Archive for Internet
Save MySQL
Look over to the left sidebar of this Blog. There is a new link there and here called Save MySQL. For those of you who already know what is going on, there need be no further explanation. Just go there and sign the petition if you haven’t already.
For the rest of you, I am going to give you an overview of the issue, along with my feelings on the issue and my fervent hope that you will step up and join us in the fight to Save MySQL.
Privacy and the Internet
If you think you have any privacy on the Internet, Dream On!
The other day I wanted to respond to an ad that someone locally had placed. It was an obscure ad with only a phone number listed for the business. It gave little or no detail about the business, so I used Google to see if I could find out more.
It’s amazing how the path of information kept growing far above and beyond what I originally intended to find out. Continue reading to see just where that path went.
Net Neutrality
Here’s the laymen’s version of what is becoming a hot topic among the Geeks and what may finally be solved by a combination of efforts from the FCC and Congress.
Since the beginning, the Internet has always been open turf. Anyone could provide content and everyone would get equal access to that content.
For a while now, the large telecommunications and cable companies who provide the technical “backbone” of the internet, have been fighting to try to restrict some of the content on their networks.