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  1. We'll be better off if Rehnquist croaks first by jizmonkey · · Score: 0, Troll · on High Court Agrees to Hear File-Sharing Dispute

    In the Betamax decision, he voted to find infringement. Stevens, bless his soul, wrote the majority opinion. The case will be heard in March and decided by June, so ideally that curmudgeonly bastard Rehnquist will die in February or so and we don't get a new justice appointed before summer. Cross your fingers.

  2. Of course we can go to Mars... by register_ax · · Score: 1 · on Russia Plans Martian Nuclear Station
    However, why not the Moon? Habitants of Earth have been on the Moon how many times? and when was the last time? And without further missions to the moon we propose venturing to MARS!?! Sheesh... Let's try some practical work on the moon before we invest the ~.5 a year to get there for mere bragging rights. I commend the efforts of the Russians for their work, however what are there real intentions of such a mission? A political blow? Being a genuine United Statein, I could care less for patriotic bragging rights...I propose instead maybe doing something because we can learn so much more from small progressive changes rather then throwing ourselves into the tub headfirst and allowing the first crew to be guinea pigs.

    I did read the article and it basically is working on the idea of maintaining a manned presence on Mars.

    It will produce enough power for future Russian missions to the planet to be fully self-contained and will not need more than six engineers to maintain.
    OTOH, this can pump some added fuel into the space race again. I digress (sorry) for what? To make another political leap and bound for bragging rights only to not go back again for another 50 years.

    I propose the following.

    1. learn to survive extreme levels of radiation (underground bases?)
    2. build construction facilities on moon
    3. serve moon as launching platform (1/6 (16%) the gravity)
    4. THEN go to mars
    5. ...
    6. build lunar whore motels
    7. PROFIT!!
    Of course there are many other potential uses of moon.
  3. Re:Big brother by morcheeba · · Score: 3, Informative · on More on Cisco Building Surveillance into Routers

    This probably isn't the answer you're looking for, but it passed unanimously in both the house and senate. Special interests bought both sides; no one party has a lock on serving the people.

    Ah, I'll just have to wait for my legislators to be replaced.

  4. To be fair... by Meat+Blaster · · Score: 1 · on The Worst Coders In Washington
    To his credit, Hatch has in the past come out in favor of Napster (per the grandparent's argument that he's not necessarily pro-MPAA/RIAA). My point is that the subjugation of the Internet by those entities is only the latest battle for the ideals of the Internet.

    Another war that has been going on periodically is over so-called 'obscenity', which means different things to different people and, when banned, is subject to wildly different interpretations, and it's this one that I'm referring to. I file Senator Hatch under the category "An enemy of my enemy is not necessarily my friend", because it wasn't that long ago that he was trying to wipe servers off the WWW with legislation. (1, 2)

  5. OK. It's time to start wrtiing congress people... by Rhinobird · · Score: 1 · on Legislating Insecure Encryption

    Here's where you can write your representative (House): http://www.house.gov/writerep/
    Here's some tips on contacting your congresspeople: (both house and senate) http://nch.ari.net/advocate.html
    From congress.gov's faq : http://thomas.loc.gov/tfaqs/02.htm (How can I communicate with a Member of Congress )

    I would suggest sending more than just an email. One member of congress already said he would only respond to snail mail because of all the ?spam? he was recieving (can't find the particulars of that one though...)

    I'm sure that a few other people can find plenty of coherent well thought out reasons why this won't work and is generally a bad a thing...

  6. Re:Already here. by Tetsujin28 · · Score: 1 · on 3D First-Person Games, So Far

    Over ten years ago I used to hang out at Club Caribe, a virtual world on Quantum Link, the Commodore-64 online service that later morphed into AOL. Club Caribe may not have been very 3-D, but it was certainly goal-free and emphasized action more than talk.