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New majority loses nerve on net neutrality

Now that Democrats have a majority in Congress, they are losing their appetite for direct confrontation with the phone monopolies over network neutrality. HR 5353, introduced by Rep. Edward Markey, carries no enforcement provision on network neutrality, and even carries the co-sponsorship of a neutrality opponent, Rep....

Tags: Chip Pickering, Democrat, Network, Majority, Edward Markey, Net Neutrality, Networking, Telecom & Utilities, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-02-13

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First volley in the new American civil war: over climate change

A first draft of a climate change and energy efficiency bill has been introduced into Congress. The House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee released the first draft of the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009. emocratic leaders hope will it be voted...

Tags: Civil War, Geothermal Energy, Energy Efficiency, Bill, Rep., Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-03-31

As Comcast defends, Markey offers net neutrality bill

Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee's subcommittee on telecommunications and the Internet, introduced a bill Wednesday that would prevent Internet service providers such as Comcast from interfering with consumers' use of the network. The bill was cosponsored by Rep. Chip Pickering (R-Miss.). ...

Tags: Comcast Corp., Broadband, Net Neutrality, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Internet, Telecommunications, Networking, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-02-13

Verizon says it complies with warrantless requests

Verizon complied with warrantless demands for customer calling records hundreds of times since 2005, The Washington Post reports. In a letter to Democratic congressmen, Verizon also said that it had complied with FBI national security letters requesting information on a second-degree of customers, those who were not...

Tags: Verizon Communications Inc., Letter, Federal Government, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Government, ZDNet Government

Blog posts 2007-10-16

DOD says site blocking is only about bandwidth

Quite a hullabaloo over the Defense Dept's shutdown of the world's most popular websites, as reported here. Now the Pentagon is responding by sending out a top tech officer to explain the decision, The Washington Post reports.Rear Adm. Elizabeth A. Hight, vice director of the Defense Information Systems...

Tags: Defense

Blog posts 2007-05-18

Your DST IT nightmare: Who's to blame? Hint: They're in DC

"Day light saving just brings a smile to everybody’s faces.” --Rep. Ed Markey, D-Mass., on March 8. Talk about disconnects between Washington D.C. and reality. Markey, one of the people most responsible for the DST change this weekend, wouldnt know a server if it fell on his head. After all,...

Tags: General, IT Management, Software Infrastructure, Hardware Infrastructure, Government, Microsoft

Blog posts 2007-03-08

Microsoft customers melting down over Daylight Saving patches

Microsoft customers melting down over Daylight Saving patchesQuite happy with my GroupWise serverAnother reason why I wouldn't want to use Exchange. It's an overly complex, costly solution that does nothing for me or my users. GroupWise on the other hand issued patches that worked! No ifs, and,...

Tags: Patches, Workstations, E-mail servers, Groupware, Microsoft Outlook Web Access, Microsoft Corp., patch management, DST

Discussion threads 2007-03-08

FBI shuts down self-help boarding pass site

A new entry in annals of stupid programmers. Christopher Soghoian, a graduate student at Indiana University's School of Informatics, posted a program on his website to create fake airline boarding passes, The Washington Post. He says he was exposing a security flaw. The government says he's assisting terrorists. ...

Tags: pass, Transportation Security Administration, Christopher Soghoian, security

Blog posts 2006-11-01

DIY boarding pass site gets shut down

DIY boarding pass site gets shut downAnd the moral of the story is,don't do stuff like this! Duh! The government alone has too many innocent people on its 'no fly' list. This not only compounds the problem, it'll make it easier for people who deserve to BE...

Tags: security, boarding pass, DIY, pass, security hole, flaw

Discussion threads 2006-10-30

Dept. of Ed. site reveals 21,000 borrowers info

A software glitch caused a Dept. of Education website to expose personal information of 21,000 federal student loan recipients, the Boston Globe reports. Between Sunday night and Tuesday morning, users of the loan website were shown other borrowers' data when performing certain tasks. ...

Tags: Web site

Blog posts 2006-08-24

Data breach du jour

Personal information about 28,000 sailors and their family members was posted to a public website last week, Navy officials disclosed. Five spreadsheet files of data -- including names, birth dates and Social Security numbers of sailors and their relatives -- were found exposed on a Web site Thursday...

Tags: sailor

Blog posts 2006-06-25

Net neutrality comes to head on House floor

The House will vote Friday on HR5252, a bill that would free phone companies to deliver TV throught their wires, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. The bill is a hot issue because of the battle over net neutrality. Phone companies also want to be able to charge content vendors a...

Tags: Net Neutrality

Blog posts 2006-06-08

Congressman promises greater scrutiny for search companies

The case of the US v Google has created shockwaves among users, as people start to think about just how much personally identifying information Google and the other search giants collect. The shockwaves have hit Washington as Rep. Edward Market (D-Mass) announced plans to introduce legislation to limit what they...

Tags: Markey

Blog posts 2006-01-27