FCC's New Broadband Plan Prioritizes Competition 71

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday December 16, 2009 @09:45PM from the plan-of-the-man dept.

adeelarshad82 writes "The Federal Communications Commission has released an outline of what might be included in its upcoming national broadband plan, and encouraging competition was a top priority. The FCC statement said 'Competition drives innovation and provides consumer choice. Finding ways to better use existing assets, including Universal Service, rights-of-way, spectrum, and others, will be essential to the success of the plan. The limited government funding that is available for broadband would be best used when leveraged with the private sector.' The stimulus plan provided $7.2 billion in broadband grants and $350 million for a broadband mapping program, but also directed the FCC to deliver a national broadband plan to Congress by February 17, 2010."

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Comment My Ubuntu 9.10 problems (Score 1) 1231

by Oliver_Etchebarne on Tuesday November 03, 2009 @07:34PM (#29970742) Attached to: Some Early Adopters Stung By Ubuntu's Karmic Koala

This is my list of issues I had installing Karmik Koala from scratch:

- First time I ran the installer, kernel panic (keyboard leds blinking)
- Totem said I didn't have the codecs to see DVD, but it didn't suggest me to install them nor gave me any info about which codec I needed. Automatic DVD reproduction shows a weird "not handle for URI" error.
- Empathy crashes alot. It doesn't have MSN emoticons, can't sent file drag'n'dropping like Pidgin.
- I hated that non-skinnable GDM from Fedora, now Ubuntu uses it :-P
- I created a second admin account, I cannot log in with it, crashes with "Could not update ICEautority", and a bunch of other messages, showing only the wallpaper and the mouse pointer.

I've just reinstall 9.04, and I keep installing that version until 10.04 shows the light, hopping I'll be better. This version is the "Windows ME" of Ubuntu :-P

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Facebook Lets Advertisers Use Pictures Without Permission 260

Posted by kdawson on Saturday July 25, 2009 @05:56PM from the controlling-rights-to-your-face dept.

Krokz sends in an LA Times piece that begins "A warning is bouncing through cyberspace today, landing on the Facebook statuses of many of the social networking site's users. The message: 'Facebook has agreed to let third party advertisers use your posted pictures without your permission.' It continues with a prescription of how you can protect your photos." The attention-grabbing incident in this furor involved a married woman, whose photo appeared in an ad for a dating service that was presented to her husband to view. Fortunately, both husband and wife had a sense of humor about it.

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Teacher Sells Ads On Tests 532

Posted by samzenpus on Tuesday December 02, 2008 @02:37PM from the pay-the-bills dept.

Tom Farber, a calculus teacher at Rancho Bernardo high school in San Diego, has come up with a unique way of covering district cuts to his supplies budget. He sells ads on his tests. "Tough times call for tough actions," Tom says. The price of an ad on a Mr. Farber Calc test is as follows: $10 for a quiz, $20 for a chapter test, and $30 for a semester final. Most of the ads are messages from parents but about a third of them come from local businesses. Principal Paul Robinson says reaction has been "mixed," but adds, "It's not like, 'This test is brought to you by McDonald's or Nike.'" I see his point. Being a local business whore is much better than being a multinational conglomerate whore.

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Saudi Arabia Begins To Realize Supercomputer Ambitions 191

Posted by timothy on Friday September 26, 2008 @01:58AM from the ooh-how-sheik dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Saudi Arabia is building a supercomputer that could rank among the 10 most powerful systems in the world. And the country isn't stopping there. It has plans to turn this marquee system for the Middle East into a petascale system in two years, and, beyond that, an exascale system."

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Comment America (Score 1) 180

by Oliver_Etchebarne on Friday June 15, 2007 @07:17PM (#19526563) Attached to: YouTube to Host Presidential Debate

You and I (assuming you're American, probably)

Yeah, but in Perú (South America), we don`t care so much about it.

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Protein Gel Quickly Stops Bleeding 167

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday October 10, 2006 @05:40PM from the hot-to-clot dept.

Stefan vd Linden writes, "An international team of scientists has discovered a substance to heal bleeding wounds within seconds. They're using a solution of protein molecules that self-organizes into a biodegradable gel. Until now they've only tested it on animals, but the tests were highly successful. From the article: 'Some surgeons are already excited about the material. "I see great potential in the eye field, the gastro-intestinal field, and in neurosurgery," says Dimitri Azar, head of ophthalmology at the University of Illinois at Chicago, US. "In the eye, even a drop of blood will blur your vision for a long time," Azar adds. "A material that would stop the bleeding could lead to a paradigm shift in how we practice surgery in the eye."'"

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Journal Journal: Bienvenidos

Journal by Oliver_Etchebarne on Friday March 07, 2003 @02:54PM

Hi. This is my first journal post. I'm now at Seminis on my "office" (it's the Server Room. I live at 18C every hour, every day). Yesterday, a Telephone Central was installed. I recently hacked it, and now I have my own extension :-P My boss liked the idea to being able to call me more easy, so now I have the 116 number :)

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