Category Archives: Politics

Legal silliness: Blocking banned countries

By Joe Brockmeier | Published: 1/26/2010
Some days it seems nothing is simple, even providing open access to open source software. There's a bit of a kerfuffle brewing over SourceForge blocking "banned locations" from downloading software. The long and short of it seems to be that SourceForge is filtering access to downloads. Requests from Syria, Sudan, Iran, North Korea and Cuba are [...]
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Google's Chinese Diplomacy: Can Google Make a Difference?

By Joe Brockmeier | Published: 1/13/2010
The company that promised not to be evil took a serious drubbing in 2006 when it decided to censor search results in order to comply with local laws in China. Four years later, Google is having to rethink its decision. Google has made a splash with its new approach to China, but is it enough [...]
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/usr/bin/links -date='Tuesday, November 24'

By Joe Brockmeier | Published: 11/24/2009
Some choice bits from around the Web about technology, politics, and community development. Using Python to create UNIX command line tools —  "If you work in IT, as a UNIX Sysadmin, a software developer, or even a manager, there a few skills that will set you apart from the crowd. Do you fully understand the OSI [...]
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Selling the war: Interview with David Barstow

By Joe Brockmeier | Published: 5/11/2009
Interview with David Barstow about his Pulitzer Prize-winning expose on the Pentagon's propaganda campaign prior to the invasion of Iraq. From the interview: He recently won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting for exposing how dozens of retired generals working as radio and television analysts had been co-opted by the Pentagon to make its case [...]
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And the winner is... Congrats Obama!

By Joe Brockmeier | Published: 11/5/2008
Well, it's been a long and often ugly campaign season, but it's over -- and we have a clear winner. I'm really happy to see Barack Obama win the election. If he's half as good a president as his speech last night indicates he will be, he'll be four times the president George W. Bush ever [...]
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Today's the day!

By Joe Brockmeier | Published: 11/4/2008
If you haven't gone out to vote, go to it! The suspense is going to be brutal, but at least it will be over (finally) by tonight. (I hope...)
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One more day... don't get cocky!

By Joe Brockmeier | Published: 11/2/2008
One more day until election day. I'd like to say I'm confident that Obama will win handily, but then again -- I was pretty sure this time in 2004 that Dubya was going to be a one-term wonder. How wrong I was, and how disappointing it was... it put me off politics for quite some [...]
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