How completely BROKEN is the proposed Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) be? Here are the two steps ANY consumer can take to COMPLETELY bypass the DNS filtering proposed in SOPA: 1. Find The Computer’s DNS Settings On a Mac, go…
Dec 16
The Snarky Tweet That Derailed Yesterday’s SOPA Hearing
Yesterday during the marathon US House Judiciary Committee hearings on the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) (which is an insanely bad idea), there came a point where the entire hearings ground to a halt… … because of a tweet! I…
Dec 14
2nd FCC Workshop on PSTN Transition Streaming Live Today (Featured Blog)
Today, December 14, 2011, the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is holding the second of two workshops on the transition of the PSTN to new technologies. The workshop started streaming live this morning at 9:30am US Eastern. The FCC’s note abo…
Dec 14
2nd FCC Workshop on PSTN Transition Streaming Live at 9:30am – Taking Questions Via Email and Twitter
Today, December 14, 2011, the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is holding the second of two workshops on the transition of the PSTN to new technologies, as I described last week. The workshop will be streamed live today starting at…
Dec 13
Video Recording Now Available of FCC Dec 6th Workshop on PSTN Transition (Featured Blog)
If you missed attending or listening to the live stream of the US Federal Communication Commission’s (FCC) workshop on the transition of the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) to new technologies that was held last week on December 6th, the FCC h…
Dec 13
Internet Society Joins Chorus of Those Opposing SOPA
Yesterday the Internet Society formally joined the opposition to the Stop Online Piracy Act (a.k.a. "SOPA" – background info available) with a statement from the Internet Society Board of Trustees: http://isoc.org/wp/newsletter/?p=4932 The statement says in part: The Internet Society Board…
Dec 13
New WordPress 3.3 Available With Much Simpler User Interface, Uploading
The folks over at Automattic announced last night that WordPress 3.3 is now out and, as per usual, provided a spiffy little video to highlight the new changes: I’ve already updated one of my sites and am indeed impressed by…
Dec 12
Dilbert On Using Skype Versus Flying To A Meeting…
Brilliant Dilbert comic on December 8th: Well said… in this era of so many different communications and collaboration tools, the need to fly somewhere for a "quick meeting" should hopefully be reduced. I fully understand the need for face-to-face meetings……
Dec 08
Heading to Boston for USENIX LISA 2011 Conference Dec 8 and 9
Today I’m driving about 2 hours southeast into downtown Boston to attend the USENIX Large Installation System Administration (LISA) conference. As I wrote about on an ISOC blog, the head of my team within the Internet Society, Richard Jimmerson, will…
