Great headline from Daring Fireball…
Category: Technology
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FBI Surveillance Van #345
I’m a connoisseur of amusing Wi-Fi network names. While connecting to the free Dumbo Wi-Fi I couldn’t help noticing this one.
Bravo.
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John Oliver brings down the FCC
Well, their website anyway.
Following my previous post, where John Oliver asks internet trolls to go wild on the FCC comments section, they apparently brought down the site…
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John Oliver on Net Neutrality
A hilarious (but NSFW) take:
The internet in its current form is not broken, and the FCC is currently taking steps to fix that.
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What Could Go Wrong?
I already blogged about Jenny McCarthy’s Twitter #JennyAsks fiasco. So when the Washington Redskins encouraged their fans to tweet to Senator Reid in support of the name with #RedskinPride, what could go wrong?
Currently if you do a search on Twitter for #RedskinPride at the top of the page you get images associated with these tweets:
Nazi flags, a mass grave and an article about a mass execution. Oh yeah, that PR move went well…
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Fluoride Zombie Apocalypse
From The Incidental Economist, The danger du jour: Fluoride.
Warning, that post involves actual reading, thinking and analyzing data.
Of the 27 studies, 25 appear to be from China. The other two are from Iran. I bring this up not to disparage those countries’ abilities to do research, but to point out that these countries have very different background levels of fluoride than we see in the US. In some of these studies, fluoride levels reached 11.5 mg/L, compared to NYC, which shoots for 0.7 to 1.2 mg/L. Moreover, some of the kids got their fluoride from inhaling it from coal burning, or because it was a pollutant. That’s… not the same as fluoridation here.
Moral: Don’t get your science information from the Huffington Post…
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When Content Providers Pay ISPs
Via Business Insider
Their point is that start-ups won’t be able to pay for the better service which is obviously anti-competition. Valid point.
But look at the performance from October to January. There’s no reason for that drop other than extortion by Comcast. That is who the FCC is turning the internet over to.
To paraphrase many
Nice little web site you have there. Be a shame if anything happened to it…
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Heathrow Samsung
Via Daring Fireball:
Translation From Polite British Spokesperson-ese to Plain English Regarding Samsung’s Rebranding of Heathrow Terminal 5.
We’re every bit as appalled as you are by the crass nature of this, but holy shit you should see how much money they’re paying us. Pass the gin.
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Fastest Texting on the Planet via Fleksy
Don’t take my word for it. A guy set the Guinness World Record for fastest texting using it (obviously not on an iPhone, it was a Galaxy S4).
Needless to say, they are proud. And I have to try it…
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More Net Neutrality
As thorough and clear an explanation as I’ve seen so far:
Steve Fischer's Random Blog 