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A DC Circuit Court decision against the FCC today is the “shot heard ’round the world” in the battle over net neutrality. Comcast emerges victorious in challenging the authority of the FCC to impose sanctions for discriminating against peer-to-peer network traffic in an attempt to limit bandwidth consumption and manage its network.
The FCC–with its Connecting America: The National Broadband Plan–has been tasked by Congress with creating and implementing a vision for the future of the Internet in the United States. This ruling calls into question the authority of the FCC to oversee Internet and broadband communications–putting the ball back in Congress’ court to more clearly define the role and authority of the FCC.
FCC spokesperson Jen Howard declared in an e-mailed statement “The FCC is firmly committed to promoting an open Internet and to policies that will bring the enormous benefits of broadband to all Americans. It will rest these policies–all of which will be designed to foster innovation and investment while protecting and empowering consumers–on a solid legal foundation.”
Other parties have expressed disappointment and concern over the court ruling. Parul Desai, vice president of the Media Access Project also issued a statement in response to the decision. “I am disappointed in the Court’s finding that the Commission did not make the case for its authority to take action against Comcast’s blocking of BitTorrent. Media Access Project continues to maintain that the Commission must have the authority to protect all Internet users against harmful and anticompetitive conduct by Internet service providers.”
Markham Erickson, executive director of the Open Internet Coalition takes a more critical stance, stating “Today’s DC Circuit decision in Comcast v. Federal Communications Commission creates a dangerous situation, one where the health and openness of the Internet is being held hostage by the behavior of the major telco and cable providers.”
Erickson goes on to say “The Court’s sweeping decision eliminates the Agency’s power to either enforce the Internet Policy Statement or possibly to promulgate new open Internet rules to protect consumers and small businesses under Title I. As a result, the FCC is now unable to police the Internet against anti-competitive and anti-consumer behavior by broadband providers, and may not be able to implement many of the elements of the National Broadband Plan, including comprehensive Universal Service Fund (USF) reform.”
I wrote an article a couple months ago related to this court case and the challenge to the authority of the FCC. I predicted “Losing this court case will provide the FCC with tangible proof for why the pursuit of net neutrality is so urgent, and give Congress incentive to more clearly specify the scope of the FCC’s authority to oversee and police wired and wireless broadband providers.”
The FCC’s Howard summed up her statement with “Today’s court decision invalidated the prior Commission’s approach to preserving an open Internet. But the Court in no way disagreed with the importance of preserving a free and open Internet; nor did it close the door to other methods for achieving this important end.”
Tony Bradley is co-author of Unified Communications for Dummies . He tweets as @Tony_BradleyPCW . You can follow him on his Facebook page .
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Comcast Set To Enter Copyright Wars
WASHINGTON — For all the uncertainties about what the combined company would look like if Comcast and NBC Universal are permitted to join forces, one thing is clear: Comcast will be a much more active participant in the debate over how to deal with pirated content on the Internet.
Comcast CEO Brian Roberts this morning hinted that the nation’s leading cable ISP could take a more active role in fighting against illegal content passing over peer-to-peer networks.
“The whole question of piracy, we are now going to be on both sides of that issue,” Roberts said in an on-stage interview here at the State of the Net conference, an annual tech policy event hosted by the Congressional Internet Caucus.
With the deal in the midst of an antitrust review at the Justice Department, Roberts was guarded in his remarks concerning his plans for revamping NBC once the transaction wins the blessing of the government.
Asked about using filtering technology to block or slow content on Comcast’s network, Roberts was quick to distinguish between legal and illegal content. Comcast (NASDAQ: CMCSA), of course, landed in hot water with the Federal Communications Commission in 2008 for slowing transmissions of lawful peer-to-peer BitTorrent traffic.
“We slowed down. We did not block,” Roberts said. “We realized that that was not the right solution.”
Comcast has since modified its network-management policy to avoid being castigated for singling out a specific type of traffic to slow. But that dust-up was a bandwidth issue, not a copyright matter.
