...the point of this story. All I saw was a bunch of smartass comments by someone who I guess is respected for his opinion. Anyway the whole thing reads like an Anonymous Coward with ADD.
Nope, that would make them "hacker counter-terrorists". You have to remember that we are on morally superior ground, and besides we write the history books.
While it may not necessarily be a good thing for monkey.org, it is wonderful for the/. community. You see it means most people are actually taking the time to RTFA(read the friggen article) before instead of just posting some moronic "my grits don't scale either" type message.
Let me ask you a question then, If I spend $50 USD on a P.O. Box and recieve only 10 pieces of junkmail then does that mean that each piece of junkmail cost me $5? And furthermore am I entitled to pursue the $50? What about the money I spend travelling to and from the P.O. Box? My Time sorting through it? My disposal fees?
If a T1 costs $50 and I recieve 10 pieces of spam, does that mean that each spam I recieve, has stolen $5 from me?
It may be wrong, but thats the cost of freedom, people do bad shit occassionally. For instance if you ban spam, then you also have to ban unsolicited snail mail, telephone solicitation, door-to-door sales(vaccuum cleaner guy, the boy scouts & camp fire & the local church, etc). The people that want spam banned are the same people who bitch about the government banning things online that are perfectly legal in the real world.
BAH I say.
To take your logic a step further, one might argue that a video tape recording of someone shooting to death 13 ticket issuing cops would not be ?prosecutable? (probably not a word) because you cannot confront the camera?
but then again, speed limits are bull shit anyway, and any means of automatically ticketing people is garbage, and is a travesty to our freedoms(photo radar, red light camera's, etc.)
God damnit, every time I go home from work I'm stuck in a wonderful piece of engineering that is only "legally" allowed to travel 60MPH on the straightest stretch of 14 lane highway on the planet. Rumor has it that marked police cars are forbidden from driving on the highway during rush hour(s) because even the government knows that speeding is a fundemental piece of the commute. Which is both cool, and abnoxious because you will occassionally see some guy pulled over with an unmarked White Volva Station Wagon sitting behind him, disco lights going. Cops are cool, don't get me wrong, but un-marked and low marked, revenue enhancement patrols suck ass.
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...the point of this story. All I saw was a bunch of smartass comments by someone who I guess is respected for his opinion. Anyway the whole thing reads like an Anonymous Coward with ADD.
Cowboy Neal, Cracking voting machines, I can see it now:
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Nope, that would make them "hacker counter-terrorists". You have to remember that we are on morally superior ground, and besides we write the history books.
While it may not necessarily be a good thing for monkey.org, it is wonderful for the /. community. You see it means most people are actually taking the time to RTFA(read the friggen article) before instead of just posting some moronic "my grits don't scale either" type message.
would a 747 filled with cd-rom's even be able to take off??
Let me ask you a question then, If I spend $50 USD on a P.O. Box and recieve only 10 pieces of junkmail then does that mean that each piece of junkmail cost me $5? And furthermore am I entitled to pursue the $50? What about the money I spend travelling to and from the P.O. Box? My Time sorting through it? My disposal fees? If a T1 costs $50 and I recieve 10 pieces of spam, does that mean that each spam I recieve, has stolen $5 from me?
It may be wrong, but thats the cost of freedom, people do bad shit occassionally. For instance if you ban spam, then you also have to ban unsolicited snail mail, telephone solicitation, door-to-door sales(vaccuum cleaner guy, the boy scouts & camp fire & the local church, etc). The people that want spam banned are the same people who bitch about the government banning things online that are perfectly legal in the real world. BAH I say.
To take your logic a step further, one might argue that a video tape recording of someone shooting to death 13 ticket issuing cops would not be ?prosecutable? (probably not a word) because you cannot confront the camera? but then again, speed limits are bull shit anyway, and any means of automatically ticketing people is garbage, and is a travesty to our freedoms(photo radar, red light camera's, etc.)
God damnit, every time I go home from work I'm stuck in a wonderful piece of engineering that is only "legally" allowed to travel 60MPH on the straightest stretch of 14 lane highway on the planet. Rumor has it that marked police cars are forbidden from driving on the highway during rush hour(s) because even the government knows that speeding is a fundemental piece of the commute. Which is both cool, and abnoxious because you will occassionally see some guy pulled over with an unmarked White Volva Station Wagon sitting behind him, disco lights going. Cops are cool, don't get me wrong, but un-marked and low marked, revenue enhancement patrols suck ass.
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I believe George Carlin once did a bit about this, it's because they are mostly white.