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by JustinOpinion on Friday June 13, @03:03PM (#23778181)
Attached to: RIAA's Throwing In the Towel Covered a Sucker Punch
I should let NYCL answer for himself... but if you look at his comment history, you'll find that he re-iterates that the RIAA lawyers are indeed using unconventionally dirty tactics. He says they are unethical and/or stupid, and sometimes implies that their actions are outright illegal and they should be disbarred.

Example:

It's the RIAA's lawyers that are missing something. I'm not sure what they're missing, but I've got it narrowed down to 2 things: (1) brain cells, or (2) integrity. Or possibly some of each.
Another example:

what they are doing is totally illegal. In federal practice ex parte relief is only granted as a last resort. In these cases the RIAA lies through its teeth to get the order, falsely saying that the ISP or University will destroy the records if they are given notice of the application. It amazes me that there is any judge in the U.S. who would sign such an order. I think you'll be seeing more and more judges refusing, as news of the RIAA's lies spreads.
Another:

How stupid can these people be?....
Good question. I don't know the answer to it. Each time I think they've reached the mountain top, they come up with something even better.

It's as tough as the other question I keep wondering about with these characters:

"How mean and how heartless can someone who was born of a human mother be?" Each time I think I've seen how low they can sink, they find some way to sink even lower.

These questions are simply unanswerable.
I think it's safe to say that NYCL has a low opinion of their tactics both from an ethical standpoint and from a legal practice standpoint.
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by Penguinisto on Wednesday June 04, @06:03AM (#23645801)
Attached to: Bill Gates's Last Speech
Before a post can be considered funny, it must have one of the following memes:



  • Beowulf clustering
  • Hot Grits and Natalie Portman (pref. naked and petrified)
  • The Soviet Union
  • Korean Old People

(and many, many more... none of which were in your post. Sorry.)

/P

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  Church of Scientology violates Federal Law[->] 2008-03-14 16:30 FreedomToThink

Submitted by FreedomToThink on Friday March 14, @04:30PM
FreedomToThink writes "This is a very long story I'm sure the editors will have fun with, but I couldn't see how to cut it down at all.

On the eve of the Ides of March protest, from the source of the recent 'Anonymous' submitted CCHR leak on wikileaks, comes this message

"Dear $cientology,You attempt injunctions.I respond.Shall we continue the game? Much Love, DEEP CLAM"

Included was yet another PDF this time including yet more emails leaked from a Church of Scientology front group.

Vote Rigging?

From: "Mike Kaplan" <mkaplan@tampabay.rr.com>
To: <Undisclosed-Recipient:;>
Subject: Fw: RE-ELECT FRANK HIBBARD, MAYOR OF CLEARWATER
Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2008 11:53:07 -0400

See below. Everyone in Clearwater MUST vote. Every vote will be needed to be
sure Hibbard gets re-elected. The alternative is Rita Garvey who is an SP.

— Original Message —
From: Shelly <mailto:shelly.bauer@Earthlink.net> Bauer
To: Shelly Bauer <mailto:shelly.bauer@earthlink.net>
Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2008 8:09 AM
Subject: RE-ELECT FRANK HIBBARD, MAYOR OF CLEARWATER

DO YOUR PART
RE-ELECT FRANK HIBBARD
MAYOR OF CLEARWATER
VOTE!!!
JANUARY 29TH
TAKE NOTHING FOR GRANTED!

Lunch with your preferred Presidential candidates for a high price?

ONE SEAT LEFT

I have arranged a private one-hour luncheon with Ron Paul on 11/28 in St.
Pete when he will be in town for the CNN/YouTube Republican debate.

This luncheon is reserved for $1000+ donors to Ron Paul's presidential
campaign. 19 people so far have paid and confirmed and will have the honor
and pleasure of having lunch and communicating with Ron Paul directly.


From the head of the "Non Proffit" CCHR Bruce Wiseman

Go the the HELP committee website. The link is here.
http://help.senate.gov/About.html
Here you will see the names of the Committee members on the left hand
side
of the page. Please go to the individual websites of the Republican =
members
(this will take just a bit of leg work on your part by putting their =
name
into Google) and calling their office or sending a fax to them (email is =
the
least effective) stating your opposition to S. 1375 The Mother's Act.


Currently, the law prohibits political campaign activity by charities and churches by defining a 501(c)(3) organization as one "which does not participate in, or intervene in (including the publishing or distributing of statements), any political campaign on behalf of (or in opposition to) any candidate for public office."

