March 10, 2010 |
Digital Life
More and more professors are banning laptops from their classrooms. This is coming at a time when more and more colleges are also requiring students to buy laptop computers.
What do you think?
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May 20, 2009 |
Digital Rights
Cory Doctorow, the Canadian blogger and science fiction writer, has come out against ISPs’ increasing efforts to throttle and control bandwith and Internet accesss.
He argues in the Manchester Guardian that:
ISPs are censoring sites that they don’t agree with for whatever reason, including striking workers’ sites. It’s also outrageous to allow a service provider to block [...]
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December 25, 2008 |
Digital Policy, News
President-elect Obama has called for spending $44 billion on broadband, according to the story being discussed on Slashdot:
Slashdot | Universal Broadband Plan Calls For $44 Billion
I think it’s about time that the U.S. got its broadband act together. Everytime broadband is discussed, someone brings up the excuse that that U.S. can’t have as good Internet [...]
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