Not many days ago, we mentioned ZDNet’s interview with Nicholas Negroponte, in which Negroponte had some harsh things to say about Sugar and its connection to the slower-than-hoped uptake of the XO. Ivan Krstic (formerly head of the OLPC’s security innovative subsystem) responded to Negroponte’s claims, which he says are “nonsense.” Among other things, he mentions that Sugar “was the name for the new learning-oriented graphical interface that OLPC was building, but it was also the name for the entire XO operating system, one tiny part of which was Sugar the GUI, and the rest of which was mostly Fedora Linux.”

via Slashdot | Ivan Krsti Says Negroponte’s Wrong About Sugar and OLPC.

Slashdot | Bing Users’ Click-Through Rate 55% Higher Than Google Users’.

Yep, all the sheep who see bing advertised on Tv are the ones that would click through.  The Bing “search engine” yes, it’s not a fucking “decision engine” is a pile of crap.  And whoever designed the UI needs to have his eyes gouged out with a spoon… but then again it is a Microsoft product so we can’t have too high of expectations.

XBMC 9.04.1 has been built for Fedora 11.

http://fedorajunkies.com

9.04.1 RPMs have finally been built for Fedora 10 and the build farm is back online.

Fedora 11 RPMs will be available shortly.

fedorajunkies.com

“America’s Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009″

Welcome to getting taxed to all hell and back. Here are some choice notes from this bill the dems are trying to force through:

” Those who choose to not obtain coverage will pay a penalty of 2.5 percent of modified
adjusted gross income above a specified level.
”

”
Employers that choose to offer coverage must meet minimum
benefit and contribution requirements specified in the proposal.
”

” cognizing the special needs of small businesses, the smallest
businesses (payroll that does not exceed $250,000) are exempt from the employer responsibility
requirement. The payroll penalty would then phase in starting at 2% for firms with annual payrolls
over $250,000 rising to the full 8 percent penalty for firms with annual payrolls above $400,000.
”

I just love all these new taxes and how employers who do offer their own healthcare IN ADDITION TO must change their coverage levels… which seems backwards because if the employee doesn’t think they are being covered enough then they should just choose public coverage, don’t require the employer to raise their coverage to meet the public rates and then also tax them.

this congress is going to tax this country out of existence… oh I thought the dems lowered taxes? apparently this congress didn’t get that memo.

“This bill does not allow you to purchase private insurance, only to keep what you’ve got. There is no free choice here. Meanwhile, employers will dump their employees onto the government plan to save money, and you’ll end up with single-payer where there is absolutely no price control. Police are local gov’t, fire is volunteer or even private in many places, electricity is often private, water and sewer are local, public broadcasting is full of liberal propaganda, public education is ranked like 37th in the world. Private and/or local does it better every time. Miliary is the only exception, and still has its gross inefficiencies.” – OC Comments

Call you congressman and tell them to vote against HR 3200.
HR 3200 on Open Congress

“a wise Latina woman should be able to reach a better ruling than a white man” – Sonia Sotomayor

Oh but here’s the real kicker;

60% of Sotomayor’s decisions are reversed when the case reaches the Supreme Court. Why oh why would you promote someone who is obviously failing at their job.