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FCC Approves Television Whitespace for Internet Access
written 11 Nov 2008 while the sun tried, at least, rising
Whitespace is more commonly known as “snow” or “fuzz” – the black and white static between channels on your TV. Now that HD is taking over and they’ll be leaving analog behind, they’re also freeing up a ton of this space on the spectrum. What HD did, aside from simply creating a more vivid picture, was to condense the amount of the spectrum needed to deliver television stations to your home.
Google, among others, routed heavily for the FCC to allow the space to be used publicly for Internet access, rather than sold off to big companies like Verizon who would then control what can or can’t be done with the space.
According to USA Today, “white space spectrum will be unlicensed and free — like Wi-Fi — to anybody who wants to use it.” Whether or not that means you’ll be able to get free Internet or not is hard to say, but don’t count on it.
The FCC is also apparently investigating the big cable companies like Comcast and Time-Warner to see if they’re using the transition from analog to digital to hike up prices, great news considering how cable TV five years ago cost around $20 and now with all of the digital add-on features, you’re looking at closer to $50 or more.
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Obama to Make Technology a Hub, not Just a Spoke
According to NPR, Obama plans to seriously overhaul some technological aspects of the government and everyday American’s lives as well. He specifically mentioned hiring a Chief Technical Officer to coordinate government IT departments and making certain they’re using the best technology, to put government affairs online so that citizens can review what’s being spent on what and other decisions, and ensuring that everyone in the nation has access to broadband Internet.
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I’m Emailing for the Greater Good
Everyone gets them, most of us hate them, and who the hell is forwarding them anyway? The paintings of animals on someone’s hand or those chalk drawings that one guy does that looked cool, the first fifty times. Forwarding emails costs American businesses $8 trillion every half-second and that doesn’t even include the time wasted waiting for all of those pictures to load up on your company’s DSL connection.
IE is about to lose the popular vote
Checking in with the W3Schools Browser Statistics, it looks like Internet Explorer is dangerously close to losing it’s majority share of the browser market.
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Living the Times in which We Do
This world around us is perhaps the greatest place we can live. Whether you choose to spend your afternoon choosing fruit and fresh vegetables from the wooden and baskety of your local marketplace, or swimming your hands in dish soap and daily chores, the very acts of our every day are what make up the entire purpose of living. Televisions and books and writers and rock stars and high school football stars all make it seem like perhaps there’s something more to strive towards, that there is a glamour in fame and a desire to have all of the fortunes and lifestyles that we can possibly muster up and hold onto in our six or seven decades. Of course, most of us can only hope to watch a movie that will give us that escape. Escape from the daily living that we should be doing anyway, and perhaps then we’d enjoy it more.
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