Stop Internet Blocking and Censorship for Good |
Big phone and cable companies like Comcast and Verizon want to tell the public when to stop and go on the Internet. But our online movements shouldn’t be controlled by gatekeepers.
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Last night’s House vote against an amendment that would make Net Neutrality enforceable is the result of swarming lobbyists and a multi-million-dollar media campaign by telephone companies that want Congress to hand them control of the Internet. |
The fight now moves to the Senate, where there is stronger bi-partisan support for a bill — put forth by Senators Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) and Byron Dorgan (D-North Dakota) — that would protect our Internet freedom from AT&T, Verizon and BellSouth. |
Gigi Sohn, president of Public Knowledge: |
| The House has rushed to pass HR 5252 at the urging of the telephone and cable companies, who feared the growing public support for an enforceable net neutrality law…. Today’s Internet, which gives consumers control over what applications, services and content they want to access, will be replaced by an Internet that looks like a cable system — where network providers determine who gets on and at what price |
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Desktop Energy Savings Guide
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BY: J.R.
PUBLISHED: Thursday, May 29, 2008 |
To get an idea of the energy costs associated with various
computer systems, readings were gathered from several machines. The systems fall along different points of
the performance spectrum. This is not
intended to be a comprehensive or even highly comparative analysis of computers,
merely an example to show real world use. Keep in mind that a computer’s power supply rating, and how much power
it uses, are two completely different things. The power supply in the Lenovo S10 is rated for 650W, but it doesn’t
come close to using that whole amount. |
| Off
| Idle
| Gaming
| Lenovo S10
| 1
| 164
| 246
| Playstation 3
| 0
| 122
| 166
| Xbox 360
| 2
| 107
| 138
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| Off
| Idle
| 1080p Content
| Wprime
| Gateway GT5670
| 0
| 78
| 107
| 127
| Lenovo S10
| 1
| 164
| 184
| 280
| Custom Build
| 3
| 98
| not tested
| 188
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| Off/Standby
| Min. Brightness
| Max. Brightness
| Sony CPD-G520
| 0
| 83
| 96
| Lenovo L220x
| 0.8
| 43
| 80
| Sony 40” KDL-40V3000
| 0
| 71
| 225
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| CherryPal: The Green Little PC That Could |
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Even the name is adorable. CherryPal. This tiny 10.5 oz PC is coming soon, and will use no more than 2 watts of power without sacrificing speed. The triple-core processor uses only 20% of the components of traditional computers and will start up in only 20 seconds, promising to be faster than Vista and mac’s OS-X…though it doesn’t take much to be faster than Vista. |
Written by Jaymi Heimbuch |
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Solar Sell: Companies that Mass Marketed PCs Turn to Photovoltaics
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IBM, Intel and HP—three companies that fueled the development of PCs over the past 30 years—have just made major commitments to solar energy |
Although solar cell technology for converting the sun’s power into electricity has improved steadily in recent years, high costs and inefficiencies have kept it from being a serious replacement for fossil fuels. A few high-tech heavyweights—IBM, Intel and Hewlett-Packard (HP)—hope to change this using the same formula of mass production and commoditization that helped them make personal computers mainstream over the past three decades. |
POWER PLAY: IBM, Intel and Hewlett-Packard are pouring resources into making technology that will more cheaply and efficiently harvest solar energy.
Courtesy of iStockphoto |
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