It's like being charged with spyware offenses by the FTC while new spyware legislation is making its way through Congress.
Fuck your analogies. Wallace is still guilty of the 1000-year-old crime of fraud and they're going to nail him for it. New legislation may help further convictions. Film at 11.
(a) Prohibition- It is unlawful for any person, who is not the owner or authorized user of a protected computer, to engage in deceptive acts or practices that involve any of the following conduct with respect to the protected computer:...
(E) delivering advertisements that a user of the computer cannot close without turning off the computer or closing all sessions of the Internet browser for the computer.
Which means, by inference, that you can spam as many ads as you want onto a victim box, provided they are able to close each of the ads by clicking on them. Note that this does not prevent an infinite number of closable ads, just as an infinite number of copyright extension laws is still not infinite copyright.
Note also -and this is important- that they've made no distinction between a program which resides on the box (actual intrusion) and Javascript. This means that Last Measure and other browser shock sites are illegal. Think about it.
This article I found seems to back up his story that the handbrake is electronically controlled as well as the engine and therefore user shutdown is impossible: link:
an electronic card instead of a key (it remembers your preferred seat, stereo and mirror settings, among other things), a DVD player in the rear - only one, though, rather than the pair you can have in some cars - and an
electronic handbrake. This last advance dispenses with the familiar lever in the centre console, engaging and disengaging when the engine is switched on and off. There's no danger of the Vel Satis running away as, initially, it will be sold only as an automatic, and firing up or shutting down the engine will require the gearlever to be left in Park.
No danger of it running away? Sounds like a rather Titanic claim. Here's the other kicker:
The technology arsenal runs to adaptive cruise control, rain-sensing wipers, automatic headlamp illumination, a tyre-pressure monitoring system, ESP (Electronic Stability Programme), brake assist, a fuel cap integrated into the filler's lid and more airbags than you'd ever want to see deployed during a single crash. All this kit, Renault hopes, will encourage supreme peace of mind for driver and passenger alike
So we've got an electronic transmission, no manual shutdown, an electronic emergency brake, an "adaptive" cruise control system, and "assisted" electronic brakes.
All the naysayers may want to check their normal assumptions about cars at the door. This one is French.
Too bad about the clouds, though, otherwise you'd have totally 1-upped NASA! Maybe you should join forces with Burt Rutan and his X-15 clone, I hear he's only fifty years from building an actual orbital spaceship.
Seriously, people, why can't we leave space development in the hands of the USA government where it belongs?
Hopefully the hydra will not spring forth another head to take its place. The question we need to ask ourselves here is: should the government even be involving itself in "regulating the Internet" to "improve security"? Considering the free market has a better track record at accomplishing nearly everything (compare the DMV to 7-11) why the hell do we need a useless figurehead like this in the first place? He's ex-Microsoft for God's sake.
If the government actually wanted to promote cyber security, the best way to do it would be to put a bounty system on the evildoers and let the market compete to catch them. Microsoft but a bounty on some virus authors and look how fast they were caught! Imagine if we had a bounty on web defacers, worm authors, and other such vermin. System administrators worldwide have the legal right to read their customers mail but until no profit motive, so they don't do it. All that would change. You think 802.11 wardrivers can't be caught? What if information leading to their arrest was worth $50,000 - how many Slashdot readers would be patrolling their neighborhood for wardrivers? It's not too hard to spot the goon with the notebook and the high power 802.11 antenna connecting to every network in his path.
Personally I'd love to put "Internet Bounty Hunter" on my resume. I'd probably start with the goon at 66.35.250.150 who keeps proxy scanning me.
Why are we sticking up for people who make copyrighted Hollywood movies available for download? The one and only defense of P2P networks is that they are not "pirate to pirate" networks but rather a new tool for distributing independent, privately financed media and breaking the Hollywood deathgrip on media distribution. For years we've screamed that attacking the toolmakers (DMCA) is insane, that the tool abusers are to blame. And now, when the RIAA finally listens to Slashdot and sues the pirates themselves we're still against them?
