156609
submission
deviantphil writes:
Linden Labs, the company that runs Second Life, is seeking to roll out a new age verification mechanism which among others things may require residents to turn over their Social Security Number, government ID, or other sensitive personally identifying data in order to access content which is "explicitly sexual or excessively violent in nature". This would be equivalent to requiring a person to give out their Social Security Number before purchasing a game rated "M".
154341
submission
An anonymous reader writes:
If you put the illegal numbers in a query on the MPAA's search page, it prints them on their page. Let's link to this and then issue them a DMCA takedown notice! Give them a taste of their own medicine.
http://www.mpaa.org/search_resultIndexServer.asp? query=09F911029D74E35BD84156C5635688C0
153321
submission
Draque writes:
It looks like Digg is reversing its policy to delete all posts containing the much fabled hex number of doom. Here's the text from a post entitled 09-f9-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b-d8-41-56-c5-63-56-88-c0.'
"Today was an insane day. And as the founder of Digg, I just wanted to post my thoughts...
In building and shaping the site I've always tried to stay as hands on as possible. We've always given site moderation (digging/burying) power to the community. Occasionally we step in to remove stories that violate our terms of use (eg. linking to pornography, illegal downloads, racial hate sites, etc.). So today was a difficult day for us. We had to decide whether to remove stories containing a single code based on a cease and desist declaration. We had to make a call, and in our desire to avoid a scenario where Digg would be interrupted or shut down, we decided to comply and remove the stories with the code.
But now, after seeing hundreds of stories and reading thousands of comments, you've made it clear. You'd rather see Digg go down fighting than bow down to a bigger company. We hear you, and effective immediately we won't delete stories or comments containing the code and will deal with whatever the consequences might be.
If we lose, then what the hell, at least we died trying.
Digg on,
Kevin"
152659
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152587
submission
elkcsr writes:
"The U.S. Army has ordered soldiers to stop posting to blogs or sending personal e-mail messages, without first clearing the content with a superior officer, Wired News has learned."
http://www.wired.com/politics/onlinerights/news/20 07/05/army_bloggers
151709
submission
Fo0eY writes:
The folks at Digg.com have let the social news genie out of the bottle, and now they can't control it. Since the HD-DVD encryption code was discovered and published, readers at Digg have been repeatedly submitting stories with the 16 digit hex code in the titles and bodies. Just as quickly as these posts crawl up the Digg charts, admins seem to be deleting them.
109949
submission
An anonymous reader writes:
Michael Geist is reporting
that Canada's Supreme Court has just upheld the ban [decision
here] on publishing election results on the Internet before the
close of polling stations. The dissent was apparently concerned
with the impact on the Internet, noting that people who rely on the net
for news would be denied access for hours to election results.
109913
submission
stupid_is writes:
RFID tags can be fairly controversial in their use — because of this, the EU has set up a commission to examine the issues and come up with recommendations for a regulation policy on their use. Full details can be found on their website here. The BBC are also running an article on this, and there's an interesting viewpoint over at El Reg.
109853
story
iptables -A FORWARD writes
"Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. of Utah reportedly plans to sign a resolution urging Congress to enact the Internet Community Ports Act. The ICPA proposes that online content be divided by port, rather like TVs have channels with adult and family content, so that certain internet ports will be 'clean' — so-called Community Ports — and others will be 'dirty.' Thus, they hope to remove objectionable content from port 80 and require that it be moved elsewhere (port 666 was already taken by Doom, sorry), so that people could more easily block objectionable content, or have their ISPs do the blocking for them. This concept is being pushed by the CP80 group, which is chaired by Ralph Yarro, who also chairs the SCO Group. That probably explains why they didn't choose to adopt RFC 3514, instead."