By: Neil Stevens (Diary)  |  October 8th at 03:00 AM  | 

Net Neutrality goes to court. Great news, too: Verizon’s preferred venue won the lottery, and the Net Neutrality fight will happen in the DC Circuit Court of Appeals. This is, of course, the same circuit that slapped down Net Neutrality last time in Comcast v FCC. Oh, but here’s a big surprise. Despite the FCC claiming previously that “We look forward to defending our open | Read More »

By: Neil Stevens (Diary)  |  August 16th at 03:30 AM  | 

Hello again to those I saw in Charleston over the weekend, and hope to see you next time to those who weren’t able to make it! While I return to California and get settled in again, it seems that some are leaving the state for good, and the hostile business climate is why. This includes the punitive Amazon Tax which has made it impossible for | Read More »

By: Neil Stevens (Diary)  |  April 14th at 03:30 AM  | 

That’s one of the most boring and least unique Tech at Night titles ever, but I’m going to war with the links I have. Slade Gorton’s priorities are horribly wrong. I’m sorry, but that’s the way it is. On Tuesday the Greg Walden subcommittee held hearings on “Use of Spectrum with Public Safety.” I’ve already explained why I think the D Block of wireless spectrum | Read More »

By: Neil Stevens (Diary)  |  July 27th at 03:28 AM  | 

Good evening. Sure, it’s technically morning, but when I went to post tonight I realized I had nothing queued up to write about, so I had to make a crash run through my news feeds before I could get started. But get started we shall tonight with Apple and the Library of Congress. The Library of Congress is apparently entrusted with setting rules for what | Read More »

By: Neil Stevens (Diary)  |  July 23rd at 11:00 PM  | 

It’s Friday evening, and mentally I’ve almost checked out for the weekend, but I still have a lot to get through here, so let’s get going before I zone out with some Horatio Hornblower (a series I’ll start on this weekend thanks to a neat site called Age of Sail). One big story is that Amazon may be trying to broker a Net Neutrality compromise. | Read More »

By: Neil Stevens (Diary)  |  April 14th at 01:43 PM  | 

The San Francisco-area utility company PG&E wants to buy fictional energy from a company that up until now builds air conditioning and solar power for individual homes and buildings. Specifically, the SolarEn LLC, despite its ugly webpage and track record of exclusively small-scale deployments of solar power, claims it’s going to send satellites into space to gather energy, and then beam that energy SimCity-style to | Read More »

By: Neil Stevens (Diary)  |  November 5th at 03:39 AM  | 

Update: It’s 6am in California, and I wake up to see that LA County is still passing Proposition 8 with what CNN calls 100% of precincts in. It’s a very narrow, roughly 22,000 win out of about 2,500,000 votes cast, but as I said, a tie was there enough for it to pass. The counties that defeated Prop. 8 are all in except tiny Yolo | Read More »