An OCMB (Operation Clambake Message Board)regular adds :

I downloaded myself a copy and started looking through them. I found an interesting one on pages 47-48.
http://rapidshare.com/files/99292051/CCHRLeak3.pdf.html

Karin Pouw of OSA of CofS writes a message.
It's forwarded by Michael Genung. He's the guy who runs ACSR, Association for Citizens Sociel Reform. http://www.citizensforsocialreform.org/ ["CSR Background and Philosopy: CSR was founded in 2001 by a group of Scientologists and other like-minded individuals concerned with the escalating social ills in society. CSR's purpose is to work with in the field of public policy to bring about more effective and humane solutions to these social ills of illiteracy, criminality substance abuse and general decay of character."]

Then it's forwarded by Doyle Mills, of LEAF fame (Letters to the Editor Attack Force).
Then it's forwarded by Mary C. (possibly one of two Mary C's I'm thinking of, but unsure).
Then it's forwarded by Mike Kaplan, another person who runs an email list and forwards CCHR type stuff to CofS members.

If that ain't stringing a line from the CofS to CCHR and the CofS front group ("grassroots") movements, then I don't know what is!


Apologies in advance as the Enturbulation servers will not be up to a slashdotting so the Coral Cache link is here Enturbulation Discussion (already cached for you)

ANYONE CAN REPORT TAX FRAUD DIRECTLY TO THE IRS : http://www.irs.gov/compliance/enforcement/article/0,,id=106778,00.html It does require that you print out and mail in an actual hardcopy, but it does not require you to identify yourself.

Just a casual user passing on a message from the Enturbulation forum, this is already out there, there's no reason to attack the messenger."
http://rapidshare.com/files/99292051/CCHRLeak3.pdf.html
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Submitted by Billosaur on Thursday December 20 2007, @02:56PM
ZDNet's Police Blotter bring us the interesting story of a Pennsylvania man who brought his computer into Circuit City to have a DVD burner installed on his computer and wound up being arrested for having child pornography on his hard drive. Circuit City employees discovered the child pornography while perusing Kenneth Sodomsky's hard drive for files to test the burner, then proceeded to call the police, who arrested Sodomsky and confiscated the computer. Sodomsky's lawyer argued in court that the Circuit City techs had no right to go rifling through the hard drive, and the trial court agreed, but prosecutors appealed and the appeals court overturned the lower court's decision, based on the fact that Sodomsky had consented to the installation of the DVD drive and the techs "weren't randomly perusing the drive for contraband, but instead were testing its functioning in a 'commercially accepted manner.'"
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6222794.html
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  French Officially Unlocked phone broken 2007-12-20 14:54 kevinbr

Submitted by kevinbr on Thursday December 20 2007, @02:54PM
kevinbr writes "French iphones can be actually SIM unlocked, but a stupid software bug causes the phone and SMS apps to crash when using a foreign SIM. Apple hard coded information, and when the phone compares hard coded data to a SIM with a country code not hard coded, the app exits.

http://www.iphoneatlas.com/2007/12/18/french-unlocked-iphones-crippled-cont/

French "unlocked" iPhones crippled in other countries
Posted 18 December 2007 @ 12pm in News

Apple are busy deleting posting referring to this issue, and their pack of friendly posters keep insisting the issue is because the phone is not really unlocked. Anyone who counters this false assertion gets deleted.

iPhones that are sold as "unlocked" through Orange of France (the iPhone's official provider there) are crippled on various wireless carriers outside of France, failing to make phone calls, send SMS messages and perform other critical functions.

Apple may rectify this issue with a future firmware/software update that allows officially unlocked phones to work in countries where the devices are currently crippled. However, the company has not responded to requests for comment or technical explanation of this issue."
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  Advice for Highschool students looking at College? 2007-12-20 14:49 Anonymous Coward

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 20 2007, @02:49PM
An anonymous reader writes "Looking around my programming class, I've noticed a trend. Most of us are halfway through our senior year, really interested in pursuing some form of programming as a career, and at a loss for what to do next. How does one go about selecting schools? What things should we be keeping in mind while applying to colleges? Are we just setting ourselves up for disappointment?

