I love my wife!

We started watching House a couple of months ago. I find some of the episodes hit a little close to home, but we still like it.

Today I go to Bookmans and picked up the first season on DVD.

This afternoon I'm talking to my wife. She's in LA at a convention, entered a raffle, and won!

Season 1 of House on DVD.

Absolutely zero communications between us on the subject, just sheer coincidence.


Fortunately Bookmans has a very liberal return policy, so I'll have no problem taking it back. I'll probably pick up season 2.

The Obama administration wanting control over the internet

"According to Assistant Secretary Larry Strickling, Obama's top official at the Department of Commerce, the US government's policy of leaving the Internet alone is over. Instead, an 'Internet Policy 3.0' approach will see policy discussions between government agencies, foreign governments, and key Internet constituencies, with those discussions covering issues such as privacy, child protection, cybersecurity, copyright protection, and Internet governance."

A poster provided a helpful definition of privacy, child protection, cybersecurity, copyright protection, and Internet governance:
Privacy - You are allowed to feel like you have privacy, but if we can trump-up a good sounding reason, forget it.

Child Protection - Now we can go after offending websites, forgetting First Amendment protections, but don't worry, it's all for the sake of protecting the children.

Cyber-security - We can't out-smart our opponents, so we'll employ brute force and squash anything that even looks dangerous.

Copyright Protection - Hey, we're big fans of the major media players, and we think they deserve a little somethin'-somethin for their generosity in the last several campaigns. (You don't think this administrations election campaign really raised three-quarters of a trillion dollars from (essentially) untraceable $10-200 donations over the web, do you?

Internet Governance - Hey, why should we cede control of something we in America invented?

There, I hope that helps you understand what is going on.

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/02/27/2134204/US-Govt-Ending-Its-Hands-Off-the-Internet-Stance?art_pos=2


Another poster said that gooks invented the dial-up BBS system, if the internet goes entirely in to one government's hands, then we'll create something else. I think either mesh wireless networks when you have enough population concentration to support such, but I imagine there'll also be a tunneling protocol in to a dark network that's not indexed by the government internet.

I can't say that I'm terribly surprised, though I think this would have happened sooner or later regardless of who was in charge. I also don't know that it'll succeed, I'll hope that it doesn't.

EDIT: Geez, talk about a typo! Geeks invented dial-up BBS systems, not gooks! I don't think I've ever used the word gooks in my life. I'd say that I need to get my brain checked, but I don't think there's anything up there.