User: Jeff Newbern

Re:Shouting FIRE in a crowded theater

On: Code As Free Speech -- Pandora's Box?

As long as a constitutionally-protected right does not come in conflict with another constitutionally-protected right, it is absolute.

IANAL, but i believe the relevant standards in federal court are that regulations of constitutionally-guaranteed rights are permissible if:

• the regulation furthers a significant state interest
• the state can prove that its regulation would prevent actual harm
• the proposed regulation is the least restricive form of regulation sufficient for to further the state interest

Re:Speaking of Steal This Book . . .

On: Read Einstein's FBI File

it wasn't out of print when i bought it online several months ago. in fact, you can have my copy if you want it, just send me email.

My Y2K brush with death

On: Y2K Rollover - Post Your Experiences Here!

I had this Y2K problem with my Linux box: When I checked to see that my CMOS clock rolled over corectly, hwclock aborted with a message saying mktime(3) failed. If anyone else has the problem, the solution is to get the source to hwclock and compile against an up-to-date version of libc (glibc2.1.2 worked for me).