Viewing images accidentally is legal. But if you were told such-and-such URL contained illegal content, and you went there with the intention of reporting it, you have broken the law.

Instead of buying or renting a server farm (or using cloud-computing services), why not buy a botnet or build your own?

I'm going to sue!

But seriously, if we combine this with that recent request for help from the fellow whose name brings up a paedophile ... surely we can sue for defamation of character whether the comments are referring to ourselves or not? That would be my logical conclusion without reading TFA.

What? So you go on assuming everybody's straight?

One thing I noticed when looking at the Virgin Killers page while it was being blocked was that it pretended to be a 404 error (a very unconvincing one). This is presumably part of their "don't alert people" ploy too, but it confounds the majority of people from being able to discover that it's being blocked.

I regularly use software with EULAs to which somebody else has agreed.

Does that mean I would be eligable to sue the company for something which the EULA-clicker supposedly no longer has the right to do?

And does it make a difference as to who owns the hardware? (i.e. sysadmin agreeing on a university computer, compared to a cat agreeing to something running on my hardware).

The top result for my name is a banjo-player!

I think the problem is a lack of initiative on her part mostly (i.e. if she'd talked to her ISP and educational institution, these matters would probably have been resolved sooner), but probably also a relatively unhelpful person in a Dell call centre who could have asked what she thought she needed Windows for and explained how to do those things with what she had.

That's the problem, at least in the UK, since the IWF's blacklist is secret. I emailed them asking for a copy of it so I knew when the 404s I was getting were fake (which is how O2 handles it).

You'd have to search for a lot of CP, by which time you'd probably get arrested. Somehow I doubt saying you were trying to discover the secret blacklist would go down very well.

Use tune2fs (assuming you're currently using ext2/3): http://ext4.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Ext4_Howto#Converting_an_ext3_filesystem_to_ext4

Also, you can convert an ext3 filesystem in-place to Btrfs: http://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Conversion_from_Ext3

You have a very narrow definition of sex.

At my first university, everything we did was our own. At my current university, it all belongs to them. So you have to ask your institution.

Obviously I don't hang with the cool kids who use "monkey" as an affix, so are there any examples of this? Or did somebody just make it up and submit it?