"If House Hollywood sock puppet Howard Berman (Democrat, California) gets his way, it will become legal to hack a network in efforts to impede the on-line illicit trade in copyrighted works."
"When Berman's bill is passed I'll be allowed to break in to the pass-protected members' sections of Web sites and root people's corporate networks and home boxes whenever I have a 'reasonable suspicion' that The Register's copyrighted works might be getting passed around without permission."
" This is going to be such fun. And it's not just me. Anyone who publishes original content will be able to fend off the FBI with a simple, "d00d, I thought they were archiving my blogs, honest."
That does it. I hereby propose that we immediately organize and start up to create a new Constitutional Amendment that would amend the Constitution to require would-be politicians to take competency and common-sense tests before qualifying to be eligible to be put on the ballot. Christ, what a jackass this guy is! Anyone who wants to legally go hack someone else's computer merely needs to put the most cruddy of text onto a web site and then copyright it. It'll grant a license to break into anyone's computer anywhere! What a damned fool!
posted on September 6, 2002 09:48:05 AM new
I see! If its a DEMOCRAT who is acting irresponsibly, this crowd runs away from commenting? Tsk! Tsk! Our detractors are soooo right!
posted on September 6, 2002 01:47:02 PM new
>>I see! If its a DEMOCRAT who is acting irresponsibly, this crowd runs away from commenting? Tsk! Tsk! Our detractors are soooo right!<<
Er, this was up for less than two hours, right? Or is it me again?
Borillar, you are in a rage. Wacking off into a keyboard, so to speak, isn't going to do it for you.
I remember once many years ago, a boyfriend who eventually left me, said to me one day when I was arguing something: "You should be a trial attorney." Later on in retrospect (and 5000 hours on a couch) I realized it was true. That this guy was guilty no matter what and I could prove it. He realized it way before I did. And the epiphany was the realization that whoever it was they would have been guilty of the same thing, and if I hadn't ultimately got it, so would the next and the next and the next.
posted on September 6, 2002 07:06:37 PM new
>>I see your problem, Cyn. It is called neurosis.<<
I do not recall this comment. Can you bring it into context by bringing me back to the thread? I never deny being neurotic, and it's the baseline of the healthiest of all of us.
If you made this comment, I will revisit it, but will not comment on it necessarily, because at the moment the focus is on you, aaaas you've beeen begging.
If ten people tell you that you have a tail you better turn around and look.
Beyond this I'm not going. Take it to a shrink.
"The road to Hell is lined with good intentions", or some such. I understand that too.
posted on September 6, 2002 07:15:39 PM new
Wait. I see I may have misunderstood. I'm not going to sit here and do Math when you could say something along the lines of "It was up for 3 days" for another pseudo-intellect like me who is passing through for five minutes. In any event--this constant "See what losers you are" attitude Is going to Turn People Off. Maybe it is not the topic. Maybe it is you at this point.
I don't know. I'm beginning not to care. And I'm outa this because I don't do the trial attorney thing anymore.
