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NOT What Zordon Would Do: The Green Ranger Punched Some Dude’s Teeth Out

For those of you that don’t keep up with ex-Power Rangers, Tommy the Green Ranger (aka nobody’s favorite, aka Jason David Frank) is a mixed-martial arts fighter now because, shit, you’ve gotta do something tough after rockin’ wiener-huggin’ spandex o… Continue reading

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10 Downing

I had a quick jaunt over to London to meet with blogger, digital diplomacy, general social media guru Jimmy Leach in January. Our meeting was great, good discussions on how his team was set up at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. I had a great time… Continue reading

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Patriot Act extension fails to pass

Not a misprint: House Democrats and the Tea Party joined forces today to defeat the rest of the Republican party and the Obama Administration. [Wapo]

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Americans Don’t Want the FCC to Regulate the Internet [STATS]

A new survey from Rasmussen Reports reveals that just one in five American voters want the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to regulate the Internet, placing their faith instead in free market competition to protect the Internet’s U.S. user… Continue reading

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Americans Don’t Want the FCC to Regulate the Internet [STATS]

A new survey from Rasmussen Reports reveals that just one in five American voters want the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to regulate the Internet, placing their faith instead in free market competition to protect the Internet’s U.S. user… Continue reading

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Watch out Big Content—RapidShare has hired a lobbying firm

Guess who is mad as hell and isn’t going to take it anymore? The RapidShare file service says it has had it up to its storage capacity with the treatment it’s getting from Capitol Hill here in the United States, and has hired a … Continue reading

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Vladimir Putin Orders Russian Government to Switch to Free Software by 2015

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has signed a government order that lays out the groundwork for the transition of federal bodies and agencies to use free software, including Linux, by 2015.The 25-point document (available here) outlines specifi… Continue reading

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Vladimir Putin Orders Russian Government to Switch to Free Software by 2015

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has signed a government order that lays out the groundwork for the transition of federal bodies and agencies to use free software, including Linux, by 2015.The 25-point document (available here) outlines specifi… Continue reading

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How the FCC failed the nation on Net Neutrality

Writing in Salon, Dan Gillmor takes a crack at explaining what a cowardly let-down the FCC’s cop-out Net Neutrality rules are:

But when it came to rules that might boost network neutrality — the notion that end users (you and me) should decide what … Continue reading

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Was It Google And Verizon Or The FCC That Just Screwed Us On Mobile Net Neutrality?

We’ve already covered the FCC Net Neutrality vote earlier today, but something new has come to light. Something that’s very odd. Something that’s quite frankly a little terrifying.
Engadget dug up the FCC’s release [PDF] and found the following… Continue reading

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