The Economist had a great read on California's democracy. It's not direct democracy in itself that's the issue... it's UNCHECKED direct democracy.

The voice of the people needs to be tempered by representatives. At least, in a world where Congressmen aren't bought and paid for, that's the idea.

This is Slashdot. What internet are you referring to?

Trolls replying to trolls. My first /. article to view in months, and I see nothing has changed.

Sometimes, I like not to finish a book or story, because it lets the story live in my mind longer. Once it's done, it's like it's dead, and I only have fond memories.

As one other poster mentioned, I call BS on this. Just another reason to make shorter games.

This is a bogus law. College profs often go out with students for drinks to talk about many things, academics included. Facebook is an extracurricular activity that is just the same as email or message board.

What a joke, and another piece of evidence about why government is bad.

You, parent poster, are evidence of why true freedom via small government will never be achieved in this country.

"Good, that's an improper social behavior by my standard, so let's legislate a solution!"

Man-made global warming is a false theory.

If I want to get a file off a computer with Internet access, it WILL happen.

It took me three websites to get to the guy's twitter, which is the focus of the story.

You're so full of shit. Libre is a superset of gratis when using those terms as FSF/OSI do to describe 'free' software. I'm a real Linux/Unix user, and I use Ubuntu for most of my needs. It's a good OS.

Canonical has every right to do what they're doing. If you don't like it, then go to another OS, fine. But don't compare them to Novell and CERTAINLY not Oracle! The OS is still libre-gratis-free, if it's in their main/universe repos. Don't FUD.

That's EXACTLY why they'd piss on him.

The lamestream media is angry that someone is uncovering the truth about our government.

This is another sad attempt at users having rights over their own content as they see fit.

DRM is not evil. Some of its uses are pretty shitty when looked at from the perspective of historical use (free access to recording -> Per-use viewing fees). But if I can set up a way to manage digital content along with expirations, permissions, etc., then that would be great.

The problem is that we geeks theorize quite accurately that DRM for media is pretty much useless. Once the content is unlocked, it can be copied, period.

That's less than 2 million miles, or .05 AU from the sun.

Quite toasty.

I do not know where you are from, but San Antonio is getting data centers left and right because our energy bill is about $0.06 / KW-hr. Not too bad... and I don't know if it's regulated or not.

BTW, this argument of "Providers competing over the same wire" is exactly what many people argue for in terms of Internet connectivity. Do you think having many ISPs compete on the same pipes would be a bad thing?

[citation needed]

I think it's a cycle, if your assertion even holds. I could theorize that, being more popular, more tools and features were put on top of MySQL to make it more friendly.

When I read this, I could truly picture a politician saying it.

I'm going to lay down now.