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Comment Re:The Rights of Nature (Score 2) 153

by newscloud (#36570212) Attached to: Proposing a Model For Locally Imposed Net Neutrality
Under the Clean Water Act, you only have legal standing to file a suit if you own property along a river or water system that's been damaged. You can only sue to recover monies equivalent to your loss e.g. you can no longer eat fish from the river. Monies recovered go to the Federal government, not to your local ecosystem for cleanup. With Rights for Nature, anyone shall have the authority to sue with an action in equity brought in a court of appropriate jurisdiction. See section 5b of the net neutrality ordinance.
The Internet

Submission + - Seattle Posts Model Ordinance for Net Neutrality (envisionseattle.org)

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newscloud
newscloud writes: "Envision Seattle has posted a model legal ordinance (pdf) for communities wishing to enshrine status quo net neutrality as law. The ordinance is co-authored by the legal group that helped Pittsburgh's city council ban fracking and corporate personhood last November. The concept of local municipalities defying FCC authority is troubling to some but the group counters that FCC authority actually violates certain rights that we hold as people, and the right to govern our own communities as an element of the right to community and local self-government. If we have a 'right to internet access' or a 'right to communicate' via these pathways, there are certain actions that can be taken by government which infringe on those rights. In our view, it's up to us to create these rights frameworks, and then enforce them at higher levels."

Submission + - IPv4 IANA free pool drops to 7 (2.7%) 1

Submitted by owendelong
owendelong writes: Today, IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority, the central registry that provides IP address blocks to the five Regional Internet Registries) issued 4 more /8s from the IPv4 free pool. Two went to ARIN and two to the RIPE-NCC (the RIRs for North America and Europe, respectively). This brings the global IPv4 free pool down to 7 /8s, 5 of which are reserved to be issued one each to the 5 RIRs when the other two are issued.

I expect that the other 2 will likely be issued to APNIC next month.

So, looks like the predictions that IPv4 free pool will go beyond 2010 may have been premature. As things currently stand, I expect IANA will be out of IPv4 somewhere around December 20th.

If you aren't already deploying IPv6 in your network, it's definitely time to start.
Microsoft

Submission + - Microsoft Exec to Head Washington Tax Department (microsofttaxdodge.com) 1

Submitted by reifman
reifman writes: After earning an effective $100 million annual tax cut earlier this year in the legislature, nine year Microsoft veteran Suzan DelBene will now head the state's Department of Revenue. DelBene is a marketing executive with no formal tax law experience. DelBene's husband is President of Microsoft's Office division. While it's not necessarily a bad thing to have a businessperson responsible for setting tax policy, I believe this signals a complete takeover at Revenue by Microsoft-connected interests. Washington State is currently facing a $5.7 billion deficit. DelBene's most recent accomplishment is her unsuccessful bid to unseat GOP Congressman Rep. Dave Reichert.
Google

Submission + - Twelve Gmail Ideas to Revolutionize Email (Again) (techflash.com)

Submitted by newscloud
newscloud writes: Is it just me or is the user interface and our approach to working with email mostly unchanged in the past 20 years? We have Gist that scouts my inbox to keep me updated on news about my contacts, but that's not really useful unless I'm in sales. Here are twelve ideas for taking gmail to the next level and trying to change the way we live and work with email. Some of my personal favorites include smart navigation (#2), biodegradable messages (#6), plan my meetings (#4) and give me back my evenings and weekends (#9).
Microsoft

Submission + - Gates' Dad's Initiative Would Tax Microsoft's Rich (nwsource.com)

Submitted by newscloud
newscloud writes: On Wednesday, 84 year old William Gates Sr., Bill Gates' father, announced a ballot initiative in Washington State to establish an income tax on high earners which would raise $1 billion for education and public health. Ironically, if the initiative passes (initial polls show 66% approval), Microsoft's employees earning more than $200,000 annually will be picking up the tab for the company's aggressive lobbying and tax tactics. Earlier this month, led by Rep. Ross Hunter, a 17 year former Microsoft manager, and assisted by last minute threats by Microsoft General Counsel Brad Smith, the Legislature gave Microsoft a $100 million annual tax cut and an estimated $1.25 billion amnesty on its 13 year Nevada tax dodge. To balance the state's $2.8 billion deficit, it cut $120 million from K-12 education and $73 million from university budgets. It also raised the general tax rate 20% on businesses and created new '7-11' taxes on the Average Joe on beer, soda and candy. Asked if his son was on board with the tax initiative, Gates Sr. said, improbably, they hadn't discussed it. 'I don't know what my son is going to do.

