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“I have had letters and calls from many, many readers whose opinions back up this report and reveal a lack of interest and even a huge distrust of the web, and there are probably millions of people who are determined never to consider even trying to operate a computer.”

So why aren’t older people using the web? According to Professor Bill Dutton, who directs OxIS, trust in the Internet is based largely on experience with this technology. As he said: “Getting elders to experience the Internet, when they distrust it, is the central challenge.”

The Economist also says Net Neutrality is a means to preserve openness, though the piece fairly outlines its many cons.  Without Net Neutrality, proponents of government regulation argue Internet service providers will create a closed Internet by blocking content or permitting some websites to ride on a “fast-lane” above others.  However, this, too, should be decided by consumer choice in the free market, not by prescriptive rules from the FCC that mandate extremely “open” business models.  Consumer preferences in the free-market alone have long ensured that ISPs do not block websites.  Additionally, prioritizing traffic helps prevent congestion, and the model of offering paid fast lanes is utlized by mostly “open” companies like Google to ensure their service is fast enough for consumers in places far from their servers.  Finally, paid prioritization would provide a new revenue source for ISPs to lower prices and invest in broadband expansion, speed, and other services – something that can be very good for consumers.  Net Neutrality and the FCC's lingering attempt at broadband reclassification could take all these potential benefits away.

These local phone and cable companies fear that they will have to compete with governmentsubsidized broadband systems, paid for largely with stimulus dollars. If the taxpayer-funded networks siphon off customers by offering lower prices, private companies might be less likely to upgrade their lines, endangering jobs and undermining the stimulus plan's goals, they warn.

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Out of personal curiosity, more than anything else, I decided to start writing down all the countries I could find with the number of Internet users. Slowly, the list started to grow and the help of an Excel dBase became necessary. More countries were added and updated figures started to come in.

Hollywood, needless to say, isn't a fan. The Motion Picture Association of America describes Megavideo and Megaupload as copyright scofflaws and said that they host illegal content "at their own peril." Maybe, but these sites, registered in Hong Kong, seem to know how to avoid lawsuits. They are following at least the letter of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, removing infringing material at the copyright holder's request.

That said, less than 10 percent of Americans appear to be using electronic medical records, with almost half saying they're not even clear if their doctor actually offers access, according to a Harris Interactive/HealthDay survey of more than 2,000 American adults

blacks and Hispanics were only half as likely to sign up for personal health record access compared with white patients, the authors noted, and the wealthiest patients were 14 percent more likely to initiate personal health record use than the poorest patients.

Older patients, between the ages of 51 and 65, constituted the largest slice of the high-user group, they found, accounting for four in 10 among such patients.

The girl, now 18, reported to police that she received a text message last month from an unknown person, who told her that her pictures were seen on a website.

The woman told police she sent some indecent pictures to her boyfriend from her cell phone in November 2009. Her phone was later stolen at a New

Her phone was later stolen at a New Year's party. About 15 months later, she received the text message while she was at work, informing her that her pictures were on the Internet.