StealthyRoid - Slashdot User

Submission + - Town Bans Internet Harassment (myway.com) 1

Submitted by StealthyRoid on Thursday November 22, 2007 @04:08PM

StealthyRoid writes: When a little girl killed herself after having her feelings hurt by some "boy" on MySpace (really the boy's mom, engaged in an OJ style covert op to capture intelligence on what a 13 year old was saying about her 16 year old son), her city responded by banning any online harassment, defined as anything that might cause "severe emotional distress". And the First Amendment takes another blow from the pity party cabal.

Submission + - White & Nerdy (invisihosting.com)

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StealthyRoid

on Wednesday August 01, 2007 @12:24PM

StealthyRoid writes: "According to an article in the New York Times, nerds are "hyperwhite". Confused about what that means? Apparently, it means that nerds speak precisely and correctly, and that "elements of African-American culture" play no role in the nerd ethos. The article is off-base in a lot of ways (one claim made is that "Nerds' dismissal of black cultural practices often led them to discount the possibility of friendship with black students", which is absurd), and reads like most nonsensical liberal arts papers (the word "hegemonic" gets tossed around, which is almost always unnecessary), but it's a slightly interesting read."

Submission + - Open-Source Control Panels in Two Parts (invisihosting.com)

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StealthyRoid

on Saturday July 14, 2007 @02:05AM

StealthyRoid writes: "I've got a fledgling web hosting company going, and, as my customer base start to grow, my crappy custom-made custom panel is really falling short of the services I need to provide. I'm looking at replacing it, but I have problems with all of the commercial apps like cPanel, Ensim, Plesk and H-Sphere:

Cost

Control of server software. I really don't like that these packages all require control over the installations of the underlying software. It's asinine that my web panel should get to choose what versions of my web server, database, mail server, etc... Sacrificing that much control is distasteful.

The open-source solutions out there seem pretty limited, and it's hard to find reliable information about the ones that do exist, such as RavenCore, DTC, and ISPConfig. It's possible that none of them are ready for prime time, or that they're all the best thing ever.

If there really aren't any good options, I'm not adverse to the idea of bearing down and writing one myself. Now, obviously a project like that is a pretty large undertaking, so the second part of my question is this: What interest, if any, is there out there in developing a free, open-source control panel for virtual and dedicated web hosting?"

Congress Tackles Patent Reform 261

Posted by Zonk on Friday February 16, 2007 @05:57PM from the new-employer-similar-to-the-previous-one dept.

nadamsieee writes "Wired's Luke O'Brian recently reported about Congress' latest attempt to reform the patent system. In the article O'Brian tells of how 'witnesses at Thursday's hearing painted a bleak picture of that system. Adam Jaffe, a Brandeis University professor and author of a book on the subject, described the system as 'out of whack.' Instead of 'the engine of innovation,' the patent has become 'the sand in the gears,' he said, citing widespread fears of litigation. The House Oversight Committee website has more details. How would you fix the patent system?"

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