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Today’s Uproar – Egypt cuts off the Internet and Cell Phones
by Marshall Brain | January 28, 2011
This week, there have been demonstrations and riots against the government in Egypt. Protesters have been shot, as shown here: A quick time line of events: Timeline: Egypt unrest Yesterday, Egypt’s government unplugged the Internet and cell phones: January 28: Internet and mobile phone text message users in Egypt report major disruption to services as [...]
Amazon started selling groceries and mailing them to your home back in 2006. This is a commercial of that era advertising this development: Amazon also came up with a subscription service, which is a novel way to think about groceries and staple items: Amazon is not the only one doing this kind of get-your-groceries-mailed-to-you approach. [...]
Flattr, which describes itself as a “social micropayment” system, made it to both The Economist magazine and Wired magazine in January, so it must be making some headway. Here is a very compact statement of how Flattr works and how it benefits the web: From Flattr’s about page: Flattr was founded to help people share [...]
Imagine what the United States would be like if just a handful of companies owned the major broadcast TV stations and the major Cable companies and the Internet pipes that bring content to consumers: When the same company owns the content and the pipes that deliver that content, consumers lose. Comcast has already tried to [...]
This video (once you get past the introduction) is fascinating. A high-level hacker named Samy Kamkar takes you through his thinking, and his techniques, for breaking the 160-bit session cookie used on Facebook. He calls it the “discovery and execution of entirely new web classes of attacks.” This allows him to impersonate someone else on [...]
The FCC issued it’s long-awaited Network Neutrality ruling today. Was it good or bad? Kind of mixed actually. Some articles looked poorly on it: Obama FCC Caves on Net Neutrality — Tuesday Betrayal Assured The rule is so riddled with loopholes that it’s become clear that this FCC chairman crafted it with the sole purpose [...]
Over the past year we have been hearing a great deal about cyber warfare. The Pentagon talks about it, and it has also come up in relation to Wikileaks, China and Iran. Which brings up the question: What, exactly, is cyber warfare and how much damage can it really do? Cyber warfare comes in many [...]
It started with this press release: Level 3 Communications Issues Statement Concerning Comcast’s Actions “On November 19, 2010, Comcast informed Level 3 that, for the first time, it will demand a recurring fee from Level 3 to transmit Internet online movies and other content to Comcast’s customers who request such content. By taking this action, [...]
Makes you think – YouTube post turns into two dozen dead people in an hour
by Marshall Brain | November 10, 2010
It seems impossible… …yet it really happened. At the 5:00 point he makes the point that all of the pieces for something like this had already materialized. They had never all combined together in this way, but they had all been seen individually. The slide is only on the screen for a few seconds, but [...]
Phones With Facebook And Brain-Rotting Tech on TechStuff
by Jonathan Strickland | October 15, 2010
This week on TechStuff, Chris and I talked about rumors regarding a Facebook phone on Monday and on Wednesday we talked about a controversial idea that technology may have a detrimental effect upon the way we think. I also attended the Stuff You Should Know trivia contest here in Atlanta. I didn’t compete — it’s just not fair to the other teams. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.
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