Late Monday I was on the deck of my Waterhead office praying to the rain gods so they might water Dingo's massive cannabis plant which grows brown from neglect, but gradually found myself distracted by... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 20 Feb 2008 | 12:11 pm
By Luke Anderson When I travel, I tend to pack as lightly as possible. However, being a geek doesn’t make that very easy. In order to cut down on the amount of clutter in my gadget bag, I usually... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 20 Feb 2008 | 11:14 am
By Luke Anderson I envy kids today, as they get much cooler toys than we did. Sure, my Nerf guns and Laser Tag games were cool and all, but even those have been upgraded with the latest technology. If... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 20 Feb 2008 | 11:11 am
Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c83447) has announced the addition of Hydrodynamics and Water Quality: Modelling Rivers, Lakes, and Estuaries to their offering. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 20 Feb 2008 | 11:00 am
Ponca City, We Love You writes "Robert Scoble had an interesting post on his blog a few days ago on obsolete technical skills — 'things we used to know that no longer are very useful to us.' Scoble's initial list included dialing a rotary phone, using carbon paper to make copies, and changing the gas mixture on your car's carburetor. The list has now been expanded into a wiki with a much larger list of these obsolete skills that includes resolving IRQ conflicts on a mother board, assembly language programming, and stacking a quarter on an arcade game to indicate you have next. We're invited to contribute more."
MADRID (Reuters) - If it weren't for YouTube, a man wearing a little black dress and a pearl necklace would be unlikely to get a question in for the leader of the Spanish opposition. Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 20 Feb 2008 | 10:31 am
By Dan Buglass Rural THE tide is turning and politicians are coming around to the fact that farming and food production actually matter. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 20 Feb 2008 | 10:24 am
Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency) ["3rd Ld Writethru: Powerful Quake Hits Indonesia's Sumatra Island" - Xinhua headline] JAKARTA, Feb. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 20 Feb 2008 | 10:24 am
By Gabriela Rico, The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson Feb. 20--More than 600 beachfront homes in Puerto Penasco will have drinkable tap water -- from the sea -- by the end of the year. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 20 Feb 2008 | 10:24 am
By FRANK URQUHART AN URGENT review of all "flags of convenience" fishing boats operating in British waters is required following a series of incidents casting doubt on the fleet's safety, according to the Government's investigators. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 20 Feb 2008 | 10:24 am
Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c83311) has announced the addition of "Physiology and Behaviour of Plants" to their offering. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 20 Feb 2008 | 10:23 am
Its official. Toshiba announced today that the end is here. In a public statement, Atsutoshi Nishida, President and CEO said, “While we are disappointed for the company and more importantly,... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 20 Feb 2008 | 10:16 am
Mozilla officially launched its new Thunderbird focuses spinoff Mozilla Messaging yesterday with David Ascher as CEO. Mozilla Messenging begins with the proposition that e-mail is broken, with its goal... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 20 Feb 2008 | 10:13 am
By Evan Ackerman Somewhat unusually, there are a couple things going on up in the sky this Wednesday night, at least for those of us who don’t live in Asia or Australia (sorry chaps). The first thing... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 20 Feb 2008 | 9:55 am
Here's a test for Web 2.0. Cuba's Fidel Castro announced yesterday morning that he is resigning from his post as ruler of that communist country. What better way to celebrate the departure of an authoritarian... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 20 Feb 2008 | 9:49 am
By Evan Ackerman Clay Moulton, a student at Virginia Tech, has designed this Gravia floorlamp to be powered completely by gravity. The lamp contains a 50 pound brass weight which is placed 48″ above... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 20 Feb 2008 | 9:05 am
Add To Your Site: If youre into High Definition technology, check out the DV520HD from Mustek . It records videos and photos in 1080i high def. This... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 20 Feb 2008 | 9:02 am
By Andrew Liszewski Like the 360 and the PS3, the Wii managed to finally lose the wires when it came to the controllers. (Well, most of them.) But unfortunately the stock sensor bar was still tethered... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 20 Feb 2008 | 8:51 am
Atlantis' astronauts aimed for a morning touchdown Wednesday to conclude a two-week mission that expanded the international space station with the addition of a new European lab. ... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 20 Feb 2008 | 8:41 am
Peter writes to tell us about a research group at the University of Sydney in Australia, who in the middle of some calculation wanted to check the numbers everybody uses for the thickness of our galaxy at the core. Using data available freely on the Internet and analyzing it in a spreadsheet, they discovered in a matter of hours that the Milky Way is 12,000 light years thick, vs. the 6,000 that had been the consensus number for some time.
