? BTW, morons, your "trademark use" section ends in a illiterate fragment.]
I visited, I viewed, I violated. Apogee can kiss my butt.
Design is fun. IMO, a project with no design is just a code jumble -- the thousand monkeys thing.
If I had to pick between doing only SW design and only coding, I'd pick design. A properly designed project can be coded by nearly anyone.
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Seasoning usually also implies working smarter. You can work 70 hours and still fail as illustrated by this story. Other "oldsters" in this set of responses have mentioned pulling out their "bag of tricks" to get work done more efficiently. They don't carry it all around in their heads because they've "been there, done that" so many times that now they know where to look to find the answer quickly, and don't have to re-invent it.
Give me a 10/20 year veteran who really knows what he's doing over a fresh face any time for pulling the heavy loads. Give me the fresh face to be mentored by the veteran and I've got the best of both worlds!
Bingo!! At 38, I'm already considered "old" as a programmer. Yet what many older people bring is:
planning - having a clue how to put their own software together because they've done it.
patience - older programmers know the advantage of taking a little longer and doing it right, instead of doing it over and over until they're laid off.
resources and references - one greatest asset is my annotated library and my code snippets. Who in the hell can remember every little instruction?? Knowing where to look it up helps a lot, but many "younger" programmers refuse to do so.
work ethics and consistency - older programmers usually don't have the "frat party" work ethic. I know I want a life and will work smarter rather than longer to get it.
There's more, of course, but you get the idea. The best managers I had when I was younger had grey hair. They showed me short cuts, taught me how to plan, and how to respect and work with others who aren't as smart as I am.
What? So he's supposed to spend thousands of dollars in legal fees until it gets straightened out?
Depending on where he is, maybe all he'd have to do is threaten to invoke the anti-SLAPP laws, and cc his state and federal stoog^H^H^H^H^H elected representatives. If it was me (here in CA), I'd just send a polite note back to the shark^H^H^H^H^H lawyer quoting the full text of California's CCP 425.16 (CA anti-SLAPP law.) But IANAL.
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IANAL. However, I was always told that parodies are perfectly legal, even when the people being parodied are Big Corporations and their hired goons^H^H^H^H^H lawyers. Dialectizer is a classic example of a parody creator. It would be legal even if he *DID* cache a copy on his site.
The fact that corporations are using the threat of lawsuit to force individuals to conform to their dictates just frosts my butt! They won't go after a big outfit like AltaVista because they have big legal groups, and it wouldn't make an economic dent, like it would with an individual or a small company.
Some states have laws against using corporate might in (SLAPP) lawsuits to harass private citizens. SLAPP = Strategic Litigation Against Public Participation. SLAPP suits (or a threat of same) is what is occuring here, and with/. vs M$. After all, free speech, including parody, is the most fundamental form of public participation.
From http://www.psu.edu/ur/oped/richards.html: "SLAPP targets must hire attorneys to defend rights they already have under the Constitution, notably free speech and the right to petition the government for a redress of grievances."
Some states have laws against SLAPP suits. Those who are confronted with such tactics should check their state laws to see what recourse against the corporations they have.
See also: http://www.sirius.com/~casp/welcome.html http://www.sirius.com/~casp/cal425.html http://www.prwatch.org/prw_issues/1997-Q2/slapp.ht ml http://www.sscf.ucsb.edu/SAABulletin/16.1/SAA21.ht ml http://www.thefirstamendment.org/cases.htm
California's anti-SLAPP law CCP 425.16: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?sect ion=ccp&group=00001-01000&file=425.10-42 5.16
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Ranting on the web is hardly the only way of dealing with stress. There's so much more to do, workout, play a game, ride your bike, etc. You don't have to get even to relieve stress. If his friend was attacked in the newspaper write a followup article to it. In our university paper friends of mine were involved in a similar situation (probably liberlous as well) and simply wrote back replies which were published.
What a pile of mealy mouthed new age sewage!!
Why should a person have to relieve their "stress" only in supposedly "healthy" (and ineffective, IMO) ways like "workout, play a game, ride your bike" etc?? What's wrong with ordinary outrage and anger!! Are you one of those creeps that think that everyone who gets ticked off because they are being shat upon should just "get anger management therapy" and "get over it"??? What a recipe for a breakdown!!
I could work out until I was blue, but it would do absolutely nothing toward educating others about what an idiot you are! So I rant, and I get even. Part of relieving anger stress is venting it appropriately - this doesn't mean swallowing it and going for a bike ride. It means taking steps to shed light on the cause, and trying to stop it, i.e. ranting and getting even!
Also, most high school papers are run by the "in" clique, and therefore they wouldn't publish a rebuttal, or followup. They don't have to, and if it's detrimental to their power base they won't. So your solution is idiotic. University papers are only a little less biased. The net, however, is a free medium.
What this kid got viciously whacked for was expressing his opinion of the teachers and students who were harassing him and his friends. He flamed them in print, that's it! He didn't use a gun, or a bomb, but has been treated as badly as Mitnick for a lot less reason!
If he posted real threats, that's different. But calling people "sluts" or incompetent, fascist, stupid, or drunks is not a threat. Flaming != threatening.
So put those pop psychology books away and learn about how real people deal with anger before you give yourself an ulcer.
PS: When will this thing get a spell check utility in it? I don't always catch my typos with "preview".
Now, before you start moaning about clueless users and cablemodems; if most people get cable modems just to surf the web, they could ask their ISP to put them behind a firewall that blocks most ports, thus avoiding individual configuration responsiblity.