With the company poised to team with NBC Universal, whose premium television content and movies are ripe targets for piracy, Comcast will take on an enormous incentive to get tough on the matter. Comcast has its own television properties, such as the Golf Channel and E, but Roberts this morning said that the cable business still accounts for 95 percent of the company’s revenue.
Those concerns became all the more urgent when the Recording Industry Association of America announced in December 2007 that it was abandoning its policy of suing infringers in favor or partnering with ISPs to monitor for pirated content passing over their networks and send warning letters to consumers. Major ISPs have denied cooperating with the RIAA in its “graduated response” program, which would threaten to cut off repeat infringers’ Internet service.
Groups such as Public Knowledge have warned against false positives, arguing that even the best filtering technologies could mistakenly label legal traffic as pirated content, and block the transmission or worse. That would cast ISPs in the role of copyright cops, and set in motion a wholesale system of filtering that is anathema to both
“Honest answer is I don’t know,” he said. “We don’t anticipate saying we have to change … what they’re now doing.”
But he added that most of Hulu’s television programming is network content that airs for free. Premium content is s different story. Comcast has been aggressively signing up partners for Fancast, its online streaming program through which cable subscribers can watch premium content from partners such as HBO over the Internet.
Roberts assured the audience today that Comcast has no intention of adopting any such discriminatory practices. He’ll have a chance to reprise his performance next week, when he’s slated to testify at one of four congressional hearings that have been scheduled to probe the merger.
Kenneth Corbin is an associate editor at chúng tôi the news service of chúng tôi the network for technology professionals.
Blackburn: Fcc Headed For ‘Congressional Hurricane’
WASHINGTON — Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), an outspoken critic of Internet regulations and a rising star in the Republican Party, on Tuesday predicted that the new Congress would overturn the Federal Communications Commission’s open Internet order, and then proceed with legislation that would set explicit limits on the agency’s authority over broadband providers.
Speaking at the annual conference hosted by the nonpartisan Advisory Committee to the Congressional Internet Caucus, Blackburn outlined in broad strokes a conservative tech policy agenda for the new session, which in addition to curbing what she sees as regulatory overreach, also includes efforts on a variety of fronts to protect intellectual property rights, including patent and copyright reform.
But Blackburn has made the fight against net neutrality a signature issue, including legislation introduced earlier this year that would overturn the FCC’s December order in her first act of the new Congress.
In her remarks today, Blackburn acknowledged that the FCC’s action came only after negotiations on Capitol Hill failed to broker a compromise, and that the issues of net neutrality and the broader question of FCC authority will remain unsettled in the absence of congressional action.
“I think it is fair to say that congressional Republicans and Democrats are a little bit to blame for this. Too few members have engaged seriously on net neutrality,” she said. “When Congress fails to move forward on an issue, bureaucracies step in.”
At the same time, Blackburn characterized the FCC’s December vote as a misguided step that will impose unnecessary regulations on a fast-growing industry, dismissing the concerns of net neutrality proponents as a “hypothetical problem,” and calling for the need to “defend against Washington’s instinct to hyper-regulate.”
“I think that what they may have met with is a congressional hurricane,” she said. “We must see the latest regulatory impulse of the FCC as the wake-up call that it is.”
She added, “Incumbent now for us to immediately reverse the decision and better define the FCC’s jurisdiction.”
Blackburn serves on the Energy and Commerce Committee, which is planning to hold a series of oversight hearings that will likely air harsh indictments of the FCC’s action from many Republican members, who almost universally oppose the net neutrality measure.
But Blackburn predicted that many Democrats will join in the effort to rein in the FCC, saying she expects her bill, which already has more than 60 co-sponsors, to easily pass the House, suggesting, perhaps hopefully, that it could also clear the Senate.
Of course, Senate passage will be a harder proposition, both owing to the sustained — albeit slimmer — Democratic majority, and to the procedural rules that have bottled up copious amounts of legislation referred by the House.
“The Senate is a black hole. You can pass anything out of the House,” Tom Davis, a former congressman from Virginia who now serves as Deloitte’s director of federal government affairs, said in a panel discussion following Blackburn’s keynote address.
