The capacity for a filibuster by Republicans will be destroyed...
Prepare for some extremely Democratic legislation. (In the party sense, not the democracy sense).
As if. The Democrats simply aren't a solid bloc the way the Republicans have been in similar situations. And Arlen Specter may be becoming a Democrat but he's not becoming a liberal. Democrats don't tend to be united, and they give in to the other side pretty easily at times. I don't think this will change much at all, other than that it will be slightly easier to blame Democrats for everything that goes wrong over the next 4-8 years.
Here is a link to some studies and articles on DARE programs; the evidence is pretty overwhelming that the programs are ineffective, and that DARE has used political pressure to squash legitimate criticism. DARE even funded a study in 1997 that concluded DARE was ineffective; instead of examining the conclusions, DARE chose to harass and attack the credibility of the researchers (whom they hired in the first place).
Re:What about warez sent on newsgroups?
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It's not just GPL code they have to be concerned with; there are tons of warez and pr0n and other copyright violations all over usenet.
Most of the PPC Linux distros run on G3s and G4s. There was some trouble with Sawtooth G4s at first but that too has been conquered; see http://www.linuxppc.org/docs/sawtooth-install.shtm l. I don't know what export issues you are talking about; to my knowledge there are none. Of course, iBooks and iMacs are G3 based, and they boot linux fine (see http://imaclinux.net for details). Also keep updated on linuxppc news at penguinppc.org, a cool site.
Personally I can't wait for SlackPPC or Slackintosh to be usable. I installed the beta of SuSE and found it more intuitive and easier to use than LinuxPPC (which can be messy), but both are RPM based and I almost always screw up the RPM database after a few weeks of use (sigh - yeah I know, this is my fault, but it isn't a problem with slackware). I haven't messed with Debian yet but that might be a good interim alternative.
We didn't win this one, in spite of the misleading info in the story on slashdot. Etoys did not "drop" the suit but has just agreed "not to press" it. Conveniently, as several have noted in this discussion, right after their goal was met: The holiday shopping rush is over, etoy.com was forced offline during the rush, even though Etoys' trademark application was rejected. Now Etoys gets good publicity (even on slashdot, with one poster even calling for slashdotters to buy toys in jubilation) by declaring that they are "not pressing" the suit. Meanwhile, etoy faces thousands in legal fees. Perhaps Etoys will drop the suit; perhaps the suit will languish in the bottom drawer until, say, the back-to-school shopping rush.
I would also like to see the figures. Even better I would like to see them side by side with the amount the prison complex costs the US, with per-prisoner figures. Might make an interesting entry in Harper's Index.
This is funny. I remember a similar filter based on Zippy the Pinhead -- anyone know where that is? I can't find it anymore. Is there any open source code to do a filter like this using different words?
Here are a few useful links; I'm planning on installing Debian on a g3 (eventually) so I've been collecting the following....
Installing Debian PPC: Pretty detailed installation instructions that I think will be the official Debian docs. I'm not sure why it isn't linked to the main powerpc port page (or maybe I couldn't find it).
Debian instructions from the LinuxPPC faq-o-matic (I think these are kinda old)
Installing Debian over LinuxPPC: (I can't seem to get the link to work but as I recall it was a good one; hopefully it works by the time anyone bothers to read this post)
base2_2.tgz: The huge file you need to install Debian. (hey this is like 12M so don't just click away unless you're really ready to do this). Also it's not the newest version but it is rumored to be stable and nice. You might be better off downloading it from a mirror.
Debian for m68k exists also. Eventually I may try to put it on my old mac plus with the busted monitor, hey why not....
That's all I can find at the moment. But I can swear I remember seeing some unfinished installation docs while poking around a mirror of their ftp site. But I can't find it now. Enjoy,
Oh yeah? Did your stock go down as a result? Did Motorola even report the loss of "millions and millions of dollars" to you and the rest of their stockholders, as the SEC ?
Ummmm Kevin didn't steal your number. he copied a file full of numbers that netcom had left online -- the same file had been traded around IRC for about a year before Mitnick supposedly "stole" it. He, like many other hackers at the time, had a copy of the file; there was never any proof he was the one who "stole" it.
