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Model Drops Lawsuit After Outing Anonymous Blogger 476

Posted by kdawson on Monday August 24, 2009 @08:09AM from the you-can-pull-your-pants-up-now dept.

JumperCable writes "The NY Daily News is reporting that model Liskula Cohen, who was suing the 'Skanks of NYC' blogger for defamation, is dropping the lawsuit now that she has outed the anonymous blogger, who is a Fashion Institute of Technology student named Rosemary Port. This brings up the question of potential abuse of the legal system to 'out' anonymous authors even if there is no intention actually to pursue a case against an anonymous individual. Also, according to the article, the outed blogger intends to sue Google for $15 million because it 'breached its fiduciary duty to protect her expectation of anonymity.' Do Web hosting services even have a fiduciary duty to protect their clients, or is this all legal bluff and bluster?" Should such anonymity-busting court rulings include a provision for penalties if the plaintiff does not follow through with legal action after outing their target?

Submission + - Staying in shape in IT? 3

Submitted by tnok85 on Tuesday June 30, 2009 @10:59PM

tnok85 writes: I figured this would be the best place to ask, as many readers appear to work in the IT industry. (Tech support, sysadmins, etc)

I started a new job ~7 months ago at a very large company working a 12-hour night shift (7PM-7AM) in a fairly high volume NOC. Our responsibilities extend during the night to basically cover everything but the most complex situations regarding UNIX/Windows/Linux/App administration, at which point we'll reach out to the on-calls.

I live 1.5 hours away as well, so it turns into 4-5 15 hour days a week of sitting still — throw in almost an hour to get ready to leave, and a bit of time after I get home to unwind and I'm out of time to work out. Unfortunately I'm pretty sure I have a very slow metabolism, ever since I was a pre-teen I would gain weight fairly quickly if I didn't actively work out, regardless of how much or what I eat. (Barring starving myself, I suppose...)

So, how does somebody who works a minimum of 60 hours over 4 days, often adding another 12 another day, and sometimes working 7-10 days straight like this, stay in shape? I can't hold a workout schedule, (which every person I've talked to in my history says is necessary to stay in shape) and I can't 'wake up early' or 'work out before bed' because I need sleep.

Any thoughts/opinions/suggestions?

Comment Re:Real security has to be build into the foundati (Score 5, Interesting) 792

by Alex Brasetvik on Sunday September 11, 2005 @06:15PM (#13533775) Attached to: The Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security

noexec can be easily circumvented. Read here for more information.

Relevant example:

alex@joker:/tmp# mount | grep tmp /dev/hda7 on /tmp type ext2 (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) alex@joker:/tmp# ./date bash: ./date: Permission denied alex@joker:/tmp# /lib/ld-linux.so.2 ./date Sun Dec 3 17:49:23 CET 2000

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