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House, Senate get separate bills to kill net neutrality
Real argument about "network neutrality" is fascinating stuff, provocative and well worth anyone's time if they care about the Internet. Unfortunately, Congress isn't great at having intelligent arguments, and net neutrality is rapidly...Adobe pushes Flash and PDF for open government, misses irony
The Obama administration has made transparency and public access to government information a high priority. Adobe is attempting to capitalize on initiatives to make government information more accessible while promoting its technologies, such...Google Voice: we’re not serving "high-cost destinations"
Google has told the Federal Communications Commission that its Google Voice feature maintains a small list of do-not-transfer numbers that lead to certain "high-cost destinations." The explanation comes in response to an inquiry...EFF opens the "Takedown Hall of Shame"
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is a big fan of naming and shaming. When it launched its patent-busting project a few years back, the activist group put up a "Wanted by EFF marshals" poster;...Talk of "global cooling" based on bogus statistics
There's an inevitable problem with trying to find trends in data that is subject to a great deal of random variability: unless the most recent point was a record high, it will always...Exclusive Usenet Offers: $7.95/month
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- WikiLeaks Donations Down to a Trickle
- Kim Dotcom Claims Ownership of Two-Factor Authentication
- Twitter Amplify Offers Real-Time Videos in Its Stream
- Hurt Locker Makers Sue Attorney for Being “Prolific” BitTorrent Pirate
- Kim Dotcom to Google, Twitter, Facebook: I Own Security Patent, Work With Me
- Piictu App Slated to Shut Down Services May 31
- RIAA: 20 Million Piracy Takedowns Sent to Google, Still No End in Sight
- The Pirate Cinema – Displaying Downloads As They Happen
- Online Streaming Makes BitTorrent Drop Considerably in US, Report Claims
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