House Does the Right Thing, Keeps Digital TV Moving
by The House of Representatives rejected President Obama’s plan to delay the mandatory conversion to digital television. The delay had been approved earlier by the Senate …
Category: Technology
Luddites Win; Senate Votes to Delay Digital TV
At the urging of the new Obama administration, the U.S. Senate has voted to delay the nation’s transition to digital television for 4 months. The …
Sued, eHarmony Must Couple Gays
In 2005, eHarmony, a leading on-line matchmaking service, began to fight a discrimination lawsuit filed by a gay man in New Jersey. In 2007, the …
Humor / Religion / Technology
The Ultimate Programmer
Here’s the best programming joke from a recent StackOverflow list of good ones: Jesus and Satan have an argument as to who is the better …
Crime / Society / Stupidity / Technology
CyberPunks, an Apt Name
Mattathias Schwartz’s article in the NY Times magazine serves as a brief peek into the anarchic world of Internet trolls and hackers, people who are …
Telecom Immunity a Fact of Life
PBS says: The Senate approved a bill Wednesday overhauling the rules on government eavesdropping and granting immunity to telecom companies that assist with government-ordered communications …
Liberals Who Simply Can’t Let Well Enough Alone
Unhappy with the deal reached between the parties about the legal fate of telecom companies who helped the feds in the aftermath of 9/11, two …
The Internet->Stupidity Connection
Nick Carr says that the Internet is making us a stupid society incapable of – or unwilling to – focusing on the internalization of large …
FISA Immunity
In what must be a blow for folks like Glenn Greenwald, Democrats and Republicans have come to the logical, inevitable conclusion that telecom firms who …
A Small Example of What Science is For
Following on to Claudia’s piece about the importance of scientific R&D, this article, while admittedly monkey business, illustrates the point: Two monkeys with tiny sensors …