I just wanted you to know that last night I thought you were a little too rough on me. Might I suggest the use of more Vasoline? Maybe we can try again tonight.
-Sethf
Who cares about Motherboard prices, when our very freedom is under attack by one of the editors of Slashdot... (the self proclaimed "yro" guy) Michael Sims. He hijacked the Censorware project from me, and I have hated him ever since.
I hate Michael Sims for what he did to me on the Censorware project, and I am going to carry this grudge with me, every where I go for years to come...
Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 10:41:18 -0400
From: Seth Finkelstein
To: Seth Finkelstein's InfoThought list
Subject: IT: Federal censorware law down! (and Seth Finkelstein's reports!)
I'm ecstatic that the court seems to have used my pioneering [sethf.com]
efforts in
anticensorware work [sethf.com]
as one factor in its decision, in passages such as these:
"Another technique that filtering companies use in order to deal with a
structural feature of the Internet is blocking the root level URLs of
so-called "loophole" Web sites. These are Web sites that provide
access to a particular Web page, but display in the user's browser a
URL that is different from the URL with which the particular page is
usually associated. Because of this feature, they provide a "loophole"
that can be used to get around filtering software, i.e., they display
a URL that is different from the one that appears on the filtering
company's control list. "Loophole" Web sites include caches of Web pages that have been removed from their original location,
"anonymizer" sites, and translation sites.
Caches are archived copies that some search engines, such as Google,
keep of the Web pages they index. The cached copy stored by Google
will have a URL that is different from the original URL. Because Web
sites often change rapidly, caches are the only way to access pages
that have been taken down, revised, or have changed their URLs for
some reason. For example, a magazine might place its current stories
under a given URL, and replace them monthly with new stories. If a
user wanted to find an article published six months ago, he or she
would be unable to access it if not for Google's cached version.
Some sites on the Web serve as a proxy or intermediary between a user
and another Web page. When using a proxy server, a user does not
access the page from its original URL, but rather from the URL of the
proxy server. One type of proxy service is an "anonymizer." Users may
access Web sites indirectly via an anonymizer when they do not want
the Web site they are visiting to be able to determine the IP address
from which they are accessing the site, or to leave "cookies" on their
browser.(8) Some proxy servers can be used to attempt to translate Web
page content from one language to another. Rather than directly
accessing the original Web page in its original language, users can
instead indirectly access the page via a proxy server offering
translation features.
As noted above, filtering companies often block loophole sites, such
as caches, anonymizers, and translation sites. The practice of
blocking loophole sites necessarily results in a significant amount of
overblocking, because the vast majority of the pages that are cached,
for example, do not contain content that would match a filtering
company's category definitions. Filters that do not block these
loophole sites, however, may enable users to access any URL on the Web
via the loophole site, thus resulting in substantial underblocking."
This is an aspect which I've been trying to get into the
censorware debate for ages. I'm overjoyed that the court heard, they
got it, they listened, and it helped strike down Federal censorware law!
These are the reports which seem to have made a difference in the above:
BESS's Secret LOOPHOLE: (censorware vs. privacy & anonymity) - a
secret category of BESS (N2H2), and more about why censorware must
blacklist privacy, anonymity, and translators http://sethf.com/anticensorware/bess/loophole.php [sethf.com]
BESS vs The Google Search Engine (Cache, Groups, Images) -
BESS bans cached web pages, passes porn in groups, and considers all
image searching to be pornography. http://sethf.com/anticensorware/bess/google.php [sethf.com]
The Pre-Slipped Slope - censorware vs the Wayback Machine web archive -
The logic of censorware programs suppressing an enormous digital library. http://sethf.com/anticensorware/general/slip.php [sethf.com]
I just want to cry some more about the censorware project that michael simms has stolen from me. I know that no one actually cares, but I'm going to keep posting the crap anyway...
Thank you for your time
Slashdot Mirror
They put USA in the "countries" list, and it took me a while trying to find THE USA amongst all that 3rd world scum.
Here is what you are all looking for.
--
Yes, Abelson, and about 30 Susmans.
Same kind of thing happened to me on the censorware project...
AND I WILL NEVER FORGIVE MICHAEL FOR IT!!!
I just wanted you to know that last night I thought you were a little too rough on me. Might I suggest the use of more Vasoline? Maybe we can try again tonight. -Sethf
Who cares about Motherboard prices, when our very freedom is under attack by one of the editors of Slashdot... (the self proclaimed "yro" guy) Michael Sims. He hijacked the Censorware project from me, and I have hated him ever since.
Please don't impersonate me, you stupid troll. I have enough problems as it is... I don't need you making any more...
Who is your all time most hated Censorware Project Hijacker?
