Month: June 2006
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Net Neutrality in the Senate
The Senate will be discussing it’s own version of the telecommunications reform act, which passed through the House last week. The bill in the Senate differs slightly from the bill that passed the House. The Senate version currently has the FCC doing a study to determine if network operators are deliberately manipulating traffic crossing their…
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The House is lost, on to the Senate
A little late, but an update as promised. The COPE act did indeed pass the House, and the net-neutrality amendment was defeated. The short of the story is, that several representatives argued that a neutral Internet would pass too much of the cost of building tomorrow’s networks to consumers. Here’s what I would like to…
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Net Neutrality update
Tonight the House voted on the Communications Opportunity, Promotion and Enhancement (COPE) Act of 2006. This Act would create franchises of regions which were previously monopolised by cable companies. The bill would allow telecoms companies to much more easily sell cable programming to customers over their IP networks, for consumers to watch on their computers.…
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Net Neutrality
This isn’t a widely read blog (yet), but I’m hoping that someone will read this and get the word out as best as they can. In a few days, a bill will be presented in the House of Representatives, which could have quite serious and lasting repercussions on the Internet. The bill has been lobbied…
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The Graduate
The Graduate (1967, Dustin Hoffman) is indeed a classic movie. Parts of it were often used in other shows as a tribute to its greatness, The Simpsons even went so far as to spoof the entire final scene in an episode with Grandpa and Mrs Bouvier in Mrs Bouvier’s Lover. Having said all of this,…
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