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Genachowski to head FCC
By Brian Santo
CedMagazine.com - January 09, 2009
<http://www.cedmagazine.com/Genachowski-head-FCC.aspx>
The next Chairman of the FCC is going to be Julius Genachowski, 
according to sources familiar with the choice.
That Genachowski was a leading candidate for the position was first 
reported several weeks ago by The Washington Post (story here).
Genachowski, currently a venture capitalist, served as chief counsel 
to former FCC Chairman Reed Hundt. He also attended law school at 
Harvard with Barack Obama and led the development of the
president- elects technology and innovation agenda.
Obama has said little about his agenda for the communications 
industry. He has taken positions common with most recent politicians: 
He wants to promote universal broadband Internet access to all 
Americans and is an advocate of net neutrality, though what is meant 
by net neutrality remains undefined.

Bell Labs on Global Warming...in 1958
They gave us solar cells and the first solar photovoltaics over 50 
years ago.  Now, it seems that they also presented the risks of global 
warming and its effects  in in the old "Bell System Science Series" in 
the same time frame.  This particular movie was called "The Unchained 
Goddess" and was directed by Frank Capra.  In it, "Dr. 
Research" (Frank Baxter), talks about the effects of global warming. 
What he says is pretty much in line with what is debated today, and 
the program was made in 1958.
Youtube clip:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lgzz-L7GFg

The EFF's Network Neutrality testing tool.
www.eff.org/testyourisp/switzerland
Open source.  In alpha.  Command line.
Briefly, "...Switzerland is designed to detect the modification
or injection of packets of data traveling over IP networks,
including those introduced by anti-P2P tools from Sandvine
(widely believed to be used by Comcast to interfere with
BitTorrent uploads) and AudibleMagic, advertising injection
systems like FairEagle, censorship systems like the Great
Firewall of China, and other systems that we don't know
about yet."


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