Comment Broken Government (Score 1) 405
Until we fix Congress, nothing else will happen. I know, at this point, this has become a cliche. Still, there is a whole lot of nothing happening on Capitol Hill.
Comment B5 Revisited (Score 1) 215
By some strange fate, I have been re-watching B5 pretty much non-stop for the past week. Burning through Season 4 at the moment.
I find the rise of the fascist state one of the stronger themes in B5; those that do not understand history, etc. I think of B5 as a warning, an object lesson in how a free society can be subverted. Hard to watch Fox news or listen to the Tea Party without thinking of B5. How do YOU feel about this bit of history repeating itself, and do you think we can beat it?
Submission + - No SOPA Vote Until 2012 (itworld.com) 1
jfruhlinger writes: "A victory, or a just a breather? The U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee has postponed further debate on the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) until after Congress' holiday break. At the urging of some SOPA opponents, Representative Lamar Smith, a Texas Republican and committee chairman, said Friday he will consider a hearing or a classified briefing on the bill's impact on cybersecurity."
Submission + - Chrome 15 overtakes IE 8 for top browser spot (msn.com)
An anonymous reader writes: If you're reading this on Chrome, you're part of a wave that has ditched Internet Explorer or Firefox and helped vault Google's browser to the top Web browser spot worldwide.
Submission + - Hey Congress, Techno-Ignorance Isn't 'Cute' Anymor (motherboard.tv)
pigrabbitbear writes: "Some background: Since its introduction, SOPA (and its Senate twin PROTECT-IP) have been staunchly condemned by countless engineers, technologists and lawyers intimately familiar with the inner functioning of the internet. Completely beside the fact that these bills as they currently stand would stifle free speech and potentially cripple legitimate businesses by giving corporations extrajudicial censorial powers, they have found an even more insidious threat: The method of DNS filtering proposed to block supposed infringing sites opens up enormous security holes that threaten the stability of the internet itself.
The only problem: Key members of the House Judiciary Committee still don’t understand how the internet works, and worse yet, it’s not clear whether they even want to."
The only problem: Key members of the House Judiciary Committee still don’t understand how the internet works, and worse yet, it’s not clear whether they even want to."
Comment Natual Law (Score 1) 1002
The amount of data you use and the number of windows open is directly proportional to the number of screens you have. ( Not that all of it is useful or needed.)
If the space is there, we fill it up. It is like the tantalizing lure of a flat horizontal surface in my house; it must have something resting on it or it is "empty."
Back in the days of "Open Windows" we just used to switch between screens (something still pretty common in unix today). We could create as much real estate as we wanted, all of it on one monitor.
Having that wealth, I really never used more than four screens at a time. Anything more and I just got lost.
While I ENJOY having two screens, if the work needed to be done and all I had was a VT100, it would do.
Journal Journal: ThinkPoint Hell on Windows PCs
Not a scoop. Just spent Sunday trying to remove this malware from a neighbor's computer. Thought I would look up what you have to say about it, but could not find anything.
Here is a link that suggests some removal strategies, but in my experience, even the task manager was not able to get past the opening ThinkPoint screen. This could ruin a sysadmin's day, or at least be the source of a lot of re-installs.
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