Comment FEMA Fail (Score 1) 1
Dear FEMA "Cyber Security": Thanks for using my tax money to rewrite all your ruby apps using java because you think "Ruby is insecure". That's... that's just great.
Submission + - Copyright Cutback Proposed As RIAA Solution
An anonymous reader writes: InfoWeek blogger Alex Wolfe proposes a novel solution to the ongoing spate of RIAA lawsuits over alleged music copying. He suggests legislation which cuts back corporate copyrights from 120 years to 5 years. "We should do what we do to children who misbehave," he writes. "Take away their privileges." Wolfe says this is regardless of the misunderstanding surrounding the latest case, which apparently isn't about ripping CDs to one's own computer. As to those who say copyrights are a right: "That's simply a misunderstand of their purpose. Copyrights, like patents, weren't implemented to protect their owners in perpetuity. They are part of a dance which attempts to balance off societal benefits against incentives for writers and inventors. You want to incentivize people to push the state of the creative and technical arts, but you don't want give those folks such overbearing protections that future advances by other innovators are stifled." What do you think; is it time to cut off the record industry?
Feed Science Daily: California's Hayward Fault Revealed: Most Dangerous Urban Fault In America? (sciencedaily.com)
As the 140th Anniversary of the last big earthquake on the Hayward Fault approaches, new U.S. Geological Survey studies provide mounting evidence that the San Francisco Bay Area should get ready for another big quake soon. The Hayward Fault has ruptured about every 140 years for its previous five large earthquakes. October 21, 2008, marks the 140th Anniversary of the 1868 approximate Magnitude 7 earthquake. Two and half million people now live along the Hayward Fault and seven million people in the region would feel a repeat event of the same magnitude.
Submission + - 30 Years of LucasFilm Staff Christmas Cards (slashfilm.com)
Anonymous Coward writes: "For the last 30 years, Lucasfilm has created special holiday greeting cards for its employees and business partners. For the first time ever, we have compiled most of the Star Wars-themed Holiday Cards on one page."
Comment Re:is it More than... (Score 1) 275
But "closed source" encyclopedia's define truth because [insert long ass description of QA, validation and verifaction procedures] and the "open source" wikipedia is inherently unreliable overall because "you don't know who wrote the article, or even if it's true or not".
OR, the commercial interests in publishing "academic materials" have a lot vested in their business model and are spreading that FUD - because they can't compete in the digital age of information sharing.
Bummer for the horse-and-buggy.
OR, the commercial interests in publishing "academic materials" have a lot vested in their business model and are spreading that FUD - because they can't compete in the digital age of information sharing.
Bummer for the horse-and-buggy.
Comment Re:Clinton and Boxer, you mean... (Score 1) 1037
It's pretty sad, isn't it, when the submitter won't even RTFA.
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