Just picked up on this repost over at OSDir.
Check out the wording on that one, then read the title: “United States Cedes Control of the Internet”.
So, they’re reaching for a title with some “shlocking awe” qualities from an article that doesn’t say what the title implies.
The actual body of those statements are so vague and […]

While the USA .gov is waffeling over domain control and making more concilatory noises they’re still planning on maintaining control of the system with an iron fist.
All this while claiming that they’ve got our best interests in mind.  As long as our best interests are paying more for domain names.
Now.  I don’t care who carries […]

Bright bulb T.J. Rodgers of Cypress Semiconductor is quoted as saying he thinks people that payed for allll those wires and cables that make up the internet should be able to charge whatever they want for their product.
Personally, I think I’ve payed quite enough for those wires and cables.  Both directly and by funding the […]

Dan over at Jack of All Blogs has taken up the question of what ya’ll think of SEO (search engine optimization).
Good thing?  Bad thing?  Does it make you gnash your teeth or whistle a sweet, sweet tune while thumbing through a stack of 20s? Or is it a non issue?
I’ve already weighed in, drop by […]

Looks like the Chinese .gov is planning even tougher regulations on internet use for the mainland.
They want to control all forms of communication. What they plan to do with this is anyone’s guess… it doesn’t really seem necessary to prop up the dictatorship and definatley pisses off the populace.
So. Looks like we’ll have […]

DC Parris has once again assumed the podium to give us his insightful look into Net Neutraility.
DC makes an excellent argument to oppose a law currently being brought before the Congress.  It would affect all of our abilities to host content and let bandwith providers charge an additional tax on internet traffic at every leg […]

Congress is concerned about your privacy as an American citizen (apologies to you Europeans.  You’ve already been screwed).  That’s why they’d like to require every ISP to record everything you do, period.  They’re very concerned that without that, you won’t have a private enough internet experience.
War is peace folks, up is down, and your dog […]

For those of you not in the know, NTP servers are a convenient way of keeping time. Your operating system or device can be configured via an NTP client to go and query one, then establish the correct time for your machine based on the response. Most people use a pool of ntp […]

Looks like Microsoft has secured another registrar to park domains on Windows Server because it (er…) provides the stability and scalability required.  No one parks domains like Microsoft, apparently.
In a way these registrars changing to Windows makes perfect sense.  These sites in particular have no real “value” and there is no BSD or Linux interest […]

Just finished reading someone whining on digg about this one.  Apparently people are a little confused about what carrier neutrality means.
To set the story straight, we’re talking about providers giving equal priority to packets routed over there network and not biasing based on some “extra hidden fee” charged to the sender of said packets outside […]