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This is heartwarming and inspirational:
Television viewers will ultimately wind up with one-stop shopping for video, phone and Internet services, under legislation approved by the state Senate that would open the video-services market to telephone companies.
No matter what happens with Stevens and Barton this year, those of is in California are cool.
I heard a debate of [...]
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No Neuts in CA
August 31st, 2006 
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Free Software Communists
August 31st, 2006 Richard Bennett I used to spend a lot of time in the Indian state of Kerala, so this article in Salon by Andrew Leonard caught my eye:
Richard Stallman must be sleeping well this week. Eight years ago, I accompanied the free software pioneer on a visit to the Bill Gates-funded computer science building on the Stanford campus. [...]
Gigabit networking for the consumer
August 31st, 2006 Richard Bennett Here it comes, a broadband technology that can move bits at a gigabit per second. And it’s all done without any wires:
On a bus fitted out specially for the occasion in Jeju this week, Samsung demonstrated a new version of 4G technology transferring data at speeds of 100Mbit/s.
The bus was moving at 60kmph – which [...]
Interesting blog
August 28th, 2006 Richard Bennett Cisco High Tech Policy Blog is interesting. They’re got some heavy-duty contributors, including my former California Assemblyman, Jim Cunneen.
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How commmon is International blockage?
August 28th, 2006 Richard Bennett Technological Musings says:
British Telecom makes sure that no other VoIP service can work on their network by blocking commonly used ports.
Is this true? I know that Korea Telecom does this, but I’d never heard this before. The blog contains a number of errors, such as this one: “There are a lot of ISPs in the [...]
A Tube Full of News
August 24th, 2006 Richard Bennett Doc Searls is puzzling over new ways to do old things on the Internet, prompted by Dave Winer’s river of news concept:
“River of news” usefully combines three metaphorial frames: place, transport and publishing. Using all three, it proposes an approach to publishing that respects the fact that more and more people are going to want [...]
Speaking of Cults…
August 24th, 2006 Richard Bennett The reaction of the Apple faithful to the disclosure of a security hole in the design of Apple OSX was amazing. A couple of guys figured out that you could trick OSX into executing some foreign code with root privilege by sending a malformed packet to a third-party wireless LAN card. The guys – David [...]
Firestorm coming
August 23rd, 2006 Richard Bennett The Forbes article Don’t Marry Career Women is going to get some people excited:
Guys: A word of advice. Marry pretty women or ugly ones. Short ones or tall ones. Blondes or brunettes. Just, whatever you do, don’t marry a woman with a career.
Why? Because if many social scientists are to be believed, you run a [...]
Welcome to the neutral net
August 23rd, 2006 Richard Bennett We pointed out the other day that net neutrality fiends want public ownership of the Internet access network. Here’s a report from Broadband News on what that looks like:
Culver City, California was the first Los Angeles municipality to offer the public a free all-access Wi-Fi network. They’re also the first to ban all porn and [...]
Net Neutrality is Intelligent Design for the Left
August 21st, 2006 Richard Bennett Traditional values are under attack. The old ways are in decline, people insist on more freedom of choice than their grandparents had. The received wisdom about the very structure and organization of our world has been taken apart by science, and the only way to put it back together is to use the language of [...]
