Re: [OT] Re: HB 139 Meeting Today ?

2008-02-11 Thread Joel Finlinson
I hear the ACLU runs a flavor of linux on their servers... -Chad Holy Cow! You were right! Since Dec of 2005: http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http://www.aclu.org /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't

Re: [OT] Re: HB 139 Meeting Today ?

2008-02-09 Thread Chad
On Feb 8, 2008 4:36 PM, Trevor Sharpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Josh Hansen wrote: Nobody agrees with the ACLU or any other organization on everything, all the time. I agree with them often, but certainly not always. But to say it's a

Re: [OT] Re: HB 139 Meeting Today ?

2008-02-08 Thread Mister E
Justin Findlay wrote: On AD 2008 February 07 Thursday 09:22:23 PM -0700, Trevor Sharpe wrote: I would imagine that Thad Van Ry is correct. I have been in contact with my Representative Tim Cosgrove, and have received similar comments that this bill might very well pass. I suspect that it might

Re: [OT] Re: HB 139 Meeting Today ?

2008-02-08 Thread Shane Hathaway
Kyle Waters wrote: RMS is a socialist. Does that mean I have to stop using gcc and associated libraries? I like it when RMS encourages people to use their liberty by sharing (an application of capitalism). I hate it when he seems to advocate removing people's liberty by forcing them to share

Re: [OT] Re: HB 139 Meeting Today ?

2008-02-08 Thread Mister E
Jason Hall wrote: On Feb 8, 2008 11:16 AM, Nathan Blackham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So in the begining that was their agenda. I point you to there current page: http://aclu.org/about/index.html The mission of the ACLU is to preserve all of these protections and guarantees: - Your First

Re: [OT] Re: HB 139 Meeting Today ?

2008-02-08 Thread Kyle Waters
RMS is a socialist. Does that mean I have to stop using gcc and associated libraries? Kyle /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */

Re: [OT] Re: HB 139 Meeting Today ?

2008-02-08 Thread Nathan Blackham
On Feb 8, 2008 10:43 AM, Jason Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 8, 2008 9:58 AM, Nathan Blackham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 8, 2008 9:38 AM, Mister E [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The ACLU will fight any fight that is against civil rights. They are blind when it comes to other

Re: [OT] Re: HB 139 Meeting Today ?

2008-02-08 Thread Trevor Sharpe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Josh Hansen wrote: Nobody agrees with the ACLU or any other organization on everything, all the time. I agree with them often, but certainly not always. But to say it's a communist organization or that only socialists should support them or that

Re: [OT] Re: HB 139 Meeting Today ?

2008-02-08 Thread Jonathan Ellis
On 2/8/08, Nathan Blackham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The ACLU will fight any fight that is against civil rights. They are blind when it comes to other issues. This used to be true. I can remember the ACLU supporting the right of people to protest outside abortion clinics, for instance. But in

Re: [OT] Re: HB 139 Meeting Today ?

2008-02-08 Thread Josh Hansen
Jonathan Ellis wrote: This used to be true. I can remember the ACLU supporting the right of people to protest outside abortion clinics, for instance. But in the last decade or so they seem to have become a lot more partisan. I can't think of any non-liberal or politically correct cases

Re: [OT] Re: HB 139 Meeting Today ?

2008-02-07 Thread Nathan Blackham
On Feb 7, 2008 9:35 AM, Thad Van Ry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 7, 2008 9:27 AM, Nathan Blackham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So If I put up a page that they have to agree to that says, If you are a minor you can use it. And they have to click ok, does that count as restricting access?

Re: [OT] Re: HB 139 Meeting Today ?

2008-02-07 Thread Shane Hathaway
Nathan Blackham wrote: So If I put up a page that they have to agree to that says, If you are a minor you can use it. And they have to click ok, does that count as restricting access? I think so. To be completely safe, just copyright the text of the agreement page and say that the text may

Re: [OT] Re: HB 139 Meeting Today ?

2008-02-07 Thread Jonathan Duncan
On 07 Feb 2008, at 10:04, Thad Van Ry wrote: The bill says: (4) Restrict access means to use a reasonable method for ascertaining the age of a person using wireless Internet access or preventing the display of material harmful to minors over the wireless local area network, including: (a)

Re: [OT] Re: HB 139 Meeting Today ?

2008-02-07 Thread Thad Van Ry
On Feb 7, 2008 9:53 AM, Nathan Blackham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wow, after reading it, I see that it is a horribly written bill. The definition of restricting access still makes my question valid though. The bill says you either have to ascertain the age or restrict access (Sec.

Re: [OT] Re: HB 139 Meeting Today ?

