Mr. O'Reilly, please just stop.
Grok Headline matches for Mr. O'Reilly, please just stop.
Lessig : Mr. O'Reilly, please just stop
Lessig : Mr. O'Reilly, please just stop
07/24/2004 06:07 PM
Lessig writes an open letter to Bill O'Reilly from the FOX News
show The Factor. Lessig has been blogging a lot
about OutFoxed, Richard Greenwald's
film criticizing FOX News. Lessig links to a clip from the film, the
original interview with Jeremy Glick and the offending anti-war ad. He
takes on point by point the series of false accusations that O'Reilly
has been making about Glick in an unfair smear campaign against his
Glick.
Lawrence Lessig
Mr. O'Reilly,
please just stop.
Mr. O'Reilly,
You have declared a "war" on the New York Times. That's good for
you, good for them, and good for our democracy: Strong opinions
deserve strong spokesmen. Your battle will help sharpen a debate about
matters important to the Republic.
But in waging this "war," you are continuing to abuse a man whom
you have wronged, and to whom you owe an apology.
On February 4, 2003, Jeremy Glick was your guest on THE FACTOR.
Glick had lost his father in the attack of 9/11. He had also signed an
ad criticizing the war in Iraq. You were "surprised" that one who had
lost his father could oppose that war. And so you had him on your
show, presumably to ask him why. (Here's a clip
from Outfoxed putting this story
together.)
You might not remember precisely what you said on that interview,
or more importantly, what Jeremy Glick said. So here's a copy that you can watch. Nor may you remember precisely what the ad that
Jeremy Glick signed said. Here's a copy
that you can read. And when you've watched what was actually said, and
read what was actually written, I'm sure you will see that the
statements you continue to make about Jeremy Glick are just plain
false. Not Bill Clinton "depends upon what is is" false, but false the
way most Americans learned growing up: just not true.
Please read
Lessig's
entire post.
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L.A., Houston top list of worst
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40% since 1999, a new report shows. Despite that, delays are being
reduced at some of the nation's most infamous chokepoints such as
Albuquerque's "Big I" and Chicago's "Hillside Strangler."
Ad-Blocker Agrees To Stop Storming Popup
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O'Reilly Network: O'Reilly Network --
2004 Emerging Technology Conference
Coverage [Jan. 16, 2004]
O'Reilly Network: O'Reilly Network --
2004 Emerging Technology Conference
Coverage [Jan. 16, 2004]
02/11/2004 08:18 AMO'Reilly Network: O'Reilly Network -- 2004 Emerging Technology
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Stop SQL Injection Attacks Before They
Stop You
Stop SQL Injection Attacks Before They
Stop You
09/12/2004 11:33 PMArmed with advanced server-side technologies like ASP.NET and powerful
database servers such as Microsoft® SQL Server™, developers are
able to create dynamic, data-driven Web sites with incredible ease.
But the power of ASP.NET and SQL can easily be used against you by
hackers mounting an all-too-common class of attack—the SQL injection
attack.
The basic idea behind a SQL injection attack is this: you create a
Web page that allows the user to enter text into a textbox that will
be used to execute a query against a database. A hacker enters a
malformed SQL statement into the textbox that changes the nature of
the query so that it can be used to break into, alter, or damage the
back-end database. How is this possible? Let me illustrate with an
example.
MIT vs. Tim O'Reilly
MIT vs. Tim O'Reilly
02/10/2004 02:56 AMThe MIT technology review just published this interesting article on
the 10 Emerging Technologies That Will Change Your World (registration
required). It's a good article to read in preparation for the O'Reilly
Emerging Technologies Conference that I'm going to next week. It is
interesting to contrast Tim O'Reilly's vision with MIT -- O'Reilly is
much more centered around software and the sociology and politics of
software, with a little bit on hardware and biology, while MIT's
article selects technology to highlight from a somewhat broader
field....
