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The term "net neutrality" is bounced around over and over and now even our technically challenged president is for it. But what exactly is "net neutrality?" What does it prevent from happening. What is required to happen?

I'll bet that three different people will have five different definitions.

From TheVerge ...

Microsoft doesn't plan on making the same mistake twice: the company has made a public pledge that all of Nokia's Lumia Windows Phone 8 devices will be upgraded to the mobile version of Windows 10 when it's released. Responding to a customer's question on the topic, Microsoft tweeted, "We plan to upgrade all Windows Phone 8 devices to Windows 10 in the future." Microsoft's next big operating system remains in early development, so the company obviously isn't revealing details as to when that update will arrive.
http://www.theverge.com/2014/1...

Not for free is Google getting Moffett.

"In fact the lease gives Google unprecedented control of a federal facility to use as its own playground," said John M. Simpson, director of Consumer Watchdog's Privacy Project.

In fact the lease gives Google control of a federal white elephant in exchange for $19.3 million per year plus taxpayer savings of $6.3 million per year. Total $25.6 million to the good for taxpayers.

Proved that their hypothesis about the effect of big money on voting was wrong.

... very few tangible rewards and a fairly weird hierarchy ...

Sounds like the Roman Catholic Church. Possibly without the sex.

I want a home that cooks and cleans. Cooks and cleans. I can take care of the rest.

It has pushed back against inequality, essentially redistributing income ...

So it is an income redistribution plan. What we really need is a prosperity plan and other than getting out of the way, that is not something government can do.

... the last place you look.

But banks have long relied on ATMs, and grocery stores, including Walmart, have deployed self-service checkouts.

In both cases, automation has resulted in both better customer service and lower labor costs. A higher minimum wage has made the fast food industry finally get off the dime. So to speak.

Data From Windows 10 Feedback Tool Exposes Problem Areas.

It is now headline news when a software release works as designed.

Perhaps they should start with an annual walrus census (see story following this one).
 

Mass haulouts of Pacific walrus and stampede deaths are not new, not due to low ice cover
http://polarbearscience.com/20...

Large haulouts of walruses -- such as the one making news at Point Lay, Alaska on the Chukchi Sea (and which happened before back in 2009) -- are not a new phenomenon for this region over the last 45 years and thus cannot be due to low sea ice levels. Nor are deaths by stampede within these herds (composed primarily of females and their young) unusual, as a brief search of the literature reveals.

Includes references, links and copies of contemporary reports.

Isn't Sesame Street the original, and most successful, MOOC?

For another point of view ...

This week, Russ Roberts chatted with former Stanford professor and Coursera co-founder Daphne Koller about the present and future of online education.
http://www.econtalk.org/archiv...

Interestingly, six of Code.org's ten biggest donors are also Founders of Mark Zuckerberg's FWD.us tech immigration reform PAC.

Why is this interesting?