Daily Archives: July 5, 2005

FTTH brings Democrats and Republicans Together – Locally

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David Isenberg: FTTH brings Democrats and Republicans together:

“In the U.S. Congress, both parties are enemies of Internet-based progress. The Republicans support the telcos and cablecos while the Democrats side with the Kontent Krabs.

In Lafayette, Louisiana, though, it is a different story, both parties support Lafayette’s Fiber to the Home municipal networking effort!

A joint, bipartisan letter to Lafayette’s voters, authored by the city’s Republican *and* Democratic leaders, says

UK Identity Cards

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The Economist:

If the government’s plans stay on track, Britons will, within three years, begin to receive cards containing personal details, together with a digital photograph, fingerprints and an iris scan. A nation that has not possessed identity cards since 1952 will, in a step, acquire the world’s most complex system.