Sir Unimaginative - Slashdot User

Comment Re:What I don't understand. (Score 1) 155

by Sir Unimaginative on Tuesday October 31, 2006 @02:41PM (#16661795) Attached to: Voting Machines Banned by Dutch Minister

Two issues here:

First, chilling effects. Knowing that bribes and threats affected even ONE vote lowers the value of the vote for everyone.

Second, YOU. The fact that you try so hard not to care is a sign of a greater epidemic of citizen apathy toward electoral failures pretty much everywhere.

ACLU Drops Challenge Over Patriot Act 274

Posted by kdawson on Monday October 30, 2006 @08:44AM from the declare-victory-and-withdraw dept.

An anonymous reader writes, "The ACLU announced on Friday that they were dropping their case against the US Government over the highly contested section 215 of the Patriot Act. ACLU Associate Legal Director Ann Beeson stated: 'While the reauthorized Patriot Act is far from perfect, we succeeded in stemming the damage from some of the Bush administration's most reckless policies. The ACLU will continue to monitor how the government applies the broad Section 215 power and we will challenge unconstitutional demands on a case-by-case basis.'"

Will Stallman Kill the "Linux Revolution?" 741

Posted by Zonk on Sunday October 22, 2006 @08:21PM from the penguin-vs-penguin dept.

frdmfghtr writes "The October 30 issue of Forbes Magazine has an article speculating that Richard Stallman's efforts to rewrite the GPL could threaten to 'tear it apart.' The article describes how the GPLv3 is expected to be incompatible with the GPLv2, causing trouble for Linux vendors such as Novell and Red Hat. The article wraps it up: 'And a big loser, eventually, could be Stallman himself. If he relents now, he likely would be branded a sellout by his hard-core followers, who might abandon him. If he stands his ground, customers and tech firms may suffer for a few years but ultimately could find a way to work around him. Either way, Stallman risks becoming irrelevant, a strange footnote in the history of computing: a radical hacker who went on a kamikaze mission against his own program and went down in flames, albeit after causing great turmoil for the people around him.'"

Library of Congress Considers Archiving Games 79

Posted by Zonk on Wednesday May 03, 2006 @12:51PM from the four-score-and-twenty-metroids-ago dept.

GamePolitics reports on talks at the U.S. Library of Congress concerning archiving our digital cultural heritage, including games. From the article: "The initiative is called 'Preserving Creative America,' and plans to compile (with industry help) a list of the commercial digital content most at risk of loss or degradation. The initiative will also develop ideas for preservation, business models to help maintain archives, and promote discussions between the archives and commercial content producers so that the archives are kept up to date. CM: Hopefully the Library of Congress will consider that many PC games were rushed to market before they were ready. Critical software patches should be included in the archive. That's right Sierra, I'm talking about you."

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