There may be a good reason to go to war (to get rid of an abusive leader), but the pro war faction of this country does not win over the hearts and minds of the antiwar by censoring them. As I heard on Democracy Now! this morning Ani DeFranko was told by a concert venue owned by Clear Channel that she had to agree not to say anything about politics, or the she could not use the venue.
Not that I’m saying Clear Channel does not have a legal right to do this.
From /.: Too Cool For Secure Code
In no small part, it’s because programmers aren’t using appropriate tools. In an age where processing power is cheap, there’s no excuse for a mail client written in C or C++. For users accessing mail via IMAP or POP, network speed and congestion have a greater influence over performance than anything done on the client side; even for users with local mailboxes, I doubt that we’re looking at a huge performance hit.
I had to do some C coding for a job lately. Ever time I wander into C I’m absolutely terrified I’m going to make a stupid error and end up with a buffer overflow bug. I was a lot more confident this time ‘round, but still… make mine python.
An independence movement in the Indonesian province of Papua threatens to turn into a humanitarian disaster and bring new tensions to the fragile ties between Canberra and Jakarta.
The PNG Government recently expressed fears that Islamic extremist militia in Papua could use the province as a base to strike Australian targets on the PNG side of the border.
So do we get to liberate them too?
[Tschechow] “You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the Swiss hold the America’s Cup, France is accusing the US of arrogance and Germany doesn’t want to go to war”
This year Maine gave laptops to all it’s seventh graders, and told them that they would keep them until graduation (at which I’m sure the state would get smart and just let them have them, they wouldn’t be worth much to others). Now it plans to take them away year after next. I see two things happening:
They even have WiFi in the classroom… Now I want to go back to 7th grade.