By Canter, Neil Friction remains an enormous challenge for those of us in the lubricant industry to overcome. From a macroscale standpoint, we know that when one object slides on a second object, friction occurs, leading to a loss of energy through the generation of heat. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 20 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
By Lisa Sink, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Feb. 20--OCONOMOWOC -- Aldermen approved a new Pabst Farms outdoor shopping mall and retail development project Tuesday, although two raised concerns that the revised plans would not create a regional draw. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 20 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
By Joe Stumpe, The Wichita Eagle, Kan. Feb. 20--It's Lent and they're Catholic, but that's not the only reason why Mary Volkmann's family is eating a lot of fish these days. For about three years, seafood has been their main source of protein. Call it a sea change. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 20 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
By Archer, Jessica K Miller, Deborah L; Tanner, George W ARCHER, J. K. (Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611), D. L. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 20 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
By Rick Barrett, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Feb. 20--It's an office in the cab of a work truck, and a tool tracker that's supposed to make life easier for contractors. Starting this summer, Ford Motor Co. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 20 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
"Fair Ads Network (FAN) will formally launch this April, offering Internet marketers more control of when and where their ads are shown," said Kevin Lam, CEO and active U.S. Navy Sailor. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 20 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
By Drew Brooks, The Shelby Star, N.C. Feb. 20--SHELBY -- With foreclosures skyrocketing, it's hard to imagine that half the homeowners who stand to lose their homes through the process don't try to stop it. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 20 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
By Anonymous Dell, Microsoft Partner with CHCI to Provide Notebook Computers, Software to Scholarship Winners The Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute (CHCI) announced an agreement between Dell Computers and Microsoft to provide 105 Dell notebook computers, loaded with Microsoft software, to its undergraduate scholarship recipients in 2007. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 20 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
QED Connect, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: QEDC), an innovative software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider for the information security market, today announced the addition of Alpine Home Health Care, an Ohio-based healthcare services provider, to its growing customer base. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 20 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
By Anonymous Tech Forum Michael Castelluccio, Editor LAST MONTH, WE LOOKED AT wlkis, one of the hallmark technologies for Web 2.0. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 20 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
By Joan Burnie Q I'M a normal straight woman in a normal straight relationship, but I am being plagued by graphic pictures of lesbian sex. To begin with, they just popped up on my computer screen and I deleted them. But now I am getting text messages inviting me on gay dates. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 20 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
By The Dallas Morning News Feb. 20--The Dallas Police Department's Web site remained inoperable Tuesday, a day after hackers posted obscene political messages and images on the home page. Sgt. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 20 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
By Ioannou, Andri Hannafin, Robert D Course management systems (CMSs) are software systems designed to manage course content and course activities. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 20 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
Just in time for the Oscars and those long-awaited new TV episodes, we put five popcorn poppers to the test. ... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 20 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
The National Retail Federation warns that many such products might be stolen and could be dangerous. ... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 20 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
If you've got an appetite for talking on mobile phones, major cellphone companies are ready to give you all you can eat. Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 20 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
Double-digit revenue growth in international markets offsets slower sales growth in the United States. ... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 20 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
Boy, does today's XKCD ever resonate with me -- every year, my New Year's resolution is "stop arguing with strangers on the Internet" and every year, I break it within days.
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Today in my ongoing series of photos from my travels over the years: this new installation from street artist Asbestos, spotted on Brick Lane in London last Sunday. I really like the way this shot turned out.
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The Indonesian state railway is installing paint-sprayers to douse "roof riders" who ride atop the trains into Jakarta -- Indonesia lacks a cheap and reliable way to get into and out of the city, and many commute illegally on the roof (the Jakarta Post says more than 50 roof riders have been killed in the past two years).
After several failed attempts to discourage roof riders over years, the state owned railway company PT Kereta Api will from next week douse them with a coloured liquid so that officers can identify them when they get off the train, the Jakarta Post said.
"We will confiscate their IDs and give them a ticket," Kereta Api regional spokesman Akhmad Sujadi was quoted as saying.
"We will send a copy of the ticket to their family, their local neighbourhood unit head, their employer, or, if they're students, their headmasters," added Sujadi, who described the move as "unique."
Got some extra network cable lying around? (who doesn't?) Why not try your hand at some Cat-5 macrame and make a handsome high-tech plant-hammock out of it?
Since I was cleaning anyway, I took the time to straighten up a few other areas, including some potted plants and cabling. When finished, I had a left-over mint plant, and forty-some feet of damaged Ethernet cable. Since I had plenty of other things to do, and didn't particularly want to do them, I spent a relaxing half-hour knotting a plant hanger with the cable.
