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Comment Re:Resistance? What resistance? (Score 1) 153

'Ken Johnson, the company’s vice president and chief technology officer, said his company’s not much interested in hanging its wires up high with power lines. “It’s just much more cumbersome,” he said.' They're talking about a /cable/ company, not a /fiber/ company. You don't put coax next to power lines. Power lines do not interfere with fiber.
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Submission + - Louis CK's Internet Experiment Pays Off (ibtimes.com) 3

redletterdave writes: "Comedian Louis C.K., real name Louis Szekely, took a major risk by openly selling his latest stand-up special, "Louis C.K. Live at the Beacon Theater," for only $5 on his website and refusing to put any DRM restrictions on the video, which made it easily susceptible to pirating and torrenting. Four days later, Louis CK's goodwill experiment has already paid off: The 44-year-old comic now reports making a profit of about $200,000, after banking more than $500,000 in revenue from the online-only sale. The special, which has sold 110,000 copies so far, is only available on Louis CK's website."

Submission + - Attorney General: Voter ID laws hurt minorities (politico.com)

Reverand Dave writes: Under increasing pressure from civil rights groups to take action against a wave of state voter identification laws, Attorney General Eric Holder issued a public warning Tuesday that the new laws could disenfranchise minority voters, but he stopped short of promising the broad legal crackdown many activists are seeking.

"It is time to ask: What kind of nation and what kind of people do we want to be? Are we willing to allow this era, our era to be remembered as the age when our nation's proud tradition of expanding the franchise ended? Holder said in a speech at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum in Austin, Texas. Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1211/70400.html#ixzz1gWYHrfsE

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Submission + - Is NTSB call for ban on electronics for drivers re (itworld.com)

bdking writes: In a country where cellphones are as prevalent as drivers' licenses and vehicles, is it possible for states to effectively ban the use of electronic devices while behind the wheel, as the National Transportation Safety Board recommends? Or would it be just as futile as trying to stop drunk driving when there's a bar and happy hour on every corner and alcohol is sold in convenience stores?

Comment Re:Ha ha ha (Score 0) 436

Let's replace the people with their roles in an actual ponzi scheme:

"current beneficiaries are getting paid by current investors, and current investors are hoping to get paid by future investors. SS doesn't have any books, all of the funds are fake, they are moving fungible money back and forward"

Comment Re:It's about time (Score 1) 379

The EPA doesn't do anything about CO2 and global warming - they just regulate smoke stack scrubbers, which scrub out non-greenhouse gas emissions only (soot, etc)... Which means that the otherwise reflective cloud from the smoke stacks don't exist anymore and the greenhouse gases that are emitted are more effective at heating up the atmosphere. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_evaporation#Decreasing_Trend_of_Pan_Evaporation

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