Generation WiFi wants brains hooked to Internet

'You will have a God-like feeling of how people are thinking and feeling'

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 LEO HOHMANN 

According to a survey by tech giant Cisco Systems, about a fourth of professionals ages 18 to 50 would leap at the chance to get a surgical brain implant that allowed them to instantly link their thoughts to the Internet.

The study was conducted on 3,700 adults working in white-collar jobs in 15 countries.

“Assuming a company invented a brain implant that made the World Wide Web instantly accessible to their thoughts, roughly one-quarter would move forward with the operation,” the study found.

Generation Y professionals, those born in the 1980s through 2000, were only slightly more apt to say they would get the surgery, at 26 percent, versus 21 percent of Gen Xers or those born from the early 1960s through the early 1980s.

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#NetNeutrailty is VERY VERY BAD

I've been on line since Christmas Day of 1982. I've seen what we call the Internet come a long, long way - ALL WITHOUT GOVERNMENT HELP of INTERFERENCE!

Once the FEDS get involbved, invidual initiative, invention and entrepreneurship will end.

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Obama Pushes FCC to Treat Internet as Public Utility

President Obama put the full weight of his administration behind an open and free Internet, calling for a strict policy of so-called net neutrality and formally opposing deals in which content providers like Netflix would pay huge sums to broadband companies for faster access to their customers. In a statement, and a video on the White House website, Mr. Obama urged the Federal Communications Commission to adopt the strictest set of neutrality rules possible and to treat consumer broadband service as a public utility, similar to telephone or power companies.

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U.S., Europeans Shut 400 Sites for Illegal Sales

U.S. and European law enforcement agencies announced the largest strike ever against the Internet’s thriving black markets, shutting down more than 400 sites and arresting 17 people for allegedly selling drugs, weapons and illegal services to anonymous buyers worldwide. The sweep of the crackdown marked a new level of aggressiveness and coordination by Western governments determined to police shadowy corners of the Internet.

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Suit Says LinkedIn Service Violates Fair Credit Act

Four people are suing LinkedIn, contending that one of the site’s networking features cost them job opportunities. In Sweet v. LinkedIn, a class-action suit filed last month in Northern California, the plaintiffs contended that LinkedIn, in providing the job reference material, enabled potential employers to “anonymously dig into the employment history of any LinkedIn member, and make hiring and firing decisions based upon the information they gather,” without ensuring that the information was accurate. This, they said, is a violation of the Fair Credit Reporting Act.

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Dems Push to Muzzle Internet

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times - Friday, October 24, 2014 The FEC deadlocked in a crucial Internet campaign speech vote announced Friday, leaving online political blogging and videos free of many of the reporting requirements attached to broadcast ads — for now. While all three GOP-backed members voted against restrictions, they were opposed by the three Democratic-backed members, including FEC Vice Chair Ann M. Ravel, who said she will lead a push next year to try to come up with new rules government political speech on the Internet. The FEC deadlocked in a crucial Internet campaign speech vote announced Friday, leaving online political blogging and videos free of many of the reporting requirements attached to broadcast ads — for now.

Costly Internet Tax Could Be On The Horizon

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Web users will face billions of dollars in new taxes if Congress allows a ban on Internet taxes to expire in December.

The Internet Tax Freedom Act prevents state and local governments from taxing Internet use, and has been reauthorized every three years since 1998. If it is not reauthorized in December, consumers and businesses could face $14.7 billion in new taxes, according to a new American Action Forum report.

Extension of the ban has wide support in Congress, but this time it could be linked to a much more controversial bill, the Marketplace Fairness Act, that would allow states to collect a sales tax on Internet goods sold in the state by companies located online or outside of the state.

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WSJ: Experts Worry That Internet Outgrowing Its Gear

By Elliot Jager

Some users around the world experienced slow connectivity, instability, and sluggishness on the Internet Tuesday — a possible sign that the web is outgrowing its gear. 

The Internet's routers that stream online data may be overloading as the quantity of routers hits just 512,000 total world-wide, The Wall Street Journal reported.

The Internet depends on the Domain Name System and the global routing table. The first directs packets of information toward their destination. The second tells them how to reach their target. A breakdown in either system results in some Internet addresses being cut off from the Web, according to the Journal.

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The IBM PC: Was it really only 33 years ago?