Finally what did he put you through anyway; did he ever actually use your credit card # to buy anything?
ummmm, what more needs to be said than that he was denied his constitutional rights??!! That is the point after all; it has nothing to do with his supposed "virtue" -- the point is simply that he, like many other Americans behind bars, got a raw deal in a country with a constitution that is supposed to prevent such things.
"We the People" is from the US Constitution, not the Declaration of Independence. The Declaration of Independence is not a legal or binding document and it does not spell out US citizens' rights; it just affirms general principles that were not really that controversial at the time. And it is generally ignored in the US because it advocates a right to revolution. This may have been noncontroversial in 1776 but in the 1990s it is considered a pretty "radical" opinion. Anyway it is the Constitution, not the Declaration, that says "We the people," and it is the Constitution that is supposed to be the law of the land.
an open source OS would make a lot of difference in terms of how long it takes for the security hole to be closed. I don't think the poster was suggesting that virus source should be open (though that would be cool I suppose). The virus is exploiting already know vulnerabilities in windows. In GNU and *BSD systems such vulnerabilities are usually closed within hours of their being reported (of course it is still important for sysadms to actually apply the patches when they come out...)
if you are unhappy with the current state of usb support, plug an old mac keyboard and mouse into the ADB port; you should be able to use them fine w/linux.
Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: pinknoiz@pinknoiz.com (Unverified) Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 07:23:48 -0700 To: Recipient List Suppressed:; From: Parapolitics list Subject: GEORGE W. BUSH JR. ATTACKS DRUGS AND FREE SPEECH
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 20, 1999
GEORGE W. BUSH JR. LASHES OUT AT PARODY WEBSITE Bush learns about internet a moment too late
Contact: Ray Thomas (mailto:bushinfo@rtmark.com) Zack Exley (mailto:zackexley@yahoo.com) Bush attorney Benjamin Ginsberg (202-457-6405, fax 202-457-6315) URLs: http://www.gwbush.com/, http://rtmark.com/gwbush.com, http://www.georgewbush.com Bush letter to F.E.C., etc.: http://rtmark.com/bush.html
Each week, thousands of people seeking information on probable Republican presidential candidate George W. Bush, Jr. type "gwbush" into their web browsers and end up at http://www.gwbush.com/.
Bush has tried hard for weeks to shut down the rogue site, which parodies Bush's official http://www.georgewbush.com/ and discusses his past cocaine use, as well as parodying U.S. politics in general. Bush's legal efforts began April 14 with a cease-and-desist letter claiming that gwbush.com violated copyright laws. Shortly thereafter, on May 10, Time Magazine reported that the Bush campaign had just purchased sixty additional domain names, including bushbites.com and bushsux.org, in an apparent attempt at damage control. Bush's most recent effort is a complaint filed with the Federal Election Commission that may have widespread implications for free speech on the internet.
gwbush.com is owned by Zack Exley, a Boston computer consultant. Most of the content on the website was provided by RTMARK, a group that specializes in calling attention to corporate subversion of the U.S. political and electoral process. gwbush.com is listed as an unofficial Bush campaign site in Yahoo! and elsewhere.
Bush's latest legal effort against gwbush.com, a complaint filed May 3 with the Federal Elections Commission, asserts that Exley has violated election laws by not registering as a political committee, and urges that the site's "fair market value" puts the endeavor well over the $1000 threshold that defines a political committee under election law. (At one point, Bush's counsel had asked Exley at what price he would sell his domains, which also include gwbush.org and gbush.org; Exley quoted $350,000.)
The F.E.C. case may set a legal precedent in the area of internet speech in electoral campaigns. One F.E.C. employee, who preferred not to be identified, said the commission has recently established a "special inquiry committee" to discuss possible regulation of sites such as gwbush.com.
"George W. Bush Jr. apparently thinks small-time folk should have to register with the government before exercising free speech on the internet," said Rita Mae Rakoczi, a lawyer and RTMARK representative. "The implications of such a precedent could be quite serious."
RTMARK and Mr. Exley represent the unlikely kind of collaboration the internet makes possible. Mr. Exley is a computer consultant to the Boston financial sector, and describes himself as "a Christian who loathes hypocrisy." RTMARK is primarily devoted to anti-corporate activism, and counts the very companies that Mr. Exley works for as some of its targets.