But Blackburn also appealed to an audience of technology industry representatives, lobbyists government staffers and others to move past the “stylized” conception of Republicans and Democrats that sees one party kowtowing to the interests of business while the other consistently pursues restrictive regulation and government intrusion into the private sector.
Blackburn called for comprehensive patent reform legislation, for instance. Just last week, Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), who chairs that chamber’s Judiciary Committee, announced that he would again lead the charge to enact similar reform, working with Republican members in both the House and Senate, as he has in the past.
Kenneth Corbin is an associate editor at chúng tôi the news service of chúng tôi the network for technology professionals.
June Dollhouse Therapy Challenge Reveal
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It’s the last Tuesday in June and that means that it’s time for the Dollhouse Therapy Challenge reveal! I am so excited to be co-hosting with Cassie, Alice, and Anu. We have worked hard these last 3 months to decorate our dollhouses. It’s been a fun experience and I was honored to be included with these talented ladies!
We’ve come a long way! I started with a plain house that I built from plywood and primed.
Today, the house is all done and beautiful, if I must say so myself.
Front porchThe house received siding that I painted a dark navy blue, shingles, trim, a “stone” patio made from egg cartons, and a lovely Dutch door. I decorated the porch to make it feel homey.
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Roof Shingles
A sweet bistro table and chair set provide a nice place to sit and enjoy a cold beverage. I added a tiny piece of a fern that was growing in my backyard for the vase.
One of my favorite parts of this challenge is finding the tiniest plants possible to add to the pictures. I love mixing in real plants with fake ones.
A pink metal chair sits on the other side of the patio near a wagon that is filled with plants. Buoys and life rings provide decoration and a nod to the cabin feel of the dollhouse.
I made the buoys by carving wood pieces and painting them.
Plants flank each side of the door. I made the light fixture from a suction cup, wire, and a wooden round piece.
Dutch Door
The sides of the house received some landscaping with a sheet of grass. Garden growies add color and look like flowers.
The inside is completely finished now as well. Putting the house on a turntable makes it easy to work on both sides of the house! It’s going to make playing with both sides really easy for my daughter.
Turntable
Attic Bunk RoomFor the attic space, I wanted to create a bunk room for kids, so I added a false wall to create space for the built in beds. The beds, desk, and shelf are painted pink because it’s my daughter’s favorite color. This dollhouse will be going in her room, so I wanted to add a really special touch for her with the pink paint.
I used scrapbook paper for the wallpaper. I love how it’s modern, but it still has a vintage vibe as well. I made the wall hanging with yarn and wire. The bedding was made by splattering bleach on fabric. The slanted walls are planked with more wooden pieces that I painted white.
The desk area turned out so cute. Do you see that tiny pencil? It’s made from a bamboo skewer that I painted. The “M” paperweight is a bead. The pot is on the desk to hold more pencils. I bought the wire chair years ago from CB2 and I updated it with spraypaint and a pillow. Those tiny books have little blank pages in them! The box on the bottom shelf is a Trivial Pursuit game.
The tribal rugs are made from scrapbook paper. I loved the pattern too much, so I made the paper work. Everything is fair game in dollhouses. A paper rug in real life would be a disaster, but in a dollhouse, it works.
Faux fur rug
Another rug provides more playing space for the doll inhabitants. The mini games are so cute.
Mini Dollhouse
Be sure to check out the final reveal for Cassie at Primitive and Proper, Anu at Nalle’s House, and Alice at Thoughts from Alice. They have been killing it every month!
Emy is a vintage obsessed mama of 2 DIYer who loves sharing affordable solutions for common home problems. You don’t need a giant budget to create a lovely home. Read more…
Move Over Rim, Ios 5 And Icloud Just Took Your Market
Apple pulled back the curtain on day one of the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) to share details of the upcoming iOS 5 update and new iCloud service. If they deliver as promised, iOS 5 and iCloud will change mobile computing, and replace RIM as the de facto mobile platform for business.
What’s the big deal? Well, users already get more done on the go with smartphones and tablets than they do sitting at their desk, and the iPhone and iPad have already been embraced by many users and IT departments, but it has still often felt like swimming upstream, or trying to fit a square peg in a round hole.
