Posted on July 27th, 2012 by Deborah Collier
In the latest overreach of power by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), on July 24, 2012, the agency upheld a December 20, 2011 decision by an administrative law judge ordering Comcast to include the Tennis Channel in the same basic tier offering as the Golf Channel and NBC Sports. This is perhaps the most egregious [...]
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Posted on July 16th, 2012 by Tom Schatz
President Obama is apparently spending way too much time with Vice President Joe Biden and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. The Veep and the Leader are both well-known for making inane comments, with numerous websites devoted to their malapropisms. While President Obama is not likely to catch up to either one of them, his statement [...]
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Posted on July 12th, 2012 by Deborah Collier
On July 11, 2012, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) issued a report on “Information Technology Reform: Progress Made but Future Cloud Computing Efforts Should be Better Planned.” The GAO did the study in response to the administration’s 25 point plan for reforming federal information technology’s “cloud first” initiative, which set a goal for each agency to [...]
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Posted on July 9th, 2012 by Maddie Eldridge
Imagine if the government passed a law requiring you to purchase either a specified number of pink elephants or government-issued “pink elephant credits.” This is, in essence, what the government is doing to oil companies: requiring them to purchase a nonexistent product or purchase credits for a nonexistent product. The seeds of this nonsensical policy [...]
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Posted on July 6th, 2012 by Deborah Collier
A law enforcement officer must obtain a warrant before opening up mail boxes and reading postal mail. However, the same effort may not be occurring when the authorities wish to access an individual’s personal email. That is what the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is seeking to learn through recent Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) [...]
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Posted on July 6th, 2012 by Deborah Collier
As its current contract for web hosting services in the cloud comes to an end this year, the Department of Treasury has issued a Request for Information (RFI) to learn more about new technologies and services now available in the cloud computing marketplace. The current contract was set for 12 months with a one-year extension [...]
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Posted on July 6th, 2012 by Sean Kennedy
One month removed from proposing a ban on sugary drinks larger than 16 ounces, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg appeared in promotion of the Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest. Bloomberg delivered pun-heavy remarks at the weigh-in for the contest, stopping midway to question his speechwriters, asking “who writes this sh**?” The mayor was [...]
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Posted on July 5th, 2012 by Deborah Collier
On June 27, 2012, the House Subcommittee on Communications and Technology held a hearing on the Future of Video, which took a look at how technology has changed the way Americans view movies, videos, and broadcast TV entertainment. As evidenced by testimony provided during the hearing, there is a wide range of distribution methods now [...]
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Posted on July 3rd, 2012 by Leslie Paige
The author of this post is Roger Morse, CAGW Visiting Fellow Bureaucratic, command-and-control regulation of coastal fisheries wastes taxpayers’ dollars and endangers the sustainability of this common resource. Managing a shared resource like fish in the sea is a difficult problem. Since no one owns them, there has always been simply a race to capture [...]
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