It seems like it's yearly now that Sony comes out with some apology or explanation about why they suck along promises to do better. They never do. They already apologized for having crappy software like six years ago.
Fool me once, shame on me, fool me ninety-nine times and
I'm interested in what Google will allow on their network. As I understand it, they want to see what creative things people will do with gigabit connections in their homes. Does that mean Google will allow people to run their own webservers, etc? I'm also interested in learning some of the things that Google *thinks* people might do with such speedy connections.
My state has a fiber optic network but most cities have banned it because Comcast successfully lobbied against it as "unfair competition." I guess it takes someone as big as Google to overcome that sort of thing.
Say your neighbor is running a meth lab in his basement. In order to combat this, the government passes a new law that no meth houses can have street numbers. A police officer comes by and removes the numbers from your neighbor's house.
Does the meth lab still pose a risk to your neighborhood? Has the law successfully addressed the flow of meth into your community?
This is how SOPA works. The government takes away a server's street number (domain name). The server is still there, and anyone who knows where to find it can still find it. If it happens enough, then the people just come up with their own address system and start ignoring the one that the government controls.
That's pretty straight forward isn't it?
The site to get the eBook is down. If only The Pirate party had access to some kind of distributed download system that could handle the traffic...
I'll trust Google to figure out how to make information easier to find. That's their job and so far they've been pretty damn good at it. Twitter sucks at search.
I had programming classes once a week through much of elementary school which was in the 80's. We did LOGO(?) and some very small amount of BASIC.
I assumed some amount of programming has remained a part of the curriculum but I guess not? Seems odd in 2011 not the be showing elementary students how to manipulate the most important inventions of the modern world.
Read his statement on NDAA and SOPA here and see if you agree: http://peteashdown.org/journal/2012/01/06/ndaa-sopa-and-upcoming-volunteer-meetin/
Pete Ashdown isn't running for president, but he is running for a senate seat against that epic ass clown Orrin Hatch. He started the best ISP I've ever used here in Utah and has run for congress before with a very tech-savvy platform and utilized cool technologies in his campaign.
Check him out: http://peteashdown.org/
In my mind getting rid of Orrin Hatch and getting Pete Ashdown to replace him is killing two birds with one stone.
So could they manufacture sperm from women? Imagine the possibilities!
The problem with congress is not that they lack good information or sources for good information. If we reinstate the office of technological assessment, it will simply add to the voices of industry people who are already there. However, the real problem (the money), will still be there, and the senators will still vote whichever way the company who makes generous donations to their campaign dictates.
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