You must have missed the part in the bill text where it says "Lobbying activities include paid efforts to stimulate grassroots lobbying, but do not include grassroots lobbying."
Who the hell modded this insightful?? Did they even bother to read the bill's text, which clearly states that you have to be paid by a client to make arguments for a specific action in Congress? How does this differ from paying someone to go out on the streets and ask them to call their congressman? It's lobbying, and it's been regulated for years. If you're against this, you're against lobbying laws in general.
Hell, no one in their right mind would ever pay someone from Slashdot to argue anything, so what are we worried about?
If you get paid by an oil company to go down to Washington and convince Congress to pass certain laws, or get paid by an oil company to go out on town and get people to sign a petition or write their congressmen, then you, sir, are a lobbyist and must therefore register as one.
What if it was gun manufacturers? Microsoft? The RIAA? Any different? What about the EFF? What about FOX News?
What if it were Rupert Murdoch?
Now tell me, if someone paid you money to write a blog trying to influence Congress to pass certain laws, how is this not lobbying? Why should posting online be any different from walking up to Capitol Hill and having a chat with some senators?
This is not totalitarianism, it's simply being fair. If you're against this, you should be against all lobbying laws. And no, bringing in revenue from visitors to your blog is NOT getting paid to influence Congress to take a specific action (or trying to get the general public to do the same).
I love Neal Stephenson, but for crying out loud, can't he hire someone to keep his website current? For a self-proclaimed hacker, he has absolutely horrid net presence. I would like to at least know that he is alive. Knowing what kind of thing he is working on might be nice, too.
At first I thought maybe they just ripped off the bassline or maybe sampled the synth for a couple bars. But this is wholesale theft of pretty much the entire song, including the melody. The line is thin, yes, but this is worse than "Can't Touch This" (Superfreak) or "Ice Ice Baby" (Under Pressure) or anything Puff Daddy ever did (at least he got permission from the original artist). This kind of sampling is simply dishonest. I'm totally for allowing samples to be used fairly, but this is far beyond sampling — it's theft of the song.
So you're saying, if there was a magical way to make media have DRM, and make it so that it gave me all the freedoms that I think it should have (assuming that we can all agree on what those are), would it be good?
No. Not at all. Would you want to put a magical lock on a gun that would instantly know if it was being used illegally and then have it refuse to fire? No. In order to have a free society, its citizens MUST be allowed to break the law. Otherwise the country becomes nothing more than a huge prison.
I called that fucker up and he gave me a bunch of crap about how "this is more important than the plot of some stupid book" and then I said "well why don't you just link it with a warning??" and he's like "... ok that makes sense."
I am now severing my connection to the Internet. I can no longer trust even the most unlikely sources for Harry Potter spoilers. Fucking Richard Stallman ruined it for me last time. He sure got an earful from me, though.
They're just fucking files!! Mail doesn't have to be any more complicated than that!! The fact that this is even a debatable topic shows how convoluted and silly the whole situation is.
Exactly. A long-winded technical spec and poor documentation of the DOM and built-in functions of browsers. That is why people hate Javascript. If Javascript had the documentation that PHP had and the focus behind it that Zend puts behind PHP, then Javascript would be popular. A programming language is just like any other piece of software: its inherent quality has very little to do with its popularity.
The reason people use PHP is because it has good documentation, unlike Javascript. It also has a single, uniform implementation that is much saner than any current Javascript implementation nowadays (as sad as that is).
This article just keeps talking in one incredibly unbroken sentence moving from topic to topic so that no one could interrupt it was really quite hypnotic.
Great, IBM, way to ignore the dreaded "xargs" security bug! Seriously, IBM notices some kind of obscure danger about underscores, but completely ignores the fact that xargs separates arguments by newlines??
Let's say I'm a sysadmin and I'm running as root, trying to remove all the files in the/tmp directory by a certain user for some reason: find/tmp -user 1001 | xargs rm
User 1001 has a directory in/tmp called "haxor\n". Inside there he puts another directory "etc" and inside there he puts a file called "passwd."
Can you guess what happens? find prints:/tmp/tmp43cc91/tmp/haxor/tmp/haxor/etc/passwd
xargs sees: ["/tmp/tmp43cc91","/tmp/haxor","","/tmp/haxor","/e tc/passwd"] Oops!! You just hosed your system!
The correct way to use xargs is to use the -0 switch, which will separate the input by null characters, which cannot appear in filenames. find has a handy -print0 option which will output the correct output:
Actually, in "Kansas", Crichton accidentally uses the wormhole to travel to Earth - circa the 1980s, when he was a small child. Moya is pulled through and wacky hijinx ensue. Then they time travel back to their time.
Oh and then there was that time travel episode where they went to a museum and went back in time. You had the warring factions and they had to try and get everything back the way it was.
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Are they getting paid by a client for the sole purpose of influencing Congress to make a specific action?
I didn't think so.
You must have missed the part in the bill text where it says "Lobbying activities include paid efforts to stimulate grassroots lobbying, but do not include grassroots lobbying. "
Who the hell modded this insightful?? Did they even bother to read the bill's text, which clearly states that you have to be paid by a client to make arguments for a specific action in Congress? How does this differ from paying someone to go out on the streets and ask them to call their congressman? It's lobbying, and it's been regulated for years. If you're against this, you're against lobbying laws in general.
