Political Bloviation

קצה – RIM – Ami Ben-Bassat’s Blog Found on BoingBoing

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Battle Lines Drawn in Net Neutrality Debate – Internet Life – NewsFactor Network Large telcos and cable internet providers versus the Consumer Federation of America and net content providers like Google, Yahoo adm Vonage. Interesting reading if you have an interest in the future of an open Internet. Also see: ‘Father of the Internet’ Asks [...]

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The End of the Internet? Greed knows no bounds in our large telco oligopies. Not only do they want to charge us for the pipe, they want to charge us for the content. In the process they have to know exactly what the content is and feed it into a mamouth database. In order for [...]

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New WordPress release is out!

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Broadcast Flag hearings turn on iPod use – Engadget Stop the presses! There was something that might pass for intelligent debate on the broadcast flag in a Senate committee. Instead of listening like a cocker spaniel (you know where they have their head cocked and clearly hearing you, but don’t understand a word) to arguments [...]

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Intel, Microsoft And The Coming DRM Clampdown – TechWeb Microsoft Vista creates DRM insanity – The Inquirer By now it’s becoming pretty clear that the age of digital rights management is upon us. Thieves, of course, don’t have a whole lot to fear from DRM, since they’re of a mind to ignore those protections that [...]

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I recently upgraded from a Zire 31 (reviewed he…

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I’ve had me Palm Zire 31 for nearly a year. I d…

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Reaction to the SCOTUS Grokster Case here:

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Business Week’s take on the SCOTUS cable ruling…

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Cable Companies Don’t Need to Share Lines The Supreme Court ruled on Monday that cable companies may keep rival Internet providers from using their lines, a decision that will limit competition and consumers’ choices. The 6-3 decision is a victory for the Bush administration, which sought exclusive control to promote broadband investment from deep-pocketed cable [...]

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I got my new 1GB stick of DDR today. Time to vo…

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My house has been invaded by a Mac Mini!

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Mac Users Bewildered, Unsure What to Hate! Apple to ditch IBM, switch to Intel chips. News.com LOL, the Mac partisans must be really messed up over this one. “I have seen the enemy and they are us.” I hope they don’t develop some kind of schizophrenic disorder behind this.

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I have enabled a RSS/RDF feed a.k.a., “Live Bookmarks” for compatable browsers, Firefox 1.0+, Netscape 8.0+ and Safari

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Now I can tell my wife why we need a HDTV right now. engadget.com TV executive are trying to lock down HDTV signals using the mandated broadcast flag, which was to go into effect July 1, 2005. It’s currently on hold due to a D.C. appellate court decision. Peter Rojas at engadget.com reports that: “Rick [...]

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An explanation of how this site came to be and …

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After much pulling of the hair and gnashing of …

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This is a trial run for using Geeklog. I played with some others, but this looked like the simplest content management system solution for my po’ little solo blog. Update 6/21/2005: I’m trying out WordPress these days. It has better integration with important blog features like pingback and trackback. It’s also easier to install plugins [...]

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