Despite recently denying they were destroying net neutrality, Google and Verizon have announced a new tiered Internet which divides the net into paid and free channels. Paid channels offer higher speeds and higher priority over normal traffic. Essentially, the scheme … Read More
After reading about the racist brouhaha over a mural on the wall of an Arizona elementary school, Roger Ebert penned How do they get to be that way? What I cannot imagine is what it would be like to be … Read More
As Frank Rich notes, much of the rhetoric behind the TPers and the Republican governor of Virginia Robert McDonnell’s declaration of “Confederate History Month” is racism in the guise of a neo-Confederate uprising in support of “states’ rights.” If you … Read More
There are those who don’t believe the Holocaust ever happened. But there are also those who not just believe but know because they saw with their own eyes. They’re all in their 80s now and it won’t belong before they’re … Read More
Questions worth asking. Not that they’ll get answered, of course.
It’s my personal policy to get my news from multiple sources. For local Rochester news that means the Democrat & Chronicle and Channel 13 (the best of the local television stations on the web). One thing I’ve noticed about both … Read More
If you don’t like a company, not only can you gripe about them online, but you can create domain names incorporating that company’s trademarks as long as you don’t use it to generate business.
In the US, we kid ourselves into believing we have ‘rights’, but the reality is we do not. For instance, ‘due process’, which doesn’t appear to cover when a ‘security’ firm accuses you of copyright violations. Given the recent Supreme … Read More
Alex on Why Nikola Tesla was the greatest geek who ever lived – The Oatmeal
Tom on Newly discovered amateur video of Challenger disaster
Jack on Newly discovered amateur video of Challenger disaster
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