Summary: It might seem to some that the IBM PC was invented aeons ago, but for me it seems like happened only yesterday and my, it was exciting.

By Colin Barker | August 12, 2014 -- 14:09 GM

Trying to re-create some of the excitement of an event that happened 33 years ago is a challenge for anyone but a good place to start is with the bald facts. On the 12 August 1981, IBM, at that time the largest computer company in the world, launched the IBM PC.

I would like to say that I was there to witness it, but I wasn't. Like the rest of Europe, sitting in the UK I had to wait for just under a year and a half, Januray 1983, for the official European launch.

That launch I remember well, not least because the it took place at the Which Computer? Show in London. I had a ringside seat because was a reporter on the magazine of the same name. By all accounts there had been a lot of people at the US launch, but as I remember it, the UK/European launch was, almost literally, mobbed. The room heaved with people who wanted to see, touch, hear, even smell, IBM's latest offering.

http://www.zdnet.com/the-ibm-pc-was-it-really-only-33-years-ago-which 7000032542/
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The IBM PC was considered a late-comer to the PC world - the Commodore Pet, Tandy-Radio Shack TRS-80 Model I and Apple II (there never was an Apple I) had all been introduced in 1977 and the Radio Hobbyist Enthuiast Crowd pre-dated even these early machines with the KIM I which first came to market in 1976.

Scuttle-But had it that Big Blue would not jump on the PC Bandwagon until they felt there was enough profit to be made. These early machines, running a variety of Applications for business such as VisiCalc, Dbase II and WordStar proved that this market existed.  Additionally, the CPM Operating System made portability between machines a reality and add on cards allowed the 6502-based machines to run these 8086-8 based operating system with ease.

The rest, as the say, is History.

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IDF set to test new high tech tunnel detection system while Arabs ride Donkey carts

Sensor-based system is revamped version of two previously unsuccessful technolog What is seldom said in the Media is the phenomenal list of Israeli High Tech and Computing inventions: One of the things that has been striking in the vast difference between the Arabs of Gaza and their Terrorist government and the State of Israel.   While the IDF sports state of the art equipment and rides around in Abrams Tanks and Humvees the Palestinians are often seen using DONKEY CARTS to haul their goods. HUH? Yes, they are using DONKEY CARTS in 2014.  Why? Well we know what the answer is: Those Terror Tunnels that the IDF blasted to pieces cost Millions to build and consumed a full half of the Gaza Budget: The rest went to Vietnam era weapons, mortars and Scud Type missiles that can't hit a bull in the ass with a barn. Israel has been using high tech tools to fight their war for survival but most do not know of their many achivevements: Here are a few in Computer Tech: For the TRUTH READ ON:

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House Kicks Internet Tax To The Curb, Forever

  

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A bill passed by the House on Tuesday forbids state and local governments forever from taxing Internet access,reports the Hill.

For Republicans, the point of the Internet Tax Freedom Act, originally enacted in 1996, is to reinforce market stability and consumer certainty. The recent measure would renew the almost expired extension passed in 2007.

“This legislation prevents a surprise tax hike on Americans’ critical services this fall,” saidHouse Judiciary Chairman Rep. Bob Goodlatte. “It also maintains unfettered access to one of the most unique gateways to knowledge and engine of self-improvement in all of human history.”

Although some Democrats like Rep. Judy Chu of California were concerned about the permanent status of removing taxation power, they nevertheless allowed the bill to pass. In particular, Chu was worried that prohibiting governments from taxing Internet access doesn’t take into account changing and unique circumstances which governments sometimes are forced to face.

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Socially Aware - Volume 5, Issue 4 - July 2014

7 Ways to Keep Your Computer From Wasting Your Time

These tips will help you minimize the time you spend behind the keyboard.

John Edwards, Law Technology News

July 14, 2014    | 0 Comments

Computers are great productivity tools—until they begin wasting your time. Here are seven ways to work more effectively on your computer.

1. Stay Targeted. Knowing exactly what you need to get done before getting behind the keyboard will help you stay focused.

2. Kill Slow Apps. If your computer is running slowly, it's probably because an app is hanging or has insidiously begun gobbling up memory or processing power. On a Mac, open the Activity Monitor to find out what’s slowing down your computer. On Windows, right-click the taskbar and select Task Manager to do the same thing. Closing and restarting the troublesome app, or simply restarting the computer, will usually fix the problem.

