This spoof is making the rounds. js7a, this is for you!

I was shocked that this was rejected!

IEEE-USA has a newsletter with a distressing story about the end of employer-paid healthcare in the USA. It documents the trend of benefits costs outstripping inflation, combined with tax breaks possibly shifting from employers to employees. The real question is, will salaries go up to offset an explicit shift, or do the employees lose out even more t

Does anyone else think that the new Burger King advertising campaign with the "king" in the weird mask is the worst ad in years? Some agency owes BK big bucks.

I thought this was just hearsay when I heard about it. Porter Goss, Bush's CIA nominee, was interviewed for Farenheit 9/11 and said he wasn't qualified for a job there. So he'll lead the whole place? Hmm.

Another interesting link from electoral-vote took me to The Case Against George W. Bush, by none other than Ron Reagan Jr.

Joe-Bob says check it out.

The Electoral vote predictor website, which tracks current US Presidential polls, has an interesting pointer today to JuliusBlog's item on Bush Ratings vs. Terror Alerts. The hypothesis is that when the president's approval rating dips, the government issues a new terror alert and the rating goes back up for

``Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we,'' Bush said. ``They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.''

So finally the truth comes out!

Check out Springsteen's op-ed piece in the NYT. There's a concert I'd stand in line for, both for its politics and its performers.

So, I'm confused. It seems that usually submissions to /. get processed within a few hours at most. Yet I have one that's been pending almost 3 days. Another one has been in the pending state for months, but since I saw the same article posted by someone else, I assume it's the same as a rejection.

Are the Powers That Be using pocket vetoes?

For the record, here's the posting:

I've never really understood the whole concept of trolls in Slashdot. I guess I can see the fun in posting something that seems to be really interesting but is actually intentionally misleading, which I gather is the real definition of a troll. But then there are lots of people who like to post the same thing each time .... often stupid offensive material that is posted anonymously and immediately modded down, and sometimes other things that are posted from accounts that are

The Register has run an article reporting that HP has gone from 10th place (in 1999, when Carly Fiorina took over) on Fortune's list of best places to work down to below 100th place, falling off the list in 2004. Unlike the "best" places, many HPers seem to fear layoffs being less than the last resort. HP has taken this to heart, however, and is trying hard to rebuild emp

I saw a really interesting commercial the other night, in which a young child traveling the world and being helped by strangers was a metaphor for Linux. IMHO, it was the best IBM ad since the brain surgery commercial a few years ago. CNN points to a business2.com article about this ad, which starts with the comment: 'Imagine the following scenario: "OK, ad people. We want you to sell this really cool technol

I hit a doubleheader today with two accepted posts (ok, so one was submitted yesterday):

• Pricing and Internet Architecture
• Downsides to Intrafamily IM?

Maybe someone beat me to it but it hasn't been posted yet.

The NY Times (free reg. req'd) reports that spam king Alan Ralsky has taken an hiatus while retooling to meet the new CAN SPAM act. He's quoted as saying the law is unfair, but adds, "You would have to be stupid" to try to violate it. Is this a case of "Do as I say, not as I do" or will he really put his money where his mouth is?

CNN is running an article that talks about how online mapping services are a peril to people since they can lead the person to their doorstep. But they really end up focusing on how a phone number can lead to the address used by the online mapping service in the first place, quoting a young woman who says she can't give out her phone number to potential suitors anymore. I suppose this is yet another nail in