Five New Books From O'Reilly
Five New Books From O'Reilly
12/10/2003 10:25 AMO'Reilly Network:
O'Reilly Network:
07/30/2004 02:58 AMO'Reilly has a page up about their new magazine called
Make
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The O'Reilly Radar
The O'Reilly Radar
10/29/2003 12:13 AMHacks.O'Reilly.com
Hacks.O'Reilly.com
03/11/2003 09:43 AMThe full-blown version of O'Reilly's Hacks Series site is now up at
hacks.oreilly.com. In
addition to
info about the current crop of books (Linux Server, Google, Mac OS X),
there are
listings of
published hacks,
some
complete hacks, and each has its own discussion forum.
Gotta Hack? Got a non-obvious solution to an interesting problem?
Throw
your hack into the ring and it just might be in a Hacks
book-to-be. Not a hacker yourself but have a hack or Hacks book you'd
like to see?
Suggest
it and perhaps it will be so written.
O'Reilly OS X Conference Day Three
O'Reilly OS X Conference Day Three
10/30/2003 12:34 PMO'Reilly OS X Conference Day Two
O'Reilly OS X Conference Day Two
10/29/2003 02:21 AMO'Reilly OS X Conference Day One
O'Reilly OS X Conference Day One
10/29/2003 12:13 AMI Hacked at O'Reilly
I Hacked at O'Reilly
03/19/2003 10:24 PM
The
O'Reilly Hacks site now
has a hacks page for each contributor; mine's
here.
maybe o'reilly will shut up
maybe o'reilly will shut up
08/11/2004 02:55 AM
The producer strikes back. After crowing Monday about how he
made mincemeat of NYT columnist Paul Krugman on The Factor, O'Reilly
gets rebutted on Tuesday via quicktime on the blog of
Outfoxed co-producer Jim
Gilliam.
O'Reilly: Why PHP 5 Rocks!
O'Reilly: Why PHP 5 Rocks!
07/16/2004 08:27 AMNew from the
O'Reilly PHP
Development Center is an article about
Why
PHP 5 Rocks!
O'Reilly Intro
O'Reilly Intro
02/10/2004 02:51 AMChanging the world by spreading the knowledge of innovators. Digital
Democracy is an emerging area of innovation. Wonderful moment to hear
from the pioneers. Joe is the Edison of the Movement (Brit Blaser),
although we are not sure if he...
O'Reilly: Using PHP 5's SimpleXML
O'Reilly: Using PHP 5's SimpleXML
01/16/2004 10:58 AMNuCleuZ wrote in to tell us about a new article posted over on
the
O'Reilly Network for all
of those out there looking forward to the quick and easy XML features
coming in PHP 5.
CC at O'Reilly Etech
CC at O'Reilly Etech
02/10/2004 02:41 AMCreative Commons will be an exhi
bitor at the O'Reilly Emerging
Technology Conference in San Diego next week.
Etech is regarded by many as the best tech conference of the year,
always in step with the latest creations and aspirations of the alpha
geeks, having evolved from
the Peer-to-Peer Conference in early 2001 and P2P & Web Services in
late 2001 to the current multi-tracked annual conference starting two
years ago. (Incidentally, the Creative Commons concept was in
troduced at ETCon 2002. How time flies.)
Matt
Haughey and Mike
Linksvayer will be attending. Stop by the Creative Commons booth,
or better yet our parti
cipant session (time and location yet to be announced). We'll be
introducing a new CC metadata-enhanced application. Hint: it's
described in one of our tech
challenges, heretofore unmet.
If you're in the area but not an attendee, you can still reg
ister for a free exhibits pass, or an exhibits plus keynotes and
birds-of-a-feather (participant sessions) pass for only $50. Hope to
see you there!
O'Reilly Radar
O'Reilly Radar
02/10/2004 01:17 PMI've heard this talk a couple of times, so Im just listening for
something new and cool Timisms. One bit of commentary, its great that
wikis are on the O'Reilly Radar, but there is an even better reason
for it...
