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The FCC MUST look towards immediate separation of Content provision from Delivery Infrastructure.
This means the forced separation of Content like ISPs, Entertainment, Pay-Per-View and any and all Content from the "pipeline" now monopolistically controlled by Cable, Telco, and in some areas Wireless. This could include Spin Off's into non-affiliated companies, stock offerings that allow Cable to recoup their investment, but with unaffiliated and independent managements.
This means ensuring Competitive Access at reasonable and Competitive Rates, audited and Regulated as necessary. If the FCC does this without loopholes , the free markets will insure competitive pricing and the U.S. can begin to catch up to the 13-15 other countries-including some Third World countries- that are ahead of the U.S. in Broadband reach and speeds.
If Cable, Telco and Wireless resist, then the FCC should get the Justice Department to seek their breakup. Their monopolies are what have caused the U.S. to lag other countries, lose a competitive Internet edge in commerce (and the U.S. was the Internet inventor!), and now is holding back the development of services such as Cloud Education, Cloud Commuting, and Cloud Health.

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Military Tribunal Real Solution for Enemy Soldiers

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PLANE BOMBER SHOULD GET MILITARY TRIBUNAL

  This and any and all Declared Combatants should be charged and tried in Military tribunals. This is a declared War, on both sides; they-Al Qaeda- declared first. 
  That this war is found, and fought, on non-battlefield domains makes it no less a war.
  Why can’t this government and some politicians and the Attorney General accept this?
Is it politics? An attempt to justify weakness and lack of resolve with misguided and erroneously drawn devotion to “Democratic” principles?   
  Isn’t it enough that in addition to this  Soldier’s declared membership in Al Qaeda, he acknowledged proudly his Al Qaeda-sponsored terrorist training in Yemen, as have others?
  His chosen Field of Combat was an airplane; as others have so chosen.

  We are irrational if we expect to be able to choose the time and place of combat, other than when conducting military operations against soldiers and facilities we have discovered through intelligence.
  Is this any different than when we discovered and bombed Iraqi airfields and military facilities? German Ammunition dumps in WWII? Vietnamese underground tunnels, soldier’s barracks, supply lines and training facilities?
  We should manifest charges and hold a trial in a properly chartered Military Tribunal, and establish an appropriate POW facility. (Wait! I have an idea! Guantanamo! A legitimately chartered and managed POW camp, with Military Courts already in place).
Let me also point out then even though Guantanamo is a proper venue, we have already released Combatant Soldiers who have returned to their “battlefields ” of choice and have attacked the U.S. again.
  We guarantee our lack of effective and a sustained strategy when we let our enemies dictate the choice of battlefields, and then thank them for their strategy by failing to make our appropriate and justified response a surety; a policy that enemy combatants will be handled as prisoners of war, tried when necessary for war crimes, and jailed or executed as appropriate.
If this “war’ lasts for 20 years, so will their jail sentence. After all, war prisoners in previous wars weren’t repatriated until the way was over.
  Perhaps that will give some pause to their Sponsors and to their willing participation.
  Although, now that I have said that, what makes me think that an unsuccessful suicide bomber would be somehow apprehensive about a life sentence if caught? After all, he was willing to pay  a much higher price; his actual life.
 Try enemy combatants wherever and whenever caught; if convicted, “suggest” that their country of capture, or their home country jail them until the war is over,or bury them if that is a result of their trial and sentence.
  I am convinced that when Osama bin Laden and his AL Qaeda and terrorist brethren go to bed at night they say, “What were they thinking? If I get caught, what a great way to avoid real consequences.”

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Military Tribunal Real Solution for Enemy Soldiers

Military Tribunal Real Solution for Enemy Soldiers

The Al Qaeda Tax

   The over Two Trillion in hard costs plus over one Trillion in “soft” costs U.S. Citizens have spent on Counter-terrorism efforts and increased security -military, Transportation, seaport security, Homeland Security (Border Security-ICE, TSA) and local costs since 2001 have, in reality, been a “Terror Tax” imposed at virtually every level of U.S. Society and Commerce.

  There is no doubt that Al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden, and other terror organizations  included this “tax’ in their thinking and planning for 2001 and beyond, as part of their terror campaign against U.S. and Western interests and Culture. Looked at that way, as another part of the terror campaign, the costs become even more distasteful; we must ‘pay” Al Qaeda and Bin Laden to maintain our security. And it seems we only throw more money at the problem every time there is a threat or an actual incident.

  Add another Trillion for costs incurred by other countries in their Counter-terrorism efforts and it really adds up…way up.

  The Trillion or so in “soft” dollars of lost productivity, through increased travel security and travel commuting time, the increased costs in Counter-terror Planning, Training and Equipment, pile fuel on the fire.

  That we were unprepared for terror attacks may be a given, as evidenced by the results. No coordinated intelligence gathering and anyalysis, no coordinated or planned anti-terror infrastructure, and a general sense of denial of our vulnerability, our assumed imperviousness from this type of threat, were all prevalent at the time.

  Osama Bin Laden may have done the U.S. a “service” by bringing America into the cultural religious wars of the twenty-first century, but that service is one we would gladly do without.

