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Submission + - FCC chief proposes free internet

Submitted by

marley

on Saturday August 23, 2008 @10:59PM

marley writes: "WASHINGTON, Aug. 20 (UPI) — A U.S. government official says high-speed Internet access should be available to all residents even if that means providing it free of charge. Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin says the government has a social obligation to make sure everybody can participate in the next generation of broadband services, USA Today reported Wednesday.

Full (short) story here.

I wonder if Canada would follow suit."

Combat Pilots May Get Viagra 5

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday February 07, 2008 @01:55PM

Israel is considering giving its combat pilots Viagra to improve their performance in the air. A study by Israeli doctors of mountain climbers in Africa found a correlation between erectile dysfunction drugs and improved performance in high altitudes. It looks like this already tough job is about to get a lot harder.

Comment Page Validation Firefox Plugin (Score 1) 555

by citizenc on Wednesday December 19, 2007 @11:23PM (#21760602) Attached to: IE 8 Passes Acid2 Test

a small, unobtrusive icon that was green and happy for a good page, or red and frowny for a bad.

Assuming you run Firefox, check out the HTML Validator extension, which appears to do exactly what you want.

If only it came standard! =)

Submission + - Jack Thompson responds to ArsTechnica

Submitted by

interactive_civilian

on Sunday March 18, 2007 @07:12AM

interactive_civilian writes: "Jack Thompson has personally replied to ArsTechnica regarding their coverage of the lawsuit from TakeTwo. Using his impressive depth of knowledge of legalese, he describes TakeTwo's move as "so dumb, even dumber than what they have to date done" and then goes on to quote the Bible."

Submission + - Microsoft pays companies to use LiveSearch

Submitted by

tsa

on Sunday March 18, 2007 @05:48AM

tsa writes: "On John Battelle's Searchblog there is a piece about how Microsoft pays companies to not only have them use MS's Live Search engine, but also get information about the amount of users and PC's in the company. Companies get paid a fee per PC. The height of the fee depends on the usage of the MS LiveSearch engine. The use of IE7 is mandatory for this, because MS wants the companies to use a plugin for this browser to be able to keep track of the user's searching habits. If you ask me, this is bribery."

Submission + - High School Student Builds Fusion Reactor

Submitted by

deblau

on Sunday March 18, 2007 @03:03AM

deblau writes: "In 2006 Thiago Olson joined the extremely sparse ranks of amateurs worldwide who have achieved nuclear fusion with a home apparatus. In other words, he built the business end of a hydrogen bomb in his basement. A bright plasma "star in a jar" demonstrated his success. "The temperature of the plasma is around 200 million degrees," Olson says modestly, "several times hotter than the core of the sun.""

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