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  1. Cancelling Roger's Contract

    Posted 4 Mar 2010

    They want $400 from us for cancelling. Our argument is that the service does not work properly, therefore, it is they who are in breach of the contract, so we will not pay it.

    Has anyone ever managed to successfully cancel a Rogers contract without paying a penalty if there was a significant amount of time left on the contract?

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  2. Big Brother talks about targeting the net

    Posted 3 Mar 2010

    Michael McConnell, the former director of national intelligence:


    "We need to develop an early-warning system to monitor cyberspace, identify intrusions and locate the source of attacks with a trail of evidence that can support diplomatic, military and legal options — and we must be able to do this in milliseconds. More specifically, we need to re-engineer the Internet to make attribution, geo-location, intelligence analysis and impact assessment — who did it, from where, why and what was the result — more manageable. The technologies are already available from public and private sources and can be further developed if we have the will to build them into our systems and to work with our allies and trading partners so they will do the same."

    Re-read that sentence. He’s talking about changing the internet to make everything anyone does on the net traceable and geo-located so the National Security Agency can pinpoint users and their computers for retaliation if the U.S. government doesn’t like what’s written in an e-mail, what search terms were used, what movies were downloaded. Or the tech could be useful if a computer got hijacked without your knowledge and used as part of a botnet.


    Read More http://www.wired.com.../#ixzz0h8VdujY1


    Assistant Commerce Secretary Lawrence E. Strickling.
    In fact, “leaving the Internet alone” has been the nation’s internet policy since the internet was first commercialized in the mid-1990s. The primary government imperative then was just to get out of the way to encourage its growth. And the policy set forth in the Telecommunications Act of 1996 was: “to preserve the vibrant and competitive free market that presently exists for the Internet and other interactive computer services, unfettered by Federal or State regulation.”

    Now the NTIA needs to start being active to prevent cyberattacks, privacy intrusions and copyright violations, according to Strickling. And since NTIA serves as one of the top advisers to the president on the internet, that stance should not be underestimated.

    Add to that — a bill looming in the Senate would hand the president emergency powers over the internet — and you can see where all this is headed. And let the past be our guide.


    Read More http://www.wired.com.../#ixzz0h8WKG92C



  3. US Immersed in a Doomsday Cycle

    Posted 2 Mar 2010

    Even as many Americans still struggle to recover from the country's worst economic downturn since the Great Depression, another crisis – one that will be even worse than the current one – is looming, according to a new report from a group of leading economists, financiers, and former federal regulators.

    Without more stringent reforms, "another crisis – a bigger crisis that weakens both our financial sector and our larger economy – is more than predictable, it is inevitable," Johnson says in the report, commissioned by the nonpartisan Roosevelt Institute.

    http://abcnews.go.co...tory?id=9990828

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