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House Passes Health Care Reform Bill
Last night, the national House of Representatives passed the much anticipated Health Care Reform Bill, with a narrow vote of 220 to 215.
The legislation will require all U.S. citizens to carry a health insurance card (providing subsidized insurance to those unable to afford one) and require large companies to sufficiently cover the health insurance for [...]
‘Cloud Computing’ stymies attempt to prevent P2P filesharing
Pc Pro reports that in an attempt to stop the flow of copyrighted materials, famed Torrent site, The Pirate Bay, was shutdown by Swedish courts. According to reports by McAfee, a wealth of sites sprang up to carry on the charge, and the number of sites hosting Torrents expanded by 300%.
Pc Pro writes:
…but any hope [...]
Say What Will You About Lariviere …
He knows a thing or two about writing to an audience. University president Richard Lariviere has a commentary piece in today’s Register-Guard, wherein he expounds on why the University, Eugene and the state of Oregon are his kind of place.
The sense of wonder I feel about Oregon and its flagship university is as potent now [...]
Mozilla Raindrop to simplify social networking
What if you could Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Gmail, Flickr, and read Blogs all in one feed from one website?
That’s what the makers of Raindrop, from Mozilla Labs- makers of Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla Thunderbird free software, aim to accomplish with their new beta software. To take all the social sites in your life and create [...]
Shocker: College Tuition Rising
Breaking the news that the rest of us already knew, the New York Times reported yesterday that college tuition is going through the roof.
The NYT found that four-year public colleges raised tuition by an average of 6.5 percent last year.
The Register-Guard ran a version that included numbers from the University (sorry, no link available):
At the [...]
Meningococcal meningitis appeared in the LLC Tuesday
A University student was hospitalized on Tuesday afternoon with a probable case of meningococcal meningitis. The Health Center reports that the student resides in the Living Learning Center resident hall and has identified the initial group of people who were in contact with the student.
Health Center Announcement on the Emergency Alert System:
“These individuals have received [...]
Oregon ranked second in nation for wind power projects
Today, the American Wind Energy Association deemed Oregon second to Texas nationwide for the amount of wind capacity installed across the state. The state added 251 megawatts of capacity in the third quarter of the year. Ranking number five for wind energy production, Oregon can generate up to 1,659 megawatts of power from currently installed [...]
Firefox removes Microsoft add-ons from blocklist
According to a Firefox Development blog, Microsoft’s .NET Framework Assistant and Windows Presentation Foundation add-ons to Firefox would be removed from the block list. It should be automatically re-enabled for most users. Enterprise users will have to wait for a patch to unblock the Windows Presentation Foundation as well.
The .NET Framework Assistant caused quite a [...]
