The First Amendment is a restriction on government, not on you, your neighbor or a business.
This was a civil judgement not a criminal conviction, the First Amendment does not apply AT ALL.
No, that's wrong. The First Amendment absolutely does apply here. It is a restriction on government, that's right, but the courts are part of the government. If someone (like Xybernaut) tries to use the courts to prevent you from exercising your First Amendment rights, the First Amendment limits what the courts can do.
I arrive at my office, uncap my coffee, unwrap my bagel, open my e-mail and face the first searing public policy question of the day: "Do you want to watch teens make their first porn video?"
No problem. My EULA says that by selling software to me, a company agrees to be bound by my EULA, which also provides that I'm not bound by anything in the company's EULA.
Doesn't sound like much, but there were only two films that won more than one award. LotR got three, Moulin Rouge got two, and all the other winners got one award each.
As we all know, attempting to determine the mass of the Higgs boson is what causes Type 13 planets to collapse to the size of a pea. (Scroll about halfway down the page for the reference, then see here for an explanation of the reference to fans.)
They've been paid for their time, and paid well. And if they choose to cynically exploit their fans by airing drek like Enterprise or the most of the last couple episodes of The Simpsons, that's all the right to complain I need.
C'mon now, I'm not talking about killing the guy, or even his box. I'm not talking about wiping his harddrive or even installing a fix without the owner's permission. I just want these damned things to stop eating up my bandwidth.
And while I'm not going to get cracked by the worm myself, I am getting hammered by others in the same/8 as me who weren't immune. I'm also not thrilled about thinking what the author of this new version is going to do with all the boxes he's rooted.
Given all that, I'm still having a hard time deciding that telling the offending machine to turn itself off isn't a valid, proportionate response to this sort of thing.
Is there a Windows command line equivalent to "shutdown -h now", by any chance? I know I really shouldn't do it, but I'd be so sorely tempted to write a script that would shut down any infected box that scanned mine.
The more I think about it, the more it seems like a permissible act of self defense. It does no harm to the infected box (if the worm doesn't write itself to disk, as I've read, it actually helps) and prevents the infected box from being used to perpetuate more abuse.
To run your own mail server if at all possible. This sort of vile nonsense is likely to keep getting worse, but it won't matter a bit if you receive your email through a server you control. --
I read the BBC article, and all it says on the point is that people attending had to sign a "declaration of goodwill". That's not the same, IMHO, as a requirement that any stories printed must be positive. It certainly seems to me that you can write a negative review without violating "goodwill".
Has anyone here ever been asked to sign such a declaration? Do any of you know the words that were used in this one, or some other one? --
So the characters become stranded on earth in prehistoric times, by having a caveman pull scrabble letters from a bag they determine that the question is "What is Five by Nine?"
Pardon a quibble here, but according to my copy of the Restaurant at the End of the Universe, the Ultimate Question is actually "What do you get if you multiply six by nine".
When I was in high school, a friend of mine who was very smart (and had much too much time on his hands) figured out that six times nine does equal 42 -- provided you do it in base 13. --
Subscribe to the MAPS RBL. Use their BGP feed to drop traffic. This way, the outage is coordinated with vast numbers of other RBL subscribers. As a result, it hits the spammers much harder and gets action taken much more rapidly.
This will still cost you legitimate traffic, but there's no way around that. You simply have to bite the bullet and suck up some short term costs for the long-term health of the net. --
They did wait for it to get mirrored. In fact, they even waited long enough for me to finish downloading both iso's from a nearby mirror (at 40+ kB/s, too, woohoo!:) It may not be everywhere just yet, but it's in enough different places that continuing to ignore the obvious wouldn't really serve that much of a point. --
I remember that one, and it was indeed wonderful -- one of the all time greats even with its primitive graphics and occasionally absurd gameplay (I've got to choose between abject humiliation and destroying the world over a tiny, unimportant conflict somewhere? There's no other choice possible? I don't think so).
Has anything even remotely similar been attempted lately? I guess the "geopolitical sim" market is going to lag behind FPS and RTS for a while longer:) --
Well, they didn't actually pay $100MM, they agreed to pay $100MM, which is actually a pretty big difference -- especially if the idiots at dc aren't going to be in business long enough to pay anything close to that --
Slashdot Mirror
"In space, no one can hear your electronics."
That sure beats the hell out of a certain other song that gets mentioned around here now and then.
Kang: Oh yeah? Well *beep* hyperbolic parabaloid *beep* earth!
