Category Archives: Standards

Comcast’s misconduct forces FCC to side with Net Neutrality

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) came down on the side of Net Neutrality yesterday. Hard. Misconduct by Comcast was the immediate cause of the Commission’s action, which should have a significant impact on the behavior of all Internet carriers from this point forward. Video of the hearing that resulted in the decision is available on [...]

Universal Time

Like the English system of weights and measures, I’ve long felt that the use of local time zones has unnecessarily consumed far too much time, money and effort than it’s worth.
The world would be far simpler and rational if we could get everyone to just start using Universal Time (UT, a/k/a GMT — Greenwich Mean [...]