Slashback: Indymedia, Starfighter, Mozparty 180
An apology might be a nice start. Chris writes "The UK government has broken its silence on the Indymedia server raid and is claiming that there 'no UK law enforcement agencies were involved'; see Richard Allan's blog for the whole written answer. This means that the potential for taking legal action against Rackspace in the UK needs to be explored -- were any UK laws (eg the Data Protection Act 1984 or the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000) broken? Are there any UK cyber law experts on Slashdot with any suggestions...?"
Is Google private enough for you? XeRXeS-TCN writes "Following on from the recent concerns reported on Slashdot about the Google Desktop, the CEO of Copernic has warned about user privacy. Google Desktop Search allows users to opt out of sending the company back detailed usage data, but it isn't possible to firewall it completely. Much more ominously, Google's product manager Marissa Mayer said she expected the private queries to generate more hits for google.com. Most people, she believed, would choose to combine personal and web searches resulting in more revenue for Google's ad business. More on this at The Reg."
If this is a dupe, then Murphy was right. Vcullen writes "The Formula that scientists recently proposed to calculate Murphy's Law has recently been turned into an easy to use online Murphy's Law calculator. So now you can work out what the probability of it happening on any given situation!"
Nice shooting, kid. Bravo! Jason Scott writes "Inspired by the Slashdot story about the arrival of 'The Last Starfighter: The Musical' off-Broadway, I drove from Boston to New York City and back in one day to attend a matinee. I have written a review of what I experienced on my weblog. As I say in the review, 'If spoilers do not interest you, if you only want the simplest of directions and want to make the next right move, then heed these words: if you live within driving, walking, bus or train distance of New York City, see this musical. Immediately.'"
And ottffs writes with his own impressions: "I was recently in Manhattan presenting at ACM Multimedia 2004 conference. I was lucky enough to be able to attend the premiere of 'The Last Starfighter: the musical' on Friday night. I have posted a review and some pics to my blog."There goes the next office party budget. JimMarch(equalccw) writes "After losing a major copyright case in which Diebold was punished for exercising their copyright in a wrongful fashion (copyWRONG?), the other shoe has dropped: the court says Diebold owes the ISPs and webmasters who complained a total of $125,000. "
Anyone care to start one for El Paso? loconet writes "Following the success of Mozilla's 1.0 release parties, where Mozilla supporters from all over the world celebrated the release of Mozilla 1.0, comes Mozparty 2 celebrating the upcoming 1.0 release of Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla Thunderbird. According to the Mozparty site, currently there are 1007 ppl partying in 109 parties from which the biggest party is in Mexico."
Diebold (Score:5, Funny)
Anyone else Read this as (Score:3, Funny)
'The Last Starfighter,' an inquiry into the best response to the recent seizure of Indymedia's servers in the UK
Watch Alex as he blasts the evil goons from the DMCA/IP/Nasty Galactic Cluster Alliance! or something like that...
"Diebold's (trivial) financial penalty " (Score:5, Funny)
If you think the Starfighter musical sounds good.. (Score:2, Funny)
Oh my God, Google stands to GAIN something???? (Score:5, Funny)
MOTHER OF FUCK! No! That's just wrong.
Aw yeah for ppl. (Score:5, Funny)
Ah, I'd love to welcome you to Slashdot, but we don't take kindly to AOL users here. Please turn in your geek badge at the door - a man named Roland will be collecting them.
Re:Gunstar (Score:3, Funny)
Diebold Demonstration Video (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Mozilla party at the south pole! (Score:3, Funny)
"go South until it turns North. Look around - there's a big dome. Go inside. Enter the first building on your right and go upstairs. Party!"
Re:Murphy's Law Calculator (Score:1, Funny)
Hi. I would like to bet $100 with you on the outcome of 100 coin tosses. That they all give tail is so improbable that according to your law, it's almost a certainty. I will pay $100 if this happens. You pay me $100 if there's at least one head.
Re:Aim High (Score:4, Funny)
Here you run into the problem of the "Unapplicable Law" (It does have someone's name to it, I just can't remember whose, and I've always heard it called that).
The Unapplicable Law quite clearly states:
Washing your car to make it rain does not work.
Washing your car makes it rain. If you want it to rain (and it looks like it might), you think to yourself "Washing your car makes it rain. I want rain, I think I'll wash my car." The problem with this is the Law knows you think this, and the clouds disperse shortly after the car has been washed.
The worst part about this is when you don't want it to rain. You think to yourself "Washing your car makes it rain. Last time I wanted it to rain, and washed my car, it didn't. If I wash my car now, it wont rain." The problem here is these Laws still know your mind. You don't want rain, therefore if you wash your car, it will rain.
In short: You cannot invoke these types of Laws, they will work against you every time.
Re:This would be cause for a party WHY?!! (Score:2, Funny)
1007 people at 109 parties? (Score:3, Funny)
Tragic, looks like the geeks still can't get anyone to come to their parties. Maybe someone should call the Beastie Boys.
Re:Google (Score:3, Funny)
Ahh but the built-in search is so slow no one would actually have the patience to wait for it to uncover the smut. Whereas Google's Desktop Search finds it fast.