No, that's wrong. The First Amendment absolutely does apply here. It is a restriction on government, that's right, but the courts are part of the government. If someone (like Xybernaut) tries to use the courts to prevent you from exercising your First Amendment rights, the First Amendment limits what the courts can do.
"We had part of a slinky. But I straightened it."
-- Egon Spengler
There's a column in today's Washington Post on spam:
I arrive at my office, uncap my coffee, unwrap my bagel, open my e-mail and face the first searing public policy question of the day: "Do you want to watch teens make their first porn video?"
It's called "The Great American Spam Attack", by Ellen Goodman.
No problem. My EULA says that by selling software to me, a company agrees to be bound by my EULA, which also provides that I'm not bound by anything in the company's EULA.
Too messy.
I prefer this one.
Doesn't sound like much, but there were only two films that won more than one award. LotR got three, Moulin Rouge got two, and all the other winners got one award each.
In that case it might not be too bad -- but I still demand to see a long, non-blurry shot of Jar-Jar Binks dying.
As we all know, attempting to determine the mass of the Higgs boson is what causes Type 13 planets to collapse
to the size of a pea. (Scroll about halfway down the page for the reference, then see here for an explanation of the reference to fans.)
They've been paid for their time, and paid well. And if they choose to cynically exploit their fans by airing drek like Enterprise or the most of the last couple episodes of The Simpsons, that's all the right to complain I need.
That is so two years ago.
C'mon now, I'm not talking about killing the guy, or even his box. I'm not talking about wiping his harddrive or even installing a fix without the owner's permission. I just want these damned things to stop eating up my bandwidth.
/8 as me who weren't immune. I'm also not thrilled about thinking what the author of this new version is going to do with all the boxes he's rooted.
And while I'm not going to get cracked by the worm myself, I am getting hammered by others in the same
Given all that, I'm still having a hard time deciding that telling the offending machine to turn itself off isn't a valid, proportionate response to this sort of thing.
OK, OK, I'm not going to do it, but man . . .
Is there a Windows command line equivalent to "shutdown -h now", by any chance? I know I really shouldn't do it, but I'd be so sorely tempted to write a script that would shut down any infected box that scanned mine.
The more I think about it, the more it seems like a permissible act of self defense. It does no harm to the infected box (if the worm doesn't write itself to disk, as I've read, it actually helps) and prevents the infected box from being used to perpetuate more abuse.
Hmm . . .
To run your own mail server if at all possible. This sort of vile nonsense is likely to keep getting worse, but it won't matter a bit if you receive your email through a server you control.
--
Remind me, just when did they discover oil in Somalia? I must have missed it. So did the CIA, for that matter:
--
Has anyone here ever been asked to sign such a declaration? Do any of you know the words that were used in this one, or some other one?
--
Pardon a quibble here, but according to my copy of the Restaurant at the End of the Universe, the Ultimate Question is actually "What do you get if you multiply six by nine".
When I was in high school, a friend of mine who was very smart (and had much too much time on his hands) figured out that six times nine does equal 42 -- provided you do it in base 13.
--
Wow. A silly article posted on April 1. Who'd 'a thunk it?
--
(1) When I made a donation to the EFF, my on-line "receipt" showed that it happened in 1900 -- rather too long ago for me to take a tax deduction.
(2) Some guy returned a video and was charged for it being 100 years overdue. That, and a few other "catastrophes" are summed up in this article.
Other than that, well . . .
--
Subscribe to the MAPS RBL. Use their BGP feed to drop traffic. This way, the outage is coordinated with vast numbers of other RBL subscribers. As a result, it hits the spammers much harder and gets action taken much more rapidly.
This will still cost you legitimate traffic, but there's no way around that. You simply have to bite the bullet and suck up some short term costs for the long-term health of the net.
--
They did wait for it to get mirrored. In fact, they even waited long enough for me to finish downloading both iso's from a nearby mirror (at 40+ kB/s, too, woohoo! :) It may not be everywhere just yet, but it's in enough different places that continuing to ignore the obvious wouldn't really serve that much of a point.
--
I remember that one, and it was indeed wonderful -- one of the all time greats even with its primitive graphics and occasionally absurd gameplay (I've got to choose between abject humiliation and destroying the world over a tiny, unimportant conflict somewhere? There's no other choice possible? I don't think so).
:)
Has anything even remotely similar been attempted lately? I guess the "geopolitical sim" market is going to lag behind FPS and RTS for a while longer
--
Well, they didn't actually pay $100MM, they agreed to pay $100MM, which is actually a pretty big difference -- especially if the idiots at dc aren't going to be in business long enough to pay anything close to that
--