Are you looking for someone that already knows everything in the world about router and UNIX hacking, or are you willing to accept someone that loves the stuff but has not gotten to use it "at work" yet?
Is the job in Northern VA (where I work now) or within 500 miles of Knoxville, TN? If not I would not be able to start before June of next year.
Are you willing to accept a home UNIX user? I have been running my own Linux/Apache webserver for a couple of years, after work. I am a Logistician and Functional Data Analyst, Lead and the only UNIX experience that I have right now was earned on my own.
There are tons of people like me out there, maybe we have not been paid to do what you want done by someone else, but we DO want to do that kind of work and are fully capable of doing it. However, the static we get is "your hobby does not count, you need specific work experience as an administrater of an AIX server using HPblahblahRAID5 and Apache 1.2.x with Oracle 7, 8 years of PGP (must know C and C++) and 7 years or more of Linux (yes, I have had recruiters say that a position required 7+ years of Linux specific experience, sorry I was not one of the pioneers).
Getting a UNIX system running in my Jeep and at home was generally a breeze, what is the big deal on messing with them in an office?
As a Logistician, I am required to integrate all sorts of data systems in order to analize the information properly. If I could not use multiple systems, I could not do my job. Whatever you have should not be too big a task.
BTW, another poster mentions an Israeli pilot applied for a job with them, might want to look into him. I am a former US Army Aviator and none of this stuff is as demanding as that job was.
If you had posted an e-mail address I would have sent you a resume.
Too bad that the MPAA was not forbidden from sending out letters like this until the appeal is heard.
I am still at a loss as to how a decypher routine, that does not play or copy anything by itself, can be a "pirating device", or whatever that Amish judge said.
Somehow, the rights of the individual make no difference to anybody any more (except for that individual of course). How on earth can it be *wrong* for me to give my own instructions to my own equipment to play files that I purchased? If I am doing something like copying DVDs, then by all means, prosecute me.
In this case, the MPAA obviously does not care about piracy, because they are harassing everybody that they can find *except* the pirates.
Let's see, if Chrysler decided to provide a *licensed* map with every vehicle that they sell, and by their own decree that map was some sort of "safety equipment", then some person went into a gas station and was handed a "free" map for a fillup, then was *caught* by Chrysler in posession of that map, would any court bother to hear a criminal case against the gas station for giving away "circumvention devices"? Also, add that the gas station was aiding "counterfiters" of automobile products, with the map being a key component in the counterfiting.
Sadly, in this day and age, I believe that the answer would be yes and the above example is identical to what happened to 2600 magazine.
I went around and around with Bell Atlantic on a phone deposit, similar experience as yours, for 6 or 7 months.
I did finally get to speak with a supervisor, then a manager, etc. and finally got tired of hearing that "it takes 2 weeks" from every single person, no matter how long it had been since the last drone told me the same thing.
In my case, they said that my deposit could not be sent until my final bill was paid, but they could not generate a final bill for some reason so I would have to wait until they fixed their "complex software problem". Sending the deposit and then sending a bill later was "impossible".
Finally, I contacted the Attourney's General office in Richmond, VA (the phone in question was in VA) and my deposit was FedExed to Tennessee immediately in TN. I have no idea where the final bill went or if they have ever figured it up.
The difference is that neither SI, nor the phone manufacturer sent out threatening legalease letters telling people that they can not add 2nd line capability (or other mods), nor use it as a "beige box" (lineman's handset), nor did they tell anybody that their phone communications through the device must be monitored and circumvention of monitoring will be prosecuted.
Nope, nobody did any of the above to anybody getting an SI phone.
However, DC has already done this to several people that have CueCats.
And Radio Shack has your real name, address and phone number on record.. (They have been asking for this information
sence the 1980s.. to give them credit this data lasts only a month.. they clear out old records they only want data on frequent
shoppers)
How did Radio Shack get my real name, address and phone numnber? I have 2 CueCats. Picked up one at Pentagon City Mall, Arlington VA during a 2600 meeting. Gave them this handle and a fabricated address.
The second one I picked up at a Radio Shack in Tennessee. Gave them a different fake name, address, phone.
Now, please tell me how they now have my real name, address and phone number? This sounds like something out of a Will Smith movie or something!
