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JAWBONE == Justice Against Weaponized Bureaucratic Overreach to Networked Expression. Max Kudos. Ron and Ted owe a staffer (or staffers) a few drinks.
by needSomeCoffee 5mo ago
JAWBONE == Justice Against Weaponized Bureaucratic Overreach to Networked Expression. Max Kudos. Ron and Ted owe a staffer (or staffers) a few drinks.
- staticshock 5mo agoMy favorite of these has always been the USA PATRIOT Act, or the "Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act". And that one predates LLMs, so… sheesh.
- smalltorch 5mo agoI always think of this when someone mentions the patriot act. The single senator who opposed it. http://www.archipelago.org/vol6-2/feingold.htm http://www.archipelago.org/vol6-2/feingold.htm
- anematode 5mo agoThanks for the link, a good read
- smalltorch 5mo agoIts a great little snapshot in time. Some parts that really standout to me and still relevant today. >And, of course, there is no doubt that if we lived in a police state, it would be easier to catch terrorists. If we lived in a country that allowed the police to search your home at any time for any reason; if we lived in a country that allowed the government to open your mail, eavesdrop on your phone conversations, or intercept your email communications; if we lived in a country that allowed the government to hold people in jail indefinitely based on what they write or think, or based on mere suspicion that they are up to no good, then the government would no doubt discover and arrest more terrorists. But that probably would not be a country in which we would want to live. And >Preserving our freedom is the reason that we are now engaged in this new war on terrorism. We will lose that war without firing a shot if we sacrifice the liberties of the American people. And, this one. Which leaves me feeling heavyhearted. >In the end, the high water mark for my three amendments was 13 votes – that was on the amendment to the computer trespass provision. Prior to that vote the majority leader of the Senate stood up and implored the Senate to vote down all of my amendments, not on their merits, but because a deal had been struck on this bill. This was not, in my view, the finest hour for the United States Senate. The debate on a bill that may have the most far reaching consequences on the civil liberties of the American people in a generation was a non-debate. The merits took a back seat to the deal.
- voakbasda 5mo agoThere is no question in my mind that the terrorists won. The result of the Patriot Act has been exactly what was predicted: a country that no longer respects the fundamental freedoms that birthed it. In my eyes, the US government itself transformed into the most active and prolific terrorist organization on the planet.
- nilsherzig 5mo agoI like MAGIC CARPET "Maritime Augmented Guidance with Integrated Controls for Carrier Approach and Recovery Precision Enabling Technologies"
- dotancohen 5mo agoFor a short time I maintained a GUI for abcde called abcdefghi - A Better CD Encoder For Gnome... and I neither remember what the H I stood for nor could I find any reference for it last time I looked. I think maybe two or three other people ever used it, I had already moved to KDE by late 2001.
- bitwize 5mo agoSome gigachad on the IBM POWER team gave us the instruction for Enforce In-order Execution for I/O—eieio.
- dotancohen 5mo agoI believe that was Old MacDonald, yes, after a career change from agriculture.
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- LocalH 5mo agoI think it should be illegal to make the name of any bill an acronym