O'Reilly and the Cold War
O'Reilly and the Cold War
12/19/2004 03:40 PMThanks for the amazingly thoughtful and interesting comments on the
O'Reilly show. I want to answer one questions about that because
several people raised it: Why would any sensible person agree to be a
guest on that show? Truth be told, I've always in the past declined to
be on the Factor and other shows like it. I agreed this time because
the issue "Is dissent disloyal?" is important, I've thought a lot
about it, and I thought I might be able to contribute something
useful. And I would have, had he not changed the issue! But, since the
main thrust of my guest stint on this blog is learning lessons from
past mistakes, I won't do it again! (The reason, by the way, is not
because it's unpleasant, but because no one should allow himself to be
used by a demagogue.)
Speaking of which, let's return to our history. We left off with the
Japanese internment. As several comments noted, the Supreme Court in
1944 upheld the internment in the case of Korematsu v. United States.
In effect, the Court held that, in wartime, we all have to make
sacrifices, and it couldn't say that the decision to internment these
people was not a rational military decision at the time it was made.
Korematsu has gone down as one of the most profoundly embarrassing
decisions in the history of the Supreme Court, and the nation has in
many ways confessed the unconstitutionality of the internment in the
sixty years since the decision. (As an interesting aside, by the way,
I sumbitted a friend of the Court brief on behalf of Fred Korematsu
--he is still alive and flourishing -- in the Guanatamo Bay, Hamdi,
and Padilla cases in the Supreme Court last spring.)
At the end of World War II, Americans were optimistic. We had the
strongest military in the world, we had just won a "great" war and we
had clearly been on the side of the angels. The world was at peace.
Within a short time, however, everything changed. Although the Soviet
Union had been our ally during the war, relations collapsed beween the
U.S. and the Soviet Union as the need for that alliance disappeared.
Within a stunningly short period of time, the American economy took a
nosedive, there were revelations of Soviet espionage, the Soviet Union
exploded its first atomic bomb, China fell to the Communists,
Americans began to build bomb shelters as they prepared by nuclear
bombs to rain down upon our cities, and the Korean War burst upon the
scene.
Who was to blame? How did the Soviets get the bomb? Why had China
fallen to the Communists? A group of anti-New Deal Republicans and
conservative Southern Democrats had the answer -- it was American
Communists who had sold us out and were working to further the Soviet
cause. Men like Richard Nixon in California and Joseph McCarthy in
Wisconsin began to play the Red Card in order to get elected, and they
did. In the 1946 elections, the Republicans, who now portrayed the
choice as one between Communism and Republicanism, picked up 54 seats
in the House. After being out of power for 16 long years, the
Republicans had found a strategy that could propel them back into
power.
Democrats, who were overwhelmed by the growing anti-Communist
hysteria, jumped on the bandwagon, afraid to resist. Within a few
short years the United States had a new federal loyalty program for
over four million government employees, the House Un-American
Activities Committee investigated thousands of individuals to
determine if they were secret Communists, state and federal
governments adopted their own loyalty programs, investigations,
blacklists, and anti-Communist laws. Tens of thousands of people were
threatened, intimidated, fired, humiliated, and even prosecuted.
Who were these people? Were they spies and sabotuers? No doubt, there
were Soviet agents in the United States. But they were almost never
the target of these actions. They were too well-hidden for that.
Rather, these actions were cynical efforts to make political hay by
taking advantage of, and exacerbating, the fear that was already upon
the land. So, who were these people?
After the Depression, many Americans began to search for answers to
what had happened to the nation. Many toyed with communism. At this
time, the Communist Part of the United States was a lawful political
party that ran candidates for public office throughout the nation. It
stood for such causes as women's rights, the rights of labor, and
public housing; it opposed the rise of fascism in Europe and racism at
home. As many as 250,000 Americans joined the CPUSA in this period.
Moreover, many millions more participated in CPUSA events or joined
other organization that shared some of the goals and programs of the
CPUSA. During World War II, we fought side-by-side with the Soviet
Union, and FDR encouraged Americans to see the Soviets as our allies
and friends.