Even when the CueCat that they will be sending because I subscribe to Wired arrives, it will be declawed. When I use it on a BSD system, they will still not know who I am, as far as I know anyway.
So, please share with us how they are getting the real names of people when they do not even ask for ID of any form, nor do they verify if the address or phone number is valid at the time they enter the data.
If you can't be found, I can guarantee that the first place they'll go is to your ISP. Your
ISP will then promptly either disclose who you are or shut you down. This is not a useful
solution. You simply can't be public and be hidden. Don't even try.
If the ISP does not know who you are how can they disclose it? It is a trivial exercise to keep that information from them and everybidy else, as long as you are willing to give up convenience. I *thought* that I stated that in my post, but the post is not in front of me and I probably did not state it very clearly.
"Shut you down" as in throwing you in jail and silencing you? See paragraph above. If they can't find you they can not silence you. You can ALWAYS get hosted at another place. The deciding factor being that, just as in real life, privacy on the 'net brings a cost of convenience. If you are willing to pay those costs (get hosted at a "privacy friendly" service, remote admin, etc.) then you keep operating under a different domain.
Not a stinking thing that anybody posts to a website SHOULD be used as grounds to go after the operator. You are an ISP of sorts. You never offered police or babysitting services (even if your website is cop or baby related).
Yes, this gets to the roots of the problem with these stupid legal nitwits that want to sue everybody in sight because they believe that they now own the ASCII set (or whatever) through edict of a clueless government agency, or they believe that words constitute "assault", other assorted nonsense.
Look at it from a privacy issue. You are providing words but you have no desire to be identified for your hard work.
If you obscure ownership of the site, then it is more difficult for the errant, baseless, lawyerspeak mail to get to you. Register the site through e-mail, using a fake name/address and mail in a money order. If you are running a server at home, then you will blow any obfuscation. If you are using someone else's server and renting space on it, then you can make this work easier.
Unless you become party to high-profile criminal charges by some grandstanding fed, then you have little risk of being bothered in person either.
However, obscuring your location by administering your server remotely (POTS line, modem, laptop) and never giving out your real name will go a long way, even if some "wanna be famous" judge/lawyer team wants to go after you.
They might try to e-mail you, but if you never give out your address (and do NOT run your site from home or a single location that you frequent), then they can not serve you with any papers/warrants or even arrest you.
However, they may go after your provider. In that case, Sealand is probably the safest from that lawyer hack. There may be others, check around and stay anonymous.
I'm sorry, but will you please pull your head out of your ass for a second so you can hear
some sense?
1. I don't believe that you are sorry at all.
2. I do not believe that you should be prosecuted for being a rude person.
3. I have heard all of the "common sense" that i want to hear from people that want others prosecuted for expressing an opinion. I heard it from the so-called right in the 60's and 70's and now I am hearing it from the so-called left.
Whether the site incites people to violence is up for debate, but do you honestly think that
its some liberal, atheist, or Satanic conspiracy to shut down the "message?" It doesn't
seem more likely to you that they simply don't like the idea of someone keeping a public
tally of who's been successfully killed, who we haven't gotten too yet, and who we almost
got, but need to go back and finish off?
Conspiracy as in all of these people got together and said "here is our big secret plot to shut down those that do not believe what we do"? No, I certainly do not believe that in the slightest.
I do believe that the individuals involved in the court action, including the judge, were all of the same general belief that I have heard for a number of years around campuses, that the harm of words is in the eye of the harmed. They see the words in the message as the "harm" and do not want anybody saying or writing them.
Taking that to court would fly as well as another recent case, where an author of an "assassains" manual was taken to court as a conspirator to a murder. It did not fly, so these guys took another route, inventing "harm" from a strikethrough text entry.
This is just a twisted extention of that nonsense.
I can find out (unfiltered by the networks) all about the latest demonstration that I missed because work sent me to the other end of the country at the last possible moment!
Just have to figure out how to charge the connection fee to the contract without raising a flag...
The same office that gave us the Michigan State Riot Tip Website "hack".
In that case, the State of Michigan had a website up for folks to give anonymous tips on who was rioting. However, all of the information was wide open to the public because the webmaster set it up that way.
