Health Care Reform Bill Constitutional Challenge
A number of state attorneys general are preparing a constitutional challenge to the provision of the health care reform bill placing a tax on those who do not purchase health insurance. I do not...
View ArticleYeah, Photoshop is SOOO Much Better than the GIMP...
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/05/05/1228221/GIMP-Resynth-vs-Photoshop-Content-AwareOMG NEW FEATURE! THAT THE GIMP HAS HAD SINCE 2005! YAY!Apparently, Adobe is already playing catch-up in some...
View ArticleArizona's New Immigration Law
...is absolutely, profoundly reasonable. It is a longstanding practice in this country for states to enact statutes specifically to make federal crimes violations of state law as well, and the reason...
View ArticleWorst. Judge. Ever.
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20100522202326865Btw, I checked a constitutional law book, and a judge is not allowed under the Constitution to find a defendant "guilty as a matter of law"...
View Article17 Year Olds Can Legally Run Away in Texas
I found an interesting fact about law with regard to minors in Texas. Basically, if you insist, you can be effectively emancipated at 17. You can't be legally emancipated without parental consent, but...
View ArticleRegarding "Creating Shazam in Java"
http://sites.google.com/site/redcodenl/creating-shazam-in-java-1Looks cool!Unfortunately, he was scared off by the assholes at Shazam:...
View ArticleBPAI Invalidates Software Patent Based on Bilski v. Kappos
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20100713173032257This is very good, especially if the BPAI decision is upheld on appeal. The Supreme Court decision was very vague, so a lot depends on lower...
View ArticleThis is absurd
http://chicago.gopride.com/news/article.cfm/articleid/11971809This is absurd. Saying that Catholicism teaches that homosexuality is morally wrong is not "hate speech". It is a fact.---linuxrocks123
View ArticleThe FCC on Net Neutrality
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2010/08/whats_next_for_fcc_on_net_neut.htmlI'm glad they're still looking into this.---linuxrocks123
View ArticleRegarding Kagan
Somewhat encouraging: http://thresq.hollywoodreporter.com/2010/05/kagan-supreme-court-hollywood.htmlVery frightening:...
View ArticleGood Article on Retroactive Tax Increases
http://www.heritage.org/Research/Lecture/Retroactive-Tax-Increases-and-The-Constitution---linuxrocks123
View ArticleWhere Not To Go To College
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/college_guide/feature/college_dropout_factories.php?page=all&print=trueThis is disappointing, but not really surprising.---linuxrocks123
View Articleknotify4 Considered Harmful
I'd been experiencing swap thrashing on my laptop. It turns out the cause was a process called knotify4, which had allocated and presumably used over 800MB of RAM by itself. I've set up a shell script...
View ArticleSchneier on Stuxnet
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/10/stuxnet.htmlGood article. I disagree with him, though; given the design of the worm as he describes it, and the early prevalence of infection within...
View ArticleA Travesty of Lincoln's Legacy
Take a look at this page, specifically the "18-20" section: http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/departments/drivers/programs/gdl.htmlIf you notice, the law specifies that if a person aged 18-20 commits 2...
View ArticleThe Oncoming Storm
(No, this is not a post about Doctor Who.)The current software patent situation in the United States is dysfunctional, in that they still exist. Bilski has declawed them to some extent, but a patent...
View ArticleThe US Is Going to Lose the Root DNS If It Keeps This Up
http://torrentfreak.com/u-s-government-seizes-bittorrent-search-engine-domain-and-more-101126/I don't particularly care whether Torrent-Finder was engaging in copyright violations or not or whatever....
View ArticleThe Asinine Standing Issue: Perry vs. The Governator
Link: http://www.insidebayarea.com/opinion/ci_16847303What happened is this:1. Homosexuals mount a state court challenge asserting a right to marry in California. The California Supreme Court decides...
View ArticleSerene Branson Suffers "Complex Migraine" On-Air
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGJ2XRJBHM8She knew something was wrong at the time, but couldn't force herself to speak clearly. Man, this would be scary thing to have happen to you.---linuxrocks123
View ArticleClean the Fan
http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1943659Cleaning the fan of a computer system is approximately equivalent to changing the oil on a car. Most computer users, including me, rarely if ever bother to do...
View ArticleGoogle's Driverless Car
http://www.i-programmer.info/news/105-artificial-intelligence/2217-sebasitian-thrun-on-googles-driverless-car.htmlThis is a touching talk.---linuxrocks123
View ArticleMy computer died due to a dead power supply fan
The fan on my recently purchased computer died, leading to overheating and malfunctioning of the power supply, leading to almost all capacitors on my video card exploding, leading to my noticing...
View ArticleHOWTO: Avoid Internet Filtering
When I was in elementary through high school, my public school district used an Internet filtering system to stop students from accessing "evil" websites, such as those containing nudity or email. I...
View ArticleA Solution to the Cold Boot Attack
I've been working on the cold boot problem for a while. Read my glorious paper! Then, download aes-amnesia.S and come back here to figure out how to use it.This is what you do to use it (works with...
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