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Federal Officials and YouTube Nearing a Deal 80

GovTechGuy writes "The federal government is on the verge of reaching an agreement with YouTube that would allow agencies to make official use of the popular video-sharing service. A coalition of federal agencies led by the General Service Administration's Office of Citizen Services has been negotiating with Google, YouTube's parent company, since summer 2008 on new terms that would allow agencies to establish their own channels on the site. Agencies have not been [allowed] to post videos to YouTube (although many already have) because under the current terms of service, people who post content are subject to their state's libel laws. Federal agencies must adhere to federal law. On Tuesday, government officials said the negotiations were 'very close' to being completed."

Comment Re:BeOS Haiku (Score 1) 448

It seems to me that the vast majority of the people propagating this concept that we should all be waging war against Microsoft aren't the ones actually doing any coding. From what I can tell most of the Linux kernel devs and pretty much any of the devs from the BSDs couldn't give a shit less what Microsoft is doing.

Comment Re:BeOS Haiku (Score 5, Insightful) 448

We need to unite against Microsoft, the dominant power.

No, we don't have to do any such thing. Why is it that just because someone develops an alternate OS that it has to be used as a tool to fight against Microsoft? Not everyone who doesn't use Windows is doing so because they are trying to fight against Microsoft. This always comes up whenever someone mentions the many distros of Linux that everyone should unite cause we are supposed to be waging some "epic" battle against Microsoft, but many of us just don't give a shit about your stupid "war". Take your stupid battles somewhere else and leave the rest of us out of it so we can get on with coding.

Comment Re:An OS with no browser? (Score 1) 422

There is nothing in this decision which stops an OEM from installing any browser they want on top of the OS just like they do with countless other things. This decision has to do with breaking the integration of IE with the Windows OS not that an OEM can't preinstall a browser (even IE) on to a box that they sell. Please tell me you aren't really that daft.

Comment Re:Cognitive dissonance... (Score 1) 647

And yet in other countries, as TFA also points out, it is competition and NOT regulation which has delivered high speeds at low prices or 13 cents in Japan and 33 cents in France as opposed to $3 in the United States per million bits/second.

No, what got those inexpensive broadband speeds in places like Japan, South Korea, etc are huge government investments in infrastructure spending on getting a wide coverage for broadband. If such investments weren't ever made they wouldn't be as much ahead of the game as they are.

Comment Re:Cognitive dissonance... (Score 5, Informative) 647

Actually the article had an anti-net neutrality bent which would put it against many slashdotters.

The House bill also calls for "open access." This phrase can include hugely controversial topics such as net neutrality, which in its most radical version would bar providers from charging different amounts for different kinds of broadband content. Now that video, conferencing and other heavy-bandwidth applications are growing in popularity, price needs to be one tool for allocating scarce resources. Analysts at Medley Global Advisors warn that if these provisions remain in the bill, "it will keep most broadband providers out of the applicant pool" for the funds intended specifically for them.

Television

CBS Hosts Ad-Funded TV Series, Incl. Original Star Trek 276

eldavojohn writes "On Friday, CBS launched a TV Classics section to their ad based online service. Which means that Trekkies can now watch all three seasons of Star Trek: The Original Series online at the expense of a few commercials. Alongside this CBS is offering all of MacGyver, Twin Peaks and even three seasons of the original Twilight Zone. A side note, they seem to work perfectly fine in Linux. "

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