Grrrrr. The ISPs (like @home) that sell cable modem service don't have their users behind a firewall. We have cable, and our limited firewall (on our machines) is constantly logging port scans and attempted inbound traffic to our machine. What's worse is that the @home network is generating some of the port access attempts (NNTP, of all things, to weird ports.)
The worst part is that they imply that they are secure, and that they won't allow inbound traffic (i.e. unrequested) like telnets, etc. In some ways it's the worst of both worlds for JoeUser. I'm glad I have enough clue to keep casual crap out.
Not a bad redux of the issue. The problem is that extremists never listen to reason, and that what has made the pro-choice people so vehement is the perceived need to counter the draconian, busybody, sanctimonious prattle of the religious "pro-life" fanatics.
By me, abortion availability is a neccessary evil. If I was dictator, I say "Yeah, you can have an abortion, but you must take this 5-year NorPlant implant too, and removing it for anything other than life threatening circumstances (or failure of the device) will bar you from ever getting another abortion...". But I'm not.
Back on topic, I know of a number of "religious" (but hate filled) sites that I would love to see go away. However, I can't countenance yanking someone's account because some script kiddies objected. On the bright side, they can always get a new ISP, and then host their web site on a different web hosting server (one with a clue!)
>>No. They want you under their thumb even if all you do is look at their web site or play their games:
> > This Agreement is a legally binding contract between you ("You")> > and Apogee Software Ltd., a/k/a 3D Realms, ("Apogee") regarding
> > your access to and use of its web site (the "Site"), as well as your
> > use of Apogee's various games (collectively, the "Property"), the
> > information contained therein and its copyright and trademark
> > policies. By accessing the Property, you agree to the terms and
> > conditions as outlined in this legal notice.
Also note:
Trademark Use
[But not to criticize?? Bullshit!! Read about the whole environmental, product liability, and lemon laws history. Guess where you're headed...]
[But not if they're critical, eh twits?? Your site sucks.]
[Eeeeew! Who'd want to advertise garbage games]
[Now that's plain stupid, bad publishing, and bad style. What idiots. If I want to parody your crap as "Duke Pukem", I can and will.]
[HAHAHAHA! Ever hear of free speach, shitheads?? I don't need a license to talk about what I think of your product or policies. Ever hear of SLAPP suits and laws against them?? Want to watch your assets get eaten up by lawyers as you harass the press and individuals and they get EFF, ACLU and a whole lot of expensive alphabet soup on your case?? You've laid the track, here comes the train!!]
[Oh yeah?? Anybody want to sell "Duke Nukem Sucks" bumperstickers????]
[Like this post?? Good luck. Your name and reputation are now mud, and I don't mean MUDs]
[Oh yeah?? Anybody want to buy DukeNukemSucks.com?? BTW, morons, your "trademark use" section ends in a illiterate fragment.]
I visited, I viewed, I violated. Apogee can kiss my butt.
Design is fun. IMO, a project with no design is just a code jumble -- the thousand monkeys thing.
If I had to pick between doing only SW design and only coding, I'd pick design. A properly designed project can be coded by nearly anyone.
Seasoning usually also implies working smarter. You can work 70 hours and still fail as illustrated by this story. Other "oldsters" in this set of responses have mentioned pulling out their "bag of tricks" to get work done more efficiently. They don't carry it all around in their heads because they've "been there, done that" so many times that now they know where to look to find the answer quickly, and don't have to re-invent it.
Give me a 10/20 year veteran who really knows what he's doing over a fresh face any time for pulling the heavy loads. Give me the fresh face to be mentored by the veteran and I've got the best of both worlds!
Bingo!! At 38, I'm already considered "old" as a programmer. Yet what many older people bring is:There's more, of course, but you get the idea. The best managers I had when I was younger had grey hair. They showed me short cuts, taught me how to plan, and how to respect and work with others who aren't as smart as I am.
Ahh, but then f*cking MTV would get their knickers in a twist, and we'd be just as bored with it.
Naaaah. It's more like:
"Whus wid dat copyright jive?? You don' gotta leg to stan' on, muthafucka'. Git outta here an' think agin'."
Depending on where he is, maybe all he'd have to do is threaten to invoke the anti-SLAPP laws, and cc his state and federal stoog^H^H^H^H^H elected representatives. If it was me (here in CA), I'd just send a polite note back to the shark^H^H^H^H^H lawyer quoting the full text of California's CCP 425.16 (CA anti-SLAPP law.) But IANAL.
The fact that corporations are using the threat of lawsuit to force individuals to conform to their dictates just frosts my butt! They won't go after a big outfit like AltaVista because they have big legal groups, and it wouldn't make an economic dent, like it would with an individual or a small company.
Some states have laws against using corporate might in (SLAPP) lawsuits to harass private citizens. SLAPP = Strategic Litigation Against Public Participation. SLAPP suits (or a threat of same) is what is occuring here, and with /. vs M$. After all, free speech, including parody, is the most fundamental form of public participation.
From http://www.psu.edu/ur/oped/richards.html:
"SLAPP targets must hire attorneys to defend rights they already have under the Constitution, notably free speech and the right to petition the government for a redress of grievances."
Some states have laws against SLAPP suits. Those who are confronted with such tactics should check their state laws to see what recourse against the corporations they have.
See also:t mlt ml
http://www.sirius.com/~casp/welcome.html
http://www.sirius.com/~casp/cal425.html
http://www.prwatch.org/prw_issues/1997-Q2/slapp.h
http://www.sscf.ucsb.edu/SAABulletin/16.1/SAA21.h
http://www.thefirstamendment.org/cases.htm
California's anti-SLAPP law CCP 425.16:t ion=ccp&group=00001-01000&file=425.10-42 5.16
http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?sec