Who do you trust; Business or Government? Given the news this week that some in the administration want wiretap and decryption authority over broadband, many “net neutrality” advocates may be reassessing their position.

Progress & Freedom Foundation’s Thierer and Szoka believe the California video game law on violent video games that will be heading to the Supreme Court in November violates the 1st Amendment. PFF joined forces with the Electronic Frontier Foundation asking the court to uphold the lower courts ruling that the law was unconstitutional. The groups believe that the law violates the speech rights of both those who make and play video games.

We’re probably going to run out of unassigned IP addresses in 2012, but nobody seems to care and they’re not doing anything about it. The problem is that the visible benefits of IPv6 are few and the challenge of deploying it are hefty.

The authors suggest that government investment in science, technology and education should not be decreased and that the U.S. government should actually increase direct funding or incentives via tax credits to research and design in these areas.

I was asked to explain the concept of network latency using something other than geek talk, so I created this tutorial explaining what is bandwidth, latency, and jitter. The following is a short 7 minute video I posted on YouTube.

Glenn Fleishman at Wi-Fi Net News seems to have been infected with too much reality and he has a realistic outlook on white space wireless networking.  Fleishman deserves some warning from me that this is the kind of party pooper engineering reality that gets you uninvited from all the cool parties in Silicon Valley because you’re out of step [...]

The effort at publicity and “sending a message” by the folks at Free Press at the end of last week by standing in front of the FCC building handing out waffles to urge that the Commission not ”waffle” on “protecting” the Internet was cute. But that’s about all it was.

A new 65-country study on payment cards has some numbers that surprised me — the number of payment cards in the world has grown to 7.4 billion, of which about 62% are debit rather than credit cards.  The study projects growth to 10.1 billion by 2014, largely (of course) because of possible growth in Asia. [...]

I am off to Nashville tomorrow for the Next Big Nashville/Leadership Music Digital Summit, on Wed & Thurs, a conference combined with a Music Festival in the evenings, plus Fri & Sat. A major sponsor is Arts+Labs, “a collaboration between technology and creative communities that have embraced today’s rich Internet environment to deliver innovative and [...]

Shelly Roche reports that the bill, Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act (S. 3084), gives the Department of Justice the power to blacklist websites by blocking their domain name effectively turning the website off.