Archive for May, 2008

NSA.gov Hosed?

May 15, 2008 by Danny McPherson

Someone nudged me a little while ago and asked if I was aware of any issues with nsa.gov. I plugged http://www.nsa.gov into my browser to no avail. I then tried to resolve www.nsa.gov’s DNS name to an IP address, to no avail. So, I had a bit of a deeper look.. danny@pork% host www.nsa.gov <- [...]

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Red Carpet Club – Free WIFI!

May 9, 2008 by Danny McPherson

So, I’m sitting in the Red Carpet Club in the San Francisco Airport, headed back home to Denver in a bit. Having independently discovered last week that Red Carpet Club members could now get Internet access for free via T-Mobile, I was eager to get online in an airport without having to drop another $9.95 [...]

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A Case Study in Transparency

May 7, 2008 by Kurt Dobbins

One of the overriding themes in the Network Neutrality debate, and what triggered much of the recent activity with Comcast and the FCC, has to do with transparency.  Or in the recent words of FCC Chairman Kevin Martin, “Consumers must be completely informed about the exact nature of the service they are purchasing”.  When it [...]

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