by jnelson | Nov 10, 2018 | How the Net Works, News
The Walt Disney Company is celebrating the 90th birthday of the world’s most famous rodent, Mickey Mouse(TM), with a TV special and an exhibit at a Manhattan gallery. Ever since he was first dreamed up by Uncle Walt nearly a century ago, his firm has been able...
by jnelson | Nov 1, 2018 | Events, News
The headlines say it all: First from ABC News: Fewer than half of US states have undergone federal election security reviews ahead of midterms With only a week left before the 2018 midterm elections, fewer than half of U.S. states have submitted to a Department of...
by jnelson | Sep 12, 2018 | How the Net Works, News
In the future, September 11 may have another depressing association with infamy and loss. For on Tuesday, September 11, 2018, the European Parliament voted to wreck the internet. They authorized sweeping but ludicrously naive changes to how the net must fundamentally...
by jnelson | Aug 17, 2018 | How the Net Works, News
Our relationships with robots will be as complicated as our relationships with any beings possessing a certain amount of intelligence and free will. Like cats or small children, perhaps, though it is sincerely to be hoped that the machines will be far more obedient...
by jnelson | Jul 17, 2018 | Events, News
Summer’s only half-over but it will be September and “back to school” time before you know it. During the August countdown to classes, both students and parents often feel a bit of anxiety about the upcoming fall term, and what it may require....