It's articles like this that convince lawmakers, businessmen, and the Silent Majority that all this crowd is actually interested in is stealing movies. Right now I'd be hard pressed to argue with them.
You heard me right. A recent trojan actually used Slashdot to post the IP addresses of infected hosts to a public reading spot, so that the worm authors could collect these addresses and break into the systems. The infections were posted to sid=31337, one of Slashdot's two remaining "troll" discussions. You can click that link to see the approximately 4000 infections that posted their IP addresses (along with a random hash to prevent duplicate messages and defeat the "lame" filter) to the discussion.
Cmdrtaco responded to this terrorism by closing the sid, proving that terrorism works.
Now let me state the present rules,"
The lawyer then went on, "These very simple guidelines, You can rely upon: Your gouging on your prices if You charge more than the rest. But it's unfair competition if You think you can charge less! "A second point that we would make To help avoid confusion... Don't try to charge the same amount, That would be Collusion! You must compete. But not too much, For if you do you see, Then the market would be yours - And that's Monopoly!
There are no rules, save "Don't Succeed". Gotta love America - they love capitalism, and someday they intend to give it a go.
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Ten years after Demi Moore went for a million bucks, we've found a way to bring the objectification of women to a new level. The computer is apparently Larry Flynt's new meat grinder.
It's sad to see the rate at which our runaway technological advances outstrip the advancement of society. In one hundred years we've developed flight, space travel, nuclear physics, gene therapy, and global digital communications networks, but we still can't get past treating women like property instead of people.
Articles like this are why I'm so excited about the possibilities of genetic engineering. I feel like the only way to get this bug out of the system is to change the source code. Imagine a world of humans without gender or race - imagine what we could accomplish!
Don't people understand that the major innovation of the Internet was interoperability? Web developers with their Java and Flash and "Designed for MSIE 600x800 with JVM 1.4.2ab only" web sites misssed the entire feat of the Internet: a globally compatible worldwide network. Then Microsoft took this mindset to the next level by trying to put a "Windows key" on the keyboard, as if putting proprietary crap in a universal Human-Computer interface was somehow a good idea. It was a horrible idea when Macintosh did it, and it's a horrible idea now. People aren't supposed to have to re-learn interfaces: that's the whole point! That's why the Internet was successful in the first place!
The Linux community is supposed to be the people who "get it". We're supposed to be the leaders. And now we're putting out a dedicated keyboard for an Operating System that doesn't even have a standardized distribution?
I suppose this is to be expected, given as we have spent the last eight years failing to even standardize on a single window manager.
Terrorism works. Terrorism causes fear, and the people whom terrorism works best on are those who fear the most and are most able to emphatize with victims. This has been aided by modern media, which is able to deliver maximum shock images instantly via a worldwide television network.
I will be moderated down for saying this, but it's on-topic, it's factual, and it's my well reasoned opinion. Not good material for Slashdot, but my conscience dictates my actions.
If we lived in a world of people who were reasonable, no actions would have been taken as a result of the Columbuine killings. Eleven dead teenagers in a nation of hundred of millions equals an inconsequential cause of death. Thirty teenagers had died the previous day in car crashes, but no one stopped driving. The reason Columbine made an impact is because of people who are capable of becoming afraid, and empathizing with victims. They are able to irrationally magnify their fear outside the actual scope of the threat - again with the help of mass media. Hence we got a million people marching on Washington to ban guns, when lightning strikes and airbags both killed more children that year than school shootings.
Irrational fear leads to irrational behaviour. Terrorism works.
So now we have these same people, genetically gifted with empathy and able to feel irrational, choking amounts of fear, banding together to form a political movement. You can call them "liberals" if you want but I'm not really into name-calling. This isn't surprising. The article is full of hokum when it speculates that "people who think alike form political movements". DUH.
