“Chinese authorities intend to police and control instant messaging, cell phones, blogs and search engines.”
If they continue to apply more and more pressure the People Republic of China is going to break. It is an interesting experiment to see how long people will stand for having zero freedom of speak. Even though America is going the way of Chinese with privacy (as in no citizens having any) it is good to know there is still some freedom of speach left.
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A recent change to AT&T's privacy policy for broadband and video users is overbroad and likely will leave the courts or Congress to decide whether the company's practices are standard or sinister, legal experts said this week.
This is why I switched to Vonage. I am so sick of telco's abuse of power. As soon as I can I'd like to also get rid of my Cable service as well. I believe Vonage and other VoIP services are being preped to give all data to the NSA but AT&T and Verizon are going nuts.
I hope WiMax opens up new small business to compete with the current telcos.
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Computer viruses are like real-life viruses: When they're flying around infecting every PC (or person) in sight, they're scary. But after the fact…well, they're rather interesting, albeit in a gory kind of way. With this in mind, we shamelessly present, in chronological order, the 10 most destructive viruses of all time.
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