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Comment Re:Success is being in the right place at the righ (Score 1) 247

by inf4m0usB on Saturday November 15, 2008 @02:37PM (#25771583) Attached to: Success Not Just a Matter of Talent

Examining their lives and actions one cannot find that they owed anything to fortune but the opportunity which gave them matter to shape into the form they thought right. Without an opportunity, their abilities would have been wasted, and without their abilities, the opportunity would have arisen in vain. -Nicollo M.

The End of Net Anonymity In Brazil 242

Posted by kdawson on Monday November 06, 2006 @01:40PM from the good-while-it-lasted dept.

DieNadel writes, "The Brazilian senate is considering a bill that will make it a crime to join a chat, blog, or download from the Internet without fully identifying oneself first. Privacy groups and Internet providers are very concerned, and are trying to lobby against the bill, but it seems they won't have much success." From the article: "If approved, it will be a crime, punishable with up to 4 years of jail time, to disseminate virus or trojans, unauthorizedly access data banks or networks and send e-mail, join chat, write a blog or download content anonymously."

Bogus Experts Fight Your Right To Broadband 378

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday October 31, 2006 @10:05PM from the just-gimme-a-pipe dept.

An anonymous reader writes, "Karl Bode of Broadband Reports takes aim at supposed telecom experts and think tankers who profess to love the 'free market,' but want to ban the country's un-wired towns and cities from offering broadband to their residents. If you didn't know, incumbent providers frequently determine towns and cities unprofitable to serve (fine), but then turn around and lobby for laws that make it illegal to serve themselves (not so fine). They then pay experts to profess their love for a free market and deregulation — unless that regulation helps their bottom line. A simple point: 'Strange how such rabid fans of a free-market wouldn't be interested in allowing market darwinism to play out.'"

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