01 Oct 2008
US Senate to vote Wednesday on bailout package

So does that make tonight the "Night of the Living Dead Bailout"?

It was a bad idea Monday, and it's still a bad idea, if not even worse, since they added some pork to make it taste better to lobbyists.

AFP - The US Senate will vote Wednesday evening on a revised 700-billion-dollar Wall Street bailout package, after the House of Representatives sparked economic turmoil by rejecting an earlier version.

(link) [Yahoo! News: Top Stories]

07:07 /Politics | 0 comments | permanent link

Trolling: A Massive Redistribution of the Wealth

What d'ya know? A patent attorney seems the light at the end of the tunnel, and realizes it's an oncoming freight...

Let’s be perfectly honest, the US patent system has stopped rewarding innovation and has started rewarding those who have the finances and ability to game the system. That is a huge problem and one that needs to be addressed far more quickly than any other problem facing us. I have been saying for years that the manufacturing jobs are not coming back and that we need to focus on those areas where we can grow jobs and the economy, and that space is the innovation space. Innovation is at the core of growth because discoveries lead to inventions which lead to new technologies which lead to the creation of new industry which leads to the creation of high paying jobs. A rising tide lifts all boats and the tide that is going to lift the US economy is the innovation tide, so we need to start focusing on that and putting in place an environment that will allow innovation to thrive. This of course means a functioning patent system that recognizes worthwhile inventions, but it also requires that we put a stop to so-called patent trolls.

(link) [Patent Fools]

via Overlawyered

06:56 /Copywrongs | 0 comments | permanent link

Cloud computing is a trap, warns GNU founder Richard Stallman

He's right, you know. The network is no place to store even trivial stuff, like music , much less data that's vital to your business. In this day of "always on" and Internet ubiquity it's sometimes tough to remember that the 'Net is inherently unreliable and that hosts come and go with all the dependability of June's frost.

Web-based programs like Google's Gmail will force people to buy into locked, proprietary systems that will cost more and more over time, according to the free software campaigner

(link) [The Guardian]

06:52 /Technology | 0 comments | permanent link

Hay!

Sorry for the lack of posts, but i's taken this long for my fingers to start working correctly again after putting up ~400 short bales of our own hay. Better than half went in the hay mow. That's the second floor of the barn. My legs ain't workin' too well, either.

But it's our hay, cut by a neighbor from our pasture, and there's more than enough for the winter. And the price was less than a third of what I paid last year for half as much hay. So it was worth it. Although my back would probably disagree.

06:46 /Home | 1 comment | permanent link