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Get RSS FeedNew Short Video: "Network Neutrality in 30 Seconds" (Part 1)
Posted 08/24/2008 11:34PM CDT on
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Greetings. Is it possible to successfully demonstrate the concepts associated with the ongoing "Network Neutrality" debate in only 30 seconds, without doing oneself considerable physical or mental damage? Better yet, can this be accomplished using mainly props that can be...
eBay Responds Regarding My PayPal Posting
Posted 08/20/2008 04:42PM CDT on
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Greetings. After my posting earlier today regarding eBay's move to require electronic payments in the U.S., I was contacted by a senior eBay public relations official -- and we had a pleasant chat. While there aren't any fundamental changes in...
eBay to Force U.S. PayPal Use (After Australian Rejection)
Posted 08/20/2008 12:03PM CDT on
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Greetings. Months ago I mentioned to various eBay sellers in my acquaintance (mostly sellers of collectibles not suitable for "fixed price" sales) that eBay was moving to force the use of PayPal for all transactions in Australia -- and wanted...
Authenticating Hosts Via Self-Signed Certificates (New CMU Tool)
Posted 08/15/2008 01:07AM CDT on
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Greetings. I have strongly argued for the expanded use of self-signed security certificates, and against the multiple alarming hoops that Firefox 3 now puts in the way of their use. I consider self-signed certificates to be an extremely valuable mechanism...
AT&T the Web Spy? -- And Their Big Google Lie
Posted 08/14/2008 06:15PM CDT on
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Greetings. The battle lines in the broader war over "network neutrality" are becoming ever more clear, and from the standpoint of some ISPs it increasingly appears that the (seemingly coordinated) strategy of the moment is a "But Google is Worse!"...
Why TiVo and YouTube Terrify ISPs
Posted 08/03/2008 12:42PM CDT on
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Greetings. TiVo is in the process of introducing a direct interface to YouTube for their Series 3 and TiVo HD units. I saw it in operation for the first time yesterday. It is seriously slick. You can browse YouTube on...
Do It Yourself Slydial -- Even Dumber Than I Thought!
Posted 08/03/2008 03:31AM CDT on
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Greetings. When I wrote last night about the stupidity of Slydial's patent application and proposed a methodology for how their service functioned, it turns out that I was missing one fascinating piece of information. It appears that I actually gave...
A Patently Silly Filing by "Slydial"
Posted 08/02/2008 01:34AM CDT on
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Greetings. Just a late night quickie. The New York Times has a story up about a service called "Slydial" -- which is making a big deal out of letting people send outgoing calls directly to cell phone voicemail rather than...
A Half-Century Search Ends for $1.99 and 2 Gigabytes
Posted 07/31/2008 08:35PM CDT on
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Greetings. Once upon a time many years ago -- something on the order of 45 years or so I estimate, I was taken as a young child to a number of film screenings as part of a series at UCLA's...
Flimflam and the ISP Man
Posted 07/30/2008 05:47PM CDT on
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Greetings. As some ISPs increasingly seem to approach the operation of the Internet with something of the egalitarian finesse reminiscent of a medieval warlord, an urgent issue moves ever more toward the center stage -- either the Internet is a...
Chuckling at Cuil: Not Ready for Prime Time
Posted 07/28/2008 04:22PM CDT on
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Greetings. The New York Times today ran something of a fluff piece about a new search engine named "Cuil", which includes among its founding staff some former Google engineers. Cuil (yeah, pronounced as "cool" -- too cute, eh?) appears to...
More Shameful Days at the FCC
Posted 07/26/2008 03:24AM CDT on
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Greetings. The FCC's approval of the XM / Sirius merger with only trivial conditions required, in direct contradiction to their explicit license grant terms that the two services never merge, has again shown the Federal Communications Commission to be a...
No Special Treatment for McCain by "New York Times" Op-Ed Page
Posted 07/21/2008 08:41PM CDT on
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Greetings. A story is blowing around cable news right now making a big deal out of the New York Times refusing to publish (without changes) John McCain's proposed op-ed rebuttal to Barack Obama's recent op-ed there. Yapping mouths are seeing...
Google Kills Kittens! Google Censors Critics! And Other Paranoid Falsehoods ...
Posted 07/14/2008 09:49PM CDT on
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Greetings. Over the weekend, and spilling over into this morning, the blogosphere and a variety of mailing lists were abuzz with accusations and speculation that Google, a vocal supporter of network neutrality issues, was "censoring" -- by tagging as potential...
Google, Network Neutrality, and Bomb #20
Posted 07/10/2008 03:01PM CDT on
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Greetings. A recent op-ed in the San Francisco Chronicle, penned by a frequent apologist for ISPs, casts dark aspersions on Google's support for Internet network neutrality efforts. Just as a theoretical for the sake of the argument, let's assume that...
