Cody Taylor

Police in upstate New York have seized heroin marketed in packages stamped with an “Obama” brand name.Sullivan County Undersheriff Eric Claboty described the misuse of the new president’s surname as “an absolute disgrace,” the New York Daily News reported.

An anonymous reader writes “A group of powerful Wikipedia insiders are pushing for FlaggedRevisions which will require a ‘trusted user’ to approve of edits before they go live on the online encyclopedia. There is also opposition but with support of founder Jimbo Wales it is likely to go through. The German version has tried the system, leading to three-week delays between edit and publication. The English wiki with its higher number of anonymous editors per trusted user is expected to suffer longer queues if FlaggedRevisions is implemented on all articles. This comes just a few days after Britannica announced that readers will be allowed to suggest edits and have them reviewed within 20 minutes. Will we see the day when Britannica can be edited almost instantly while editing Wikipedia requires fighting bureaucracy, patience and the right contacts?” Note that, according to the quote from Jimmy Wales in the linked article, this system would only be used “on a subset of articles, the boundaries of which can be adjusted over time to manage the backlog.”

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witherstaff writes “House Democrats have proposed billion in Internet investmentsas part of a sweeping economic stimulus bill that the full House is expected to vote on next week. The billion is considered a down payment on efforts Obama will make in this area over the next several years. Of course let’s not forget the 0 billion broadband scandal that the large telecommunication companies have been paid but never delivered on.”

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