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Submission + - Sharp Rise in Imprisonment of Internet Journalists (cpj.org)

Submitted by bckspc on Tuesday December 08, 2009 @12:57AM

bckspc writes: The Committee to Protect Journalists has published their annual census of journalists in prison. Of the 136 reporters in prison around the world on December 1, "At least 68 bloggers, Web-based reporters, and online editors are imprisoned, constituting half of all journalists now in jail." Print was next with 51 cases. Also, "Freelancers now make up nearly 45 percent of all journalists jailed worldwide, a dramatic recent increase that reflects the evolution of the global news business." China, Iran, Cuba, Eritrea, and Burma were the top 5 jailers of journalists.

Comment Re:Seeing Arrington's rants... (Score 5, Interesting) 175

by bckspc on Monday November 30, 2009 @03:50PM (#30273414) Attached to: Arrington's CrunchPad Dies

I was just going to post something to the same effect. A good friend of mine was pushed out of his company by his partner, board, and angel investors when his invention was close to launch. Another friend turned evil on me when our own start-up company was approached about acquisition. Even though we were 50-50 partners, I still feel like I got shafted. And every slashdot reader knows that Windows is dominant not because of its technical merits, but because of legal -- and illegal -- bullying. Screw or be screwed seems to be the name of the game. Sometimes it seems the only way to win is not to play.

Comment Hillary? (Score 4, Funny) 1721

by bckspc on Friday October 09, 2009 @09:08AM (#29691187) Attached to: Barack Obama Wins the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize

Wait, isn't the Secretary of State responsible for US foreign policy?

Hillary Clinton screwed again!

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

Submitted by

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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