“My inquiry related to whether the Times, in the text of news columns, should more aggressively rebut ‘facts’ that are offered by newsmakers when those ... More »
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Jack Powers
Founding Member (since November 2007)
I'm interested in why the media behave the way they do (not that I've figured that out).
About Jack
Location:
United States
Occupation:
Engineer, No Organization (disorganized)
Interests:
Telecommunications, technology
Expertise:
Telecommunications, computers
Affiliations:
IEEE
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Feb 9, 2012 - 11:16 PM PST
Last Edit:
Aug 20, 2008 - 2:48 PM PDT
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Jack posted and reviewed this story - Jan 13, 2012
Jack posted and reviewed this story - Jan 13, 2012
Jack posted and reviewed this story - Jan 9, 2012
Sugar-sweetened beverages are cheap to buy, but they cost the U.S. plenty: about $174 billion per year on diabetes treatment costs and $147 billion on other obesity-related ... More »
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Jack posted and reviewed this story - Jan 9, 2012
Jack posted and reviewed this story - Jan 7, 2012
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Rep. Lamar Smith Decides Lying About, Insulting And Dismissing Opposition To SOPA Is A Winning Strategy
Hundreds of thousands of letters sent? Nearly 90,000 calls in a single day? This is not a “vocal minority.” More »
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Jack posted and reviewed this story - Jan 6, 2012
Jack posted and reviewed this story - Jan 4, 2012
"Chile joins a small number of countries who have outlawed SIM-locked phones. " More »
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Jack posted and reviewed this story - Jan 4, 2012
Jack posted and reviewed this story - Jan 2, 2012
“One year ago, Pakistan was shaken when leading politician Salman Taseer was murdered by his own bodyguard. His violent death and the lack of government response were ... More »
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Jack posted and reviewed this story - Jan 2, 2012
Jack posted and reviewed this story - Jan 2, 2012
“The action would be a dramatic response to the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), a bill backed by the motion picture and recording industries that is intended to ... More »
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Jack posted and reviewed this story - Jan 2, 2012
Jack posted this story - Dec 31, 2011
Jack posted and reviewed this story - Dec 30, 2011
Nintendo, Electronic Arts and Sony Electronics — some of the largest video game companies in the world — have all pulled their support for an online bill that could ... More »
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Jack posted and reviewed this story - Dec 30, 2011
Jack posted this story - Dec 30, 2011
Jack posted and reviewed this story - Dec 29, 2011
A federal appeals court on Thursday reinstated a closely watched lawsuit accusing the federal government of working with the nation’s largest telecommunication companies ... More »
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Jack posted and reviewed this story - Dec 29, 2011
Jack posted and reviewed this story - Dec 23, 2011
“It seems to me that Washington is deathly afraid of the banking industry,” More »
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Jack posted and reviewed this story - Dec 23, 2011
Jack posted and reviewed this story - Dec 23, 2011
“For 34 years, the FDA has been contending that administering small doses of antibiotics to healthy animals is an inappropriate use of ... More »
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Jack posted and reviewed this story - Dec 23, 2011
Jack posted and reviewed this story - Dec 22, 2011
"This is the about the remedies for violation of copyright and trademarks," he said. "They should be ones that you come up with using a laser beam rather than a bunker-busting cluster bomb that's going to do so much damage to innovation."
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Jack posted and reviewed this story - Dec 22, 2011
Jack posted and reviewed this story - Dec 21, 2011
The Justice Department alleged that Countrywide charged higher interest rates and fees to African American and Latino home buyers than to white applicants with similar ... More »
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Jack posted and reviewed this story - Dec 21, 2011
Jack posted and reviewed this story - Dec 21, 2011
“Right now Congress is considering two bills—the Protect IP Act, and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA)—that would be laughable if they weren’t in fact real. ... More »
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Jack posted and reviewed this story - Dec 21, 2011
Jack posted and reviewed this story - Dec 19, 2011
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The AT&T T-Mobile Deal Is Officially Dead - After Historic Consumer, Industry and Regulatory Opposition
“How did AT&T’s effort implode? The deal was simply so bad even a pay-to-play government with an addiction to AT&T cash struggled to justify approving ... More »
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Jack posted and reviewed this story - Dec 19, 2011
Jack posted and reviewed this story - Dec 19, 2011
“Although the bills differ in certain respects, they share an underlying approach and an enforcement philosophy that pose grave constitutional problems and that could ... More »
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Jack posted and reviewed this story - Dec 19, 2011
Jack posted and reviewed this story - Dec 18, 2011
At the peak of the boom in 2006, over a third of all U.S. home purchase lending was made to people who already owned at least one house. In 2007-2009, investors were ... More »
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Jack posted and reviewed this story - Dec 17, 2011
Jack posted and reviewed this story - Dec 16, 2011
Housing activists yesterday praised the action as a much-needed effort to hold individual financial executives accountable for the foreclosure crisis. More »
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Jack posted and reviewed this story - Dec 16, 2011
Jack posted and reviewed this story - Dec 16, 2011
The legislation mandates that ISPs alter records in the net’s system for looking up website names, known as DNS, so that users couldn’t ... More »
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Jack posted and reviewed this story - Dec 16, 2011
Jack reviewed this story - Dec 16, 2011
“Censorship of internet infrastructure will inevitably cause network errors and security problems. This is true in China, Iran and other countries that censor the ... More »
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Fed Report Finds Speculators Played Big Role in Housing Collapse
The report was necessary even if it supports what one reviewer says"everyone knew', since Congress needs evidence to act and special interests are holding back on releasing housing inventory that was foreclosed upon. Speculators and those who used their homes as "ATM machines" need to be separated from those that got caught in the crunch and legislative pressure needs to be applied to force the banks to release inventory at a reasonable market value with interest rates favoring ... More »
Everyone knew.