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Happy Easter!
A member of the Kentucky House of Represenatives has an interesting bill to
deal with riverboat casinos. I wonder what the odds of it passing are.
And speaking of bad bills, a reader at Kuro5hin wrote an article with an
in depth look
at the CBDTPA.
He talks about the possibilities that this bill could lead to, including the
elimination of open source and even leading to a Nazi like state where only
certain types of information is allowed to be disperesed. Interesting
implications indeed.
Can't say the H word without
someone misunderstanding anymore. A computer camp in Denver was originally going
to be billed as a "Hacker Summer Camp", with the original
meaning of the word "hacker" which is "A person who enjoys exploring the details
of programmable systems and how to stretch their capabilities". A kid who wants
to go to a computer camp for the summer is most definitly a hacker. But of
course the good ol' media gets a hold of it, and makes it seem like the camp
will teach kids how to break into computers (see "cracker"). I love the quote
from the parent who says "Isn't it just teaching kids things they might not have
figured out on their own?" Gee, isn't that the point of a educational camp? Some
people. Anywho, just gives an example about connotations of words and how a
"good" word can turn "bad" with enough bad publicity.
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