Sunsets, Stars, West, Wind
http://io9.com/lokis-wager-is-why-you-cant-win-arguments-on-the-inter-1679484756
My advice to people tempted to argue in cyberspace is always: “Don’t Feed the Trolls! ”
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http://money.cnn.com/2015/01/02/technology/comcast-time-warner-cable-modem/
I guess I’d better scrutinize my Time Warner bill this month. And maybe start pricing cable modems.
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ISP interconnection has a substantial impact on consumer internet performance –sometimes a severely negative impact — and that business relationships between ISPs, and not major technical problems, are at the root of the problems we observed.
An interesting study with an intriguing conclusion.
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How to protect yourself against hackers (or at least make it difficult for them)
http://thenextweb.com/insider/2014/09/03/protect-hackers-least-make-difficult/
My good deed for the day: providing the link above to you and asking you to take note.
Better safe than sorry.
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So what happened? Why has the federal courts’ IT system stagnated despite more money? The answer, unsurprisingly, is that the money has gone elsewhere.
Bureaucracies and budgets … if there is money unspent in one at the end of the year …
The bottom line is that fixing PACER is not a technological challenge, but a political one, and technology has yet to solve the problem of getting the politically powerful to focus on the right things at the same time.
I admin a lot of weird one-off applications where I work. Last week, PACER dropped into my lap as a direct result of the upgrade mentioned in the article above. I can attest to the very dated interface. In fact I probably hadn’t seen PACER in over a decade and it looked and acted just as it did back then. I have never understood how this system is allowed to charge anyone fees because all the information it contains is public information. Compare to NASA which makes an incredible amount of information available for everyone – researchers and citizens – easily accessible and free.
Internet down for 12m Americans as Time Warner Cable suffers outage
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/aug/27/internet-down-time-warner-cable-outage
Per my earlier Tweet, we (the Mosses) are victims of this outage.
What do you want to bet that my bill will not reflect a credit for the inconvenience?
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Democrat Warns Data Caps Could Undermine Net Neutrality
http://www.nationaljournal.com/tech/democrat-warns-data-caps-could-undermine-net-neutrality-20140729
The Flip Side Of Net Neutrality. So far Time Warner hasn’t instituted data caps for my home Internet but Comcast could change that in the future.
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Comcast Is Turning The US Into Its Own Private Hotspot
http://techcrunch.com/2014/06/11/comcast-is-turning-the-us-into-its-own-private-hotspot/?ncid=rss
Reminder to self: make sure Time Warner Road Runner Internet service does NOT include this new feature.
If it does (or might soon since Comcast bought them) … opt out!!!
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The 10 Algorithms That Dominate Our World
http://io9.com/the-10-algorithms-that-dominate-our-world-1580110464
Two of these qualify as scary (if not down right terrifying) … NSA (substitute Big Brother if you prefer) and CRUSH (say Minority Report).
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The 6 things you need to know about today’s FCC proposal on net neutrality
http://thenextweb.com/insider/2014/05/16/6-things-need-know-todays-fcc-ruling-net-neutrality/
Time to write a letter to the FCC. See the last paragraph of the above article for address information.
This is not the news I wanted to wake up to today.
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