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FCC Declares Intention To Enforce Net Neutrality 343

Unequivocal writes "The FCC chairman, Julius Genachowski, told Congress today that the 'Federal Communications Commission plans to keep the Internet free of increased user fees based on heavy Web traffic and slow downloads. ...Genachowski... told The Hill that his agency will support "net neutrality" and go after anyone who violates its tenets. "One thing I would say so that there is no confusion out there is that this FCC will support net neutrality and will enforce any violation of net neutrality principles," Genachowski said when asked what he could do in his position to keep the Internet fair, free and open to all Americans. The statement by Genachowski comes as the commission remains locked in litigation with Comcast. The cable provider is appealing a court decision by challenging the FCC's authority to penalize the company for limiting Web traffic to its consumers.' It looks like the good guys are winning, unless the appeals court rules against the FCC."

Comment Re:Nuisance of free software (Score 1) 259

TBH the cost for game development has sky rocked... The uncanny valley is an expensive one. Developers and Artists need to be paid, and the only real incoming funds are from the publishers, and we have all seen what publishers have done to the game development industry. Ad revenue for a developing game or one that has servers to upkeep makes monetary sense, even though they are moderately annoying.

Honestly I'd like to see the 2d side scrolling exploration games like Metroid or Castlevania come back, but I don't see it happening. The idiot masses drool for higher and higher graphics each year at the expense of game play.

Comment Re:A New Criteria? (Score 3, Interesting) 222

Or a bisolar system, however the radiation levels and orbits may be too chaotic in such system.

Just to put things in perspective, Jupiter is about 9/1000 the mass of the sun. However I would point to the multitude of our gas giants. Saturn is about 2/1000 the mass of the sun, which is also significant. The other two gas giants are significantly smaller. I'd say the existence of gas giants within the carbon--water habitable zone can provide safe harbors for life as well. But I'd say a stable environment in any case is good for any sort of life form, allowing time for them to adapt without being destroyed by physics mechanics.

Comment Re:Woo Hoo!!! (Score 1) 173

I'm saying if you bought a new desktop PC in the last 3 years, you have a 64 processor. Whether you decide to run 64bit on it because of the lack of 64bit support by closed source developers, thats your decision. I was also including ARM and PPC in the set too, although I'm not sure the program would run on many of the Arm devices due to processing requirements.

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