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Comment The need is for transparency. (Score 2) 154

What is needed is probably not filtering, but clear disclosure in real time of what ad was published by whom and with what filters. The biggest problem is ads being targeted at people who will not check the facts (because they don't have access to them for example). And those who could will not because they were not within the target and never saw the ad. And maybe people will trust less ads when they know they were targeted because they earn less that 1200â a month and don't have any friend of foreign origin.
The Internet

Internet Tax Approved By Louisiana House 305

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."
Programming

Lisp and Ruby 336

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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