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Comment Re:yeah (Score 1) 402

by jfern (#34118922) Attached to: Net Neutrality Supporters Hammered In Elections

The right wing goes after the stupid voters.
Part of their platform is anti-intellectualism.

Its pretty fucked up.

The left wing goes after poor people's votes by promising them goodies we can no longer afford (if we ever really could.)

So yeah, it's pretty fucked up, but it's a bi-partisan process.

The right-wing goes after well-connected elite's votes by delivering them massive no-bid military contracts that we could never afford in the first place.

Comment Re:Bill's Sponsor Also Ex-Microsoft Employee (Score 1) 406

by jfern (#31149248) Attached to: Microsoft To Get $100M Annual Tax Cut and Amnesty

This kind of corruption is quite common in American politics. For example, Senator Evan Bayh's wife Susan works for the health insurance companies. Quite naturally Evan insisted on a health care bill that was a total giveaway to the health insurance companies. Now that everyone hates his guts for pushing for such a crappy bill, he's taking his ball and going home.
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Space Shuttle Atlantis Will Carry Basketballs Into Space 38

Posted by samzenpus from the meaningless-publicity-stunt dept.
Having figured out everything there is to know about space, and being huge fans of Space Jam, NASA has left some of their sciencey stuff behind and made room for a pair of basketballs on the Space Shuttle Atlantis. One of the balls comes courtesy of The Harlem Globetrotters, and the other is on loan from the University of Chicago. It was used by Edwin Hubble in a 1909 victory against Indiana University. "It is only fitting that the team that has seen more of the world than any other in history would have a presence beyond the stratosphere," Globetrotters chief executive officer Kurt Schneider said in a news release.
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First Graphics Game Written On/For a 16-Bit Home PC 159

Posted by Soulskill from the it's-an-e-antique dept.
The GPI writes with a story about Scott's Space Wars, a piece of gaming history: "This game was written by the famous game author Scott Adams, who founded Adventure International, the first multimillion dollar PC game company. It was founded over 30 years ago and developed for early 8-bit home PCs, i.e. TRS-80, Apple II, Atari. Scott's Space Wars is the first graphics game that was ever written at home, for a 16-bit home computer. The original source code is available as photos of the original 1975 hand-written manuscript. The last purchaser of the manuscript paid $197,500 in 2005. A brief video shows how the game was played."

Comment Re:A perfect subject.. (Score 1) 301

by jfern (#27719427) Attached to: Future of Financial Mathematics?

Build in a cost function for the cost to society. For example, when you are trying to find ways to grow the economy, you could have some function that is something like maximize a*GNP + b*jobs + c * median salary - d*greenhouse gases - e* external cost to society, and so on.
Censorship

Goldman Sachs Tries To Shut Down Dissident Blogger 161

Posted by kdawson from the maybe-they'd-like-a-different-number dept.
The Narrative Fallacy sends along a piece from the Telegraph on efforts by Goldman Sachs to silence a blogger who is posting commentary critical of the bank. "Goldman Sachs has instructed Wall Street law firm Chadbourne & Parke to pursue blogger Mike Morgan, warning him in a recent cease-and-desist letter that he may face legal action if he does not close down his website goldmansachs666.com. According to the C&D letter, dated April 8, the bank is rattled because the site 'violates several of Goldman Sachs' intellectual property rights' and also 'implies a relationship' with the bank itself. Morgan claims he has followed all legal requirements to own and operate the website and that the header of the site clearly states that the content has not been approved by the bank. In a post entitled Goldman Sachs vs Mike Morgan, the blogger predicts that the fight will probably end up in court. He went through a similar battle with US home builder Lennar a few years ago after he set up a website to collect information on what he alleged was shoddy workmanship in its homes. 'Since I went through this with Lennar, I've had advice from some of the best intellectual property lawyers, and I know exactly what I can and can't do. We're not going to back down from this.'"
Spam

Spam Replacing Postal Junk Mail? 251

Posted by kdawson from the connecting-the-dots dept.
TheOtherChimeraTwin writes "I've been getting spam from mainstream companies that I do business with, which is odd because I didn't give those companies my email address. It is doubly strange because the address they are using is a special-purpose one that I wouldn't give out to any business. Apparently knotice.com ('Direct Digital Marketing Solutions') and postalconnect.net aka emsnetwork.net (an Equifax Marketing Service Product with the ironic name 'Permission!') are somehow collecting email addresses and connecting them with postal addresses, allowing companies to send email instead of postal mail. Has anyone else encountered this slimy practice or know how they are harvesting email addresses?"

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