Archive for June 9th, 2006

FINALLY !!!

Friday, June 9th, 2006

Google Browser Sync
This is a tool that I have wanted since I FIRST started surfing the World Wide Web. Had I been a better PC hacker I probably would have built it myself. Why this feature has slipped by browser makers for SOOOOOO many years is beyond me.

UPDATE
I spoke to soon on this one. The syncing takes TOOO long. I have never completed a syncing successfully. Just hit the cancel button. Google does warn you about this. Most Google betas are good enough for most people to use. This one is not.

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House rejects Net Neutrality rules | Tech News on ZDNet

Friday, June 9th, 2006

House rejects Net neutrality rules | Tech News on ZDNet
By a 269-152 vote that fell largely along party lines, the House Republican leadership mustered enough votes to reject a Democrat-backed amendment that would have enshrined stiff Net neutrality regulations into federal law and prevented broadband providers from treating some Internet sites differently from others.

The Bill in question is Communications Opportunity, Promotion and Enhancement Act of 2006(CORE) it must now go to the Senate. I assume that it will first be considered by the Senate Judiciary Committee And from there to the floor. Contact the members of the committee, especially if you are one of their constituents. Let them know you want fairness preserved and protected on the Internet.

Also Check here to see your Congressmen voted.

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Another Cloaking devices

Friday, June 9th, 2006

The Beeb Reports on two more theoretical cloaking devices.

So far, cloaking has been confined to science fiction; in Star Trek it is used to render spacecraft invisible.

Professor Sir John Pendry says a simple demonstration model that could work for radar might be possible within 18 months’ time.

In the journal Science two separate teams, including Professor Pendry’s, have outlined ways to cloak objects .

No HInt on when the flying cars are coming.

Update:
Flying Cars !!!!
Terrafugia

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