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  1. The governed rule in this country on Obama: Government Can't Let Smartphones Be 'Black Boxes' (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Any rules must apply to all citizens.

    This whole thing about private devices, smartphones. And personal mail servers, Hillary.

    All of it is about where does individual dominion stop and civil participation start.

    I really wish there was a truly open phone OS. Like a BSD varient for smartphones. Where you can own the whole enchilada. Trust, but be able to verify.

  2. Keeping the eco system coherent on Ask The Linux Foundation's Executive Director Jim Zemlin What You Will · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Is the Linux foundation doing anything to insure the various distributions each incorporate the improvements done in the various distributions?

    I'm worried about the long term branching side effects. We have Debian, Red Hat, Oracle, and others adding functions and improvements.

    What is being done to insure both hybrid vigor and "re-mainlining" of promising branches?

  3. ISP abuse is rampant - Free the internet on 60% of AOL's Profits Come From Misinformed Customers · · Score: 1

    I don't understand. There is a whole spectrum of abuses on the Internet.

    Comcast blocks port 25 and port 80 (inbound) so its impossible for me to run a mail service or a web service from a home computer. I'm forced to rely on service providers other than myself.

    AOL is taking advantage of the uninformed. But other ISPs are preventing users from independence in other ways.

    Sadly, fighting for an open Internet is getting harder and harder.

  4. Looks like the Greeks had it right... Gods on Fermilab Experiment Hints At Multiple Higgs Particles · · Score: 1

    If there are a plethora of god particles. We may have to rethink more than just physics models.

  5. The application "screen" might fit this request on Red Hat Enlists Community Help To Fight Patent Trolls · · Score: 1

    There was a popular app called "screen" which allowed switching between multiple contexts and workspaces.

    I used it all the time to make the best use of (then) limited desktop real estate. In that era, big bitmapped displays were a rare luxury in the marketplace.

  6. Re:Go Owls on Rice Contracted to Provide NASA's Quantum Wire · · Score: 1

    Here is a link to the Kennedy speach in the Rice Webcast archive.

    http://webcast.rice.edu/webcast.php?action=details &event=371

  7. Electronic Voting at Baker Instititute in Houston on Dave Barry on Electronic Voting · · Score: 1

    An upcoming event will discuss this issue in depth.
    Technology, Society, and Public Policy Lecture Series:

    Electronic Voting and Accountable Voting Systems

    Panel Discusion
    Sept. 16, 2004 at 6:00 PM
    http://bakerinstitute.org/Resource/UpEvents.htm
    cosponsored by the Computer and Information Technology Institute at Rice University.
    http://dacnet.rice.edu/depts/citi/calendar/index.c fm?EventRecord=4566
    The event will be webcast by the University at
    http://www.rice.edu/webcast