Gerrymandering for ALL! And we are screwed!

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Gerrymandering by Computer

Gerrymandering by Computer 12/05/2003 06:39 PM
jefu writes "In the latest New Yorker there is an excellent article on redistricting and gerrymandering (more permanent URL). It discusses how recent ...

Gerrymandering: How Politicians Steal
Votes and You Can Return Them

Gerrymandering: How Politicians Steal
Votes and You Can Return Them 02/13/2004 06:34 PM
Gerrymandering, the practice of remapping political districts for partisan political gain, is becoming a serious problem. As described in Jeffrey?

Why Computers Are Screwed Up

Why Computers Are Screwed Up 11/16/2003 08:31 PM
CBS News Nov 16 2003 7:52PM ET

Why Computers Are Screwed Up - Video

Why Computers Are Screwed Up - Video 11/16/2003 11:47 PM
From 60 Minutes: "One day about 10 years ago, the door to my office opened and in walked Bill Gates. I knew his name but really didn't know much about him. He seemed like a nice guy, and he's done more good things with his money than most billionaires, but that's as far as I want to go being kind to Bill Gates. "

McDonald's Screwed Up Giveaway

McDonald's Screwed Up Giveaway 03/06/2004 01:48 AM
McDdonald's gives away $15,000,000 after previous giveaways found fixed. Better get 'em while they're hot!

Adult magazines screwed by the Internet?

Adult magazines screwed by the Internet? 11/10/2003 11:24 PM
Interesting AP story about the web's impact on the economics of adult print magazines:

After 35 years in the business of titillating and offending, pornographer Al Goldstein says his magazine can't compete anymore. The audience is just as large, he says, but the Internet has transformed the product and its delivery. Just over a month ago, Goldstein stopped publishing Screw magazine and filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, giving him a chance to cut costs, relaunch the magazine and refocus attention on his Web site.

Goldstein said circulation woes throughout the field show "we are an anachronism; we are dinosaurs; we are elephants going to the bone cemetery to die. ... The delivery system has changed, and we have to change with it if we want to survive."

Link (Thanks, JP!)

Screwed by search marketing firms?

Screwed by search marketing firms? 09/16/2004 07:21 PM
Source: netimperative - There is no doubt that, with the current euphoria surrounding search because of the predicted billions that go with it, everybody in the marketplace is an expert and everybody has the best deal. Rarely has the term...

Voters in California tell Walmart to get
screwed

Voters in California tell Walmart to get
screwed 04/09/2004 04:00 PM
Finally people are standing up to Walmart. I wish my home town would have had the fortitude to stand up...

Franken as "Enforcer? Dems are screwed!

Franken as "Enforcer? Dems are screwed! 01/27/2004 05:16 PM
AL FRANKEN KNOCKS DOWN DEAN HECKLER Defending free speech by tackling a heckler? "I got down low and took his legs out," said Franken afterwards. "I'm neutral in this race but I'm for freedom of speech, which means people should be able to assemble and speak without being shouted down." Wacky. [via the delightful and always dependable NY Post!]

Child's play screwed over by media.

Child's play screwed over by media. 01/05/2004 03:39 AM
Wil Wheaton sums it up best -- Penny Arcade's Child's Play, as posted previously, has been completely ignored by the media, despite donating over US$200,000 worth or toys and cash to a local children's hospital. 11,100 news items on violence in video games, 3 news items on video gamers opening their hearts and wallets.

Dear Atari: your DRM screwed me, so now
I hate you

Dear Atari: your DRM screwed me, so now
I hate you 12/19/2003 11:45 AM
Good letter from an Atari fan to Atari, describing the way that their anti-copying technology has screwed the innocent in order to get at the guilty. Link (Thanks, Marie!)

I'm an open source virgin, but Microsoft
has screwed me (again)

I'm an open source virgin, but Microsoft
has screwed me (again) 04/26/2004 11:53 AM
Too many open source advocates complain about Microsoft writing terrible buggy software and think that open source developers do it better. The truth is Microsoft is innovative, has vision, and executes well. If open source developers can do as well as Microsoft, it's a big compliment. Smart people like Miguel de Icaza and Brendan Eich have known this for a long time. Miguel has a reality check for these innocent virgins.

Brendan (one of the Mozilla leads) has a frank assessment of Mozilla too. I talked about this last year.

An introduction to Avalon by Charles Petzold.

