There will be no stop to this. Broadband companies will all adopt similar regulations, and basically give up on any form of innovation. A very sad loss for the consumer =-(
Comcast to Place a Cap on Internet Downloads |
| Comcast, one of the country’s largest Internet providers, said this week that it would place limits on customers’ broadband usage. |
| Beginning Oct. 1, Comcast will put a 250 gigabyte-a-month cap on residential users. The limit will not affect most users, at least not in the short-term, but is certain to create tension as some technologies gain traction. |
| A Comcast spokeswoman, Jennifer Khoury, said 250 gigabytes was about 100 times the typical usage; the average customer uses two to three gigabytes a month. Less than 1 percent of customers exceed the cap, she said. |
| Many Internet providers reserve the right to cancel the service of the most excessive users. The 250-gigabyte cap is Comcast’s way of specifying a longstanding policy of placing a limit on Internet consumption, and it comes after customer pushed for a definition of excessive use. |
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A big step in the right direction. Other companies will follow.
| Sony Recycles Ads To Make Point About E-Waste |
| Sony Electronics and Waste Management Recycle America are teaming up to raise awareness of the importance of recycling electronics. |
To that end, the companies will stage an event in Boston on Sept. 13 wherein the first 2,000 consumers to drop off their old electronics at Gillette Stadium receive a free “environmentally friendly” cloth tote.
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And Sony is recycling an old television ad promoting what looks like
one of its first Beta video recorders and players. Superimposed near the end are these words: “We’re recycling our old 1970s commercials to remind you to recycle your old electronics.” TV and newspaper print ads will run over the next couple of weeks prior to the Boston event and then roll out to other markets such as Phoenix,
Austin, Texas, and Atlanta.
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Along with Waste Management, Sony has collected about 9.2 million
pounds of electronic waste.
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| by Laurie Sullivan, Friday, Aug 29, 2008 5:00 AM ET |
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Sign this petition…
Why free the airwaves?
Remember that fuzzy static between channels on the old TVs? Today more than three-quarters of those radio airwaves, or “white space” spectrum, are completely unused. This vast public resource could offer a revolution in wireless services of all kinds, including universal wireless Internet. The FCC will soon decide whether to open this unused spectrum for general usage, and your voice matters — a lot. So if you agree that freeing the white spaces represents a vote for the future of the Internet, please sign our petition and help spread the word about this campaign. Learn more
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Lend your voice to our effort to free the airwaves. |
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Posted by admin, filed under UCRO.org. Date: August 19, 2008, 3:04 pm | No Comments »
good article
So
where do these electronic relics go to retire? Between 2003 and 2005, as much
as 85 percent of the disposed electronics in the U.S. went straight in the trash and
headed directly to local landfills or incinerators [source: EPA].
Worldwide, as much as 50 million tons of old electronics are discarded annually
[source: Carroll].
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Some
of you may be thinking, “So what? All my other garbage goes to the
landfill, why not my old computer?” But let’s think back to what we
touched on briefly on the previous page — the potentially lethal chemical
combination that could seriously harm the environment if not properly handled. |
 Marina Dodis/Photographer’s Choice RR/Getty ImagesLandfills don’t make the best retirement communities for your old computers.
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landfills are a particularly harsh hotbed for pollutants. In
the U.S.,
e-waste accounts for approximately 4 percent of the total amount of trash, but it
contributes about 40 percent of the lead content in landfills. |
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Another good recycling project in the works.
The Freecycle Network™ is made up of many individual groups across the globe. It’s a grassroots and entirely nonprofit movement of people who are giving (& getting) stuff for free in their own towns. Each local group is moderated by a local volunteer (them’s good people). Membership is free. To sign up, find your community by clicking on the region on the left. You may then go directly to your local group by clicking on “Go To” or you may immediately joining by clicking on “Join.” It will generate an automatic e-mail which, when sent, will sign you up for the local group and send you a response with instructions on how it works. Can’t find a group near you? You might want to consider starting one (click on “Start a Group” for instructions). Have fun!
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Here is another new recycling program for electronics.
LG Electronics has partnered with Waste Management Inc. and its wholly owned subsidiary WM Recycle America, LLC, to establish the LG Electronics Recycling Program. Waste Management will act as the collection, transportation and recycling contractor for the national LG Electronics Recycling Program. The LG Electronics Recycling Program provides consumers with a free and convenient way of recycling their used, unwanted, obsolete or damaged LG consumer electronic products by dropping them off at a designated Waste Management eCycling Center. Waste Management currently has 160 designated drop-off sites across the United States and plans to have at least one drop-off site in each State by September 2008; the number of sites will continue to be expanded over time. |
Find a drop-off location here:
 Call Waste Management Customer Service: toll free 1-877-439-2795 |
| call LG Customer Service: toll free 1-866-372-2928 |
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