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Lawmakers like Chuck Schumer are promising a vote to use the Congressional Review Act (CRA) to block the Trump FCC's attempts to kill net neutrality. The FCC voted 3-2 along party lines to kill popular net neutrality protections, though the agency now faces a challenging legal assault by those claiming the agency engaged in numerous process fouls while also ignoring the will of the public.

The conditions Comcast agreed to when it acquired NBC Universal in 2011 are about to expire, and some lawmakers are urging that these conditions should be extended.

Tennessee Representative Marsha Blackburn has unveiled plans for a net neutrality law she professes will "protect the open internet," but is far more likely to do the exact opposite. We just got done noting how ISPs like Comcast have begun pushing hard for net neutrality legislation. Why?

Microsoft in 2016 changed the way it rolls out updates for Windows 7 and Windows 8.1, leaving many IT admins and users confused. Here's how to sort out what the company is doing.

from the regulatory-trojan-horse dept

If my memory serves me correctly today's your birthday therefore I hope your having an excellent day & wish you a very happy birthday

It’s time once again for the POI Factory community to select our Contributors of the Year!

This year we will be awarding trees to the top TWO vote getters!

Voting is now in progress and will run until midnight December 31st (Eastern Time).

The reasons aren't clear but it might be that decreased pedestrian (and driver?) vigilance is a factor...

https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/cars/893770/20mph-speed...

This is the place to talk about things that are not GPS related.

This thread will be closed on Monday and a new one will be opened.

~Angela

The Financial Times carries a substantial story today which states that foreign manufacturers are facing serious obstacles even in doing testing and preparation toward autonomous vehicle deployment in China apparently triggered by Chinese government concerns of spying.

Analytics firm Net Applications revised its methodology to cull bots from its browser share numbers and found that as much as half of the traffic to Edge on Windows 10 was artificially inflated.

Microsoft's Edge browser is less popular with Windows 10 users than earlier thought, if revised data from a U.S. analytics vendor can be believed.

President Trump signed into law a bill that bans the Kaspersky Antivirus as well as any other software made by Kaspersky Labs from use in U.S. federal departments, agencies, or organizations. The law applies to any company that is controlled by Kaspersky in any way or in which it has majority ownership.
U.S. Government Bans Kaspersky

Facebook is one of several companies exploring ways to detect online behaviors that have been linked to self-harm

A list of twenty internet visionaries have written the FCC urging it to back off this week's planned repeal of net neutrality protections.

Security researcher Michael Myng announced that he uncovered a keylogging component in HP’s keyboard driver. The keylogging code seems to be from a debugging tool that HP forgot to take out before shipping the driver to customers.

This week we’re recognizing DonaldB530 and Mahoney!

If you don’t know why, you must be really new to POI Factory!
These two file maintaining powerhouses have been busy this week updating some of our more popular files for the holiday season, such as travel/fuel stations and grocery/fast food places to grab a quick bite while on the road.

This is the place to talk about things that are not GPS related.

This thread will be closed on Monday and a new one will be opened.

~Angela

Up till W10 I've been using Aconis Home 2011, and have been very happy with it... I have 3 W7 systems, one (Server) that still boots off SCSI, and I've used that program to boot off CD, store backups to USB Drive and then recover it to same or entirely different drive... Been Quite Happy with it...

The Windows 10 Creators Update comes packed with some truly new and exciting features. One of these new additions is the "Pick up where I left off" feature. This feature will display quick links in the Action Center so you can quickly jump back into your Microsoft Edge session and SharePoint (or other cloud-based) documents after switching PCs.

The FCC is refusing to aid a law enforcement investigation into who submitted millions of fake comments in support of the FCC's planned rollback of net neutrality rules. New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has been conducting an investigation into the millions of fake comments (some belonging to dead people) submitted in support of the FCC's attack on net neutrality.