Imagine the following scenario: you go to your kitchen to pour yourself a glass of water only to find that no water comes forth from the tap. Looking in the cabinet underneath the sink reveals a small computer display that reveals the following: you have reached your monthly quota of drinking water for the month and so you are no longer permitted to pour more water until the beginning of the following month.
SuperGenius Eben Moglen wants free and unfettered access to the internet and he’s putting his money where his mind is by creating the “FreedomBox” — a device that plugs into the wall and gives you unfettered and unrestricted access to the internet — to help make certain that a government cannot disconnect its people from communicating with the rest of the world during a perceived crisis.
Continue reading → Eben Moglen and the FreedomBox Revolution
I’m not a big fan of Comcast or Verizon — but I am a fan of saving 50% on my phone/internet/cable bill each month. We have been Comcast customers since 2001, so our history with them has been both rough and pleasing. Verizon FiOS is getting installed en masse in our neighborhood, and we were told by the landlord that Verizon would need access to our apartment to “run a FiOS installation line from the basement to our closet and then to all the closets above us in the building.” We can choose to sign up for FiOS, or not, but the construction for installing a FiOS pipe will be done no matter what.
Continue reading → Should I Choose Verizon FiOS Over Comcast?
I love it when cultural entertainment memes are employed against real fake society — and that just happened at Washington State University when V — not the V War Machine — played an uninvited classroom visit via video.
Keep an eye out for the BL-C230A from Panasonic. If you see one, smile! You’ve just been captured for posterity and somewhere else, perhaps somewhere hundreds of miles away, someone has footage of you. It could be that your image has been instantly e-mailed to the owner of the BL-C230A. It could even be that the owner is watching you as you stare at it, dumbfounded.
Continue reading → The Panopticonic Panasonic BL-C230A Watches More than Babies
I never understood why Apple tethered so tightly to AT&T. The AT&T network is terrible if you live in a big city like New York or San Francisco and the iPhone and iPad are both hamstrung by AT&T’s horrible voice and network. The news that broke today that AT&T were discontinuing their “unlimited data plans” for Apple devices is yet another death blow from AT&T against its own, murderous, throat.
Continue reading → AT&T Murders iPhone Video Chat in its Crib
On September 5, 2008, I wrote an article called — “Comcast Kills the Internets” — and that piece detailed the nefarious scheme for how Comcast planned to
begin to meter our internet bandwidth consumption in the home. The
horrible day of my meeting my metering has finally arrived with this
“pleased to announce” record of doom recently found in my Comcast.Net
email Inbox:
Continue reading → How Comcast Now Meters My Broadband Usage
We live in a New Age. Technology not only runs our lives, it rules our being and ruins our sense of comprehensive societal cohesion. Has access to the internet become a fundamental human right? If so, should we have to pay for that right of access?
Yesterday, we were delighted to discover your UnitedStage.com is currently featured on the McGraw-Hill website as part of an extended, online, learning portal for the seventh edition of the hardcopy book — “Theatre: The Lively Art” — by Edwin Wilson and Alvin Goldfarb.
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