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POPSInternet Providers Push Back Against 'Net Neutrality' Proposal expanding the rules to cover wireless networks. The company would be "very disappointed if has already drawn a conclusion to regulate wireless services despite the absence of any compelling evidence of problems or abuse that would warrant government intervention," said Jim Cicconi, AT&T's senior executive vice president of external and legislative affairs. FCC officials said they would work with phone companies to develop rules that wouldn't create problems for wireless networks. "I am convinced that there are few goals more essential in the communications landscape than preserving and maintaining an open and robust Internet," Mr. Genachowski said in his speech Monday at the Brookings Institution, a Washington think tank. Strengthening FCC rules on Web traffic is a top priority of consumer groups and Internet advocates who supported President Barack Obama in his run for the White House.
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POPSJudge Says Hyperlinks Should Be Banned to Save Newspapers Gawker’s Hamilton Nolan: No linking or paraphrasing? Let's Screw Up the Entire Internet to Save Newspapers! You can copyright a news story, but you can't copyright the news. "The news" just means "things that happen in the world." What would it mean, in practice, to make it illegal to paraphrase a copyrighted news story? Summing up, for example, political events, or a sports controversy, or even a fashion trend, could be interpreted as paraphrasing copyrighted material. So let's ban talking about anything. And banning links will help us make our references even more obscure, by making it impossible for anyone to refer to source materials! Good idea, Posner.
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POPSMegacorps Agree To Stop Being Dicks At least for the moment. As someone who would've been screwed by this money grab, I'm glad they've come to an agreement. However, I think this shows why regulation needs to be brought back and brought back hard.
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POPS5 Digital Television Transition Myths
. . . (including many handheld TV devices). Myth #2: I need a new HDTV in order to watch a DTV broadcast. If you're a cable or satellite subscriber, you won't notice a thing when analog television broadcasting ceases. You can continue to use whatever television or other display device you're using now. For the folks who view free local TV via an antenna, the ability to receive and view digital broadcast television signals requires the use of a compatible digital tuner that's either built into the TV or a separate set-top box. Myth #3: The government's TV Converter Box Coupon Program has run out of money/coupons. The government's TV Converter Box Coupon Program Web site is still accepting new applications and will continue to distribute coupons until "the obligation ceiling is reached." Keep in mind that unredeemed coupons are recycled back into the program, so while it may take a longer time to process your request, now compared with a few months ago, . . .
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POPSISPs Neglect Infrastructure: Think of Capping Downloads Articles, like this one, do not take into consideration the growing trend of multiple internet ports per home. For example, a home could have a parent on one computer downloading news videos, a child on another computer downloading Netflix or MP3s, and a third child could be on a PS3/Xbox playing online. This type of house could easily surpass the monthly limits. Additionally, bandwidth needs typically doubles every year, so one house may only need 10 GB per month now. However, next year they will likely need 20GB per month. How are placing caps going to provide ISPs with incentive to increase their infrastructure? It will not!
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POPSNetflix Continues to Grow Love Netflix. I have the Roku streaming box hooked up to the TV. I've mostly watched older classic movies and some stuff I missed along the way. One stinker was Mark Hamill in 1993's Time Runner. Avoid at all costs. I didn't make it all the way through it.
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POPSCracked Magazine's 25 Historical Events (As Depicted by 5 Year Olds) OK, I am dating myself here but I remember Cracked Magazine as well as Mad, Crazy, Car-toons, and Plop from when I was a kid. Eventually all that was left on the magazine racks were Mad. I never even thought they may have switched to an online E-Zine or that they would be open to subscriber participation! Personally, I always thought Cracked was better than Mad any day!
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POPSDigital TV, Costly changeover? Sounds like if you are a basic cable subscriber you may be screwed. But like most things this has more to do with back-scatching, palm greasing and huge amounts of money more then anything else.
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POPSMysterious Bee Deaths Linked To Pesticides? Comment hsutton wrote: Pesticides "in and of itself is probably not the cause of the honeybee's dying. What are you feeding them? If the answer is a combination of high fructose corn syrup and water then it should be noted that some time back a genetic modifier introduced into "corn" is the real culprit. This modifier causes the corn to make it's own "pesticide". Going back to feeding them real Sugar/Water will stop most of the problem. Monsanto and other companies are putting these things in 90% of the vegetable crops in the US, and have been for some time. Whatever it's doing to the honey bees it will also eventually do to us. If this trend continues human beings will start dying from "unknown" causes sometime in the very near future too. Comment by subscriber:hsutton
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POPSYahoo Sells Music Service to Rhapsody Yahoo ( YHOO Unlimited Music was a service as was stated in the Techdirt piece below, a service designed to fail. They bought the wonderful MusicMatch player only to dub it down and screw it up for use as the Yahoo Unlimited player, and now they are selling their subscriber base to Rhapsody owned by Real Networks , the clear leader in the music subscriptions category.
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POPSWhy WSJ.com Won't Go Free Blodget makes a good argument for Murdoch keeping the WSJ in a subscriber model...a pretty bold prediction, given the rest of the industry's assurances that the wall is about to come down.
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POPS3G iPhone in May? Start the rumormongering! There's no reason to believe this story is anything more than wishful thinking. But with that said, I've heard similar speculation from a number of informed people, and it does make a lot of sense that the next generation iPhone would debut this spring.
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POPSGroups seek to stop Comcast 'net medling' The 'Net Neutrality' principle is finally being tested by the law, having been 'supported' by the FCC and other carriers. The plaintiffs are asking for $US 195,000 per subscriber. Comcast says traffic is not blocked, it is 'delayed,' possibly in the hope that it will go away.
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POPSCorporate Eavesdropping... Here! Now! On Sale! You knew it was coming. Now it's here. You can talk on the phone for free as long as you're willing to let a corporation listen in to your conversations for profit. You don't really need to talk that badly, but I know you will...
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POPSThe Advocate Comes Out of the Closet The Advocate started out 40 years ago as a pretty sleazy affair that not only contained some news of interest to the community but also published some of the most graphic and some considered revolting personal ads one could imagine. Then they split the classifieds into a separate publication and started actually concentrating on real news. They began receiving international awards for their work, and today they are the preeminent news source for the LGBT community and its friends. I have followed the Advocate over all its years of existence and I am proud of their accomplishments and I continue to be a loyal subscriber all these years. I applaud the new truth in mailing policy.
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POPS"It's Not Us, It's You" : Cell Phone Carrier Dumps Customers Top 5 Reasons Why Sprint Nextel Would Make a Horrible Boyfriend: 5. Sprint doesn't wanna spend quality time with you or work out any relationship problems. 4. Sprint tries to keep you from "roaming" to something better, instead of upgrading itself to be that something better. 3. Sprint dumps you because you're too high maintenance and expensive to keep around. 2. Sprint doesn't have the balls to break up with you in person. 1. Sprint blames you for the break-up.
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