After the war, though, all this fell apart. And suddenly the most
dangerous question in America was: "Are you now or have you ever been
a member of the Communist Party or a member of any organization that
is or was affiliated with the Commnist Party or have you ever attended
an event sponored by the Communist Party, or signed a Communist Party
petition, or attended a Communist Party rally, or read a Communist
book?" An affirmative answer to any of these questions would
immediately cast doubt on the patriotism and loyalty of the
individual. After all, how do we know you're not still a Commie who is
secretly working to subvert the government of the United States.
This was the heart of McCarthyism.
The O'Reilly Factor
The O'Reilly Factor
12/19/2004 03:40 PMI'll get back to the history tomorrow (Saturday). For now, though, I
want to tell you about my experience tonight as a guest on the Bill
O'Reilly show. I received a call this afternoon (Friday) from the
producer inviting me to debate O'Reilly on the question: “Is dissent
disloyal?” After the producer and I discussed this issue, O’Reilly
(according to the producer) decided to redefine the question: “Can an
American want the United States to lose the war in Iraq and still be
patriotic?”
Of course, this is a loaded question. It not-so-subtly implies that
those who oppose the war want the United States to lose and, even
worse, want American soldiers to die. One of Joseph McCarthy’s
favorite tactics was to imply that anyone who believed in the social
or economic principles of communism also supported the violent
overthrow of the government. The tactic of guilt-by-inference is
all-too-familiar in American history. (I'll return to McCarthyism in
my next entry.)
In any event, in our “debate” O’Reilly insisted on his “narrow”
framing of the question and, when I called him on the issue, denied
that he intended to imply anything about those who merely oppose the
war. I accepted his framing of the question (it is, after all, his
show) and argued that a patriotic citizen could in principle want the
nation to lose a war if the war is unjust and if losing meant that
fewer American soldiers would die for no good reason. O'Reilly
maintained that losing a war necessarily means that more American
soldiers will die than continuing the war and that no one could
therefore patriotically wants the nation to lose. O’Reilly tossed out
such ugly phrases as “despicable,” “traitor,” and “disloyal” to
describe those who would disagree. The purpose, of course, was to
excite his audience.
After the show, I received dozens of emails, most of which were along
the following lines:
“You ought to be arrested, tried, convicted of wartime treason. And I
don't have to tell you the penalty for that.”
“I hope they are checking you out for being a traitor!!!”
“You are not only despicable, but should go ahead and move out of the
USA.”
“I must imagine, Mr. Stone, that you will look over your shoulder a
little bit, because maybe some soldier in a foxhole somewhere might be
a tad angered with you and your lunacy. There may be a few G.I.s in
Chicago even that would like to ‘speak’ with you.”
“There is the tendency for citizens to take the law into their own
hands in these cases. Decent, ordinary people, not of the left, are
angry enough at the far left to be willing to go along with things you
would consider unconscionable.”
“You're a despicable Piece of feces, A Gutless Traitor. and I strongly
suggest that you get your Terrorist Sympathizing Worthless ass out of
this country while you can still walk and talk.”
And so on. What do you make of all this in light of our on-going
conversation?
Free Books from O'Reilly
Free Books from O'Reilly
02/14/2004 11:51 PMwww.oreilly.com -- O'Reilly Open Books
Project: Did you know O'Rielly publishes some free books? Man, I
love free books.
Over the years, O'Reilly & Associates has published a
number of "Open Books" — books with various forms of "open"
copyright. The reasons for "opening" copyright, as well as the
specific license agreements under which they are opened, are as varied
as our authors.
There are a couple dozen, from gems like Using
Samba to curiosities like Programming the
Be Operating System and Embedding Perl in HTML with
Mason.
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O'Reilly: Object Overloading in PHP 5
O'Reilly: Object Overloading in PHP 5
06/17/2005 03:32 PMUsing the object system in PHP5 just has a more refined feel that in
previous versions of PHP, and one of the features that contributes to
this is object overloading. In
thi
s new article from the O'Reilly Network, they explain to you what
object overloading is and how you can really benefit from it.