The Bush Administration has put forth new rules demanding that visitors to the US from Europe need to apply for "approval" to land, days in advance of purchasing their tickets. Airlines will also be required to provide information on travellers' families, and to allow US Air Marshals to fly on any flight that will pass over or land on US soil.
The demand to put armed air marshals on to the flights is part of a travel clampdown by the Bush administration that officials in Brussels described as "blackmail" and "troublesome", and could see west Europeans and Britons required to have US visas if their governments balk at Washington's requirements.
According to a US document being circulated for signature in European capitals, EU states would also need to supply personal data on all air passengers overflying but not landing in the US in order to gain or retain visa-free travel to America, senior EU officials said.
And within months the US department of homeland security is to impose a new permit system for Europeans flying to the US, compelling all travellers to apply online for permission to enter the country before booking or buying a ticket, a procedure that will take several days.
I think this is a great idea. While we're at it, lets give Mexico the right to put its Sky Marshals on any American flight that's bound for South America, and Canada could put Mounties on all US flights headed over to Alaska from the mainland. Also: if you're on a US flight headed to, say, Germany, your flight could have gun-toting cops from Canada, Ireland, the UK, France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and Switzerland on it.
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Here's a fantastic take-off on the Barak Obama Yes We Can video, in which McCain sings "bomb bomb bomb Iran," and says that we're going to be in Iran for 100 years, while singing Americans look on in abject terror.
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More news on the Draft Lessig front: a couple days ago, I posted here about the movement to draft Larry Lessig to run for Congress to fill Tom Lantos's recently vacated seat. Now, Larry's put up a "Lessig08" site with a video that explains the nature of his "anti-corruption" campaign to reform government to reduce the perverting effect of money on public policy. The site does not say that Larry will run for Congress, but it does invite you to show support for the idea so that Larry can gauge whether it's feasible for him to make a run without taking any corporate or special-interest money.
This site hosts this video to explain the launch of two exploratory projects — first, a Change Congress movement, and second, my own decision whether to run for Congress in the California 12th.
I have decided I want to give as much energy as I can to the Change Congress movement. I will decide in the next week or so whether it makes sense to advance that movement by running for Congress.
MediaSentry, a company that provides "investigative services" to the RIAA, has redesigned its site to remove references to its services in support of litigation. The move comes after the Massachusetts State Police told MediaSentry that it was illegal to investigate of Boston University students without a license.
The updated version of the MediaSentry site has no reference to litigation or prosecution, which seems odd for a company making what appears to be mad bank from supporting the RIAA's litigation campaign. Instead, it offers assistance in determining "the scope and scale" of piracy problems and measuring "efforts to reduce unauthorized distribution."
The stairs going up to the attic room of a Victorian row house in London have been fitted with books that line each riser and wrap around the edges. As someone who lives in small places with lots of books (and no matter what I do, no matter how ruthless I am, I always seem to have lots more books that I have room for) this kind of thing is sheer aspirational porn for me.
The flat occupies part of the shared top floor of an existing Victorian mansion block. Our proposal extended the flat into the unused loft space above, creating a new bedroom level and increasing the floor area of the flat by approximately one third. We created a 'secret' staircase, hidden from the main reception room, to access a new loft bedroom lit by roof lights. Limited by space, we melded the idea of a staircase with our client's desire for a library to form a 'library staircase' in which English oak stair treads and shelves are both completely lined with books. With a skylight above lighting the staircase, it becomes the perfect place to stop and browse a tome. The stair structure was designed as an upside down 'sedan chair' structure (with Rodrigues Associates, Structural Engineers, London) that carries the whole weight of the stair and books back to the main structural walls of the building. It dangles from the upper floor thereby avoiding any complicated neighbour issues with the floors below.
The Aardvarchaeology blog looks at the ruins of children's treehouses, which can often be found in wooded areas near residential areas. There's a big difference between the way that kids and adults abandon their sites -- children leave everything in situ, forgotten and frozen, while adults strip a site of everything that might be useful.
And the treehouse sites are hardly ever cleaned up. In fact, the children's parents often have only a vague notion of where the treehouse is. They may help to build it, but they don't feel responsible for it. It's out in the woods where only children and mushroom pickers see it: out of sight and out of mind. The mess there would never be tolerated in the back yard, just as most Westerners of today feel really uncomfortable in the stench and litter of Third World villages.
