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Japan's Great Opportunity - The Internet of Electricity

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With every enormous disaster comes equally enormous opportunities - Japan has been handed a doozy. 

The Great Tohoku Earthquake of 2011 has wiped out vast numbers of livelihoods, buildings, and infrastructure. The results are a blank slate to build upon the likes of which have not been seen since the immediate post-war period.

Although rebuilding itself is going to be a large business for years, a far more important opportunity has been revealed: disruption of over a century of power generation legacy. Japan has the opportunity to create the Internet of Electricity business for the first time in history. The reprecussions of this opportunity could rocket Japan into a new and enormous market allowing it to dominate the power generation technology market for years.

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A scene from the movie Black Rain

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tThere's a fantastic scene from the movie Black Rain that is reminds me so much of the foreign media frenzy about Japan the past few days. 

Nick (MIchael Douglas) is talking with Joyce (Kate Capshaw) at the hostess club in Osaka. A gangland murder has just occurred, and Nick the NYPD cop is asking Joyce about the details. Nick has probably never been to Canada, much less to Japan. Joyce is a sharp, bilingual American who lives in Japan and works as a hostess at a night club. 

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Amazingly great software. - Firefox 4 Release Candidate for Windows, Mac and Linux Now Available

Mozilla Firefox 4 for Windows, Mac and Linux has exited the beta cycle and is now available as a release candidate in more than 70 languages. The millions of users testing Firefox 4 will be automatically updated to this version and will join our Mozilla QA team in validating the new features, enhanced performance and stability and HTML5 capabilities in Firefox 4. Testers are encouraged to check out the Web O’ Wonder in order to see the future of the Web with cutting edge demos that showcase the incredible online experiences developers can now create. Developers can submit their own demos to the Mozilla Developer Network Demo Studio.

Thanks to our community of add-ons developers, more than 70 percent of Firefox Add-ons are now compatible with Firefox 4. If your favorite add-on isn’t marked as compatible, you can help test it using the Firefox Add-ons Compatibility Reporter.

We build Firefox with help from our contributors and millions of beta testers. The team has fixed more than 8,000 bugs since the first beta release of Firefox 4. Please help test the release candidate and provide feedback to make sure Firefox 4 is the best it can be.

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Is he stupid or being bribed? - Florida Gov. Rick Scott Rejects $2.4 Billion for High Speed Rail

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What is it that is so hard to understand about the amazing benefits of high speed rail. Also, why aren't any of the governors asking for money to have the train factories put into their states?

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Why is Google so hysterically hypocritical about Bing using its public data? — RoughlyDrafted Magazine

But no, this is Google claiming to be wronged by the reuse of the information it makes publicly available. The company that says it does no evil and loves freedom of ideas and sharing free and open source software.

This is the company that made its fortune on a business model stolen from Overture, that it later paid off in an out of court settlement with Yahoo. This is the company that appropriated Sun’s Java platform and changed just enough to avoid paying Sun to use its technology in the development of Android. The same firm that then turned Android into an iPhone workalike in order to turn its partnership with Apple into a predatory research session.

This is the company that indexes blogs, newspapers, and both digital and physical books, and then makes all this information available without consent in the contexts of its ads and paid search space, and is dismissal of anyone who objects to Google’s ultra liberal sense of copyright. It generated controversy by driving trucks around the world to take photos of everything, connecting to WiFi base stations as it went to suck up random data it could use.

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