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- Stevens, Landrieu push for widespread telework
- Sens. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) and Mary Landrieu (D-La.) want to make all federal employees eligible for telework. Theyve introduced a bill that covers workers in the executive, legislative and judicial branches, The Washington Post reports. Benefits of telework, which seem obvious: Reduce fuel consumption, ease traffic congestion, and improve...
- Tags: Telework, Government technology
- Blog posts 2007-03-30
- Stevens, Byrd unmasked as secret blockers
- Last week, we blogged about the fate of a bill to create a public online database of federal grants data. The bill had been considered a shoe-in with support from both sides of the aisle. But then someone - an unnamed senator - put a hold on the legislatiion, preventing...
- Tags: Robert Byrd
- Blog posts 2006-08-31
- Solution to Congress' technological ineptitude: A comic book
- Today, the LA Times by way of the Boston Globe has a very well-written story that puts technology lawmaking into nearly perfect perspective for those who have no idea how bad things really are. In a story headlined In Information Age, Congress struggles to get up to speed, Jim...
- Tags: comic book, Ted Stevens, Tube
- Blog posts 2006-08-08
- Jon Stewart You Tube video displays Ted Stevens re Internet: you, tubes
- Jon Stewart You Tube video displays Ted Stevens re Internet: you, tubesStill trying to figure out StevensI wish someone could tell me why the Senator from Alaska is so deeply involved in legislation regarding companies that are mostly based in California (he does the work the MPAA and RIAA pay...
- Tags: video, Ted Stevens, Internet
- Discussion threads 2006-07-13
- Jon Stewart You Tube video displays Ted Stevens re Internet: you, tubes
- Last nite on Comedy Central's Daily Show host Jon Stewart did a hilarious skit about net neutrality- and how Senator Ted Stevens- one of the main lawmakers in this debate, thinks the Internet is a series of tubes.Funny, I always thought it was a truck. A big, huge truck.Excerpt...
- Tags: Ted Stevens, Internet
- Blog posts 2006-07-13
- Ted Stevens' forthcoming net neutrality "compromise" : what a joke
- Ted Stevens' forthcoming net neutrality "compromise" : what a jokeYeah, ignorance at its best"Any data packet will be equal to every other data packet, regardless of what kind of data it carries or where it came from"Right, and an ambulance us equal to a street racer. VoIP which uses...
- Tags: INTERNET, Net Neutrality, Ted Stevens
- Discussion threads 2006-06-18
- Ted Stevens' forthcoming net neutrality "compromise" : what a joke
- Reuters reports that U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) will introduce a "compromise" Net Neutrality bill this week that would also create a complaint process through the FCC if consumers believe their access rights to Internet content were violated . The FCC would be empowered to hear...
- Tags: Comcast Corp., FCC
- Blog posts 2006-06-18
- Net neutrality in Senate bill? Don't bet on it.
- There was hope last week – after the House soundly rejected an amendment that would have preserved net neutrality – that the Senate would offer more protection for the idea that telecom providers ought not be able to offer a fast lane to content providers willing to pay for privilege....
- Tags: Net Neutrality, Ted Stevens, lane, U.S. Senate
- Blog posts 2006-06-13
- Senate telecom bill offers tepid net neutrality provision
- The telecom battles are heating up in Congress with legislation introduced by Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) that differs from House legislation in a number of key areas, the Washington Post reports. On the issue of net neutrality, the Senate bill is astoundingly weak - merely requiring the FCC...
- Tags: Net Neutrality, Ted Stevens, House
- Blog posts 2006-05-02
- Sen. Stevens gives mixed signals on net neutrality
- Senate Commerce Committee Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), speaking at a conference sponsored by telecom companies, called Net Neutrality "one of the most difficult issues our committee faces" but gave no indication as to which way the committee is leaning, Reuters reports. Stevens suggested that ultimately the issue may wind up...