So the next time you come upon an abandoned treehouse site, you might give some thought to the fact that you're standing in the ruins of someone's childhood. The children who used the site no longer exist: they're grownups now, living somewhere else, disposing more rationally of their belongings. And some of them very probably have kids of their own now who are wheedling them to buy a few boards and a box of long nails, a rope ladder and some tarred roofing cardboard. And daddy -- can I please have your old drum kit / dough mixer / rollerskates? I'll take them out of your sight.
MUMBAI (Reuters) - The philanthropic units of billionaire investor George Soros and Google have put $17 million into a venture with the Omidyar network to fund small and medium enterprises... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 20 Feb 2008 | 6:41 am
LOS GATOS, Calif., Feb. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- NetLine Corporation's RevResponse.com publisher program which has been in Beta announced its expansion to "Invite... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 20 Feb 2008 | 5:30 am
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 20 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- Suntech Power Holdings Co., Ltd. (NYSE: STP), one of the world's leading manufacturers of photovoltaic (PV) cells and... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 20 Feb 2008 | 5:30 am
An anonymous reader suggests we visit the home of the watchdog group Global Integrity for a breakdown of online censorship: "Using data from the Global Integrity Index, we put a US court's recent order to block access to anti-corruption site Wikileaks.org into context. In summary: This is unheard of in the West, and has only been seen in a handful of the most repressive regimes. Good thing it doesn't work very well... The whole event seems to encapsulate the constant criticism of governance in the United States: that the government has been captured by corporate interests, and that the world-leading rule of law and technocratic mechanisms in place can be hijacked to serve as tools for narrow, wealthy interests."
CAMBRIDGE, England, February 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ARM (LSE:ARM); (Nasdaq:ARMHY) today announced at the Game Developers' Conference, San Francisco, Calif.,... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 20 Feb 2008 | 5:18 am
With a stellar start to its new fiscal year, Hewlett-Packard Co. has given technology investors something else to get excited about besides Microsoft Corp.'s audacious bid to buy Yahoo Inc. Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 20 Feb 2008 | 5:11 am
With a stellar start to its new fiscal year, Hewlett-Packard Co. has given technology investors something else to get excited about besides Microsoft Corp.'s audacious bid to buy Yahoo... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 20 Feb 2008 | 5:08 am
Google.org, the philanthropic arm of Google Inc., has teamed up with the Soros Economic Development Fund and Omidyar Network to fund a $17 million company that will invest in small- and medium-size business... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 20 Feb 2008 | 5:02 am
Google.org, the philanthropic arm of Google Inc., has teamed up with the Soros Economic Development Fund and Omidyar Network to fund a $17 million company that will invest in small- and... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 20 Feb 2008 | 5:00 am
PARIS, February 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- - Quest Teams With Evidian to Help Organizations Mitigate Critical Security Risks Using Evidian Unique E-SSO... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 20 Feb 2008 | 5:00 am
CORNWALL, England, February 20 /PRNewswire/ -- - Helsbury Park, a Self-Catering Country Estate Set in 100 Acres of Parkland in North Cornwall, Today Revealed... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 20 Feb 2008 | 4:28 am
arktemplar suggests Technology Review for their annual list of 10 emerging technologies that the editors believe will be particularly important over the next few years. Quoting: "This is work ready to emerge from the lab, in a broad range of areas: energy, computer hardware and software, biological imaging, social interactions. Two of the technologies — cellulolytic enzymes and atomic magnetometers — are efforts by leading scientists to solve critical problems, while five — surprise modeling, connectomics, probabilistic CMOS, reality mining, and offline Web applications — represent whole new ways of looking at problems. And three — graphene transistors, nanoradio, and wireless power — are amazing feats of engineering that have created something entirely new."
An anonymous reader writes "Last week the Software Freedom Law Center published A Legal Issues Primer for Open Source and Free Software Projects. The primer, written for developers, has sections on copyrights, trademarks, patents, and organizational structure. Linux-Watch has reviewed the guide, saying 'I think any open-source developer or open-source group administrator must read this paper.'"
Just because one media-storage format suffers a merciless death, it doesn't mean the media itself still can't be enjoyed in some other form. Follow Wired's How-To Wiki guide to rip, convert and burn your now-obsolote HD DVDs to the Blu-ray format.
Imagine the simple queries that separate you from your online bank accounts forming the basis of a nightmarish game show. Let the interrogations begin! Commentary by Lore Sjöberg.
Just because one media-storage format suffers a merciless death, it doesn't mean the media itself still can't be enjoyed in some other form. Follow Wired's How-To Wiki guide to rip, convert and burn your now-obsolote HD DVDs to the Blu-ray format.
