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American Censorship Day Is Tomorrow (11/16/11)

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There are two very disturbing bills making their way through Congress: Protect IP Act (PIPA - S.968 PROTECT IP Act Breaks The Internet from Fight for the Future on Vimeo. 968 ) and Stop Online Privacy Act (SOPA – H.R.3261

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How To Predict The Future

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By day he works on web and social media for HP. We needed improvements in video compression and in TCP/IP – the underlying protocol that essentially runs the Internet. I plotted the growth in capacity of magnetic platter hard drives and flash drives back in 2006 or so, and saw that flash would overtake magnetic media in 2016.

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Sawyer on Why Bilski Really Means That Software Companies Should Leave the US

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And the PTO, headed now by the pro-patent former head of IP at IBM, David Kappos, will continue to treat patentees like “customers” and pump economy-destroying patents out as it if were the Fed printing money. As others have written about, the Supreme Court has become a rubber stamp on public opinion and on Congress. currently.

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Zayo Group – One of Boulder’s Amazing Startup Stories

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I sought to mimic his propensity to leverage social media. Instead, we sought to provide raw fiber, wavelengths, ethernet, IP, and technical space to those entities that needed a whole lot of bandwidth. I was drawn to his unique ability to promote ideas, create awareness, and fuel momentum. “How can Brad help?”,

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