CBS News | Gen. Zinni: 'They've Screwed
Up' | May 21, 2004 16:24:19

CBS News | Gen. Zinni: 'They've Screwed
Up' | May 21, 2004 16:24:19 05/23/2004 09:20 PM

Documentary filmmakers get screwed by
copyright clearance

Documentary filmmakers get screwed by
copyright clearance 12/30/2004 04:48 PM
Cory Doctorow: Thomas sez, "Untold Stories: Creative Consequences of the Rights Clearance Culture for Documentary Filmmakers: A pair of researchers documented increasing barriers to documentary film production caused by the high cost of obtaining rights clearances from IP holders."

The study explores the implications of the current terms of rights acquisition on the creative process of documentary filmmaking in today's marketplace, and from them makes recommendations to lower costs and promote creativity. It focuses on the lived experience of independent documentary filmmakers who work primarily within a broadcast environment (sometimes with a theatrical "window"), in coping with the creative challenges created by acquiring and granting rights. Click here to read Untold Stories.

Independent documentary filmmakers were selected because their work regularly requires them to interact with a wide variety of rights holders, from archives for photographs and stock footage to musical performers to other filmmakers. This is especially clear when it is a historical documentary or one that comments on commercial popular culture, but it is an issue for most documentary filmmakers, no matter what the subject matter. When a trademark appears on a baseball cap, or a subject happens to be watching television, or a radio in the background plays a popular song, or a subject sings "Happy Birthday," rights clearance becomes a professional and creative challenge.

Link (Thanks, Thomas!)

CBS News | Gen. Zinni: 'They've Screwed
Up' | May 21, 2004 16:24:19

CBS News | Gen. Zinni: 'They've Screwed
Up' | May 21, 2004 16:24:19 05/23/2004 01:50 PM
General Zinni: They've screwed up

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Time For CEOs To Realize How Screwed Up
The Patent System Is

Time For CEOs To Realize How Screwed Up
The Patent System Is 09/27/2004 03:20 AM
We wrote about the book Innovation and Its Discontents : How Our Broken Patent System is Endangering Innovation and Progress, and What to Do About It earlier this year noting that it sounded quite good, as it not only showed what was wrong, but also suggested a solution. The book still isn't out, but the New York Times has some more information about it, including a discussion on how the patent system got to be so bad, as well as what the book's authors think it will take to change. They say that most companies don't realize how much damage the patent system is doing, and that a very small group of lawyers in the D.C. patent bar have the incentive to keep the patent system screwed up. Thus, the only real change will come when CEOs of companies realize just how the patent system is harming their prospects by turning the whole process into an arms race rather than a system for encouraging innovation. Hopefully, this book will help get the point across.

How HDTV killed firefighters, birthed
the Broadcast Flag, and screwed America

How HDTV killed firefighters, birthed
the Broadcast Flag, and screwed America 03/29/2005 11:56 AM
Cory Doctorow: This long, excellent article on the history of broadcast spectrum allocation in America is the single best explanation of the mess that we're in today. In short: greedy broadcasters tricked Congress into giving them free spectrum for a second set of digital channels, so that Americans who bought digital TVs would have something to watch. Then they did nothing with them. Meantime, cops and firefighters and EMTs are (literally) dying for some of that squat-upon spectrum so that they can coordinate their rescue efforts. Remember how everyone rhapsodized about how postmodern it was that the World Trade Center rescuers used cellphones and Blackberries to stay in touch? It wasn't because the private sector's phones are designed by smarter people than the emergency-squads'. It's because there's no spectrum available to emergency workers because the broadcasters (now largely owned by or affiliated with movie studios and cable companies) have stolen it all from the American public.

This stuff was used as the justification for the Broadcast Flag, too -- spectrum allocation is practically the root of all evil in America, when you get right down to it.

From the beginning, the key combatant has been the National Association of Broadcasters, which organized itself into a lobby in the 1920s, even before the Federal Communications Commission was formed in 1934. For more than 75 years, the NAB has been fighting to help the broadcasting industry hold on to its slice of the spectrum -- the frequencies TV and radio stations use for their broadcasts -- in the face of demands from competing technologies and rival industries, and even public safety concerns.

In the 1980s, when the FCC appeared ready to reallocate some of the spectrum for public safety, the NAB persuaded Congress to block the commission and hold off the change because, the broadcasters said, they needed the spectrum to develop high-definition television. Yet soon thereafter, the broadcasters abandoned HDTV, and it nearly died

Link (via Dan Gillmor)

The Village Voice: Features: The 10 Ways
Bush Screwed New York by Wayne Barrett,
special reporting by Daniel Magliocco

The Village Voice: Features: The 10 Ways
Bush Screwed New York by Wayne Barrett,
special reporting by Daniel Magliocco 08/27/2004 01:45 PM

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