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The people of Sebastopol, California are in for a treat. Thanks to a collaboration between search giant Google and Sonic.net they will have the honor of being the first residential area in the United States that will have a 1Gbps Internet connection available.

This is only the second ...

Well, well. A top guy at the French "kick you off the internet" Hadopi agency is apparently claiming that the organization's mandate goes beyond just people accused (not convicted) of file sharing, and could be used against people watching unauthorized streaming content as well.

Sent in by an anonymous person in the Defense Department is the notice that they were unable to read our recent story about customs and border patrol harassing Wikileaks volunteer Jacob Appelbaum as he flew into Seattle from a vacation in Iceland.

What struck me, however, was the hilarious wording explaining the block:

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anythingbutipod: "The Archos 5 IT supports both MTP and MSC/UMS as well as a debug mode and an USBnet mode that lets you connect the Archos to the Internet via a USB cable to a computer with an Internet connection."

More than a third of American adults don't have a fast internet connection at home, leaving some 80 million adults and 13 million children at a distinct disadvantage in a wired world, according to an FCC report released Tuesday.

One of the items on the Geek Ranch agenda is a weather station. While we don't have one yet, we have learned a bit about weather stations and Linux.

First, why don't we have one?

Well, there is no electricity at the Geek Ranch site yet for starters. But, more important, there is no Internet connection.

So, let's just call this research.

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