The hits keep coming under the new administration and with the new FCC chair. This time, Pai’s FCC has removed a condition of Charter merging with TWC and Bright House Networks. The agency’s thought process reads like the sort of double speak we’ve come to expect: by removing the requirement to provide meaningful access, they ensure the ISPs can focus on providing meaningful access.
Tag: broadband access
Understand the current and coming policy issues with 5G
Susan Crawford does an excellent job of demystifying a flurry of bills that on the surface are about facilitating the any-day-now, better-than-ever, but not-really-here-any-time-soon technology of 5G. I feel like we should have learned our lesson about carriers and public rights of way by now, that they rarely if ever repay the public trust. Her article contains a lot of good technical detail, as well, about what 5G will and won’t deliver and when, all important to bear in mind when carriers come knocking to your state or locality with a bushel of too good to be true promises, if only we erode or eliminate critical public oversight.
2016-01-16 The Command Line Podcast
This is an episode of The Command Line Podcast.
This time, I chat about some recent news stories that caught my attention, including:
- EFF Confirms: T-Mobile’s Binge On Optimization is Just Throttling, Applies Indiscriminately to All Video
- T-Mobile chief: Video throttling claim ‘bullshit’
- As Its CEO Continues To Claim It Doesn’t Throttle, T-Mobile Spokesperson Confirms Company Throttles
- John Legere apologizes to EFF for mocking group in throttling debate
- Clarifying The Bullshit From John Legere: What T-Mobile Is Really Doing And Why It Violates Net Neutrality
- In 2016, The Coding Bootcamp Bubble Is Bound to Burst
- I Moved to Linux and It’s Even Better Than I Expected
- The Father of Online Anonymity Has a Plan to End the Crypto War
- Why I Carry a Newton
- The SuperSuit
- Resilience over rigidity: how to solve tomorrow’s computer problems today
- You Can’t Destroy the Village to Save It: W3C vs DRM, Round Two
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2016-01-03 The Command Line Podcast
This is an episode of The Command Line Podcast.
This time, I chat about some recent news stories that caught my attention, including:
- How the Internet of Things Limits Consumer Choice
- Tracing the Dynabook
- China Using US Encryption Fight To Defend Its New Encryption Backdoor Mandate
- Comcast Cap Blunder Highlights How Nobody Is Ensuring Broadband Meters Are Accurate
- New York is finally installing its promised public gigabit Wi-Fi
- After A Decade Of Waiting For Verizon, Town Builds Itself Gigabit Fiber For $75 Per Month
- The App-ocalypse: can Web standards make mobile apps obsolete?
- Tools, ads, and bad defaults: Web bloat continues unabated
- Google plans to remove Oracle’s Java APIs from Android N
- Microsoft to notify users of government spying after Chinese Hotmail hack goes public
- Lessig on how the economics of data-retention will drive privacy tech
- Debian Linux founder Ian Murdock dead at 42
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2015-12-13 The Command Line Podcast
This is an episode of The Command Line Podcast.
I will be attending SCALE in the latter half of next month if anyone else planning to be there wants to meet up.
This time, I chat about some recent news stories that caught my attention, including:
- Microsoft to Open Source A Key Piece of Its Web Browser
- The Seriously Wacky Way Cosmologists Say We Could Encrypt Data
- A New Deal for Broadband Access Will Be A Key Issue in 2016
- A great, low-tech hack for teaching high-tech skills
- The End of Internet Advertising as We’ve Known It
- SHA-1 cutoff could block millions of users from encrypted websites
- France looking at banning Tor, blocking public Wi-Fi
- France says ‘non’ to Wi-Fi and Tor restrictions after terror attack
- Firefox OS smartphones are dead
- Mozilla Open Source Support: First Awards Made
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2015-12-05 The Command Line Podcast
This is an episode of The Command Line Podcast.
This time, I chat about some recent news stories that caught my attention, including:
- The NSA’s Bulk Collection Of Phone Records Ended Saturday. Long Live The Bulk Collection Of Phone Records!
- Senate bill adds new fuel to NSA debate
- The National Security Letter spy tool has been uncloaked, and it’s bad
- Net neutrality goes on trial
- Towns want Verizon investigated for abandoning networks through neglect
- Open Insulin Project Could Help Save Thousands Of Lives And Billions Of Dollars
- Let’s Encrypt Enters Public Beta
- Find a Security Vulnerability, Get a Reward: Announcing EFF’s Security Vulnerability Disclosure Program
- Mozilla Is Flailing When the Internet Needs It the Most
- Thunderbird “a tax” on Firefox development, and Mozilla wants to drop it
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feeds | grep links > Broadband as Voting Issue in Australia, CERN’s Changing Patent Policies, More on European Police Raids of ISPs, and More
- Broadband access becomes a voting issue in Australia
Nate Anderson at Ars Technica has the details of how the issue shaped the new coalition government. Where majorities are more contentious and often require this sort of alignment, the story makes sense. Here in the US, I still doubt that broadband access or similar tech policy concerns will ever have this kind of impact. - Android, Linux kernel fight continues
Via Groklaw. - CERN looking to leverage patents where it hasn’t in the past
I am kind of saddened by this New Scientist article to which Groklaw linked. It mentions MIT actively managing a considerable portfolio, what I would consider a positive example of a regarded research institute balancing the drive to reap the benefits of its efforts directly. The idea of the web being bound up in patents, had CERN taken this approach from much earlier, is troubling to say the least. - More details on yesterday’s police raids in Europe
TorrentFreak has more on the coordinate efforts by police, of which outages at the Pirate Bay may have been incidental. It is tough to judge as they’ve withheld or redacted some information to protect their sources. Claims are still being made by others, not by TorrentFreak, that the Pirate Bay and WikiLeaks were being targeted. - Single atom setup acts as transistor for photons, Scientific American
- Civic Commons code sharing initiative looks to lower government IT costs, O’Reilly Radar
feeds | grep links > Stop the Mathness, Efficient Spintronics, New Book on Net Policy and Innovation, and More
Still recovering from jet lag and flight + commute from hell this morning. At least the post is back to my usual window for blogging. Hopefully my batteries will be recharged enough tomorrow to drag forth some useful commentary along with the days links.
Oh, and the sky just turned ominous as I prepare to post this. Making use of the electromo juice while it holds out in the face of nature’s unremitting hatred of our electrical grid.