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FAA Plans to Clean Up the Skies 249

Posted by samzenpus from the fly-the-clean-and-friendly-skies dept.
coondoggie writes "On top of its recently announced plan to reduce flight delays, Federal Aviation Administration officials today launched what they hope will be pan U.S. and European Union joint action plan to cut greenhouse gas emissions from aircraft. Specifically the group announced the Atlantic Interoperability Initiative to Reduce Emissions or AIRE — the first large-scale environmental plan aimed at uniting aviation players from both sides of the Atlantic."
Enlightenment

Submission + - How Uses, Not Innovations, Drive Human Technology

Submitted by Strudelkugel
Strudelkugel writes: The NewYorker magazine has book review describing our common misunderstanding of the value of technology and its ultimate use: "The way we think about technology tends to elide the older things, even though the texture of our lives would be unrecognizable without them. And when we do consider technology in historical terms we customarily see it as a driving force of progress: every so often, it seems, an innovation — the steam engine, electricity, computers — brings a new age into being. In "The Shock of the Old: Technology and Global History Since 1900", by David Edgerton, a well-known British historian of modern military and industrial technology, offers a vigorous assault on this narrative. He thinks that traditional ways of understanding technology, technological change, and the role of technology in our lives, have been severely distorted by what he calls "the innovation-centric account" of technology." This is also the first /. topic I know of that is linked to the NewYorker magazine!
The Courts

Submission + - Canadian Politicians Demand DMCA

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Michael Geist is reporting that a Canadian parliamentary committee has demanded that the government establish a Canadian DMCA. The demand, which comes in a study on counterfeiting and piracy released on Wednesday night, recommends ratification of the WIPO Internet treaties, increasing damage awards for copyright infringement, create new offences for selling modification devices, and encourage prosecutors to seek jail time for piracy violations.
Biotech

Scientists Move Closer to Human Therapeutic Cloning 136

Posted by samzenpus from the send-the-therapeutic-you-to-work-day dept.
"Human therapeutic cloning has moved a step closer after U.S. researchers said they had successfully created embryonic stem cells from monkey embryos. Scientists told a stem cell research conference in Cairns this week that they had successfully created two batches of embryonic stem cells from cloned rhesus monkey embryos."
Google

Google's New Lobbying Power in Washington 167

Posted by samzenpus from the one-nation-under-google dept.
*SECADM writes "Learning from Microsoft's error, Google is building a lobbying power house in Washington." From the Washington Post article: Two years ago, Google was on the verge of making that Microsoft-like error. Davidson, then a 37-year-old former deputy director of the Center for Democracy & Technology, was the search-engine company's sole staff lobbyist in Washington. As recently as last year, Google co-founder Sergey Brin had trouble getting meetings with members of Congress. To change that, Google went on a hiring spree and now has 12 lobbyists and lobbying-related professionals on staff here — more than double the size of the standard corporate lobbying office — and is continuing to add people.
User Journal

Journal Journal: Well.... what now?

Journal by HolyGadzooks!
So... This marks the first entry in my /. journal. Have i just lost my virginity? Meanwhile, Leonard Cohen sings in the background, and outside it is just another cold Beijing winter...

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