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Good, rational decisions are rarely born out of fear. Yesterday, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) met to discuss a massive collision involving “two school buses, a bobtail, and a passenger vehicle” back on Aug. 5, 2010 in Missouri. This collision was caused by a truck driver who was texting while driving. While there is no doubt that texting or reading anything on your phone is a bad idea and a ban on it is probably a… Read More

Getting down on one knee to propose to your girlfriend is certainly a romantic gesture, but doing it on a commuter train while a choir in the train carriage sings Bill Withers’ Lovely Day is something else altogether – especially when the woman being proposed to isn't expecting it (the proposal or the choir). But that’s exactly how Brit Adam King proposed to girlfriend Lucy Rogers last week, and a video of the event has quickly… Read More

Noted in a recent post on the official StumbleUpon blog, the employees at the social media company lent a helping hand to a lovesick Stumbler from Wyoming. A group of engineers at the company assisted 25-year-old Tyrel in proposing to his 23-year-old girlfriend Marquita through a seemingly random collection of Internet pages. The engineers created a specific stumble session of Internet sites onto Marquita’s StumbleUpon account and collaborated… Read More

Working at Google as a software engineer, Ari Gilder is no stranger to the Google Maps mobile app. In a recent post on the official Google blog, Gilder described in detail how he used technology from Google to ask his long-time girlfriend, Faigy, to marry him. Gilder constructed a map of seven places in New York City that had special significance to the couple such as the first date and memorable surprises. He then convince Faigy's… Read More

The European Parliament has overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to create a single method of patenting software within the European Union. Commonly referred to as the software patents directive, the proposal had been massively amended during negotiations, and had losing ground within the EU community since its introduction in 2001. The bill would not have permitted so-called “pure software” to be patented, but would have covered… Read More

“After a few incidents where customers failed to reach emergency officials when they dialed 911, federal regulators are increasing pressure on companies to ensure those calls get routed and answeredproperly with location information. The proposal would require companies like Vonage Holdings Corp. to route 911 calls directly to primary emergency lines within four months of the order being issued, the sources said, declining to be… Read More

“The proposal, intended to bring Norway's law in line with European Union (news – web sites) rules, drew immediate praise from the music and film industry as well as criticism from opponents. Even though Norway is has remained outside the EU, it is bound by most of the bloc's directives through the European Economic Area Agreement. The new proposal would allow fines and a maximum penalty of three years in prison for… Read More

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A proposal that the Senate may vote on as early as next week would let federal prosecutors file civil lawsuits against suspected copyright infringers, with fines reaching tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars. The so-called Pirate Act is raising alarms among copyright lawyers and lobbyists for peer-to-peer firms, who have been eyeing the recording industry's lawsuits against thousands of peer-to-peer users with trepidation.… Read More

The long-awaited proposal, submitted to the Federal Communications Commission on Wednesday, has been crafted so broadly that it would outlaw the introduction of new broadband services that did not support ready wiretapping access. Companies currently offering broadband would be given 15 months to comply. Read the full story at CNET News.com.