That is actually false - very much so actually.

Let's say you want to access http://www.site.com/page and someone messes with the DNS and redirects the domain elsewhere where only a rudimentary webserver exists, one without the /page you requested. This will return a 404 and it is due to the altered DNS.

There is of course many other possible reasons for a 404, from the obvious removed page, over misconfigured webservers (wrong virtualhost answering, mod_rewrite errors, cache issues etc.) to proxy issues at both ends of the connection.

Exactly.

I did that when a stupid court here in Denmark decided that our constitution and its absolute ban on censorship ("Grundloven", paragraph 77 to be precise) was less important than commercial interests and ordered ISP to set up DNS-bans on first allofmp3.com, then The Pirate Bay and most recently sites selling pharmaceuticals from danish language shops located outside Denmark.

Not that I use any of these sites but when you start messing with stuff like this, it's far too easy to slide further down the slippery slope and remap other sites and similar. There's a reason the founders included a ban on censorship! - It's just too bad that modern courts seem to ignore the constitution when they issue rulings.

It is simply unbelievable that the myth of sex being dangerous to children still persists!

The reality is, that if the children are too young, they neither understand nor care about sexual imagery in any form. If they're old enough, they're probably already seeking it out on their own. Massive studies in countries where hardcore porn has been available in shop windows and magazine racks in supermarkets for decades have shown that is has almost no effect what so ever on children and young adults - the only possible related effect seems to be a decrease in teenage pregnancy but it can be completely unrelated.

I think the danger posed by children having access to sexual imagery is that it can help de-tabuify sex, in particular the deviations that can scare teenagers into various closets. They need to find - as early as possible - that they're not alone. If they are able to look it up, they'll find that there are many others with the same kinks and desires as themselves, and they'll be able to find a local group where they can enjoy being like everybody else and feel normal.

Unfortunately almost all religions insists on strictly regulating everything relating to sex, and especially children and sex. The fact is that most people (both sexes) will tell you that their first sexual fantasy occurred as early as in in their preteens and the natural curiosity about this usually led them to seek out books and pictures, but for perhaps all their teens, access was hard, especially if the taste deviated from the mainstream. Even harder was access to knowledge about their brand of sex and sexual shame - a mainstay of many religions - can become fuel for runaway perversions and lay the foundation of abuse of the next generation.

The best solution is of course to rid of all the religious junk thought and to move on with a life of knowledge and reason, free from the scourge of religion.

Ditto. I was also around 15-16 (1981-82) when a friend and I disassembled CP/M completely, removed some stuff we didn't need (mostly related to harddrives), added a simple switcher and turned it into a primitive multitasking system able to run two programs at once (plus some common stuff), all within the 64KB limit on a Z80 processor. So please don't assume anything about students abilities. If you do, they'll end up biting you in the ass - hard.

Much more interesting is the discussion on the whole 'perpetual felon' idea. In my book you are a felon while serving your punishment or on parole, but once your debt is paid, you're a free man and should have all the same rights as anyone else, which include the right to vote and the right to own firearms. Only exception to this rule should be sex offenders who should be registered and pedophiles should be banned from working with children and living near schools and similar child-dense areas.

The felon restrictions doesn't make sense in themselves. If you drive drunk and kill someone, you're still allowed to buy new cars and to re-acquire your drivers license, but a felon cannot own firearms or vote for life even when all they did were fraud, counterfeiting or similar non-violent while-collar crime.

Except you were filmed committing a crime and while trespassing will make your rights null and void.

People filmed with hidden camera and the recording used for entertainment - this requires a signed release from all recognizable persons, and is they don't have that, you can sue - and win big. This has happened several times and now nobody plays the odds and they all get the releases they need. Not always easy which is why you don't see that many hidden camera shows anymore.

Actually - and this is important - the movie offends Muslims but obviously not as primary intent. As it is historically accurate it primarily offends due to it revealing some pretty painful truths, and the fact that some Muslims takes offense to pictures of Muhammad. Both of these reasons are exactly why movies like this *must* be available out there. People needs to know about the pedophile prophet and we must erode and tear down the idea about Muhammad not being pictured. That's what the Danish cartoons did, or tried to do. But we must repeat and repeat until they get desensitized enough to just accept it because it is all part of an elaborate smoke screen designed to hide core aspects of the religion from public review and debate. They insist on calling it a religion of peace but the middle east have been at war for a thousand years because of it, and now several areas in Africa has followed into the pit of completely stupid ethnic wars over religion with Islam as the prominent primary aggressor.

Actually you're missing the point yourself. The idea behind the Streisand Effect is to circumvent censorship, and ordering the removal of all copies is clear-cut censorship regardless of the motivation behind the removal. As censorship always must be fought on every level and with every means, it is essential that we spread as many copies of this move as far as possible so it will be easy to find it.

"You expert is an idiot"

Doesn't matter who the client is or what relationship there might be between that client and his so-called expert.

If it result is an argument, prove that the clients expert is an idiot and that he/she has wasted time and money for the client and possibly many others. You may still not get the client (or loose him/her) but you can be sure that idiot expert is also gonna be kicked out. You might even have lined yourself up to be the new expert which might be even better.

How can these ballasts cause disturbances outside the building? - The building itself will act as a partial shield (try getting a cell signal inside - can be next to impossible) and the basic emission cannot be that powerful.

comp.slashdot.beta.sucks and comp.slashdot.beta.sucks.comments.sucks ...

Either hide everything or overload the systems by acting extremely suspiciously in everything you do?

Actually several tracks on "Bites", "Mind: The Perpetual Intercourse" and "Cleanse Fold and Manipulate" were created specifically with subsonics to enhance the feeling of darkness, depression and dread. The ever popular "Assimilate" (from "Bites") is one of them.

"...manifestations of a sort, so insidious off the point, simple solution never confusion, sport a gun kill a cop. Crazy world of weary thought, so receive me had enough, lock me up, lock me up... [...] ...Mutterings of death to bring, suffocate a newborn thing, degradation of an age, venereal it's all sensation, protect design the moral plan, infallible as propaganda, completely black, with no steps back..." (from "Assimilate")

Yup, I'm a long-time fan (of Skinny Puppy, not beta!)

Sure, people should be allowed to be anonymous, but it should never be okay to pose as someone else, fictive or real.

All real-looking accounts should be real, and a special type of accounts should be created for anonymous following of sensitive topics, commenting etc. This way you could have a personal account for family, old classmates etc and an anonymous account (personal of course) for all the sensitive stuff.

They're already banned in Denmark for instance. Doesn't prevent people from wearing them but if they do, the police need no other reason to arrest and detain.

I'm sorry but I don't subscribe to the right to be anonymous in public. If you live in a small town, everybody will know you anyway and I cannot see why it would be a problem to be recognized in larger cities too. I know this is a cliché but if you behave normally and have nothing to hide, why fear being recognized? - If you do have something to hide, I'd recommend a nice little cabin somewhere way off the grid in rural Montana... If it's good enough for the Unabomber, then it's good enough for you... ;)