In spite of the reprehensible tactics of the MIT thugs, mass posting
to USENET remains a profitable way to market to the huge majority of
people on the Internet who do not share the warped MIT mentality.
Every day more and more businesses are mass posting to USENET because
it is effective. It is particularly beneficial to small businesses,
which our government has an interest in fostering. If Cybersell's
connection to the Internet were to be eliminated, the advertising
posted to USENET every day would still continue and grow. Our company
would also continue on, advising businesses of how to advertise
through their own accounts, just as Mr. Boyle did.
The public is becoming increasingly aware and intolerant of academic
institutions who support the dissemination of pornography and the
commission of computer crimes as exercises in free speech but act
sociopathically in response to advertising. This set of values is not
reflective of the beliefs of most Americans. In this regard, an
investigation of MIT and their flagrant negligence in turning a blind
eye to the misuses of their system is long overdue. Meanwhile,
Cybersell stands behind all its actions as being both legal and highly
successful business pursuits. We continue to encourage others to
follow the path we are cutting through this virtual war zone.
Laurence A. Canter
Martha S. Siegel
Cybersell (tm)
Who knew then, what we know now... especially that remark about
a "virtual war zone"...
Is this true? I went looking for
the obituary, but could not find it.
I'd have thought there would be
some notice. I wondered if the obituary
would have mentioned her as the "co-inventor"
of spam (what a thing to be remembered for,
in one's life...)
Scarpace writes: "Researchers at the Los Alamos National
Laboratory in New Mexico and at the University of South Carolina
in Columbia have
proposed
the existence of "gravastars" which are
bubbles of superdense matter. If they are correct, the idea of a
black hole with a singularity at the center may be just a fantasy.
"As already mentioned in another story a Federal censorware law is now
being challenged in court. For the past months, I've been focusing on
trying to change some of the ways people think about
censorware. Censorware is not a "filter", it's a blinder-box."
(The idea here being that a dumb script will just follow-up this message
with the same attack. Of course, a dumb person would do the same.
Sometimes it's hard to tell the difference. But I am curious. For the
record, I strongly doubt you're
Michael Sims.
I generally don't reply to trolls. But as I said, these are
test messages, in an old discussion, and given
Michael Sims attacks, I'm interested in testing a few things.
I don't want to make any accusations I'm not certain about. If our
situations were reversed, he would certainly unfailingly accuse me of
your actions, and basically has. That's the difference between us.
This post is a little bit of a test to see if someone's being petty with
revenge-moderation. I'm posting it five days after the discussion.
The revenge-modder may or may not be
Michael Sims, I don't accuse him of it (in contrast to his behavior
against me). But anyway - thanks for the thought, but no Google
bombs. Nothing of that type of thing. If I ever do anything of
that sort, it will be used against me to the ultimate degree.
Michael Sims
is already simply lying that I script-attacked Slashdot. It's
a pure smear, but he knows there is no cost to him, and whatever
mud sticks to me is the benefit to him. So NO GOOGLE BOMBS. Nothing that
would tend to lead people to doubt the honesty of my denials of
Michael Sims' smears. I won't even post this as Anonymous Coward,
in order to back up my honesty when I say that I don't do anonymous
troll-postings about him. I put my name to what I say regarding him
and I've never had a problem doing that.
The problem with searching out all the links to
censorware.org is that there are a bunch which are in print, in
mail messages which are on web-archives, in sites which have webmasters
who don't update old material, and so on. So it's a huge job, and can't
ever be fully changed. Some of the top linking-sites have been changed,
but there's still a big problem from the sources above.
Michael Sims has recently become absolutely shameless that he's
hijacking those links for his ranting. Sigh. I'll say it again, though
I'll certainly guarantee myself a slam down to 'Troll' status if I am
in fact being revenge-moderated: It boggles my mind that he can pull
such sleaze and still retain a decent public reputation. It's the
power of journalism.
We are just reviewers,
And the vendors, without fail,
Try to tear down our resistance,
With an avalanche of vapor,
Such are promises.
All lies and jest,
Still we only hear what we need to hear,
And we decide who's best. ...
Lie, lie, lie.
Gosh they vendors, how they lie.
