I recently read an article on Forbes.com where the reporter attempts to talk about Embryonic Stem Cell research (or ES) and its supposed dirty little secret. In this article the author, Michael Fumento, asks when will ES be ready for clinical applications and suggests that ES is not worth pursuing because end results that involve [...]
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Years ago, at the dawning of the internet, news outlets broke from the norm by offering the news online at no addition cost. It has been almost two decades since then and several things have changed. First, the number of sources of news online has grown exponentially. Second, the technology has changed and improved, giving [...]
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As some of you (anyone that has read the about me section) know, I am a web developer and as such I have become involved in open source projects (the PHP that runs this website for starters). One of the most frustrating things about open source is finding a way to monetize it.
So far I [...]
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After the last few articles that I have written I thought that things couldn’t get much worse. I thought they would at least give it a couple weeks before taking another shot a stomping on consumer rights. Boy was I wrong.
Today we received news about a small town in North Carolina called Wilson. This town [...]
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Last week was a busy one for not only Time Warner, but also the cable industry. First Time Warner released a statement about the new national broadband initiative to which the FCC has taken on a “consultative role”. In the statement they essentially tell the FCC that the nation needs to stick with worrying about [...]
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For those of you that have been following tech news for the last year or so it is not news that Time Warner is experimenting with and pushing metered billing. What they want to do is set data usage caps and offer customers different tiers of capping and pricing so that they can choose a [...]
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