By reserving the domain names, Exley initially hoped to sell them back to the Bush camp for a small profit. That changed, however, when he read news articles that discussed Bush's refusal to deny past cocaine use. His interest in the matter has since escalated into something of a crusade. "Bush won't deny he used cocaine, yet hundreds of thousands of people are serving very long sentences for equivalent or lesser crimes, including many in Texas [where Bush is governor]. Clinton just got away with perjury while a hundred people are in jail for that crime. Do we want our children to learn that a crime is only a crime if you don't have power?"
Exley first invited RTMARK to provide content for gwbush.com after hearing about their "franchise" program, in which the group provides a tailor-made thematic website to anyone with an appropriate domain. According to RTMARK spokesperson Ray Thomas, "Bush himself was originally a secondary issue for us. We just wanted to use gwbush.com as a platform to make various points about how corporations have subverted and sabotaged the political and electoral process, and hoped it could illustrate the low level to which campaigning has sunk. The more Bush has tried to get in our way, however, the more we've chosen to make the site a direct attack on his 'stealth' presidential campaign, and the worse that makes it for Bush." (RTMARK's first version of gwbush.com is now archived at http://rtmark.com/gwbush.com/.)
While the controversy surrounding http://www.gwbush.com/ represents the first time RTMARK has been drawn into political conflict, clumsy legal actions are nothing new to RTMARK. In April of last year, for example, Geffen and BMG Music wrote RTMARK and Illegal Art letters demanding they cease distribution of Deconstructing Beck, a CD of music made entirely from samples of Beck recordings. Those letters (posted at http://rtmark.com/lawletters.html) helped RTMARK draw widespread attention to issues of fair use and copyright law with what had begun as an obscure release with a very limited audience.
The full text of the Bush lawyer's letter to the F.E.C., his cease-and-desist letter, and other materials can be found at http://rtmark.com/bush.html. The pages of http://www.gwbush.com/ that deal specifically with Bush's cocaine use can be found at http://www.gwbush.com/bushpramnesty.html and http://www.gwbush.com/bushq3.html. For more on Bush's domain-name buying frenzy, see http://biz.yahoo.com/rf/990513/bn8.html.
RTMARK (http://rtmark.com/) uses its limited liability as a corporation to sponsor the sabotage of mass-produced products. One of RTMARK's ultimate aims is to eliminate the principle of limited liability. Occasionally, as with http://www.gwbush.com/, RTMARK participates in advocacy directly related to issues of corporate abuses of the political process.
Slashdot Mirror
Or to put it another way, twitter is the sound of millions of people collectively discovering they have nothing important to say.
Brilliantly put. I just tweeted that to all my followers!
The capacity for a filibuster by Republicans will be destroyed ...
Prepare for some extremely Democratic legislation. (In the party sense, not the democracy sense).
As if. The Democrats simply aren't a solid bloc the way the Republicans have been in similar situations. And Arlen Specter may be becoming a Democrat but he's not becoming a liberal. Democrats don't tend to be united, and they give in to the other side pretty easily at times. I don't think this will change much at all, other than that it will be slightly easier to blame Democrats for everything that goes wrong over the next 4-8 years.
However, you can get revenge that way.
Here is a link to some studies and articles on DARE programs; the evidence is pretty overwhelming that the programs are ineffective, and that DARE has used political pressure to squash legitimate criticism. DARE even funded a study in 1997 that concluded DARE was ineffective; instead of examining the conclusions, DARE chose to harass and attack the credibility of the researchers (whom they hired in the first place).
It's not just GPL code they have to be concerned with; there are tons of warez and pr0n and other copyright violations all over usenet.
Personally I can't wait for SlackPPC or Slackintosh to be usable. I installed the beta of SuSE and found it more intuitive and easier to use than LinuxPPC (which can be messy), but both are RPM based and I almost always screw up the RPM database after a few weeks of use (sigh - yeah I know, this is my fault, but it isn't a problem with slackware). I haven't messed with Debian yet but that might be a good interim alternative.
