Comcast and Time Warner join forces to kill the Internet as we know it
It seems that Comcast and Time Warner Cable have finally reached a merger deal. Well, not really a merger: Comcast will be acquiring Time Warner Cable for $45 billion in stock. Seems like a steal,...
View ArticleThe simple, sensible -- and impossible -- fix for the Internet in the USA
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View ArticleThe joy of data center automation -- and its hidden dangers
This week I'm taking a break from railing against the impending demise of the Internet as we know it to chat about read more
View ArticleFatal abstraction: A bottom-up view of high-level languages
I've been writing a lot of code recently, more than your normal internal IT tools and widgets.read more
View ArticleYou say Python, and I say Perl ...
Last week, I shared my reluctance to blindly accept the abstractions found in languages and frameworks like Ruby on Rails.read more
View ArticleSure disaster: How not to do the Internet of things
We're hearing a lot about the Internet of things these days.read more
View ArticleThanks to Tom Wheeler, the end of the open Internet is nigh
We need a hero to save the Internet in the United States.read more
View ArticleThe FCC has already started destroying the Internet
Well, that didn't take long. In fact, the new "Net Neutrality" rules (note the quotes) proposed by the FCC already have started stifling technology innovation and changing the Internet for the worse....
View ArticleThe next weapon in the War on the Internet: the brownout
Today the FCC voted three to two along party lines to move forward with a proposal that will significantly read more
View ArticleThe FCC's Net neutrality plan is much worse than it looks
We've spent the past few weeks with at first some knowledge of the FCC's "Slow Lane" plan (to call it "Fast Lane" is to be disingenuous), and later with the full plan.read more
View ArticleIt's time we hold companies responsible for data breaches
Laws have never been able to keep up with the pace of technology.read more
View ArticleThe new OpenSSL flaw is no Heartbleed
Another vulnerability in OpenSSL has been revealed.read more
View ArticleMurder in the Amazon cloud
Code Spaces was a company that offered developers source code repositories and project management services using Git or Subversion, among other options.read more
View ArticleTech traps 101: How to meet deadlines without sabotaging the future
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