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John Florez: Institutions must change with the times | Deseret News :  "We no longer have the luxury of doing more of the same or listening to nay-saying opportunistic politicians who exploit our fears and offer no solutions. They blame big government, the poor, immigrants, welfare, and fail to see how the world has changed and the need for renewing our institutions for today’s conditions. Then there are those who benefit from the status quo, the “stakeholders,” who have hijacked politicians, and tell them we have the best schools and the best health care in the world, yet other nations are moving ahead of us."

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Speedy AT&T vs. reliable Verizon: The gap narrows | Mobile - CNET News :  "The study was based on a combination of speed and reliability. Verizon has long held a leadership position in reliability and continues to do so in the most recent results. But AT&T has narrowed the gap considerably, which allows its speed advantage to put it over the top."

Labels for GMO Foods Are a Bad Idea: Scientific American :  "The American Association for the Advancement of Science, the World Health Organization and the exceptionally vigilant European Union agree that GMOs are just as safe as other foods. " ...ero.

At Labor Group, a Sense Of a Broader Movement - NYTimes.com :  "For the delegates at the convention, which ended on Thursday, there was a burning realization that the status quo was not working for the nation’s labor unions. Wages for union and nonunion workers alike have flatlined in recent years, while the percentage of private sector workers in unions has slipped to just 6.6 percent. That is less than one-fifth the level during organized labor’s prime, when union leaders were confidants of presidents and the mighty Teamsters threatened strikes that could cripple much of the nation’s commerce. Desperate to figure out how to stop labor’s descent, the A.F.L.-C.I.O., a federation of 57 labor unions, invited scores of nonunion groups, including the National Organization for Women, United Students Against Sweatshops and Arts and Democracy, to the four-day convention to brainstorm. They debated how to shore up the sagging labor movement, how to raise wages and how to persuade Cong...

Amazon cloud goes down in Northern Virginia • The Register :  ""Between 7:04 AM and 8:54 AM we experienced network connectivity issues affecting a portion of the instances in a single Availability Zone in the US-EAST-1 Region," the company wrote at 9:46am Pacific Time on the AWS status page. "Impacted instances were unreachable via public IP addresses, but were able to communicate to other instances in the same Availability Zone using private IP addresses. Impacted instances may have also had difficulty reaching other AWS services. We identified the root cause of the issue and full network connectivity had been restored.""

FCC to auction H block spectrum in 2014 | PCWorld :  "The agency set a minimum price for licenses in the so-called H block of $1.56 billion, with some of the money funding the First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet), a government board building a nationwide broadband network for public safety agencies."

i used to look in the mirror and see "me" , soon enough i started to see my father, eventually my grandfather appeared in the reflection. now when i look in the mirror see "me" again.

PayPal's new Beacon gadget targets shopping without cards :  "Beacon is a three-inch high stick that plugs into an electric wall socket and lets stores automatically identify and authenticate PayPal users as they walk in."

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Can the Coalition's NBN keep pace with change? - The Drum (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) :  "But the World Wide Web was laughed off when it was unveiled by the British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee. The Sun in Britain ran this headline: "World Wide What? Computer Web to Change Billions of Lives (yeah, right).""

I Forgot My Phone: Our Cultural Addiction To Phones, In One Disconcerting Video : All Tech Considered : NPR :   "The extent of our obsession with capturing every moment instead of merely just experiencing them is highlighted in the viral short film, I Forgot My Phone. It's now at nearly 20 million views and if you haven't seen it, you must have gone without your phone too long."

Verizon and FCC to Make Oral Arguments in Court of Appeals Case | Adweek :  ""The case is ostensibly about net neutrality, but what is really at stake is the FCC's jurisdiction over all things broadband. Longer term, the case has the potential to open up a Pandora's box of cable and telecom issues, from who pays what to whom for transport to whether it is or isn't anticompetitive for cable operators to impose usage caps and charge for usage," wrote Craig Moffett, senior analyst with MoffettNathanson Research." ...ero.

Verizon’s Vodafone buyout isn’t about wireless control, it’s about connecting everything — Tech News and Analysis :  "First off, I bet Verizon’s mobile execs will get a lot more enthusiastic about Wi-Fi. Verizon Wireless has always dismissed the technology, saying its ultimate goal is to put more LTE capacity in more places, rather than depend on Wi-Fi to offload its networks. But that’s what you’d expect a company to say if its primary business model is selling consumers 4G data plans. If providing universal connectivity is a goal though, then Wi-Fi will be the glue that links mobile devices back to the wireline network." ...ero.

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