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Submission + - US court rules against FCC on `net neutrality' (yahoo.com)

Submitted by PoliTech
PoliTech writes: "A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that the Federal Communications Commission lacks the authority to require broadband providers to give equal treatment to all Internet traffic flowing over their networks."

Submission + - Net Neutrality takes a major hit (nytimes.com)

Submitted by jvaigl
jvaigl writes: From the New York Times article:

A federal appeals court has ruled that the Federal Communications Commission lacks the authority to require broadband providers to give equal treatment to all Internet traffic flowing over their networks.

Tuesday's ruling by the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia is a big victory for the Comcast Corporation, the nation's largest cable company. It had challenged the F.C.C.'s authority to impose so called 'net neutrality' obligations.

Comment Re:Nothing new here (Score 2, Insightful) 1252

by SgtPepperKSU (#31119296) Attached to: Texas Textbooks Battle Is Actually an American War

Why would anyone on either side have the least fear of having the other side presented [in Science class]?

I fear that it will produce people (eg, you) that confuse science and philosophy. They are very different subjects and shouldn't be conflated.

The fact that I believe that the currently presiding Theory of Evolution more accurately explains the observational fact that evolution exists has no bearing on that.

Even if Intelligent Design (Creationism) is 100% accurate, it should be taught in a philosophy course (I took a philosophy of religion course in college and rather enjoyed it). When you start presenting unscientific ideas as science, you begin on a path that results in nothing but people unable to produce (or even discern) logical ideas.

I think that is a very rational reason for "fear" of this type of thing.
Businesses

Submission + - Circuit City To Close All Stores (nytimes.com)

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ChrisAM
ChrisAM writes: "Just last week, Circuit City — which has some 30,000 employees and 567 stores — was in talks with two potential buyers, but it was unable to reach a timely agreement with its creditors and lenders. "We are extremely disappointed by this outcome," said James A. Marcum, vice chairman and acting president and chief executive of Circuit City Stores Inc. He called the liquidation "the only possible path for our company.""
Businesses

Submission + - Circuit City To Liquidate All 567 Stores (washingtonpost.com)

Submitted by
damn_registrars
damn_registrars writes: "American electronics retailer Circuit City filed for chapter 11 back in November. Now it is announced that they will be liquidating all of their assets and closing all of their stores beginning as soon as tomorrow.

People who have been following this story may also recall there was talk of a Circuit City — Blockbuster merger not long ago, which never materialized."
Security

Submission + - Facebook and PGP (sans.org) 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: SANS Internet storm center writes: "Facebook has taken a step in the right direction by adding the ability to add a link to your public PGP key. It also allows you to see which of your friends have keys. Hopefully it will also spread the word about PGP and allow for a more secure/safer social networking site. Granted, with PGP, there is a level of trust needed. However, it is still a step in the right direction and affords the benefit of no need to go searching public key servers looking for the key you need." Link to said application: http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?api_key=a98cc1399afbb000b568826ba5e0eecb

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