26 August 2007
Today's reading list
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"Whistleblowers on Fraud Facing Penalties"
US soldier get kidnapped and tortured by other US forces for reporting corruption. How many more stories like this are needed before people realize that no, this should not be business as usual? I'm reminded of what the one veteran (under cowardly anonymity) said when he was asked about the whistle-blower in the Abu Ghraib scandal: if this was Viet Nam, he would have never gotten home alive. But that's a ridiculous comparison.
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"Comcast throttles BitTorrent users", "Comcast Cuts Off Heavy Internet Users"
Let's just hope the geeks can start a backlash against these assholes. These issues, along with their and others VoIP packet blocking, can possibly be market-driven to death by new, neutral ISPs such as Copowi.
- Here are some Tiny animals on people's fingers.
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