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Net Neutrality decision leaves both sides unhappy |
| NMAWorldEdition | 22 December 2010 The FCC has passed long-awaited rules on Net Neutrality and no one is happy. The rules passed after the FCC's chairman convinced his two Democratic colleagues to support his proposal. Democratic Net Neutrality advocates, however, remain unhappy because wireless carriers such as AT&T will be able to block services and applications on their networks. Net Neutrality advocates also want the FCC to prohibit 'paid prioritization', whereby carriers speed up the delivery of data bits for paying customers. The opponents of Net Neutrality say the new rules interfere too much. They would prefer to let Internet carriers do whatever they want. |
| Date: 2010-12-24 07:46:23 - Added by: KMC |
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What's with the Extreme Weather? |
| ABC News 23 December 2010 |
| Date: 2010-12-24 07:39:35 - Added by: KMC |
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Beijing's new green traffic rules |
| From: AlJazeeraEnglish | 23 December 2010 Officials are preparing to announce new traffic regulations in Beijing. The goal is to ease pollution in the Chinese capital, but many motorists have been dreading this moment. They have been buying up a record amount of cars before the rules get stricter. Al Jazeera reporter Melissa Chan has the details. |
| Date: 2010-12-24 07:28:48 - Added by: KMC |
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London pedals against pollution |
| From: AlJazeeraEnglish | 22 December 2010 London is one of the most congested, and polluted cities in Europe. Londoners were introduced to a congestion charge in 2003, forcing motorists to pay extra when they enter central London. The move had some impact on traffic levels, but in July 2010, authorities introduced a new scheme, in an effort to get more people out of their cars. Al Jazeera's Barnaby Phillips reports from London. |
| Date: 2010-12-24 07:25:19 - Added by: KMC |
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Inside Story - Internet industry at a crossroads |
| From: AlJazeeraEnglish | 23 December 2010 The US introduces new rules guaranteeing consumers the right to view what they want on the internet, while at the same time giving wireless providers more control. How will this effect users, are consumers protected and what does the government action mean for the future of internet freedom worldwide? |
| Date: 2010-12-24 07:20:39 - Added by: KMC |
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Suriname witnesses new gold rush |
| From: AlJazeeraEnglish | 24 December 2010 A massive jump in gold prices is causing a goldrush in countries like Suriname. A Canadian corporation, IAMGOLD, is the only company with mining rights in the tiny Latin American nation's rain forest. But some of the locals who live on that land are racing to get their own share of the gold, before it is all gone. Al Jazeera's John Terrett reports from Brokopondo, Suriname. |
| Date: 2010-12-24 07:12:42 - Added by: KMC |
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Sexual violence in the US military |
| From: AlJazeeraEnglish | 22 December 2010 Recent statistics and stories from soldiers in the US military reveal sexual assault is much more common in the defence forces that in the wider civilian population. And, as documented in a special Al Jazeera web report detailing a culture of cover-up fear and shame, assault is a crime perpetrated against both men and women. However, Susan Avila-Smith, the founder of the veteran's advocacy group VET-WOW in Seattle, Washington, told Al Jazeera that not enough is being done to hold the military accountable for assault. |
| Date: 2010-12-24 07:06:27 - Added by: KMC |
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The Rachel Maddow Show: Economist Paul Krugman Talks About How To Stimulate The Economy |
| 22 December, 2010 MSNBC |
| Date: 2010-12-24 06:59:21 - Added by: KMC |
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A Short History of the Computer, the FCC and Net Neutrality |
