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Comment Re:Troll? No. (Score 1) 478

by thefinite on Tuesday August 05, 2008 @12:33PM (#24481753) Attached to: Craigslist Prankster Sued, Argues DMCA Abuse

I agree that his ploy was like a social honeypot, but I don't think that makes it okay. The intentional damage it did to actual relationships makes it different enough, in my opinion, to be wrong.

I'm also not sure I agree that these wives are glad it all happened. It's one thing to have your husband cheat on you privately and another to humiliate you publicly.

This was really just a form of vigilante entrapment. It's not okay for the police to engage in entrapment, so why is it okay for Fortuny to do it?

EFF Case Against AT&T To Go Forward 227

Posted by Zonk on Thursday July 20, 2006 @05:34PM from the beauty dept.

Tyler Too writes "The NSA wiretap lawsuit filed by the EFF will apparently be moving forward. A federal judge has denied the government's request that the EFF's lawsuit against AT&T be dismissed. Among other things, the judge ruled that 'if the government has been truthful in its disclosures, divulging information on AT&T's role in the scandal should not cause any harm to national security.' The case will now move forward, pending a government appeal."

Dvorak Avocates Open Sourcing OS X 571

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday April 18, 2006 @01:45PM from the jigga-whaa dept.

xzvf writes "Dvorak claims OS X and Apple in trouble. He suggests open sourcing OS X for an epic battle with Linux. In many ways, this is just insane rambling, but it's certainly entertaining on some levels." From the article: "That would make the battle between OS X and Linux the most interesting one on the computer scene. With all attention turned in that direction, there would be nothing Microsoft could do to stem a reversal of its fortunes. Let's start at the beginning. There's been a lot of fuss over Apple's rollout of the unsupported Boot Camp product, which lets Mac users run Microsoft Windows easily on an Intel-based Macintosh. I got into various levels of trouble when I suggested that Apple was going to gravitate towards Windows since it would be easy to do and there was some evidence that the company might want to do it."

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