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Barack Obama is going to appoint the nation’s first CTO. What are the top priorities?

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  1. Insist Obama resign after the CTO resigns

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  2. Leash RIAA, MPAA etc. before they rob and accuse everybody

    These two have been extremely intimidating in the field of copyright and intellectual property. They use (dirty) tricks and unclear or no evidence at all to rip people off on the grounds that they violated copyright.

    This practice has to STOP and media giants have to realize that the problem is not piracy (they even accused kids!) but their methods of profiting from music and video industry.

    Time has come to put the end to their reign of terror.

    24 votes
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  3. Eric Schmidt

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  4. Create a smart mass transit system

    Let's build a smart mass transit system on the scale of the interstate highway system.

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  5. eliminate the BCS and implement a college football playoff

    the BCS is a biased and unfair system to determine which is the best football team in college football. we waste immeasurable time, energy, and bandwidth complaining, debating or hyping who should be #1. use diplomacy and creativity to develop a playoff system that is fair and ethical so that the true #1 is determined on the playing field.

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  6. Create a government info site.

    Documented in a user friendly way in which every cent you spend and every law you enact is publicized and explained in a user friendly way format similar to that of wikipedia or other web 2.0 sites in which comments are permitted and encouraged. This would create "civic initiative" and get everyone involved in their democracy.

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  7. manned spaceflight is a waste of my tax $

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  8. Reestablish a U.S. Office of Technology Assessment

    Congress shortsightedly abolished the former U.S. Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) in 1995. In the meantime many European nations have strengthened their institutional capacity to anticipate and guide technological innovation and to understand science-and-technology intensive policy issues. Denmark especially has excelled in developing mechanism for allowing laypeople to participate in policy deliberations related to science and technology (see www.tekno.dk/eng).

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  9. comp literacy test for all redneck homeland security bubbas

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  10. i want a report detailing where my friggin tax dollars went

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  11. make Rick Astley poet laureate of the US

    nt

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  12. strongly fund diabetes research

    Diabetes costs between 1/4 to 1/3 of the health care dollars in this country. Heart attacks, strokes, kidney failure, amputations, blindness and many other diseases are related, either directly or indirectly, to diabetes.

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  13. Set the Goal of a Full Fiber America

    We don't just need broadband everywhere and Internet for everyone, we need to acknowledge and embrace that the endgame for all this is a fiber optic cable to every building in the country. We don't need competition between the characteristics of broadband pipes; we need competition between services that run over a common infrastructure with unlimited capacity.

    And in building out this full fiber infrastructure we need to start making the principles of the Internet applicable to specific geographic regions so that increased connectivity does not just connect us to the world but also improve how we communicate with our…

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  14. require grade school teachers to be computer literate

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  15. abolish religion and fear in favor of rational thought

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  16. Centralized BI system to analyze the bad guys

    cia, fbi and homeland security (gag) need to get together. cut costs

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  17. Fix identity theft vulnerability of Social Security Numbers

    The use of then Social Security Number (SSN) as a unique identifier for US citizens causes many problems. Most significantly, it is a identity theft risk when it is exposed, but its widespread utilization means that it must often be revealed. The national CTO should determine a way to defuse the danger of exposing a social security number.

    I lived in Denmark for a short time, and they addressed this issue by registering an address with the social security number. Banks and other financial organizations used the address registered with the SSN to communicate with individuals. This had the added…

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  18. focus on making net neutrality priority number one.

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  19. Encourage educated foreign citizens to stay/come to the U.S.

    Increase the length of time a foreign born individual can stay in the U.S. on a student visa, and fast track visas for those who are skilled and educated. Allocate a percentage of the visas to be used for the most highly skilled applicants.
    Also, reduce the uncertainty for the visa application process. Currently, employers sponsor an applicant (approx $5k) without any sort of guarantee that the applicant will recieve the visa. Employers, especially small-businesses, don't like spending $5k on someone with the risk that the applicant won't even receive a visa. Hence, the U.S. loses a skilled applicant who…

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  20. unclog the internet pipes

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