Comment this isnt new (Score 2) 139
a ton of programs and websites transmit your stuff in clear text. this isnt new.
GE Closes Last US Light Bulb Factory 797
pickens writes "The Washington Post reports that last major GE factory making ordinary incandescent light bulbs in the US is closing this month, marking a small, sad exit for a product and company that can trace their roots to Thomas Alva Edison's innovations in the 1870s. What made the plant vulnerable is, in part, a 2007 energy conservation measure passed by Congress that set standards essentially banning ordinary incandescents by 2014 but rather than setting off a boom in the US manufacture of replacement lights, the leading replacement lights are compact fluorescents, or CFLs, which are made almost entirely overseas. GE developed a plan to see what it would take to retrofit a plant that makes traditional incandescents into one that makes CFLs but even with a $40 million investment the new plant's CFLs would have cost about 50 percent more than those from China. 'Everybody's jumping on the green bandwagon,' says Pat Doyle, 54, who has worked at the plant for 26 years. But 'we've been sold out. First sold out by the government. Then sold out by GE.'"
Comment Re:DSL for everyone... (Score 1) 371
WRONG. Plenty of areas have fiber going to a box in a neighborhood and splitting off to copper to each house. If the box is properly equiped it can do adsl. I believe they would only count the copper wire distance.
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