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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4>Vol. 9, No. 36<SPAN
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4>10-1-09</FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4>1 Net neutrality
</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4>2 The flu is
everywhere!</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4>3 Spyware market,
BIOS/MS marriage, budgets on steroids, more Google gadgets</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4>4 Deep hardware
info</FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4>Net neutrality is a
term that has been bandied about for several years and has many different
definitions, depending on who you talk to.</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT
size=4> <o:p></o:p></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4>These definitions
call for more regulation, no regulation and all kinds of permutations but the
simplest explanation is the best.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Leave the Internet alone.</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT
size=4> <o:p></o:p></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4>Since the early days
it has been nurtured by government grants to push its availability but never its
content.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There have never been
taxes on net-based sales and no ISP throttled access to anything.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It was a vast new frontier of
information and commerce.</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT
size=4> <o:p></o:p></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4>Over the years this
has lead to all kinds of technological innovation.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Streaming video and radio, financial
solutions like PayPal and electronic shopping carts, online wholesalers like
Amazon, Voice over IP (VoIP) for phone calls etc.</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT
size=4> <o:p></o:p></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4>Recently ISPs (I’m
looking at you Comcast) have decided to start discriminating on speeds allowed
for different content.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They are
limiting the bandwidth for certain content, like peer-to-peer file sharing
(often done completely legally for open source content), VoIP and other
applications.</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT
size=4> <o:p></o:p></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4>Some ISPs have gone
so far as to propose different access speed tiers for different websites, which
the websites would pay for.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In
other words, if Amazon or Woot paid a fee to the ISP then the site would be
opened up for faster access.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Sites
that didn’t pay up… sorry.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Access
will be much slower.</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT
size=4> <o:p></o:p></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4>Allowing this sort
of skullduggery on the part of the ISPs would be a huge impediment to new ideas,
like the next Facebook or Twitter.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>As a matter of fact, there would never be another breakthrough idea like
that since small start-ups could ill afford an expensive upper tier “membership”
and would be doomed to sink into obscurity.</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT
size=4> <o:p></o:p></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4>Would you watch
YouTube videos if they paused to buffer the stream every five seconds?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I’m guessing not, and if this plan were
in place a few years ago YouTube would have died aborning.</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT
size=4> <o:p></o:p></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4>To prevent this
abomination FCC Chairman Genachowski proposes to force ISPs to keep their
bandwidth open, or “neutral”, for any and all legal content.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In other words, regulating the Internet
to remain exactly as it is.</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT
size=4> <o:p></o:p></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4>Of course there are
dissenters.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And as usual, we’re
talking about a group of mostly lawyers and technology-challenged folks who
don’t know a byte from a bagel.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As
a matter of fact, they don’t even seem to understand simple logic.</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT
size=4> <o:p></o:p></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4>The stupidity,
introduced by Kay Bailey Hutchison as an amendment to an appropriations bill,
seeks to block any funding to the FCC to enforce this neutrality.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I can only guess this amendment was
helpfully written by a Telecom to save Ms. Bailey the trouble.</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT
size=4> <o:p></o:p></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4>Hutchison goes so
far as to say “America has experienced robust investment and innovation in
network performance and online content and applications. For that innovation to
continue, we must tread lightly when it comes to new regulations."</FONT></P>
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size=4> <o:p></o:p></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4>In Internet parlance
I can only say “LOL, Wut?!?” </FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT
size=4> <o:p></o:p></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4>One wonders if the
good Senator is aware of the staggering amount of money, extended through grants
and other government programs, that we the people have provided for that
investment in the network, and the innovation has come from small groups or
