The ubiquity of Facebook plus the end of Net Neutrality plus the conversion of the open internet into increasingly walled off proprietary information delivery systems…
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The ubiquity of Facebook plus the end of Net Neutrality plus the conversion of the open internet into increasingly walled off proprietary information delivery systems…
A photo I took in 2005 was recently used to spur a collaborative writing assignment. I have no idea where the class was even located.…
After a week of delays and two whole days wasted on tech support calls, I was finally online. I was ready to write a damning invective criticizing Apple and an encomium praising the Computer Shoppe. I pointed my browser to my blog, when what to my wondering eyes should appear but a notice:
Your account has been suspended. Contact billing/support.
What? How could this be? Did we forget to pay the bill? I called my webhost immediately and learned that our account had been suspended because of a “massive amount” of activity on b.rox.com.
It appears that b.rox was under attack by spambots.
Without getting excessively technical, I’ll try to explain this in terms my grandma Mildred (may she rest in peace) could have understood, insofar as I even understand it myself.
I seem to have been consigned to the deepest circle of Internet Hell. Pity me.
Actually, I am typing this post in my own home. I’ve got internet on a computer here for the first time in over 15 months.
And yet I’m not happy. And therein lies a convoluted tale of woe.
Some members of my extended family have been playing one of those “getting to know you” e-mail games, where you answer a bunch of questions, some serious and some silly.
On the one hand, it’s been good for me, not having internet at home since the flood. It’s been good for my tendonitis. Typing and…
Yes, we’ve got basic utilities: water and gas and electricity. But we are still sadly lacking basic information services. We have no phone, no cable,…
I’m rooting for Grokster, of course, in the case being argued at Ye Olde Supreme Court today. I mention this mainly because I make use…
I sent the following query to Computer Chronicles via the contact form on their website: I am trying to research the question of the first…
J just pointed me to this article on c|net, “Study: Broadband leaps past dial-up.” This means that for more people, watching video via internet will…