  Those Trillions could have been used for tax reductions, energy conservation incentives, small business investments and incentives, modernizing educational through technology, and ..ahem! reducing the deficit.  A fully engaged and productive U.S. economy with virtually fill employment generates more than enough revenue to balance the budget and reduce the deficit; a cost our children and grandchildren are projected to bear for generations. Interest alone on the national Debt amounts to $16,000 for each man woman and child over the next ten years, not including whatever we add each year.

  How could we better use that money? One Trillion in tax reduction and small business incentives would mean up to six million new jobs, adding up to two and one-half Trillion to Gross National Product. One Trillion in education could have meant rapid deployment of Computer-assisted education at every level of schooling from K-12, including Cloud Education at home and in Charter Schools; additional school programs for poor and minority groups to start realizing the value of our Human Capital.

  One half Trillion in “green” energy infrastructure and incentives including solar, wind and insulated high power transmission lines would lead to a reduction of millions of barrels of energy imports every day in just a few years.

  Combined with “green” car designs of all types and Mass Transportation programs, the U.S. could reduce energy imports by one-half overall by 2020-2025.

  If we used all of the “terror Tax” revenue for reducing our deficit, we would be much better off. Having additional revenues for tax reduction, small business incentives, education and energy conservation would benefit us all, and our economy.

  Al Qaeda and terrorism have cost us much more than the “terrorism tax.”

   They have cost us some peace of mind and personal security for ourselves and our families. Our family members , sons and daughters, brothers and sisters, fight this war.

  Maybe that’s a ”tax” we have to pay, but we’d rather not. 

  A last thought.

   We need at least two, preferably three Counter-Terror Special Forces Brigades with complete mobility; able to get moving rapidly-overnight, land, supply and resupply as independent entities. Go where our intelligence identifies and targets groups, training facilities and the rest. That we have the capability but not the will power to find, isolate and destroy known locations is much more political than military. The military, even using some existing forces could undertake this task if so charged, But the politicians interfere.

  The State Deparetment allows for hand-wringing about air space and sovereignty, when we should be offering our sincere apologies for the embargoes and financial restrictions, the withholding of aid and support to each andevery country that says one thing about our need to find and destroy terrorists, whether in downtown London, Khazakstan, Iraq, Pakistan or whereever. And interfering with our forces or the fight?

   Well, that just brings out the Tiger’s Claws. You can’t win, so don’t try. Help, not hinder and you are our friend. Interfere and you should become dog meat in the literal sense.

   We have too long allowed countries and politicians to call on the U.S. for every kind of assistance and support, while from the other sides of their mouths, by speech and action, they support terrorists, or convientently ignore them. We are considered, in the back rooms and political get-togethers of many foreign countries, to be weak and mis-managed.

  Subverting the U.S. and the causes of capitalism and a free society have become the game of choice of many countries, who just can’t wait for our slips, our misfortunes, our troubles. Many foreigners are like drivers on a thruway passing a horrendous wreck (the wreck being the U.S.) and saying, “Boy, I’m glad that’s not me.”

  Since we can’t seem to get most countries to support U.S. efforts, or those that do, do so grudgingly, let’s concentrate on our own interests, while we still have the capability to remove those who conspire to attack us. 

  We hear and see evidence every day that even those who ostensibly support the U.S. only do so until their interests may be threatened; then they thwart us at every turn, even while being two-faced to the world. China and Russia are perfect examples of this so-obvious behavior.

   When Osama and his brethren say prayers, they thank their Gods for the ineptness and lack of intestinal fortitude we continually display. That we haven’t experienced much worse is a testament to what we have accomplished. We are neither as efficient nor as committed as we should and can be.

  Every President from George Bush the First, to Clinton, to George the Second and now Barach Obama has said, “You can’t hide. We will find you and destroy you.”

  Hasn’t happened. If I’m, paying Al Qaeda”terror taxes” I want results!

  

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How to Get Ahead of Cable and Telephone Companies

How to Get Ahead of Cable and Telephone Companies

10 Trends for 2010 -Comments

1. Last Season.. : Cloud Commuting needs only the benefit of Circumstance, not happenstance. Cloud Commuting's biggest obstacles are Security and Management Insecurity. For companies who depend on Social Interaction among creative's, it may be slightly more difficult, but do-able. Cisco's advances in "presence" along with IBM's, argue that one good approach is for an expansion office to incorporate a true Home Office execution, with Conferencing, multi-screen setups including "Whiteboard" and Virtual Recording (a la meeting SOX requirements) wherein the "specs and equipment for a worker's "virtual office" are generated by the company, and maintained by them. We're not talking a lot of money, either; certainly MUCH LESS that the equivalent cost of an worker's office incorporated into an office building framework, so much less as to make it a "no brainer."

In addition there are the societal benefits of caving, on average 300 Commuting hours, 475 +/- gallons of gas and tons of pollution, roadway maintenance.

Worker satisfaction? Up. Worker productivity? Up.

Management anxiety? Up, but declining over time as results become apparent.

