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Al Franken Makes a Case For Net Neutrality 604

Posted by Soulskill from the put-the-swiss-in-charge dept.
jomama717 writes "In a post titled 'The Most Important Free Speech Issue of Our Time' this morning on The Huffington Post, Senator Al Franken lays down a powerful case for net neutrality, as well as a grim scenario if the current draft regulations being considered by the FCC are accepted. Quoting: 'The good news is that the Federal Communications Commission has the power to issue regulations that protect net neutrality. The bad news is that draft regulations written by FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski don't do that at all. They're worse than nothing. That's why Tuesday is such an important day. The FCC will be meeting to discuss those regulations, and we must make sure that its members understand that allowing corporations to control the Internet is simply unacceptable. Although Chairman Genachowski's draft Order has not been made public, early reports make clear that it falls far short of protecting net neutrality.'"
Crime

Assange Secret Swedish Police Report Leaked 840

Posted by CmdrTaco from the nothing-is-sacred dept.
letsurock writes "The 68-page confidential report prepared by Swedish police got leaked which tells the police version on the alleged sexual misconduct by the Julian assange. The Swedish report traces events over a four-day period in August this year when 39-year-old Assange had what he has described as consensual sexual relationships with two Swedish women."

Comment Re:Nobody bothers to read the original opinion pol (Score 1) 1352

by Keebler71 (#34584174) Attached to: Survey Shows That Fox News Makes You Less Informed
What astonishes me, is that lefty commentors here on slashdot appear to have read a drastically distorted and incorrect news story, then swallowed it whole, without any criticism or research, all the while believing that they are open minded, critical, and better-informed than the stupid people who watch Fox.

you must be new here...

Comment Re:One More Bush Era Screw Up (Score 2, Informative) 410

by Keebler71 (#34543340) Attached to: EPA Knowingly Allowed Pesticide That Kills Bees

One more example of how Bush and his greedy incompetent Republican asshats have screwed everybody. This stuff is used because of a conditional waiver that was issued in 2003, against the scientific advices of the experts.

It's just like the BP Gulf oil spill and the coal mine explosion in West Virginia. There are systems in place to protect people and the environment, but when the Republicans gain control they stop all oversight. It takes five to fifteen years to see all the failures, and by then everyone forgets who turned over control to the crooks and lairs.

They just wave the flag, blame everything on the government bureaucrats and illegal aliens, scream about the war on terror, and then lie and deny when the shit hits the fan. I guess as long as these morons continue to lie and cheat their way into power we deserve to have poisoned gulf seafood and the end of flowering crops.

Don't worry, you can just consume more high fructose processed food and get diabetes. The corn/agribusiness lobby will continue to do just fine with their massive tax breaks and government subsidies, and they're so rich that they can afford imported fruits and vegetables. If you get sick and loose your health care you can crawl off and die, and that will solve them problem.

Pssstttttt.... 15 years before the events you cited... Clinton was president.

Comment Re:Regardless (Score 4, Informative) 742

by Keebler71 (#34369582) Attached to: What To Load On a 4-Year-Old's Netbook?
Install Windows Steady State on the machine after you set it up and before you give it to him. It is designed for places like computer labs, libraries, schools, etc... that don't want kids or malicious user wrecking too much havoc. Lots of features but the gist is you have full control over what users can do (by account), how long they can be online, what drives and resources they have access to, etc. There is even a rudimentary site blocker so you can allow playhouse disney, or whatever kids sites you know are safe without letting them have free reign over the net or having to manage this at the firewall. Highly recommend it.

Comment Re:Oh piss off (Score 1) 322

by Keebler71 (#33990272) Attached to: US Presidential Nuclear Codes 'Lost For Months'

Maybe if you stop watching Fox News, you'd notice the leaders portrayed as demonic figures bent on bringing hell on earth are actually very pragmatic people and that's exactly why they manage to stay in power.

Well, yeah, *that* and election fraud.

p.s. I actually get most of my news from NPR, with some CNN, BBC, CSM and others thrown in. Somehow I doubt you actually take in the "other sides'" 'news' sources and just wallow in your own intellectual filth.
Google

How Good Software Makes Us Stupid 385

Posted by CmdrTaco from the i-are-not-dum dept.
siliconbits writes "The BBC has an interesting article about how ever improving software damages our ability to think innovatively. 'Search engines' function of providing us with information almost instantly means people are losing their intellectual capacity to store information, Nicolas Carr said.' This sadly convinced some journos to come up with wildfire titles such as 'Google damages users' brains, author claims.'"

Best Way To Archive Emails For Later Searching? 385

Posted by timothy from the shrink-wrap-them-and-use-sandwich-bags dept.
An anonymous reader writes "I have kept every email I have ever sent or received since 1990, with the exception of junk mail (though I kept a lot of that as well). I have migrated my emails faithfully from Unix mail, to Eudora, to Outlook, to Thunderbird and Entourage, though I have left much of the older stuff in Outlook PST files. To make my life easier I would now like to merge all the emails back into a single searchable archive — just because I can. But there are a few problems: a) Moving them between email systems is SLOW; while the data is only a few GB, it is hundred of thousands of emails and all of the email systems I have tried take forever to process the data. b) Some email systems (i.e. Outlook) become very sluggish when their database goes over a certain size. c) I don't want to leave them in a proprietary database, as within a few years the format becomes unsupported by the current generation of the software. d) I would like to be able to search the full text, keep the attachments, view HTML emails correctly and follow email chains. e) Because I use multiple operating systems, I would prefer platform independence. f) Since I hope to maintain and add emails for the foreseeable future, I would like to use some form of open standard. So, what would you recommend?"

Comment Re:It's all BS (Score 1) 272

by Keebler71 (#33428200) Attached to: EPA Proposes Grading System For Car Fuel Economy
But your quiz is *not* representative of all car buying scenarios... much more often the scenario is as follows:

My family owns *two* cars, an SUV that gets 15 MPG and sedan that gets 25 MPG. Should I replace the SUV with a hybrid SUV that gets 25 MPG or the sedan with one that gets 45 MPG?

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It's a naive, domestic operating system without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.

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