Segorama

According to Linux Weekly News, the free trade agreement recently signed between the U.S. and Australia requires the latter to adopt a U.S. style anti-circumvention law. In a comment to the article, someone has an interesting suggestion:

The ultimate consequence would be to not apply copyright (apart from person rights such as authorship and the right to first publishing) to copy-protected work, and I think that's entirely fair. After all, copy protection means that the supplier doesn't trust the copyright law, so he helps himself. Let the users help themselves, as well, then.

The arguemnt goes that copyright law is intended to protect the weak. The strong can protect themselves and thus don't need extra government support.

Google finally decided to offer a Linux version of Google Earth. Yay!

Another neat example how overgeneralization happens: Someone does a mistake on c.l.l and shortly thereafter, a reddit submission appears, suggesting to read the first ten posts and generalizing the mistake to be found as a reason why Lisp would be unpopular. Isn't it lovely, dear?

In the beginning, there was only void. Now we got type systems with higher order types.