See them cry,
Lie lie lie lie lie lie lie lie lie
Stafford and Cernan did agree to include a test on Gemini IX to
compare optics and radar by performing a rendezvous from above the
target vehicle. In this exercise, the Agena would be over the Sahara
Desert, which would simulate the lunar surface, and the crew would try
to fly down to it, using both radar and optics
From: "James S. Tyre"
Subject: Service of process by email
"Finally, we turn to the district court's order authorizing service
of process on RII by email at email@betrio.com. We
acknowledge that we tread upon untrodden ground. The parties
cite no authority condoning service of process over the
Internet or via email, and our own investigation has unearthed
no decisions by the United States Courts of Appeals dealing
with service of process by email and only one case anywhere
in the federal courts. Despite this dearth of authority, however,
we do not labor long in reaching our decision. Considering
the facts presented by this case, we conclude not only that
service of process by email was proper -- that is, reasonably
calculated to apprise RII of the pendency of the action and
afford it an opportunity to respond -- but in this case, it was
the method of service most likely to reach RII."
* Personal service--When the person served is physically handed court
papers notifying her that she has been sued, she is said to have been
personally served. With almost all lawsuits, the complaint and summons
must be personally served unless the defendant agrees to accept
service. If the defendant does not agree to accept service and is not
personally served, the court cannot take any action in the case,
unless the plaintiff can show that personal service was impossible.
"When faced with an international e-business scofflaw
playing hide-and-seek with the federal court, e-mail may
be the only means of effecting service of process," the
court said. "We acknowledge that we tread upon
untrodden ground."
I think the court is NOT saying that it will allow service
by e-mail as a routine matter. But in cases where the party is
trying to claim to be both available (by e-mail) and NOT available
(physically), the court will allow
the party's obvious
prefered method of being reached:-)
Start by the way writing started: Transforming the oral tradition to
print. That is, "How do you do X? What happens when Y goes wrong?
What's the quirks in the Z process?". It's very much like interviews
or oral history - having someone talk with the Engineers, and
put down what they say.
Then refine this.
It's a fairly painless process, and you can do it in teams.
Of course, the big step will come when you need to
get someone to update and maintain what you've created.
I can just see it... an obnoxious pop-up ad takes over your
whole screen, and reads:
This is a test. This is a test of the emergency IP routing system.
If this were an actual emergency this message would be followed by
instructions on what to do in the case of an actual emergency.
The ISP's in your area, in voluntary cooperation with federal, state,
and local authorities, have developed this system to keep you informed
in the event of an emergency. Had this been an actual emergency, you
would have been instructed where to surf in your area for official
news, information, or instructions.
On the other hand, how much of an emergency could it be
if your biggest problem is that your Net connection is down?:-)
People discussing this topic might be interested in
my anticensorware reports
about the TECHNICAL implications of prohibiting access to Internet
content - it
gets into banning privacy, anonymity, language translation
sites, caches, archives etc.
All of them, and a few others on
http://sethf.com/anticensorware/ ,
deal with this issue of the technical requirements for the control system.
The short version is that "disable access" arguably entails banning
anonymizers/privacy sites, language translation sites, and more,
since these all can act as a means of escape from the blinder-box.
Maybe access through these sites doesn't count as "accessible
through its service". But I sure wouldn't want to be the ISP facing
child-pornography charges over that argument ("You mean you allowed
access to this anonymity service, which is used by CHILD MOLESTORS?!")
``The French Disease'' is what the Italians of the 16th century called
syphilis; the French, naturally, called it the Italian Disease, or the
Disease of Naples
In honor of this history of viruses, I propose that Linux
users should consider, for office
computer virusus,
adopting the terminology "The Microsoft Disease".
Really. Because there's times I'm very, very, happy not to be using
Windows, such as
when the latest Outlook or Word infection is going around.
Very roughly: ICANN says "If we think
disclosing this
could be embarrassing to us, you have to sign
a legal agreement not to disclose it before
we'll let you see it"
The small take-up is hardly surprising, given that the alternate roots
suffer from a classic network effect, and that a registration in an
alternate root is of relatively little value in the absence of a
critical mass of fellow users who can access that root. The existence
of this network effect, coupled with ICANN's control over the dominant
root, makes ICANN's exclusive deal particularly effective. By denying
alternate roots the right to participate in running gTLDs in the
legacy root, ICANN keeps those alternate roots marginalized, and makes
it far less likely that they will ever achieve that critical mass. The
foreclosure in question here is not substantial in percentage terms
simply because ICANN's control is so complete.