Take myself as an example: My scores in math are sub par, I've managed to teach myself Ruby and Python, I have a GPA of 2.75, and I've used Linux (gentoo/ubuntu) since the age of 12. Which of those items would an admissions office find interesting? What sort of advice does the average slashdot reader have for aspiring college students?"
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Submitted by theodp on Thursday December 20 2007, @02:44PM
theodp writes "All Google really needed for FTC approval of its DoubleClick acquisition was the support of the three Commissioners that summered at the swank St. Regis Resort while headlining the exclusive Aspen Summit Conferences put on by the Google-funded Progress and Freedom Foundation, a 'Think Tank' whose president gave Senate Testimony in support of the Google-DoubleClick deal. And Google got it. Commissioner William E. Kovacic (Aspen Summit, '07), Chairman Deborah Platt Majoras (Aspen Summit, '06), and Commissioner Jon Leibowitz (Aspen Summit, '06) were among the recusal-adverse yea-sayers as the FTC approved Google's $3.1 billion acquisition of DoubleClick by a vote of 4-1 after an eight-month investigation."
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  Idle: Monkeys Like it Loud 2007-12-20 14:42

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday December 20 2007, @02:42PM
from the I-want-to-groom-you-so-hard dept.
One of the best things about being a scientist is that people will pay you to research strange things, like why monkeys yell during sex. It turns out the male monkeys like loud females and will have a more "vigorous" session with them. "Counting monkey pelvic thrusts is admittedly "quite weird, but it's science," researcher Dana Pfefferle, a behavioral scientist and primatologist at the German Primate Center, told LiveScience. "You get used to it.""
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From feed by cnetfeed on Thursday December 20 2007, @02:32PM
Industry superpowers are left scrambling to keep up with a fast-changing tech world that is seemingly about to leave them behind.
http://www.news.com/Year-in-review-Tech-titans-on-the-defensive/2009-1014_3-6223109.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&subj=news
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From feed by sdfeed on Thursday December 20 2007, @02:32PM
In a groundbreaking experiment scientists have derived four unique embryonic stem cell lines that open the door for the creation of therapeutic cells that will not provoke an immune reaction in large segments of the population. The stem cell lines are "HLA-homozygous," meaning that they have a simple genetic profile in the critical areas of the DNA that code for immune rejection. The stem cells under development are derived from unfertilized donor eggs, not from fertilized embryos, so the technique does not carry the same ethical burden.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/12/071220123837.htm
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  Earth and moon are the same age 2007-12-20 14:24 sm62704

Submitted by sm62704 on Thursday December 20 2007, @02:24PM
sm62704 writes "A New Scientist story says that new research suggests that the moon is 30 million years younger than previously thought, and that the Mars sized object slamming into the earth was that last event in the earth's formation.

The revised timing of the impact implies the terrestrial planets, such as the Earth and Mars, took longer to build up from the collision of smaller 'planetesimals' than previously thought. "The age of the Moon is also the age of Earth because the Moon-forming giant impact was the last major event in Earth's formation," says Touboul.

Alan Brandon, a scientist at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, US, agrees. "It may mean that Earth and Mars took at least 50 million years, and possibly hundreds of millions of years, to reach their final mass," he comments.

The researchers also found that the composition of the Moon appears identical to that of the Earth's rocky mantle, "such that a major portion of the Moon must have been from proto-Earth", Brandon told New Scientist.
"
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  175 chips for voting machines are lost 2007-12-20 14:22 mel.simmons

Submitted by mel.simmons on Thursday December 20 2007, @02:22PM
mel.simmons writes "Premier/Diebold just can't stay out of trouble. Even the fallback to optical scan won't work if you can't keep control of critical components. These chips are needed for reading the ballots in the Feb election in California. http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20071220-9999-7m20chips.html"
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  Ask Slashdot: What Is Your Game of the Year? 2007-12-20 14:22

Posted by Zonk on Thursday December 20 2007, @02:22PM
from the all-three-console-makers-are-having-a-merry-christmas dept.
It's that time of year again. Last year's response to our Game of the Year post was so enthusiastic that I thought it would be worthwhile to give it another go. So, once again, some of the Slashdot folks have come together to offer up our 'games of the year'. Scuttlemonkey, Scott Collins, Chris Brown, CmdrTaco, and myself have all put together quick blurbs about the games we couldn't get enough of this year. When you're through reading those, it's your turn to speak up. What was the game you couldn't put down? The next-gen consoles really came into their own this year; was it one of those games, or something for the PC? In your opinion, what was the best game of the year?
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