- Tags: Ted Stevens
- Blog posts 2006-03-20
- Someone in Congress finally flags the evil broadcast flag
- Corey Doctorow: Until now, lawmakers have been reluctant to speak out against [the Broadcast and Audio Flags]. A combination of expert lobbying and technological ignorance has made Congress suicidally willing to consider proposals to break America's televisions....But in yesterday's Commerce hearings, two Senators altered the...
- Tags: Ted Stevens, Corey Doctorow
- Blog posts 2006-02-01
- Broadcast flag bill heads to markup in March
- Congressional Quarterly reports that a new "broadcast flag" bill will go to markup sometime in March, according to Sen. Ted Stevens, chairman of the Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee. Says CQ: The legislation would be a major victory for content providers such as the Motion Picture Association...
- Tags: Ted Stevens
- Blog posts 2006-01-24
- Alternate Senate bill eases up on Nomadic VoIP
- I don't have any quarrel with the good intentions of FCC edicts that E-911 access over nomadic VoIP be required, and quickly at that. This is more of a well-intentioned public spirited mandate there are such things than another big-government bureaucratic edict, but still, I have problems with it.Nomadic E911...
- Tags: VoIP, E911
- Blog posts 2005-10-27
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- Georgia President's web site under DDoS attack from Russian hackers
- Georgia President's web site under DDoS attack from Russian hackersOh, its about the *another* Georgia.Is about the ex-commie Georgia and not the Ted Turner Birthplace.Anyways, a ddos attack can be done even for a single person, so there are not a real point to escalate this conflict in a full...
- Tags: Web site development, distributed denial of service, Russian Hackers, Web site, Web
- Discussion threads 2008-07-23
- Amanda Chapel, aka "Strumpette," needs some tough love
- Amanda Chapel, aka "Strumpette," needs some tough loveTough love indeedI had a similar experience with "Amanda" that bled/blended with the whole hacker debate and ended in a congruent way to your interaction. The strange thing was that I wasn't even talking about the hacker ethic at all, but rather...
- Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Amanda Chapel, Strumpette
- Discussion threads 2008-07-14
- 'Agility' 10 times over -- and other ways to tell it's not SOA
- I got some interesting responses to my recent post, "Ten Ways to Tell It's Not SOA." Dave Linthicum added five more to the list, including: "11) If this is a change in 'paradigm' and not a change in 'architecture' ... it's not SOA." "12) If your...
- Tags: SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-07-10
- Space Shuttle tech works on brain tumors
- Space Shuttle tech works on brain tumorsI don't think soYou know, I'd rather have the doctor there so, if something went wrong, there was no delay with the information. Relying on secure internet, or satellite communication is too slow, IMO. I don't want someone making decisions based on...
- Tags: Robots, Space Shuttle tech work, tech work, space shuttle, robot
- Discussion threads 2008-06-02
- Freak helicopter death turns into an anti-iPod story
- Freak helicopter death turns into an anti-iPod storyI do not believe that they weretrying to make a macabre joke out of it, but in truth it does once again raise the issue of the serious hearing damage that can be caused by listening to music at the insane level some...
- Tags: helicopter, anti-iPod story, helicopter death, Apple iPod, anti-iPod
- Discussion threads 2008-05-16
- KVM and Xen cofounders engage in war of words
- Xen cofounder and project lead Ian Pratt said predictions about his virtualization hypervisor's demise to the newer kernel-based virtual machine KVM technology are unfounded, a by-product of his competitors' imaginations. "There's no evidence for it. The Xen community is alive and well. Xen is a true...
- Tags: Linux, Hypervisor, Linux Kernel, Xen, KVM, Xen Community, Virtualization, Hardware, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-05-08
- Reiser FS: The open source file system fallout
- Yesterday, the Open Source community took an emotional hit when veteran Linux programmer Hans Reiser was convicted of first degree murder in the suspicious disappearing of his wife, Nina. While I won't go into the details of the case, as this has been covered extensively in the press, I would...
- Tags: File System, ReiserFS, Zetabyte File System, Linux, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-04-29
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