Archive for the 'The Internet' Category


Insurers Mining Consumer Data: Who Owns You?

By Ded Ryzing: This article was posted on Securosis. It’s highly recommended that you read and contemplate what it means. I’m guessing that those out there who follow blindly and firmly believe that Government and “big business” have your best interest at heart will not understand this. For the rest of you [...]

Posted on 13th October 2008
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LambdaMOO: A Textual Second Life

By Ded Ryzing: Before there was World of Warcraft or Facebook or even MSN Messenger and ICQ there was LambdaMOO. An online community unlike any other and ahead of it’s time…and in a way, still ahead of the game. Ahh the memories…the all nighters connected when I should have been studying. Making [...]

Posted on 20th September 2008
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Inside Twitter’s Data Center

By Ded Ryzing: Anyone who has used Twitter for more than a day knows how unreliable it has become.  Frequent outages causing tweeters to stare blankly at a feed that doesn’t update or tweets that never send.  After some digging, I have found what may be an actual photo of Twitter’s data center.  It is [...]

Posted on 5th September 2008
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‘Net Neutrality, Robber Barons and a “Free” Internet

By Ded Ryzing: A very recent post on PCMech.com touched on something that every Internet user needs to take notice of…’Net Neutrality.  While the article, “Metered Bandwidth = Bad Idea” was well written, it only scratches the surface of this important subject. ‘Net Neutrality is the notion that Internet users have the RIGHT to determine what [...]

Posted on 4th September 2008
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