Command Line Terrorists
From the "What the @#$% is This World Coming To" department, we have a story that is so unbelievable it makes me want to puke.
We've all heard arguments about whether the command line is a powerful and elegant tool or an unnecessary pain, but does using a no-pretty-colors interface constitute suspicious behavior? That's the way it looked in the case of a Boston College student whose computer was confiscated during an online harassment investigation. Some say a deeper reading of the police's warrant yields a different conclusion.
Mention "Linux" and "police" in the same sentence, and you're pretty sure to get bloggers' attention. Mention them in such a way as to suggest that Linux was a motivating factor behind a police investigation, and you're likely to have a virtual riot on your hands.
Sure enough, that's exactly what has been going on in the Linux blogosphere over the past few days following reports suggesting that a Boston College student is being investigated and has had his property seized at least in part because he uses "a black screen with white font which he uses prompt commands on."
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Hi Dustin... thanks for the comment. No, the site's not broken, but I did fail to pull the extended content over in the conversion. I've fixed those articles so they should work for you now.
Hmm... is this site broken? I was hoping to get another glance at your CodeIgniter articles but the "Read Full Story" links are broken.