This one from the This-Guy-Could-Be-Him file:
The FBI recently used a photograph of Spanish politician Gaspar Llamazares as an example of what Osama Bin Laden might look like today.
According to Reuters, FBI special agent Jason Pack said a forensic artist had been unable to find suitable features from the FBI’s database of photographs and used a picture from the Internet instead. That photo turned out to be one of Llamazares who apparently looks strikingly similar to what the FBI thinks Bin Laden would look like with a few extra years on him.
“I am stupefied the FBI has used my photo — but it could have been anyone’s — to compose a picture of a terrorist. It affects my honor, my own image and also the security of all us,” LLamazares said in a statement.
Posted January 16, 2010 at 14:58. Add a comment
I am pleased to see that FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski supports network neutrality. Allowing unencumbered access to an “open Internet” is vital to its continuing value and to Americans’ right to free speech. However, the chairman has not properly addressed a key underlying issue: content neutrality. If Internet service providers (ISPs) are to discontinue discrimination based on the source of data traffic, then so too should content providers end such practices. Under content neutrality media giants such as Disney, Google, Yahoo, etc. would no longer be allowed to demand payment from ISPs for access to their content.
For example, Disney’s ESPN 360 is using an online video content delivery model of demanding payment from ISPs based on total number of subscribers in order to provide all of the ISPs subscribers access to video content. The sports-media giant’s fear is that they would not be as profitable if they offered ESPN 360 only to individuals who chose to pay for it. So instead the fee is levied on all users, regardless of their individual interest level. Without content neutrality as part of the deal we will see the a-la-carte merit-based model of the Internet disappear in favor of a model where content is forced as a package on consumers by media giants. This will result in skyrocketing costs for Internet access and a crippled and “closed Internet.”
For more on content neutrality please see the American Cable Association’s statement from earlier this week.
Posted September 24, 2009 at 14:19. Add a comment
FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski is quoted at TheHill.com (link not available) saying that the commission will support “net neutrality” and go after anyone who violates its tenets.
“One thing I would say so that there is no confusion out there is that this FCC will support net neutrality and will enforce any violation of net neutrality principles,” Genachowski said.
Posted August 26, 2009 at 08:33. Add a comment
An interesting site about the human rights situation at the 2008 Olympic Games in China.
Posted January 25, 2008 at 20:14. Add a comment
