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Internet Tax Approved By Louisiana House 305

Posted by timothy
from the well-they-have-a-napoleonic-system dept.
Stinky Litter Box writes "WWL-TV in New Orleans reports that the Louisiana House voted 81-9 on Thursday to propose that a '15-cent monthly surcharge should be levied on Internet access across Louisiana to fight online criminal activity.' Can you say 'slippery slope?' The good news is that Gov. Jindal opposes such a tax. Full disclosure: I grew up in south Louisiana and worked for WWL-TV in the late '70s."

Comment: Re: French Police Save Millions Switching To Ubunt (Score 2, Informative) 368

by Fenax (#27173797) Attached to: French Police Save Millions Switching To Ubuntu
"Bleu" was a voluntary mistake. Preventing to say "Dieu" (god) at that time it was forbidden to curse his name, but people did it none the less, just hid themself a bit" This guy is quite famous in curses. Sacre is the ceremony for making someone holy or something like that.
Programming

Lisp and Ruby 336

Posted by kdawson
from the sittin'-in-a-tree dept.
sdelmont writes "The developers of Rubinius, an experimental Ruby interpreter inspired by SmallTalk, have been discussing the possibility of adding a Lisp dialect to their VM. Pat Eyler collected some ideas and opinions from the people involved and it makes for some interesting reading. For many, Ruby already is an acceptable Lisp, and the language itself started as a 'perlification' of Lisp (even Matz says so) so it is perhaps fitting and might help explain why the whole idea feels right. Now, if someone added support for VB and gave it the respect it deserves, the world would be a better place."

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