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Remember when everyone was so worried the ISP's were going to control the Internet that the FCC imposed network neutrality regulations and promised to keep a close watch on what content providers were being charged for interconnects? Goaded by the content industry, consumers demanded that only...

Simple solution is to cap Internet access fees at $10/mo and move the rest of the cost to the sending side. Content providers will be forced to deliver enough value to recover those costs. If they want to keep us glued to the screen, their meter will be running. Meanwhile, we will all have an...

Exactly. That's why Verizon sold off their landline business in CA, FL and TX to Frontier 10 years ago and bought AOL and Yahoo instead. That's when Net Neutrality was all the buzz and making big investments in infrastructure to surpass the competition ran the risk of being declared a...

I may need to update just to get the Timer app to work dependably. Searching through stored timers instead of just dialing in a number seemed stupid, but mostly harmless. Yet it seemed like I started missing a lot of timer events lately. Maybe just me getting older and forgetting to start it...

However, we learned last fall that TEE's should not really be trusted unless the hardware is known to be physically secure. https://meincmagazine.com/security/2025/10/new-physical-attacks-are-quickly-diluting-secure-enclave-defenses-from-nvidia-amd-and-intel/

I didn't say that was the "only" purpose, just that there are legitimate purposes. I don't like the nuisance of telemarketers or spam. I won't be falling victim to fraudulent solicitations, but many people do, and that puts money in the hands of criminals. This database allows them to be...

Looks like they backtracked on this mandate: https://www.reuters.com/world/india/india-cyber-safety-app-mandate-breach-privacy-main-opposition-party-tells-2025-12-03/ From my reading, it seems like the main functionality was to establish a reliable national database linking personal identity to...

Standard Oil doesn't have monopoly on coal, so therefore it doesn't have a monopoly on oil.

Network operators have been charging both sender and receivers ("double dipping") since the Internet's inception, with a trend toward senders paying an increasing share as they developed profitable businesses that depended on reaching an audience. To save expenses, the content industry ginned up...

Proving once again that markets have a solution for every problem, even too low taxes on investors.

Moving network costs to the sending side would help. In addition to DoS attacks, having consumers kick in ~$70/mo to subsidize anyone who wants to send a packet enables click bait business models and a winner-take-all attention market now dominated by a handful of massive corporations. If...

Right, that's what I have been doing for the past 20 some years because that's when Apple stopped writing good documentation, probably because the accelerating pace of change and easy access to sample code. But, when the Macintosh was new, and they were introducing it to Fortran, mainframe...

I remember that amazing documentation, actual bound books, "Inside Macintosh, Volumes 1-6?". Now, you just go to the header files and hope for some good comments.

Absolutely, the investors want to unload this on the public asap.

There are Hardware Security Modules and Secure Elements that are designed to protect against physical attack. You find these in credit cards, crypto hardware wallets, banking infrastructure, etc.. These may also be compromised in principle, but if the expense is high enough it will not justify...

Was that really a "single point of failure?" Sounded like a conflict between Enactor 1 and Enactor 2, with Enactor 2 likely existing to insure that Enactor 1 is not a single point of failure.

3 cheers for the ports! I am onto my 3rd hub for my 2022 13 inch Macbook Pro. Started with a cheap UTechSmart, which failed (USB 2 support) after 15.6.1 update. Replaced with $80 Hyper from BestBuy which failed completely after 2 months. Now onto $130 Belkin. Too many hours wasted messing...

Someone get hold of Sam Altman, potential new revenue source for AI.

I think it's more correct to say the dot-com blowout triggered the housing bubble, not its collapse. The NASDAQ peaked in March 2000, and lost 60% of its value over the next year, bottoming out in October 2002. With nowhere to put their money, investors began buying up mortgage backed...

No, you pay for it exactly as you do now. Whoever is providing your bandwidth is already covering all downstream charges. The only difference is those charges go up a little. Why should my Internet access fee subsidize your site that I never visit? And you can choose not to serve content to...