So let’s talk about this net neutrality thing. What effects, if any, will new FCC Chairman Ajit Pai’s proposed dismantling of former Chairman Tom Wheeler’s…
OPLIN 4cast #540: About net neutrality
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So let’s talk about this net neutrality thing. What effects, if any, will new FCC Chairman Ajit Pai’s proposed dismantling of former Chairman Tom Wheeler’s…
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One year ago yesterday, the US Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal by the Authors’ Guild to review a lower court decision in favor…
The recent thread on the OPLINTECH list about solid state vs mechanical drives in computers is a reminder that the traditional methods of storing data…
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Without giving it much thought, most of us have become regular users of location services in the past few years. Everytime we use GPS with…
People didn’t seem to pay much attention in days gone by to what the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) was doing. Most of the FCC’s business…
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As far back as 1914, AT&T was looking at ways to use power lines for telecommunications. About ninety years later, there was a flurry of…
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Last week, Facebook announced that its users will be able to search for photos based on a description of the photo, something Google Photos has…
People don’t do very well with passwords. No matter how many times security experts warn us about using — and re-using — easily guessed passwords,…
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Trustworthiness is becoming an important issue on the web, with some of the biggest players taking new steps to mitigate the frequency of untrustworthy information…