A fine implementation of the object-overloading paradigm has found its
way into PHP version 5. Thi
s article explores the possibilities of the overload methods
__call(), __set(), and __get(). After explaining the basic theory of
overloading, it dives straight into the topic by using two practical
examples: first, implementing persistable classes, and second,
figuring out a way to realize dynamic getter and setter methods. If
you do not yet know what these terms mean, don't be afraid--it will
become clear to you when you see the example code.
On a basic level, obj
ect overloading consists of two things: method and property
overloading. They focus on the first, showing you how to create a
"catch-all" call that will fail a bit more gracefully when certain
things happen - like calling a method that doesn't exist...
"Those Who Trespass" by Bill O'Reilly
"Those Who Trespass" by Bill O'Reilly
02/17/2004 06:29 AMIn the Fox News celeb's resurrected 1998 novel -- yes, the one with
the bad sex writing -- a TV news personality addicted to fame becomes
a serial killer. Plus: To hook chicks, be a tough guy and a little boy
at the same time!
O'Reilly On What Happened To BountyQuest
O'Reilly On What Happened To BountyQuest
11/10/2003 11:19 PMSlashdot Nov 10 2003 11:36AM ET
O'Reilly: PHP Web Services Without SOAP
O'Reilly: PHP Web Services Without SOAP
10/31/2003 09:26 AMWeb services have to be one of the most underused parts of web
development, especially in the corporate world. I can't say I've
really heard of an instance where a (non-internet) company was using
them for much of anything. Well, if you've been hesitant to leap into
this powerful tool because you had to learn your way around SOAP, then
thi
s new article might just interest you.
O'reilly Releases Inside .Mac
O'reilly Releases Inside .Mac
06/03/2004 03:44 PMLessig: Shame on you, O'Reilly
Lessig: Shame on you, O'Reilly
07/24/2004 04:14 PMLarry Lessig has written a long open letter to Bill O'Reilly that
opens "You have declared a 'war' on the New York Times. That's good
for you, good for them, and good for our democracy: Strong opinions
deserve strong spokesmen. Your battle will help sharpen a debate about
matters important to the Republic." Lessig then proceeds to take
O'Reilly to task, point-by-point for an ongoing campaign of
pathological libel agaist Jeremy Glick, the son of a 9/11 victim who
spoke out against the Bush Presidency and the war. Glick appears in
Outfoxed, a new documentary that criticises O'Reilly and his network,
and in answering the charges raised in Outfoxed, O'Reilly has chosen
Glick as a symbol of what he hates, and in order to make his point, he
has been lying repeatedly about what Glick said and did. Lessig's
point is that attacking a giant media organisation is one thing, but
using your on-camera bully pulpit to repeatedly slander someone who
has already lost so much is unconscionable.
# on February 5th, you told your viewers that "Glick was out of
control." He may have been out of your control. But you and our
government have got to learn that just because someone disagrees with
you, he doesn"t become a security threat. Again, watch the interview,
Mr. O"Reilly. He was not "out of control."
# on February 5th, you told your viewers that Glick was "spewing
hatred for this program." Watch the interview, Mr. O"Reilly. He
criticized you, not the program, for unethically using sympathy for
the 9/11 victims for your own political ends. He was calling your
behavior improper. You had not earned his hatred.
LinkO'Reilly: A Crash Course in MySQL (and
SQL)
O'Reilly: A Crash Course in MySQL (and
SQL)
12/24/2003 07:05 PMThe
O'Reilly Network has
posted the latest piece from John Coggeshall -
MySQL Crash Course.
the modesty of Bill O'Reilly
the modesty of Bill O'Reilly
05/11/2004 10:46 AMWHYY reports that Fox News
Channel's Bill O'Reilly, host of
The O'Reilly Factor, will
not authorize
Fresh
Air to relicense segments from his amazing
appearance on Terry Gross's amazing show. Speculation
why he'd ban the repeat of his worlds elsewhere is growing. But it is
obvious to this writer that it is nothing more than a flash of modesty
by this engaging figure, no doubt motivated by a desire to drive
traffic to Fresh Air's site (again, it is
here). Yet another example of commercial media
reaching out to help noncommercial media.
