White Space and Free Internet

Outgoing Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin is pushing for action in December on a plan to offer free, pornography-free wireless Internet service to all Americans, despite objections from the wireless industry and some consumer groups.
Free filtered internet? Sounds good. Free unfiltered internet? Even better. It seems to me that any effort to “filter” the internet will be met with resistance. It’ll also be pretty difficult.

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Happy Accident Opens Door to Cheaper, Higher-Resolution Cameras

Scientific accidents have brought some of the most groundbreaking discoveries — vulcanized rubber, X-rays, penicillin — and now scientists at UCLA have accidentally discovered a material that could make digital cameras as we know them obsolete.

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