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Congress to Fight Piracy with Education Funds
Nomihn0 writes "The RIAA has announced that the House Education and Labor committee is considering an amendment, HR1689, to the Higher Education Act of 1965. The proposal would allocate federal education funds to anti-piracy measures on college campuses. Most concerning is the bill's wording. It's claimed that the proposal would 'save telecommunications bandwidth costs.' In other words, the government will fund private packet filtering and preferential bandwidth allocation. 'The Higher Education Act (HEA) generally allows schools to spend the money they receive only on certain prescribed areas such as financial aid grants and Pell loans. The new bill would allow that money to be used for more things, but does not contain a request for additional funding. Whether schools would be interested in using a limited pool of federal money to police student file-swapping remains to be seen.'"
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Why should the Federal government pay for anything related to education? It has no Constitutional role in education, and I resent my tax money being spent on education.
The Tao that can be spoken is not the one eternal Tao
iPhone batteries "die in 40 minutes"
Apple fanboys kill the messenger
By Nick Farrell: Friday 06 April 2007, 07:14
APPLE FANBOYS have really been going for hack John C Dvorak after one of his sources in Cingular told him the iPhone's batteries lasted just 40 minutes.
During Episode 93 of the spodcast this Week in Tech (TWiT)Dvorak said he received information from "a guy at Cingular who's testing the product." The unnamed, male Cingular employee told Dvorak "there's lots of issues" with the iPhone.
Dvorak said that the iPhone was blighted with not having a removable battery, so "you run 20 minutes and you're using up half the battery power. You get 40 minutes total talk time. And the interface fouls up constantly."
The Cingular geezer or geezerette asked Dvorak not to tell anyone. OK it is a "man in the pub told me" style story, but it does not mean that there is no truth behind it. Certainly it is an odd thing to make up.
But the fan boys are up in arms about the comment and every where the story appears on the interweb there is a diatribe from at least three fanboys about how unreliable Dvorak is as a reporter.
One post said that Dvorak had a background in news and was therefore not qualified to write about technical stuff. Others sited a 1991 prediction he made that didn't come true.
One poster said that if Steve Jobs said that 40 minutes on the phone was long enough to speak to someone that must be OK and he would curtail his usage immediately. Another added that if people used their phones longer than 40 minutes there must be something wrong with them.
More here: http://www.twit.tv/93 [www.twit.tv] [www.twit.tv] [www.twit.tv] [www.twit.tv]
> Also notice that the least educated people tend to listen to rap "music"...
Anyone who modded that insightful should be permanently stripped of all mod privileges. If I wanted to hang out on a forum where "niggers are dumb" is considered insight I'd be over at Stormfront and trolling the skins with pedo chat about Prussian Blue.
> whoa there, you can't just make a jump from music genre to race slander
In my opinion, that's exactly what the OP did. He didn't say "dumb people like popular music," he said "the least educated people tend to listen to rap 'music'," and even added the condescending double-quotes to make sure we knew that not only are rap fans uneducated, they're too dumb to even realise that they're not listening to music. I only used the dreaded n-word because it's always easier to just try to cut to the truth than to sit around using all those flouncy euphemisms like "those people" and "urban" and "well-spoken" and the like. Anyone who's going to reduce the entire spectrum of rap to "music for dumb people" doesn't strike me as someone who's going to be very open-minded about race, either.