Don't Let Internet Companies Violate Net Neutrality

Late last year Comcast was caught secretly inspecting Internet traffic and crippling users' ability to share files, download video and use other popular Internet software.This is a gross violation of Net Neutrality, the longstanding principle that protects free speech online and preserves an open Internet.

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SnipeMe - Galen's Rants - Pussification of America

SnipeMe - Galen's Rants - Pussification of America

Fewer Youths Jump Behind the Wheel at 16 - New York Times

Fewer Youths Jump Behind the Wheel at 16 - New York Times

Putin’s Iron Grip on Russia Suffocates Opponents - New York Times

Putin’s Iron Grip on Russia Suffocates Opponents - New York Times

Woman, 44, Dies on Plane With 2 Empty Oxygen Tanks

The passenger, returning home from Haiti, collapsed and died aboard an American Airlines flight after initially being told by a flight attendant that he could not give her oxygen, and then brought her an oxygen tank that was empty, a relative said on Sunday.

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EFF and chums sue Feds over border laptop inspections | The Register

EFF and chums sue Feds over border laptop inspections | The Register

Microsoft warns on Vista update

Microsoft is warning Windows Vista users that a forthcoming service pack for the operating system may stop some third-party programs working.

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Net Neutrality

A new chance to support Net Neutrality.

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Cable and telcos side with Comcast in FCC BitTorrent dispute

Cable and telcos side with Comcast in FCC BitTorrent dispute

Daily Tribune : Amtrak adding security 02/20/08

Daily Tribune : Amtrak adding security 02/20/08

I guess I'm one of the few Americans left who doesn't believe in sacrificing liberty and convenience for security.

Wikileaks - Wikileaks

Wikileaks - Wikileaks

Bush appointee, California Supreme Court justice White has ordered this site that reports government and corporate corruption shuttered. It is still available via its IP address.

It pleases me to point people to this site just to defy the corporate fascist judge White.

US Court shuts down whistleblower site Wikileaks

Wikileaks, the Web site that has revealed countless government secrets, has been forced offline by a California judge. The site, which allows whistleblowers to post documents anonymously, is being sued by a Swiss banking group implicated in money laundering in documents obtained by Wikileaks.

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Fast Proxy for Myspace

Brand new proxy to unblock myspace and other sites blocked at school.

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Risks from lapsed wiretap law are disputed | csmonitor.com

House Democrats, who let the law expire Saturday, see little danger. Intelligence officials argue the ability to track potential terrorists is impaired.

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Danish youths riot for 7th night, several arrested | World | Reuters

Danish youths riot for 7th night, several arrested | World | Reuters

Net firms reject monitoring role

UK net firms are resisting government suggestions that they should do more to monitor what customers do online. The industry association for net providers said legal and technical barriers prohibit them from being anything other than a "mere conduit".

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Cruel and Gratuitous

How is it that you can have a rampage in broad daylight on a street in New York City and not be able to show in any way that the rampage occurred?

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HD DVD dropped by Wal-Mart, Toshiba? - News at GameSpot

HD DVD dropped by Wal-Mart, Toshiba? - News at GameSpot

The real losers are people like myself, who have computers with built in HD-DVD drives. Will Toshiba do the right thing and replace these drives with Blu-Ray drives for free? Like Hell!

Kwame Kilpatrick Text Messages

Kwame Kilpatrick Text Messages

This whole thing with Kilpatrick and the text messages dating back to October, 2002 should be a lesson to everyone that text messages are just like email and instant messages; they do not disappear after you delete them. They are stored on servers for years and years and can come back to bite you in the ass long after you've forgotten them.

Vista SP 1

The new service pack for Vista is going to be a 65 MB download. I hope they bring it out on a weekend and that my parents don't end up needing the phone. By my estimates, it will take at least ten hours to download the service pack.

Just to be on the safe side, I'll disable my antivirus and firewall. I don't want anything fucking up during this download.

P2P Companies Join Outcry Against Comcast

File-sharing executives again slammed Comcast's network management practices Thursday, accusing the cable giant of throttling P2P services in an effort to stifle competition.

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Windows Update problems seem solved

It turns out that Comodo Firewall Pro 3 was causing the updates to fail. I'm glad I learned of this before the new service pack comes out. I will download the latest version of Comodo, which is supposed to rectify the problem.

UK ISPs may have to ban "illegal downloaders" say government

Looks like the MAFIAA have got to the government in the UK.

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New Law: Parent's Permission Required For Myspace/Facebook

CHICAGO (WBBM) -- Under a new proposal in Springfield, kids would have to have a parent's permission to create a profile on popular social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook.

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The Raw Feed: Ginormous 'Blue Screen of Death' Hits Las Vegas

The Raw Feed: Ginormous 'Blue Screen of Death' Hits Las Vegas

You’re 16, You’re Beautiful and You’re a Voter

We should hasten the enfranchisement of the generation born between 1980 and 1995 by lowering the voting age to 16.

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