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- Congress moves - slowly - towards new privacy laws
- Congress moves - slowly - towards new privacy lawsThe fundamental challengeis how to draft the law such that the ISPs are required to collect, store, and forward this information to the government while at the same time keeping them from looking at it."Too many front burner issues"I suspect that the...
- Tags: privacy law, U.S. Congress, new privacy law, privacy
- Discussion threads 2008-08-11
- Comcast's true speeds and the BitTorrent deal
- So, I talked to former ZD technical director and editor at large George Ou last week. He's been looking at Comcast's claims for its DOCSIS 3.0 rollout in Minneapolis. I passed along Comcast's projections that the service would 50 Mbps downstream and 5 Mbps up. ...
- Tags: BitTorrent, Network, Comcast Corp., Mbps, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Networking, Internet, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-04-09
- New+majority+loses+nerve+on+net+neutrality
- New+majority+loses+nerve+on+net+neutralityI think this should be handled through ICANNThey say.. if you try to impose restriction on websites that you do not host, we terminate your name associations and IP blocks.Problem solved.In its current form.. net neutraility does more harm than good. Any restrictions other than the ones blocking monopolies...
- Tags: Web site development, INTERNET, Net Neutrality, Web site, e-mail
- Discussion threads 2008-02-13
- Net Neutrality outrage: reports of T-Mobile blocking Twitter
- Net Neutrality outrage: reports of T-Mobile blocking TwitterGeorge Ou is completely wrong about "Net Neutrality".This is a GREAT example about why there is a need for regulation that outlaws the telcos from interfering with the content they are delivering. Unless they are stopped, they will do it more, and more,...
- Tags: T-Mobile, Net Neutrality, Twitter, Marianne Maestas, George Ou
- Discussion threads 2007-12-14
- Saving Internet freedom - for users - from telcos
- Saving Internet freedom - for users - from telcosA little thing called competitionTelcos have to compete with cable broadband providers. Competition is the best regulator. Government regulation never works. We pay way to much for our phones due to government regulation, taxes and fees all meant to...
- Tags: TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Telecom & Utilities, QoS, telecommunications company
- Discussion threads 2007-12-13
- 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
- Online gamers: without net neutrality you're so hosed
- Online gamers: without net neutrality you're so hosedQuestion about Net Neutering..Online gaming has more to do with latency than bandwidth or so I thought.Does anyone know if net neutrality affects both latency and bandwidth?Seems like right now that latency is an issue with many causes. Mainly distance/hops between A and...
- Tags: Games, online game, online-gaming community, Net Neutrality, latency, game, bandwidth
- Discussion threads 2006-11-20
- Craigslist silently fixes their end in the Cox fiasco
- Craigslist silently fixes their end in the Cox fiascoPaper tigerYes George, you were right here, but being right about one case, which you persist in making all the case, does not mean you are right on your position on net neutrality.So kudos, but have you proved anything - NO. ...
- Tags: Please Let, Net Neutrality, Enhanced QoS, Craigslist, Snowe-Dorgan, Authentium, Markey
- Discussion threads 2006-07-13
- Net Neutrality: Attack of the Clones
- Net Neutrality: Attack of the ClonesYou've turned your blog in to a character assassination machineInstead of responding in your own talkback, you've turned your blog in to a permanent character assassination machine. Your own readers even the ones who agree with you mostly have criticized you for your behavior...
- Tags: QoS, Net Neutrality
- Discussion threads 2006-07-08
- Net Neutrality: Attack of the Clones
- Well, yesterday's response to George Ou has turned into a broadside from Richard Bennett. He says here that my posting is the "silliest thing ever written about Net Neutrality." Without going into why being attacked by Richard is a badge of honor for reasonable people, I'm just going...
- Tags: Snowe, network, QoS
- Blog posts 2006-07-08
- Let's put Net neutrality to bed: Engaging the George
- George Ou, another blogger here at ZD Net, persists in insisting that the Net neutrality position is deeply flawed. I'm responding to his comments on another post in this new posting because we have, at last, come to the nut of the dispute. The infrastructure works...
- Tags: QoS
- Blog posts 2006-07-07
- Net neutrality in Senate bill? Don't bet on it.
- There was hope last week – after the House soundly rejected an amendment that would have preserved net neutrality – that the Senate would offer more protection for the idea that telecom providers ought not be able to offer a fast lane to content providers willing to pay for privilege....
- Tags: Net Neutrality, Ted Stevens, lane, U.S. Senate
- Blog posts 2006-06-13
- Net neutrality extremists should stop playing engineers
- Net neutrality extremists should stop playing engineersYou know who invested in this?"If you're suggesting that any new infrastructure should be completely given to the general purpose Internet, then you are naive because you're never going to get any new infrastructure without some financial incentives for the people investing in the...
- Tags: NETWORKING, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Net Neutrality, Internet, network, IPv6, new infrastructure
- Discussion threads 2006-06-10
- Net neutrality extremists should stop playing engineers
- Our own VoIP blogger Russell Shaw has decided to rebut my position on Net neutrality. Here is my response to Russell.Russell Shaw says:George then adds that if everyone is contending for the same bandwidth on an Internet backbone at the same moment in time, then the priority-service packets should...
- Tags: TELECOMMUNICATIONS, NETWORKING, Net Neutrality, QoS
- Blog posts 2006-06-10
- George Ou, I respectfully disagree with you on net neutrality
- George Ou, I respectfully disagree with you on net neutralityYour understanding of Broadband is completely wrongThen there's the matter of what constitutes a "slow down." Say I am a cable broadband service provider running at 4 mbps. Then I upgrade my downstream to, say, 7mbps. I promote the hell out...
- Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), DSL, Broadband Internet, Network technology, Cable, cup, Internet Service Provider, prioritization, lake, Mbps, Net Neutrality
- Discussion threads 2006-06-09
- George Ou, I respectfully disagree with you on net neutrality
- I have buckets of respect for my ZDNet colleague George Ou. He is that rare technologist with a gift for peering through the haze, and offering concrete explanations of the conceptual and the opaque in the tech world.Yet George Ou's views skew more toward market-based solutions and remedies than...
- Tags: Federal government, NETWORKING, network provider, Net Neutrality
- Blog posts 2006-06-09
- Net neutrality? Not in this House
- The House definitively rejected Net neutrality yesterday, voting down 269-152 Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.)'s amendment that would have forbidden telecom companies from charging a premium to certain content providers, News.com reports. "The future Sergey Brins, the future Marc Andreessens, of Netscape and Google...are going to have to pay...
- Tags: Net Neutrality, House
- Blog posts 2006-06-09
- House rejects Net neutrality rules
- House rejects Net neutrality rulesWoW - Big Surprise...The Republicans side with Big Business over the needs of the common man. Gee - we've never seen that before.Information StopgapSeems like the Republicans are right on track. They're not only assisting in creating the greatest police state the world has...
- Tags: COPE Act, Net Neutrality
- Discussion threads 2006-06-08
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