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  1. Re:What not to do in a court room on Jack Thompson Walks Out On Hearing · · Score: 1

    you don't attack judges unless they are really wrong and you can back it up. You place an objection in the record, they try to ignore it and move on. The objection is legally there, and you use it to appeal later.

    He's trying to pull the stunt Microsoft pulled in their trial with the DOJ by publicly insulting the judge, then appeal that the judge was "unfairly biased" .. because he was insulting the judge! hey, it worked with judge Jackson but that was a business trial, not disbarment.

  2. Re:Ten years is unusual on Jack Thompson Walks Out On Hearing · · Score: 2, Informative

    things like that are designed to break the system. he doesn't agree it's morally right but does it anyway because it's god's moral war so breaking rules is OK.

    The point he was proving is that first amendment rules would apply to the filings. He's correct if he had asked permission first, proved they were relevant to the case, and not done great disrespect to the judge. That is what he's in trouble for, the FBI puts legal gay porn in evidence all the time so the press will leak it against politicians they don't like... it's not the images that are the problem.
    The second reason he did it was the "think of the children" facade. Because he "backdoored" the images, they were filed as public documentation where normal filings of this type would be restricted by the judge to attorneys. He then proceeded to point out that now "children" could legally access this horrible vile imagery by requesting public documents, the court is providing Porn!!! Look how broken the system is... imagine that's what video games are doing... putting graphic images in a "child's toy", never mind the clear MA rating that says not to sell to kids.

    He wants the "Law" to protect kids, but completely disrespects all aspects and rulings that have been made legally.

  3. Re:Good riddance. on Jack Thompson Walks Out On Hearing · · Score: 1

    his "message" is that the "right" will use any means necessary (including abusing/breaking the law) to enforce their religion on everybody else. He's trying to attack long-standing things that courts have already ruled are legal... over and over. He's setting up fodder so that Bush-appointed judges can set us back 50 years.. but the low level judges aren't falling for the game.

  4. Re:Good ridance on Jack Thompson Walks Out On Hearing · · Score: 2, Informative

    of course what good is his advice if the board felt the need to kick him out... you have to screw up pretty badly to be KICKED out, it's more than just letting it lapse.

  5. Re:Good ridance on Jack Thompson Walks Out On Hearing · · Score: 1

    actually Vista and 360 both have parental controls to respect the ESRB rating on games and movies. If you properly use accounts then you can lock your kids out of any movie or game that's rated or have dad's password to approve it.

  6. Re:fp on Jack Thompson Walks Out On Hearing · · Score: 3, Interesting

    he (and Regan & Bush 1) broke the law and got off on a technicality just like Clinton and OJ.

  7. Re:Nothing new here on Data Retention Proven to Change Citizen Behavior · · Score: 1

    exactly, you'd thing Germany of all places has learned it's lesson TWICE in the last 100 years that the government is the worst offender at spying on it's citizens.... I guess this generation doesn't think it will happen to THEM or something.

  8. Re:Wake up! Domestic spying is bad news. on Data Retention Proven to Change Citizen Behavior · · Score: 2, Insightful

    but to enforce DRM they are dependent on government guns! Once there is DRM everywhere backed by the shut-up power of the DMCA there's no legal way to even SAY (because it's illegal to distribute and use tools to even look!) that a piece of software has a backdoor. It only took the FCC goons about 5 minutes to realize they could use that to start locking "entertainment" down... public safety LOVES the combination that's eliminated public scanners of police frequencies.

  9. Re:Wake up! Domestic spying is bad news. on Data Retention Proven to Change Citizen Behavior · · Score: 4, Interesting

    but as long as SOME people CAN do that we're OK. Look at how the DMCA works where even the tools to look at something like De-CSS would be considered illegal. Consider the FCC really wanted to pass the broadcast flag that would REQUIRE all TV decoding software to be locked against the user for public broadcasts! That means no end Users could record the nightly news... the start of re-writing history every few years with nobody to even legally defend against it.

  10. Re:Google gadgets? on Google Releases Desktop Gadgets For Linux · · Score: 1

    this is cross platform... you can develop just 1 gadget and run it on any system.

  11. Re:Why? on Why Google Should Embrace OpenOffice.org · · Score: 3, Interesting

    What's wrong with remote 'X' sessions over SSH? That's what LTSP already does... considerably better than Citrix and less expensive.

  12. Re:Why? on Why Google Should Embrace OpenOffice.org · · Score: 1

    Google will bring Docs to the desktop with Google Gears backing it in Firfox3 and Safari. That will allow the web app to work offline but primarily be connected. It's a better plan that Citrix because apps should not have problems "dropping out" until time to update with the server.

    I'd like to see and OO.org plugin to directly go to Google Docs... I think there already is one from some third party. If Google goes any further for companies they'll go the "appliance" route. They sell google servers you can set internally to troll your network ...and they can search many more types of data than what the online google can. They'd just add Docs to one of those and allow companies to choose to sync it to the main google Docs or not.

  13. this is a good thing! on Data Retention Proven to Change Citizen Behavior · · Score: 5, Funny

    That means 11% of the people were going to do something morally wrong and thought twice about getting caught. That proves survaillence is doing it's part to curtail the unwashed masses of wickedness on the interwebitubes. When more like 50% start censoring themselves then we'll know that people take their freedom of speech seriously and make sure only edifying things are spoken.

