Red Hat Backs Away From WideOpenNews
“Who knows, maybe VA Linux will end up becoming a media company instead of an engineering company. Maybe RedHat will re-commit itself to becoming a great engineering company. But it’s clear that Linux companies are still like teenagers who while living well are still trying to grow up and figure out who they want to be.”
The Filthy Critic reviews Gladiator
“I swear, if I ran the God-damn movie rating business, I wouldn’t give any shit an “R” unless we saw firm tits and at least one good sex scene.”
Cool! I’m a Power Bloggers, at least for the time being. They reset every day. I did get 13 visitors from the list.
DivX, the cool version
Think Napster — only for movies
“Thanks to a new technology called DivX, the Web will soon be awash in illegal — but perfect– copies of Hollywood blockbusters.”
The movie and music industries are just going to have to face it, they are dying. They have an oportunity to resurect themselves but only if they change.
They’re Crammed in Like Cattle
“Silicon Valley: where cubicle salesmen are prosperous and Internet workers are cramped.
More cramped, it turns out, than calves being prepared for market.”
Me wonders if there is any relationship between cubicle sizes and turnover rates.
“Instead of protesting by staying home, I decided to protest by showing up.
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My moment of redemption came when I strutted past the chanting right-wing March protesters holding signs like “AIDS Cures Gays” and “You Are Perverts.” With my fierce girlfriend in a leather cowboy hat on one arm and a tranny boy with a mohawk on a leash on the other, I proudly stood before them�wearing a purple PVC push-up bra, matching skintight pants, and the word PERVERT written across my stomach in lipstick. Memo to antigay zealots: Sticks and stones may break my bones, but you need to get some new names to call us.”
[via Pursed Lips]
Information as a global public good: Oxfam International campaign proposal
“‘Knowledge is now the critical component to production, and access to it represents a key divide between rich and poor.’ (OI ACC Planning Papers).”
Slashdot Gladiators In Battle Against an Evil Empire…
Microsoft Asks Slashdot To Remove Readers’ Posts
“Please expect a formal reply to your request that we censor our readers’ comments, which we allow them to post on Slashdot as freely as Microsoft allows user-generated content to be sent through Hotmail and through chat facilities and discussion groups hosted on MSN.com servers, as soon as we receive wise counsel not only from our attorneys, but also from concerned members of the Slashdot community and other interested parties.”
Microsoft could be opening a can of worms for itself. Lots of MS servers allow the public to “post” information. Can MS adequatly make sure that nothing “illegal” runs through their systems? NO. I seem to remember some glass house story…
Best slashdot comment goes to
“When in Rome..
Tell them that their concerns will be addressed in the next Service Pack for the discussion, whilch will be available 2nd quarter next year. Until then it is suggested that they disable ActiveSlashdot in their browser. Oh, and reinstall CommonSense while they’re about it.Did the email have an attachment with a .vbs extension by any chance?”
There Is No Spoon WAZZUP!
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