BUT, the State said the site was "hacked" and were going to prosecute anybody that passed along the URL to the info.
If this were a public warehouse that was only giving the appearance of some level of security, but in fact was leaving it's doors open all night with nobody bothering to check for intrusions, over months, they would be heald to some level of culpability themselves (along with the intruders).
EVEN if they had a piece of paper saying that they were not responsible.
Same goes with a mechanic that lets someone else drive off with your car (even if strangers just "borrow" it for a little while and you get it back).
Why does this have to be any different?
Until both the person messing with someone else's public server AND the owner of the server itself are heald accountable for their actions, this activity will not even begin to slow down.
Caviat: there is no telling if anybody accused even did anything in this story because the FBI is involved and they seem to skip over or invent "facts" as it suits them, ref. Kevin Mitnick damage assessment.
linzeal is correct. There is no incitement anywhere in this document, therefore there should be no problem.
However, the problem lies with the people trying to shut the site down because they can not stand any criticism of abortion.
The document does describe abortion as murder. Perhaps this is the message that the folks bringing the charges actually wish to silence?
This topic was on 60 Minets (CBS Network TV) on 15 October, 2000. Another case was mentioned. Someone went to jail for parking a yellow Ryder moving truck in front of an abortion clinic. That was deemed some sort of implied "threat".
I certainly hope when the advocates for the doctors and the state, in both cases, manage to make someone "feel threatened" just because of what they are driving or a view that they hold, that those advocates will just turn themselves in at the local jail and save everybody the trouble of a trial.
There was no act of violence or threat of violence in either case and if you really want to get down to it, the only people, in either case, that were taking any life at all were the doctors when they killed the flesh of the fetus. Whether you consider that "murder", as the web site operators do, or if you just consider it a simple operation, as the doctors and patients do, the fact remains that the only people in these cases that actually destroyed a cell are the doctors.
If anybody actually wants to stop these doctors from being murdered, perhaps they should chase the murderers instead of the webmasters and truck renters?
It began as something about Verizon forming as a telcom merger.
Any company that gets big pisses off Emmanuel of 2600, so 2600 bought the domain in question as a form protest. Not saying that in a mean way or anything, it is just the position Emmanuel usually takes on matters like this. I might call it a form of opinion voicing rather than "protest" and even though I would not go to these lengths on this particular issue, I believe Emmanuel should be allowed to do it without being messed with.
Then Verizon sent 2600 an official mean letter telling them that they would be the subject of legal action if they did not give up the domain.
Now, after examining all of the downsides to doing something this stupid, Verizon is backing off.
Media being the press? Then the government has no business in there anyway. Here, let me quote from the US Constitution:
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/const/bor.html
"Amendment I
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free
exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people
peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances."
However, this looks more like the FCC ordering AOL to open up their SERVERS, not their protocol. In which case it still is none of the government's business, even if it is a merger case.
I am VERY GLAD that Verizon appears to show some common sense in this area, since it is obviously not a case of squatting. It is a case of dissatisfaction.
Perhaps this is an instance where a legal department needs to give customer service a lesson?
Every example you give is GOVERNMENT imposing too much power, not corporations.
If you folks in the media would frame this issue properly, then perhaps the general public would take away government power (especially take away those federal powers NOT enumerated in the US Constitution that they seem to think they have) and corporations would no longer have that tool at their disposal.
Granted, the corporations, owned by the general public (stockholders) in most cases try to influence that overbearing power to their interest when they can, but the bottom line is that the government holds the power and consistantly demonstrates that they do not deserve it. You list perfect examples of this above, but hide the actual offender (government).
My basic solution to all of this court misconduct by both judges and prosecutors is actually have them accountable. Plus, get rid of about 90% of the courts and 99% of the laws that go with them.
End all judicial and prosicutorial immunity and have them subject to an automatic, maximum penalty that the accused was threatened with when the misconduct occurred.
Perhaps that would set a general mood that courts are not the playground of leagal BS mumbo-jumbo and that the court workers are not above the law.
Now, for the 2600 case in particular, maybe if the bench verdict was appealed to a jury some sensable verdict might be reached. However, even though I ain't no lawyer, I do not think that a jury is an option.