| Too busy getting slizzard to keep up with the last hundred years of computer history? Here's what you missed. 2400 BC: The Chinese invent the abacus and... well, that's a little far back. 1870: The US Census takes 7 years to tabulate. A census employee invents a way to store information on a punch card so that it could be read back later. He founds a company to make the product. He called it I-B-M. 1892: William S. Burroughs invents a fancy printable desk calculator. If that name sounds familiar... It's because he's the grandfather of this guy. 1943: The geniuses at Bletchely Park in London are charged with breaking the German Enigma cipher so the Allies can intercept Nazi messages during the war. The build the Colussus...A machine so big, even this guy's impressed. 1958: The integrated circuit is invented. So now we can use these...Instead of these. 1965: Moore's Law says we gotta go really fast now 1969: ARPANET - The Internet's Grandad. 1981: This guy invents TCP/IP. It... moves bits around. What are bits? No time! 1983: DNS is invented. 1989: The World Wide Web is invented. 1997: IBM's Deep Blue Supercomputer beats Gary Kasparov at chess. 2000: Napster is invented and Lars Ulrich gets really pissed off. 2005: Youtube lets anyone be a distributor...Seriously, anyone. 2006: Netflix reaches five-point-one million U-S subscribers. 2007: Hulu opens the doors to digital delivery of TV...Which makes Comcast really mad. And that's what you missed on...Geek ----- It's easy to take for granted the technology we have today. We don't question how our e-mail or text messages travel to one another. We accept them, like radio waves and the tax code. But the freedom of our data is in jeopardy, and it's time to start paying attention. 2009: Obama elects Julius Genachowski as Chairman of the FCC. He's got to get through the digital TV switch and bring the internets to rural America. 4/7/2010: The US Court of Appeals overturns tells the FCC it has no right to interfere with how companies like Comcast manage their data services. 8/9/2010: Google and Verizon release their own version of a broadband plan and urge the FCC to implement it. It doesn't cover wireless, leaves lots of loopholes for prioritization, and leaves it open for data companies to privatize parts of the Internet. And they want to regulate themselves. 11/17/2010: Republican Representative Marsha Blackburn vows to do whatever is necessary to stop any regulation of broadband traffic by the FCC. That same day: Verizon and Comcast call broadband regulation an engineering, not a political issue. Level 3 angrily informs us that Comcast is charging them to send data to Comcast customers. It's basically because Level 3 made an agreement to handle data for Netflix, which can sometimes be as much as twenty per-cent of U-S Internet traffic, and Comcast doesn't want to foot the bill for Level 3. 11/30/2010: AT&T meets with the FCC no less than six times this month to discuss broadband. 12/1/2010: Chairman Genachowski releases more information about the FCC's broadband plan. 1) It excludes wireless, just like Verizon wanted. 2) It leaves open the possibility for premium internet access. 3) It probably doesn't matter anyway. The April decision by the Court of Appeals pretty much removed the FCC's jurisdiction of data communications under Title 1. They'll have to fight long and hard (That's what she said, Marsha Blackburn) to prove authority of the telecoms. The FCC's open meeting for December is Tuesday, the 21st at 9:30AM CST You can watch it live at http://reboot.fcc.gov/live |
| Date: 2010-12-24 01:55:48 - Added by: KMC |
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The 12 Days of Wikileaks: On the first day of Xmas, WikiLeaks gave to me: A [redacted] in a [redacted] tree... |
| zinasaundersdotcom | 23 December 2010 | A very Wiki Christmas from the editors at Mother Jones and political cartoonist Zina Saunders www.zinasaunders.com On the first day of Xmas, WikiLeaks gave to me: A [redacted] in a [redacted] tree... http://motherjones.com/politics/2010/... Two maids a-suing... http://motherjones.com/kevin-drum/201... Three Gitmo manuals http://motherjones.com/politics/2010/... Four sheikhs a-fuming... http://motherjones.com/kevin-drum/201... Five Palin emails... http://motherjones.com/politics/2010/... Six shady Afghans... http://motherjones.com/politics/2010/... Seven spooks a-sighing... http://motherjones.com/mojo/2010/08/w... Eight Iranian ninjas... http://motherjones.com/mojo/2010/12/w... Nine drunken Kazakhs... http://motherjones.com/mojo/2010/11/w... Ten climate changers... http://motherjones.com/blue-marble/20... 11 Assanges rappin'... http://motherjones.com/riffv2010/12/w... Twelve treason charges... http://motherjones.com/mojo/2010/12/u... |
| Date: 2010-12-23 09:41:58 - Added by: KMC |
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