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Finally pulled the plug on the land line. Sorry Verizon, but $40+ a month for nuisance calls just ain't worth the "security." The pre-paid cell costs me less than $100 a year.
Scary if true statistics on domestic wiretapping.
Apple Uses Monopoly to Stifle Art via Tom Tomorrow
"Right now the typical cable operator uses one analog channel (6 MHz – usually channel 80) for Internet service. That’s ONE PERCENT of the total bandwidth on an analog cable network. Give up a shopping channel and Internet bandwidth could be instantly doubled."
Is that true? Is any of this true?
In South Africa, carrier pigeon faster than broadband
gmail down?
"Perlman says OnLive [net-based game platform]’s combination of compression algorithms, distributed data centers and deals with Internet carriers to minimize transmission delays typically pushes the latency figure as low as 25 to 35 milliseconds, and no more than 80 in the worst case."
"deals with internet carriers"--isn't that what every media provider wants and doesn't it violate net neutrality? Curious to hear any thoughts on this.
forever amazon
Adobe To Move Flash Into Digital TVs
if only i had an identity to manage.
Introduction to Cliqset from Cliqset on Vimeo.
17-year-old claims responsibility for Twitter worm
whats your general impression of this article?
Yikes: Time Warner moves forward with tiered bandwidth pricing. I actually don't mind paying by the bit if they would charge anywhere close to market bandwidth prices. But $1 per GB when you go over your (very limited) cap? Are they serious? And the cap on the biggest tier is 40 GB per month?
Of course, if there is no price collusion, this means that the telecos should be able to wipe them out of the game with DSL. But we'll see how that works. Depending on AT&T to save us seems like a risky bet.
Julius Genachowski to head the FCC. Apparently this is a good thing, although I don't know much about him. From the article:
Genachowski was a Harvard classmate of Obama's and previously worked for Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer. He's currently a co-founder of LaunchBox Digital and Rock Creek Ventures, and held executive posts including general counsel at IAC/InterActiveCorp, which owns a list of Web properties including Ask.com, Match.com, Gifts.com, Reference.com, Evite, Citysearch, and Excite. IAC is a member of a coalition that supports more Net neutrality regulations and which also includes Amazon, eBay, and Google.That last part sounds good.
Yochai Benkler (short version: good guy) on broadband funding in the stimulus package. I'm not hopeful about anything financial these days, but it's nice to see some optimism.
"Democrats sneak Net neutrality rules into 'stimulus' bill". Haven't had time to read through this so I don't know if it's true or what the bill looks like. But could be interesting.
Any thoughts on whether Google's practice of edge caching (storing content such as YouTube videos on servers close to people's homes for faster loads, etc, as I understand it) violates an open, neutral Net?