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BTW, you do NOT have a right to a jury trial, you have a right to "due process", does not have to include a jury (or in the case of the IRS, a real court or judge). Unfortuantely, the government, entertainment industry and news media, have given the general public plenty of misinformation about the court process and what "due process" really is.
Maybe holding the courts to that fantasy that they wis perpetuated outside of their big oak doors would work? Where everybody gets read their rights (no longer required almost anyplace), court appointed lawyers actually win cases, warrants must be filled out and signed to be admissable, nobody is coerced, rights to various hearings are never signed away to be moved to a better part of the jail, etc. (review the actions of the state in the Mitnick case).
Might that knock a dent in that 98% fed "conviction" rate and maybe the USA would not be the home to 25% (or is it 50%) of the whole world's prisoners?
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Setting up special 'techno-courts' has the glossy sheen of futurism and hipness, but if the
proposed high-tech courts are specialized by the content of their trials, what's to stop them
from becoming self-perpetuating, invasive, and self-aggrandizing bodies within their particular
fields of purported expertise, and using that expertise as a means of blocking criticism? Would
such special courts be an improvement over better educating the existing judiciary?
We already have a perfect example of how specilized courts work (actually, they don't work very well) and that is called Tax Court.
What happens in any of these ivory tower systems is that the common folks (including those of us on/.) get bamboozeled by the "self-aggrandizing bodies within their particular
fields of purported expertise". This is certainly not justice.
The 2600 case was one of pure bias, no decision in that case was backed up by any fact, and it would have probably been worse in a specialized court. It happens in "tax court" every day: state brings charges, state inflicts punishment, you have to prove yourself not-guilty.
I wish that I had the refrence for a glairing case of this from just a couple of years ago. An individual had paid his tax bill. The IRS cashed his check. Taxpayer had the cancelled check and bank records that the money left his bank and went to the IRS bank. The bank that the IRS used to clear the check lost the money. The IRS went after the tax payer. No matter how many times he produced the cancelled check the IRS said "we still do not have payment". The tax court ordered the guy to pay again! Now, if a group of "regular folks" had gotten to hear this case, it would have ruled for the tax payer, since the poor guy does not run the bank and all, but an "expert court" ruled the other way.
The above is the quality that you get when beurocrats are given any power over your life.
The first thing I thought was "Why would I have it tying up my phone line when it is not in my pocket?"
I think you can already do something like this with your home computer, the place that would have most of my information and would be dumping palm info into IT.
As someone else on this thread noted, Nokia has already integrated most of the Palm functionality into a phone.
PalmPilots are GREAT, but this is just toooooo wacky!
DeCSS is a LEGAL DVD player for Linux and UNIX. Why bother with a commercial version?
DeCSS has been out for months, it works, it does not use any origonal code so it is not a copyright violation. No insider contributed to it's development so there is no trade secret issue.
The judge and MPAA can say a dog has 5 legs all they want, but the dog still has only 4, DeCSS is not a violation of any law.
If you buy into the "license" making it legal then perhaps automobile companies can start licensing maps for use with their vehicles. If someone is caught in an Explorer with an "unlicensed" instruction device (the origonal work map) then Ford can bring criminal charges against the map maker. Sound pretty? Not to me and that is EXACTLY what the MPAA was arguing in federal court.
If that is the world you want, then by all means, wait for these bozo's to finish their vaporware. However, NOBODY is going to dictate to me what instructions to send to my own property.
It is amazing that a cursor functionality is holding them up for months, sounds like BS to me.
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Are you looking for someone that already knows everything in the world about router and UNIX hacking, or are you willing to accept someone that loves the stuff but has not gotten to use it "at work" yet?
Is the job in Northern VA (where I work now) or within 500 miles of Knoxville, TN? If not I would not be able to start before June of next year.
Are you willing to accept a home UNIX user? I have been running my own Linux/Apache webserver for a couple of years, after work. I am a Logistician and Functional Data Analyst, Lead and the only UNIX experience that I have right now was earned on my own.
There are tons of people like me out there, maybe we have not been paid to do what you want done by someone else, but we DO want to do that kind of work and are fully capable of doing it. However, the static we get is "your hobby does not count, you need specific work experience as an administrater of an AIX server using HPblahblahRAID5 and Apache 1.2.x with Oracle 7, 8 years of PGP (must know C and C++) and 7 years or more of Linux (yes, I have had recruiters say that a position required 7+ years of Linux specific experience, sorry I was not one of the pioneers).
