Yeah! Wil Wheaton to get new role on ‘Enterprise’ [Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters]
Yeah! Wil Wheaton to get
Archives for April 2002
Bull. Three strikes law to
Bull. Three strikes law to get review. Answer could settle whether states violate Constitution’s ban on cruel, unusual punishment. [USA Today : Front Page]
Fooled me. I forgot what
Fooled me. I forgot what today was. Linus Retiring from Kernel Dev [Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters]
From Doc: Independence, 6 years
From Doc:
John Perry Barlow wrote A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace in Davos, Switzerland on February 8, 1996. The precipitating hostility at that time was the late Communications Decency Act. The threats this time around are far worse, since the Net’s new opponent is the entertainment industry and its powerful lobbies, not a few congresspeople worried about porn.
Worth reading again. As a statement of principles, it’s pretty hard to beat.