What the hell is going on on the West Coast?
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Can't reach many West Coast Major servers /Backbone.. The "Big One" hit?
Published on Monday 6th of September 2010 01:20:40 AM
Bill seeks to make electronics accessible to blind, deaf
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Bill seeks to make electronics accessible to blind, deaf By Cecilia Kang Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, August 17, 2010; A10 Blind and deaf consumers, who have fought to make home phones and television more accessible, say they are being left behind on the Web and many mobile devices. Touch-based smartphone screens confound blind people who rely on buttons and raised type. Web video means little to the deaf without captioning. But legislation is in the works to put pressure on consumer electronics companies that revolutionized an earlier generation of technology for the vision- and hearing-impaired. "Whether it's a Braille...
Published on Monday 6th of September 2010 01:20:40 AM
38 DEFENDANTS INDICTED IN MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR FRAUD
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Note: The following text is a quote: http://www.justice.gov/usao/mow/news2010/harrison.ind.htm JULY 9, 2010 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE BLACK MARKET TRAVEL AGENTS 38 DEFENDANTS INDICTED IN MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR FRAUD LOCAL INVESTIGATION EXPOSES NATIONWIDE NETWORK THAT USED STOLEN IDENTITIES, CREDIT CARDS TO PURCHASE AIRLINE TICKETS KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Beth Phillips, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that 38 defendants from across the United States have been charged in a series of indictments that allege an extensive network of black market travel agents who used the stolen identities of thousands of victims as part of a multi-million dollar fraud scheme...
Published on Monday 6th of September 2010 01:20:40 AM
Do Porn Sites Need .XXX Web Domain?
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Internet porn sites may soon have the option to move off the ".com" main street of the Web to their very own adult-only domain: ".xxx." But industry experts say the adult world is divided over whether or not there is actually a need for a dedicated virtual red-light district. Internet domain names are expanding exponentially.The Internet Corp. for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), an international Internet oversight group, announced Friday that it would proceed with a proposal to register ".xxx," after rejecting the same application three years ago. Peter Dengate Thrush, chairman of ICANN's board of directors, told ABCNews.com that...
Published on Monday 6th of September 2010 01:20:40 AM
FCC Moves to Regulate Internet--Even Though the Law Calls for Internet to be 'Unfettered...
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Complete title: FCC Moves to Regulate Internet--Even Though the Law Calls for Internet to be 'Unfettered by Federal or State Regulation' (CNSNews.com) – The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted on Thursday to begin the formal process of bringing the Internet under greater federal control – a move sought by both President Barack Obama and FCC Chairnman Julius Genachowski--even though federal law calls for an Internet "unfettered by Federal or State regulation." This step comes after the federal D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals in April rebuked the FCC in its attempt to enforce a controversial regulatory doctrine called Net Neutrality, which would allow the government...
Published on Monday 6th of September 2010 01:20:40 AM
How I get to FreeRepublic on the web (Vanity.. Question to Fellow FReepers)
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Hello everyone ! I'm an independent consultant, meaning I work at several different locations throughout the day, week or month. At some of these locations I have an office, or at least a server room with a console. I check Free Republic while at those consoles. One of my clients is an enemy of the american way. I am there now. So to keep this site off my "obvious" history and avoid questions, I'll browse to Free Republic via Google: Go to www.google.com In the search field I type "freerep". This will fill in the rest in the field below...
Published on Monday 6th of September 2010 01:20:40 AM
Microsoft: Silverlight Now on 60% of All Internet Devices
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Microsoft’s Silverlight client may have finally reached critical mass, with installation on more than 60 percent of all Internet devices, according to one Microsoft exec. Brad Becker, director of product management for rich client platforms at Microsoft, told us in a phone interview that the rich Internet application plugin has seen strong momentum recently, with the percentage of Internet devices the Silverlight client has been installed on increasing by a third — to 60 percent from 45 percent — in just the last four months. The news that Silverlight has finally surpassed the 50 percent-mark comes on the heels of...
Published on Monday 6th of September 2010 01:20:40 AM
Surprise! Consumers Aren’t Helpless Morons
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The European Union’s uber-bureaucracy spent most of the last decade prosecuting Microsoft for monopoly abuse. While the EU could have looked to the US’s decade of Microsoft prosecution to see how pointless regulating the swift moving technology industry is, the feisty Europeans had to make their point. The EU’s complaint settled on the fact that Microsoft bundles its web browser, IE, with every copy of Windows. Never mind that every other operating system comes with a web browser too, the EU reckoned that because of Windows’ popularity, Microsoft was abusing its power by forcing IE on consumers. The EU crusade...
Published on Monday 6th of September 2010 01:20:40 AM
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