Jake, absolutely! But there are far too many people with illogical ideas about the sanctity of corpses to stand for it, I fear. As Niven suggested, will we see this first applied to prisoners, and then the death penalty for jaywalking?
Just in case you are unaware, a planet in the blogging context is an aggregation of content from a list of individual sources such as blogs, journals, articles etcetera. Some examples of planets in no particular order:
Planet Debian
Planet Ubuntu UK
Planet BitFolk
Planet SysAdmin
Over the last couple of weeks there have been some heated words on […]
I’m getting increasingly disturbed by reports of members of the public being harassed whilst innocently taking photos. I’m going to start keeping a list of links to this sort of thing here.
2008-06, UK — Bus-Spotter Labelled A Paedophile — Yahoo! News UK
2008-06, Washington DC, USA
2008-05-14, Los Angeles, California, USA
2008-05-13, Spokane, Washington, USA
2008-05, Los Angeles, […]
“Tee hee! Boris has had an affair! Arf! Now he’s offended the whole of Liverpool! Crumbs! He used the word “picaninnies”! Yuk yuk! He’s been caught on tape agreeing to give the address of a reporter to a friend who wants him beaten up! Ho ho! Look at his funny blond hair! HA HA BORIS […]
Tonight I happened to be looking through one of my server’s logs for something and found my ability to do so was being seriously hampered by the amount of crap being logged by iptables logging dropped packets (even though that is rate-limited). I was mildly surprised to note that most of it was like […]
I’m currently thoroughly enjoying FOSDEM, as I have all the other times I’ve been. It’s great that these people have made the time to come and give talks for free, so I hope I don’t sound ungrateful when I make these observations.
When giving a technical talk:
make sure you have actually read your material! […]
There’s some threads where you feel that everything that could ever be usefully said has already been said. That point was reached several pages past the top of the image below:
Internet drama: Just say no.
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Chad Lorenz presents a lot of evidence that email is in decline thanks to Facebook and the like:
“Those of us older than 25 can’t imagine a life without e-mail. For the Facebook generation, it’s hard to imagine a life of only e-mail, much less a life before it.”
That’s fine for the kids, they’re attracted to […]
Email from First Direct:
Thank you for your recent request to join first direct.
Full details about a first direct e-ISA, along with an application form containing the information you have provided, are now on their way to you.
[…]
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SAVE PAPER - THINK BEFORE YOU PRINT!
This is after filling in some 4 page online form. Really need […]
As you may be aware, I was quite ill the other week and ended up spending a night in hospital. Anyway, I’m fine now, but had a follow-up doctor’s appointment today.
One of the things I wanted from the doctor was a sick note for the two days I had off work last week due […]