Comment This is such a pile of shit. (Score 0, Troll) 1813
This woman is not qualified to be the President of the United States.
Submission + - Microsoft To Charge PC Gaming
News for nerds writes: "During a press event prior to the Game Developers Conference Microsoft revealed to Game Informer Online the exact pricing structure for the Live For Windows online PC gaming service. Just like with the Xbox 360 there will be a free Silver package as well as a Gold package which retails for $49.99 for a year subscription, $7.99 for one month, and $19.99 for three months."
Submission + - source control for bills in congress ?
grepya writes: "This slate article talks about the sneaky way a major change in the Patriot Act reauthorization bill was made by (possibly) a congressional staffer without even his boss knowing about it. Now, I write software for a large and complex system containing millions of lines of code and I know that nobody could slip in a single of code into my project without my knowledge because every thing that goes into the build has to go into a source control system and email notification is generated to interested parties. This is for a body of work that affects perhaps a few hundred thousand people at most (our company and the combined population of all our customer organizations). Shouldn't the same process be applied to bills being debated in front of congress/parliament that affects potentially hundreds of millions of people?"
Submission + - French Law Criminalizing Filming Acts of Violence
An anonymous reader writes: Strange things are afoot in France, where the French Constitutional Council approved a law prohibiting people (other than professional journalists) from filming or broadcasting acts of violence. The French government has apparently also proposed a certification system for web sites and other entities to be "government approved" sources of information.
