The spin on the story in some areas of the media is also a nice illustration of the way cowardly people will back the police state by blaming the victim.
For example, see the Gizmodo article "US Detains and Deports Two Morons Over Dumb "Destroy America" Tweets":
I'm totally okay with refusing entry to the US based on idiotic Twitter parlance.
According to documents released under Freedom of Information, the Attorney-General wants a "solution" to "be educative and aim to change the social norms."
That's right. They want to force "education" onto the population to make them want to prop up the content industry's failing business models.
Of course, only industry groups were invited to this meeting. I have to say, Ludlam is the reason that I voted greens in the last election.
Nonsense. All significant accidents have happened in old (in some cases, 3 "generations" old) technology plants, and sometimes human error was a major component.
When it comes to failures in complex, potentially deadly systems like nuclear plants, "human error" isn't ever a factor. If the system relies on a human to act a certain way without a failsafe then it is just bad design, pure and simple. This book explains it well.
Zarniwoop pulled some notes out of a pocket.
"Now," he said, "you do rule the Universe, do you?"
"How can I tell?" said the man.
Zarniwoop ticked off a note on the paper.
"How long have you been doing this?"
"Ah," said the man, "this is a question about the past, is it?"
Zarniwoop looked at him in puzzlement. This wasn't exactly what he had been expecting.
"Yes," he said.
"How can I tell," said the man, "that the past isn't a fiction designed to account for the discrepancy between my immediate physical sensations and my state of mind?"
The end. No tracking, "evercookies" etc. Even blocks google tracking via google-analytics.
I hope Phoronix tanks, and soon. I prefer my articles in an essay format.
Yep, there's a reason why I pay a LWN subscription.
Waste not, get your budget cut next year.
