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Welcome of the nerd edition update of BF.N. (And I know
you're asking yourself, "You mean all the other day's aren't?") But I've got
some good ones for today
Heck's frozen over and pigs are flying, because two congressmen are
going to try to get a bill passed that stands up for consumer rights instead of
giving it away to corporate conglomerates. It's the Digital Media Consumers'
Rights Act of 2002 ("DMCRA") and it wants force companies to label CD's that
will crash your computer due to the "copyright protection". It also prevents
scientists from being sued over research that could have copyright protection
consequences. It also lets you circumvent copyright protection if you own the
actual work. So this would make it legal for me to view and have full control
over the DVD's I legally bought. Essentially it fixes some of the many problems
of the DMCA and that can only
be a good thing. As such the Electronic Frontier Foundation support it
and I urge you to write to your Congressmen to get this thing passed.
Once again the Internet proves useful, as where else could you find thousands of science jokes
all in one place? Some of them are pretty obvious, but other's you have to have
a good background in math or science to trully appriciate.
And coming soon to elementary and middle schools everywhere: Yo' Mama jokes for nerds. There's
some truly harsh things in here, like "Your mom's weight is modeled by the
summation of a diverging sequence." Kids can be so cruel sometimes.
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