Posts by William Phelps

Microsoft and Facebook, swimming in the sea,
N-E-T-W-O-R-K-I-N-G

Re: Meanwhile

Luckily, the US end is in Southeastern Virginia -- a region with even more assets.

Let's be clear, everyone: DON'T BLOCK Wi-Fi, DUH – FCC official ruling

See the 'commerce' clause of the US Constitution

Hotels, convention centers, and other such venues tend to have guests from states other than the one in which the facility is located. Also, the other 'end' of the Internet service being used will likely be out of state.

Charlotte, NC thinks it has won the Google Fiber lottery

In the US, Federal judges are not elected

US Federal judges are appointed by the President; and, if the Senate confirms them, they get lifetime terms.

FREE EBOOKS: Apple falls into line with EU refund laws

Libraries

The libraries in the US do lend out ebooks.

Aereo-no! Streaming telly biz axes staff, shuts down operations

But that's not how it worked

Aereo only signed up customers in MSAs with Aereo antennas; and, they connected customers to antennas in the same MSA as the customer. Think of it as multiple CATV farms with at least one antenna per customer.

How your data loss prevention plan is killing your business

Re: It is not just about numbers here

And, what are those two free packages which work correctly?

Sprint/Softbank mobile merger in doubt after Dish bids $25.5bn

Customers like Dish

As someone who used to sell and install both DTV and Dish, I know many customers prefer Dish; and, their CS isn't any worse than Sprint's.

BTW: T-Mobile bought Metro PCS and Virgin Mobile USA is a brand of Sprint.

Opera joins Google/Apple in-crowd with shift to WebKit and Chromium

They would rather get along than be right.

The number of 'valid' pages which render incorrectly in the Opera browser is low; as, Opera has usually closely followed the standards. But, what percentage of sites are made entirely of valid (X)HTML and CSS? Creating valid code is not that difficult; but, it does require an incremental effort. And, apparently most professional web developers only care how their sites perform in the browsers being used by the people who pay them.

Rivals to Brussels: Google labelling its own stuff won't help us

You can still be tracked

They can use trilateration from the towers; and with WiFi on, they can even track you indoors. Also, unless you use a clean computer and browse in private mode, the router became associated with you.

ICANN investigates domain name sharp practice

Who could be doing this?

See http://www.domainnamenews.com/editorial/verisign-to-profit-from-rootserver-data

>Mike Banahan

Your method won't stop Verisign.

If you want a name, make a list; test for no more than five minutes; then register. If you can't decide that fast, register the top 2 or 3 yourself -- before someone else does.