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Wooster Collective: Should posting the image below lead to three years of jail time and $100,000 in fines?
by karlcow
Unfortunately, that's what the French postcard artist Philippe Pissier faces in "obscenity" charges for sending the piece above in the mail as part of a mail art exhibition entitled “Erotic Moments” that was curated by Mark Falkant.
2008
Man on Wire
by sbrothier
On August 7th 1974, a young Frenchman named Philippe Petit stepped out on a wire illegally rigged between New York's twin towers, then the world's tallest buildings. After nearly an hour dancing on the wire, he was arrested, taken for psychological evaluation, an brought to jail before he was finally released.
Slideshow - Gravity Defying Homes | PointClickHome
by oqdbpo
Gravity Defying Homes
Gangster House (Archangelsk, Russia)
Though incomplete, the “Gangster House” is believed to be the world's tallest wooden house, soaring thirteen floors to reach 144 feet (about half the size of London’s Big Ben). The homeowner or gangster, Nikolai Sutyagin, had all intentions of finishing the construction but his dream went on hold when he got locked up behind bars for his third jail sentence. Now out of jail and out of money, the ex-convict lives at the bottom of this precarious tower of wood.
Apsis Gmbh
by camel
& 1 other
The Pound program is a reverse proxy, load balancer and HTTPS front-end for Web server(s). Pound was developed to enable distributing the load among several Web-servers and to allow for a convenient SSL wrapper for those Web servers that do not offer it natively. Pound is distributed under the GPL - no warranty, it's free to use, copy and give away.
WHAT POUND IS:
1. a reverse-proxy: it passes requests from client browsers to one or more back-end servers.
2. a load balancer: it will distribute the requests from the client browsers among several back-end servers, while keeping session information.
3. an SSL wrapper: Pound will decrypt HTTPS requests from client browsers and pass them as plain HTTP to the back-end servers.
4. an HTTP/HTTPS sanitizer: Pound will verify requests for correctness and accept only well-formed ones.
5. a fail over-server: should a back-end server fail, Pound will take note of the fact and stop passing requests to it until it recovers.
6. a request redirector: requests may be distributed among servers according to the requested URL.
Pound is a very small program, easily audited for security problems. It can run as setuid/setgid and/or in a chroot jail. Pound does not access the hard-disk at all (except for reading the certificate file on start, if required) and should thus pose no security threat to any machine.
The gaze of strangers: Morocco, male love and modernity | openDemocracy
by karlcow
In December 2007, the Moroccan court of justice sentenced six men to jail terms of between two and ten months for the crime of homosexuality. The men had been filmed participating in a mock wedding of two men in the northern town of Ksar el-Kebir. Moroccans saw the video on the internet: someone, and than many people, loaded what appeared to be low-quality mobile-phone videos of the ceremony onto You Tube.
'Enemy combatant' receives 17-year US jail term | Guardian
by ravi
A US citizen held for more than three years without charge as an "enemy combatant" was today sentenced to 17 years and four months...
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2007
Boing Boing: French kid who translated Potter 7 faces charges
by mbertier
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Kids publishers shouldn't put kids in jail.
Teen faces charges for recording 20-second movie clip -- dailypress.com
by lukeslytalker
A 19-year-old woman is facing up to a year in jail and a fine up to $2,500 when she goes to trial this month on charges of illegally recording part of a motion picture
freeparis.org
by lukeslytalker
Join the fight to free Paris from her 45-day jail sentence in LA County jail
Arthur Road Jail in Mumbai. What to expect if you end up there?
by mumbaikar
It is not very difficult to find yourself at the wrong side of the law. Arthur Road Jail is the most feared jail in India.
2006
The Tekwar to End All Tekwars
by overtimecomedy
"Tekwar, the William Shatner-run sci-fi cop drama about a futuristic drug that gives you hyper-real dreams but gets you put in cyber-jail, came on the scene right around the time i began to form opinions about television. Just a scant few months before, m
'SLUM BUM' JAILED By PATRICK GALLAHUE - New York Post Online Edition: news
by urbanfoto
April 19, 2006 -- A judge ordered a notorious Brooklyn slumlord to spend 12 days in jail - probably the only place worse than one of his crumbling rat shacks. In an extremely rare penalty for a landlord, Olufemi Falade will be sent to the slammer for fa
Web 2.0, a jail
by karlcow
none of these seem like pieces of software that I can download and install on my web server. Not even if I paid, I suspect. Hmm, methinks, this Web 2.0 isn't just a "Dump the OS apps for your browser" pattern, it appears to be a subscription pattern too.
CNET News:
by misspaige
(via)
Create an e-annoyance, go to jail | Perspectives | CNET News.com. Thanks, Sweetney.