The question we need to ask ourselves is: should people who are irrationally ruled by fear decide the fate of our nation? Is this wise?
Perhaps gene therapy will provide a cure for this in the future; for now we have a choice to make on Nov. 2.
The most popular P2P software vendor is AOL, maker of "AOL Instant Messenger" which allows for direct file transfers between users of the service. It's important to keep in mind that the chairman of the FCC, Mike Powell, has a huge number of shares of AOL stock. So when you go after American P2P companies, you're going after Mike Powell's pocket, and in turn that means you're going to be invoking the wrath of Colin Powell.
Like I said, not smart.
By the way, did anyone know that Colin Powell and George Bush are related? They share a common ancestor who actually happens to be quite famous. Name the ancestor and explicitly name how the two are related for a free Gmail invite (I just can't seem to give them away, *sigh).
I don't agree with Slashdot being moderated for political or religious affiliation. But hey, it's Rob Malda and company's site. They can do what they want, when they want to, I just wish they'd make it known IN WRITING in the FAQs section about their political or opinion background - I wish they would just admit that what you described does occasionally go on.
Well one thing you should be aware of is that Slashdot is going to put in a politics section: politics.slashdot.org. This is going to be to compete directly for eyeball-share and ad revenue with sites like DailyKos. And I think that it will be the quick and ruthless banning of dissent that Slash has been designed to provide that will truly allow them to be the value-leader in the marketplace and ultimately prevail.
Respectfully, I don't agree with your quote, above. I think that Rob, Jamie, et al are making a reasonable inference that technically literate people are generally intelligent, and intelligent people are generally Democrats. If a few Republicans do happen to wander onto this site, they will be moderated down and IP banned rather quickly. If you don't agree, see the Farenheit-911 story in my parent post, there were probably at least a hundred people banned in just that thread alone for posting Repub-crap stuff. The process is really very efficient, and it's not censorship.
A lawyer posted on Yahoo to protect his reputation, was attacked by a bunch of faceless Anonymous Cowards, and is angry because he can't determine their identity because Yahoo's "moderation system" won't filter them out?
Sounds like your typical Slashdot user.
I think among the Slashdot crowd it's of course common knowledge that Yahoo deletes comments all the time, just like Slashdot does. Slashdot has endured legal challenges from the DMCA and weathered them nicely, but this is an entirely different branch of law. Are dicussion sites breaching an implied contract with the user when they fail to protect them from trolling and abuse? Slashdot does its best to prevent this sort of thing, remember the Farenheit 9/11 story in which all Republicans were IP banned from posting - that shows what an effective moderation system can do (and by the way if there are any stupid Repubs in the audience, no, keeping you from posting isn't censorship, silly). But what if an effective moderation system isn't enough to protect us? What then?
If Yahoo loses this suit one could only expect a Slash or Scoop based site to be next. Given that Slashdot is a special case, utilizing a full time staff with unlimited moderation power to instantly IP ban anyone who disagrees too much - but what if even that isn't enough?
We need to brainstorm new ideas for protecting online users from harassment if this lawsuit goes through. The web site you save may be your own!
On a side note, include an email address and link to twenty deleted Slashdot comments for a free Gmail invite. Hint: Slashdot has only deleted about 700 comments.
People need to confront the DMCA, really see it for what it is. Right now, the law says "thou shalt only play the movies in the way Hollywood prescribes", but it hasn't really internalized because so many people can use unlicensed software to do things like copy DVDs, play them without commercials, etc. I think the FBI needs to really crack down on anyone who violates the DMCA, by imprisoning everyone who copies a DVD for home use, especially rich and politically connected people. We could call it the "War on Pirates", and appoint a "Piracy czar", or something similarly crazy. The public needs to be rendered totally unable to copy or play DVDs in a way of their choosing, as the law prescribes, before they will wake up and actually understand what the law prescribes. Right now there's no reason to fight the DMCA because no one knows what it really means. It's a ban on any speech which could be used to play DVDs or other media the way we want. And that's a pretty amazing thing.