Getting a UNIX system running in my Jeep and at home was generally a breeze, what is the big deal on messing with them in an office?
As a Logistician, I am required to integrate all sorts of data systems in order to analize the information properly. If I could not use multiple systems, I could not do my job. Whatever you have should not be too big a task.
BTW, another poster mentions an Israeli pilot applied for a job with them, might want to look into him. I am a former US Army Aviator and none of this stuff is as demanding as that job was.
If you had posted an e-mail address I would have sent you a resume.
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Too bad that the MPAA was not forbidden from sending out letters like this until the appeal is heard.
I am still at a loss as to how a decypher routine, that does not play or copy anything by itself, can be a "pirating device", or whatever that Amish judge said.
Somehow, the rights of the individual make no difference to anybody any more (except for that individual of course). How on earth can it be *wrong* for me to give my own instructions to my own equipment to play files that I purchased? If I am doing something like copying DVDs, then by all means, prosecute me.
In this case, the MPAA obviously does not care about piracy, because they are harassing everybody that they can find *except* the pirates.
Let's see, if Chrysler decided to provide a *licensed* map with every vehicle that they sell, and by their own decree that map was some sort of "safety equipment", then some person went into a gas station and was handed a "free" map for a fillup, then was *caught* by Chrysler in posession of that map, would any court bother to hear a criminal case against the gas station for giving away "circumvention devices"? Also, add that the gas station was aiding "counterfiters" of automobile products, with the map being a key component in the counterfiting.
Sadly, in this day and age, I believe that the answer would be yes and the above example is identical to what happened to 2600 magazine.
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I went around and around with Bell Atlantic on a phone deposit, similar experience as yours, for 6 or 7 months.
I did finally get to speak with a supervisor, then a manager, etc. and finally got tired of hearing that "it takes 2 weeks" from every single person, no matter how long it had been since the last drone told me the same thing.
In my case, they said that my deposit could not be sent until my final bill was paid, but they could not generate a final bill for some reason so I would have to wait until they fixed their "complex software problem". Sending the deposit and then sending a bill later was "impossible".
Finally, I contacted the Attourney's General office in Richmond, VA (the phone in question was in VA) and my deposit was FedExed to Tennessee immediately in TN. I have no idea where the final bill went or if they have ever figured it up.
This was about 2 years ago I think.
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The difference is that neither SI, nor the phone manufacturer sent out threatening legalease letters telling people that they can not add 2nd line capability (or other mods), nor use it as a "beige box" (lineman's handset), nor did they tell anybody that their phone communications through the device must be monitored and circumvention of monitoring will be prosecuted.
Nope, nobody did any of the above to anybody getting an SI phone.
However, DC has already done this to several people that have CueCats.
That would be the difference.
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A prior post about UT Knoxville from 00/09/11. Hopefully, someone there will have some more specifics on the policy.
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And Radio Shack has your real name, address and phone number on record.. (They have been asking for this information
sence the 1980s.. to give them credit this data lasts only a month.. they clear out old records they only want data on frequent
shoppers)
How did Radio Shack get my real name, address and phone numnber? I have 2 CueCats. Picked up one at Pentagon City Mall, Arlington VA during a 2600 meeting. Gave them this handle and a fabricated address.
The second one I picked up at a Radio Shack in Tennessee. Gave them a different fake name, address, phone.
Now, please tell me how they now have my real name, address and phone number? This sounds like something out of a Will Smith movie or something!
Even when the CueCat that they will be sending because I subscribe to Wired arrives, it will be declawed. When I use it on a BSD system, they will still not know who I am, as far as I know anyway.
So, please share with us how they are getting the real names of people when they do not even ask for ID of any form, nor do they verify if the address or phone number is valid at the time they enter the data.
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If you can't be found, I can guarantee that the first place they'll go is to your ISP. Your ISP will then promptly either disclose who you are or shut you down. This is not a useful solution. You simply can't be public and be hidden. Don't even try.
