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high speed trains in local and interstate levels.
i believe that we should have better public transportation to also kick or dependency on foreign oil. it promotes a greener country and encourages more americans to see their country from the ground.
its time that we upgrade our local and national trains to european standards. it makes simple sense.
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Carefully consider funding space elevator research
A space elevator has the potential to bring the cost of spacelift and exploration down to a truly commercial level. Materials technology is quickly advancing to the point where building a space elevator will become technically feasible. Further, funded research and a strong commitment to space exploration would benefit the United States and the rest of the world.
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Create internttional set of codes and laws for the Internet
The nations of the world needs to work together to come up with a clear and well defined set of policies, laws, and regulations for the Internet. No one country can do this alone.
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Phase out copper telco installs, mandate all fttp.
Using traditional pots for phone installs limits those locations (especially in rural areas) to dialup. Fiber can always be used for high speed bandwidth down the road.
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Protect the US from cyber-attack.
see article" http://www.slate.com/id/2204123/?GT1=38001. The CTO should be a cyber-czar-like position and work with the DHS to protect the government networks from espionage and sabotage buy implementing many series of Security upgrades.
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Limit the Market Shares of Such Corportations As Microsoft
Ensure that companies like Microsoft can not flood the market with their products and charge ridiculous prices for software just because they know everyone will need to purchase it. Microsoft's policies need to be examined. Just because a majority of the computing public uses their products, doesn't mean they should charge extreme prices to students and schools for their products.
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Create an educational backplane to make education free
MIT and other educational institutions offer some of their material through Open Courseware.
Please setup a system where every school receiving federal funding has to participate in the development of courseware for an online college so that everyone has free (or extremely inexpensive) access to an undergraduate degree in the growing industries (green collar, biotech and engineering)
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Protect the internet by *requiring* ISPs to stop botnets
There are millions of malware infested PCs in the world, and many of them sit on US ISP networks. These bots do all kinds of damage to the internet. They are responsible for most spam (outbound port 25) and they are capable of inflicting crippling denial-of-service attacks, sometimes even on entire countries. It's a national security issue and can be controlled a lot better than it is now.
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Protect Net Neutrality
Carriers/ISPs are fast becoming power-hungry when it comes to controlling the information you send across the Internet. Net Neutrality prevents Internet providers from blocking, speeding up or slowing down traffic which may compete with their commercially provided services. This way the consumer has more choice over the services he/she uses without carriers interfering based on their own commercial interests. If there were more competition among carriers, this would be a non-issue but we've seen much carrier-collusion in recent years, and this needs to end.
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is not a Chicago thug, thief or bagman
We are getting to many thugs from Chicago in Washington DC. This will corrupt the honest ways of Washington DC. Barney Frank needs the time to help the Auto Industry like he bankrupted the loan industry.
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Reduce the term for non-biotech patents
Biotech requires a long patent period to account for the time to get to market-- outside of biotech (read: software) reduce the patent term.
Yes, there's also the idea of ending "software" patents and "business method" patents, but these solutions have obvious flaws because clever patent filers (and their attorneys) can convert software patents into hardware patents by adding a computer or chip. I know this personally, having filed 20 patents and gotten a half dozen issued.
Please vote on the idea of shortened patent term lengths outside of biotech or other fields with long times to market-- not on…
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Increase USPTO staff for examination of software patents
Staff the USPTO with a greater supply of IT and computer science experts so that more time can be devoted to reviewing software patents, ensuring that fewer frivolous patents are issued.
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Reinstate a modern "fairness doctrine"
OK, maybe this is not for the CTO to do, but for the FCC, but... Things have gone massively downhill in the media since the Reagan era repeal of the fairness doctrine. Since the airwaves are public property, and cable systems are monopolies granted by local gov'ts, there's a legitimate public interest in what goes on on both of them. Maybe the fairness doctrine wasn't exactly right as it was, but we need something in its place other than the plutocratic mode of allocation currently in place.
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