Price – Who’re You Calling a Freeloader?

One of the major objections to flat-rate pricing of communication services, including Internet access, is the danger that a small percentage of users will absorb a huge percentage of the resources either degrading service More...

Price – The Great FON Experiment

FON is a commercial/cooperative worldwide WiFi access network. Huh? Actually it’s an interesting idea and a great laboratory for pricing models.< More...

Price – The Cost of Complexity

Next couple of posts’ll be about pricing.  Simple is better than complex; and free, as the simplest of all, is sometimes the best of all.  More...

America’s Antiterrorism Network – Distributed Data Storage

Distributed data storage is a PROVEN way to protect data from accidental and deliberate destruction. Moreover, distributing data reduces the need for backbone bandwidth and makes mes More...

What To Do About North Korea

Take out the missile launch site.  Here’s why that’s the right thing to do in a post-Iraq world.

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America’s Antiterrorist Network

Now doesn’t “America’s Antiterrorist Network” sound better than “Net Neutrality”? Maybe not if you’re on one of our two left coasts but it certainly does anywhere else.  The diff More...

Chance to Meet

Just Books in Greenwich, Connecticut is sponsoring a get-together for me at Ar More...

billg – Shouldnta preAnnounced

Bill Gates will do a world of good by devoting his intelligence, his energy, and his take-no-prisoners style to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The tasks the foundation has se More...

Internet Neutrality – Tough Issue

If the telcos have their way, the Internet in the US COULD become as innovation-free as the phone networks and as content-challenged and inflexible as the cable networks.  On the More...

RoboDoc

Last night Mary and I went to a reception – actually a fu More...