O'Reilly: Simplify with PHP DataObjects
O'Reilly: Simplify with PHP DataObjects
08/06/2004 07:46 AMEver looked at your code and wondered if there was an easier way to
perform the basic SQL tasks (insert, update, delete, select) without
having to rewrite the SQL each time? Well,
thi
s new article from the O'Reilly Network aims to help you with just
that.
Krugman vs. O'Reilly -- my clips
Krugman vs. O'Reilly -- my clips
08/12/2004 04:21 AMmore of O'Reilly being a blustering asshole .. The producer strikes
back .. Jim
Gilliam
jimgilliam.com/2004/08/krugman_vs_oreilly_my_clips.php
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Tim O'Reilly on Alpha Geeks
Tim O'Reilly on Alpha Geeks
09/04/2004 07:19 PM
Mark Frauenfelder:
MP3 audio transcript of a interview with Tim O'Reilly talking about
Alpha Geeks, who make things that aren't available, and as a result,
make them available to everybody.
So often, signs of the future are all around us, but it
isn't until much later that most of the world realizes their
significance. Meanwhile, the innovators who are busy inventing that
future live in a world of their own. They see and act on premises that
are not yet apparent to others.
In the computer industry, these are the folks I affectionately call
"the alpha geeks", the hackers who have such mastery of their tools
that they "roll their own" when existing products don't give them what
they need.
Link
New O'Reilly magazine: Make
New O'Reilly magazine: Make
07/29/2004 10:02 PM
Today, at OSCON in Portland,
Dale Dougherty and I
announced a new O'Reilly magazine called
Make. It'll be a
quarterly, full-color magazine filled with fun projects and hardware
hacks involving technology. (Dale is the editor and publisher, and I'm
the editor-in-chief. Thanks to BB's own John Battelle for getting me
involved!)
Make will have 5-minute tips you can use to improve your
gadgets, networks, and computers, as well as much longer projects that
might take several days (or weeks) to complete. The first issue is
coming out in January. If you're interested, visit the web site and
sign up for the newsletter. I'll also be running the Make
blog on that page. I hope that a lot of BB readers become
Make contributors, too. Please send me your ideas for hacks,
tips, tricks, workarounds, neat things to build, useful tools, etc. Link
"Mac OS X Unwired" Released By O'Reilly
"Mac OS X Unwired" Released By O'Reilly
12/08/2003 07:09 PM(MacNN via MyAppleMenu)
New AxKit Book From O'Reilly
New AxKit Book From O'Reilly
07/25/2004 04:27 AMkingubu writes "At long last, O'Reilly Media has published XML
Publishing with AxKit. Using the power of Perl (and mod_perl) to
transform the Apache Web server into a fully-featured XML publishing
and application enviroment, Apache AxKit is one of the ...
O'Reilly Network: WURFLing Your Way to
WAP
O'Reilly Network: WURFLing Your Way to
WAP
04/15/2004 07:46 AMGiven that more and more people are connecting to sites with their
moblie devices (phones, PDAs, Blackberries, etc), more and more sites
are creating WAP-friendly versions of their own pages. Well, there's a
project that's talked about
over on
the O'Reilly Network that helps that effort in leaps and bounds.
O'Reilly Wishes On a Star
O'Reilly Wishes On a Star
01/02/2004 11:03 PMMy Wired News
Wishes for 2004: Some great idea here. Tim for President.
I wish that the various web services data vendors
(including Amazon, Google, EBay, Salesforce.com, and many others)
would realize that they comprise the building blocks of a future
"internet operating system", and act accordingly, engaging with each
other to interoperate.
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Grok Description matches for Mr. O'Reilly, please just stop.
GrokA matches for Mr. O'Reilly, please just stop.
Mr. O'Reilly, please just stop.
