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WSJ Says Gov't Money Injection Won't Help Broadband 647

Posted by timothy from the at-least-they-can-pay-with-free-money dept.
olddotter writes "According to the WSJ, The US government is about to spend $10 Billion to make little difference in US broadband services: 'More fundamentally, nothing in the legislation would address the key reason that the US lags so far behind other countries. This is that there is an effective broadband duopoly in the US, with most communities able to choose only between one cable company and one telecom carrier. It's this lack of competition, blessed by national, state and local politicians, that keeps prices up and services down.' Get ready for USDA certified Grade A broadband."

Comment Re:Sudden Peace? (Score 1) 1067

by tux_attack (#26355841) Attached to: In the next 12 months, the Middle East will be ...
1. That plan took what was a free, independent state and began carving it up for no reason at all, the Palestinians hadn't run the holocaust.
2. Israel didn't accept the plan either and began carrying out offesive operations in the no man's land.

The Jewish militias continued to make plans for the construction of airfields and carried-out offensive operations, like the one against Deir Yassin, within the area of the proposed UN trusteeship (the Corpus Separatum)

Link

Shorty after that Israel went to war and began expanding beyond any specified boundaries, pushing the palestineans into refugee camps etc.

Comment Re:MOD PARENT UP (Score 1) 1067

by tux_attack (#26355727) Attached to: In the next 12 months, the Middle East will be ...
I fully echo your sentiment.
It should be noted though, that Arabic cultures are semeitc too. Sadly, the term seems to have been appropriated by Zionists to label all their enemies as nazis in accordance with Godwin's law.
Since you are supporting the basic human rights of the Arabs you are semetic and can't be an anti-semite.

Maybe you could join an anti-treating people like shit organization, I'll join too.

Comment Re:Sudden Peace? (Score 1) 1067

by tux_attack (#26355621) Attached to: In the next 12 months, the Middle East will be ...
Mod parent up.

BTW, the Israeli assault has resulted in the deaths of 107 children.
I fail to understand how anyone can rationalize such atrocities. The Isreali's have bomb shelters and warning systems in place so deaths are rare. The Gazans have no such shelter and so whole families get killed by American made, Israeli operated warplanes.
More complete death-count comparison here

Paraphrase:

It's called proportional response, people. Civilized nations use it

You're making quite a few assumptions about the nation/government we're dealing with here.
(read: Israeli government is a mess of religious war-hawks)
Privacy

UK Police To Step Up Hacking of Home PCs 595

Posted by kdawson from the must-be-ok-if-the-good-guys-do-it dept.
toomanyairmiles writes "The Times of London reports that the United Kingdom's Home Office has quietly adopted a new plan to allow police across Britain to routinely hack into people's personal computers without a warrant. The move, which follows a decision by the European Union's council of ministers in Brussels, has angered civil liberties groups and opposition MPs. They described it as a sinister extension of the surveillance state that drives 'a coach and horses' through privacy laws."
GNU is Not Unix

Stallman On the State of Free Software 25 Years On 367

Posted by Soulskill from the industry-of-free dept.
TRNick writes "What's the state of free software, 25 years after GNU's birth? TechRadar has an interview with Richard Stallman to find out. Stallman thinks free software is making good progress: 'Nowadays hardware developers are also increasingly likely to publish the interface specs so that we can develop free software that works with the hardware. Perhaps we are turning the corner, but we still have a big fight on our hands before all computer users have freedom.' But how many of us actually run an operating system that Richard Stallman would consider free? Many of the more popular GNU/Linux distributions, including Mandriva and Ubuntu, bundle proprietary code with their free software packages. Perhaps free software has reached a large enough install base that companies are happy to use it for their own gain, but aren't quite so willing to make their own commitments to free software development. How important this is to the success of free software depends on how strong your stance is on freedom is."
NASA

Obama Moves To Link Pentagon With NASA 491

Posted by Soulskill from the thought-they-wanted-to-save-money dept.
Amiga Trombone sends this quote from the beginning of a story at Bloomberg: "President-elect Barack Obama will probably tear down long-standing barriers between the US's civilian and military space programs to speed up a mission to the moon amid the prospect of a new space race with China. Obama's transition team is considering a collaboration between the Defense Department and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration because military rockets may be cheaper and ready sooner than the space agency's planned launch vehicle, which isn't slated to fly until 2015, according to people who've discussed the idea with the Obama team."
Security

Do the SSL Watchmen Watch Themselves? 171

Posted by Soulskill from the barbers-with-a-good-haircut dept.
StrongestLink writes "In an intriguing twist on the recent Comodo CA vulnerability discussed here last week, security researcher Mike Zusman today revealed that three days prior to StartCom's disclosure of a flaw in a Comodo reseller's registration process, he discovered and disclosed an authentication bypass flaw to StartCom in their own registration process that allowed an attacker to submit an authorized request for any domain. During a month which was marked by the continuing paradigm shift to SSL-verified holiday shopping, the Chain of Trust continues to run off the gears, and Bruce Schneier is even commenting publicly that SSL's site validation mission isn't even relevant. What lies ahead for the billion-dollar CA industry?"
Security

Firefox 2.0 Update To Remove Phishing Detection 351

Posted by kdawson from the way-past-time-to-update dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Computerworld and others are reporting that Firefox 2.0.0.19, the last security update to be released before 2.0 goes end-of-life, will remove the phishing detection at the request of Google. The browser is using an older version of the Safe Browsing protocol that Google will discontinue. According to the latest NetApplications report, about 25% of all Firefox users were still on version 2.0. This move ought to result in an increased adoption of Firefox 3.0 and other browsers, unless it goes unnoticed by most users."
Networking

China's .cn Now the Second Most Popular TLD 86

Posted by Soulskill from the more-the-merrier dept.
darthcamaro writes "In case you needed further proof of China's breakneck pace of growth on the web, InternetNews is reporting on data from Verisign that the .cn Top Level Domain (TLD) has now become the second biggest TLD worldwide, surpassing Germany's .de and second only to .com. The number of .cn sites grew by 76 percent in 2008, which is significantly more growth than .com and .net, which only grew by 16 percent combined. A graph in the Verisign report (PDF) shows how quickly China's internet presence has grown in the past two years."

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