Via Slashdot:

“Seven Republican senators have announced a plan to curb the Obama administration’s push to impose controversial Net neutrality regulations on the Internet.” “The FCC’s rush to take over the Internet is just the latest example of the need for fundamental reform to protect consumers,” says Sen. Jim DeMint, who I’m sure truly only has the consumer’s needs at heart — since his campaign contributions list AT&T in his top five donating organizations.

I’d like to see a panel of morons get in on a debate on this topic. The FCC is taking over the Internet? rofl by giving it to the people instead of business. What a very un-american remark sir.

I’d love to hear them try to argue this stupidity when faced with logic and facts (instead of with lobbyist dollars).

Ridiculous.

The US will be BURIED by your plan in 10 years in terms of technological innovation. Caught doing nothing but playing catch up because Internet speed and availability is being held up and squabbled over.

India beats the US to this technology?

Get used to it. Plenty of other countries are going to get there first.

EDIT:  http://bit.ly/bcDfZl  –  FCC called out on this one no direct responses.

*sigh* some action is better than no action but it looks like the FCC is not gong to be able to stand it’s ground like I had hoped…

What is the goal they are setting on the new National Broadband Plan?    They want the average American to have access to 4 mbps internet by 2020…    That’s right ..  only 4 mbps with 100 mbps to be available in urban centers.

2020 – that’s 10 YEARS away (article here btw and check out the comments) – the rest of the world will likely have 1 gbps (1,000 mbps or 10 times the speed) by then.  And some will even have it by the end of this year and next year.   Interestingly enough if you’re lucky, Google might have hooked up your community already.   But note, by this proposed FCC logic, wouldn’t this mean joe american’s won’t see it until by 2030?  Thanks Google for preparing us for the future – TODAY!
Continued…

After reading this (sent to me by my good friend Mr. Gavan Brown begin_of_the_skype_highlighting     end_of_the_skype_highlighting):

I had a thought…

Steve Jobs thinks that the future of computer is arrogance – ahem – I mean, he thinks it’s about Apples.   But I disagree, I think it’s about Oranges.

Apple thinks the future of computing is on the “new PC”  which is a hand held Apple device which is powered by the highly regulated App Store.  Doomed to be only as good as the apps that Apple specifically approves (a lengthy process).

Key points of said device?:

It’s portable

Its wireless

Its options are limited by both hardware (no USB or media cards or standardized outputs) and governed software

No Flash
Continued…

What else can I say?

An *OPEN* Operating System on an *OPEN* app store and HTML5 support and Flash?   omg..

Hey Apple investors, “sell, sell, sell!!!”.

Article here

FTA:

Google showed off a preview of the Google Chrome Store during the opening keynote at its Google I/O 2010 developer conference. The final version will appear in a release of the developer build of the Chrome browser in the near future, Google vice president for product management Sundar Pichai said. It will also be natively supported on Google’s forthcoming Chrome OS targetted at netbooks.

….

The store integrates the existing large thumbnails used on the New Tab page in Google Chrome with Google’s Checkout technology to allow people to acquire (and, in many cases, pay for) HTML5-based applications. “Once you set it up, it’s normally one click to add an application.”

While Apple has recently been making headlines for its refusal to support Flash on its devices, Google is taking a much more positive view of the Adobe technology. Apps in the Chrome Web store can be built on standard web technologies, including Flash, and we will support them all in the Chrome Web store.

EDIT:  Bunch more are being posted here

Starts here…

Now it will never stop…

But wait – there’s more