Weekend Reading
Ellen Goodman: An Ashcroft Fixation. It was bizarre enough last month when federal law enforcement officers began a crackdown on cannabis clubs in California that provide medical marijuana to AIDS and cancer patients. I chalked that up to reefer madness. Then Ashcroft, using the same legal ploy, decided to go after an Oregon law permitting and regulating assisted suicide.
Slate: Ashcroft’s War on the Constitution. How do we enforce the Constitution against a state that suddenly evinces no interest in convictions or ordinary criminal investigation? The Ashcroft request is that we simply “trust” him to tread carefully around the Bill of Rights. What would Jefferson, Madison, or Adams do if they heard the state asking that? They’d probably flee to Canada.
Steve Gillmor (Infoworld): New Kids on the Block. AOL Time Warner approaches from the home and content side, blending instant messaging traffic with PlayStations and (perhaps) Palm/Handspring devices and riding the holiday movie and television cycles. And Nokia and the carriers move out in front of Sun, IBM, et al with HailStorm-on-a-belt. Three strong contenders, which leaves a real competitive landscape.
The Register: SuSE 7.3 rocks Red Hat and flips XP the bird. Think of it this way: if you should break your sad dependency on Redmond’s digital heroin and install something like SuSE 7.3, you’ll be able to run your machine pretty much like a Windows box without a struggle from the git go; but on top of that, you might one day find yourself curled up in an easy chair with the documentation, as in some bygone age of elegance and style, and then it might just hit you what a convenient patsy you’ve been.
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