To tie in to this article, I will award a Gmail invite for anyone who can prove to me that it's legal under the DMCA to stand on a street corner and recite DeCSS. It is of course illegal, which means that Free Speech is dead in America, but if you manage to prove me wrong and include an address, the invite will be on its way. Good luck!
Micro$oft gives out millions of dollars to catch people who exploit bugs in their browser! Now Linux gives out cash directly to people who find the bugs, rewarding engineers instead of snitches. I hope the major news outlets cover the huge difference in paradigm here- good cop instead of bad cop.
Everyone failed my last Gmail invite challenge, and I'm up to three invites, so here's a new one: there are sixteen factual errors in this article. I'll give you one for free: Bush is not a downhiller! Spot them all for a Gmail invite.
"Just kill some muslims and take their oil! They'll only use it for terrorism anyway!"
I'm pretty sure the parent post was meant as a joke, but this is actually a serious business. The reason for this guy's adventure, and other adventures into alternative energy sources, is very real: Prince Bandar and his Saudi friends are currently in control of America via a proxy named George Bush. If you've seen Farenheit 9/11 you know what I'm talking about. At last night's convention John Kerry addressed this in his speech by saying "I want an America that relies on its own ingenuity and innovation -- not the Saudi royal family." When he says "ingenuity and innovation", these kinds of oil-alternative projects are exactly what he's talking about. So, let's hope that this publicity stunt helps pull more attention towards the most important counter-terrorism initiative we have: alternative energy.
In other news, have you guys noticed how stingy Gmail is getting with invites? I only have two left, so here's a challenge for only the smartest: prove that "Murder is Wrong" using only known facts and science (no imaginary men or "God" talk allowed). Please steer clear of circular arguments and proof by definition. First three correct proofs get gmail invites (and remember to include your email address). Good luck!
Remember Apple? Remember the SE? Remember how if you bought a PC, it wasn't as nice, but because the hardware wasn't kept in a Cathedral but rather in a Bazaar, you could hack it, configure it, trade it, build it yourself? Here's the Apple mentality that kept them from competing successfully with Microsoft all over again: We Are The Shrine Upon High, Interoperate And Die!
BSD-based or not, Apple still has the same problems with their overprotective, self-infatuated management. They've failed to take ESR's lessons to heart, and this jealous hoarding of a good idea will cause them to lose it... AGAIN.
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It's like being charged with spyware offenses by the FTC while new spyware legislation is making its way through Congress.
Fuck your analogies. Wallace is still guilty of the 1000-year-old crime of fraud and they're going to nail him for it. New legislation may help further convictions. Film at 11.
Which means, by inference, that you can spam as many ads as you want onto a victim box, provided they are able to close each of the ads by clicking on them. Note that this does not prevent an infinite number of closable ads, just as an infinite number of copyright extension laws is still not infinite copyright.
Note also -and this is important- that they've made no distinction between a program which resides on the box (actual intrusion) and Javascript. This means that Last Measure and other browser shock sites are illegal. Think about it.
Kudos to Microsoft for being proactive and giving the community time to react. When procrastination strikes, it's the users who suffer.
Still no word on where all the money went at Worldcom. Film at 11.
link:
No danger of it running away? Sounds like a rather Titanic claim. Here's the other kicker:
So we've got an electronic transmission, no manual shutdown, an electronic emergency brake, an "adaptive" cruise control system, and "assisted" electronic brakes.
All the naysayers may want to check their normal assumptions about cars at the door. This one is French.
Too bad about the clouds, though, otherwise you'd have totally 1-upped NASA! Maybe you should join forces with Burt Rutan and his X-15 clone, I hear he's only fifty years from building an actual orbital spaceship.
Seriously, people, why can't we leave space development in the hands of the USA government where it belongs?
You mean the branches of the American government can't even be bothered to work together? No wonder your war is arsed.