Submission + - Israel repeals iPad ban (haaretz.com)

Submitted by SillySilly
SillySilly writes: "The ban has been lifted: The Communications Ministry announced Saturday evening that starting Sunday it will allow Apple's iPad tablet computer into the country, following two weeks of confiscations and confusion."
Biotech

Submission + - Mapping the Fruit Fly Brain (sciencenews.org) 1

Submitted by Katatsumuri
Katatsumuri writes: A new computer-based technique is exploring uncharted territory in the fruit fly brain with cell-by-cell detail that can be built into networks for a detailed look at how neurons work together. The research may ultimately lead to a complete master plan of the entire fly brain. Mapping the estimated 100,000 neurons in a fly brain, and seeing how they interact to control behavior, will be a powerful tool for figuring out how the billions of neurons in the human brain work.

Submission + - Hasselblad cameras from 1957 get 39 Mepapixels (reghardware.co.uk)

Submitted by G3ckoG33k
G3ckoG33k writes: An article at The Register Hardware describes how Hasselblad film cameras dating back to 1957 can be brought to a new life using a digital "back-end" to get images at a super resolution of 39 Megapixels! The article writes "The CFV-39 digital back allows you to get those cameras out from the last century and use the V-System cameras with their beautiful glass once again, it simply fits in place of where the roll film used to be. Hasselblads have never been inexpensive, but talk about a return on investment. Here is a manufacturer looking after a fiercely loyal user-base and along with it offering what could be seen as the ultimate green camera system." Oh, by the way most pictures taken during the Apollo space program in the 1960s were taken with Hasselblad.

Submission + - Change in Experiment Will Delay Shuttle Launch

Submitted by necro81
necro81 writes: A $1.5 billion gamma ray experiment, the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, that was to have launched aboard the space shuttle Endeavor to the International Space Station in July, has undergone a last minute design change that will change the launch date, pushing back the end of the shuttle program by at least several months. The change replaces the original liquid helium-cooled superconducting magnet with a more conventional one, which will reduce the risks involved (superconducting magnets can be problematic — just ask CERN) and will greatly extend the useful life of the spectrometer (the liquid helium coolant would have boiled away within a few years of launch). Although the conventional electromagnet is only 1/5th as strong, its increased lifespan should allow for substantially more science to be conducted, especially considering the ISS's extended mission life. As the change is still underway, the impact to the final shuttle schedule is not fully known.

Submission + - x264 Project Announces Blu-ray Encoding Support (multimedia.cx) 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The x264 project has announced the first free software encoder to be able to generate Blu-ray compliant video. In addition, the announcement comes with a torrent of an x264-encoded Blu-ray disc containing entirely free content, such as the Open Movie Project videos. While there are still no free software Blu-ray authoring tools, hopefully this will change now that video and audio are taken care of so that everyone will be able to make their own Blu-rays without expensive proprietary software. Additionally, it seems the Criterion Collection is a friend of free software, having sponsored the effect to confirm x264's compliance with the Blu-ray spec.
User Journal

Journal Journal: partially-delayed write RAID 1 for hybrid storage? 2

Journal by drinkypoo

I'm using a netbook with a very slow hard disk (for a hard disk) and an even slower flash memory reader. I'd like to be able to have a RAID1 that was oriented more towards performance than data integrity, though it would provide benefits for the latter as well. The idea is to both read and write to whichever disk is not currently busy. Is anyone out there experimenting with anything like this? I wouldn't imagine I'd be able to pick it up and run it today, but it sounds cool, so I'm curious. I

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