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Hello, everyone. It is my pleasure and my privilege to be up here at this podium at the internet education foundations 14th annual state of the net conference. My name is emery rone, a fellow at the internet law frame work for early career professionals, started by our Parent Organization and im hereto interview right, im in the other room next to cspan well be pulling down panelists throughout the day and talking about what is the most important issues facing the state of the net. I hope to spe...

Changes that have happened to us and our policy the last year and also kind of scope out what we think this year is going to look like and thats kind of the point. State of the net in january. My name is tim lorden and im part of organization sponsored by jerry who founded this organization, youll hear from at lunch and founded the concept much the state of the net and i want to thank jerry. [applause] jerry is a giant in the space and were happy to have him back. Hell be introducing the congres...

Synchronize to our countdown. The secondtier debate is scheduled for 5 00 p. M. In two weeks. Some pundits say that it would be a humiliating catastrophe not to make the cut for the primetime debate. Could you make the argument that the conventional wisdom is wrong . John you could make this argument. There is some things, but being on prime time is a much bigger audience. You will be up there with the donald and have the chance to take him out. There is a lot of people who are not going to sit ...

Minimum requirements if were looking at the high noncompliance rates of utilities, the problems with 56rdability, the problems with small customer bases that just some great emphasis needs to be paid to providing more funding for these disadvantaged and smaller communities. My home state of texas has a lot of money theyre putting into water problems as a result of droughts. Californias done the same thing. Each state runs it different. A lot of states put extra money in. Some states dont. But i ...

Interesting sometimes the best thing to do with information sharing is to keep a secret. And in this case after, to their credit, they handled this fantastic. We are lucky that this turned out to be a microsoft problem because they had a sophisticated Incident Response Security Program and so it was their mistake 15 years ago but the people that handled it now were the right people and we are all very lucky. But they immediately bought it and there was no convincing them that this was serious. T...

Incident response Security Program and so it was their mistake 15 years ago but the people that handled it now were the right people and we are all very lucky. But they immediately bought it and there was no convincing them that this was serious. That took three emails. They worked on it very hard for a year. The best thing to do was to give them the runway to fix it right. The worst thing to do would have been to put an arbitrary deadline in front of them and told them to fix it fast. In this c...

Because ronments thank you but that is a whole other topic. But i also think that we dont in america we are more into john wayne than john dewey. John wayne gets the headlines, not john dewey. You take a School District in southern l. A. County, even through austerity, it has done extraordinarily well. Actually, that is how i got to this. Hey solve problems and what they have done is they have done this through the transitions of a retiring superintendent and a retiring union president. So this ...

Ok. And our guidepost for our kids, the next generation, are they doing better than they are. That has changed. And people are really anxious about that. They want to work hard and they want to do ok. So i think there is when i looked at the elections, in 2013, Chris Christie won in new jersey, that is true, but so did minimum wage expansion. Terry mcauliffe won in virginia, walsh in boston, palacios in new york. Blasio in new york. Toledo, the person who was protested education could you speak ...

The history of network neutrality shows regulating internet traffic has never been a fixed policy.

Held each December, the Firebird Festival signifies the rebirth of the town in recent years and also welcomes the approaching winter solstice. The enormously popular festival continues to draw people from all over the Philadelphia region. Some estimates had a crowd of up to 10,000 people at this year's event.