EU wants ICANN completely private

The EU is calling for ICANN to become a completely private entity. This is brought up since at the end of September the current operating agreement that ICANN works under in the U.S. will run out. Now I can understand part of why the EU wants some control but their proposal is confusing. What they [...]

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Congress to legislate online privacy?

House members are working on a bill that could provide protection from online privacy infringement. This is mostly based around Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) which allows someone who carries a packet to view the data within. Currently some ISPs have looked into DPI as a way to provide targeted advertising for customers but in the [...]

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Obama’s new Commerce Secritary more tech friendly?

So news is out today that Obama has now selected governor of Washington Gary Locke as his Secretary of Commerce. Overall most people seem to like this appointment. The tech community especially seem happy with this appointment as he moved some good technology based initiatives in Washington while its governor. The thing that catches my [...]

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Goverment once again wants to track you for the sake of the children!

“Think of the children” has become the rallying call for both parties as some of their congressmen try and destroy our freedoms on the Internet! Now they think ISPs should have to store 2 YEARS worth of users of the dynamic IP addresses. What will this help with? They claim distributors but if they are [...]

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Feinstein wants to allow network throttling!

So Democrats that are catering to the cable providers that want to allow network throttling are now trying the sleazy way of getting it legalized. Now this is the reason we cannot trust the Democrats having control of the house. They do things that the lobbyist say that sound good at first like “think of [...]

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The reason I don’t trust Democrat charts very often!

Normally I avoid normal politics but I had to link to this hot air article. I mean did you know the end times are coming oh wait it was worse if we actually go back forther sorry but you fail Nancy Pelosi maybe you should learn to be less bias in your chart creation if [...]

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When did TV become a right?

When exactly was it that it became a right to watch TV? I mean last I checked TV was something you payed for by having to be bored to death by commercials and/or paying for cable which would make a COMMERCIAL product not a god or government given right! Now you might wonder why I [...]

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Oh the irony!

Sorry I try not to post political things (at least non compouter politics) but i couldnt miss this when I it on Dvorak Uncensored!

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Why the media hates Ron Paul

So its interesting right now to watch coverage of republicans in the current primary season. We see a candidate who so far has done better then some of the “main” republican candidates and yet for some reason nobody talks about this on the evening news? He got 10% in Iowa when some of the “main” [...]

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Election 2008 from another perspective

So we here in the US keep being barraged by coverage of the current caucus/primaries taking place. From this we keep seeing tons of Hillary, Romney, Huckabee(now) and even some Guliani. The Funny thing is the media seems to care a bit less about two candidates who i find to be the most important. First [...]

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