House passes measure to promote fed telework
Ever so slowly, Congress is making progress towards telework. The House energy package included an amendment offered by Rep.
Ever so slowly, Congress is making progress towards telework. The House energy package included an amendment offered by Rep.
The image of battle ray guns alternatively calls up Captain Kirk ordering "Phasers on stun" and the little Martian warning Bugs Bunny, "I will disintegrate you!"Military technology is not quite there yet but the military is hard at work on figuring out the defenses to laser weapons, Wired's Noah Schachtman reports.
Pending OMB approval, the agency would create a phony blood pressure pill, then run ads touting its benefits and risks in various ways, and finally test consumer responses to the ads.
John Doerr (left) and John Heilemann at Web 2.0At the Web 2.
Here come the Congress-critters to carry water for the giant corporations that broadcast what they call television and are crazy to stop a national wireless network delivered over the so-called "white spaces," those unused portions of the analog TV spectrum. Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.), chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, issued a letter last week challenging the FCC's plans for a formal vote on Tuesday, Nov. 4.
Democratic House members blast FCC's Kevin Martin, saying agency is "dysfunctional" but report fails to show much more than bad manners.
At a Churchill Club event in Menlo Park, Calif., Ira Ehrenpreis of Technology Partners moderates a discussion on the role of government in subsidizing green-technology ventures. The panelists are Mike Biddle, CEO at MBA Polymers; Jennifer Fonstad, managing director at Draper Fisher Jurvetson; Dirk Michels, partner at K&L Gates; and John Woolard, CEO of BrightSource Energy.
You can dismiss the FBI's identity database effort as a short term threat to democracy first because they're on the side of the angels and second because they're committed to doing the wrong things wrong anyway - but what about simple data applications like Catalist? And if they're a threat to democracy, how responsible are we for making it possible?
President expected to sign off on law that could draw attention to products that offer "clean tech" solutions.
According to a recent study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, fantasy may be in the process of beating reality in the battle of ideas. In a survey of YouTube viewers of videos relating to information about immunization, videos with negative depiction of the practice (and which were given low ratings for scientific accuracy) were rated higher and had a higher hit count than those that were generally considered to be more scientifically accurate.