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POPSBeck says Net Neutrality would 'destroy the free market that created the Internet'. Oh really? 
The origins of the Internet reach back to the 1960s when the United States funded research projects of its military agencies to build robust, fault-tolerant and distributed computer networks. This research and a period of civilian funding of a new U.S. backbone by the National Science Foundation spawned worldwide participation in the development of new networking technologies and led to the commercialization of an international network in the mid 1990s, and resulted in the following popularization of countless applications in virtually every aspect of modern human life. Meanwhile, Beck has yet to explain how regulations constraining the mega-corporations that provide our Internet infrastructure from deciding what content we can and can't access would actually take the system "out of the private hands of private business". Maybe Beck can explain to us why Comcast was attacking peer-to-peer file sharing on its network system.
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POPSReport: Dozens in Congress Under Ethics Scrutiny The inquiry involves lawmakers who steered appropriations to clients of a now-defunct lobbying firm and received campaign contributions from the firm and its clients. The names included three lawmakers previously identified in the inquiry: the chairman of the defense subcommittee, Murtha; and Reps. Peter Visclosky, D-Ind., and James Moran, D-Va. The Post said others whose names were in the report included Reps. Norm Dicks, D-Wash., Marcy Kaptur, D-Ohio, C.W. Bill Young, R-Fla., and Todd Tiahrt, R-Kan. The committee, however, has not announced an investigation of any of these lawmakers. A committee statement said its security was breached through "peer to peer file sharing software" by a junior employee who was working from home. The staff member was fired. The committee said it is investigating whether Rep. Maxine Waters used her influence to help a bank in which her husband owned stock, and whether the couple benefited as a result.
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POPSSave cloud personal data with Tonido # Get Tonido, bring the Web 2.0 to your Desktop and run Personal Web Applications that can be accessed from anywhere, preserving your privacy and online freedom. Get TonidoPlug, small, low power, low cost home server that allows you to access your apps, files, music and media from anywhere.
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POPSCredit scores climbing on Prosper as borrowers seek alternative financing "There has never been a better time to be a banker," said Chris Larsen, Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder of Prosper. "With credit card companies hiking rates while at the same time reducing credit limits, people with great credit are looking for an alternative way to get rid of their credit debt and finance their small businesses. The result of the 'too big to fail' institutions turning their backs on consumer and small business borrowers is that individual investors are finding peer-to-peer lending to be an attractive new asset class that enables them to do well while doing good."
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POPSPour tirer profit des médias sociaux, il faut d'abord y accéder Perspectives intéressantes dans ce billet sur le réseau des blogues de Gartner qui fait suite à la publication des données d'une étude de la firme Robert Half Technology sur l'accès aux médias sociaux dans les entreprises. Cette étude nous apprenait que plus de la moitié des entreprises bloquent l'accès à des services comme Twitter, LinkedIn et autres. Un autre blogueur, encore chez Gartner, doute quant à lui de la justesse de ces chiffres et a lancé son propre sondage en ligne. Qu'en pensez-vous? Et vous, avez vous accès à ces services depuis votre poste de travail au bureau?
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POPSGovernment Tries to Thwart P2P Identity Theft Bad regulations are often worse than no regulations because they generate a false sense of comfort. They may also increase the "bureaucratic" components of legal actions contributing to "Justice delayed is justice denied".
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POPSRobocop will care about your normality With so much focus on outlier detection, so much information in the Web and the deeper analysis of this information that more powerful computers and algorithms enable, why not using it for spying citizens finding freaks criminals The more capabilities computers have the better, but ethics will be a task exclusively human for a while.
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POPSEU Funding 'Orwellian' Plan to Monitor Public for "Abnormal Behaviour" Profiling whole populations instead of monitoring individual suspects is a sinister step in any society. "It's dangerous enough at national level, but on a Europe-wide scale the idea becomes positively chilling." Open Europe believes intelligence gathered by Indect and other such systems could be used by a little-known body, the EU Joint Situation Centre (SitCen), which it claims is "effectively the beginning of an EU secret service". Critics have said it could develop into "Europe's CIA".
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POPSLazeroids!!! Check out this app created for the Ruby and Rails "Rumble" competition - developers were given just 48 hours to come up with an app to submit in various categories. It's cute, clever, and sound effects are pretty darn funny. You can check it out here: http://lazeroids.com/ enjoy.
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POPSFile Sharers Are More Likely to Purchase DVDs and Go to Movie Theaters The result of the study, while going against everything Hollywood is claiming, isn't that surprising, considering the number of previous similar reports. It found that the p2p users went to 34 percent more movies than regular ones, bought 34 percent more DVDs and also rented 24 percent more movies. Could it be that the ones that use file sharing do so precisely because they are more interested in media and entertainment content and, as such, also end up buying more than the average users?
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POPSReal-Time Conversations Hasten Social CRM This is a great post on TC on Social CRM. It looks like Virgin America gets it! VA is my first choice of airline. I only wish they would offer sometime of price match, when I am forced to travel at a specific price rate and another airline has that price and I am forced to use the cheaper one for business. For personal I will pick VA over all other airlines. Southwest has #2 spot now, simply because the VA experience in flying is just simply that --- a highly positive experience.
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POPSTHE PATH FROM WEB2 HIGH TECH JOB START HERE WHERE WILL YOU WORK ON 2010? ARE YOU PLANING TO WORK FROM HOME? RHIZOME NETWORKS IS A VIRTUAL WORKPLACE WHERE PROFESSIONALS AND NONPROFESSIONALS CAN COLLABORATE, SHARE IDEAS SKILLS AND RESOURCES AND OF COURSE WORK TOGETHER TO MAKE AN IDEAS INTO PROFITABLE PRODUCTS. THE ENVIRONMENT SUPPORT FULL LIFE CYCLE OF PRODUCING APPLICATIONS. ARE YOU A REAL PIONEER? IN THAT CASE, JOIN OUR COMMUNITY, START TO WORK FROM HOME USING UNIQUE PEER TO PEER NETWORK, BUILD TEAM AND START PRODUCE YOUR SERVICE.
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