Hopefully the hydra will not spring forth another head to take its place. The question we need to ask ourselves here is: should the government even be involving itself in "regulating the Internet" to "improve security"? Considering the free market has a better track record at accomplishing nearly everything (compare the DMV to 7-11) why the hell do we need a useless figurehead like this in the first place? He's ex-Microsoft for God's sake.
If the government actually wanted to promote cyber security, the best way to do it would be to put a bounty system on the evildoers and let the market compete to catch them. Microsoft but a bounty on some virus authors and look how fast they were caught! Imagine if we had a bounty on web defacers, worm authors, and other such vermin. System administrators worldwide have the legal right to read their customers mail but until no profit motive, so they don't do it. All that would change. You think 802.11 wardrivers can't be caught? What if information leading to their arrest was worth $50,000 - how many Slashdot readers would be patrolling their neighborhood for wardrivers? It's not too hard to spot the goon with the notebook and the high power 802.11 antenna connecting to every network in his path.
Personally I'd love to put "Internet Bounty Hunter" on my resume. I'd probably start with the goon at 66.35.250.150 who keeps proxy scanning me.
Why are we sticking up for people who make copyrighted Hollywood movies available for download? The one and only defense of P2P networks is that they are not "pirate to pirate" networks but rather a new tool for distributing independent, privately financed media and breaking the Hollywood deathgrip on media distribution. For years we've screamed that attacking the toolmakers (DMCA) is insane, that the tool abusers are to blame. And now, when the RIAA finally listens to Slashdot and sues the pirates themselves we're still against them?
It's articles like this that convince lawmakers, businessmen, and the Silent Majority that all this crowd is actually interested in is stealing movies. Right now I'd be hard pressed to argue with them.
Do you feel that all electronic voting machines in use in the United States should produce a verifiable paper record?
What is your position on the adoption of approval or instant-runoff voting as an alternative to the Electoral College?
To target Slashdot.
You heard me right. A recent trojan actually used Slashdot to post the IP addresses of infected hosts to a public reading spot, so that the worm authors could collect these addresses and break into the systems. The infections were posted to sid=31337, one of Slashdot's two remaining "troll" discussions. You can click that link to see the approximately 4000 infections that posted their IP addresses (along with a random hash to prevent duplicate messages and defeat the "lame" filter) to the discussion.
Cmdrtaco responded to this terrorism by closing the sid, proving that terrorism works.
- The Incredible Bread Machine
There are no rules, save "Don't Succeed". Gotta love America - they love capitalism, and someday they intend to give it a go.
Ten years after Demi Moore went for a million bucks, we've found a way to bring the objectification of women to a new level. The computer is apparently Larry Flynt's new meat grinder.
It's sad to see the rate at which our runaway technological advances outstrip the advancement of society. In one hundred years we've developed flight, space travel, nuclear physics, gene therapy, and global digital communications networks, but we still can't get past treating women like property instead of people.
Articles like this are why I'm so excited about the possibilities of genetic engineering. I feel like the only way to get this bug out of the system is to change the source code. Imagine a world of humans without gender or race - imagine what we could accomplish!
For now we're stuck with a world where we hang female children for mouthing off, create computer programs to be interchangeable currency for female slaves, pretend that gender warfare is actually a natural state, and where female developers can't post on Slashdot without seeing the first ten replies read "show us your tits".
Humynity sure has a long way to go.
Don't people understand that the major innovation of the Internet was interoperability? Web developers with their Java and Flash and "Designed for MSIE 600x800 with JVM 1.4.2ab only" web sites misssed the entire feat of the Internet: a globally compatible worldwide network. Then Microsoft took this mindset to the next level by trying to put a "Windows key" on the keyboard, as if putting proprietary crap in a universal Human-Computer interface was somehow a good idea. It was a horrible idea when Macintosh did it, and it's a horrible idea now. People aren't supposed to have to re-learn interfaces: that's the whole point! That's why the Internet was successful in the first place!
