Pages Tagged “Not How This Works”
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- Social Side of Swine Flu
Sad, but true: XKCD tackles the social component of swine flu. Update: Things haven’t changed much in the Covid era, have they?
- Forget GTA: The Sims is the real danger!
Well, now that people have successfully gotten Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas reclassified as Adult (18+) instead of Mature (17+)—since we all know that sex scenes that you can only get at by hacking the game are far more damaging to 17-year-olds than interactive sequences in which they shoot people, commit carjacking, and run over […]
- Kids’ language and the media
KCRW ran a story on the indecency wars this morning, and quoted someone who was concerned that kids are picking up bad language from broadcast media. Yeah, right. Broadcast media is so locked down they can’t find that kind of language there. When I was in middle school, I spent a week working at a […]
- From the department of Huh?
Groklaw has posted an affidavit in the SCO vs. Daimler Chrysler case. Essentially, SCO sent DC a letter saying “as per your license terms, send us a list of all the computers you’re using UNIX on.” DC wrote back saying, “We haven’t used UNIX in seven years, so there is no list.” And SCO sued […]
- What color is SCO’s sky?
OK, I haven’t written much on the SCO vs. Linux debacle in a while, mainly because others have done so much better and in much more detail than I possibly could, so here’s a summary of the situation as I see it. SCO: Linux stole from us! Linux: Uh, no. What did we steal? SCO: […]
- SCO is a bunch of bastards
Several months ago, Scummy Computer Operations sued IBM claiming that IBM had copied code from UNIX into Linux. They refused to say what code had been copied. Already this sounds fishy. In their initial filing, they insulted the ethics and competence of the entire Open Source community. Eventually they started making wilder and wilder claims. […]
- Legislative waste.
I hear our President has signed legislation supporting the words “under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance (search for bill S.2690 in THOMAS). It passed the Senate unanimously and the House with only 5 objections. It’s intended to be a response to this summer’s ruling by the 9th District Court of Appeals that the law […]