2008-02-07 Thread Chris Carey
Back maybe 20 years ago the first Leisure Suit Larry game from Sierra came out. In order to play the game, it would ask questions that only adults should know the answers to. I recall questions about politics, history, etc. Once you got two to three of them correct, the game would start. It could

Re: [OT] Re: HB 139 Meeting Today ?

2008-02-07 Thread Kyle Waters
Chris Carey wrote: Back maybe 20 years ago the first Leisure Suit Larry game from Sierra came out. In order to play the game, it would ask questions that only adults should know the answers to. I recall questions about politics, history, etc. Once you got two to three of them correct, the game

Re: [OT] Re: HB 139 Meeting Today ?

2008-02-07 Thread Jake Pollmann
On Feb 7, 2008 2:49 PM, Kyle Waters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chris Carey wrote: Back maybe 20 years ago the first Leisure Suit Larry game from Sierra came out. In order to play the game, it would ask questions I was about twelve at the time and it sometimes took me a couple of tries to

Re: [OT] Re: HB 139 Meeting Today ?

2008-02-07 Thread Chris Carey
See, we could be providing our youth an education while they bypass the age test. On Feb 7, 2008 3:03 PM, Jake Pollmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Leisure Suit Larry quiz is how I learned who Spiro Agnew was. I wasn't old enough to understand all of the nuances of the game, but I (like

Re: [OT] Re: HB 139 Meeting Today ?

2008-02-07 Thread Thad Van Ry
On Feb 7, 2008 9:27 AM, Nathan Blackham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So If I put up a page that they have to agree to that says, If you are a minor you can use it. And they have to click ok, does that count as restricting access? Why do people seem so reluctant to read the bill? It can be found

Re: [OT] Re: HB 139 Meeting Today ?

2008-02-07 Thread Trevor Sharpe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thad Van Ry wrote: Why do people seem so reluctant to read the bill? It can be found here: http://tinyurl.com/2mbwjl The bill states the ways that age can be verified, currently it states only viewing government issued ID or asking for credit card

[OT] Re: HB 139 Meeting Today ?

2008-02-06 Thread Shane Hathaway
Chris Carey wrote: Digg frontpaged a story on this Bill today I just had a thought... if a bill like this says filtering is required, how accurate must the filter be? Let's say I set up a web proxy that blocks URLs based on some hand crafted regular expressions. The accuracy might be low, yet

Re: [OT] Re: HB 139 Meeting Today ?

2008-02-06 Thread Andrew Jorgensen
On Feb 6, 2008 2:18 PM, Shane Hathaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just had a thought... if a bill like this says filtering is required, how accurate must the filter be? Let's say I set up a web proxy that blocks URLs based on some hand crafted regular expressions. The accuracy might be low,

Re: [OT] Re: HB 139 Meeting Today ?

2008-02-06 Thread Shane Hathaway
Andrew Jorgensen wrote: On Feb 6, 2008 2:18 PM, Shane Hathaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just had a thought... if a bill like this says filtering is required, how accurate must the filter be? Let's say I set up a web proxy that blocks URLs based on some hand crafted regular expressions. The

Re: [OT] Re: HB 139 Meeting Today ?

2008-02-06 Thread Chris Carey
Another interesting thing in the ars technica article is that it says that it is no longer is limited to business. If you live in Orem and your next-door neighbor's kid uses your open WAP to look at pictures of naked women, you could find yourself on the hook for a $1,000 fine. Yarro thinks

Re: [OT] Re: HB 139 Meeting Today ?

2008-02-06 Thread Andrew Jorgensen
On Feb 6, 2008 2:50 PM, Shane Hathaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Didn't you read the Ars Technica page? Rep. Daw said he intends to pull the age requirement and replace it with filtering. Thus filtering is now the core issue. The Ars article is based on an SLTrib article, both of which give

Re: [OT] Re: HB 139 Meeting Today ?

2008-02-06 Thread Andrew Jorgensen
On Feb 6, 2008 3:07 PM, Chris Carey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another interesting thing in the ars technica article is that it says that it is no longer is limited to business. If you live in Orem and your next-door neighbor's kid uses your open WAP to look at pictures of naked women, you

Re: [OT] Re: HB 139 Meeting Today ?

2008-02-06 Thread Trevor Sharpe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrew Jorgensen wrote: I've been curious to listen to the meeting in question to see how much people have misunderstood this bill. It's hard to fight something you don't understand. I was very sad to hear Pete Ashdown misrepresent it on the

Re: [OT] Re: HB 139 Meeting Today ?

2008-02-06 Thread Corey Edwards
On Wed, 2008-02-06 at 14:40 -0700, Andrew Jorgensen wrote: This bill does no such thing. Go read the text. I'm not in favor of the bill but you should all know that it applies only to access points operated by businesses The bill states A person may not provide wireless Internet