Tag: internet

Joost no Broadband

the semantic games to redefine broadband as 200kb/s in the us are finally coming home to roost.

Joost, despite an early lead when it comes to the P2P television is beginning to get some criticism about its video quality. A skeptical report on JoostTeam points out that the bit rate is ~50% that of video from DivX Stage6 or the iTunes Store. And even that resolution is inferior to standard definition digital video from cable providers. While Joost promises that they’re working on improving the quality, and touts the power of their advanced video compression codecs, there’s only so much that compression can do. The fundamental problem that Joost faces is the fact that the broadband available to North American households simply isn’t fast enough for them to provide image quality comparable to digital cable or satellite, much less high-definition video.

XSRF^2

So, the #1 thing people need to do to protect themselves against DNS Rebinding — set strong passwords on your home router. Not a single device in the field with a weak password can be safe. Every XSRF defense has been defeated. sighs

SnapFish

How the heck am I supposed to get my pictures? Why doesn’t this “smart” software just put them in the email so I can see them when I get the message? Attaching JPEG files to an email message is hardly advanced technology, folks!

this is why travel companies and other don’t belong on the internet: their sites are just too atrocious.

Online to Offline

A dude on the internet referred to Russell Tavares as “a nerd” in an online trollfight. In one of the more dramatic tales of internet rage we’ve seen lately, the 27-year-old Tavares, who believed himself to not be a nerd, hopped in his car and sped off 2100 km from Virginia to Texas, where the name-caller lived. Tavares photographed road snapshots along his route, and posted the images online, as if to prove to his internet peers that he was not a luzer. When he got to there, he burned the dude’s trailer down. Tavares has been sentenced to 7 years in prison for arson.

such a nerd. OOOPS

Internet Transparency

This document provides a review of previous IAB statements on Internet transparency, as well a discussion of new transparency issues. Far from having lessened in relevance, technical implications of intentionally or inadvertently impeding network transparency play a critical role in the Internet’s ability to support innovation and global communication. This document provides some specific illustrations of those potential impacts.

the technical underpinnings of network neutrality, and why the telcos who oppose it will ultimately fail.