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Will Supremes Apply Cell Phone Privacy to Metadata Collection?

Marjorie Cohn 

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In one of the most significant Fourth Amendment rulings ever handed down by the Supreme Court, all nine justices agreed in an opinion involving two companion cases, Riley v. California [PDF] and United States v. Wurie, that police generally need a warrant before reading data on the cell phone of an arrestee. This decision may well presage how the court will rule on the constitutionality of the National Security Agency (NSA) metadata collection program when that issue inevitably comes before it.

The Riley/Wurie opinion provides insights into how the court will decide other digital-era privacy issues. Roberts was concerned that "[a]n Internet search and browsing history, for example, can be found on an Internet-enabled phone and could reveal an individual's private interests or concerns—perhaps a search for certain symptoms of disease, coupled with frequent visits to WebMD." The Chief Justice could have been describing the NSA metadata collection program, which requires telecommunications companies to produce all of our telephone communications every day. Although the government claims it does not read the content of those communications, it does monitor the identities of the sender and recipient, and the date, time, duration, place and unique identifiers of the communication. As Roberts pointed out in the cell phone case, much can be learned from this data. Calls to a clinic that performs abortions or visits to a gay website can reveal intimate details about a person's private life. A URL, such as www.webMD.com/depression, can contain significant information, even without examining the content. Whether we access the Internet with our cell phones, or with our computers, the same privacy considerations are implicated.

http://jurist.org/forum/2014/06/marjorie-cohn-metadata-privacy.php

From Google to Amazon: EU goes to war against power of US digital giants

In Europe there is a growing fear of becoming a 'digital colony' ruled by Silicon Valley, whose giant firms wield huge power over privacy – and like to avoid tax. Now regulators are striking back

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An anti-Google protest banner hung outside a developer's conference in San Francisco. Photograph: Noah Berger/Reuters

Within the salons of the Elysée Palace, along the corridors of the European parliament and under the glass dome of the Reichstag, OldEurope is preparing for a new war. This is not a battle over religion or politics, over land or natural resources. The raw material that Paris, Brussels and Berlin are mobilising to defend is the digital environment of Europe's inhabitants; their enemies are the Silicon Valley corporations that seek to dominate it.

Coal, gas and oil powered the industrial revolution, but in the digital era, data is replacing fossil fuels as the most valuable resource on Earth, and the ability to collect and interrogate it has created organisations with a power that can at times seem beyond the control of nation states. Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google represent, in the words of Germany's economy minister Sigmar Gabriel, "brutal information capitalism", and Europe must act now to protect itself.

"Either we defend our freedom and change our policies, or we become digitally hypnotised subjects of a digital rulership," Gabriel warned in a passionate call to action published by the Frankfurter Allgemeine. "It is the future of democracy in the digital age, and nothing less, that is at stake here, and with it, the freedom, emancipation, participation and self-determination of 500 million people in Europe."

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FDA Releases Long-Awaited Guidances on Character Limitations and Misinformation on Internet/Social Media

Drugs and the Internet: FDA Distributes New Draft Guidance Regarding Social Media Platforms and Prescription Drugs

ISIS on the Internet - Jihad goes WWW

ISIL’s social media strategy has wowed the masses. VICE called them “total social media pros” and lauded the group's multi-pronged approach.

Other jihadist groups have made use of online platforms, including Facebook, independent forums and Twitter, but ISIL has earned a name for having the most internet success so far. The group has added Android apps, professionally shot and edited videos, and multilingual media outlets to its online arsenal — not to mention their own line of commercial products.

“We are here to show Muslims that we are fighting for the caliphate ... restoring glory, honor, dignity, and equality to the Islamic nation,” said Abu Bakr Al Janabi, a dedicated ISIL supporter living in the EU who often translates and re-posts the group’s statements.

“[ISIL] fights on behalf of the Islamic nations, so they need very strong media.”

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How to Keep Up With New Programming Languages

BY NOAH STERLING

In our latest Ask a Dev video, web developer Robert Williams shares his tips on keeping up with programming languages when it seems like a new one comes out almost every day.

Even with all the new languages, a solid basis for web programming is still JavaScript. It's been around for two decades, and this primary language of the Internet isn't going anywhere. New developments come out all the time, with technologies like Node and Phantom that allow developers to use the language on a server, as well as new APIs that continue to extend its reach.

http://mashable.com/2014/06/26/new-programming-languages/