Is Everything We Learned a Myth?
A wake up call to the slaughter cows sitting in front of their TVs. Nothing new, but we need all the energy we can get to fight the mega-capitalist opiates.
Pentagon Sending a Team of Exiles to Help Run Iraq
But this is not, I repeat, not a puppet government.
Writing history with Microsoft's Office lock-in
So much for open standards and XML compliance. Now you get WordML … because by enforcing a binary closed schema, they can force you to stick with MS Office. That's fine, but they should be taken to task for proclaiming themselves the champions of open standards and XML, XML, XML.
Installing Linux is easy, really!
5 part series. Nothing amazing, but it can't be stated enough.
Damn straight we need more games.
heh. You can tell this was done by a med student with a science background.
New Law Putting Net?and You?at Risk
Fight, fight, FIGHT! against the uber-DMCAs!
fight, FiGhT, FIGHT the super DMCAs!
Why Am I Getting All This Spam?
Nice piece of investigation. Now I need to change my contact address…
Slate questions the NYT's “illicit weapons” scoop as well. Gee, I wonder why it's no longer on the front page of the NYT?
The best P2P sharing solution I've yet encountered, and great for those ISOs. Basically it works on the model that the more people that are downloading, the bigger the network gets. Because if you're downloading, you're sharing the bits you've just downloaded with others downloading the same thing. Network effects on the network. Schweet. Get it. Now.
Illicit Arms Kept Till Eve of War, an Iraqi Scientist Is Said to Assert
You'll have to excuse me while I have a *bullshit* minor *bullshit* coughing *bullshit* fit.
And I quote:
“Under the terms of her accreditation to report on the activities of MET Alpha, this reporter was not permitted to interview the scientist or visit his home. Nor was she permitted to write about the discovery of the scientist for three days, and the copy was then submitted for a check by military officials.
Those officials asked that details of what chemicals were uncovered be deleted. They said they feared that such information could jeopardize the scientist's safety by identifying the part of the weapons program where he worked.”
*bullshit*
U.S. Limiting Costs of Drugs for Medicare
berry berry interesting… hooray for rational measures. oh, and boo hoo, the BigPharma won't be making 70% profits per year anymore.
.NOT now, please: vacuuming MS renames products
so much for .NET… so much for “betting the company on .NET” bullshit. heh. told you that even they didn't know what the hell .NET was. I even wrote a memo pointing out how .NET was trying to be everything to everyone and was thus meaningless. Whatever. They're going down.
The Night the War Began We Took Down Our Flag
Nice, moderate story from some leftist patriots currently living in Canada.