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A Congressman Who Can Code Assembly 421

Posted by Zonk on Thursday March 13, 2008 @05:20PM from the at-least-its-not-haskell dept.

christo writes "In what appears to be a first, the US House of Representatives now has a Congressman with coding skills. Democratic Representative Bill Foster won a special election this past Saturday in the 14th Congressional District of Illinois. Foster is a physicist who worked at Fermilab for 22 years designing data analysis software for the lab's high energy particle collision detector. In an interview with CNET today, Foster's campaign manager confirmed that the Congressman can write assembly, Fortran and Visual Basic. Will having a tech-savvy congressman change the game at all? Can we expect more rational tech-policy? Already on his first day, Foster provided a tie-breaking vote to pass a major ethics reform bill."

Submission + - Angry blogger blocks Digg traffic

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amigoro

on Saturday December 30, 2006 @03:09PM

amigoro writes: "Here is an article about an angry blogger blocking Digg users after diggers made nasty comments about one of his articles without RTFA. If you follow the Digg link to the story, you get a 403 "Go Away!"

While one swallow does not make a summer, but this is just one indication that people are slowly turning away from the Digg "phenomenon". There's a fair number of /. who don't RTFA but at least they get moderated down if they start commenting on an article they haven't bothered to read. Unfortunately, it is rule of the kidde mob at Digg. Either they will grow up, or Digg will go down like so many other mob phenomena."

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