The updates announced today for iOS 5, and the new features that will be offered by iCloud change all that, and will make iOS the preferred mobile platform for business.
iOS 5The new features of iOS 5 are a quantum leap forward in terms of productivity. There are too many changes and new features to cover them all, but here are some of the key features that will help users work more effectively and efficiently on the go:
• iMessage – Apple’s iMessage provides a more functional and secure replacement for text messaging–more like instant messaging. Coworkers will be able to message each other–including group messaging for teams or departments. They will be able to track messages, see when the other party is typing, or pick up the conversation from another device.
• Notification Center – The new Notification Center will make it more efficient to view and manage notifications. Incoming notifications are less obtrusive so they won’t get in the way of productivity, but the Notification Center is just a swipe-down away no matter what app you are using.
• Improved Browser – The new Safari browser in iOS 5 will have tabbed browsing, which will make it simpler to navigate between sites. It also includes a new feature called Reading List that lets you save interesting articles or Websites to read later.
• Mail – E-mail gets an overhaul in iOS 5 as well. You will be able to use bold, italic, and underlined text, indent the content of the message, and flag messages. iOS 5 Mail will also be able to search for content within the body of messages.
• Post-PC Era – With iOS 5 the real “post-PC era” begins. iOS devices will be able to activate, stay up to date with the latest iOS releases wirelessly–without needing to be synced with a PC. iOS 5 also cuts the cord in other ways, allowing you to wirelessly sync data between your PC and your iOS device over a shared Wi-Fi connection.
iCloudThose are just a few of the features of iOS 5 that will change the way businesses use the iPhone and iPad. Now, let’s look at what iCloud brings to the table.
Keeping files, e-mails, contacts, and calendars in sync across devices is easier said than done. If you update a calendar event on your iPhone, you might need to sync your iPhone to your PC, then the iPad to the PC just to get all of the devices on the same page. If you use Linux, there is no native iTunes client and syncing the iPhone with the data on the PC at all is a monumental challenge.
iCloud changes all of that. iCloud will sync your contacts, calendar, and mail between you iOS devices and your PC (although–Linux will probably still not be supported), and iCloud will also seamlessly back up your apps and data.
Of course, this is based on what Apple announced, and we’ll have to wait and see how it all plays out in real life. Apple told us MobileMe was going to be revolutionary too, and that didn’t turn out so well, and there could be some security concerns to consider with having all of this data flying around. But, the combination of the new and improved features of iOS 5, and the automatic syncing and backups with iCloud make iOS the platform to beat for mobile business productivity.
Charles River Campus Fall Semester Move
Move-in Street Smarts
On Monday, August 24, and from Wednesday, August 26, through Sunday, August 30, West Campus students moving into Claflin, Sleeper, and Rich Halls will be directed to park in the Langsam Garage and lot (formerly known as the Babcock Street garage and lot). Students moving into 1019 Commonwealth Ave. can park in the garage or in metered spaces.
On Monday, August 24, and from Wednesday, August 26, through Sunday, August 30, Student Village residents moving into 10 Buick St. or 33 Harry Agganis Way will be directed to park in the Agganis Arena garage.
On Sunday, August 30, Harry Agganis Way and Buick Street will be closed from 1 to 4 p.m.
On Monday, August 24, and from Wednesday, August 26, through Sunday, August 30, there will be no unloading of vehicles in front of Warren Towers. Access will be through the Warren Towers garage.
On Monday, August 24, and from Wednesday, August 26, through Sunday, August 30, Buswell Street will be converted to a one-way street going west, from Park Drive to St. Mary’s Street, and going east, from Park Drive to Mountfort Street, from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Wednesday, August 26, through Sunday, August 30, Bay State Road will be closed to through traffic from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Only residents, delivery trucks, and students moving into BU will be allowed access.
On Sunday, August 30, the BU Bridge will be closed for approximately 30 minutes, from 1:15 to 1:45 p.m.