[ ]Michael Sims
[ ]Michael Sims
[ ]Michael Sims
[ ]Michael Sims
[ ]Michael Sims
[ ]Michael Sims
[ ]CowboyNeal -- Wait no, make that Michael Sims
This has nothing to do with Michael Sims and how he hijacked the censorware project... He is nothing more than a terrorist... 'nuff said
Michael, please explaint to me why you hijacked the Censorware Project... you terrorist...
I hate Michael Sims for what he did to me on the Censorware project, and I am going to carry this grudge with me, every where I go for years to come...
n/t
But instead, I'm just going to rant about how michael hijacked the Censorware Project from me...
What does this have to do with how Michael Sims hijacked the censorware project?
Amazon.com has it much less expensive. Let's see... $17.47 from Amazon or $19.96 from B&N... Why is B&N always so much more expensive?
See also Bennett Haselton's comments on the hijacking [sethf.com] and Jonathan Wallace's comments [sethf.com]]
Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 10:41:18 -0400
From: Seth Finkelstein
To: Seth Finkelstein's InfoThought list
Subject: IT: Federal censorware law down! (and Seth Finkelstein's reports!)
I'm ecstatic that the court seems to have used my pioneering [sethf.com] efforts in anticensorware work [sethf.com] as one factor in its decision, in passages such as these:
"Another technique that filtering companies use in order to deal with a structural feature of the Internet is blocking the root level URLs of so-called "loophole" Web sites. These are Web sites that provide access to a particular Web page, but display in the user's browser a URL that is different from the URL with which the particular page is usually associated. Because of this feature, they provide a "loophole" that can be used to get around filtering software, i.e., they display a URL that is different from the one that appears on the filtering company's control list. "Loophole" Web sites include caches of Web pages that have been removed from their original location, "anonymizer" sites, and translation sites.
Caches are archived copies that some search engines, such as Google, keep of the Web pages they index. The cached copy stored by Google will have a URL that is different from the original URL. Because Web sites often change rapidly, caches are the only way to access pages that have been taken down, revised, or have changed their URLs for some reason. For example, a magazine might place its current stories under a given URL, and replace them monthly with new stories. If a user wanted to find an article published six months ago, he or she would be unable to access it if not for Google's cached version.
Some sites on the Web serve as a proxy or intermediary between a user and another Web page. When using a proxy server, a user does not access the page from its original URL, but rather from the URL of the proxy server. One type of proxy service is an "anonymizer." Users may access Web sites indirectly via an anonymizer when they do not want the Web site they are visiting to be able to determine the IP address from which they are accessing the site, or to leave "cookies" on their browser.(8) Some proxy servers can be used to attempt to translate Web page content from one language to another. Rather than directly accessing the original Web page in its original language, users can instead indirectly access the page via a proxy server offering translation features.
As noted above, filtering companies often block loophole sites, such as caches, anonymizers, and translation sites. The practice of blocking loophole sites necessarily results in a significant amount of overblocking, because the vast majority of the pages that are cached, for example, do not contain content that would match a filtering company's category definitions. Filters that do not block these loophole sites, however, may enable users to access any URL on the Web via the loophole site, thus resulting in substantial underblocking."
This is an aspect which I've been trying to get into the censorware debate for ages. I'm overjoyed that the court heard, they got it, they listened, and it helped strike down Federal censorware law! These are the reports which seem to have made a difference in the above:
BESS's Secret LOOPHOLE: (censorware vs. privacy & anonymity) - a secret category of BESS (N2H2), and more about why censorware must blacklist privacy, anonymity, and translators
http://sethf.com/anticensorware/bess/loophole.php [sethf.com]
BESS vs The Google Search Engine (Cache, Groups, Images) - BESS bans cached web pages, passes porn in groups, and considers all image searching to be pornography.
http://sethf.com/anticensorware/bess/google.php [sethf.com]
SmartFilter's Greatest Evils - why censorware must blacklist privacy, anonymity, and language translatorse stevils.php [sethf.com]
http://sethf.com/anticensorware/smartfilter/great
The Pre-Slipped Slope - censorware vs the Wayback Machine web archive - The logic of censorware programs suppressing an enormous digital library.
http://sethf.com/anticensorware/general/slip.php [sethf.com]
-- Seth Finkelstein Consulting Programmer http://sethf.com [sethf.com]u its/19HACK.html [nytimes.com]
Anticensorware Investigations: http://sethf.com/anticensorware/ [sethf.com]
Seth Finkelstein's Infothought list - http://sethf.com/infothought/ [sethf.com]
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/19/technology/circ
I am right
I just want to cry some more about the censorware project that michael simms has stolen from me. I know that no one actually cares, but I'm going to keep posting the crap anyway... Thank you for your time