The Linux community is supposed to be the people who "get it". We're supposed to be the leaders. And now we're putting out a dedicated keyboard for an Operating System that doesn't even have a standardized distribution?
I suppose this is to be expected, given as we have spent the last eight years failing to even standardize on a single window manager.
Everyone can click here to browse this article happy.
Terrorism works. Terrorism causes fear, and the people whom terrorism works best on are those who fear the most and are most able to emphatize with victims. This has been aided by modern media, which is able to deliver maximum shock images instantly via a worldwide television network.
I will be moderated down for saying this, but it's on-topic, it's factual, and it's my well reasoned opinion. Not good material for Slashdot, but my conscience dictates my actions.
If we lived in a world of people who were reasonable, no actions would have been taken as a result of the Columbuine killings. Eleven dead teenagers in a nation of hundred of millions equals an inconsequential cause of death. Thirty teenagers had died the previous day in car crashes, but no one stopped driving. The reason Columbine made an impact is because of people who are capable of becoming afraid, and empathizing with victims. They are able to irrationally magnify their fear outside the actual scope of the threat - again with the help of mass media. Hence we got a million people marching on Washington to ban guns, when lightning strikes and airbags both killed more children that year than school shootings.
Irrational fear leads to irrational behaviour. Terrorism works.
So now we have these same people, genetically gifted with empathy and able to feel irrational, choking amounts of fear, banding together to form a political movement. You can call them "liberals" if you want but I'm not really into name-calling. This isn't surprising. The article is full of hokum when it speculates that "people who think alike form political movements". DUH.
The question we need to ask ourselves is: should people who are irrationally ruled by fear decide the fate of our nation? Is this wise?
Perhaps gene therapy will provide a cure for this in the future; for now we have a choice to make on Nov. 2.
The most popular P2P software vendor is AOL, maker of "AOL Instant Messenger" which allows for direct file transfers between users of the service. It's important to keep in mind that the chairman of the FCC, Mike Powell, has a huge number of shares of AOL stock. So when you go after American P2P companies, you're going after Mike Powell's pocket, and in turn that means you're going to be invoking the wrath of Colin Powell.
Like I said, not smart.
By the way, did anyone know that Colin Powell and George Bush are related? They share a common ancestor who actually happens to be quite famous. Name the ancestor and explicitly name how the two are related for a free Gmail invite (I just can't seem to give them away, *sigh).
Well one thing you should be aware of is that Slashdot is going to put in a politics section: politics.slashdot.org. This is going to be to compete directly for eyeball-share and ad revenue with sites like DailyKos. And I think that it will be the quick and ruthless banning of dissent that Slash has been designed to provide that will truly allow them to be the value-leader in the marketplace and ultimately prevail.
Respectfully, I don't agree with your quote, above. I think that Rob, Jamie, et al are making a reasonable inference that technically literate people are generally intelligent, and intelligent people are generally Democrats. If a few Republicans do happen to wander onto this site, they will be moderated down and IP banned rather quickly. If you don't agree, see the Farenheit-911 story in my parent post, there were probably at least a hundred people banned in just that thread alone for posting Repub-crap stuff. The process is really very efficient, and it's not censorship.
So, the problem really just takes care of itself.
A lawyer posted on Yahoo to protect his reputation, was attacked by a bunch of faceless Anonymous Cowards, and is angry because he can't determine their identity because Yahoo's "moderation system" won't filter them out?
Sounds like your typical Slashdot user.
I think among the Slashdot crowd it's of course common knowledge that Yahoo deletes comments all the time, just like Slashdot does. Slashdot has endured legal challenges from the DMCA and weathered them nicely, but this is an entirely different branch of law. Are dicussion sites breaching an implied contract with the user when they fail to protect them from trolling and abuse? Slashdot does its best to prevent this sort of thing, remember the Farenheit 9/11 story in which all Republicans were IP banned from posting - that shows what an effective moderation system can do (and by the way if there are any stupid Repubs in the audience, no, keeping you from posting isn't censorship, silly). But what if an effective moderation system isn't enough to protect us? What then?