DrBen
Read more at nofuncharlie.com and RTMark.
Breakbeat Era!!!!! They rip. Also there is some drum and bass sound on kumquat which is free!
Download some mpegs (or get free CD's) to code by at http://www.thelocus.com/kumquat ... free music and free software for free people!!
I would also like to see the figures. Even better I would like to see them side by side with the amount the prison complex costs the US, with per-prisoner figures. Might make an interesting entry in Harper's Index.
This is funny. I remember a similar filter based on Zippy the Pinhead -- anyone know where that is? I can't find it anymore. Is there any open source code to do a filter like this using different words?
That's all I can find at the moment. But I can swear I remember seeing some unfinished installation docs while poking around a mirror of their ftp site. But I can't find it now. Enjoy,
Ben
Didn't think so.
Finally what did he put you through anyway; did he ever actually use your credit card # to buy anything?
Didn't think so.
ummmm, what more needs to be said than that he was denied his constitutional rights??!! That is the point after all; it has nothing to do with his supposed "virtue" -- the point is simply that he, like many other Americans behind bars, got a raw deal in a country with a constitution that is supposed to prevent such things.
Genealogy of the Drug War
End the Fucking Drug War
I will gladly flout the law by keeping these pages up if it does ever pass.
>Perhaps germany should get
>konigsburg back from the russians.
YES!!! Liberate Konigsburg!!!!
"We the People" is from the US Constitution, not the Declaration of Independence. The Declaration of Independence is not a legal or binding document and it does not spell out US citizens' rights; it just affirms general principles that were not really that controversial at the time. And it is generally ignored in the US because it advocates a right to revolution. This may have been noncontroversial in 1776 but in the 1990s it is considered a pretty "radical" opinion. Anyway it is the Constitution, not the Declaration, that says "We the people," and it is the Constitution that is supposed to be the law of the land.
Click here for details. :^P
Anybody have a URL or quote handy for this comment?
ummm yeah. and files transferred via FTP are immune to virus infection why again?
an open source OS would make a lot of difference in terms of how long it takes for the security hole to be closed. I don't think the poster was suggesting that virus source should be open (though that would be cool I suppose). The virus is exploiting already know vulnerabilities in windows. In GNU and *BSD systems such vulnerabilities are usually closed within hours of their being reported (of course it is still important for sysadms to actually apply the patches when they come out...)
if you are unhappy with the current state of usb support, plug an old mac keyboard and mouse into the ADB port; you should be able to use them fine w/linux.
Can anyone suggest a HOWTO or other docs introducing the basic file directory structure for GNU?
Mime-Version: 1.0
X-Sender: pinknoiz@pinknoiz.com (Unverified)
Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 07:23:48 -0700
To: Recipient List Suppressed:;
From: Parapolitics list
Subject: GEORGE W. BUSH JR. ATTACKS DRUGS AND FREE SPEECH
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 20, 1999
GEORGE W. BUSH JR. LASHES OUT AT PARODY WEBSITE
Bush learns about internet a moment too late
Contact: Ray Thomas (mailto:bushinfo@rtmark.com)
Zack Exley (mailto:zackexley@yahoo.com)
Bush attorney Benjamin Ginsberg
(202-457-6405, fax 202-457-6315)
URLs: http://www.gwbush.com/, http://rtmark.com/gwbush.com,
http://www.georgewbush.com
Bush letter to F.E.C., etc.: http://rtmark.com/bush.html
Each week, thousands of people seeking information on probable
Republican presidential candidate George W. Bush, Jr. type "gwbush"
into their web browsers and end up at http://www.gwbush.com/.
Bush has tried hard for weeks to shut down the rogue site, which
parodies Bush's official http://www.georgewbush.com/ and discusses
his past cocaine use, as well as parodying U.S. politics in general.
Bush's legal efforts began April 14 with a cease-and-desist letter
claiming that gwbush.com violated copyright laws. Shortly thereafter,
on May 10, Time Magazine reported that the Bush campaign had just
purchased sixty additional domain names, including bushbites.com and
bushsux.org, in an apparent attempt at damage control. Bush's most
recent effort is a complaint filed with the Federal Election
Commission that may have widespread implications for free speech on
the internet.
gwbush.com is owned by Zack Exley, a Boston computer consultant. Most
of the content on the website was provided by RTMARK, a group that
specializes in calling attention to corporate subversion of the U.S.
political and electoral process. gwbush.com is listed as an
unofficial Bush campaign site in Yahoo! and elsewhere.