Take a look at this part of
the petition. Which side do you think is playing political games?
5. Restrictions on Access or Use. To the extent that the Chief
Executive Officer, in consultation with the General
Counsel of the Corporation, determines that compliance with any
request for records necessarily involves issues of
confidentiality, privilege, or privacy of a nature which
require limitation of or conditions on the Director's access or use
of the requested records, the Chief Executive Officer
shall advise the requesting Director of the issues
which require the restrictions and the nature of any proposed
restrictions on access or use. Similarly, if permitting
an inspection of the Corporation's properties
necessarily involves such issues, the Chief Executive Officer shall
advise the requesting Director in writing of any
restrictions on access to the Corporation's
properties. If the Director accepts the restrictions by
countersigning the statement concerning limitations, the
records shall be made available to the Director or the
inspection scheduled as soon as possible.
Petitioner KARL AUERBACH ("Petitioner" or "Auerbach") is a
resident of Santa
Cruz, California and is a member in good standing of the California
State Bar. Auerbach is, and at
all times relevant to this Petition has been, a duly selected
member of ICANN's Board of Directors,
Slashdot Mirror
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Black Holes Disputed
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http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/3/25/8925/06088
Censorware - changing the debate from "filtering" (Technology)
By Seth Finkelstein
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(The idea here being that a dumb script will just follow-up this message with the same attack. Of course, a dumb person would do the same. Sometimes it's hard to tell the difference. But I am curious. For the record, I strongly doubt you're Michael Sims.
I generally don't reply to trolls. But as I said, these are test messages, in an old discussion, and given Michael Sims attacks, I'm interested in testing a few things.
I don't want to make any accusations I'm not certain about. If our situations were reversed, he would certainly unfailingly accuse me of your actions, and basically has. That's the difference between us.
The problem with searching out all the links to censorware.org is that there are a bunch which are in print, in mail messages which are on web-archives, in sites which have webmasters who don't update old material, and so on. So it's a huge job, and can't ever be fully changed. Some of the top linking-sites have been changed, but there's still a big problem from the sources above. Michael Sims has recently become absolutely shameless that he's hijacking those links for his ranting. Sigh. I'll say it again, though I'll certainly guarantee myself a slam down to 'Troll' status if I am in fact being revenge-moderated: It boggles my mind that he can pull such sleaze and still retain a decent public reputation. It's the power of journalism.
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http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/SP-4203/ ch14-3.htm
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Then refine this.
It's a fairly painless process, and you can do it in teams.
Of course, the big step will come when you need to get someone to update and maintain what you've created.
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Perhaps we'll see certain emergency sites get high-ranking QoS for these reasons.
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See:
SmartFilter's Greatest Evils:e stevils.php
http://sethf.com/anticensorware/smartfilter/great
BESS's Secret LOOPHOLE (censorware vs. privacy & anonymity):
http://sethf.com/anticensorware/bess/loophole.php
The Pre-Slipped Slope - censorware vs the Wayback Machine web archive
http://sethf.com/anticensorware/general/slip.php
All of them, and a few others on http://sethf.com/anticensorware/ , deal with this issue of the technical requirements for the control system.
The short version is that "disable access" arguably entails banning anonymizers/privacy sites, language translation sites, and more, since these all can act as a means of escape from the blinder-box.
Maybe access through these sites doesn't count as "accessible through its service". But I sure wouldn't want to be the ISP facing child-pornography charges over that argument ("You mean you allowed access to this anonymity service, which is used by CHILD MOLESTORS?!")
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Really. Because there's times I'm very, very, happy not to be using Windows, such as when the latest Outlook or Word infection is going around.
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ICANNWatch
(which is also covering this story)
Note the michael posting articles on that site is A. Michael Froomkin, not Slashdot's Michael Sims
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ICANN and Antitrust, by A. Michael Froomkin and Mark A. Lemley :
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