individuals with a unique idea, started on a shoe string and often run on a used
server in a garage or basement.</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT
size=4> <o:p></o:p></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4>For innovation to
continue the Internet must remain open and neutral.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The only ones threatening to tread on
anything are large Telecoms and other providers, which Ms. Hutchison would allow
to tread away.</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT
size=4> <o:p></o:p></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4>The lack of
understanding of such a simple concept is stupefying.</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT
size=4> <o:p></o:p></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4>It pales in
comparison to another theory I’ve heard, however.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This theory, straight from the folks who
brought you the “Grassy Knoll” and “Capricorn One”, think this new regulation is
a power grab to allow the government to censor free speech on the
Internet.</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT
size=4> <o:p></o:p></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4>Umm, yeah.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What part of “open and neutral” pertains
to censorship I can’t seem to grasp.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Obviously I lack the required level of crazy.</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT
size=4> <o:p></o:p></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4>I’m so stunned by
all this insanity I don’t even know how to proceed, so I’ll leave you with an
appropriate quote:</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT
size=4> <o:p></o:p></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4>“We have always been
at war with Eurasia.”</FONT></P>
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size=4> <o:p></o:p></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4>Kevin Mefford,
Editor</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><A
href="mailto:pcguru@microdome.net"><FONT
size=4>pcguru@microdome.net</FONT></A></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4>Terry
Wise</FONT></P>
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<H1 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=5>Tech News of the Week</FONT></H1>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4>Spyware is becoming
a big business by getting script kiddies to infect computers on
commission:</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><BR><A
href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/09/30/thriving_malware_affiliate_biz/"><FONT
color=#800080
size=4>http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/09/30/thriving_malware_affiliate_biz/</FONT></A><BR><BR><FONT
size=4>Windows 7 coupled with a new version of a BIOS from
computer<BR>motherboard maker Phoenix lets the computer start booting Windows
in<BR>around a second, and a fully usable desktop in 20 seconds. Boot
times<BR>are about to get lots better:<BR><BR></FONT><A
href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/video-phoenix-instant-boot-bios-starts-loading-windows-in-under/"><FONT
size=4>http://tinyurl.com/yemmpcw</FONT></A><BR><BR><FONT size=4>BillShrink is a
service that allows you to put in some basic<BR>information about your current
cell phone plan, credit cards, or bank<BR>accounts to see if you can get a
better deal using another service or<BR>bank.<BR><BR></FONT><A
href="http://www.billshrink.com/"><FONT
size=4>http://www.billshrink.com</FONT></A><BR><BR><FONT size=4>Google Wave,
Google's new online collaboration and chat application<BR>launched to 100,000
beta testers on Wednesday. Take a look at the<BR>link for what you'll be
able to do with Wave:<BR><BR></FONT><A
href="http://lifehacker.com/5370738/google-wave-first-look"><FONT
size=4>http://lifehacker.com/5370738/google-wave-first-look</FONT></A><BR><BR><FONT
size=4>Copy us in on the best of the web!<BR><BR><BR>Daniel A. Williams
</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><A
href="mailto:daniel@thepcgurus.com"><FONT
size=4>daniel@thepcgurus.com</FONT></A></P>
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<H1 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=5>Download of the Week</FONT></H1>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT
size=4> <o:p></o:p></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt"><FONT size=4>We've recommended the Belarc
Adviser as an application that will provide a comprehensive snapshot of your
system's hardware and software configuration.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This week's download, HWINFO32,
concentrates on your hardware.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt"><FONT
size=4> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt"><FONT size=4>If you want to know absolutely
everything there is to know about your hardware, but you don't want to spend any
money on software to do it for you, download the free HWiNFO32. This freebie
provides an astonishing amount of information about every aspect of your
hardware, and it's extremely easy to use. You'll get details about your CPU,
including all cores if it's multiple core, your graphics card, BIOS, RAM, system
cache, drives, and more.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Get it
here:<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt"><FONT
size=4> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT
size=4> </FONT></SPAN><A
href="http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/System-Info/HWiNFO.shtml"><FONT
size=4>http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/System-Info/HWiNFO.shtml</FONT></A><FONT
size=4> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt"><FONT size=4>Carlita
Lupino<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt"><A href="mailto:Cards57@gmail.com"><FONT
size=4>Cards57@gmail.com</FONT></A><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<H1 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt"><FONT
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