We are about to vote on implementing red light cameras in Houston, Texas in the upcoming election. There is a radio ad with a police chief and a pastor telling everyone to vote for it in order to save lives lost by red light runners. Sad thing is when the police officer was explaining his stance on this issue one of his points was if we had a one hundred cameras in the area that could cut town on child sex abuse, why wouldn't we want them. This is despite other callers calling in saying they were getting ticketed for making a legal turn at a red light or from personal experience having my stepfather receive a ticket from an area 300 miles away because they said they had irrefutable proof it was him. In the end it wasn't even the same car he drives.

The Daily Show summed it up well of our quest of being less dependent on oil. http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-june-16-2010/an-energy-independent-future

I don't think it was the distribution itself that was causing the problem. What you described sounds similar to what I and others experienced with the latest ubuntu release. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers/+bug/573557 What was found is that it was a problem with the vga arbitter

I've played a couple of games that utilized Gameguard. My favorite thing it did was disabling my keyboard because it was a usb. There's a huge community dedicated to bypassing it so that exploits can be run in the games it's supposed to detect.

Don't forget Quest for Glory & Leisure Suit Larry!

Before the FISA vote, i emailed both of my senators. I received a response from both of them months after the fact in which they were both using the same form letter and to thank me for my support.