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Submission + - Constitution Day: A Forgotten Day and Forgotten Pr (populistamerica.com) 2

Submitted by

populist

on Monday September 17, 2007 @03:45PM

populist writes: "This day isn't important.

There are far more significant days in the year:

* Labor Day, when we pretend to care about other people's jobs while frolicking at the beach.
* Election Day, when we pretend we're making a difference by voting.
* Martin Luther King, Jr. Day and Susan B. Anthony Day, when we pretend to be politically correct.
* Memorial Day, when we pretend that we live in a free country because of all the people who were killed in the government's senseless wars.
* Flag Day, when we pretend the government is America.
* Veterans Day (formerly Armistice Day, when we pretended that World War I made the world safe for democracy).
* National Teachers Day, when we pretend our children are getting an education.
* Earth Day, when we pretend that making the government more powerful will make the environment cleaner.
* United Nations Day, when we pretend to believe all those inane statements about world peace.

Today doesn't seem to come anywhere near those days in importance.

You see, today is supposed to be Constitution Day. And no one really cares about the Constitution anymore."

Submission + - Developer calls for boycott of Firefox (pcpro.co.uk)

Submitted by

jantman

on Monday September 17, 2007 @03:15PM

jantman writes: ""Boycott ad-blocking Firefox, urges furious web designer"

This designer feels that "Software that blocks all advertisement is an infringement of the rights of website owners and developers". I've never heard of these rights, but would sure like to find out about them. Apparently this gentleman has not heard of the rights of software users, and users of the Internet. I don't like giving press to such a thing, but you have to give this guy credit for trying to reverse the finally-working trend of web standards.

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/news/124719/"

Submission + - CNET Author displays his pirated films 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 17, 2007 @03:07PM

An anonymous reader writes: http://reviews.cnet.com/portable-video-players-pvps/archos-605-wifi-160gb/4505-6499_7-32477557.html I just noticed this when watching a video review of the Archos 160GB player. Check at 1m 37s, and you can clearly see the file "dmd-aquarp" which is a Diamond release [warez group] of Aqua.Teen.Hunger.Force. Whoops!

Submission + - SPAM: MIT launching Kerberos Consortium

Submitted by alphadogg on Monday September 17, 2007 @02:51PM

alphadogg writes: MIT next week is throwing a 20th birthday party for the Kerberos authentication system and the big present is a new consortium devoted to keeping the security system going well into the future. Kerberos, originally created for MIT's Project Athena, is used mainly by enterprises and MIT's goal is to see the IETF security standard develop into a universal system for single sign-on. [spam URL stripped]

Comment Re:Changing percpetion (Score 1) 741

by smackmywhammy on Tuesday April 03, 2007 @01:33PM (#18590499) Attached to: X Prize For a 100-MPG Car

Some vehicles require little compromise. Take the VW GX3: High performance (~6 second 0-60 mph, ~1g skidpad). Good fuel economy (45 mpg, OK, it's not 100 mpg). Reasonable cost ($17K sticker). Good emissions (it's a VW Polo drivetrain). Shamefully killed by VW lawyers frightened by GX3 vs. Hummer cage matches. Indeed, a reasonable concern with all the behemoths on the road today, but we're going to have to make some compromises somewhere to make some progress in getting lighter weight, lower profile vehicles on the road. Perhaps put an off the shelf Polo diesel in the thing and boost fuel economy some more?

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