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The Lesson Applied » The Case Against Net Neutrality.

I’m going to go ahead and say it.  I’m against Net Neutrality.

I love the concept.  I’d love all content to have equal access to internet pipes, but I don’t want that to be enforced by laws and a governmental morass of regulation and legislation.

If you can achieve the same thing through a gentlemen’s agreement, then it’ll be a thing of beauty, but I think this is one thing the government shouldn’t have their hands in (there are others, but let’s stay on topic).

Just because I don’t like something doesn’t mean I should go crying to the government in to solve the problem.  When I was a kid we had a word for people that always appealed to a higher authority when facing a problem.  We called them tattle-tales.

Story Here.

So apparently a bunch of people escaped from prison while the guard was busy playing Plants Vs. Zombies on his iPhone.

I’m looking at you, Alison!

APOD: 2010 August 6 – The Not So Quiet Sun.

Well, now I know what was causing all those crazy lightening storms.  The sun is done being at solar minimum.

There’s nothing quite like asking a question to people who are not qualified to answer and publishing the answers in the news.

The latest I’ve come across is this article which tells us that most consumers think it’s OK for governments to hack, plant malware, and run DOS attacks on foreign governments.  No word on whether these same consumers think it’s OK for foreign governments to do it to them, or where any government cares what consumers think.

Its official: Saudi Arabia bans BlackBerries.

So the government of Saudi Arabia is banning Blackberry devices in their country on the grounds that they are too secure and the government cannot read everyone’s email.

This follows in the footsteps of the United Arab Emirates who did the same thing a week or so ago.

Call me crazy, but if I’m a company looking to secure my communications, isn’t this a good thing?  Maybe it’s a RIM marketing stunt =)

Update

Apparently, it’s not that our own government is comfortable with not being able to read Blackberry emails, it’s just that they’re better at breaking the encryption? http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE67246V20100803