Congress is once again limitting what you’re allowed to do.  This time it’s imposing laws on publicly funded institutions so that they can’t allow access to social networking websites.
Read that one again.  You got it.  Social networking websites.
Really… doesn’t that include the one you’re presently reading?  You can certainly post feedback on the open forum […]

Diebold’s voting machine’s might be easier to use (debatable) than some other voting methods here in the states.
They’ve got a few major drawbacks however.
Such as the one being exposed over at El Reg.  All you need is some flash memory, a screwdriver, and access to a Diebold voting machine.  At that point, the sky’s the […]

While the USA .gov is waffeling over domain control and making more concilatory noises they’re still planning on maintaining control of the system with an iron fist.
All this while claiming that they’ve got our best interests in mind.  As long as our best interests are paying more for domain names.
Now.  I don’t care who carries […]

After Israel’s PM has expressed his dissapointment at the UN’s harsh statements concerning Israel’s bombing of their peacekeeping force (hopefully that wasn’t too adjective ridden) it turns out the Israelies simply ignored the UN peacekeepers request that they not be killed.
That’s, uh, kinda strange.
Apparently they care so little about whom they fire on they’ve now […]

Wow.  I guess there isn’t much keeping of the peace going on over in Baghdad.  100 people being killed every day without an active war is pretty devastating.
Pretty hard to see a bright spot there.  The conclusion that “it was still worth fighting the second war in Iraq” by politicians in the USA might be, […]

Bright bulb T.J. Rodgers of Cypress Semiconductor is quoted as saying he thinks people that payed for allll those wires and cables that make up the internet should be able to charge whatever they want for their product.
Personally, I think I’ve payed quite enough for those wires and cables.  Both directly and by funding the […]

After recently crushing a woman in a car, the Big Dig in Boston has been found to have many additional problems.  Mitt “Can I Be President Now” Romney is naturally passing the buck onto the transit authority.  He’s taking full responsibility credit for taking charge.
Now that people have been killed, he’s all over the problem.  […]

Ignoring the reality of the situation, Massachusetts politicians are hammering down on.. er.. a document format. That’s right folks. You’re paying them to be incenssed over a format.
A format which, I might add, is perfectly usable and doesn’t really have any downside. Only it doesn’t restrict the user to Microsoft’s software.
Anyone can […]

ICANN’s rulership of the internet is once again being brought up for redecision. In a nutshell
Currently, those domains are under the control of ICANN, which is in turn empowered to administer the directories under a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with National Telecommuncations and Information Administration, a branch of of the United States Department of […]

What would you call outpouring a donation almost equivelent to the cumulative total of your past five years of donating to one state on the eve of their voting to mandate open standards?
Trying to buy a state, of course. And who better to purchase off state senators with *ahem* charitable donations than Microsoft.
After all, […]