Bush's latest legal effort against gwbush.com, a complaint filed May
3 with the Federal Elections Commission, asserts that Exley has
violated election laws by not registering as a political committee,
and urges that the site's "fair market value" puts the endeavor well
over the $1000 threshold that defines a political committee under
election law. (At one point, Bush's counsel had asked Exley at what
price he would sell his domains, which also include gwbush.org and
gbush.org; Exley quoted $350,000.)
The F.E.C. case may set a legal precedent in the area of internet
speech in electoral campaigns. One F.E.C. employee, who preferred not
to be identified, said the commission has recently established a
"special inquiry committee" to discuss possible regulation of sites
such as gwbush.com.
"George W. Bush Jr. apparently thinks small-time folk should have to
register with the government before exercising free speech on the
internet," said Rita Mae Rakoczi, a lawyer and RTMARK representative.
"The implications of such a precedent could be quite serious."
RTMARK and Mr. Exley represent the unlikely kind of collaboration the
internet makes possible. Mr. Exley is a computer consultant to the
Boston financial sector, and describes himself as "a Christian who
loathes hypocrisy." RTMARK is primarily devoted to anti-corporate
activism, and counts the very companies that Mr. Exley works for as
some of its targets.
By reserving the domain names, Exley initially hoped to sell them
back to the Bush camp for a small profit. That changed, however, when
he read news articles that discussed Bush's refusal to deny past
cocaine use. His interest in the matter has since escalated into
something of a crusade. "Bush won't deny he used cocaine, yet
hundreds of thousands of people are serving very long sentences for
equivalent or lesser crimes, including many in Texas [where Bush is
governor]. Clinton just got away with perjury while a hundred people
are in jail for that crime. Do we want our children to learn that a
crime is only a crime if you don't have power?"
Exley first invited RTMARK to provide content for gwbush.com after
hearing about their "franchise" program, in which the group provides
a tailor-made thematic website to anyone with an appropriate domain.
According to RTMARK spokesperson Ray Thomas, "Bush himself was
originally a secondary issue for us. We just wanted to use
gwbush.com as a platform to make various points about how
corporations have subverted and sabotaged the political and electoral
process, and hoped it could illustrate the low level to which
campaigning has sunk. The more Bush has tried to get in our way,
however, the more we've chosen to make the site a direct attack on
his 'stealth' presidential campaign, and the worse that makes it for
Bush." (RTMARK's first version of gwbush.com is now archived at
http://rtmark.com/gwbush.com/.)
While the controversy surrounding http://www.gwbush.com/ represents
the first time RTMARK has been drawn into political conflict, clumsy
legal actions are nothing new to RTMARK. In April of last year, for
example, Geffen and BMG Music wrote RTMARK and Illegal Art letters
demanding they cease distribution of Deconstructing Beck, a CD of
music made entirely from samples of Beck recordings. Those letters
(posted at http://rtmark.com/lawletters.html) helped RTMARK draw
widespread attention to issues of fair use and copyright law with
what had begun as an obscure release with a very limited audience.
The full text of the Bush lawyer's letter to the F.E.C., his
cease-and-desist letter, and other materials can be found at
http://rtmark.com/bush.html. The pages of http://www.gwbush.com/ that
deal specifically with Bush's cocaine use can be found at
http://www.gwbush.com/bushpramnesty.html and
http://www.gwbush.com/bushq3.html. For more on Bush's domain-name
buying frenzy, see http://biz.yahoo.com/rf/990513/bn8.html.
RTMARK (http://rtmark.com/) uses its limited liability as a
corporation to sponsor the sabotage of mass-produced products. One of
RTMARK's ultimate aims is to eliminate the principle of limited
liability. Occasionally, as with http://www.gwbush.com/, RTMARK
participates in advocacy directly related to issues of corporate
abuses of the political process.