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Tech at Night: Anonymous losing, CA Amazon Tax repeal leading, Anti-AT&T folk lying

By: Neil Stevens (Diary)  |  July 23rd, 2011 at 02:00 AM  | 

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Tech at Night

Anonymous is starting to lose more than it wins. As I already mentioned on Wednesday, the FBI is racking up names to arrest, and moving on them. Anonymous responded by claiming to have broken into NATO systems. The world responded by trashing Anonymous’s AnonPlus website. Of course, when they’re in jail, that won’t matter much, but it’s fun to see.

Good news: Early polling suggests a slight lead for the referendum to repeal the California Amazon/Internet Sales Tax.

Why do I oppose the PROTECT IP copyright bill? I don’t want Indian-style censorship any more than I want the Chinese kind.

The far left continues to try to use big government to dictate against the AT&T/T-Mobile deal, even though as I’ve pointed out previously and as Ryan Young pointed out at Daily Caller, Sprint’s actions don’t match its words. The deal will increase competition, and it should pass unmolested by government, for the greater good.

The far left continues to fight competition though, instead hoping to impose some greater form of state control over the industry. Because they’re lying about the “jobs” angle.

Tip: “The Cloud” is not a backup, and if you don’t own the domain, then you do not own your email address. Protect yourself out there, folks. Just because “everyone” is using a certain service, that doesn’t mean that service is safe. Not Gmail, not Paypal, nothing. Be careful. Don’t overcommit.

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  • Finrod

    Something I do when I register a domain is that I register the .com, .net, and .org versions all at the same time. Otherwise someone will see that I registered one of them and grab the others, and I’ll never have a chance at them ever again (unless I want to pay their exorbitant price, no thank you).

  • trutexan

    I apologize and don’t mean to hijack your thread for something off topic, but an ad for thefutureoftv.org is running on local stations (Clear Channel I believe) in San Antonio, Texas. I went to the site and read through the media releases, but I don’t think I’m reading what’s really going on. I see an “NAB” logo in the corner – National Association of Broadcasters? You were the first resource I thought of to be able to explain it.

  • trutexan

    and that’s pretty smart.

    I own a tiny, tiny web design company in a very small town full of blue collar workers outside of a very large metropolis. Many of these plumbers, backhoe operators, beauticians, restaurant owners, & custom home builders want websites but have no idea where to begin. Before they even think of it, I buy their domain name to prevent a big telecom from going through the phone book and purchasing it and then using it for extortion to put up their website. I build their static site for free (or a new granite kitchen countertop but don’t tell my accountant) and I charge them reasonable monthly rates. When I hear that a meat market is paying AT&T or American Express $75 a month for their website that they have to maintain themselves, it sickens me. It’s worth a couple hundred bucks a year to hold their domain names myself until they are ready to become a customer. I told this to the local Chamber of Commerce and they had no idea that they did not own www.mybusinessname.com. They simply don’t understand that while they may own the DBA license in the county, they don’t own the URL.

  • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens

    NAB is really really worried about the Internet. The more egalitarian the medium, the more it worries them.

    Remember though: incentive auctions for spectrum will *always* compensate broadcasters for any spectrum sold off. It’s also voluntary.

  • trutexan

    (nt)