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Tech at Night: War on Copyright intensifies as infringers fall, Grassley hacked
Filesonic stops infringing. I guess the site’s leadership didn’t want to go to jail like Ninjavideo, or get hit like Megaupload did. People put up with ad-laden, obnoxious ‘file sharing’ sites when...
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Tech at Night: More Copyright, and the Wyden-Issa OPEN act gains attention
Some are still worried about the Megaupload takedown (including many the Obama got the concept right when he said “It’s not right when another country lets our movies, music, and software be pirated.”...
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Tech at Night: Google causes a privacy stir, Twitter causes a censorship...
So, Google is integrating its websites more. As a result, some privacy settings will apply network-wide, and one site will be able to use data from another site. People are flipping out, naturally....
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Tech at Night: Is ACTA a problem, and the return of Internet Kill Switch lite?
There’s a lot of fear going around about ACTA, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, a plurilateral agreement under the WTO between the US, the EU, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Japan,...
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Tech at Night: Google to obey censorship laws, LightSquared and FCC team up...
Sometimes, the anarchists lose. Even in leftist Sweden, The Pirate Bay’s founders lost their last appeal. It’s guys like these, who deliberately put up a system for infringing on US copyrights while...
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Tech at Night: Opening up the OPEN Act, FCC spectrum insanity
Yes, we beat SOPA, but the problem of foreign infringers is still around. And we’re not just talking about online copyright infringement, either. Copies of clothing, purses, gadgets, you name it:...
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Tech at Night: CISPA is fine, Lieberman-Collins is not. Let Verizon innovate....
Yup, CISPA is still the top story. It will improve our security, which matters in an age of Chinese and Anarchist Internet attacks. And unlike Lieberman-Collins, Which is the bill being pushed in the...
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Tech at Night: Jay Rockefeller admits the truth of Lieberman-Collins, and...
The masks are slipping on Cybersecurity. The CISPA debate has died to a dull roar now that the House is done with it, while the Senate may or may not pass it, and the President has promised a veto....
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Tech at Night: Same old, same old. Obama administration run amok.
I know, it’s terrible, but after missing Friday due to the RedState upgrade, I feel behind tonight and so am just going to have to speed through some of this tonight. Ah, the ARRA, aka the Porkulus....
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Tech at Night: No Cybersecurity Executive Order, Please. Or any new...
Look, 11,000 pages of regulations have been added under Barack Obama. Consider that the Federal Register only needed 71,000 pages total in 1975. These regulations are being added without transparency,...
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Tech at Night: Copyright, copyright, copyright. Where the real money is made...
I said earlier this week that I wouldn’t comment on the RSC’s pulling of the copyright paper until I studied it. Well, I studied it, and they were wrong to pull it. Of course, for saying that, I’m...
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Tech at Night: What goes around, comes around for Sprint. Hey Chuck Grassley:...
Justice is impeding the Sprint/Softbank merger. Gee, whoever could have predicted that if Sprint funded the left-wing effort to embolden Obama administration action, then Sprint itself could suffer...
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Tech at Night: Cybersecurity matters thanks to China, even if the Anonymous...
I have a charity event I’m participating in tomorrow (I’m the one doing The Legend of Zelda and Zelda II), and I’d like to have slept for it, so this may be briefer than usual. Looks like a push for...
View ArticleAn analysis of my Twitter needs, and how they aren’t being met.
Those who follow me on Twitter know that I’m pretty demanding about the software I use. If people mess with me, and change it up on me in ways that make me unhappy or much less productive *cough* Xcode...
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Tech at Night: I don’t see how MFA passes the House with this rhetoric....
Even as I’ve said the bill is a good idea, Senate conservatives overwhelmingly voted against the Internet Sales Tax. The whole Tea Party era gang is there in the NAY column. It’s easy to see why too:...
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Tech at Night: Can we please not have too many cooks spoil the cybersecurity...
There are many consistent themes of the Obama administration, but one of the more troubling ones is the duplication of competencies. Just how many agencies do we need creating their own cybersecurity...
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Tech at Night: Ads and privacy. Spying and nations. Bitcoin and crime.
Remember “Don’t be evil?” Even as Twitter plans to honor Do Not Track, even on MS Internet Explorer, Google apparently won’t. I mean, I don’t think I buy that Google is a criminal organization, but...
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Tech at Night: Catching up after a cold.
Woof. This week I had my worst cold in years, the worst I had since the first CPAC I attended. Boy was that a miserable trip home, let me tell you, sick as a dog, with insufficient Claritin Ds to get...
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Tech at Night: Bradley Manning only gets 35 years
So, the top story is of course that anti-American anarchist hero Bradley Manning got 35 years. The bad news is with parole he could apparently be out in 10. The hacker of “Palestine” who broke into...
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Tech at Night: The Obama administration wants to criminalizes retweets
Yeah, terrorism is terrible, and we need to run Islamic State folks into prison, but the idea that a retweet is criminal, given the nature of how Twitter works, is kind of silly. It’s clear to me the...
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