Verizon

Finally, an article about the way that the attorney general of New York, Andrew Cuomo, has been running roughshod over the rights of people in his pet project of removing child pornography from the world.
It’s only about 120 days too late.
That’s about how long it has been since the ISPs in my part of the [...]

For the past 10 years, I’ve tended to use MSN as the homepage for all my browsers, no matter which browser, or operating system.  I became used to it after a time of using MSN dial up service, and did not really look around to change. I have looked at the others available over the [...]

An interesting article over at DailyTech speaks to the idea that strange bedfellows are made in the most unusual places in this life.
In an about face for AT&T, and an odd vocalization of anything from Verizon, statements were made indicating that the odd pair agree that net neutrality is a good idea, and that [...]

Let me begin with the fact that I am in complete agreement that child pornography is bad. I also would happily relinquish any access to the whole of Usenet if I thought it would quickly take care of the problem.
The intelligent mind knows this is not true – and yes, if you don’t agree [...]

After a little more review of the material, the reasons for the announcement of the blockade of all alt newsgroups on Verizon newsgroup servers (ostensibly) has been made a little clearer.
An article on Gawker gives more detail concerning the first reason given, and fully fleshes out the details of the problem with these things. I [...]

In a somewhat stunning move, Verizon has decided that it will block the bulk of the newsgroups available through its newsgroup servers beginning next week. All groups beginning with ‘alt’ will be blocked soon, with the reason given as a method of blocking child pornography.
While it is certain that no one, except the ones downloading [...]

With Verizon making such a push for the ubiquity of FiOS, their abbreviation for fiber optic service, cable provider Comcast looks toward the future, and the offer of speeds in excess of 100Mbs for their service over coaxial cable.
The DOCSIS 3.0 standard allows for theoretical maximum download rates of 150Mbs, so the possibility of [...]