It’s officially here: Move-in 2023, the annual onslaught of undergraduates arriving on the Charles River Campus. In anticipation, several BU offices, including Housing, Dining, Parking, Orientation, and the BU Police Department, have spent much of the summer strategizing over details to make it go as smoothly as possible.
An estimated 1,600 students were expected Monday, among them 700 freshmen and transfers participating in this year’s First-Year Student Outreach Project (FYSOP), which brings new students to campus a week early to perform community service at sites across the Boston area. Others arriving Monday were orientation leaders and athletes gearing up for their fall seasons, says Marc Robillard, executive director of housing and dining.
No move-in was scheduled for Tuesday, August 25, but Wednesday, August 26, was expected to be the week’s busiest day, with as many as 2,600 students arriving. It also happened to be the first day of the final freshman orientation session, attended largely by international students and those from far-flung corners of the United States. Scarlet Squad members, the red-shirted upperclassmen who assist first-year students during Move-in, also arrived Wednesday to be ready for the freshmen and their families needing help Saturday and Sunday lugging gear into their new digs.
There will be a lull on Thursday and Friday, August 27 and 28, with only 1,000 students expected each day. Traffic will pick up again on Saturday, August 29, when most of the remaining freshmen arrive ahead of the Matriculation ceremony on Sunday, August 30, where the 3,625 members of the Class of 2023 will gather together in Agganis Arena at 2 p.m.
New students can move in on Saturday from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. and on Sunday from 9 a.m. to noon. Continuing students can move in Sunday from noon to 5:30 p.m. and on Monday, August 31, from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Resident assistants will check students in and parking lot attendants will help direct traffic.
A special Move-in weekend shuttle will run up and down Commonwealth Avenue on Saturday, August 29, and Sunday, August 30, from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. The shuttle will stop at 13 locations between Kenmore Square and Agganis Arena. This is in addition to the regular BU Shuttle (BUS), which travels between the Charles River and Medical Campuses.
During Move-in week, the BUPD will reroute traffic at specific spots across campus, and officers will be on hand to direct drivers during the following changes:
Bay State RoadWednesday, August 26, through Sunday, August 30, Bay State Road will be closed to through traffic from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Only residents, delivery trucks, and students moving in to BU will be allowed access.
700 Commonwealth Avenue (Warren Towers)On Monday, August 24, and from Wednesday, August 26, through Sunday, August 30, no vehicles will be allowed to unload in front of Warren Towers. Access will be through the Warren Towers garage only.
South CampusOn Monday, August 24, and from Wednesday, August 26, through Sunday, August 30, Buswell Street will be converted to a one-way street going west from Park Drive to St. Mary’s Street, and going east from Park Drive to Mountfort Street, from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.
BU BridgeOn Sunday, August 30, the BU Bridge will be closed for approximately 30 minutes, from 1:15 to 1:45 p.m., as thousands of freshmen join Dean of Students Kenneth Elmore (SED’87) in the annual procession along Commonwealth Avenue from East Campus to Agganis Arena, for Matriculation.
Harry Agganis Way and Buick StreetOn Monday, August 24, and from Wednesday, August 26, through Sunday, August 30, Student Village residents moving into 10 Buick St. or 33 Harry Agganis Way will be directed to park in the Agganis Arena garage.
On Sunday, August 30, Harry Agganis Way and Buick Street will be closed from 1 to 4 p.m. for Matriculation.
The Agganis Arena lot (the lower outdoor service lot) will be closed to faculty and staff parking permit holders Monday, August 24, through Sunday, August 30.
Babcock StreetOn Monday, August 24, and from Wednesday, August 26, through Sunday, August 30, West Campus students moving into Claflin, Sleeper, and Rich Halls will be directed to park in the Langsam Garage and lot (formerly known as the Babcock Street garage and lot); the garage entrance is on Gardner Street. Students moving into 1019 Commonwealth Ave. can park in the garage or in metered spaces.
The Langsam Garage and lot (formerly known as the Babcock Street garage and lot) will have limited spaces for faculty and staff parking permit holders from Monday, August 24, through Sunday, August 30; the garage entrance is on Gardner Street.
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