Democrats Defeat Online FOS Act

Oh great. Now let's shut down all talk radio shows too because they are against your agenda.

Hell, then let's not let Republicans or Libertarians vote too.

Slashdot | Democrats Defeat Online FOS Act

WASHINGTON — At least 21 detainees who died while being held in U.S. custody in Iraq and Afghanistan were killed, many during or after interrogations, according to an analysis of Defense Department data by the American Civil Liberties Union (search).

So sad... awwwwww Hey MikeTheUsurper - please cry for them. :)

FOXNews.com - U.S. & World - ACLU: 21 Killed in U.S. Custody

NASA competition designed to lay the groundwork for futuristic space elevators has ended with no one scooping the two $50,000 top prizes

Yeah, this is probably quite a few years away.

New Scientist Breaking News - Space elevators stuck on the first floor

— The U.S. military and the Afghan government said Thursday they will investigate a TV report that claimed U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan burned the bodies of two Taliban (search) fighters and taunted other Islamic militants.

and the problem with this? My only problem is that they didn't stuff their bodies full of bacon and shit down there throats first.

FOXNews.com - U.S. & World - U.S., Afghanistan Probe Body Burnings Report

The results suggest that marijuana, or its derivatives, could actually be good for the brain.

Uhm.... sweet!

Unless of course you work with me, in that cause I deplore the use of all drugs... bad bad drugs!

New Scientist Breaking News - Marijuana might cause new cell growth in the brain

sebFlyte writes "According to a ZDNet report, Howard Schmidt, ex-White House cybersecurity advisor, thinks that developers should be held personally liable for security flaws in code they write. He doesn't seem to think that writing poor code is entirely the fault of coders though: he blames the education system. He was speaking in his capacity as CEO of a security consulting firm at Secure London 2005."

Uhm.... wtf. This might like..I dunno... get people to care a little more about writing quality code (for those few who don't)... but software is more or less the most complicated systems humans have ever built - I can't imagine writing code that is bug free - has anyone here written software that's entirely bug free - over time?

Slashdot | Holding Developers Liable For Bugs

Read this whole letter - and see if you can discern what's going on here. Leaving Iraq anytime in the next 5 years will be very very bad.

Letter from Zawahari to Zarqawi

Tennessee Rep. Stacy Campfield may seem an unlikely candidate for his state's black caucus (search). But the white Republican said he wants to join the group to serve a segment of his constituency better.

Lawsuit anyone? They deserve it for sure. If white people can't have a white caucus, blacks shouldn't be allowed to have a black caucus.

FOXNews.com - Politics - White GOPer Charges Racism at Tenn. Black Caucus

According to this post at Dirson's blog, Google and Sun Microsystems are to announce a new and kick-ass webtool: an Office Suite based on Sun's OpenOffice and accesible with your browser.

This will be awesome - if google does the web programming and they give you 2+ gigs of storage, this will be an office killer!

Slashdot | Google & Sun Planning Web Office

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September 30, 2005
Saddam in 2005!
Just imagine a different Iraq…

Great read - "What if we didn't invade Iraq"

VDH's Private Papers::Saddam in 2005