Tag: fcc
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FCC Announces Nationwide ‘Presidential Emergency Alerts’ to Be Tested
he Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has made it official. It has released an order that requires participants in the Emergency Alert System (EAS), namely broadcasters, cable operators, and certain satellite providers, to participate in the first-ever national test of EAS.
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For Hollywood, It Was a Tough 2010 As Spending Continued to Fall
The industry that was supposed to be immune to economic downturns looks like it’s going to have some re-entry problems as the economy begins to recover. Broad swaths of the entertainment business declined in 2010.
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internet splits in two
“The Internet Splits in Two” by Dan Lyons sees the recent Net Neutrality Ruling by FCC leading to a bifurcation of fast internet for the rich and slow crappy internet for the poor and the amounts of information available. Lyons views the ruling as tantamount to having a Bloomberg terminal to do stock trading versus…
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fcc gets votes to pass ‘net neutrality’ rules
video: fcc confident ‘net neutrality’ is legal from wsj: The top communications regulator won support to pass contentious new rules for Internet traffic, a move likely to face legal challenges and create uncertainty about Internet regulation. The Federal Communications Commission is set to approve on Tuesday Chairman Julius Genachowski’s proposed rules governing net neutrality -…
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11/11 Defcon: Brain Drain & Smart Viruses
FCC probing Google wi-fi spy scandal // New cyber attack linked to fake Nobel Prize email // Smart viruses threaten global peace // Congresswoman says chance of cyber attack against electric grid is 100%
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10/28 Defcon: The Dark Ages & Leaking Data
One EMP burst and the world goes dark // Feds let Google off with warning for Wifi–sniffing cars // Google admits street view cars took emails & passwords from computers // Netflix now accounts for 20% of downstream bandwidth during peak
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Defcon 6/17: Civilization, Sun & a Stunning Interface
NASA: Civilization will end in 2013 (possibly) // Electronic armageddon on National Geographic // Supreme Court: Police officer’s texting not private
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Defcon 5/13: Web Tax, Hacks & Output Jacks
FCC lets Hollywood turn off your output jacks // World Health Org moving ahead on billions in internet & other taxes // Richard Clarke says cyber attack will wreck US in 15min // Pentagon turns to brain implants to repair damaged minds // Nintendo CEO: Apple is the ‘enemy of the future’
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#NewWorldNextWeek: Rev Billy, Collateral Murder, Net Neutrality
Rev Billy Placed ‘Holy Hex’ on JPMorgan Over WV Mountaintop Removal // Wikileaks Releases Video of Civilians Killed by US in Baghdad // FCC Loses Net Neutrality Battle Against Comcast
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fcc loses net neutrality battle against comcast
court: fcc had no right to sanction comcast for p2p blocking from washington post: Comcast on Tuesday won its federal lawsuit against the Federal Communications Commission in a ruling that undermines the agency’s ability to regulate Internet service providers just as it unrolls a sweeping broadband agenda. The decision also sparks pressing questions on how…
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Alt Media Under Attack As Corporate/State Media Want More
In order to counter alternative media, an adviser to the Federal Communications Commission has suggested using your tax money to create “public media” that will serve as a “filter” and a “megaphone” for a network of government-funded journalists competing with other, non-government-backed reporters…
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free radical: jeff simmons, pra, radio23 & cascade community radio
from willamette week: On a plush couch in the back of Northeast Portland bar Tiga, Jeff Hylton Simmons asks if I know what time it is. “About 10 till 10,” I tell him. He opens his laptop. “All I’ve got to do is turn this thing off,” he explains, waiting for a five-second countdown to…
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1/28 newspurge: like a secret society, meeting at the midnight mass
drugwar updates: video: cheech & chong get fair & balanced on fox* geopolitiks: clyde lewis’ ground zero media: norwegian woodpecker*flashback: israel makes waves by simulating an earthquake*children disappearing from hospitals in haiti*haiti – a history of intervention, occupation and resistance*blue helmets pepper spray hungry haitians*radio free haiti, on the ground & in the skies*who plans…
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censorship, searches, browsers & the spectrum band
china monitoring billions of texts as censorship increasesfrom telegraph: Customers of China’s two largest mobile phone networks, China Mobile and China Unicom, have had their texting service blocked after sending risqué messages, the state media claims. The disclosure comes as the country is embroiled in a dispute with Google. On Tuesday the internet giant said…