If Yahoo loses this suit one could only expect a Slash or Scoop based site to be next. Given that Slashdot is a special case, utilizing a full time staff with unlimited moderation power to instantly IP ban anyone who disagrees too much - but what if even that isn't enough?
We need to brainstorm new ideas for protecting online users from harassment if this lawsuit goes through. The web site you save may be your own!
On a side note, include an email address and link to twenty deleted Slashdot comments for a free Gmail invite. Hint: Slashdot has only deleted about 700 comments.
People need to confront the DMCA, really see it for what it is. Right now, the law says "thou shalt only play the movies in the way Hollywood prescribes", but it hasn't really internalized because so many people can use unlicensed software to do things like copy DVDs, play them without commercials, etc. I think the FBI needs to really crack down on anyone who violates the DMCA, by imprisoning everyone who copies a DVD for home use, especially rich and politically connected people. We could call it the "War on Pirates", and appoint a "Piracy czar", or something similarly crazy. The public needs to be rendered totally unable to copy or play DVDs in a way of their choosing, as the law prescribes, before they will wake up and actually understand what the law prescribes. Right now there's no reason to fight the DMCA because no one knows what it really means. It's a ban on any speech which could be used to play DVDs or other media the way we want. And that's a pretty amazing thing.
To tie in to this article, I will award a Gmail invite for anyone who can prove to me that it's legal under the DMCA to stand on a street corner and recite DeCSS. It is of course illegal, which means that Free Speech is dead in America, but if you manage to prove me wrong and include an address, the invite will be on its way. Good luck!
Micro$oft gives out millions of dollars to catch people who exploit bugs in their browser! Now Linux gives out cash directly to people who find the bugs, rewarding engineers instead of snitches. I hope the major news outlets cover the huge difference in paradigm here- good cop instead of bad cop.
Everyone failed my last Gmail invite challenge, and I'm up to three invites, so here's a new one: there are sixteen factual errors in this article. I'll give you one for free: Bush is not a downhiller! Spot them all for a Gmail invite.
-Exmet
I'm pretty sure the parent post was meant as a joke, but this is actually a serious business. The reason for this guy's adventure, and other adventures into alternative energy sources, is very real: Prince Bandar and his Saudi friends are currently in control of America via a proxy named George Bush. If you've seen Farenheit 9/11 you know what I'm talking about. At last night's convention John Kerry addressed this in his speech by saying "I want an America that relies on its own ingenuity and innovation -- not the Saudi royal family." When he says "ingenuity and innovation", these kinds of oil-alternative projects are exactly what he's talking about. So, let's hope that this publicity stunt helps pull more attention towards the most important counter-terrorism initiative we have: alternative energy.
In other news, have you guys noticed how stingy Gmail is getting with invites? I only have two left, so here's a challenge for only the smartest: prove that "Murder is Wrong" using only known facts and science (no imaginary men or "God" talk allowed). Please steer clear of circular arguments and proof by definition. First three correct proofs get gmail invites (and remember to include your email address). Good luck!
Remember Apple? Remember the SE? Remember how if you bought a PC, it wasn't as nice, but because the hardware wasn't kept in a Cathedral but rather in a Bazaar, you could hack it, configure it, trade it, build it yourself? Here's the Apple mentality that kept them from competing successfully with Microsoft all over again: We Are The Shrine Upon High, Interoperate And Die!
BSD-based or not, Apple still has the same problems with their overprotective, self-infatuated management. They've failed to take ESR's lessons to heart, and this jealous hoarding of a good idea will cause them to lose it... AGAIN.
see?
Google searches for many hot button issues including the DMCA often return a Slashdot comment as a top hit. Here is one awesome search that returns nothing but wisdom, by the way.
It only indexes the cached version, not the dynamic version, as you (tried to?) point out. HTH HAND!