On teh internets

I guess they really do know if you’re a dog.

Bringing to mind (per usual) the quavering voice of David Crosby’s over-the-top histrionic paranoid manifesto Almost Cut My Hair: “It serves to increase my paranoia, like looking in the rearview mirror and seeing a PO-LEASE car!”

However, it would have made me feel worse had this been discovered when I thought of myself as human. Now that I know I’m a robot, somehow it’s easier to take.

Why We Need Title II And Strong Net Neutrality Rules; Or, Fool Me Twice, Shame On Me. Fool Me Every Time — I’m the FCC! by Harold July 12, 2017 As we slog away once again on Federal Communication Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai's summer blockbuster reboot "Net Neutrality: The Mummy Returns!," it's worth noting…
Cable Set-Top Box Arguments: Nothing But Reruns by Harold April 21, 2016 It is inevitable that right before a major filing on an issue that the cable guys HATE!!! with all the passion of an injured monopolist, the…
How DSRC Makes Us Less Safe: Privacy and Cybersecurity (Part 1) by Harold May 12, 2016 As I discussed previously, the auto industry and the Department of Transportation (DoT) via the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) plan to mandate that…
My Insanely Long Field Guide To Common Carriage, Public Utility, Public Forum — And Why The Differences Matter. by Harold September 5, 2017 Once upon a time, social conservatives used to be major allies on both limiting media consolidation and on net neutrality. Why? Because they recognized that…
So What The Heck Does 5G Actually Do? And Is It Worth What The Carriers Are Demanding? by Harold June 28, 2018 It's become increasingly impossible to talk about spectrum policy without getting into the fight over whether 5G is a miracle technology that will end poverty,…
NCTA Agrees Title II Virtuous Cycle Totally Working; Or, Pai’s Economics v. the Actual Real World. by Harold June 12, 2017 Last week, NCTA, the trade association for the industry formerly known as cable, posted this amazing graph and blog post showing that the "virtuous cycle" the FCC predicted…

One Comment

Stearns
March 14, 2005 at 8:51 pm

Love the I’m a Robot video. I find the first link, above, really disturbing. Thanks for posting it. Lemme know if you come across some reputable analysis of what the limits are. For example, if someone offers a proxy server that simply passes on HTTP requests, all the timestamps should be from the proxy. (I gotta go read the original paper instead of playing with Wetmachine…)

Comments are closed

On teh internets

Related Posts:

One Comment

John’s Tweets