LOS ANGELES A prominent business lawyer accused of paying the private detective Anthony Pellicano to tap telephone calls on behalf of the financier Kirk Kerkorian will have his trial separated from Mr.... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 20 Feb 2008 | 1:35 am
In a move that legal experts said could present a major test of First Amendment rights in the Internet era, a federal judge in San Francisco on Friday ordered the disabling of a Web site devoted to disclosing... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 20 Feb 2008 | 1:35 am
SAN FRANCISCO While some technology companies have warned of softening in the global economy, Hewlett-Packard is not seeing slowing demand in its own international business, company executives said Tuesday.... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 20 Feb 2008 | 1:35 am
Physicist Neil Turok discusses his theory that the Big Bang is just one in an endless series of universal expansions and contractions -- a theory that has provoked the ire of many physicists, as well as the Catholic Church.
Cuba has the potential to make 3.2 billion gallons of ethanol a year, a figure that would make it the world's third-biggest producer. Reaching that target would require a massive infusion of foreign capital, but with Cuba quietly modernizing its ethanol infrastructure, is the country preparing to jump into the ethanol game?
ethericalzen writes "A BBC article highlights a theory that the first stars may have been powered by dark matter. A group of US scientists published a paper in Physical Review Letters speculating that, unlike the stars of today, which are powered by nuclear fusion, early stars might have been powered by the abundant dark matter crowding the universe after the Big Bang. The theory suggests that these stars would have collided and destroyed one another before nuclear fusion had a chance take hold." The BBC perhaps overstates the certainty with which the dark-matter theory is held, and doesn't mention that the postulated properties of such particles are completely speculative.
2008 looks like a good year to be an independent videogame developer, as Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft fish for the next big hit. Look for little games to steal the show at this year's Game Developers Conference in San Francisco.
An anonymous reader sends us to Wired for a piece about some declassified Pentagon research from 1998 that has been revealed in a freedom-of-information filing. Apparently the Pentagon has investigated lasers that put voices in your head, among other non-lethal technologies such as microwave heating. The report suggests the techniques could be useful for controlling crowds or in negotiations. There is no context for the research or any indication whether it has continued, although the microwave heating bit sounds rather like the Active Denial System we have discussed recently.
I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "The US Supreme Court refused without comment the ACLU's appeal of a lower court ruling that prevented them from suing over the government's warrantless TSP program. The problem was a Catch-22: they lack legal 'standing' to sue over it because they can't prove that they were suspected terrorists, but neither can they find out who was actually suspected, because this is a matter of national security." Update: 02/20 00:17 GMT by KD : Removed an incorrect statement after a reader pointed out that, with the expiration of the Protect America Act this weekend, foreign surveillance will revert to oversight by the FISA court.
alphadogg is one of several readers to note the opening of the Mozilla Foundation's new subsidiary, Mozilla Messaging, charged with developing the free, open source Thunderbird email software. Mozilla Messaging will initially focus on Thunderbird 3, which aims at improving several aspects of the software, including integrated calendaring and better search. ZDNet UK's coverage leads with the interest the new organization has in developing instant-messaging software.
crocoduck writes "Right before the deadline passed for filing comments in the FCC investigation of Comcast's traffic-management practices, telecoms and other cable companies submitted a slew of comments defending Comcast's actions to the FCC. 'Just about every big phone company has filed a statement challenging the FCC's authority to deal with this problem. AT&T, Verizon, and Qwest all submitted lengthy remarks on February 13th, the last day for comments on the proceeding (parties can still reply to comments through the 28th). "The Internet marketplace remains fundamentally healthy, and the purported 'cure' could only make it sick," AT&T's filing declared. "At best, the network-management restrictions proposed by Free Press and others would inflict wasteful costs on broadband providers in the form of expensive and needless capacity upgrades — costs that would ultimately be passed through to end users, raise broadband prices across the board, and force ordinary broadband consumers to subsidize the bandwidth-hogging activities of a few."' P2P fans have also weighed in."
The Amgen Tour of California, one of the premier events on the 2008 pro-cycling calendar, is making its way down the coast of the Golden State this week. Follow the race's every move in your browser, using a specialized Flash-based player.
As lithium-ion batteries move in on gasoline's turf as most favored fuel for the nation’s automobiles, questions about the chemical’s suitability persist.
Boy, does today's XKCD ever resonate with me -- every year, my New Year's resolution is "stop arguing with strangers on the Internet" and every year, I break it within days.
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This site hosts this video to explain the launch of two exploratory projects — first, a Change Congress movement, and second, my own decision whether to run for Congress in the California 12th.