If the ISP does not know who you are how can they disclose it? It is a trivial exercise to keep that information from them and everybidy else, as long as you are willing to give up convenience. I *thought* that I stated that in my post, but the post is not in front of me and I probably did not state it very clearly.
"Shut you down" as in throwing you in jail and silencing you? See paragraph above. If they can't find you they can not silence you. You can ALWAYS get hosted at another place. The deciding factor being that, just as in real life, privacy on the 'net brings a cost of convenience. If you are willing to pay those costs (get hosted at a "privacy friendly" service, remote admin, etc.) then you keep operating under a different domain.
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Not a stinking thing that anybody posts to a website SHOULD be used as grounds to go after the operator. You are an ISP of sorts. You never offered police or babysitting services (even if your website is cop or baby related).
Yes, this gets to the roots of the problem with these stupid legal nitwits that want to sue everybody in sight because they believe that they now own the ASCII set (or whatever) through edict of a clueless government agency, or they believe that words constitute "assault", other assorted nonsense.
Look at it from a privacy issue. You are providing words but you have no desire to be identified for your hard work.
If you obscure ownership of the site, then it is more difficult for the errant, baseless, lawyerspeak mail to get to you. Register the site through e-mail, using a fake name/address and mail in a money order. If you are running a server at home, then you will blow any obfuscation. If you are using someone else's server and renting space on it, then you can make this work easier.
Unless you become party to high-profile criminal charges by some grandstanding fed, then you have little risk of being bothered in person either.
However, obscuring your location by administering your server remotely (POTS line, modem, laptop) and never giving out your real name will go a long way, even if some "wanna be famous" judge/lawyer team wants to go after you.
They might try to e-mail you, but if you never give out your address (and do NOT run your site from home or a single location that you frequent), then they can not serve you with any papers/warrants or even arrest you.
However, they may go after your provider. In that case, Sealand is probably the safest from that lawyer hack. There may be others, check around and stay anonymous.
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The URL http://hacksdmi.org/hackDownload.asp returns this screen:
You need to agree to the Terms and Conditions before continuing.
Page source here:
<html>
<head>
<title>Download/Upload Page</title>
<LINK REL=stylesheet HREF="css.css" TYPE="text/css">
</head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<body>
<p>You need to agree to the Terms and Conditions before continuing.</p>
</body>
</html>
They either fixed it after you posted or you always had to click through the terms.
But who cares, ignore it and have fun.
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This is the I-Opener (and other internet appliance) hacking BBS:a rd/UltraBoard.pl
http://www.kenseglerdesigns.com/cgi-bin/UltraBo
Searc around for display manufacturers and e-mail the people that ask questions about it.
They have found a source to upgrade I-Openers to touch screen for only $199. Might be something for you there.
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I'm sorry, but will you please pull your head out of your ass for a second so you can hear some sense?
1. I don't believe that you are sorry at all. 2. I do not believe that you should be prosecuted for being a rude person. 3. I have heard all of the "common sense" that i want to hear from people that want others prosecuted for expressing an opinion. I heard it from the so-called right in the 60's and 70's and now I am hearing it from the so-called left.
Whether the site incites people to violence is up for debate, but do you honestly think that its some liberal, atheist, or Satanic conspiracy to shut down the "message?" It doesn't seem more likely to you that they simply don't like the idea of someone keeping a public tally of who's been successfully killed, who we haven't gotten too yet, and who we almost got, but need to go back and finish off?
Conspiracy as in all of these people got together and said "here is our big secret plot to shut down those that do not believe what we do"? No, I certainly do not believe that in the slightest.
I do believe that the individuals involved in the court action, including the judge, were all of the same general belief that I have heard for a number of years around campuses, that the harm of words is in the eye of the harmed. They see the words in the message as the "harm" and do not want anybody saying or writing them.
Taking that to court would fly as well as another recent case, where an author of an "assassains" manual was taken to court as a conspirator to a murder. It did not fly, so these guys took another route, inventing "harm" from a strikethrough text entry.
This is just a twisted extention of that nonsense.
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For the defendant, it sure helps obfuscate that pesky jurisdiction problem!
"The first 4 characters of the command began while the plane was over TN, but the line was completed over Arkansas..."
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I can find out (unfiltered by the networks) all about the latest demonstration that I missed because work sent me to the other end of the country at the last possible moment!