Hell, no one in their right mind would ever pay someone from Slashdot to argue anything, so what are we worried about?
Talk about overreaction.
If you get paid by an oil company to go down to Washington and convince Congress to pass certain laws, or get paid by an oil company to go out on town and get people to sign a petition or write their congressmen, then you, sir, are a lobbyist and must therefore register as one.
What if it was gun manufacturers? Microsoft? The RIAA? Any different? What about the EFF? What about FOX News?
What if it were Rupert Murdoch?
Now tell me, if someone paid you money to write a blog trying to influence Congress to pass certain laws, how is this not lobbying? Why should posting online be any different from walking up to Capitol Hill and having a chat with some senators?
This is not totalitarianism, it's simply being fair. If you're against this, you should be against all lobbying laws. And no, bringing in revenue from visitors to your blog is NOT getting paid to influence Congress to take a specific action (or trying to get the general public to do the same).
I love Neal Stephenson, but for crying out loud, can't he hire someone to keep his website current? For a self-proclaimed hacker, he has absolutely horrid net presence. I would like to at least know that he is alive. Knowing what kind of thing he is working on might be nice, too.
You've got a lot to learn about human nature.
At first I thought maybe they just ripped off the bassline or maybe sampled the synth for a couple bars. But this is wholesale theft of pretty much the entire song, including the melody. The line is thin, yes, but this is worse than "Can't Touch This" (Superfreak) or "Ice Ice Baby" (Under Pressure) or anything Puff Daddy ever did (at least he got permission from the original artist). This kind of sampling is simply dishonest. I'm totally for allowing samples to be used fairly, but this is far beyond sampling — it's theft of the song.
So you're saying, if there was a magical way to make media have DRM, and make it so that it gave me all the freedoms that I think it should have (assuming that we can all agree on what those are), would it be good?
No. Not at all. Would you want to put a magical lock on a gun that would instantly know if it was being used illegally and then have it refuse to fire? No. In order to have a free society, its citizens MUST be allowed to break the law. Otherwise the country becomes nothing more than a huge prison.
Brilliant! Now future generations can unthaw you and bring you back when their civilization has figured out how to cure death!
Yeah, but I'm saying that the cops planted them to "seal the deal."
I called that fucker up and he gave me a bunch of crap about how "this is more important than the plot of some stupid book" and then I said "well why don't you just link it with a warning??" and he's like "... ok that makes sense."
ARGH!
That actually sounds really suspicious - the addition of the books is way too much.
I am now severing my connection to the Internet. I can no longer trust even the most unlikely sources for Harry Potter spoilers. Fucking Richard Stallman ruined it for me last time. He sure got an earful from me, though.
"Two years from now, spam will be solved" - Bill Gates
They're just fucking files!! Mail doesn't have to be any more complicated than that!! The fact that this is even a debatable topic shows how convoluted and silly the whole situation is.
I taught my parents how to send and receive encrypted mails using SquirrelMail's GPG plugin with no problem. It's not hard to understand.
Exactly. A long-winded technical spec and poor documentation of the DOM and built-in functions of browsers. That is why people hate Javascript. If Javascript had the documentation that PHP had and the focus behind it that Zend puts behind PHP, then Javascript would be popular. A programming language is just like any other piece of software: its inherent quality has very little to do with its popularity.
The reason people use PHP is because it has good documentation, unlike Javascript. It also has a single, uniform implementation that is much saner than any current Javascript implementation nowadays (as sad as that is).
...welcome to the world of the 1990s...
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This article just keeps talking in one incredibly unbroken sentence moving from topic to topic so that no one could interrupt it was really quite hypnotic.
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Great, IBM, way to ignore the dreaded "xargs" security bug! Seriously, IBM notices some kind of obscure danger about underscores, but completely ignores the fact that xargs separates arguments by newlines??
/tmp directory by a certain user for some reason: /tmp -user 1001 | xargs rm
/tmp called "haxor\n". Inside there he puts another directory "etc" and inside there he puts a file called "passwd."
/tmp/tmp43cc91 /tmp/haxor /tmp/haxor /etc/passwd
e tc/passwd"]
/tmp -user 1001 -print0 | xargs -0 rm
Let's say I'm a sysadmin and I'm running as root, trying to remove all the files in the
find
User 1001 has a directory in
Can you guess what happens?
find prints:
xargs sees: ["/tmp/tmp43cc91","/tmp/haxor","","/tmp/haxor","/
Oops!! You just hosed your system!
The correct way to use xargs is to use the -0 switch, which will separate the input by null characters, which cannot appear in filenames. find has a handy -print0 option which will output the correct output:
find
And your system is safe.
So wait - where did that extra dollar go??
"Get off my plane" - Captain Kathryn Janeway
spoilers:
Actually, in "Kansas", Crichton accidentally uses the wormhole to travel to Earth - circa the 1980s, when he was a small child. Moya is pulled through and wacky hijinx ensue. Then they time travel back to their time.
Oh and then there was that time travel episode where they went to a museum and went back in time. You had the warring factions and they had to try and get everything back the way it was.
Farscape is the best show ever.