Barney Frank puts the latest Republican gay sex scandal in perspective, urging the Larry Craig character not to resign:
“What he did, it’s hypocritical, but it’s not an abuse of his office in the sense that he was taking money for corrupt votes,” Frank told the Associated Press.
“I think people should resign when they have clearly [...]
Craig’s List has drawn the attention of the Atlanta police as a hub for child prostitution, and amid the furor we learn that Craig has retired:
Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin has called on a popular Web site to take responsibility for what she said is the company’s role in promoting child prostitution.
“Children are being marketed through [...]
The unraveling of Mike Behe’s mutation math continues, with this common-sense finding:
Beneficial mutations in the bacterium Escherichia coli occur 1,000 times more frequently than previously predicted, according to research from a group in Portugal.
In a study of E. coli populations of various different sizes, Isabel Gordo and her collaborators at the Gulbenkian Science Institute in [...]
Hal Singer’s paper on net neutrality is quite good.
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David Frum isn’t one of my favorite people, or even one of my favorite Republicans, but he understands Karl Rove better than anyone:
Mr. Rove often reminded me of a miner extracting the last nuggets from an exhausted seam. His attempts to prospect a new motherlode have led the Republican party into the immigration debacle…
Building coalitions [...]
Check this out, technodabbler. VMware is worth a cool $20 Billion. That’s not social networking or open source, it’s real business, a company that sells software against two free alternatives and wins. I should have been nicer to that recruiter when she called me a few months ago, but who knew?
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Doc Searls wants to know what you would do with a Gigabit fiber connection between your dwelling unit and the Internet. My answer: nothing I couldn’t do with Verizon’s standard 15 Mb/s connection. Am I missing some vital need that I have and don’t know about? Tons of bandwidth is cool until you get the [...]
The great white space coalition’s submissions to the FCC are a big bust:
A group of companies including Microsoft and Google had hoped to convince regulators that some new devices could carry high-speed Internet connections over television airwaves without interfering with broadcast signals.
But it didn’t work as planned, according to a report released this week by [...]
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