Bush Wants Right to ISP Customer Data 565
bryan8m writes "Wired is reporting that the Bush administration wants back the ability to make ISPs turn over information on their customers. The U.S. Court of Appeals is handling the case and of course the feds want to hide details of it from the public. The law giving the government the power to seize communications records from 1986 was strengthened in 2001 by the Patriot Act and struck down after the ACLU challenged it."
Re:Christmas List... (Score:2, Funny)
Time to (Score:5, Funny)
Shaddup! (Score:5, Funny)
They could get all your hacker information! (Score:5, Funny)
I can see more personals like this in the future (Score:5, Funny)
"Single, white 22-year old Canadian male willing to `marry' American female fleeing fascist regime. Must be intelligent and conversational. Preferably aged 19-25, ethnicity unimportant."
Already happening! (Score:1, Funny)
http://www.marryanamerican.ca/ [marryanamerican.ca]
Re:Hiding the law from the people who it is direct (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Paranoia (Score:3, Funny)
Mocking Republicans for doing the same stuff that Democrats were demonized for is pure sport for Libertarians.
The sooner people realize that there is a fractional difference between the two, the sooner we can return to true competition in politics.
Republicans=Democrats who used to smoke pot until their kids started stealing their stash.
This should never happen at all.. (Score:1, Funny)
Should we blindly trust such superficial, gruesome boneheads? Slashdot's bedfellows insist that "Slashdot is a perpetual victim of injustice." First off, that's a lousy sentence. If they had written that Slashdot's hariolations are about as useful to society as a hundred deutsche marks were in 1923 Germany, then that quote would have had more validity. As it stands, Slashdot somehow manages to maintain a straight face when saying that we have no reason to be fearful about the criminally violent trends in our society today and over the past ten to fifteen years. I am greatly grieved by this occurrence of falsehood and fantastic storytelling which is the resultant of layers of social dishevelment and disillusionment amongst the fine citizens of a once organized, motivated, and cognitively enlightened civilization. Slashdot's propositions will have consequences -- very serious consequences. And we ought to begin doing something about that. Slashdot's artifices are a hotbed of corporatism. But you knew that already. So let me add that Slashdot keeps saying that freedom must be abolished in order for people to be more secure and comfortable. For some reason, Slashdot's forces actually believe this nonsense.
Like a lion after tasting the blood of human victims, Slashdot will feed us ever-larger doses of its lies and crackpot assumptions. Please let me explain that ignorance is bliss. This may be why Slashdot's cringers are generally all smiles. The long and short of it is that Slashdot struts like a god on Mount Olympus, looking down on us mortals below. In view of that, it is not surprising that I don't need to tell you that in Slashdot's line of business, you don't need to know what you're talking about. That should be self-evident. What is less evident is that Slashdot's factotums all look like Slashdot, think like Slashdot, act like Slashdot, and make widespread accusations and insinuations without having the facts to back them up, just like Slashdot does. And all this in the name of -- let me see if I can get their propaganda straight -- brotherhood and service. Ha! If Slashdot were as bright as it thinks it is, it'd know that I receive a great deal of correspondence from people all over the world. And one of the things that impresses me about it is the massive number of people who realize that it shouldn't take a condescending cheap shot at a person that most insane gutter-dwellers will never be in a position to condescend to. That's just plain common sense. Of course, the people who appreciate its philippics are those who eagerly root up common sense, prominently hold it out, and decry it as poison with astonishing alacrity. Unfortunately, Slashdot's stubborn prognoses neglect to take one important factor into consideration: human nature. Common sense and scientific evidence agree: If we don't remove the Slashdot threat now, it will bite us in our backside as soon as our backs are turned.
Will the worst kinds of spineless mountebanks there are ever oppose our human vices wherever they may be found -- arrogance, hatred, jealousy, unfaithfulness, avarice, and so on? Don't bet on it. Pessimism is dangerous. Slashdot's self-centered version of it is doubly so. If I may be permitted to make an observation, when you tell Slashdot's emissaries that Slashdot's litanies are filled with a number of very clear-cut and blatant lies -- lies of both om
Re:Shaddup! (Score:1, Funny)
Now Edith, get me a beer, eh? Meathead, when are you gonna get a job. I'll give Polacks credit when credit is due. Now stifle yourself.
Re:Why Bother with the Courts? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Shaddup! (Score:2, Funny)
Sorry... what was I saying?
Re:Look! He is making his Tribal identification cr (Score:2, Funny)
If only the same were true for trolls you might have another way of getting attention besides posting flamebait on slashdot
Re:Look! He is making his Tribal identification cr (Score:2, Funny)
This has to do with the US finding Weapons of Mass Disposal units doesn't it? They had to go in for sanitation reasons! What do you think Bush meant when he said he was going to "clean up the world"? It's all about the hygene, and any dictator we find not showering and living in a little rat infested hole, just isn't hygenic enough to run a country. I say, strip them down to the underpants and scrub them with some steel wool and Jif! Let's clean up Iraq!