NSA Boss Wants More Control Over the Net
The Internet should be adapted to allow for oversight by the National Security Agency, the organization's boss says.
The impending Age Of Abundance was prophecied in the scriptures thousands of years ago.
Friday, July 27, 2012
Bullshit
NSA Boss Wants More Control Over the Net
Google Books Deserves To Get Life
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Google urges end to authors' digital book lawsuit
its ambitious plan to build the world's largest digital book library .... Google has said it has scanned more than 20 million books, and posted English-language snippets of more than 4 million .... authors actually benefit because the database helps people find and buy their books ..... a "de facto monopoly" to copy books en masse without permission and served to "further entrench" its market power in online searches. ..... Among the libraries whose works have been scanned are those of Harvard University, Oxford University, Stanford University, the University of California, the University of Michigan, and the New York Public Library .... The United States, Amazon.com Inc and Microsoft Corp had been among those to raise antitrust concerns about the settlement.Paper books should feel odd. Digital books should be the norm. Digital copies of all books current and past should be available. Why do you want to get in the way of authors penetrating markets?
Same Day Delivery: Possible
Not under all circumstances, and not everywhere, and not for every item, but what's the big deal with same day shipping? If you placed your order in the morning, why can't you have it by the time you get home in the evening?
Amazon CFO 'doesn't see a way to do same-day delivery'
"we don't see a way to do same-day delivery on a broad scale economically."
Open English: Online Teaching
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Open English raises $43 million to teach English online across Latin America
Open English was founded in 2006 and launched commercially in 2008. Since then, it has expanded all across Spanish-speaking Latin America and Brazil, while Flybridge invested $4.25 million in its May 2011′s Series B round. ..... more than 50,000 students in 20 countries, it now plans to use its new funding to reach the 80,000 student milestone by the end of the yearWhy only English? This can and should be applied to any subject, at any level.
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