I was emailing with a friend of mine yesterday who is a 30 year veteran of silicon valley. He'd written a post that was quite positive about the iPad. I sent him my post which wasn't so positive. We had a good discussion.

Because the FCC "has failed to tie its assertion" of regulatory authority to an actual law enacted by Congress, the agency does not have the power to regulate an Internet provider's network management practices, wrote Judge David Tatel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski this morning proposed broad new rules prohibiting Internet providers-both wireless and wireline-from selectively blocking or slowing Internet traffic.

I'd like to thank Brookings for hosting me and this discussion about the future of broadband and the Internet. We've just finished a summer of big-ticket commemorations, celebrating the 40th anniversaries of the Apollo landing and of Woodstock; 1969 was also a good year to be a kid in New York, with Joe Namath calling the Super Bowl, and the Knicks' season that ended with the legendary Willis Reed in Game 7.

On April 7th 2010, David at seo-writer.com wrote: I guess some guys just don't appreciate what they have...and it wouldn't matter if they had everything they ever wanted. On April 7th 2010, Matt wrote: Having a hot body doesn't stop a woman from being a cunt, even if she is famous.

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Score one for Miami lawyer Jared Beck and his class-action suit against Yelp. But Yelp execs announced this afternoon they're making two major changes to the way their website works, in the hopes of stemming complaints like those made in Beck's lawsuit.

"‹The U.S. Attorney's Office just sent word: On Saturday afternoon, a 27-year-old Plano man named Erlyndon J. Lo, was arrested by FBI agents at his home on charges that he threatened to use deadly force to stop an abortion at the Southwestern Women's Surgery Center on Greenville Avenue and Lovers Lane., the U.S. Attorney's Office outlines the charges against Lo, including one count of "threatening force to intimidate and interfere with clients and employees of a reproductive health service in order to intimidate that facility's clients and employees from obtaining and providing reproductive health services."

Now casting for Season 2 of WCG Ultimate Gamer. We're looking for the best all-around video gamer, so if you're an avid gamer, at least 18 years old, have a valid passport, and want a shot at $100,000, we want you!

There's a great article at The Guardian today that compares the iPad's introduction to that of the iPod and iPhone, and offers interesting numbers regarding Apple's share of the tablet market. Last January, IDC analyst David Daoud projected that sales of non-Apple tablet PCs will fall to 1.25 million units in 2010 (down from 1.32 million in 2008).

Apache has some security configuration tips on their site and Microsoft has some tech center resources for IIS on theirs. Some of these tips include information on directory permissions, server side includes, authentication and encryption.

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It is such a pleasure to be back here at the ASIL. I am embarrassed to confess that I have been a member of ASIL for more than 30 years, since my first year of law school, and coming to the annual meeting has always been a highlight of my year.

Teabonics is the portmanteau that describes the Tea Party vernacular. A linguistic phenomenon that began around 2008, when Obama birthers started showing up outside of Sarah Palin rallies with handmade signs, usually featuring one or more egregious misspellings.

Jorge Colombo drew this week's cover using Brushes, an application for the iPhone, while standing for an hour outside Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum in Times Square. "I got a phone in the beginning of February, and I immediately got the program so I could entertain myself," says Colombo, who first published his drawings in The New Yorker in 1994.

The iPad queue on Fifth Ave. Photo: PED UPDATE: Apple issued a press release Monday putting first-day iPad sales at over 300,000. They did not offer a number that included Sunday sales. "It feels great to have the iPad launched into the world -- it's going to be a game changer," said Steve Jobs, in a prepared statement.

The NanoStars games look really engaging and fun to play, but I'm not sure they can work in the mass market. They just seem so COMPLICATED. Just look at how much of this review is taken up with EXPLAINING THE CONCEPT.

In portrait mode, the on screen keyboard required a bit of finger dexterity when typing with thumbs. Children may find that difficult to do. The keyboard is larger and less cramped in landscape mode and it's similar in size to the keyboard on a 10-inch netbook.

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Bit by bit we're getting information on the Obama stimulus plan, enough to start making back-of-the-envelope estimates of impact. The bottom line is this: we're probably looking at a plan that will shave less than 2 percentage points off the average unemployment rate for the next two years, and possibly quite a lot less.