Expect the "coded network," an internal protocol that allows for completely secure use of Cloud Commuting

2. BYOC.. To the extent that this becomes part of the "tiered security" that's coming, this may be helpful. To the extent that Cloud Commuting takes hold, it becomes a non-issue.

3. App Store(s): Unlikely, at least in the Cloud Commuting environment.  It also flies in the face of using software to increase productivity. In the future, AI-assisted Personal and Office systems will utilize software assembled "on the fly"  to accomplish tasks of enormous complexity. "How many ABC customers have purchased Product A in the last 6 months. Calculate rate of usage and projected purchases for next six months?" Analyze Energy interruptions in Baltimore, Maryland for last six months and Year-by-Year for last ten years."

Personal use, personal Clouds (which are coming) a strong possibility.

THE App is this arena is the Personal Avatar, and AI dedicated to You, and resident in Your Cloud.

However, to the extent that Mobile becomes the Convergence vehicle for Data and Communications in the near future, and assuming the FCC creates the needed Bandwidth framework. it  remains to apply the AI to Converged device capabilities to get to the same place.

4. Mobilized (and Monetized) locals:  Here we separate Corporate utility from Personal. The continuing integration of computer program-driven technology into everything from house energy metering, to house appliance and security management, the "Smart House" of past failure, will finally come to fruition. Corporately, the evolution of Cloud Commuting obviates some of the CRM problems that continue to grow with the complexity of corporate existence with a society.  To whatever extent a business's daily existence is impacted by automation, the objective is to make it easier for Customers, including B2B and B2C to satisfy their needs and fulfill their missions more efficiently. Most importantly, the Newspaper industry, on the verge of becoming the "buggy whips" of the Millennium, are rapidly adopting a "head-in-the-sand" attitude instead of doing the one thing that could guarantee their future. (I could tell you more about this, but I'd have to charge).

5. Online Credit and Banking. This is an accelerating trend. Only the lack of Tiered, foolproof security, prevents further evolution, even a revolution in the banking process for Business and Consumer interests. These will be solved, there will be 99% LESS physical Bank Branch locations in a generation, with all banking performed electronically. Not only will physical banking disappear (see Cloud Commuting) , the new Bank Business Model will be a Geico-type model. Complete dedication to operating efficiency, automated operations, constant devotion to analyzing and reducing areas of expense for the benefit of consumer loyalty and profitability as a desired result.

6. Social Nets:  One of the Social Nets (interesting the use of "Nets", maybe as in Internet?) will offer a new framework for individual involvement, one which takes the important step of changing the Convenient to the Necessary, the Voluntary to the "can't live without it."

(I's tell you what it is but I'd have to charge for it-sorry).

7. This and Social go together, as far as I can see. You already know a lot, maybe more than you want to, about your Facebook Friends and more recently, Groups. The Business side of this framework, the Lead Generation and Conversion to Sale process, will work for some applications, services and Groups, not so much for individuals overall.

8. Energy Show (aka Cloud Energy). But, more than just the Information Management of Energy that this implies, will be the absolute rapid evolution of self-sustained Home Energy production and Management. We are a short way from the technology that will make any household grid-independent, efficiently and cost-effectively, even though it  will take a generation to either rebuild, retrofit or build-as-new a household-based, discrete framework for energy and communication.

  Business will continue to depend on traditional grids, even though security considerations will encourage long-term moves to grid-independence or back up energy management. Cloud commuting changes the equation as well, since  the need for offices and all the related infrastructure and energy dependence is reconstituted in the Home Office framework. The up-to-now somewhat lackadaisical attitude of Energy Suppliers and supply security considerations will be forcibly subjected to "attitude readjustment" as Cloud Commuting, Cloud Health and Cloud Education needs make imperative reliable, 100% uptime energy supplies.

9. See 8.

10. Multi-player (Million Player) Game "Clouds." Not going to happen. Takes away the individual competitive nature of the Online Gaming universe.  Changing the nature of Gaming to include managing Army and military components as large-scale forces and redesigning the game universe to accomplish that-see Civilization II, Alpha Centauri, Sim City and all the rest to speculate about that evolution. Second Life-type Clouds, individually tailored "Own your own City, or Planet, or Universe!! Click here for Payment Plans." (Now, I'd like the complexity and Strategy of that framework!)

Not included in your list,but things I'd like to see added as 2010 Starters: 

**Cloud Education; a completely home-based system of Instruction and Learning, AI assisted, CQ-motivated (Curiosity Quotient) (See "They Can All Be Geniuses" http://www.helium.com/items/1557879-education-computer-assisted-learning-technology-based-learning-cloud-education).

**Cloud Health: Home-based diagnostic and AI-assisted software that looks at "you" as often as needed, daily if necessary, monitors, through scanner-based diagnostics and a few-very limited needed-accessories for specialized functions that allow medical Professional health-as-a-Distance, some of which is being done now with Remote Diagnostics, and even distance-directed surgical procedures.

Barry Dennis

Barry Dennis
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Jury Trials; More Knowledge, Not Less, is Best Approach

Jury Trials; More Knowledge, Not Less, is Best Approach