“TCP is broken”
Chris Linfoot explains how and why the networking protocol behind the entire Internet (TCP/IP) is broken, by design. Interesting, though fairly technical.
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Steve Jobs == Bill Gates Junior?
Bill Gates’ Microsoft, long hated by the technorati for its aggressive pushing of inferior technologies, its arrogant attitude toward the standards used by the rest of the industry, the secrecy that it cloaks its own proprietary ways of doing things in (so that no one can interoperate with its products), and its paranoid and monopolistic …
“Comcast: FCC lacks any authority to act on P2P blocking”
Comcast, the ISP-slash-cable company that has been in hot water for the past year for “managing” (i.e. blocking) P2P applications, has thrown down the gauntlet to the FCC. After eight months of denying that they were doing it at all, now they’re basically saying “yeah, we’re doing it, and you can’t stop us. Nyah, nyah!“ …
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“Martian Headsets”
Joel Spolsky has hit the nail right on the head, yet again. This time, he’s talking about Internet Explorer 8 and the decision whether or not to automatically follow web standards, and the eternal flame wars that are going to erupt over it. He also points out that this is the same reason that Windows …
“Bigger Computer Monitors = More Productivity”
The Wall Street Journal confirms what most people have suspected for a long time: size does matter.
“War against Web tops music biz ‘screw-ups’ list”…
…as anyone living in the last decade with two eyes and a brain could have told you.
French military victories?
I don’t know a lot about history, but if you go to Google.com at the moment, type in French Military Victories, and hit the “I’m feeling lucky” button, you get a fake Google page (yes, it looks real, but it isn’t — look at the address bar) with this text: Did you mean: french military …
“They Criticized Vista. And They Should Know.”
Windows Vista, how do I dislike thee? The New York Times counts the ways — using Microsoft’s internal e-mails from their own staff and board members to do it.
“Windows-based cash machines ‘easily hacked'”
Why am I not surprised?
Internet Explorer 8 to Fully Support Web Standards
The first public beta of IE8 is now available, and the big news is that MS has finally decided to fully support web standards (and it’s about time!). Why the sudden change of heart? They aren’t talking, but OSnews may have tagged it… it’s amazing what a little self-interest will do.