Just have to figure out how to charge the connection fee to the contract without raising a flag...
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But the Attourney's General office in Michigan.
The same office that gave us the Michigan State Riot Tip Website "hack".
In that case, the State of Michigan had a website up for folks to give anonymous tips on who was rioting. However, all of the information was wide open to the public because the webmaster set it up that way.
BUT, the State said the site was "hacked" and were going to prosecute anybody that passed along the URL to the info.
Sorry, my bad, not an FBI thing this time.
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If this were a public warehouse that was only giving the appearance of some level of security, but in fact was leaving it's doors open all night with nobody bothering to check for intrusions, over months, they would be heald to some level of culpability themselves (along with the intruders).
EVEN if they had a piece of paper saying that they were not responsible.
Same goes with a mechanic that lets someone else drive off with your car (even if strangers just "borrow" it for a little while and you get it back).
Why does this have to be any different?
Until both the person messing with someone else's public server AND the owner of the server itself are heald accountable for their actions, this activity will not even begin to slow down.
Caviat: there is no telling if anybody accused even did anything in this story because the FBI is involved and they seem to skip over or invent "facts" as it suits them, ref. Kevin Mitnick damage assessment.
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linzeal is correct. There is no incitement anywhere in this document, therefore there should be no problem.
However, the problem lies with the people trying to shut the site down because they can not stand any criticism of abortion.
The document does describe abortion as murder. Perhaps this is the message that the folks bringing the charges actually wish to silence?
This topic was on 60 Minets (CBS Network TV) on 15 October, 2000. Another case was mentioned. Someone went to jail for parking a yellow Ryder moving truck in front of an abortion clinic. That was deemed some sort of implied "threat".
I certainly hope when the advocates for the doctors and the state, in both cases, manage to make someone "feel threatened" just because of what they are driving or a view that they hold, that those advocates will just turn themselves in at the local jail and save everybody the trouble of a trial.
There was no act of violence or threat of violence in either case and if you really want to get down to it, the only people, in either case, that were taking any life at all were the doctors when they killed the flesh of the fetus. Whether you consider that "murder", as the web site operators do, or if you just consider it a simple operation, as the doctors and patients do, the fact remains that the only people in these cases that actually destroyed a cell are the doctors.
If anybody actually wants to stop these doctors from being murdered, perhaps they should chase the murderers instead of the webmasters and truck renters?
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It began as something about Verizon forming as a telcom merger.
Any company that gets big pisses off Emmanuel of 2600, so 2600 bought the domain in question as a form protest. Not saying that in a mean way or anything, it is just the position Emmanuel usually takes on matters like this. I might call it a form of opinion voicing rather than "protest" and even though I would not go to these lengths on this particular issue, I believe Emmanuel should be allowed to do it without being messed with.
Then Verizon sent 2600 an official mean letter telling them that they would be the subject of legal action if they did not give up the domain.
Now, after examining all of the downsides to doing something this stupid, Verizon is backing off.
That's about it.
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Media being the press? Then the government has no business in there anyway. Here, let me quote from the US Constitution: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/const/bor.html
"Amendment I
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances."
However, this looks more like the FCC ordering AOL to open up their SERVERS, not their protocol. In which case it still is none of the government's business, even if it is a merger case.
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I am VERY GLAD that Verizon appears to show some common sense in this area, since it is obviously not a case of squatting. It is a case of dissatisfaction.
Perhaps this is an instance where a legal department needs to give customer service a lesson?
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Jon, Jon, Jon...
Every example you give is GOVERNMENT imposing too much power, not corporations.
If you folks in the media would frame this issue properly, then perhaps the general public would take away government power (especially take away those federal powers NOT enumerated in the US Constitution that they seem to think they have) and corporations would no longer have that tool at their disposal.
Granted, the corporations, owned by the general public (stockholders) in most cases try to influence that overbearing power to their interest when they can, but the bottom line is that the government holds the power and consistantly demonstrates that they do not deserve it. You list perfect examples of this above, but hide the actual offender (government).
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My basic solution to all of this court misconduct by both judges and prosecutors is actually have them accountable. Plus, get rid of about 90% of the courts and 99% of the laws that go with them.
