If you already read Slashdot regularly, I'm sorry--this post will be old hat for you. But two stories on today's news digest grabbed my attention, and I feel they directly impact us J130 folk!
First is a story from yahoo news. The New York Times has sued the Pentagon over its domestic spying. I'd be very curious to see exactly who they spied on, and I'm willing to bet money that political opponents to GW will be predominant on that list. More amusing /. posters say the entire NY Times staff is on that list...
Next is a Wired story on MySpace. Learning that MySpace has been catagorized by NBC as "a cyber secret teenagers keep from tech-challenged parents" was very amusing. Doubly amusing but peppered with injustice is the tale of a high-school student who made a mock 'space blog of his principal, which made fun of his size. The gate-level student got suspended for 10 days and dropped into a special ed class that is far beneath his own skill level...
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