Are You Using A VPN?

Millions of Americans have been spending more time at home recently and chances are you reading this have as well. Some of you may have been fortunate enough to be able to do your job from home and have not been completely out of luck when it comes to employment during this COVID-19 pandemic. If […]

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Geolocation: Good or Bad?

Geolocation services are one of the most handy and yet one of the most controversial aspects of the Internet. It can be a great help for some to pull up a map and be able to find out exactly where you are. It also raises some serious privacy issues since you can be tracked wherever […]

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Net Neutrality and the brave new world

Just in case you have been living under a rock or some remote location in the world one of the cores principles of Internet usage here in the United States has been repealed. On December 14 the FCC voted to repeal net neutrality regulations enacted under the Obama Administration in 2015 with a 3-2 vote […]

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The World’s first ISP

We take the Internet and the companies that provide it (ISPs) for granted today. It almost seems like accessing the Information Superhighway is a right, “endowed by our Creator” and ranking among basic human rights like “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” There was a time when someone had to take a chance and […]

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The #1 innovator of the Internet

We all use the Internet everyday for a variety of reasons. Many of the innovations that we take for granted when we use them online come from one industry. Are you sitting down? Good. Many of those innovations come from the adult pornographic industry. The military created the Internet but once it began to reach […]

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Tales from Tech Support: Why do I need to call my OEM?

With Halloween coming next week and everyone needing a good fright, we bring you Tales from Tech Support. I spent five years working over the phone tech support, most of it with Comcast in Baltimore. Oh, the stories I can tell… I took a lot of calls during my time at Comcast, probably around 40,000 […]

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