End all judicial and prosicutorial immunity and have them subject to an automatic, maximum penalty that the accused was threatened with when the misconduct occurred.
Perhaps that would set a general mood that courts are not the playground of leagal BS mumbo-jumbo and that the court workers are not above the law.
Now, for the 2600 case in particular, maybe if the bench verdict was appealed to a jury some sensable verdict might be reached. However, even though I ain't no lawyer, I do not think that a jury is an option.
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BTW, you do NOT have a right to a jury trial, you have a right to "due process", does not have to include a jury (or in the case of the IRS, a real court or judge). Unfortuantely, the government, entertainment industry and news media, have given the general public plenty of misinformation about the court process and what "due process" really is.
Maybe holding the courts to that fantasy that they wis perpetuated outside of their big oak doors would work? Where everybody gets read their rights (no longer required almost anyplace), court appointed lawyers actually win cases, warrants must be filled out and signed to be admissable, nobody is coerced, rights to various hearings are never signed away to be moved to a better part of the jail, etc. (review the actions of the state in the Mitnick case).
Might that knock a dent in that 98% fed "conviction" rate and maybe the USA would not be the home to 25% (or is it 50%) of the whole world's prisoners?
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Setting up special 'techno-courts' has the glossy sheen of futurism and hipness, but if the proposed high-tech courts are specialized by the content of their trials, what's to stop them from becoming self-perpetuating, invasive, and self-aggrandizing bodies within their particular fields of purported expertise, and using that expertise as a means of blocking criticism? Would such special courts be an improvement over better educating the existing judiciary?
/.) get bamboozeled by the "self-aggrandizing bodies within their particular
fields of purported expertise". This is certainly not justice.
We already have a perfect example of how specilized courts work (actually, they don't work very well) and that is called Tax Court.
What happens in any of these ivory tower systems is that the common folks (including those of us on
The 2600 case was one of pure bias, no decision in that case was backed up by any fact, and it would have probably been worse in a specialized court. It happens in "tax court" every day: state brings charges, state inflicts punishment, you have to prove yourself not-guilty.
I wish that I had the refrence for a glairing case of this from just a couple of years ago. An individual had paid his tax bill. The IRS cashed his check. Taxpayer had the cancelled check and bank records that the money left his bank and went to the IRS bank. The bank that the IRS used to clear the check lost the money. The IRS went after the tax payer. No matter how many times he produced the cancelled check the IRS said "we still do not have payment". The tax court ordered the guy to pay again! Now, if a group of "regular folks" had gotten to hear this case, it would have ruled for the tax payer, since the poor guy does not run the bank and all, but an "expert court" ruled the other way.
The above is the quality that you get when beurocrats are given any power over your life.
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The first thing I thought was "Why would I have it tying up my phone line when it is not in my pocket?"
I think you can already do something like this with your home computer, the place that would have most of my information and would be dumping palm info into IT.
As someone else on this thread noted, Nokia has already integrated most of the Palm functionality into a phone.
PalmPilots are GREAT, but this is just toooooo wacky!
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OKAY, DeCSS is not a full player, it is just a critical piece that you need to make a functional player.
Here is the full HOWTO for Linux:
http://helo.org/dvd/howto/DVD-Playing-HOWTO
and for FreeBSD:
http://www.opendvd.org/fbsddvd.php3
Thank you all for correcting my memory loss during my fit of babbling.
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DeCSS is a LEGAL DVD player for Linux and UNIX. Why bother with a commercial version?
DeCSS has been out for months, it works, it does not use any origonal code so it is not a copyright violation. No insider contributed to it's development so there is no trade secret issue.
The judge and MPAA can say a dog has 5 legs all they want, but the dog still has only 4, DeCSS is not a violation of any law.
If you buy into the "license" making it legal then perhaps automobile companies can start licensing maps for use with their vehicles. If someone is caught in an Explorer with an "unlicensed" instruction device (the origonal work map) then Ford can bring criminal charges against the map maker. Sound pretty? Not to me and that is EXACTLY what the MPAA was arguing in federal court.
If that is the world you want, then by all means, wait for these bozo's to finish their vaporware. However, NOBODY is going to dictate to me what instructions to send to my own property.
It is amazing that a cursor functionality is holding them up for months, sounds like BS to me.
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