Computers suck. Film at 11.

There’s something wrong with what the Collaborative .zip file did to the Mac VM. Needs a new one this weekend. Stand by…

The History of Net Neutrality In 13 Years of Tales of the Sausage Factory (with a few additions). Part I by Harold January 10, 2018 I keep being asked by people "Harold, can you please summarize the last 20 years of net neutrality for me while I stand on one…
Cleveland and the Return Of Broadband Redlining. by Harold September 12, 2016 I am the last person to deny anyone a good snarky gloat. So while I don’t agree entirely with AT&T’s policy blog post taking a…
The FCC Sets the Ground Rules For Shutting Down The Phone System — And Sets the Stage For Universal Broadband. by Harold July 13, 2016 Here's the funny thing about the world. The two Orders the FCC will vote on tomorrow (Thursday, July 14) probably have more impact on the…
FCC Loses It’s Muni Broadband Test Case. What Comes Next? by Harold August 16, 2016 Sometimes the law is clear. Sometimes it isn't. While that seems obvious, we often miss it in policy debates. But it is rather important…
What You Need To Know To Understand The FCC National Broadband Report. by Harold January 27, 2016 The FCC is required by Congress to do lots of reports. Of these, the one that gets the most attention is the annual Report on…
Will Pai “Pull A Putin” And Hack the FCC Process? Or Will He Get Over Himself and Start Acting Like The Chairman? by Harold May 17, 2017 In my 20+ years of doing telecom policy, I have never seen a Chairman so badly botch a proceeding as Chairman Ajit Pai has managed…

About Stearns

Howard Stearns works at High Fidelity, Inc., creating the metaverse. Mr. Stearns has a quarter century experience in systems engineering, applications consulting, and management of advanced software technologies. He was the technical lead of University of Wisconsin's Croquet project, an ambitious project convened by computing pioneer Alan Kay to transform collaboration through 3D graphics and real-time, persistent shared spaces. The CAD integration products Mr. Stearns created for expert system pioneer ICAD set the market standard through IPO and acquisition by Oracle. The embedded systems he wrote helped transform the industrial diamond market. In the early 2000s, Mr. Stearns was named Technology Strategist for Curl, the only startup founded by WWW pioneer Tim Berners-Lee. An expert on programming languages and operating systems, Mr. Stearns created the Eclipse commercial Common Lisp programming implementation. Mr. Stearns has two degrees from M.I.T., and has directed family businesses in early childhood education and publishing.

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