Greyfox - Slashdot User

Submission + - What Ever Happened to the Linux Beer Walk?

Submitted by Greyfox on Wednesday November 08, 2006 @03:59PM

Greyfox writes: A few years back I tried to sell my manager at IBM on the idea of sending me to the Linux Beer Walk on the company dime. Well he wasn't particularly keen on the idea for some reason but I'm working at a new company now and am set to try again! However... there doesn't seem to be a Linux Beer Walk that I can pitch anymore! Whatever happened to that event and will there ever be another?

Submission + - S. 2686: Communications yadda yadda act of 2006

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Greyfox

on Thursday September 07, 2006 @03:01PM

Greyfox writes: "Our good buddy, Ted Stevens has introduced S. 2686: Communications, Consumer's Choice and Broadband Deployment act of 2006. I haven't yet read the entire text of the bill but the summary makes it sound surprisingly clueful from "The Internet is not a dump truck" guy. There's probably some nastiness hidden in the bill text though. Notably, it looks like the bill could make your ISP have to pay into the universal service fund, it seems it will probably give the FCC the authority to mandate that hardware implement and respect the copyright protection flag and there's the usual stuff about preventing child pornography."

Submission + - Katherine Harris wins Primary

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Greyfox

on Wednesday September 06, 2006 @03:19AM

Greyfox writes: "Hey, remember that woman who certified the Florida results in the 2000 election, thus comitting our nation to 8 years of being run by a retarded monkey? Well she's back and up to her usual shennanigans, winning a nomination to run as the Republican canidate for a Senate seat in Florida. Ms. Harris leads Tom DeLay and Scarface Al Capone by a narrow margin in terms of popularity and GOP leadership is concerned that her presence in the election will motivate a large turn out of Democrats for this ultra-important mid-term election. The GOP went so far as to withdraw backing of Ms. Harris in this election, which she responded to by ponying up $10 Million of her own money to run her campaign. She still won handily, possibly due to high amounts of toxic mercury in the Florida water supply, possibly due to the fact that the Republican party could only mobilize a chimpanzee against her in this primary. And the chimp only got 42% of the vote.

Ms. Harris goes on to face Democrat Bill Nelson in the election, which she is expected to win by a margin of 2000 or so. Pat Buchanin is expected to take about 2300 votes in the election. Ms. Harris is also expected to fire four entire groups of campaign staffers between now and the election in an attempt to get rid of the Democratic spies in her campaign. Toxic mercury and all that.

If I may take a moment to deviate from my usual balanced and fair reporting of the news to briefly voice my personal opinion, if Ms. Harris wins the general election I will personally feel compelled to drive to the home of every Democrat in the state and put my foot up the ass of any of them that didn't actually turn out to vote in the election. Fair warning."

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