The violent police assaults across the US are no coincidence. Occupy has touched the third rail of our political class's venality.
Researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) have engineered the first strains of Escherichia coli bacteria that can digest switchgrass biomass and synthesize its sugars into [gasoline, diesel and jet fuels]. What’s more, the microbes are able to do this without any help from enzyme additives.
I was distressed to hear FDA's Robert Dickey's statements on the show, He claimed (without any substantiating evidence) that “The seafood from the Gulf of Mexico is safe to consume for all consumers including pregnant women and children;” [in quantities hard for anyone to eat in a given time] ... The FDA's comments are simply not consistent with the reality [ordinary quantities can cause harm].
According to Manta.com, Texas and Florida each have hundreds of paper mills. No one should use asbestos and people who find out their company does should quit to protect their health.
This shows the falsity of arguments that we should reduce their taxes to crete jobs. We ought to raise their taxes and spend the money to create jobs.
A handful of billionaires like Warren E. Buffett and Bill Gates have joined Democrats in calling for an elimination of the breaks, saying that the current system adds to the budget deficit, contributes to the widening income gap between the richest and the rest of society, and shifts the tax burden onto small businesses and the middle class.
Mr. Lauder’s tax dodges are outrageous but proportionality less so than those of Gates and Buffet. There are plenty of leads for an honest paper to follow so the NYT should be ashamed of taking Gates' word.
Public Knowledge's Gigi Sohn, who has opposed the merger from the start, said today in a statement that "the chances that AT&T will take over T-Mobile are almost gone.... AT&T's move will, for the moment, prevent the FCC from making public its many, well-documented findings that the deal is not in the public interest and will prevent the judge overseeing the antitrust lawsuit from seeing the FCC's conclusions.
this is designed as another talking shop to give industry lobbyists an opportunity to bend the ear of European politicians. Conspicuous by their absence, of course, are any representatives of those most affected by legislation -- the public. It's also a chance for copyright maximalists to get together and repeat the same unsubstantiated claims about the "damage" caused by piracy and the need for urgent action, as Gallo's first conference, "IPR enforcement in the digital era", makes clear
Sadly, Techdirt uses the same loaded language as the maximalists instead of challenging terms like "piracy."
Some firms have created tens of thousands of fake accounts to flood chat forums and skew debate. ... They give the example of a spike in activity on a World of Warcraft chat forum on the Chinese website Baidu. ... A PR company later claimed it had employed 800 individuals to run 20,000 separate accounts on the site ... The US military is known to use fakes to infiltrate chat forums to gather information about potential terror groups. Similarly many Facebook pages are plagued by bogus friends and "social bots" that are used to stage debates.
The Supreme Court, in the 5-4 Citizens United decision of January 2010, declared that corporations have free speech rights like human beings and invalidated the ban on corporate election spending that Congress had enacted. Since then, a grassroots movement has emerged to generate popular support for a constitutional amendment to reverse that decision, including months of work by Move to Amend, Free Speech For People, Public Citizen, People For The American Way, Common Cause, and the Center for Media and Democracy. Rep. Deutch’s amendment is a blend of the best ideas.
Be sure to remove language about "IP" and other propaganda terms to concentrate on rights and censorship.
Even though the Internet is decentralized and distributed, "weak links" in this chain can operate as choke points to accomplish widespread censorship.
perhaps he was just enjoying the photo opportunity as he exchanged pleasantries with the authors who he held in high enough esteem as to have their works tossed into garbage trucks.
EU law says national authorities must not adopt measures which would require an ISP to carry out general monitoring – let alone filtering – of the information that it transmits on its network.
“Chemical” Linda Katehi, whose crackdown on peaceful university students shocked America, played a role in allowing Greece security forces to raid university campuses for the first time since the junta was overthrown in 1974. ... The real problem, from the real powers behind the scenes (banksters and the EU), was how to get Greece under control as the austerity-screws tightened. ... that meant taking away the universities’ “amnesty” protection, in place for nearly four decades, so that no one, nowhere, would be safe from police truncheons, gas, or bullets.
our analysis shows that if net neutrality were abolished, ISPs actually have less incentive to expand infrastructure. ... placing a price on prioritizing content creates an inherent disincentive to expand infrastructure. ISPs would profit from a congested Internet in which some content providers will be more than willing to pay an additional fee for faster delivery to users. Content providers like the New York Times and Google would have little choice but to fork it over to get their information to end users. But end users would be unlikely to see the promised upgrades in speed. Those are some of the results of research we conducted on the Internet market.
The fact that we were able to achieve this in the context of a PhD thesis and using materials costing just €200 is not a ringing endorsement of the security of the current HDCP system.
This is good news but we can't count on such tricks working forever.
Digital handcuffs do this to everything eventually.
In a recent phone interview with AlterNet, [Harriet] Washington discussed the dark implications of corporate medical patents, how we find ourselves in this nightmarish scenario and what needs to be done to stop medical research profits from trumping human health.
This is the first time that the EU's antitrust chief has publicly voiced his concerns over patent wars in the mobile telephony sector.
Both the article and the antitrust chief use the confusing term "IP" and both treat Apple and Samsung as equal abusers of patents but it is good to see the issue addressed.
In the name of private copy levy, we are deprived of the right to copy! Such negation of the rights of the public is coherent with Nicolas Sarkozy's policies aimed at turning copyright into a repressive weapon against cultural practices in the hands of industrial lobbies.