  14. Re:I wonder... on Jack Thompson Walks Out On Hearing · · Score: 1

    if he was "just" a client his actions would not be entertained in court. A non-lawyer client would simply be laughed out of court for misunderstanding the law. Once you are a lawyer, a higher expectation is expected in all your dealings with the court.... there's no leeway for "representing" yourself because you're still bound by the ruled of lawyers while in any court.

  15. Re:Good ridance on Jack Thompson Walks Out On Hearing · · Score: 1

    exactly, he's a "good" villain because he makes mistakes and breaks the rules. The people that don't like "dangerous" games don't like rule breakers even less.
    The real dangerous people would be wives with big political "ears" to hear their pleas to "save the children" and do it legally by appointing officials with a certain "bias" that can make rules without asking.

  16. Re:Just le on Is UML Really Dead, Or Only Cataleptic? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    did you use just Ruby or Rails? Rails attempts to solve similar problems that UML does. Frankly Rails does have a neat way of allowing more organic development, forcing you to build structures with tracking of each change along the way. I think more languages should start similar ides of tests and promotions... without the up-front paperwork.

  17. Re:There are 3 copyright claims in play on Prince DMCAs YouTube To Block Radiohead Song · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    he owns the copyright for his performance on stage... if it was shot by fans, they didn't have permission to record in that venue from the promoters so Prince's claim stands... like the parent said.

  18. Re:My god youre an idiot on gNewSense Distro Frees Ubuntu · · Score: 1

    but it is.. gNewSense uses some other bug and packaging model other than Canonical Launchpad because Launchpad (their management server) source is not released by Canonical as Free Software and that's "bad" somehow and the FSF/GNU has to do something about that to make a stand. Therefore because the whole "path" isn't Free Software, they forked it, and manage it some other way. They don't like that Ubuntu includes ANY links to "free as in beer" software.. firmware, drivers, etc that are allowed to be downloaded but not "open source". Hell they even get picky about stuff that's not Free Software and split hairs over too much MIT or BSD licensed stuff in there.

  19. Re:Obscene is easy, its called fun on FCC Pitches Free, Bowdlerized Wireless Internet Access · · Score: 1

    except that's exactly what they're trying do... take something that's worked well in an almost pure free market and strap the worst kind of monopoly rules to it for no reason other than to enforce the censorship and make it "free".

  20. seems a bit silly on gNewSense Distro Frees Ubuntu · · Score: 4, Insightful

    gNewSense seems a bit too nitpicky to me. Ubuntu is derived from totally free Debian, but they add optional libraries for "free as in beer" things like binary drivers and firmware bits they get the rights to distribute. The FSF seems over the top here, if they don't like Ubuntu, just use vanilla Debian with the same package list. I think the issue is that Ubuntu's build system, and bug tracking system are not free software so the "free" distro is tainted because of that? Splitting AGAIN seems silly, especially when Ubuntu makes it really easy to choose only Free Software for your install.

    It seems to be the only point is to break Ubuntu's chops over a small thing just because they're not pure enough. Didn't the FSF guys also did this with Debian at one point for including repos with "non-free" software on their servers... how ridiculously silly. This is why businesses don't take the FSF and GNU seriously.

  21. Re:Where is the FBI and DOJ? on MediaDefender's BitTorrent-Based DOS Takes Down Revision3 · · Score: 1

    the FBI reacts slowly to these things, after all they're looking to put people in prison for 5-10... they can take a while to do the paper work.

  22. Re:misuse of Revision3 servers? on MediaDefender's BitTorrent-Based DOS Takes Down Revision3 · · Score: 1

    it was set so that when they tried to clean up the illegal file access MD servers attacked them. That's the MO on most sites but none of the guys with illegal stuff can really say to much about it because they try NOT to log stuff.

  23. Re:Shouldn't have publicized it on their blog on MediaDefender's BitTorrent-Based DOS Takes Down Revision3 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    this is how MD finds out who's downloading torrents.. they hack the servers of private groups and then log the IPs of people who stumble on their illegally placed "infringing" files. This has been the MO for a while and slashdot reports it occasionally. Places like Pirate Bay deal with this all the time but can't report it because they are infringing on copyright so they'd get in more trouble. R3 has no such issue.. they are trying to run an honest shop because their jobs and homes are on the line here. They'll have no problem turning over IP logs to the FBI because their downloads are legal. Nobody LEGAL has gone against these guys like this before. Pass the popcorn!

  24. Re:Shouldn't have publicized it on their blog on MediaDefender's BitTorrent-Based DOS Takes Down Revision3 · · Score: 1

    that's why real companies with security policies always go after the criminal charges. Good admins don't blame somebody else, they make sure $50M of damage isn't done in the first place. Of course they have logs and other evidence, well documented as company policy to hand to the police. The trouble logs most good IT shops keep are far better than most police reports or even the "standard" FBI agents because they know their systems, they have records of normal traffic patterns.

    Why bother to sue for money when you have a nearly slam dunk case to put people in federal prison for quite a while. That's much more satisfying.

  25. Re:smells like... on MediaDefender's BitTorrent-Based DOS Takes Down Revision3 · · Score: 0

    you can't do that... you still get the traffic at the router and it exceeds the physical limits of the wire. That's the point of SYN attacks is that they are at the router interface level, so the TCP stack itself in the nic takes the hit and no blackhole will help you because the packets never get thru to be processed.