Comment Another thing about Shatner (Score 2, Funny) 152
I haven't fully researched this, but I'm guessing that Shatner went on to a bigger career after Incubus than anyone else who starred in any Esperanto film.
Comment Re:motorcycles (Score 1) 201
I'd almost managed to forget about Chernobyl Girl. Thanks a lot for reminding me.
Submission + - US Senate Passes 'Libel Tourism' Bill
Hugh Pickens writes: "AFP reports that the US Senate has passed a bill that prevents US federal courts from recognizing or enforcing a foreign judgment for defamation that is inconsistent with the first amendment of the US Constitution, which guarantees freedom of speech, shielding US journalists, authors, and publishers from "libel tourists" who file suit in countries where they expect to get the most favorable ruling. "While we cannot legislate changes to foreign law that are chilling protected speech in our country, we can ensure that our courts do not become a tool to uphold foreign libel judgments that undermine American First Amendment or due process rights," says Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Patrick Leahy adding that libel judgments in foreign courts were "undermining" freedom of speech and of the press and "chilling" open debate in the United States. Backers of the bill have cited England, Brazil, Australia, Indonesia and Singapore as places where weak libel safeguards attract lawsuits that unfairly harm US journalists, writers and publishers. The popular legislation headed to the House of Representatives, which was expected to approve it. "This bill is a needed first step to ensure that weak free-speech protections and abusive legal practices in foreign countries do not prevent Americans from fully exercising their constitutional right to speak and debate freely," says Senator Jeff Sessions, the top Republican on Leahy's committee."
Comment Did this guy ever work for BP? (Score 0, Offtopic) 108
BP likes to use crappy, self-serving 'shops, too. Like their "crisis command center."
Comment Re:Obvious party possiblities (Score 1) 70
Comment January 31, 1975 17:30:12 (Score 1) 375
Of course, that's from an @PRT,TL listing of a program file written to an 800BPI tape in UNIVAC @COPY,G format. Does it count if I still have the tape, but no way to read it?
Comment Re:The fact is, US is just as bad as China (Score 2, Insightful) 536
The vote was 5-4. All the "conservative" justices voted for Kelo, all the "liberal" justices for New London. Kennedy, often the swing vote, chose to side with the liberals on this one.
Comment Re:SpiderOak? Rosegarden? (Score 1) 156
So that's why there are so many Internet Explorer users.
Comment Re:SpiderOak? Rosegarden? (Score 2, Insightful) 156
How is "Firefox" supposed to make you think of browsing the web?
Comment Re:Who cares? (Score 0, Troll) 507
They test everything? Really?
About 12 million firearms are sold annually in the US. Which ones has CR tested?
About 12 million firearms are sold annually in the US. Which ones has CR tested?
Comment Re:Right (Score 1, Offtopic) 47
Well, based on their publication Social Contract 2.0: A 21st Century Program for Effective Cyber Security, p. 29 (.PDF)
For example, an anti-virus vendor who might report a lot of C2 URLs based on all the malware could become upgraded to a they get would be Platinum Certified Threat Reporters. A large company with robust internal capabilities might be achieve Gold level.
they certainly don't represent speakers of coherent English.
Submission + - IBM Makes Firefox Its Corporate Broswer (arstechnica.com) 1
e9th writes: Ars Technica reports that IBM has adopted Firefox as its company-wide browser.It will be installed on all new employee computers, and all 400,000 employees will be encouraged to use it. Speaking of encouraging Firefox use, IBM VP Bob Sutor blogs, 'We will continue to strongly encourage our vendors who have browser-based software to fully support Firefox.' I hope this means that if IBM can't navigate a vendor's site with Firefox, they'll just look elsewhere.
Comment Re:Black hurricanes (Score 4, Interesting) 264
According to the National Hurricane Center (sorry, .PDF), hurricanes themselves won't affect the spill much one way or another. But they will seriously interrupt the recovery process, such as it is.
Comment Re:My 300 baud modem shivered... (Score 1) 181
Ma Bell initially wanted you to lease a DAA even with an acoustic coupler! Then came the Carterphone decision & PUB 43408, which really opened the PSTN up to all sorts of nifty things. Ah, the good ol' days.
Comment If this bothers you, look at the US House (Score 5, Informative) 169
The U.S. House wants to collect DNA from people merely arrested. And they'll pay the states to do it.
