Comment Re:Stockholm Syndrome's a bitch, isn't it? (Score 1) 142
Sure. Philadelphia isn't as bad as Philadelphians say it is.
http://digital.library.temple....
Comment Well, now... (Score 1) 172
This creates a Constitutional crisis. After all, it won't be easy to replace three whole branches of government. But at least their evil plans to force all cable and broadcast networks to air The Banana Channel, all day, every day won't come to fruition.
Comment Re:McSputnik (Score 1) 208
SpaceSpam! (See "Pirates in Space" thread, above.)
Comment Mama always told me... (Score 2, Funny) 152
that I needed to keep the volume down on my headphones and not blast that garbage into my head. I guess one day they'll look around in my skull and find tissue cooked into a rude shape.
Comment Open Source Textbooks (Score 2, Interesting) 468
Open source textbook resources might be a way around dealing with uber-expensive licensing models. If even a fraction of the vitality seen on some open source projects were to be expended on open source textbooks, teachers would have some great resources at their disposal. The availability of a variety of approaches to explaining some of the basics (like middle school algebra) could make all the difference in the world to a kid who doesn't "get it" from the explanation in a single textbook. And those texts that need to be updated frequently, would be.
Furthermore, local control of the learning materials would be enhanced, as parents, teachers and school districts could decide what material is best-suited to their kids, rather than having some faceless group of ivory-tower bureaucrats in a far-off city deciding that for them.
Here are a few of the resources I found in a quick search -- I'm sure there are other projects out there.
- http://www.opensourcetext.org/index.htm
- http://www.ck12.org/
- http://www.wwcc.edu/CMS/index.php?id=2835
Comment Re:EE (Score 1) 491
I just like adding comments, because the boxes around them are nested, and if you squint your eyes just right while looking at them, they give the illusion of depth. Whoa.
Comment easy. (Score 1) 1092
Just nick the Marauder's Map from Filch's office.
Submission + - Australian extradited for breaking US law at home
An anonymous reader writes: http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2007/05/06/11783 90140855.html reports that an Austarlian man who has never set foot in the US and broke IP laws in Australia has been extradited to the US and faces 10 years jail.
You Can't Oppose Copyright and Support Open Source 550
Reader gbulmash sends us to his essay on the fallacy of those who would abolish copyright. The argument is that without copyright granting an author the right to set licensing terms for his/her work, the GPL could not be enforced. The essay concludes that if you support the GPL or any open source license (other than public domain), your fight should be not about how to abolish copyright, but how to reform copyright.
Submission + - EFF and Dvorak blame the digg revolt on lawyers
enharmonix writes: "Just a bit of an update on the recent digg revolt over AACS. Well, the New York Times has taken notice and written quite a decent article that actually acknowledges that the take down notices amount to censorship and documents instances of the infamous key appearing in purely expressive form (I was pleased to see the similarity to 2600 and deCSS was not lost on the Times either). More interesting though is that the EFF's Fred von Lohmann blames the digg revolt on lawyers. And in an opinion piece, John Dvorak expands on that theme."
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