Politics

Background: Source Code, Open Source, and Closed SourceIn the world of software development, there are two major schools of thought.  In one, source code, which is basically just a set of instructions for a computer, is developed in private and is generally kept secret.  This is the closed-source model of development that companies like Microsoft [...]

I’d like to congratulate Fox News on beating their own record of outrageous censorship, again.  This time, instead of removing a 4th place candidate from straw poll results, they’ve removed a candidate from the Top 3 results of a presidential election!  Take a look:
Here are the uncensored results from the Nevada Republican presidential caucus:

Candidate
Votes
%
National delegates

Mitt [...]

Local Fox affiliate, KPTM Nebraska, has covered the exclusion of Ron Paul by News Corp’s national Fox News Channel.

Have I mentioned that Tim Swanson and B.K. Marcus are two of my heroes?  The first time I read B.K. Marcus’s piece on why spectrum should be private property, I almost had a Glenn Beck moment.  If you’ve ever thought for a second that the FCC might be good thing for America, you must read [...]

So the night before Christmas, the New York Times posted what is very obviously a childish anti-Ron Paul smear piece.  A diminishing group known as their readers called them on it, and the NY Times responded by removing the comments!  However, due to widespread pressure from Lew Rockwell and internet bloggers, they’ve now begun publishing [...]

This news is a few days old but is critically important, none the less. A federal judge in Vermont has ruled that the right not to divulge his PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) passphrase is protected by the 5th amendment.  If this becomes a precedent, it will be distinctly different from European countries such as [...]