November 30, 2010
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Network neutrality is a simple concept: ISPs shouldn’t play favorites with the content that goes over their parts of the Internet. It’s a concept that harks back to the Commercial Internet Exchange (CIX) in 1991 when the first Internet carries … Continue reading
November 29, 2010
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Cyber-Monday, what a great day for Comcast’s DNS (Domain Name System) service to fail. This isn’t the first, or last, time that an ISP’s DNS has failed. Even when the commercial ISPs’ DNS are working flawlessly, they don’t tend to … Continue reading
November 28, 2010
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Back in 1964, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart of famously wrote on what was, and wasn’t “hard-core pornography” that, “I know it when I see it.” Today, free speech on the Web is impeded by far more restrictions than … Continue reading
November 26, 2010
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Firesheep, the all too easy-to-use Web snooping tool, continues to expose the disaster that is modern Web site security. Sooner or later, a lot of people are going to lose a lot of valuable information to hackers using Firesheep and … Continue reading
November 23, 2010
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After my recent piece on the cost of small office/home office bandwidth was published, I heard from many people. Some sample responses to Verizon’s new monthly deal of 150 Megabits per second (Mbps) down and 35Mbps up for $194.99 include: … Continue reading
November 22, 2010
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What’s the most you’ve ever paid for your small-office/home-office (SOHO) Internet broadband? For me, it was $350 a month, but that was in the late 80s and I had a fractional T1 using frame-relay direct to my house. In those … Continue reading